David Reilly – Anthology 1077-2007 on Shuffleplay
Neal Smith – Sexual Saviour
Billy Cobham – Off Color
Chick Corea – Works
Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane – Same
Joe Henderson – Black Narcissus
The George Benson Quartet – The George Benson Cookbook
Chris Potter – Travelling Mercies
Gateway – In the moment
John Surman – Glancing Backwards
Grachan Moncur III – Evolution
Dennis Chambers – Outbreak
My 1,400th post...
A relaxed evening after having been self-soundtracked during the day, including during a rather annoying bus journey home due to the ongoing nonsense in Edinburgh re the building of one (ONE!!) tram line...
Listened to the second of my two new Neal Smith albums – the first was recorded around 1974 during what was supposed to have been a year off for the Cooper boys but turned out to be a permanent split with Alice failing to come back...
This one was released this year and is extremely heavy indeed – but very enjoyable – in fact, with the possible exception of the Billion Dollar Babies classic “Rock’n’Roll Radio”, the new album knocks the 70’s effort into the proverbial cocked hat...
An enjoyable hour and a bit of jazz listening drew on ten albums before “Have I Got News for You” rounded off the day...
Today sees the release of the ninth of ten volumes of my Anthology project with Volume Ten due on 30 November so, seeing as how, counting today, there are the requisite 31 days to go to cover the years 1977-2007, I’m going to suggest a track a day spanning that period starting with this...
“The Drone Effect”, featuring Bontempi Organ, tape recorder and fuzz-wah pedal is one of my earliest recordings (December 1977)....
It was influenced by “The Heavenly Music Corporation” the track on side two of Fripp & Eno’s “No Pussyfooting” which I’d bought on a trip to Germany in the summer of 1974...
The full 30 minute version of “The Drone Effect” was used in the early 80’s to bring parties to an end and send over-nighters off to sleep...
The edit is only around 90 seconds but it gives you the idea – nothing much changed over the full 30 minute version...
It's available via the link to download my music for free...
ANTHOLOGY 1977
DDHR - THE DRONE EFFECT
Highlight of the Day : Getting home...
1 comment:
The Universe is a funny place and very large too.
My very good friend of many years chanced upon your blog whilst looking for info on No Pussyfooting (a life changing experience in itself) and saw similarities between us. He advised me to contact you and that if you too liked cats and had facial hair at age 13, would seal the deal. I see you like cats.....
I too am an artist/musician/photographer, cite Tangerine Dream, Eno, Sylvian and many many more as shapers of my life and have visited Edinburgh several times - last time for Hogmanay in 2006/7. It was a wicked time....
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