Then into this.... TRANCE ON, my friends...
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BOOYAKASHA, BABYLON!!:D
Marco
Then into this.... TRANCE ON, my friends...
https://youtu.be/C0ue4ve_Jok
BOOYAKASHA, BABYLON!!:D
Marco
:thumbsup: Coincidence :)Quote:
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Freedom Highway
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Up next :)
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Tina Turner - 'Simply the Best'
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Now:
Dorris Henderson and John Renbourn ' 'There You Go'
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Trevor Morrison
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beautiful piano.
a bit of the background to this cd.
Lost songs from the evacuated Hebridean archipelago of St Kilda have been discovered and brought to life on a new album featuring renowned composers including Sir James MacMillan.
It all began when Trevor Morrison sat down at the piano in Edinburgh's Silverlea Care Home 10 years ago and began to play.
The magic did not go unnoticed.
The tunes were simple, naive even, but memorable and with an extraordinary emotional depth.
As a 10-year-old child on the west coast island of Bute during World War Two, Trevor had been taught piano by a former resident of St Kilda.
His teacher had left the remote archipelago in the outer Hebrides when they were evacuated in 1930.
Somehow, a lifetime later and in failing health, Trevor managed to remember the tunes his teacher had shown him.
Stuart McKenzie, who had been volunteering in the care home, offered to record them.
"He played the most astonishing tunes. They were so different. Complicated, but simple," Mr McKenzie says.
"I went home, got my computer, downloaded a bit of software and went along to a local electrical store and paid £3 for a microphone we could put down the back of the piano for him. And away he went."
Trevor died in 2012, but the recordings eventually got passed on to Decca Records, which also saw the magic and commissioned a number of top composers to develop the tunes along with the Scottish Festival Orchestra.
The end result is a whole album entitled The Lost Songs of St Kilda, featuring some of Trevor Morrison's solo recordings in their pure form, others mixed in with orchestral arrangements and some completely new pieces inspired by the music.
Composer Sir James MacMillan is one of the contributors.
At his home overlooking the Firth of Clyde, James MacMillan can just about see the island of Bute where as a boy Trevor Morrison learned the songs.
"There's something very haunting about it," he says.
From the master of song, probably his best along with Innervisions
Stevie Wonder – Songs In The Key Of Life
Label: Motown – TMSP 6002, Motown – 0C 158-98 261-3
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Gatefold Vinyl, 7", 33 ⅓ RPM All Media, Album
Country: UK
Released: 30 Sep 1976
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Black - 'Wonderful Life'
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Now:
James Brown - 'Godfather of Soul'
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Nice - I played this yesterday:
Stevie Wonder - 'Song Review'
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Some interesting stuff there Grant. :)Quote:
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Great albumQuote:
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this again...Quote:
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Billie Holiday
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Tony Bennett and guests. opening number is someone called lady gag gag??:scratch:;)
all great albums in their own way barryQuote:
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enough of that crap :eyebrows: now some of this... Memphis; Boz Scaggs.
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Happy Christmas :santa:
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Xmas lols.:lol::lol:Quote:
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What a morning, must be the influence of a bit of bubbly with breakfast :)
Got back from dog walk to find my wife bopping around to art of noise (best of) haven't heard this in a while (and my wife still dances beautifully).
I put on Ian Dury, new boots...
Potential son in law then had a look at my vinyl and put on some Cream (extolling virtues of Ginger Baker, I knew that I really liked him:))
Youngest daughter then put on Fleetwood Mac, Rumours - made me realise that we have bought them up well
short diversion to Fleetwood Mac "landslide" from laptop - didn't realise it was my youngest daughters favourite track, or that I don't have it on vinyl(visit to eBay called for).
Now listening to Joni Mitchell "dog eat dog" - again I hadn't realised that my youngest (20 years) likes Joni :cool:
I think today could be dominated by listening to records (crap on tv and new arm cable has really bought some renewed interest/clarity to the collection)
Happy Christmas to all :grouphug:
Bloody hell - just moved on to Frank Sinatra "songs for modern livers", swing and smootch baby :dance:
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That’s what it’s all about - glad you’re all having fun :)
Jackie Leven and Ian Rankin " Jackie Leven Said "
Just a bit of an outtake-talent ;)
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I’m gonna have to dig out the ‘Doll by Doll’ tomorrow :smoking:Quote:
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Thankyou for posting this.Loved his style of playing - still missed.
This arrived for Christmas, and it is superb, March Bolan was certainly a clever chap, I was a fan 'Ride a White Swan' onwards ar the time. This first Tyrannosaurus Rex album even though using natural instruments clearly shows the direction he was going. Probably one of the first Psychedelic Rock albums along with Pink Floyd. The second record is previously un-released ,material from the time and some Peel Sessions. This re-release is very good quality, sound and sleeve, well worth getting.
Tyrannosaurus Rex – My People Were Fair And Had Sky In Their Hair... But Now They're Content To Wear Stars On Their Brows
Label: A&M Records – 535389-6, Universal Music – 0600753538968
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition, Remastered, Mono, 180 Gram
Country: UK & Europe
Released: 26 Jan 2015
Genre: Rock
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The other Christmas pressie, spinning now, I and friends in listened to this again and again in 1971 when released and it still sounds fresh today, and unique in style and feel, so sad Marc passed on early, I am sure he would have been a major star like his friend David Bowie. Once again a superb re-release by Back to Black SQ excellent as is sleeve, worth every penny!
If you want a seminal Glam/Pop/Psyche rock album then this is the one, it is what set it all up for the 70's IMHO.
T. Rex – Electric Warrior
Label: A&M Records – 535 407-6, Universal Music Catalogue – 535 407-6
Series: Back To Black
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, 180 Gram
Country: Europe
Released: 06 Nov 2014
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More quality music playing in sunny Seaton...Quote:
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Electric Warrior was the first album I ever bought, cost me £2.10 at Brady's Records. Re-purchased it about 5 years ago, thinking it would just be a bit of nostalgia. Not so, still sounds great, and excellent pressing. Gets played quite often :) My copy is on Reprise, wish it was like yours with the Marc/Mickey label, same as they did on 1971's Jeepster/Life's a Gas 7" single which I also had. Great stuff.
I seem to remember that my original copy had a very nice inner sleeve with a cleverly drawn pic of Marc on one side, and Mickey on the other. Unless I dreamt it.
I used to have my hair a bit like Marc's. but I couldn't get it quite curly enough :(
Marc Bolan and T Rex were IMO utter crap, as was much of the 'glam' rock of the late '60s and early '70s. Marc Bolan was an arrogant self-centred creep, who later snubbed anyone who had helped him in his career - specifically John Peel and Michael Eavis (of Glastonbury Festival fame).
Yeah, my step dad had similar views on glam rock, "Is it a boy or a girl?", and "Puffs, the lot of them", declared from his armchair, with his cardigan and all-day shirt and tie. Well, his dislike of my music tastes didn't matter to me, and still wouldn't. We like what we like.Quote:
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Fair enough about the snubbing, I blame the booze and cocaine. Bowie looked like he was going a similar way in the mid 70s, but thankfully came out the other side.
So which song on "Electric Warrior" do you dislike the most?
Billy Joel.. Piano Man
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super album
So good I bought it twice! (by accident). Anyway I gave away my spare, to spread the Billy-love :)Quote:
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Beggar's Opera.
amazing album sadly neglected..
Rodrigo y Gabriela
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Live 22 min version of Echoes...:eek:
Just working through my Christmas pressies right now. Started with The Eagles' "Hell Freezes Over", then Talk Talk "The Colour of Spring", and now ELP's "Trilogy". Bit disappointed with that one - great music, well produced, but pressing is shitter than shit spread onto a shit sandwich with a turd side salad. It was a gift so I'll have to see about sending it back. Simpler if I'd bought it from a record shop :(
Have to disagree with you vehemently, Barry. Not sure about him snubbing JP or Eavis, news to me. I can understand why older people back then didn't like him, my parents hated him, as he was perceived as an odd gender-bender and a bad influence.Quote:
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However putting that aside musically he was pretty innovative and wrote some pretty good songs, quite a few major artists have covered them although I suspect most younger people would not even know Bolan wrote them, to name a few artists - Souxie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, Nick Cave, Guns N' Roses, U2, Elton John, Joan Jett, Nena and Todd Rundgren. Also his music is used to this day a lot in films. He lost his way a bit in the mid 70's, which is not surprising after his rise to fame in a relatively short time and problems in his personal life, by 1977 he was on his way back, touring taking the Damned along as a supporting act, quite a thing to do in the midst of the punk era.
As a member of T. Rex, Bolan was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020.[6]
Perhaps you should give him another go.:D
Did not know you were into Prog Rock, Grant, I will have to give that on a try, I lover their first "Act One".Quote:
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after the first glastonbury eavis failed to pay bolan his fee.. he did pay it up in a monthly form but bolan was not amused
Please don’t hold back :)Quote:
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Two out of three ain’t bad though :smoking: