inspiration

i didn't notice back in february but teo died,

he of in a silent way, bitches brew fame...

only fairly recently did i discover that both these wonderful miles davis albums had been made by Teo Macero stitching together 50 minutes / 100 minutes from all kinds of hours of miles davis taping everything...

i've been listening to some herbie hancock 70's albums after talking about them in last week's spanner jazz punks rehearsal, also a couple of talk talk albums that yimkin put me onto, their last 2,

then i was reading about in a silent way and i found out teo was gone so i find a teo interview... he raves about all these crazy audio machines he had the technicians @ columbia make for him, this being the 50's and 60's and they didn't have what we have now...

he describes putting "he loved him madly" (a miles tune on get up with it for duke ellington, who died in 1974 when the album was made) through one such machine and suddenly it sounded like it was duke ellington's band, and teo mixed duke ellington so he should know...

in the meantime i've got hold of chillout by the KLF, probably because bill drumond came to a bookshop in woodgreen last week, although i couldn't go because of said SJP rehearsal...

this 1991 album strangely intertwined in my head with the talk talk stuff, different worlds, but overlapping none-the-less...

then in another moment i read that spirit of eden (the 1st of the last 2 talk talk albums - 1988) is partly inspired by the miles tune - he loved him madly...

linking in these worlds as well...

i don't have he loved him madly in digital form, but i've got it on vinyl and i listened to it this afternoon with a crafty smoke, and it is heaven on a stick...

listening to it made me want to plug the NORD (which is leaving me sometime soon, back to it's original owner, lack of funds) into the effect loop of the rhodes to take advantage of the vibrato...

so i did and i've been making some great music with it x

7777 almost WOWIEZOWIE

yesterday i had a look and it said 7776... so i excitedly went to see who it could be and by the time i got to where it tells me it said 7777!

wowy zowy

(more on that phrase later)

but it seems that since i was clever and sorted out our little network in this flat the counter had been counting me...

so my 7777th visitor was in fact... MYSELF...

how dull, so i'm going back and counting how many me's it's seen and the 7777th person will look like the 7777+however many me's person...

but being as it was me i will give you a little info on our little residence right now:

i have unpacked the vinyl...

we have a sofa, in fact those 2 statements should be reversed because having a sofa is a huge thing for us, and unpacking the vinyl, whilst big, isn't that big,

also balthazara loves the sofa, she lies on the back bit, on the arms, curls on her favourite cushion on a seat of it...

it's near to our dining table (at the moment) and whilst we were eating last night she leapt up to sit upright on one of the arms and she was right there at our level, while we ate...

but the vinyl, 3 things:

it was in several boxes, and now my room has a little more space free... which is wierd and great... immensely boxy as it has been in here,

listening to old music is such a joy - i put on seal's 1st album yesterday while unpacking the vinyl and it brings all kinds of warm/dusty emotions to the fore...

wowie zowie... which is one particular album i found in amongst my vinyl that i've never listened to, it's full title is:

THE WORLD OF PROGRESSIVE MUSIC - 42 MINUTES 32 SECONDS OF WOWIE ZOWIE

i'm going to listen to it at some point in the next few days i'll tell you that for nothing x

vinyl & mellotron

so i turned 33&3rd yesterday, and though i hadn't organised it we had my 1st vinyl party... W(floopy)shaman rolled up with a few choice disks and i carried some more of my records down to the basement and we played a couple of games of chess (which i won) then proceeded to play cards with dinah & gordy... playing shithead but with a joker thrown in and whoever lost (becoming the shithead) deciding on the joker rule for the next game...

progressively crueller rules coming out...

all to the sound of vinyl...

and then today D came round, who i'm doing some recording for tonight, i took the opportunity (and the momentum) to set up my vintage keys module and i'm loving the mellotron flute sound... i used to use the vintage keys for it's hammond organs and it's possible i may bring it out with me one of these days, for the organs and mellotrons...

and i'm over half way through gilgamesh in a translation by stephen mitchell.. floopy lent it to me ages ago and i've finally picked it up... lovely... epic...

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