Quote from: port perran on January 04, 2024, 02:54:14 PM

Quote from: Newportnobby on January 04, 2024, 12:25:46 PMJust by way of a change - Bumpers (Island sampler) again
Here are just a couple of tracks. Spooky Tooth (hugely underrated at the time) and Mott the Hoople (before they went to pop with Bowie )

Agreed Mick.
The Bumpers album was brilliant although we've been there before on this thread I think.
Yes, Mott were much better prior to going all poppy. Never really got into Spooky Tooth although I quite liked Walrus.

My claim to fame :
Standing next to Ian Hunter of Mott at the urinals in Devizes Corn Exhange. There's one for @Trainfish  . No witty quips 
Cheers
Martin

Where all the young dudes hung out...couldn't resist it Martin!

Curve, "The Way of Curve"

Yep Andrew @AndrewPH , growing on me already! A bit of all the above in there.

Cheers

Tim

Quote from: AndrewPH on January 05, 2024, 06:18:29 AMAt the moment: Petrichor by Keor.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnJ0YUv-hnE (full album stream)

Recommended if you like: Steven Wilson, Porcupine Tree, Eloy, Opeth, Devin Townshend, though it's not exactly like any of them. Closest maybe to Porcupine Tree.

Marvellous, really original stuff. Lots of light and shade, different atmospheres, amazing melodies and great playing. And apparently it's all one guy (all instruments and vocals).

It's all set up to listen to on the train to London tomorrow.

I will be interested in what you think Martin @port perran .

In case anyone is wondering where my avatar "Moonglum" came from, here is a live track from Hawkwind. "Moonglum" is a character from the Elric of Melnibone books by Michael Moorcock and became my nickname during schooldays. MM and Hawkwind often collaborated. I read most of his books in my youth.

https://youtu.be/tnRqDsIngBo?feature=shared

So now you know!

Cheers,

Tim

The Beatles 'Love' album.
26 tracks of "the Beatles as you've never heard them before" with superb production by George Martin and his son Giles
Glorious listening

Quote from: port perran on January 04, 2024, 02:54:14 PMMy claim to fame :
Standing next to Ian Hunter of Mott at the urinals in Devizes Corn Exhange. There's one for @Trainfish  . No witty quips 
Cheers
Martin

It could have been worse I suppose, you could have been stood next to George Michael 

Sorry, I know you asked for no witty quips but I just couldn't help myself. A bit like George Michael I suppose but without the action.

Well, I've listened to Keor.
It'll never appeal to the masses but it's very good.
Heavily influenced by 70s prog rock and other things.
Definitely a bit of Yes, Gracious, early Genesis, Strawbs and Mike Oldfield in there amongst others.
Shame about his voice imo
Thanks for sharing though.
Cheers
Martin

In Martin's @port perran reply above he mentioned a short lived band called Gracious, I remember them because I had a Vertigo double sided poster, in fact I had two and hung them on my bedroom wall. The poster showed many of Vertigo's (Swirl) releases circa 1970. Anyway, I found on the internet an interesting article about the origins of this famous label which you might find interesting.

https://thevinylpress.com/a-conversation-with-olav-wyper-creator-of-the-vertigo-swirl-records/

The next article reviews some of the artists including Gracious with YouTube links.

https://musicaficionado.blog/2021/05/27/1970-part-5-vertigo-records/

Enjoy the music and happy reading. I have to confess to having some of the releases on vinyl but Gracious was not one of them.

Cheers,

Tim

Godley & Creme have always been very clever with their lyrics for 10cc (Rubber Bullets, Wall Street Shuffle, Dreadlock Holiday etc etc) but this, for me, is right up there with the best, woven as it is to the rhythym of its setting...... (quite why I woke up with it on my mind, I just don't know)

Quote from: Moonglum on January 06, 2024, 08:39:08 PMIn Martin's @port perran reply above he mentioned a short lived band called Gracious, I remember them because I had a Vertigo double sided poster, in fact I had two and hung them on my bedroom wall. The poster showed many of Vertigo's (Swirl) releases circa 1970. Anyway, I found on the internet an interesting article about the origins of this famous label which you might find interesting.

https://thevinylpress.com/a-conversation-with-olav-wyper-creator-of-the-vertigo-swirl-records/

The next article reviews some of the artists including Gracious with YouTube links.

https://musicaficionado.blog/2021/05/27/1970-part-5-vertigo-records/

Enjoy the music and happy reading. I have to confess to having some of the releases on vinyl but Gracious was not one of them.

Cheers,

Tim

Thanks Tim

Fascinating stuff.
A few bands mentioned there that I'd forgotten all about including a favourite of mine from nearly 50 years ago - Colosseum.

Anyway, this evening's sample from me may not be to everyone's taste but I'm a fan of Marcin Wailewski.
He's a Polish keyboard player - laidback modern jazz.
Here he is with his trio and Diamonds and Pearls :
https://youtu.be/GDHBfLMEoRI?feature=shared

Quote from: Newportnobby on January 08, 2024, 04:16:10 AMGodley & Creme have always been very clever with their lyrics for 10cc (Rubber Bullets, Wall Street Shuffle, Dreadlock Holiday etc etc) but this, for me, is right up there with the best, woven as it is to the rhythym of its setting...... (quite why I woke up with it on my mind, I just don't know)

Yes Godley & Creme were/are certainly talented.
I'm not too sure that their work has really stood the test of time but I was a fan back in the day. Maybe a bit too poppy or wordy for me these days though.
I always rather thought that Sheet Music was possibly the best album from 10cc.
Thanks for the musical reminder.
Cheers
Martin

Very smooth jazz Martin @port perran . I used to listen to a lot of music of this sort. ECM is a quality label and I have a few CDs including Eberhard Weber Colour's "Silent Feet" from 1978 when I had started to move away from progrock and rock but bypassing punk by a mile or so.

https://youtu.be/buquZNrSazU?feature=shared

I hadn't realised that Jon Hiseman died a few years ago but Colosseum were indeed giants. They are still around but with no original members in the line-up. I did see Greenslade at the Roundhouse London.

Cheers,

Tim

I know of at least three versions of this much covered classic Jimmy Web song, Richard Harris RIP, (the lovely) Donna Summer RIP and these prog rockers. From their 1972 album "Pathfinder", here is Beggars Opera's rendition of "MacArthur Park". Another band originally on the Vertigo label...

https://youtu.be/yLopenCVaeQ?feature=shared

Cheers,

Tim

Beggar's Opera also do a super version of Mason William's 'Classical Gas'
I have it on a 45