Yes, she is very good. This track features on one of my Spotify Playlists! A good choice from a bit of a "girl's blouse"! In a similar vein, have you heard this Martin...


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Tim

Quote from: Moonglum on February 27, 2025, 07:50:46 PMYes, she is very good. This track features on one of my Spotify Playlists! A good choice from a bit of a "girl's blouse"! In a similar vein, have you heard this Martin...

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Tim

That's pretty good and an interesting individual (having just looked her up on Spotify).

Not so sure about the outfit or hair though.

Definitely in a class of her own Martin, her first album "Black Acid Soul" is powerful stuff. This artist and song does it for me...


@Newportnobby will be spitting blood!

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Tim

Just found this, Crawler evolved from Paul Kossoff's (Free) band "Back Street Crawler" after his death. I had this 1977 self titled album on vinyl and it had it's moments especially on this track...


Geoff Whitehorn on guitar and Rabbit on keyboards.

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Tim

Quote from: Moonglum on February 27, 2025, 08:27:21 PM@Newportnobby will be spitting blood!

Elevator muzak. Sorry, it's a 'MISS' from me.

The Crawler one is a 'MAYBE' if we're allowed that (which they weren't in the 60s)

Thank you for those two @Moonglum

I've heard the Kossoff track before - a pretty good offering in my opinion.

And a thumbs up from me for Jessie Ware. Another artist to have a listen to in the train room later.

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Martin

Back to the 70s

There were a few attempts in the late 60s/1970s to amalgamate progressive rock music with classical orchestras.
Some were better than others but one that I liked was Jon Lord with his Gemini Suite.
Some big names contributed  including the legendary conductor Malcolm Arnold.
I listened to this earlier for the first time in probably 40 years and it still works for me :
See what you think.

Are we talking Jon Lord who founded Deep Purple?

Interesting biography

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Lord

Impressive work and track if Sir Malcolm Arnold was involved

Thanks Martin nice track for Friday early evening

I used to have the 'Deep Purple ' with the English Philharmonic Orchestra album. Gets a 'HIT' from me, Martin

Hmmm, I am 5 minutes in and whilst I quite like the orchestration it seems at odds with the guitar at times so I am not sure where it is going... whizzing through it it's OK but not really for me but I like from 42m 30s for a while then it gets a bit annoying again... I did have JL's Sarabande on vinyl which was patchy as well.

From the examples I have heard over the years, the marriage between classical orchestration and rock music is not always a happy one. I think it works pretty well here...


I was there (for the record).

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Tim

Other fine examples are the likes of Barclay James Harvest and Renaissance

Here we are chaps, the best of both worlds. I have been meaning to listen to this band for a while and found this...


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Tim

Oooh, I like that. The music's not bad, either.

Reminded of early Genesis, I am

I'm reminded of the Mallard