Listening notes: select a version of Aztec Camera’s Oblivious (1983). Concentrate on the lyrics (do this from the safety of your own home, with the lights on, using speakers rather than headphones).
Tag: Isle of Man
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LGAS024 Listening notes: Track down anything by 1970s Liverpool band Yachts while you are reading today’s post. Perhaps Suffice to Say, Yachting Types or Hypnotising Lies. Read about them a little, and their origins. Note the nautical names/ references in their history. Find the connections with Bill Drummond and wonder why you didn’t know this before. Write your reflections in the comments below.
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Little Grapefruit reaches Douglas (not Douglas Kanning, The Benefaktor), eventually.
LGAS023 Listening notes: Enjoy Hans Zimmer’s piece The Docking Scene, from 2014 film Interstellar. Listen out for the Harrison and Harrison 1926 organ, Temple Church, London, played by Roger Sayer.
Share a blood orange with a friend, as they’re in season. The limited period that they’re available in the shops most likely dates this piece to January or February 2025.
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LGAS021 Listening notes from Ali Finks: I searched for a suitable track for this post and came across Parallax by Sun Electric. It took me back to 1991. I was studying in Edinburgh at that time. During breaks from the library I would head down to the plethora of record shops in the centre of the city. As a KLF completist I was delighted to find a copy of Sun Electrics O’Locco on 12″ in Fopp. I spotted that there were remixes by The Orb and Jimmy Cauty. Or perhaps I had read that there were and went out to snare a copy. I can’t remember the details. I think it might have been on clear vinyl. I used to listen to all the tracks in one sitting while studying at night. It was hypnotic and addictive, predicting the snippets of samples peppered throughout the different versions.
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LGAS019 Listening notes: Hunt down A Camp LP (2001) by A Camp. Listen all the way through, while remembering lessons in algebra. Paint in the outline of a sketch of Manannan, his arms and hands mere tendrils of mist, enveloping an unsuspecting ferry, approaching Douglas, capital of the Isle of Man. Think about white horses in the Irish Sea, carrying St Patrick to Peel. Read about Nina Persson, Niclas Frisk and Nathan Larsson. And remember the late Mark Linkous, AKA Sparklehorse.
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