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Album Review: King Crimson Songbook

07 Monday Mar 2016

Posted by in Bands at the Pig's Arms, Mark

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Crimson Trio Members - Ian Wallace, Jody Nardone, Tim Landers


Crimson Trio Members – Ian Wallace, Jody Nardone, Tim Landers

The King Crimson Songbook by the Crimson Jazz Trio is yet another jazz fusion style of album. The picture on the left I borrowed from Wiki, thank you and the members names are listed in the caption. No animals were harmed in the typing of this story, rest safe.
This is one fantastic album folks, sitting on the porch, gazing at the Milky Way, sipping on some nice wine, watching your cat get flattened and simply sharing time with your partner. Yes, you, sharing time with your partner. It’s  important so sit up and take notice. This is important for many reasons because your partner will know when to shut the fuck up just like you will know when to shut the fuck up. Then and only then you can truly listen to this majestic album.
Now lets just have a quick look at the history behind this band while I eat my pizza. Jalapeno, garlic and shredded beetroot ,basil hmm, my favorite. [Sorry forgot where I was]
Now this band formed from King Crimson that where a a sixties progressive or alternative rock band. Look them up at Wiki here if you are interested,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Crimson
All good. So Robert Fripp was the main stay throughout Crimson but the jazz trio was put together by Ian Wallace, a former member of Crimson.
Fripp has recorded so much music I wouldn’t have the space to mention it all here, Album cove CJTBrian Eno did a lot of work with Fripp. I find Fripp maybe a bit to Bach for me however I do just love some of his material for example, google the Californian Guitar Trio, brilliant.
When I first heard King Crimson I really didn’t get into them but later I got to like  “Larks Tongue in Aspect” and “Starless in Bible Black“. Both are great albums from the seventies.
Crimson reformed in the early 80’s , and went in a different direction and I strongly recommend these three albums, “Discipline“, “Beat” and “Three of a Perfect Pair“.
Think of it like this, a bit outside the box. Me, I love it.
My favorite tracks is are,
I Talk to the Wind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B5CLIOs3HU
then Starless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JJ9wKJsfEA
then the King Crimson version of Matte Kudsai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MargcvlZTI
then the Crimson Jazz Trio version of Matte Kudsai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_ySYUKVfSU
then the whole album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2zCZRBDOHU
Thank Gordon for music. I hope you will enjoy this. I do.
Cheers
Mark aka  Hung
PS: A volume 2 exists as well I believe however I haven’t heard it yet.

Sometimes in Winter

10 Friday Jun 2011

Posted by in Warrigal Mirriyuula

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Snowgum

Playlist and Image by Warrigal Mirriyuula

South Of My Days

Judith Wright

South of my days’ circle, part of my blood’s country,

rises that tableland, high delicate outline

of bony slopes wincing under the winter,

low trees, blue-leaved and olive, outcropping granite –

clean, lean, hungry country. The creek’s leaf-silenced,

willow choked, the slope a tangle of medlar and crabapple

branching over and under, blotched with a green lichen;

and the old cottage lurches in for shelter.

O cold the black-frost night. The walls draw in to the warmth

and the old roof cracks its joints; the slung kettle

hisses a leak on the fire. Hardly to be believed that summer

will turn up again some day in a wave of rambler-roses,

thrust its hot face in here to tell another yarn –

a story old Dan can spin into a blanket against the winter.

Seventy years of stories he clutches round his bones.

Seventy summers are hived in him like old honey.

Droving that year, Charleville to the Hunter,

nineteen-one it was, and the drought beginning;

sixty head left at the McIntyre, the mud round them

hardened like iron; and the yellow boy died

in the sulky ahead with the gear, but the horse went on,

stopped at the Sandy Camp and waited in the evening.

It was the flies we seen first, swarming like bees.

Came to the Hunter, three hundred head of a thousand —

cruel to keep them alive — and the river was dust.

Or mustering up in the Bogongs in the autumn

when the blizzards came early. Brought them down; we brought them

down, what aren’t there yet. Or driving for Cobb’s on the run

up from Tamworth — Thunderbolt at the top of Hungry Hill,

and I give him a wink. I wouldn’t wait long, Fred,

not if I was you. The troopers are just behind,

coming for that job at the Hillgrove. He went like a luny,

him on his big black horse.

Oh, they slide and they vanish

as he shuffles the years like a pack of conjuror’s cards.

True or not, it’s all the same; and the frost on the roof

cracks like a whip, and the back-log breaks into ash.

Wake, old man. This is winter, and the yarns are over.

No-one is listening.

South of my days’ circle

I know it dark against the stars, the high lean country

full of old stories that still go walking in my sleep.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kuxwXg0Nmg

Carla Bley & Escalator Over The Hill Hotel Overture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uQNkFmgyzI

Gato Barbieri Last Tango In Paris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWRbXFZvvY&feature=fvst

Mahavishnu Orchestra Vision Is A Naked Sword

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBO2iPDfolY

Hatfield And The North Lobster In Cleavage Probe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKlAIhuXRLE

Frank Zappa Peaches En Regalia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1NqkFKqt3c

SPK The Garden of Earthly Delights

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wivo94ylmhE

Keith Jarrett Köln Concert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUUGut4M8Ig

King Crimson The Peacock’s Tale

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUsTY0d1L38

Bo Hansson Solen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0NPlrhINxI

The Durutti Column Sketch For Summer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVZq9Lk2hYQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emd0vJfyk2E&feature=fvwrel

Miles Davis Concierto de Aranjuez Parts 1 & 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEAb8JNfvXs&feature=fvst

Bernard Herrmann Concerto Macabre

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlM1XEIWhsU

FourPLay String Quartet Reptillia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCMotJ4R24k

Bruce Smeaton Realm of The Universe (from “Iceman”)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9kPIp4MtX0

Brian Eno Music For Airports

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1iR965rexM&feature=fvst

Ryuichi Sakamoto Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl1FnycngW8&feature=fvst

Art of Noise Moments In Love (Quiet Storm)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72d5-xP5SnM

Grace Jones & Trevor Horn Slave To The Rhythm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3nu-qmxM0w

Blood Sweat & Tears Sometimes In Winter

 

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