Singleversity #24
Audiversity’s weekly column, slightly modified, on random music in a predetermined number of words between 1 & 150. This week's randomly generated number: 85.
MA:
Though John Fahey seems to get the majority of the props for the genre-bending experimental folk movement in the early 60s, I have always been a bit biased towards Sandy Bull. Released in 1964 (the same year of Fahey’s debut album, Blind Joe Death), Bull’s sophomore effort, Inventions, featured the inventive guitarist blending characteristics of folk, jazz, modal, raga and Middle-Eastern music into one pulsing sound. Joined by ingenious drummer Billy Higgins, "Memphis, Tennessee" is an elaborate and swinging re-imagination of the Chuck Berry-penned classic.
PM:
"What Joe Trofino gives to his girlfriend Vickie." There it is, right there in the Urban Dictionary. And here, as an “original rock” band from Dublin. Yet Barakas has as an added benefit the pleasure of another definition: Brighton-based DJ Simon "Bonobo" Green. After DJing in the UK for years, Green conspired with Tru Thoughts A&R Robert Luis for a few tracks and demand was so high, he decided to release this vinyl single earlier this month, "Stabilo Bossa." Dance floor wobbly goodness? I’d say.
1 comment:
Sandy Bull was definitely one of my big influences as a guitar player in those days. All the tracks on that album are so different. From the electric Gavotte #2 to the oud, and the multitracking ....all that stuff was completely new to me and very inspiring. His spacey relaxed pacing was unique.
The picture of the squirrel on his head was good too. Ha Ha
Tragic where he went from there.
His oud guru Hamza El Din was a world class guy.
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