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Martyn was an amazing musician. I only have one of his albums, but I I love some of the tracks on it, and it is very special indeed. Today in 2005 he died.
I didn’t know him. I only exchanged emails with him once but his music is and was amazing and unique.
If you want to know more about his work then look here.
I used to have a ZX81 and I wish I hadn’t got rid of it now. What an amazing little computer, and how much you could do with 1k of memory!
I’m glad to see that the ZX81 museum is a really well curated little site. I found quite a lot of stuff on there that I’ve had in the past.
These days I only have a ZX81 emulator on my Android phone. I must do some more bits and pieces with that soon.
I listen to the radio each morning when I get up during the week, but not so much at the weekend. Today was a bit different though. I listened to BBC Radio 4 all morning and really enjoyed all the little magazine programmes.
It is nice to be both informed and amused during the course of your morning, and I’ve been both today. A really good start to my weekend.
Pop Song is an oddity. I got it on one of those tiny mini CDs you used to be able to get. It is an odd little song, and not, as it’s title suggests, very poppy at all.
However, it is a good song, and contains elements that suggest at some of the work that he went on to do. In some ways it seems to be a sort of experiment for him. Investigating sounds and textures and I like it for that as much as for the song itself.
Wave is a very dark song from a very dark album on the whole, and whilst I like the way it slowly and fluidly plays itself out it can be difficult to listen to. Not because it isn’t melodic, but because it lacks a sense of joy in some ways.
Yes, I think that’s what’s missing from it.
This is actually not a track I particularly enjoy. It is ok, but certainly not one of the best and not a track I play often at all. Interesting to hear it though.
Venice is one of my favourite Fennesz albums, not least because of David Sylvia on Transit, which is a great song and a great collaboration between him and Fennesz.
I actually thought that Transit was more successful than their work together on the Manafon album.
A great listen, and I was glad to hear it again.
Just a nice picture I took quite a long time ago and I thought I’d share it with you.
I took this a while ago, and I really like it, so I thought I’d share it with you.
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