Category: Music
Music is a huge part of my life so it’s almost certain that this category will have a lot of stuff in it.
Music: En hiver
Music: Confused
Music: That Vintage Engine
Music: Inspired by Oram
An afternoon looking at the sea …
Staying in a beautiful house boat and spending at least a small part of a Sunday afternoon listening to music and not doing anything else at all.
Bliss, sheer bliss.
Makes me realise how much more intently I should listen. After all, listening is an art. Listening is important, and I should do more of it, a lot more.
John Foxx, Ghost Harmonic: Codex
I’ve been waiting for this for some time, and now it’s here. I think it requires some special listening though, not just a casual listen, not just on headphones and walking through the city, but a much more considered and deep experience.
Rare oblong 7″ of David Sylvian’s ‘Taking the Veil’
Wishing that Unknown Public was still a thing
But it isn’t and hasn’t been for a long time now, which is such a shame. It was such an interesting idea and such a good package. Of course it was in a time before music discovery on the internet was a thing. Before Spotify was a thing. Back then, stuff like Unknown Public (although there wasn’t really anything like it) was a really good way to discover new music, new artists. It worked like that for me.
So in many ways it doesn’t have a place in terms of today’s music world, but I think we’re poorer for it. A lot of the enjoyment from Unknown public was in how it was put together. The beauty of the package and its contents. You can’t make that on the internet. Maybe someone should try.
One of my favourite songs of all time
In fact, probably my absolute favourite of all time. I saw this the other week in a second hand record shop and realised that I’m not sure that I’d ever owned the 7″ version. I have the 12″, the album in so many formats, but not the 7″. Up until now that is. Now I have it, albeit a second hand copy that cost me £1.
It is what it is. A great song however you obtain it.
I am Ashley Elsdon 