End of Summer
A beautiful album and beautiful music.
Jóhann Jóhannsson with Hildur Guðnadóttir & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe End of Summer
End of Summer
Tag: Vinyl
It’s great to have a physical object for music.
End of Summer
Record Store Day list published
And it’s a very interesting list too. There’s a handful on there that I’m very interested in. Some really good stuff. It’ll be interesting to see how much of it I’m able to get my hands on.
If you’re interested in the list, you can find it right here.
Fennesz Box Set
I couldn’t help but get this new limited edition box set by Fennesz. Even though it’s live I really wanted it, and got it, and it’s beautiful. 2 x LPs, 2 x DVDs and a CD too, plus a very beautiful overall package.
Can’t fault it really.
The Kane Gang: Crease in his hat
I’ve just bought this old 80’s album on vinyl. I’m pretty sure that at one point I had a cassette of it, mainly for just one track, “Crease in his hat”. It isn’t the best song in the world, not by a long way, but it is a lovely song and I really enjoy it. However, it is almost impossible to find a digital version of this anywhere. Which is why I decided to go for a vinyl copy instead. Sadly it is a little scratched a poppy, but it’ll do. It may improve with cleaning up.
The song is just as I remember, and has exactly the same effect. Which is good, as sometimes when you go back to a track after a long time it isn’t the same, and in fact, the memory can be better than the reality, which can be disappointing. Not so here. It is as I remember it, and it is just as good. At least it is for me anyway.
Rare oblong 7″ of David Sylvian’s ‘Taking the Veil’
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 had to buy this when I saw it the other day
When Errol Brown sadly died earlier this month I realised that I had no Hot Chocolate in my collection at all. So when I saw this in a local second hand record shop I had to buy it, and it’s great.
I think I probably need a bit more Hot Chocolate in my life now. In fact, I think probably everyone does.
Sakamoto’s Left Handed Dream
This is an album I’ve been meaning to get my hands on a this album for a long time. So I finally got a copy, and it’s really quite good after all.
I especially like that on the back of the LP cover there’s a credit for computer programming! You don’t see that very often these days.
Simple Minds at Record Store Day
This is a great track from Simple Minds and another ‘must have’ on my Record Store Day list. So I was really happy to get hold of it.
Generally speaking I preferred their earlier stuff, but actually this was a really good song and a lovely picture disc too in this version.
Sylvian / Sakamoto … Bamboo Houses RSD release
This is one of the things I really wanted to get this year at RSD. I have the tracks already, in fact, I think I have multiple versions in multiple formats too, but that’s not what this is about.
The two songs are really important to me. They bring back special memories, and any opportunity to have a new version or iteration, even in just the packaging, well, I’ll take it. This edition, for Record Store Day, is rather lovely. I’ve played it once, just once. That’s enough. It’s a thing of beauty, and I’m glad to have it.
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