Brutus1968 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 9:09 pm
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I still remember the day I heard music from this record. I was a student spending time in a record shop in my hometown. The guy at the desk, "Giorgione" (Big Giorgio) was a great music fan and happy to introduce any kind of music to anyone attending the shop. I listened to the first track and was mesmerised. I couldn't buy the record that day, but it got stick to my mind and bought it months later. Probably my first ECM record. Giorgione is not with us anymore but his love for music left traces like this one. This is for you.
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Lovely story and nice sentiment. A huge fan of John though I don’t have many of his albums. I’d definitely recommend Road to St. Ives which is also on ECM and very similar to Private City.
I have also that one, thanks, and few more. He has a vast discography which I am sure is worth exploring.
Brutus1968 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 9:09 pm
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I still remember the day I heard music from this record. I was a student spending time in a record shop in my hometown. The guy at the desk, "Giorgione" (Big Giorgio) was a great music fan and happy to introduce any kind of music to anyone attending the shop. I listened to the first track and was mesmerised. I couldn't buy the record that day, but it got stick to my mind and bought it months later. Probably my first ECM record. Giorgione is not with us anymore but his love for music left traces like this one. This is for you.
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Lovely story and nice sentiment. A huge fan of John though I don’t have many of his albums. I’d definitely recommend Road to St. Ives which is also on ECM and very similar to Private City.
I have also that one, thanks, and few more. He has a vast discography which I am sure is worth exploring.
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No worries. He does have a vast discography and still doing his stuff. Here’s two more on ECM I’d also recommend: both with Barre Phillips - Mountainscapes and Journal Violone II.
Yesterday I bought the last record of Gavin Friday: Ecce Homo
The prominent electronic rhythm patterns (created by Dave Ball of Soft Cell) may not be everybody's cup of tea, but I find interesting the way they are melded with acoustic instruments. I cannot say I am a fan of GF, but I have a high consideration of him as an artist: he his one of those ones that will publish something only when he will have something to offer. The track Lamento is wonderful. Can't wait to see him live at the Vicar.
I have the CD with bonus tracks, but I don't think they offer much added value to the standard edition.
Brutus1968 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 10:47 am
Yesterday I bought the last record of Gavin Friday: Ecce Homo
The prominent electronic rhythm patterns (created by Dave Ball of Soft Cell) may not be everybody's cup of tea, but I find interesting the way they are melded with acoustic instruments. I cannot say I am a fan of GF, but I have a high consideration of him as an artist: he his one of those ones that will publish something only when he will have something to offer. The track Lamento is wonderful. Can't wait to see him live at the Vicar.
I have the CD with bonus tracks, but I don't think they offer much added value to the standard edition.
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I genuinely thought somebody somewhere would have make an appreciative comment for your efforts above by now Brutus. I can only humbly apologise for the silence. Their loss. Beautifully expressed too. A true aficionado of this thing called music. Sadly there’s not too many of us out there anymore.
All I can offer is I’ve known about Gavin’s existence a while now but never really took the plunge to check him out properly. I think it’s high time I did. Fabulous photo too. Actually, now that I remember, I do possess a 7” by the Virgin Prunes featuring a painting of a girl feeding rabbits in the woods. I kid you not. Their very first offering I believe but I could be wrong.
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cybot wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 12:39 am
I genuinely thought somebody somewhere would have make an appreciative comment for your efforts above by now Brutus. I can only humbly apologise for the silence. Their loss. Beautifully expressed too. A true aficionado of this thing called music. Sadly there’s not too many of us out there anymore.
All I can offer is I’ve known about Gavin’s existence a while now but never really took the plunge to check him out properly. I think it’s high time I did. Fabulous photo too. Actually, now that I remember, I do possess a 7” by the Virgin Prunes featuring a painting of a girl feeding rabbits in the woods. I kid you not. Their very first offering I believe but I could be wrong.
I liked it so much that I decided to I decided to buy a second copy, in vinyl, as Christmas gift for a friend. When I took the vinyl at the cashier to pay (Spindizzy in Dublin) the guy behind the desk looked at the record and said: "this is a great record!".
After my friend listened to the record, he went digging in his collection to find the first Virgin Prunes record he had, but to his disappointment he discovered his copy was lost. So now he just ordered a new copy of it.
I also have a couple of vinyl records he made with the Men Seezer, very different stuff, but very interesting at the same time. With a long list of great session musicians playing.
