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Another Rune Grammafon special. The YouTube clip is as far as I can recall a Coltrane piece.

It'll end in tears - This Mortal Coil

markof wrote: ↑Tue Feb 12, 2019 10:44 pm

It'll end in tears - This Mortal Coil

+1

BTW on a related topic did you ever get a chance to listen/download to Tim Buckley's Troubadour performances? I'm tempted by the 6 Lp box set I saw recently.

The Troubadour recordings are unmissable, Dermot.  I bought the original Live at the Troubadour 1969 CD on its original release as well as last year's supplementary CDs covering the remaining material that was recorded during the original concerts but which languished  -  unaccountably  -  in the vaults for too many years.  I really wish that the CDs were issued in a single box set, however.  

With regards the performance, this is Tim at his best, caught between his Lorca and Starsailor albums, an incredible series of vocal performances that  collectively straddle the emotional gamut from fiery, inchoate, and incandescent intensity to tender, lyrical, and emotional intimacy and stopping off at all intermediary waypoints in between.  One of the very greatest and most natural live performers ever. Don't miss it, Dermot.

I really wish that one day we will see the infamous 1970 Starsailor live concerts fully documented and given an official release.  This is Tim right at the precipice and leaping headlong into the ravine.  Some of the most breathlessly out-there performances that he ever gave.  An amazing, singular visionary talent that deserved a braver record company to follow him all the way down the rabbithole.

Check this out.

Wow! Amazing! So, so far ahead of the rest. And, to think I haven't even got the two albums you mentioned, namely, Lorca and Starsailer. Maybe I thought I just wasn't ready for them. I am now. Time to start saving. Thanks Paul......

Enjoying this vinyl beauty at the moment and, you know what, when heard together as well produced as here, there's very little to dispute their rightful place in the pantheon of one of the greatest band's ever.

cybot wrote: ↑Wed Feb 20, 2019 10:38 pm Enjoying this vinyl beauty at the moment and, you know what, when heard together as well produced as here, there's very little to dispute their rightful place in the pantheon of one of the greatest band's ever.

Desert Island boxset, no question!

Rest in Peace, Mark Hollis (Talk Talk). One of the most underrated songwriters out there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbwz532EQw8

Cyndale wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 12:52 pm Rest in Peace, Mark Hollis (Talk Talk). One of the most underrated songwriters out there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbwz532EQw8

Absolutely. Great if small body of work. RIP.

Very sad news. Rest in peace Mark.

Spirit of Eden/Laughing Stock = 10/10