Erik Satie.
I'd have to say Vexattions is one of my favourite pieces of music of all time. I truly get lost in it everytime, even the shorter interpretations. It fits so well with the music I am drifting into recently, epitomized byt he package I picked up this week from CC.
From Brussels With Love (TWI-007) is a remarkable album. It seems to be the embodiment of everything I have been meandering towards over the past year or so. It contains early piano pieces by such important artists (John Foxx, Bill Nelson, Brian Eno, Harold Budd, The Durutti Column, Virginia Astley) and fills the air with the most radiant beauty. I will work on this and write up a review for revolution's Orphans quite soon, alongside that which I am working on for 3 Jak and Dive.
Again, they are not so very different. Foxx has moved in twenty five years from Metamatic to Metanym and I feel in so doing has come full circle. Listening now to Child on the Hill by Budd and then Satie's vexations, its only a small step to the contemporary electronics of Lee Norris, Jori Hulkonnen and co.
Theis years compilation will be the best yet - I have most of it put together in y head already and I have chosen a piece of Kink's artwrok for the cover. Next year could be really exciting as we move into a neo-Romantic renaissance.
And surely my mood is enhanced by three (THREE) converstions with RH today and confirmation (with some persuading) that he really is going live this weekend and that SM may be joining us in Oxford. Strange days indeed.
I am very nervous about meeting Tara and Andrew tomorrow, to the point of distraction, and sharing relief with Trx that the £600 cash I picked up today should comfortably see us through a challenging Christmas. We even managed to eat out this evening (OK, it was only Sainsbury's!) but thats the first time in an age.
Last night the burned out building and the blackbird while I played NildraHain. Tonight I have beside me the work of Beaudelaire and have just slipped a copy of Spleen and Ideal (Dead can Dance) into the CD player.
He does indeed move in the most Mysterious Ways…