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To be listened together

• “Moonchild” (King Crimson, In the Court of the Crimson King, 1969)
• “Dissolving Clouds” (Biosphere, Dropsonde, 2006)

As soon as you will have been through the instrumental part in the former, you will not be able to miss the link with the latter.

A fantastic link over 37 years of music.

Cross-fertilising

I am posting something on my LiveJournal blog that may interest those of you invisible/non-existent readers who listen to Bad Religion or politically engaged music in general.

Wyatt in Paris

You will have to read French. The videos, however, feature Wyatt answering the audience in English. The website posting the links is the best resource I know about Robert Wyatt, Soft Machine and progressive rock in general.

His theory of art and his views on the current crisis within the music industry are just right on spot. His explanation of jazz-rock (in his case bebop and rock) and is also a fantastic reading of his work. Finally, his character is refreshingly humble, good-tempered and glowingly happy.

Watch it just to feel better about ageing, humanity, life, politics, music and the rest.

Harold Budd

According to his Wikipedia page, I have missed a few releases by Harold Budd, most notably two connected albums with Robin Guthrie (with whom he composed the excellent Mysterious Skin soundtrack) and an exclusively digital album recorded in memory of one of his former teachers. The page indicates:

# 2007 Perhaps (Samadhisound)
# 2007 After The Night Falls (with Robin Guthrie) Darla Records
# 2007 Before The Day Breaks (with Robin Guthrie) Darla Records

Harold Budd is one of my favourite ambient artists, along with Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Biosphere, and some work by David Sylvian on Gone to Earth (I already wrote about this album here). Tortoise probably fits in this list too.

If you would like to discover Harold Budd in a single album (his career spans over decades), his Music for 3 Pianos with Ruben Garcia and Daniel Lentz is exceptional—with rather sad overtones, don't expect Cuban rumba.

Ministry - No W

BBC Reviews

BBC Experimental now has a syndication feed, featuring:

• The last Fripp & Eno. In line with The Equatorial Stars.
• The last Robert Wyatt. In line with Cuckooland.