Tag: Gil Scott-Heron
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John Martyn tribute album – Robert Smith does ‘Small Hours’
As usually happens, I go on a massive binge on an older artist or band, say Gil Scott-Heron – then find out they have a big release in the next week or two after years or decades of nothing. It happens a lot to me, and just happened with John Martyn. I wasn’t really up…
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RC 206: Wise Enough?
Recorded last Monday after the black cloud of a bad day was dissipating, now I post it as the rain clouds are precipitating, it seems very appropriately down for today… It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring… (101Mb, 1:50) Friendly Fires – True Love Buzzcocks – Harmony in My Head The 2 Bears…
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New York is Killing Me
And sadly it did – the large 3 screen version of this was the highlight of Chris Cunningham’s AV set (the only highlight, the rest was just gorish and violently boring – shock and awe with very little content) – and was a great tribute to Gil. (best watched in full screen in HD)…and was…
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Winter in America
Sad to hear that Gil Scott Heron has died…although amazing in some sense given his past lifestyle he lived so long to come back with his recent records, although I preferred his older stuff I had the feeling he had a better record in him – now we’ll never know. So at the top is…
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Kiki and Herb Loves You
And would die for you 😀 How many songs include Bonnie Tyler, then mash in the Byrds, WB Keats and more? Well allow Kiki and Herb to show you: Live they are a musical reference whirlwind – very appropriate to mashup culture and quite radical – I mean singing a torch song version of Annie…
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Radio Clash 26: Strangely unthemed edition
No theme, no packdrill (what is a packdrill? And why does the pack want to be drilled?) really, but some great mashuplets, ukrainian furry (dice?) covers, planet bollywood and some monetization issues that need to be modelled, action planned, thoroughly processed and then downsized down a vertical industry hole into a hierarchical framework far, far…