Damn you 2016!
I saw Steve Hillage play at the weekend, and while doing some reading I found he had worked with Isao Tomita, only to find out that Tomita died last year. I spent many hours at uni listening to his stuff - this is his version of Holst's Planets. The first three minutes are a rather cheesy intro but it sets the scene.
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Thu 27 Apr 2017, 22:37,
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I love loads of Canterbury Scene stuff
especially Soft Machine obs, but also Caravan, Egg, anything which Kevin Ayers did, Comus is ace - especially Painted Bird, and SpiroGyra. And Gong, of course Gong.
Hillage was involved with every single band.
Sad loss.
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Thu 27 Apr 2017, 22:41,
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Kevin Ayers - the king of Canterbury
In his Harvest years he wrote some of my all-time favourite tunes.
Hadn't heard Comus before. Interesting to find they were part of Bowie's Beckenham arts project, another piece of local music history to discover.
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bearhunt is drinking tea with wreckless abandon, Fri 28 Apr 2017, 11:20,
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Beckenham Arts Lab
also Steve Harley.
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Fri 28 Apr 2017, 13:42,
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I still have a few Tomita albums
It was cutting-edge stuff in its time, but sounds cheesy and a bit naff now, which is disappointing.
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Varmint, Thu 27 Apr 2017, 23:25,
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I still like his version of Night on Bald Mountain
youtu.be/PfMmuryI9oY
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Fri 28 Apr 2017, 5:37,
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