A few months of listening to stuff
Crystal Palace Park is hosting a series of open air concerts in August. Love a gig, especially when it's walking distance home. I've got tickets for Supergrass being a teenager in the 90s and now a dad in his 40s. I'm also tempted by the day headlined by Sleaford Mods but more for the female artists on the bill, like Katy J Pearson and Jane Weaver.
The musical highlights that I can remember since last posting have been:
- Aksak Maboul - Un Caïd - thanks to Steve Davis's appearance on 6Music
- Damon Albarn talk about the song Andromeda on Song Exploder
- Rediscovering Ill Behaviour by Danny Byrd
- Mount Eerie's Love Without Passion - NPR Tiny Desk acoustic version is worth checking out too, plus Julie Doiron's own set years earlier.
- Cosmo Sheldrake - Cuckoo (Live in the Dawn Chorus). Wake Up Calls (name of the album) "was created over a nine year period, using recordings of bird song featured on the red and amber lists of endangered British birds".
- Between The World And Me by The Magic Lantern
- Peace Piece by Bill Evans - an unrehearsed modal composition that he recorded for his "Everybody Digs Bill Evans" LP in 1958. It is hailed as one of the most beautiful and evocative solo piano improvisations ever recorded. Here's a live cover by Josh Cohen.
- After clicking around Josh's videos, discovered many piano covers of Radiohead songs. Glass Eyes is particularly good.
- Atlas by Bicep