Thursday 25 February 2010

RePost: Talisker - Land of Stone

You can get 
Talisker's
'Land of Stone'  
HERE
Ken Hyder: drums
Marcio Mattos and John Lawrence: basses
Davie Webster: alto saxophone
John Rangecroft: tenor saxophone, clarinet
Ricardo Mattos: soprano and tenor saxophones, flute
Maggie Nicols, Frankie Armstrong, Brian Eley, and Phil Minton: vocals 
Ken Hyder has two web sites here and here.
There you will find tracks from the past and the present to download.
Here is an interview with Ken from 'The Wire'.
The vocalists, substituting Julie Tippetts (nee Driscoll) for Frankie Armstrong had worked together as 
'Voice'.
Phil Minton sang in my band, but that is only because I asked him to...
WHY...?
Because...
"...it sounds for all the world like an Albert Ayler album released post-New Grass when the tenor alchemist was experimenting with a woodwind contraption called the chanter—the blown portion of Scottish highland bagpipes. The twin sax / twin bass lineup of Hyder's quintet creates a droning, cantatorial spiritsound one can imagine as the sound of Ayler's dreams."
(From a review of the first Talisker album)
This is my 'desert island disc' and it has never been reissued on CD!
Finally for those of you who were in the Feral Choir when Phil Minton came out here to Melbourne, you can watch (and hear) yourself here and you may recognise one of the vocal motifs from the above album.
Enjoy/

3 comments:

  1. good idea to pull this one out of the gargantuan amount of posts you made since the original post...

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  2. 2HerrB/
    Jayzuz - THIS is where it all began for us, isn't it?
    I had forgotten...
    Now this/that really IS the end for a while...
    Laterz/

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  3. youre a doll, you know my soft spot already. much love and safe travels

    latas

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