REpost: Talisker - Land of Stone (NEW FLAC link)

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'.

(Coming Soon)

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/

(BIG thanx Kinabalu!) 

PS: Can I also say that ECM's sterility often pissed me off BUT this is the greatest record in their catalogue and a real pity that Villalobos didn't touch this...er, maybe not!)
(See also: The Last Battle)