You can get '
Land of Stone'
here.
TaliskerKen 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 him from '
The Wire'.
The vocalists, substituting
Julie Tippetts (nee Driscoll) for Frankie Armstrong had worked together as '
Voice'.
"...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.