Thought for the day

There is no thought for the day today as I had too much to think last night!

"There ain't no cure for love"

Too true.
(Thank god!)

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Thought for the day

"Some people never go crazy.
What truly horrible lives they must live."

Charles Bukowski

"Magnificent - and at last there's something to cheer about." *

Real Madrid 0 VS Liverpool 1

Full report from the 'BBC' here.

*Tackhead -'The Game'

Capped - back to 'normal' tomorrow

Til then...

Thought for the day

"You say you like my shirt, you say you like my hat,
You never say that you like me or something nice like that."

Kevin Ayers

REPOST - Dudu Pukwana - Flute Music

Dudu Pukwana & Spear
'Flute Music'
Here.

As already mentioned here I was lucky enough to live in London when Dudu was playing around town.
In fact I saw him in London, Glasgow, Liverpool & Amsterdam.
I also worked at a jazz club in London for a while (100 Club) and when he would play there we would have a few ales...
At the end of the night we often found ourselves catching the same bus and Dudu would play his sax to me and whoever else was there at the bus stop.
Wish that I had thought to record those impromptu sessions on my walkman.

This music is just perfect as the weather starts warming up.

There is a Dudu Pukwana discography to be found here
and a wonderful site dedicated to all things 'Brotherhood of Breath/Blue Notes' here.

Nada-nothing-zero-zilch!

REPOST - Always wear your helmet

Remember kids that if you are going to do drugs, just make sure that you do them safely.
(As demonstrated here by Mr. P. Doherty.)

REPOST - Ken Hyder's Talisker - Land of Stone (ECM 1977)

You can get 'Land of Stone' here.

Talisker
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 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.

Thought for the day

"A carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond."

Captain Beefheart

Back in a couple of days...

Vintage gas masks

Japanese gas attack posters (1938)

"Toxic area! Run! Flee!
Better to seek soap and water nearby than to travel to an aid center far away."

"Military use
- Full protection
- Rubber face mask
- Body suit (rubber)
- Filter
- Gloves (rubber)
- Boots (rubber)

Civilian use
- (Right) For any gas except blister gas and tear gas
- (Center) For various types of gas
- (Left) Transparent visor"

"Do not allow victims to walk. Carry them gently.

Head to a nearby shelter.
Move to a safe location upwind."

From 'Pink Tentacle' here.