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Thursday, 18 March 2021

No Opinion (Anti-Thought)

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Richard Hell by Martyn Goldacre (London 1994)

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...Oh But man these are all about THAT jacket!

Kevin Richard Martin - White Light / Red Light

Kevin Richard Martin confesses he has "always had a love/hate relationshipwith the saxophone.". "After you hear Pharoah Sanders, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler or Peter Brotzmann even, you just question any possibility of finding a fresh sound or approach, due to the instant connotations the sound has.." Having given up professionally playing the instrument since 'Curse of the Golden Vampire's 'Mass Destruction' in 2003, he may have temporarily lost the will to blow the horn, but he hadnt lost the long term aim to "reduce its sound to pure gulf stream air" by other means. So for both 'White Light' and 'Red Light', Kevin decided to resample his old sax recordings, and additionally explore various sound libraries/vst instruments as the departure point, to see just how heavily the instrument could be chopped, screwed, stretched and dubbed in his lab, to try and locate his "own sound". Martin informs me enthusiastically, "there were no other sounds or sources utilised on these albums, other than saxophone or additionally, specifically synthetic sax, filtered through layer upon layer, wave upon wave of fx..."

More on White Light here and Red Light here

Mark Stewart's Booker's Dozen

Mark Stewart answers thirteen questions

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'I don't do nothing' (1911 Census Glasgow)

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James King & The Lone Wolves - Fly Away & Fun Patrol

Scotland's favourite albums: James King and the Lonewolves - Lost Songs of the Confederacy (2014)

Nick Cave: Things I’m Not Happy With (1978)

'I wrote that when I was very young … and confused. I’m very glad I didn’t implement some of those changes. Mick, for example, became my chief collaborator, completely indispensable, for twenty years, and Phill, well, I always had a real soft spot for Phill, he was a lovely guy, but his drumming was ultimately at odds with what the band wanted to do, I think'

From ‘Stranger Than Kindness'

Photo by Ashley Mackevicius

Hell & Bella

The Hell drawing was a copy of that particular week's NME cover pic which had Hell holding a skull. It was drawn at my Nana's place in Liverpool in 82/83 with pencil, felt tip and gold pen on A4 lined paper with lots and lots of cawfee consumed. Check the stain. The portrait of a random from a magazine was given to my friend Bella many years ago as it did look like her (and I went to a lot of trouble making the frame just right) This had blue pencil, blue felt tip, spray paint (both can and a diffuser) and used molten wax to mask the spray on certain areas. Not recommended but I didn't have any rubber cement handy