This took me, uh, like, gee ... a while. It's refreshingly different, yet the signature qualities of the other Thirty Minute curatorial initiatives are present in abundance, to whit: a commitment to entertainment excellence in on-time deliverables, with consumer satisfaction prioritized to the max! And that's the FoamGuarantee© of a swell time!
If you enjoyed the others, you'll enjoy this half as much as I did! If the whole concept leaves you meh, well, that's cool too, dude! It's your trip, and, cordially, fuck you!
You'll recognise maybe a couple of sources, but it will prove a mildly diverting thirty minutes nonetheless. I'll provide a Gemstone File later for your elucidatory cognisance.
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Just got it and will enter your audio Wonderland soon!
ReplyDeleteThe Wizard's Sleeve pub, Nether Frotting, Bucks, UK, reminds me of a wonderful afternoon in 1988 spent in their lovely snug bar with my fellow casketeers, I believe we drank one too many pints of "Clergymans Knob", a dark but very quaffable rum stout.
ReplyDeleteRum stout? WTF is that?
DeleteI'm sure a lot of the 3/4 guys can relate to too many Clergymen's Knobs, present company excluded
DeleteIn the UK you can buy 'Brewdog Rattle & Rum', a rum and chocolate flavoured stout beer, very strong.
DeleteHere's an illustration of the sort of thing beer enthusiasts like me get up to, courtesy of Vis magazine.
https://allatsea55.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/vizs-real-ale-twats/
Looking forward to sampling To Slumberland - And Beyond! Thanks.
Hey MrDave it was 4or5guys when I last looked, has one gone on holiday to Greece?
DeleteThe latest Thirty Minutes is great, for the first time I recognise one of the tracks, good to hear the 'Cambridge song', even though it's by one of the biggest bands ever. The sax and tabla at beginning and end is rather splendid too.
ReplyDeleteThere's something rather magical about the sax/flute track at the end, and I'll tell you what it is when/if the page hits for this get into double figures.
DeleteHere's to double digits.
DeleteNudging NINE page views already!!!!!!
DeleteHere's the Director's Cut: if you downloaded the previous one, download this - several sumptuous sonic surprises in a certain sequence!
ReplyDeletehttps://workupload.com/file/DebuVQ6DYeB
This project has driven me to the edge of madness - endless nights in this ancient gambrelled house looming over the dark Miskatonic, my haggard face bathed in the unnatural radiance of the computer screen as I wrestle with eldritch sonic dæmons summoned from the Pit of Memory! And for what? So Four Or Five Guys© can pass a half hour in blessed respite from their mean, haunted lives.
Perhaps I should enter once more into Slumberland? Why not? There are certain ... details ... that could perhaps ... but wait! Hist and hark!! There is no time!! The gibbering ululations of the Elder Gods echo from the blasphemous pit!! They come!! They come!!! NYARLATHOTEP!! YOG-SOTHOTH!! THE PORTAL OPENS!!!
[tape runs out here - Ed.]
Previous one?? What previous one? Where?
DeleteRight here. I uploaded it, then removed the link when I thought of an improvemink. It only affects about three minutes, but this is the one I'm happy with. You will be too.
DeleteOk, will give the directors cut a spin.
DeleteI replayed my Thirty Minutes With Psilly Psymon last night, and spotted a couple of bits that could be improved (the opening song goes on a bit too long, but I'll not be redoing it. Sorry if you gave up because of that). Might do a brand new one in a few weeks.
That was basically the problem with this one - using the entire Cambridge Song was just too much, so I cut it in half. It's always better to edit wherever possible.
DeleteI may do an update on mine as well. Kinda varies depending on speakers vs car vs headphones, but the general mix at the end has always hit me as needing improvement.
DeleteGreat job on yours, Bambi! It's really cool to have a Thirty Minutes of a different musical style and decade.
Thanks Torgo, 00's pop star Bat for Lashes (Natasha Khan) did the vocal on the last track, based on a Moroccan song from the 1970's, an ideal closing track I thought.
DeleteI'll add that Bambi and I now have a special appreciation for Farq's comment, having succumbed to madness ourselves by weaving our music selections into story lines. But I have to say it was well worth it. Sanity is overrated anyway.
DeleteFor anyone else among the 4/5 thinking about putting a Thirty Minutes piece together, go for it! The audio editing program Audacity really is all you need for software, and it's free.
Torgo said "I'll add that Bambi". You may have misread my comment, Thirty Minutes With Psilly Psymon hasn't been updated sorry. If I do another, it'll be completely new, maybe next month, I'm a bit busy for a couple of weeks.
DeleteJust left my own slumberland..or midday grandaddy nap!! ..so, gonna lissen to dis la'er!!
ReplyDeleteThis piece now looks comfortably on the way to that prestigious Double Digit Page View status (8.3 hits already!), so I'm offering this exclusive, subscribers-only "Making Of" feature!
ReplyDeleteThe Gemstone File to Slumberland
1 Clarence Clemons, underdub Santana
Transition: Mike Nesmith and the Cocteau Twins
2 Carla Bruni, crossfade into ...
3 Cocteau Twins
Transition: Paul Horn and kids voices (both back-masked), birdsong from Pink Floyd
4 Donovan
5 Caravan (brutal edit), crossfade into ...
6 Pitch Black, crossfade into ...
7 Pink Floyd, underdubs HAL and kids’ voices
Transition: Mike Nesmith, Steve Miller Band (carries through under ...)
8 HAL/Ligeti, crossfade into ...
9 Milla Jovovich, crossfade into ...
10 The Clientele, crossfade into ...
11 Clarence Clemons/Paul Horn
Albums used: Clarence Clemons "Peacemaker", Santana "Borboletta", Mike Nesmith "Tantamount to Treason", Carla Bruni "Comme si de rien n’était", Cocteau Twins "Head Over Heels", Donovan "Brother Sun, Sister Moon" (my OST mix), Caravan "Land Of The Grey And Pink", Pitch Black "Rhythm Sound & Movement", Pink Floyd "Ummagumma", "2001 A Space Odyssey OST" plus HAL direct from soundtrack, Milla Jovovich "The Divine Comedy", The Clientele "Bonfires On The Heath", Clarence Clemons "Peacemaker"/Paul Horn "Inside The Great Pyramid"
There’s a lot of synchronicity happening here: Clemons’ bass line slowing and mutating into Carla Bruni’s bass line, the "day" link between Donovan and Caravan, the Pitch Black beats syncing with Caravan, Steve Miller blending into Ligeti, and HAL’s song being completed by the first few notes of Milla Jovovich, but the most jaw-dropping sync was the final track. The Clemons original sounded a little empty for this project, so I snipped out the required length at random from the Great Pyramid album and slid it in. To my amazement, it fits exactly, with no editing, like it was recorded in the same studio at the same time. All that intuitive call-and-response, with Horn weaving around Clemons simple lines, never happened. Horn’s vocals at the end, perfectly in tune, end the piece on a supernatural high. Zappa invented this technique, calling it Xenochrony, but here it just happened. Clemons and Horn playing spare and meditative music decades and continents apart, yet together in spirit, in perfect tune and time. “Supernatural? Perhaps. Baloney? Perhaps not.”
Great stuff, Farq, really enjoyed the 30 minutes, which quickly turned into 4/5 hours. Now I need to search out the full albums from Clarence Clemons, Carla Bruni and especially Milla Jovovich- can't get enough of her section. Thank you kindly, sir.
DeleteThanks for commenting on the music, Nobby! I'll be pleased to upload the albums - swing by later.
DeleteI'd previously dismissed the Clemons album (to make some fatuous point or other), and I now ask his forgiveness - it's a uniquely beautiful album.
I thought I recognised Cocteau Twins when I first listened. Wow a lot more ‘clever stuff’ went into making Slumberland than I realised, back-masked and xenochrony stuff, mmmnn (scratches head).
DeleteI think I understand what you did with the 'empty' Clemons track, that does make sense to me.
Clarence Clemons "Peacemaker"
ReplyDeleteCarla Bruni "Comme si de rien n’était" ("Like it was nothing")
Milla Jovovich "The Divine Comedy"
https://workupload.com/file/776tpxvs57g
Wow you make it far too easy for us free loading bums. Thanks very much.
DeleteYou're very welcome, Nobster.
DeleteFor Fans of The Cocteau Twins
ReplyDeleteRoseland Ballroom, New York, April 2, 1994.
https://workupload.com/file/cKMnuarxcPd
Elizabeth Fraser And Future Sound of London 'Lifeforms Rarities' from 1994
https://workupload.com/file/phGQWj6NqXR
Hey Babs curiously my favourite tune of the CT is an instrumental one.
DeleteCheck please.
Cheers
Bat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDx_Ns-oNp4
Taking a holiday. Weather is here - wish you were beautiful!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy!
DeleteL8R Dude.
While the Farq is away...
ReplyDeleteRIP Randy Meisner.
By all accounts one of the nicest guys in the music business. Also, terminally shy and unwilling to be in the spotlight, which no doubt aided and abetted in getting hosed by his soon-to-be-former bands.
DeleteFrom The Guardian --
While still in his teens, Meisner married his childhood sweetheart, Jennifer Barton (they would divorce in 1981), and set about making a living as a musician. He formed a band called the Dynamics, then played with numerous groups across the midwest before being asked to join the Soul Survivors. They headed for California to seek their fortune, but found the going tough. The band fell apart and Meisner assembled a new outfit, which he aptly named the Poor. They recorded several singles for the Loma, York and Decca labels, without success.
Then Meisner was recruited to the country-rock band Poco being formed by the Buffalo Springfield veterans Jim Messina and Richie Furay. Poco immediately signed with Epic Records after their rousing debut at the Troubadour club in Los Angeles in November 1968, but Meisner became disillusioned when Messina and Furay treated him as a mere hired hand. When they would not allow him to attend mixing sessions for the band’s debut album, Pickin’ Up the Pieces (1969), a peeved Meisner promptly quit. In the painting of the band on the album sleeve, he was replaced by a dog.
The Poor / Soul Survivors (@320): https://www.imagenetz.de/jw92n
Poco "Pickin' up the pieces" hybrid SACD version (flac): https://www.imagenetz.de/g2Lsi
Get your Steve Albini emoting here: https://workupload.com/file/8b78VR624Kk
ReplyDeleteBrandi
less is better signed der valcurie
ReplyDeleteIf you like this, like this, too:
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It's the follow-up - Thirty Minutes Beyond The Blue Horizon.