A great time was had Sunday night and Monday morning in Bristol with Josie. Met up with some old friends before going onto Colston Hall to see a quite remarkable Antony & the Johnsons performance.
I’ll save my gushing praise for a couple of days, however, firstly because my nemesis has already posted his articulate and well thought out review of the evening (no doubt while I lay abed, soaking up all the luxury Premier Inns could toss my way). But also because, although I managed to make some rather fine recordings of the evenings, I’m currently having some problems wrestling said bootlegs from my battered old iRiver. I’ll sort it.
Anyway, in the meantime…
Christian Kiefer and Tom Carter
Have been enjoying immensely a new recording from Christian Kiefer. I originally wrote about Christian about 18 months ago here, going all gooey about the album he had released with Jefferson Pitcher. He got in touch with me after that and sent me some tracks from an album he’d done with Tom Carter of Charalambides. To be honest, it was a bit of a tough listen at times, and it gradually faded from my radar. But anyway, he’s now released another record with Carter, and it’s a bit of a belter, I’ll tell you.
It’s called From the American Songbook and is a series of… er… reinterpretations of classic American bluegrass songs such as “Will the Circle be Unbroken”, “Pretty Polly” and “Coo Coo Bird”. In many cases the originals are pretty much unrecognisable but still manage to retain their original spirit. The best tracks actually sound old…
No free downloads that I can find, however, so you’re just gonna have to go with me on this one. Get it here. C’mon, it's me, have I ever?
There is this, by Christian Kiefer, however, in the same sort of spirit:
Rock of Ages – Christian Kiefer
This track comes from a collection called SpliceToday.com which is available from Splice Today, a rather fine website which gathers together all sorts of titbits for the modern surfer. Actually the collection is pretty good and features one or two other artists I shall try to further acquaint myself with.
Oh and while, I’m at it, there’s this intriguing clip from YouTube about a film Kiefer seems to have taken part in which involved a group of men growing beards for six months.
I perhaps could have phrased that better, it doesn’t exactly sound like must-see TV, does it?
More later (including, I hope, that Colston Hall recording).
I’ll save my gushing praise for a couple of days, however, firstly because my nemesis has already posted his articulate and well thought out review of the evening (no doubt while I lay abed, soaking up all the luxury Premier Inns could toss my way). But also because, although I managed to make some rather fine recordings of the evenings, I’m currently having some problems wrestling said bootlegs from my battered old iRiver. I’ll sort it.
Anyway, in the meantime…
Christian Kiefer and Tom Carter
Have been enjoying immensely a new recording from Christian Kiefer. I originally wrote about Christian about 18 months ago here, going all gooey about the album he had released with Jefferson Pitcher. He got in touch with me after that and sent me some tracks from an album he’d done with Tom Carter of Charalambides. To be honest, it was a bit of a tough listen at times, and it gradually faded from my radar. But anyway, he’s now released another record with Carter, and it’s a bit of a belter, I’ll tell you.
It’s called From the American Songbook and is a series of… er… reinterpretations of classic American bluegrass songs such as “Will the Circle be Unbroken”, “Pretty Polly” and “Coo Coo Bird”. In many cases the originals are pretty much unrecognisable but still manage to retain their original spirit. The best tracks actually sound old…
No free downloads that I can find, however, so you’re just gonna have to go with me on this one. Get it here. C’mon, it's me, have I ever?
There is this, by Christian Kiefer, however, in the same sort of spirit:
Rock of Ages – Christian Kiefer
This track comes from a collection called SpliceToday.com which is available from Splice Today, a rather fine website which gathers together all sorts of titbits for the modern surfer. Actually the collection is pretty good and features one or two other artists I shall try to further acquaint myself with.
Oh and while, I’m at it, there’s this intriguing clip from YouTube about a film Kiefer seems to have taken part in which involved a group of men growing beards for six months.
I perhaps could have phrased that better, it doesn’t exactly sound like must-see TV, does it?
More later (including, I hope, that Colston Hall recording).
2 comments:
You're sweet to talk about the record with Tom. There's a new one with Tom and Tetuzi Akiyama and I coming out from Digitalis sometime soonish. I'll keep you posted for sure.
Cheers, Christian.
Would love to hear it, and anything else you're up to (including anything beardy!)
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