Thank you all for listening! It was a tough mix to make, because I found myself still sort of shocked Mark Hollis was gone, even though he'd been "gone" for all intents and purposes as a listener for twenty years. But also because. . . really nothing does sound like Talk Talk and 'Mark Hollis,' even music I love dearly. TT and 'MH' will give five seconds to a moment of sublime beauty and arresting juxtaposition what other artists will try to explore across entire tracks or albums. No one else really seems to have the confidence and restraint to let things flourish and fade in that way.
Working on the 60s-70s tribute mix now, fingers crossed. . .
― Soundslike, Saturday, 30 March 2019 10:52 (five years ago) link
And--Danny Thompson is definitely the secret hero of two generations' worth of a certain strand of music. You really could do an entire mix of just tracks he's played on for different artists--I've probably done several mixes which have five+ such tracks. Brilliant artist.
― Soundslike, Saturday, 30 March 2019 10:54 (five years ago) link
inspired by this thread i was looking through danny thompson's credits on discogs and i really am surprised at how many records he's on that i love. i had no idea he was on s.e. rogie's "dead men don't smoke marijuana"!
(right now i'm listening to dick griffin's "homage to sun ra" - actually a rare error in discogs, this actually has danny ray thompson on it, the bassist is cecil mcbee. so i'm not at all disappointed!)
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Saturday, 30 March 2019 14:16 (five years ago) link
Someone ought to do a super long career spanning and candid interview with Danny Thompson ASAP, seriously. He turns 80 on Thursday!
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 30 March 2019 16:08 (five years ago) link
He's the best. I saw him do a really memorable duo show with (no relation) Richard Thompson.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 March 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
fwiw he is on Colour of Spring as well, if no one mentioned.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 March 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
Another great Danny record is Tim Buckley’s ‘Dream Letter Live In London’ set
― kolarov spring (NickB), Saturday, 30 March 2019 17:07 (five years ago) link
yes! it's fantastic. any of those recordings from that european tour, there's some great live versions of "i don't need it to rain" with thompson killing it on bass
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Saturday, 30 March 2019 18:03 (five years ago) link
Where can I get that? On a boot?
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 30 March 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
I imagine so. Don't think there are any other official releases from that tour
― Duke, Saturday, 30 March 2019 18:49 (five years ago) link
actually according to discogs it's not thompson at all on the recording i'm thinking of but Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, i guess thompson wasn't around for the whole tour
also apparently according to discogs, the guy who provided the label the tape deliberately degraded the sound quality since it wasn't meant for release, which i guess explains why it sounds like shit, would be nice if the un-degraded tape was to get released somewhere
sorry for the misdirect, for what it's worth pedersen rips it the fuck up on the bass, i should probably check out some more of his shit, he played bass on "my name is albert ayler", which i have heard, and dexter gordon's "one flight up", which i guess i'm listening to next!
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Saturday, 30 March 2019 20:52 (five years ago) link
Listened to Spirit of Eden last night as I was drifting off to sleep - it's such a great night time album, even with the intense dynamics of 'Desire' ...
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 30 March 2019 21:41 (five years ago) link
been listening to your mix this afternoon, soundslike. it really is fantastic. it worked especially well against spring rain while i did quiet chores around the house. perfectly beautiful.
― sknybrg, Saturday, 30 March 2019 23:19 (five years ago) link
Honestly all these years I assumed they were brothers!
― Sam Weller, Monday, 1 April 2019 08:23 (five years ago) link
Wot, like you and Paul?
lol, pssh.... nm.
― Mark G, Monday, 1 April 2019 09:52 (five years ago) link
i liked your mix too, soundslike. i listened to it while repainting the appartment. the usual suspects on it plus some interesting, unknown music to me. the mix flows very nicely.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 1 April 2019 13:56 (five years ago) link
I made a second mix in tribute to Mark Hollis, this time focusing on music from the very late 60s and the 1970s:
https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/musicophilia_00_various_-_remembrance_1969-1978_cover.jpg?w=1024
Various - 'Remembrance - A Life (1955-2019)'1969-1978Part I01 [0:00:00] Alice Coltrane - "Hare Krishna" ('Universal Consciousness' 1971)02 [0:03:00] Terry Callier - "Dancing Girl" ('What Color Is Love' 1972)03 [0:12:00] Leonard Cohen - "Avalanche" ('Songs of Love and Hate' 1971)04 [0:17:00] Miles Davis - "Sanctuary" ('Bitches Brew' 1970)05 [0:27:50] Terry Reid - "Milestones" ('River' 1973)06 [0:33:40] Scott Walker - "It's Raining Today" ('Scott 3' 1969)07 [0:37:40] Nico - "You Forgot To Answer" ('The End...' 1974)08 [0:42:35] Brother Ah - "The Sea" ('The Sea' 1978)09 [0:48:20] Can - "Sing Swan Song" ('Ege Bamyasi' 1972)10 [0:52:45] Van Morrison - "You Don't Pull No Punches..." ('Veedon Fleece' 1974)11 [1:01:30] Tim Buckley - "Cafe" ('Blue Afternoon' 1969)Part II12 [1:06:55] Big Star - "Kanga Roo" ('Third' 1975)13 [1:10:40] Pharoah Sanders - "Astral Travelling" ('Thembi' 1971)14 [1:16:25] Richard & Linda Thompson - "The Great Valerio" ('I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight' 1974)15 [1:21:50] Judee Sill - "The Donor" ('Heart Food' 1973)16 [1:29:20] Brian Eno - "French Catalogues" ('Discreet Music' 1975)17 [1:34:30] Abercrombie-Hammer-DeJohnette - "Timeless" ('Timeless' 1975)18 [1:45:50] John Martyn - "Go Down Easy" ('Solid Air' 1973)19 [1:49:20] Beverly Glenn-Copeland - "Ghost House" ('Beverly Glenn-Copeland' 1970)20 [1:56:40] Simon Jeffes - "Chartered Flight" ('Music From the Penguin Cafe' 1976)21 [2:03:15] Nick Drake - "Saturday Sun" ('Five Leaves Left' 1969)22 [2:07:20] Paul Bley - "Closer" ('Open, To Love' 1973)[Total Time: 2:13:00]
Part I
01 [0:00:00] Alice Coltrane - "Hare Krishna" ('Universal Consciousness' 1971)02 [0:03:00] Terry Callier - "Dancing Girl" ('What Color Is Love' 1972)03 [0:12:00] Leonard Cohen - "Avalanche" ('Songs of Love and Hate' 1971)04 [0:17:00] Miles Davis - "Sanctuary" ('Bitches Brew' 1970)05 [0:27:50] Terry Reid - "Milestones" ('River' 1973)06 [0:33:40] Scott Walker - "It's Raining Today" ('Scott 3' 1969)07 [0:37:40] Nico - "You Forgot To Answer" ('The End...' 1974)08 [0:42:35] Brother Ah - "The Sea" ('The Sea' 1978)09 [0:48:20] Can - "Sing Swan Song" ('Ege Bamyasi' 1972)10 [0:52:45] Van Morrison - "You Don't Pull No Punches..." ('Veedon Fleece' 1974)11 [1:01:30] Tim Buckley - "Cafe" ('Blue Afternoon' 1969)
Part II
12 [1:06:55] Big Star - "Kanga Roo" ('Third' 1975)13 [1:10:40] Pharoah Sanders - "Astral Travelling" ('Thembi' 1971)14 [1:16:25] Richard & Linda Thompson - "The Great Valerio" ('I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight' 1974)15 [1:21:50] Judee Sill - "The Donor" ('Heart Food' 1973)16 [1:29:20] Brian Eno - "French Catalogues" ('Discreet Music' 1975)17 [1:34:30] Abercrombie-Hammer-DeJohnette - "Timeless" ('Timeless' 1975)18 [1:45:50] John Martyn - "Go Down Easy" ('Solid Air' 1973)19 [1:49:20] Beverly Glenn-Copeland - "Ghost House" ('Beverly Glenn-Copeland' 1970)20 [1:56:40] Simon Jeffes - "Chartered Flight" ('Music From the Penguin Cafe' 1976)21 [2:03:15] Nick Drake - "Saturday Sun" ('Five Leaves Left' 1969)22 [2:07:20] Paul Bley - "Closer" ('Open, To Love' 1973)
[Total Time: 2:13:00]
Please stream or download here: https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2019/04/02/remembrance-for-mark-hollis/
― Soundslike, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 02:53 (five years ago) link
Another title connect - Third World War - Ascension Day
― Sunset Claus (Uncle Juice), Thursday, 4 April 2019 10:31 (five years ago) link
Listened to 'Mark Hollis' for the first time through since he passed, this evening. For me, probably the most singular record I know. I love what I included in the mixes and I feel like there's a common spirit. But man, truly nothing really sounds like this record, or really the last two Talk Talk records.
― Soundslike, Friday, 5 April 2019 22:57 (five years ago) link
sprit of talk talk book getting a reprint. have pre-ordered. not missing it this time around godammit.
― andrew m., Thursday, 11 April 2019 14:21 (five years ago) link
The reprint of the 'Spirit of Talk Talk' book arrived last week, and it's just lovely. I didn't own the original, so I can't compare, but I think the writers did a stand up job reissuing the book and incorporating the death of Mark Hollis in it. It's properly addressed (how could it not?) but in context of the 'story' and history of the band. It's a sterling book, visibly made with so much love.
Aside: for the recluse Hollis came to be it's funny to see there are SO MANY *official PR/Press photos* of the band and of Hollis. I tend to forget they were an 80s band proper, where releasing even "difficult albums" like their last two were accompanied with photo shoots to go with press releases. Endearing photos, it's great to see them all together here.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 22:02 (four years ago) link
I thought this might have raised an eyebrow, interesting line-up -
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/132355-celebration-talk-talk-and-mark-hollis-2019
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
I saw that listed, but none of the musicians names rang a bell, so I assumed it was like those cheap Cleopatra covers CD's where there are just a bunch of no-names trying to capitalize on another bands legacy. So the participating musicians are from notable bands?
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
Well, it's weird, Simon Bremner was the original keyboard player and Martin Ditcham and Rupert Black were members of the touring band circa CoS iirc.
No idea about the rest of the names though, I don't recognise them.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
Most of them seem to have played with Talk Talk at some point, if only in the short-lived mid-80s live band. David Rhodes played with Peter Gabriel for ages too, the others I didn't recognise until I looked them up, mostly session dudes tbh. Maybe Johnny Turnbull's the 23 Skidoo guy?
xpost
― Oh Ogri (Matt #2), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link
I think David Rhodes played on CoS, that's his guitar lick on Life's What You Make it iirc
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
i believe turnbull is the mulleted guitar player as seen in the montreux show
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
Isn't that the guitarist from the Blockheads?
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
http://youtu.be/NS5bxk89gQg?t=17
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
Same guy, right? That mullet is something else.
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
Yeah same guy!
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
looks like curnow and black played synths on that tour too! i wasn't excited for this tribute before but i've watched montreux so many times that my mind pretty much considers them members of the band
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
I *finally* purchased Spirit of Talk Talk (shipping costs and all that) and must second how lovely it is. Amazingly put together.
― Tokyo Ghetto Stüssy (King Boy Pato), Friday, 16 August 2019 11:52 (four years ago) link
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/08/25/aquarium-drunkard-presents-a-tribute-to-talk-talk-los-angeles-8-26/
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 26 August 2019 04:47 (four years ago) link
Mark Hollis' solo album is getting a vinyl repress, you can order it at Burning Shed, and presumably elsewhere.
― akm, Thursday, 24 October 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
I think I pre-ordered this a long time ago. When is it being released?
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link
Looks like I also have the internet. The release date is November 11.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
Armistice Day seems apt
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:05 (four years ago) link
Nice little interview with James Marsh over on the Test Pressing site:
http://testpressing.org/magazine/soun-and-vision-james-marsh
― groovypanda, Friday, 6 December 2019 12:12 (four years ago) link
just listening to Pass The Mic by the Beastie Boys, and it sounds like they're rapping over Talk Talk.
― fetter, Saturday, 11 January 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
Aren’t they rapping over Edie Brickell?
― dan selzer, Saturday, 11 January 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
Listened to the Mark Hollis solo album today. It’s only flaw is that it comes last in a trilogy of perfect albums.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 12 January 2020 21:04 (four years ago) link
it's so good
― k3vin k., Sunday, 12 January 2020 21:08 (four years ago) link
A perfect album.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 12 January 2020 21:09 (four years ago) link
Various - 'Elegy for Mark Hollis - A Life (1955-2019)'1982-200001 [0:00:00] David Sylvian - "Brilliant Trees" ('Brilliant Trees' 1984)02 [0:09:05] Rachel's - "Full On Night" ('Handrwiting' 1995)03 [0:15:40] Neil Young - "Guitar Solo #4" ('Dead Man' 1996)04 [0:19:45] The Durutti Columm - "Without Mercy (Stanzas IX-XII)" ('Without Mercy' 1984)05 [0:26:45] The For Carnation - "Moonbeams" ('The For Carnation' 2000)06 [0:36:05] Scott Walker - "Sleepwalkers Woman" ('Climate of Hunter' 1984)07 [0:40:05] Robert Wyatt - "Maryan" ('Shleep' 1997)08 [0:46:15] Paul Motian Trio - "India" ('It Should've Happened a Long Time Ago' 1985)09 [0:53:35] Low - "Landlord" ('Songs For A Dead Pilot' 1997)10 [1:00:15] The Comsat Angels - "Pictures" ('Fiction' 1982)11 [1:04:40] Dif Juz - "Marooned" ('Extractions' 1985)12 [1:08:35] Shelleyan Orphan - "Supernature on a Superhighway" ('Humroot' 1992)13 [1:15:30] Danny Thompson - "Till Minne Av Jan" ('Whatever' 1987)14 [1:20:15] Stina Nordenstam - "Dynamite" ('Dynamite' 1996)15 [1:24:35] Haruomi Hosono - "Trembling #1" ('The Endless Talking' 1985)16 [1:27:40] Dead Can Dance - "The Host of Seraphim" ('The Serpent's Egg' 1988)17 [1:33:25] Yasuaki Shimizu - "Stir In This Way" ('Kakashi' 1982)18 [1:35:35] Mick Karn - "Dreams of Reason" ('Dreams Of Reason Produce Monsters' 1986)19 [1:39:15] Arthur Russell - "Not Checking Up" ('World of Echo' demo 1986)20 [1:43:40] This Mortal Coil - "The Lacemaker" ('Blood' 1991)21 [1:46:45] Peter Gabriel - "With This Love" ('Passion' 1989)22 [1:50:05] The Blue Nile - "Regret" ('Tinseltown In the Rain' single 1984)23 [1:53:30] Talk Talk - "It's Getting Late in the Evening" ('Life's What You Make It' single 1986)
[Total Time: 1:59:17]
Downloadable or streamable here: https://www.mixcloud.com/musicophilia/musicophilia-elegy-for-mark-hollis-a-life-1955-2019/
― Soundslike, Thursday, March 28, 2019 12:38 AM (nine months ago) bookmarkflaglink
Just want to say I've been back to this mix numerous times over the last year, I think it really is something special.
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Sunday, 12 January 2020 23:24 (four years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CFUaj8rHN2x/?igshid=29d5ab1a075t
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, 19 September 2020 13:56 (three years ago) link
great :)
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Saturday, 19 September 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
Paul Webb’s IG is a treat, thanks for posting it
― and i can almost smell your PG Tips (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
This week has been perfect for Hollis' solo album - the shortening days, the gathering gloom. It's a cliche to say it but it's such a mysterious album, so spare and obtuse that one is driven to look for clues. I keep coming back to the final verse of Westward Bound, which - particularly coming off the back of the Roland Leighton homage of A Life (1895-1915) - carries the weight of an engraving or an inscription:
MigrateJob on the threshing lineMute I walkIdle groundWestward bound
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 30 October 2020 21:07 (three years ago) link
That's the sparest song on a spare album.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 30 October 2020 22:31 (three years ago) link