Friday, January 24, 2003

What's spinning through your head? Fed up with lining the pockets of Nipper the Dog, I wandered up to Old Street the other day to visit the specialist music shop, Smallfish. Had a pleasant time stocking up on hard to find out there stuff not normally stocked by your local Virgin Megastore Express (eh?). Got ten quid off and lots of recommendations from the staff. Great work boys!

One disk I got was by The Amonmoanon led by Ned Graham, brother of Will (see earlier posting regarding an excelent gig at the Barbican). Same sort of alt-coutry stuff, though a bit more upbeat than brother Will. Ned was the more feisty of the three brothers (Paul played bass) at the Barbi gig. A new Will Oldham disk is out next week under the pseudonym Bonnie "Prince" Billy.

Meanwhile, I've been scanning my collection for stuff I've ignored for too long. So this morning I listened to "Start Breaking My Heart", the excellent debut from Canadian mathematician Dan Snieth aka Manitoba. Lovely mix of ambient, electronica and bop jazz licks. Sort of a cross between Aphex Twin, Brian Eno and John Scofield. Cheered me up on the late running 0844. (Great web site by The Leaf Label too).

:: Posted by pete @ 14:07