Entertainment For Lively Minds
Lost for words
Posted by Molesworth on 17 December 2010 - 6:35pm.
Enough talking. Post us up a quality instrumental tune, simple as that. To start, Thursday the Twelfth by Bankstatement.
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It's not subtitled An Exercise In Self-Indulgence' for nothing..
OK
This
Gets my vote!
King Cimson - Red
I'd rather have posted 'Starless' but it has a short vocal passage.
In the words of Basil Brush
B'boom b'boom
or, for real muso chops on unashamed display
Here's Dave Stewart, Bill Bruford, Allan Holdsworth and Jeff Berlin giving it some.
I *love* this DVD but this is probably the killer track, along with Hells Bells perhaps.
Not this, then?
Apparently, it's not about Roger Waters. Yeah...
Buzzcocks - Walking Distance
R.E.M. - "Endgame"
'Lotus Land' by Kenny Burrell...
It takes a little while for the tune to start in this You Tube clip, but the visuals are great as well.
Focus - Sylvia
Ali & Toumani, naturally
Stunning....
...I've often thought I should buy an Ali Farka Toure album. Unless the red wine I'm currently quaffing is affecting my judgement, I think now might be the time! What do you recommend Stuart?
This year's 'Ali & Toumani',
This year's 'Ali & Toumani', from which this comes, is as good a place as any to start. A wonderful album made with another superb Malian musician, kora player Toumani Diabate. Sadly it was Farka Toure's last recording.
The one with Ry Cooder..
is fantastic as well, Colin.
Link Wray - The Rumble
Completely brilliant El Hombre...
...somebody somewhere (preferably at BBC4 before the bean counting phillistines close it down) should make a documentary on the Rumble Man. If only to give the world pristine versions of amazing performances like this one...
Thanks Colin
Yes they should.
I was lucky enough to see him a few times, a great rocker. Amazing guitar sound. The first time was with Robert Gordon - the 2 albums they made are joyous rock & roll. At least with youtube you can get an idea of what he was like!
I agree El...
...though sadly there seems to be nothing prior to a clip of a bit of a novelty number from 1960. You'd imagine there MUST be a televisual 'Ace Of Spades' if not perhaps a 'Rumble' from the 50s out there somewhere...
I'm not wild about the Robert Gordon collaborations (though I never saw them live, nor Link solo, alas) but I love the 1977 'Live At The Paradiso' LP and the first of his '70s LPs (the one recorded at his 'three track shack') and I have a bunch of LPs of his 60s recordings and CDs of his Ace stuff from the 90s-200os. Funnily enough I found I had a promo cassette of his 1993 Creation album the other day. I gave it a spin - dreadful!
But I do recommend you check out his '70s concerts up on wolfgangsvault.com - you can just FEEL the visceral loudness of them: everything at 11. It must have been a staggering (if deafening) experience.
*heads over to Wolfgangsvault*
By luck, one of the first LPs I bought was The Link Wray Rumble from 1974. It was in the bargain bin and completed my spend of all my 1976 Christmas money on records.
A quick dig around youtube and "It Was A Bad Scene" from that LP is here.
I know this is an instrumental thread - here I am posting a vocal track! So - be warned - CONTAINS VOCALS
I've got a live set from Sausalito in 74 which is really good too, and Live at Paradiso was a staple of my listening in the early 80s. I'll need to give that another spin.
The Dame (although I could easily do a top 10 on tnis)
Ok I admit
it's not entirely instrumental, but it hasn't got any singing in it.
The Dutch Pentangle (with panpipes...and violin...)
Yes, it's Flairck!
I was quite enjoying that...
and then some bozo turns up with some effing panpipes! Noooooooooooo!
Edit: MEMO TO SELF - Must learn to read ("with panpipes" should, in truth, have given me a clue)
Going Pan Pipe
I note your fury at Pan Pipes turning up in this instrumental. Can I suggest that this may well be an example of a Pan Pipe mood, defined as the step before going postal and is therefore a very bad mood indeed.
Ikkkyokume
By Nisennenmondai
Rudimentary one-chord jamming..
but very cool. Can fans I'll wager, good drummer too.
Ohhh...
Magnificent!
Domo arigato
Excellent choice
Just superb!
If only Simon Cowell put his efforts behind championing this kind of thing.
one of the great pleasures
of this Blog is that you can discover great things you had not the faintest inkling of previously. Thanks misteraitch
Cool as ....
fuck.
Thanks misteraitch,am going to check them out further.
My fave instrumental of all time is...
...strangely enough, this atypically restrained 1970 B-side by Dutch psych band Brainbox. For some reason I find it very moving and 'alive'. As much of a fan of Jan Akkerman as I am - and for years I WANTED to believe it was him on this - the guitarist is actually his replacement in the band (while he went off with Focus) Rudi de Queljoe. No, me neither... But for this alone he remains frozen in the amber of brilliance for me:
Better hand over the stage to the master...
Been thinking of this recently
Jazz is not dead..
it just smells funny.
I played that tune at my aunt Diana's funeral...
It was a deeply moving experience.
One of the greatest ..
compositions/melodies in this or any other genre, Patrick imho. Moving indeed.
Sorry to hear about your aunt.
'James' by Pat
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And while we're at it..
this lot are simply phenemenal live.
James ... again
Will it embed this time?
Jeff again..
Can I go with this?
Mono
Halcyon (Beautiful Days)
Wonderful
.
Take 5
And from Nigeria....
The Hygrades.
Mogwai - Scotland's Shame
Ain't nothing as chilled as this...
i do love this an awful lot...
It's the truly wonderful Go Team
Even if the music doesn't grab you...
watch it for the video..absolutely stunning.
Hoedown!
wonder
what's in the bottle?
El Ten Eleven do Things You Wouldn't Expect With A Bass
And what is instrumental music, if not an opportunity to go mad with a title?
Predictable, inevitable, unavoidable...
...yes, I've held off from posting a Mahavishnu Orchestra track for long enough. So here's a glorious mellow one from their first filmed performance, in 1972:
A Song For You
House Call.
Dudley Moore Trio
Melancholy genius from the film '30 Is A Dangerous Age, Cynthia'. And inexplicably never released, sadly, so it remains nameless.
Steve Vai "Juice"
Not a big fan of Mr Vai's twiddlyness but my son played me this one and I luuurve it!
Nick D - introduction
Wicked Game - Instrumental (almost)
A couple of backing vocals slip in but hey...........
Dark Lolita
C'est Le Vent, Betty
Beautiful
Tommy Bolin
with Jeff Porcaro on drums
Oliver Nelson
A lovely earworm tune. Frank Zappa recorded a spiffing live version on "Broadway The Hard Way", but here's the original with an all-star cast of jazzeronies from "The Blues and the Abstract Truth".
As Fluff Freeman might say...
...not arf!
Can't find
my favourite Felt instrumental ("Book Of Swords"), but here's another beauty from them...
More Metheney
I actually wanted to post Darrell Scott's banjo-driven take on this, but the original will do nicely:
A faintly surprising
this is from around 1972-1974. Composed and produced a young JM Jarre, apparently
Of Course...
Then backwards...
Green Earrings....as you've never heard it before
Much better without Fagen's whiny vocal, and even better for the seven-minute Chuck Rainey-Larry Carlton-Bernard Purdie funk out...
Gotan Project
Late night music....
Still sounds sublime this Thursday morning!
My favourite thing
Trane yes - Julie Andrews no.
How to make a classic from fluff:
Or
I recently heard this version by Dekek Trucks - A great slide player, I have discovered. Nephew of Allman Bros drummer Butch trucks and it shows:
Could have picked
Anything by Booker T or Jackie Mittoo but plumped for this