A CD Club member picks a theme and then we all choose a track for the rest of the club to listen to. We then meet and talk about the choice. We very often gravitate to ambient music and rarely pop. Brian Eno, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto come up quite a lot.
Each member is asked to choose a track/piece of music based on a theme. This time it is Mr. M's choice 'Spoken Word'.
Mr. P goes on a bit.
Mr. B: Allen Ginsberg - Howl
Mr. K: Kathryn Joseph et al. - Noup Head
Mr. M: R.S. Thomas - The Island
Mr. P: Tom Waits - Nirvana
28 Jan 2024
CD Club Sessions - Sound track
Each member is asked to choose a track/piece of music based on a theme. This time it is Mr. B's choice 'Sound track'.
Mr. B's shorts and summer thoughts.
Mr. B: Chris Watson - El Tren Fantasma
Mr. M: Jóhann Jóhannsson - A Song For Europa from Orpheus
Mr. P: Start to Finish short film
28 Jan 2024
CD Club Sessions - Coast
Each member is asked to choose a track/piece of music based on a theme.
This time it is Mr. K's choice 'Coast.
Very much down to business this week!
Mr. B: Loscil - Hastings Sunrise fro, Sketches from New Brighton
Mr. K: Philip Glass - Knee Play 5
Mr. M: David Sylvian - Waterfront
Mr. P: Dmitry Kormann - Fractal Music
1 May 2023
CD Club Sessions - Subjugation
Each member is asked to choose a track/piece of music based on a theme. This time it is Mr. B's choice 'Subjugation'.
Mr. B's shorts and summer thoughts.
Mr. B: Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz (Part 1)
Mr. K: Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71, TH 14 / Act 1 - No. 8
Mr. M: Vilde & Inga - How Forests Think
Mr. P: Alva Noto - A Forest.
1 May 2023
CD Club Sessions - Forest
Each member is asked to choose a track/piece of music based on a theme. This time it is Mr. K's choice 'Forest'.
Mr. P's choice gets a drubbing, free jazz is hard and we all wanted the Sakamoto album.
Mr. B: Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz (Part 1)
Mr. K: Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71, TH 14 / Act 1 - No. 8
Mr. M: Vilde & Inga - How Forests Think
Mr. P: Alva Noto - A Forest.
30 Apr 2023
CD Club Sessions - Something lost in translation
Each member is asked to choose a track/piece of music based on a theme. This time it is Mr. B's choice 'Something Lost in Translation'.
We also continue the theme of 'what's for tea'.
Mr. B: Gen'ei - Meitei - Daisuke Fujita,
Mr. K: Sakura - Cherry Blossoms,
Mr. M: Cornelius Cardew - Autumn 60,
Mr. P: A Winged Victory For The Sullen - There is One of Which You Never Speak.
30 Apr 2023
CD Club Sessions - Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture) (Oblique Strategies 3)
Each member is asked to choose a track/piece based on the theme of the Brian Eno 'Oblique Strategies' cards. We had 'Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture)'.
This time around we also discuss what's for tea.
Mr. B: John Lurie - The First and Royal Queen,
Mr. K: Brian Eno - Fullness of Wind (Variation On 'The Canon In D Major'.),
Mr. P: Bro, Henriksen, Rossy - Morning Song (Var.),
Mr. M: Brian Eno - Bell Improvisation 2
30 Apr 2023
CD Club Sessions - Most Loved
Each member is asked to choose a track/piece based on the theme of 'Most Loved'.
This time around Mr. P forgets to start the recording and misses the beginning of Mr. M's discussion around Steve Reichs 'Electric Counterpoint'. In other news, we were in mid-COVID during this recording and we mention its effect on us and what is happening in the South West of England and Michigan, USA.
Mr. M - Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint,
Mr. K: Brian Eno - Discreet Music,
Mr. P: Eddie Cochran / Sid Vicious - C'mon Everybody,
Mr. B - Harold Budd - As Long As I Can Hold My Breath
21 Nov 2022
CD Club Sessions - Winter
Each member is asked to choose a track/piece based on the theme of 'winter'.
This time around Mr. M moves house and no one likes Mr. P's choice.
Mr. P: Clint Mansell - Lux Aeterna (Winter),
Mr. M: Tom Waits - November,
Mr. B: Pole (Stefan Betke) - Erinnerung,
Mr. K: Adrian Chandler - Vivaldi, The Four Seasons - Winter F Minor, RV. 297: I. Allegro non molto,
Mr. KE: Bill Evans - You Must Believe In Spring
9 Sept 2022
CD Club Sessions - The letter 'b'
Choose a track/piece based on a colour beginning with the letter 'B'
This time around, there were slight clicks on the recording due to a terrible mic, sorry!
We also had a track fade in under the conversation, hopefully, we don't get a 'take down' on this one. Oh, and a minor f bomb, I hope you can put that to one side :-)
Mr. P: Aphex Twin / Alarm Will Sound - Blue Calx,
Mr. M: Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead,
Mr. B: Chet Baker - Almost Blue,
Mr. K: Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
3 Sept 2022
CD Club Sessions - Towards the insignificant (Oblique Strategies 2)
Random cards from Oblique Strategies;
Mr. B: Lenzan Kudo - The Shakuhachi Document,
Mr. K: David Sylvian - Approaching Silence,
Mr. M: Kassel Jaegar - Meith,
Mr. P: John Cage - 4.33
20 Jun 2022
CD Club Sessions - Oblique Strategies 1
Random cards from Oblique Strategies;
Mr. P: Give way to your worst impulse
(Ecstasy of Gold - Ennio Morricone)
Mr. K: Describe the landscape in which this belongs
(The Hawk in the Rain - Ted Hughes)
Mr. M: Emphasise the flaws
Incomplete - Jiko)
Mr. B: What else is this like?
(Punk China Doll - John Zorn)
19 Jun 2022
CD Club Sessions - Guest Musician
In this episode we discuss;
Mr. K, Courage - Jon Hassell
Mr. P, I Cut Like A Buffalo - The Dead Weather
Mr. B, Waiting On A Friend - The Rolling Stones
Mr. M, Black Sea - Fennez
3 Jun 2022
CD Club Sessions - Off The Beaten Track
In this episode we discuss;
Mr. B, Startoucher - Biosphere
Mr. P, Cars - NIN with Gary Number 15.07.09
Mr. M, Pulling Mussels - Squeeze
Mr. K, The Tenant - Japan
29 May 2022
CD Club Sessions - Music for Bedtime
In this episode we discuss;
Mr. M: River Mara at Night - Chris Watson
Mr. K: Nocture No. 11 in G Minor, Op. 7, 37, No. 1
Mr. P: Uni Acronym (ft. Anne-James Chaton)
Mr. B: Chill Out, The KLF
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