Wednesday, 23rd April 2008

09.16

Bredonborough.

The new unit in the garage /scullery does not work in the space. It is unconvincing & ugly, will be dismantled & removed.

10.05  Director Rieflin, who opened Terminal Five at Heathrow with REM recently, has just received his bags. They have arrived in Seattle, 3 weeks after the opening.

11.34  E-flurrying. Offered: an interview, one in a projected series of six 30-minute radio shows on guitarists. The assumption of programme makers seems to be that artists are happy to provide content gratis; and this is mainly so where an artist is in promotional mode. I have nothing to promote, my voice is not a voice for England, and the little I have to say is not for this audience. My formal response to enquiries is now: interviews are no longer part of my job description. This notion seems to be simply grasped, giving little offence.

16.42  A sunny day!

Barbara & Beric came for lunch. Computing & e-flurrying.

Unsolicited review of the Team in Seattle…

I wasn't really prepared for how amazing an experience it would be. For starters, they're all great musicians and incredibly tight. At first it's a bit unnerving, having all these really intense musicians surrounding you. But you get used to it. The pieces were all originals (with one exception: Led Zeppelin's Kashmir), and are very harmonically dense with lots of interlocking patterns that shift and confound. The sensation of hearing music like this, not just in stereo, but truly in 360 degrees, borders on the mystical. One piece was a melody that twirled around your head as each guitarist played just one note at time. Other times two guitarists on opposite ends of the circle would play the same part, and play it so precisely that it created the effect of not knowing exactly where the sound is coming from, a sort of musical ventriloquism.Do yourself a favor, and check it out.

A little purple, perhaps, but positive. And then these dopey words…

For any prog geeks out there, the group is an outgrowth of this methodology/cult of guitar technique known as Guitar Craft, started by King Crimson guru Robert Fripp.

The TTA team in action…

20.13  Practising.

A walk with the Minx down to the bridge & along to fields of springing lambs. A wonderful English spring evening, the greens sharply distinct & delineated, blue skies with clouds of astonishing power & shades of grey. An awesome & glorious picture.

To gentle.

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