Just back from a wonderful trip to Italy - edited highlights: the Head of Archaeology and the Head of Geography's head/face injuries whilst in the midst of an ill-advised experiment into walking through glass; snow on Vesuvius over an iced Pompeii; not becoming the new Pope; the sun setting on Herculaneum as Coil's Are You Shivering? plays out on the i-pod; driving towards Sorrento to Orbital's One Perfect Sunrise... more importantly the students we took re-affirmed my faith in education: no self-motivated moaning, no failing limbs; just unbridled enthusiasm and joy and interest and discovery.
All the travelling also got me exploring songs deep in the i-pod bowels that I'd never really listened to. Previously, those 20GBs seemed an uneccessary extravagance; always pulled down the curtains of consumer guilt but now, with Shuffled Play soundtracking everything, the memory churned out some gems...
One of which was a song by Earthmonkey that I downloaded ages ago and never paid much attention to.
Listening to Varansi Swing as I wandered around Rome, the light photo-real, the dry cold crisping everything, it sounded like a lost Orb track, one taken from the times before they got sucked into Monty Python leanings and Lewis-Smith stupidity or perhaps a track that fell off the Stolen and Contaminated Songs cd - the cover of that album seems to tell you everything you need to know:
This music seems to be full of light - you can imagine it playing at the End of Days as The Rapture kicks in; music for Funeral Parties when everyone's glad to be dead.
I found out when I got home that Earthmonkey is Peat Bog of NWW fame, produced by Steven Stapleton. I'm buying whatever I find.
5 comments:
...Does that cover pic bear a vague resemblance to the inner sleeve of Coil's "Love's Secret Domain"(pills&psychedelic burst), or is that just me??
...And is that the same Earthmonkey who has recorded for Beta-Lactam Ring recently?? ;)
Undoubtably, it is... since NWW have recently (in part) decamped to Beta-Lactam, who are, in my humble opinion, a fine little label.
yes on both counts: Stolen and Contaminated Songs (in it's original mail order only form) used a variation on the LSD artwork... and Beta Lactam is a great, though inconsistent, label with a fine line in exclusive weirdness...
Look, I'm sorry, but as a trendy-wendy MP3 blogger, are you supposed to start posts with: "Just got back from a wonderful trip to Italy"?
Isn't it supposed to be "just roaded back from Croydon" or something?
Anyway, glad you had a good trip - must be easier now you don't have to do a shift on Mike watch.
Sorry I didn't post anything in your absence - 'specially with a fine set of pics of Cheryl et al in Arena this month - didn't want to get Kek all agitated about that Colston Hall gig again.....
Psychbloke... obviously i only hung around the scummiest of areas... the whole trip was more of a grime(y) investigation into the lastest Italo-house / techstep crossovers comin' ouhta the Naples' burbs... plus a little bit of otter hunting, obviously...
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