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Contains the track that sums up my career.
Coda: Marine 475
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Marine four seven five
One, eight
Eight, eight
Six, six, two, three
One, seven, zero, three
One, seven, nine, zero
Six, three
Non-marine
Seven
One, nine, zero
Five, one, zero
One, one, four, eight
Motor
Two, three
Aviation
One, last, three, five
Five, five, five, five
Which line @AndyP?
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Well I had to deal with or knew most of the numbers.
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Steve Martland (1954-2013) was a Liverpool-born composer. I admired his music and after interviewing him we became friends (of a sort - although he was always great company, he was an extremely private person). I knew him for a number of years – I’d go round his place in Finsbury Park, where we’d listen to records (he was a lover of Monteverdi and Purcell, which always surprised people, given that he was taught by, and admired, Louis Andriessen and his music was explicitly modernist/contemorary), smoke fags, drink beer and then go for a curry. We lost touch after ten years or so, and it came as a bit of a shock when he died.
His album 266 (FACT 266) was the first release on the Factory Classical label in 1989. It comprised his monumental piece “Babi Yar” (played with real muscularity by the Residentie Orkest Den Haag) and the dual piano epic “Drill” (played by Cees Van Zeeland and Gerard Bouwhuis).
This is the original Factory LP (I also have it on cassette and CD).
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I’m not sure people take them seriously (because of the falsetto stuff maybe) despite having one of the finest back catalogues in pop music?
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What! Odessa is a masterpiece.
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I agree. But then, I thought their Saturday Night Fever-era stuff was also wonderful.
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Me too although it did come as a bit of a shock at the time.
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Hal Willner Presents Weird Nightmare: Meditations On Mingus
A guitar enthusiasts dream - here we have Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, Gary Lucas, Vernon Reid and Keith Richards
‘Vocals’ from Henry Rollins, Leonard Cohen, Elvis Costello, Dr John, Ray Davies, Diamanda Galas and Robbie Robertson.
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Manet was clearly popular. ( Not playing this ).
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A beauty
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Grateful Dead - American Beauty.
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A wonderful voice. CD rip.
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More Martland, again on Factory Classical (FACD 366), but this time he’s working with small ensembles:
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