With The KLF ominously moving back into the middle distance over the last few days, what better time to remind myself that I have a cd copy of this album stuck in a cupboard somewhere close, but tantalisingly out of reach. ‘Space’, the work of Jimmy Cauty, was apparently slated to be the fist Orb album, beginning life as a collaboration between Cauty and Alex Patterson. This is one of the longer tracks on it, having said that on the cd the entire collection is presented as one, composite stellar symphony. This particular track evokes the helplessness and isolation that must be encountered in the black hit of space particularly well. The arpeggio perfectly in parallel with the pointless struggle for survival in a vacuum, and the realisation that nothing can be done. Which brings us along nicely to The KLF’s latest caper: building a ‘People’s Pyramid’ in Birkenhead’s Future Yard. It would appear the circle is nearing completion, if, indeed, it is a circle. Definitely a pyramid though.
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