Every time I feature a Basic Channel track I wonder what I can say that hasn’t been said before. It’s never difficult with amazing music though, and if there’s one pair of artists who have the innate ability to create something that can elicit different reactions and feelings every time a piece of their music is listened to, it’s Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald. ‘Inversion’ is almost 18 minutes long, but it passes in an instant. It sounds like the backdrop to a longboat full of vikings raping and pillaging a small, helpless coastal village in Yorkshire back in the dark ages, but it’s so delicate that you could be stroking a cat while the berserkers are on the rampage thinking that all is right with the world. An eternal wormhole of sonic bliss, into which you can pour the entire contents of your imagination and get different results every time, going beyond beauty in the course of its wanderings.
Tuesday, November 05, 2024
Monday, November 04, 2024
Track Of The Day: Quincy Jones - Ghana (Mercury)
Probably the most influential musician of the last 75 years. “Jack of all trades, master of all of them” for sure. Quincy Jones’ influence became more apparent once he became Michael Jackson’s producer of choice. However, his talent was widely known well before then. This track, from his album ‘The Great Wide World Of Quincy Jones’ from 1959, is a subtle big band extravaganza which feels very familiar, glamorous and evocative all at once. Something from the rat pack era that you feel you’ve heard before, but only because it’s probably been copied so many times.
Saturday, November 02, 2024
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