(4 cd boxed set, Esoteric Recordings / Cherry Red Records)
This is an ‘Underground’ Aladdin’s Cave whose location has long been known and the contents appropriated over the years to have already been spread far and wide. I could comment on those few less brightly known gems collected here, but what such an assemblage immediately prompts is an inventory of the familiar – or in most cases, the obvious. Glaringly so: my familiar, obvious, glaring favs to be precise.
There are out there more esoteric and intentionally obscure collections available from this ‘heavy’ period – 1970 here – but this is the western canon. As a primer for those new to the era and genre, the music selection and accompanying booklet provide a reasonably broad education about the time. Those my age will listen to hear a personal past in varying degrees of clarity – for example seeing Curved Air at the Ipswich Arts Centre in 1970, and much more recently acquiring an original copy of their pictur
Classic Rock Drummer Dead at 70
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Classic rock drummer Florian Pilkington-Miksa, who played for English prog-rock band Curved Air, has died at the age of 70. It is reported that he died in late May, following several bouts of pneumonia. According to
Louder, the band s singer Sonja Kristina confirmed the news of Pilkington-Miksa s death in a Facebook post. I am very much saddened to learn of the sudden death of my longtime friend and bandmate, Florian, who passed away peacefully [at 7:30 am May 20th, 2021.] I knew his lungs were compromised after bouts of pneumonia, Kristina wrote. Florian was a unique man and musician. His drumming style incorporated all the rhythms of the notes so that he played the song rather than a text book drum beat.
04 02 2021
THIS MONTH’S MOJO COVER STORY IS THE 30 GREATEST SONGS of Robert Smith’s dark pop phenomenon, painstakingly ranked and lauded at length, plus a deep delve into their formative years with his original bandmates. Inside the magazine, Bowie is re-mourned; Carole King’s Tapestry reassessed; Edgar Broughton Band resurrected; while Barry Gibb remembers everything. Plus: Bessie Smith; Black Country, New Road; Cowboy Junkies; The Weather Station; Serge Gainsbourg; Lucinda Williams; Fugees; The Band; Don Bryant; Daniel Lanois; Hurray For The Riff Raff; Dylan’s song sell-off… and all back to Edie Brickell’s!
Unfortunately, UK newsstand copies of MOJO 328 will NOT feature the usual covermount CD. This is due to unprecedented issues with the transport of the CDs from continental Europe to the UK.
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Three discs seeking to evoke a ‘woodland peppered with invocations’
by Kieron TylerSunday, 20 December 2020
Dr Strangely Strange find an exclusive audience
The winter solstice occurs tomorrow, 21 December. Stonehenge, one of this island’s most significant structures, is constructed in alignment with the setting sun on that day. After the solstice, the days lengthen and a new cycle of the year begins.