Zoo 2007

Awakenings 2007 Vol. 1: New Worlds (2007). Brendan Pollard donates his awesome twenty-minute 'E-Live 2006 Rehearsal' to get this double CD set underway. The initial sounds are as if vast objects are being hurled into the sea accompanied by all sorts of weird whooshes and twitters. A superb combination of sequences emerge from the aquatic depths. These meld rapid melodic runs as well as bass pulses. It is all underpinned by some wonderful mellotron. In other words Berlin School Heaven. More sequences are added accompanied by a flutey lead line. In the seventh minute things subside to more thick analogue sonic effects, coming out of it with a decidedly 'Ricochet' sounding collage of sounds. Very impressive indeed…

London-based four-piece indie-pop band formed in 1993. Very successful at the peak of Britpop in the mid-90's scoring a debut number one album (knocking Oasis (2)'s (What's The Story) Morning Glory? from the top spot and just missing out on a number one single with "Slight Return" (arguably their most famous song), being kept away by Babylon Zoo's "Spaceman" (featured in a Levi's TV ad). Scott joked that he actually bought a copy of "Spaceman"…

Albert Mangelsdorff & Wolfgang Dauner - Two Is Company… (1982) {Mood Records MOOD33.614 rel 2007}
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Jazz / Modern Creative / Post Bop / Progressive Jazz / Trombone / Piano

A set that features early 80s duets between trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff and pianist Wolfgang Dauner – recorded in a beautifully spare setting that almost takes us back to some of Mangelsdorff's more stripped-down sessions for MPS! Like those great 70s records, this one has a feel that's nicely balanced between the freedom the players could reach for, and an inherent sense of structure that keeps things moving forward in lyrical, almost poetic ways. Titles include "Trans Tanz", "Rip Off", "Wheat Song", and "Two Is Company".

Simon & Garfunkel quietly slipped Bookends, their fourth album, into the bins with a whisper in March 1968. They are equal collaborators with producer/engineer Roy Halee in a multivalently layered song cycle observing the confusion of those seeking an elusive American Dream, wistfully reflecting on innocence lost forever to the cold winds of change…