From Bryan Bickel Sent Tue, Feb 23rd 1999, 16:19
From Bryan Bickel Sent Tue, Feb 23rd 1999, 16:19
I would highly agree on searching for the billie ray martin on apollo, but only the 2x12" because it features instrumentals of all the songs which the cd does not. Some truly great material especially when you play the instrumentals at 33 instead of 45. Bryan On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 xxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx wrote: > Yes, it was BJ Cole. He has definitely played/been sampled on a number of > ambient albums including The Orb and KLF. He also plays on a hard to find > Billie Ray Martin 2x12" on the R&S sublabel Apollo called 4 Ambient Tales. > BRM is best known for her diva vocal stylings for Electribe 101 and her own > solo material including the cheeze pop hit "Your Loving Arms' (produced by > Brian (BT) Transeau), but she did this vinyl only EP 1993 and it is simply > gorgeous - smoky torch songs with production by The Grid and pedal steel from > BJ Cole. Highly recommended if you're into atmospheric yet warm female vocal > tracks. > > Back to BJ Cole...he has an album or two of his own material released on > Rykodisc, I beleive. He also was a guest player on the most recent tour by > The Verve, replacing the guitarist who decided he didn't want to tour at the > 11th hour. > > > > In a message dated 02/22/99 2:00:19 PM, you wrote: > > > >Dunno why but I seem to remember who you're talking about here (KLF). The > steel > >guitar > >player is BJ Cole. I do believe he (she?) has been on a number of ambient > records > >so > >maybe that's why I remember the name (maybe Harold Budd?). Anyone else know > about > >Cole? > > > >Though it's not exactly steel guitar, you might want to look out for Robert > Quine/Fred > >Maher's "Basic." Lots of interesting ambient (and non-ambient) gtr stylings > there. > > > >(sorry if this is getting too non-IDM here) > > > >On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:43:31 -0600, Ernesto Ikerd <xxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxxx.xxx> > sed: > > > >> anyways.. it got me thinking that how badly Id like to make a compliation > >> of good steel-guitar ambient music. I remembered how excited my > >> country-fied friends became when I left my KLF Space record playing or > >> when Id play Gentle Peoples "Relaxation Central". > --------------------------------- Bryan Bickel http://www.cs.wayne.edu/~cs1069 xxxxxx@xx.xxxxx.xxx Detroit Is The Coolest Place On Earth