From Peter Forrest Sent Tue, Feb 26th 2019, 10:23
From Peter Forrest Sent Tue, Feb 26th 2019, 10:23
Thanks for the sad news, and the link to the Phill Brown book. The later albums might not have many electronic instruments on them = except for Variophon and Hammond but they are superb.=20 It's also music which defies categorisation.=20 Gotta admit much of the early stuff seems dated and didn't actually grab = me at the time - but for me, the further they went the more interesting = they became. =20 I think Radiohead and Coldplay owe them a huge debt (as well as many = other bands like Porcupine Tree & Elbow who definitely acknowledged it). Thinking about it some more... maybe they shunned keyboard synths = because they were tainted with the click-track MIDI sequenced bright = synth-pop of their early days, which is a shame, because hand-played and = subtly tweaked synth textures might have sat very well in the later = albums. Peter -----Original Message----- From: Jason Proctor [mailto:xxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx]=20 Sent: 25 February 2019 23:32 To: David Bivins Cc: Phil a; AH Subject: Re: [AH] RIP Mark Hollis aka Such a Shame... btw the Phill Brown articles in Tape Op were taken from his book, which is available (and great!) https://www.amazon.com/Are-We-Still-Rolling-Recording/dp/0977990311 On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 3:26 PM David Bivins <xxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote: > > I have purchased and given away Laughing Stock at least a dozen times. > Every time I was talking music with a friend and they hadn't heard it, > I took it off the shelf, pressed it in their hands, and asked them to > promise that they would listen to it with their full attention, at > night, with the lights off. > > Tape Op published several wonderful reminiscences of Phill Brown, who > was the recording engineer for Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock. He > goes in depth into the recording of those two albums - if you can find > those articles, they're well worth reading for understanding a unique > approach to recording. > > My thoughts are with his family, for whom he quit the music industry. > > David > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 6:20 PM Phil a <xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote: > > > > He was not necessarily a synth wizard but certainly a sound & music = wizard... > > Major loss. > > Will be sorely missed... > > > > Phil