Just wanted to point out that there’s 4 more videos now on the Neureille YouTube channel. 2 more live performances and 2 animations with tracks from the album. The next Neureille event is a new single coming out next month, more details later. Actually it’s not new in that it was recorded in 2012 but… Continue reading New Reel on YouTube
Neureille on YouTube
It’s taken me a while but I’ve now set up my Neureille YouTube page and there’s a couple of videos on it with more in the pipeline. Firstly an animation, the first of a series I’m planning which will include all the songs from the Sufi Pataphysics album using illustrations done for me by Mog… Continue reading Neureille on YouTube
fanfare tra la la
the fifth neureille album was released this month and it’s name is sufi pataphysics. here’s the front cover designed for the cd. and here’s the back. a couple of the tracks can be played here. i know people are going to ask me about the title so i might as well explain it here. to… Continue reading fanfare tra la la
some videos
I often seem to find myself these days being enthusiastic about my favourite experimental hip hop artists. It’s like I’m on a mission to proselytise. So it seemed like a good idea to devote a post to some of them and they all have great videos as well. The first is from an album which… Continue reading some videos
1967 Part 2
so here is my 1967 granite mix. actually it’s the 1st one cos i’m planning a 2nd one. this one contains tracks that largely fit into the rock/pop bracket that could at least potentially have charted and most of them did. i’ve tried to make it a varied mix. some of the tracks i heard… Continue reading 1967 Part 2
1967 Part 1
I last posted an episode of The Rock n Roll Years in July 2018 which covered the year 1965. Unfortunately I don’t have the 1966 episode so I’m going to jump ahead to 1967. For the history of music in general and what is most important to me – my history of music, 1967 is… Continue reading 1967 Part 1
Granite Mix IXX
It’s time for another mix. This one’s pretty random though manually so. Here’s a few comments about the tracks. El Bachín was a bar in Buenos Aires, now demolished but the name has been transferred to another establishment. The little boy of Piazzolla’s song was called Pablo Alberto González. In an interview he said that… Continue reading Granite Mix IXX
Surrealism 1
Earlier this year I was reading Gerard Durozoi’s book History of the Surrealist Movement and it has brought to my attention a lot of artists whose work was totally unfamiliar to me. Briefly to review the book I would say that it’s an excellent introduction to the subject and there’s a lot of detail about… Continue reading Surrealism 1
WEEW
It’s over a year now since I started work on recording the fifth Neureille album but I still need a few more sessions before it’s finished. I’m happy with the way it’s going and contributions from Paul Wigens, Everton Hartley, Mike Dennis, Pete Judge and Jim Barr have been superb. The next session is going… Continue reading WEEW
Granite The Eighteenth
following on from my series of mixes dedicated to individuals here is one for thelonious monk and as usual i will write a bit about each track. when he got a contract with riverside records in 1955 they thought it wise to start his album account with covers from the duke ellington songbook. this might… Continue reading Granite The Eighteenth