May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
That opening percussive beat. Such a a hook! A drum machine, I’m assuming? A “motorik” beat. Some hear elements of Kraftwerk’s Autobahn within it…but I hear more of Neu’s Wave Mother and La Dusseldorf’s Rheinita. Because I find elements of their music more…emotional. Kraftwerk certainly have an emotional element to their music they never get…
I liked seeing this! Original source of magazine clipping HERE With a hidden Viginia Turbett special. I WANT ALL THE PHOTOS SHE EVER TOOK OF HIM!
I made an art piece based around the reply I got from Jim last year about my favourite precise point and sound on New Gold Dream (the track itself). It remains, still, one of my favourite replies from him. The more I read it, the more I sense he was slightly taking the mickey, but…
Wow!!! Welcome to the fold, Cherisse Osei! You’re the mutt’s nuts, the bee’s knees, the cat’s whiskers! Can’t wait to see her at Hackney! Oh…and that bloke centre stage. He’s not bad either 😉 (be still my wilting ovaries!)
The celtic cross has been painted with iridescent orange yellow paint and the sheen is BEAUTIFUL! It really *IS* like an orange gold! Talk about New Gold Dream! It *is* a WIP and I know I need to give the cross better symmetry, but it’ll come! I am LOVING that colour! It’s a TINY canvas! It…
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I really do love this. Like, really. Don’t get me wrong…I LOOOOOVE the finished work too…but, yeah.
Such a fab video with Peter Walsh explaining the recording of Promised You A Miracle. Enjoy!
Originally shared on Twitter… Rather harsh on Sparkle towards the end – and to SM themselves – a bit prematurely…but it is IMPOSSIBLE to deny this magic and aura New Gold Dream pocesses. More and more I believe the title of the album sees Jim as an oricle, because it is FAR TOO APT a…
Jim and Charlie talk NGD with Johnnie Walker on BBC Radio 2 – 10pm BST
Fitzcarraldo for Sir :-))) In graphite pencil and oil pastels.