Sketch For Dawn

Durutti Column have been running through my musical choices a lot in recent months. This song is a beauty. Perfect guitar playing, much of which doesn't sound anything like ordinary guitar playing, with Vini's fragile vocals and Bruce Mitchell's understated drumming adding to the dreamlike quality. I don't have the song as an mp3 on the hard rive right now and it's getting late so here's some Youtube videos. These two clips are interesting when compared. The first is from the remastered edition of the album LC, a little more focused and punchy than the original 1981 release



The original, below, has a burst of the Youtube uploader's VHS static at eleven seconds and is much more subdued and atmospheric. The footage of Vini is pretty nice. LC was the second album following debut The Return Of The Durutti Column, self produced on a four track TEAC. The title LC is latin, Lotta Continua- continuous struggle, the struggle continues.