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Monday 29 April 2019

Monday's Long Song


This came out back in 2013 and I posted it back then and again in 2014 but it was among the piles of records that I was sorting through when the big sort out/Kallax construction took place recently and I thought it would fit this series perfectly. Beachcombing is a fifteen minute collaboration between New York composer Peter Gordon, a man who worked with Arthur Russell and Laurie Anderson, and Nik Void and Gabe Gurnsey of Factory Floor. Beachcombing sounds a bit like a 45 rpm record slowed down to 33, the pitter-patter of a drum machine, slow and warped tones, woozy almost inaudible vocals from Nik and waves and surges of analogue, modular synths and sweet bursts of saxophone. It  builds and holds a trance-like state that is easy to get lost in and if it doesn't improve your Monday morning, I don't know what will.

Beachcombing

3 comments:

The Swede said...

Coffee in hand, this tune is definitely improving my Monday morning - great stuff. Is this the same Peter Gordon who worked with Tim Burgess?

Swiss Adam said...

Yep, same one (also of the legendary Love of Life Orchestra).

drew said...

great stuff