Posts from — November 2011

A mellow Friday mix from the dusty grooves of blu inc’s vinyl stash. This one’s ok to work to – nothing too leftfield. Enjoy.

It’s a bit tough in places, but stick with it. Garrick starts the mix off, Pharaoh finishes and Minnus et al provide some blissful fillers.

Modern jazz legend, Mike Garrick, has died aged 78. A creative genius and passionate pianist / composer, Mike was described by jazz writer Steve Voce as “the British Duke Ellington”. Gone but not forgotten, as his work is on practically every blu inc playlist.

There are some gigs you end up going to that you thank the good lord you didn’t miss. The Charles Hazlewood All Stars playing Tubular Bells (and other minimalist classics such as Terry Riley’s Rainbow in Curved Air) at St George’s Bristol was one of those evenings. It was incredible – my mate cried; my misses went into some kind of meditative trance and came up with concepts for her next print project, and I just had to keep scraping my jaw off the balcony floor. It was especially nice to her The Exorcist intro soundtrack as a live piece; there was even a layer of mist and lamp lights shining to get you in the mood when you entered St George’s grounds. Hazlewood was charming and engaging and set the music into a picture that mere mortals could just about get there heads around. The musicians were on fire and the crowd stood on their Guardian reading, beard stroking feet for a good five minutes clapping like a bunch of over excited teenagers (that includes me). St George’s rocks on many levels – big love to the George’s posse and Bristol in general. Nice.

Sophie Windsor Clive and Liberty Smith capture this beautiful chance encounter with one of natures greatest and most fleeting phenomena. The girls’ reaction at the end is priceless.