Greetings folks,
Hope you're all doing good. Amsterdam is settling further into Autumn as expected, tho it's still pretty mild and dry, which is always welcome.
Unfortunately, I have some bad news to break to you all regarding our good friend and long time #LC contributor @FaberFedor. Some of you will be aware that he has been fighting a serious illness for a long while, and despite much treatment, he is now receiving hospice / palliative care.
Many of you have met Faber over the years, including at our momentous Amsterdam get together back in 2014, so will have first hand experience of what a fine chap he is, but I'm sure for everyone reading, this is deeply sad news. At this stage, it's not known how long he'll be in care, but he will hopefully be able to listen tonight, and I therefore propose that next Sunday we postpone our regular scheduled program and instead put together a #GroupHugForFaberVortex, for which we invite you to contribute tunes, as happy, sad or ridiculous as you like, that you think he would get a kick out of hearing - multiple tunes are welcome too, the more the merrier - long time #LC folks will have a good idea of his tastes, but if you need a reminder you can see his album picks going back to 2012 on the list here.
Of course, you're welcome to contribute even if you don't really feel you know Mr. F but would like to add an appropriate tune as a gesture of kindness. Given the circumstances, the sooner you can get your picks in the better, just in case we have to expidite the delivery, so to speak, although I truly hope that's not necessary. I'll add a link for the dropbox here as soon as we have one, and also post it on Mastodon. (Update - Dropbox link)
"Ah, what excitement. Please join me as the tumbling, twisting turns of what to present to the Listening Club again finds me stumbling into a more fulsome review and dive into some neglected corners of my music acquisitions.
After hearing last week’s surprising, entertaining, and compelling selection from Kleptones I thought I knew exactly what album I would present this week. Upon listening to that album I started to think the time isn’t quite right to offer that initial choice. Still, I was intending to hold steady on the track of (or at least lean towards) the more disparate world of musical styles and influences to be found in my collection but, while wandering through a goodly number of options from locales more remote (both physically and metaphorically) than my more frequent musical travels, I was suddenly, and surprisingly, reminded of an artist that doesn’t fit that mould at all. Listening to a couple albums by that musician then made me think of yet another performer, whom I was surprised to discover had not been the subject of a previous Listening Club session. For some reason the first recording I ever heard from them has always felt like autumn to me (perhaps because it was released in a previous October?). This, then, is what was my introduction to this artist, albeit being the last studio album from this particular incarnation of their musical face (again I’m late to a party). Perhaps it will also be an introduction to them for some of the club; although I suspect more than a few will immediately recognize, if not the album, the uniquely identifiable voice. Either way I hope this brings you as much pleasure as it has me…
For #DrinkingClub, a sipping whisky, neat (or other cool weather favourite)…"
Right then, download's here, stream's below...
See you 20:00 BST (GMT+1) later today.
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