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Mar 3, 2017 - 12:25 PM
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Graham Watt
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Unless I'm misinterpreting the info I'm seeing "on the computer", the Basil Kirchin broadcast of (some of) the recent Hull event(s) is on BBC Radio 3, tomorrow (Saturday) at 10pm GMT.
It'll hang around on the BBC player for a few weeks (I think), so I'm looking forward to hearing it. I think I know how to do that. But then again, where's the link?
Anyway, see that Basil Kirchin? He was bloody brilliant he was.
//AÑADIDO EL DÍA SIGUIENTE//SATÉLITE ESPÍA//SECRETO//NO SE DEBE REVELAR//OJO//
I'm just adding this from my spaceship, via some device I don't quite understand, but here goes, just in case it works -
The Bazza Bash tonight is apparently actually the concert (I think) from Hull City Hall, which was part of the schedule last month. No idea how representative of Basil's music it will be, or if it's "re-imaginings", but I'll be tuning in after the fact, via the Beeb's seedpod or whatever it's called.
I don't know if the spaceship security system will allow me to post a direct link, but I'll try -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08h08qp
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I missed the first 25 minutes, but that will be rectified via something. What I heard was absolutely brilliant. My mind is blown. I'll be back.
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Mar 5, 2017 - 10:29 AM
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Graham Watt
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Phew! I've just listened to the full two-hour concert for the second time. I think I might have overdosed. It was a wonderful celebration of the genius of Basil Kirchin, and although it wasn't all composed by BK, it all more or less captured his essence. I do recognise though that it began to be a bit of a slog about half-way through, with some rather lengthy experiments in sound pitch and stuff like that, so if I had to make a playlist which showed the brilliance of Bazza in an accessible way, I'd go directly to -
Exhibit 2 - From the soundtrack of PRIMITIVE LONDON, slightly adapted to accentuate the Asian influences with exotic gongs and pitch-bending strings etc.
Exhibit 3 - From the wonderful soundtrack for the film THE MUTATIONS (I think it was called THE FEARMAKER in the USA). Beautiful, but all too brief at three minutes.
Exhibit 4 - THE ABOMINABLE DR PHIBES - Again, quite faithful to the original soundtrack.
Exhibit 5 - "Abstractions of Holderness", which is credited to Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs (of St. Etienne fame), but is totally Basil in every way. It's a loving tribute to BK's "Abstractions of the Industrial North" album, and is just brilliant. The presenters got to make some jokes about the Holderness region too ("a rather bleak area of the world.... If Hull is the end of the line, Holderness is a bit beyond that"). Anything to say, TG?
Exhibit 6 - Basil's own "Charcoal Sketches", in an absolutely great arrangement with jazz piano, electric guitar and the whole Kirchin sink (tee hee). Staggeringly good.
Exhibit 11 - "L'Esprit d'amour", again an original Bazza piece, in the unique big band jazz style of its author.
Exhibit 12 - "Prelude - Dawn: Listen", once more an original written by BK . I'm sure the opening few minutes are actually from the 1968 Glenda Jackson film NEGATIVES, but it isn't credited as such. It then develops into another soaring big band piece. ///EDITED THE NEXT DAY/// CORRECTION - It isn't from NEGATIVES, it's the opening of the album "Abstractions of the Industrial North". They are quite similar.
Hope you all (jackfu and ukgroove) got a chance to hear it. It'll hang around the Beeb's iPlayer for another month or so. Do tune in, even if it's in stages, or just to listen to my own recommendations. I love it when people agree with me, so don't post anything negative.
Some great stories too, and some snippets of Basil himself going on about electron microscopes and such. One intriguing detail was that it was mentioned that they'd tried to get copies of the original scores, to no avail, and when they asked the composer's "former associates", they didn't want to talk about it. I wonder if one of them was John A. Coleman. He's still around, I think. Kirchin's other main collaborator was Jack Nathan, but he died in 1990. Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it seems there was some kind of disagreement at some point. Anyway, Evan Parker gets to talk briefly about working as a session musician on some of BK's soundtracks, along with such amazing luminaries as Dave Holland, Kenny Wheeler, Pete McGurk and Chris Karan.
Despite a lot of Basil Kirchin's music being quite intimidating for more conventional ears, I still hear an innocence behind it all. A wistful, delicate, beautiful sadness. It nearly brings me to tears.
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Mar 9, 2017 - 6:25 AM
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jackfu
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Hope you all (jackfu and ukgroove) got a chance to hear it. It'll hang around the Beeb's iPlayer for another month or so. Do tune in, even if it's in stages, or just to listen to my own recommendations. I love it when people agree with me, so don't post anything negative.
Some great stories too, and some snippets of Basil himself going on about electron microscopes and such. One intriguing detail was that it was mentioned that they'd tried to get copies of the original scores, to no avail, and when they asked the composer's "former associates", they didn't want to talk about it. I wonder if one of them was John A. Coleman. He's still around, I think. Kirchin's other main collaborator was Jack Nathan, but he died in 1990. Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it seems there was some kind of disagreement at some point. Anyway, Evan Parker gets to talk briefly about working as a session musician on some of BK's soundtracks, along with such amazing luminaries as Dave Holland, Kenny Wheeler, Pete McGurk and Chris Karan.
Despite a lot of Basil Kirchin's music being quite intimidating for more conventional ears, I still hear an innocence behind it all. A wistful, delicate, beautiful sadness. It nearly brings me to tears.
Graham, thanks very much! I somehow missed this earlier this week. Awesome stuff so far, I'm still listening as I can.
Thanks again! 
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All right, all right already! Listening now. (Basil's not someone I've explored, though always found Dr. Phibes to be quite effective and distinctive.)
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