Track-By-Track: BSU #11
This particular tune has a unique and lateral logic that continues to reveal itself many plays later. It comes with happy personal associations – I bought this EP from Nick Craddock when he was having a vinyl clearout a couple of years ago, and around the same time Gwenan and I spent a Berlin Sunday morning afters in her flat zoned out listening to her Gifted & Blessed records, one of which she also then played in Globus that Monday night.
GB/TAE's music is simply built for these kinds of memories: distinctive, musical, heartfelt. GB claims he is only the 'conductor' of his machines, and that they deserve the lion's share of the credit for his music, but it's pretty clear from tunes like this one that the heart is not in the machines, it's in the man.
The Abstract Eye - Cool Warm Divine (Valentine Connexion, 2011)
Note: this is an entry in the Track-By-Track series for my mix for Butter Side Up.
Track-By-Track is a series that looks back at records you will have heard in my mixes, one by one in the order they were played. Who made them, and when? How did I come across them? And what do they make me feel?