Julie Driscoll (Tippetts)

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Anybody a fan of this album (I think it was her first fully solo effort)? I think this may be an obscure, underrated (at least minor) classic...has kind of a Denny-era Fairport Convention-meets-big band sound. Has Chris Spedding on lead guitar, and a lot of the Canterbury prog/Soft Machine associates on it (Elton Dean, Mark Charig, Nick Evans, Karl Jenkins, I think)

"Those That We Love" and "The Choice" are two excellent songs.

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

sunset glow is all ive heard, but its great. this one looks really promising. have you heard keith tippett's dedicated to you, but you werent listening, joe?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

wow. i didn't know of that album. i'm a HUGE fan though.

i've got:
68's Streetnoise (probably very similar to the album you're talking about)
69's album with Brian Auger "Jools & Brian" (more a funk/soul album)
75's "Streetnoise" (her crowning glory. an amazing album of out pop similar to Rock Bottom)
& 78's album w/Auger "Encore" (a fusion-pop album).

all of them are amazing.

did you get that on vinyl or cd?

― team jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

i've got that Keith Tippet album also. got it when i was fiending on the Vertigo Swirl label. it's a little free blowing for my current tastes. I do really like the song "Black Horse" which combines a really nice funk beat with crazy blowing on top. reminds me of Art Ensemble of Chicago

― team jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

I really like that one, but I think Sunset Glow is the masterpiece. That's the one that reminded me of the hauntedness of Rock Bottom. The first one is more like a Trinity album, like the best parts of Streetnoise. Used to see cheap U.S. vinyl copies of it all the time (it was reissued on the dodgy Springboard label at one time).

― brianiast (briania), Saturday, 4 March 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

oops. i accidentally typed Streetnoise twice. the second one from 75 should be Sunset Glow.

― team jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 4 March 2006 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

has anyone heard the albums she did with Keith? Couple in Spirit" sounds AMAZING

― team jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 4 March 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

did you get that on vinyl or cd?

I have it on CD; One-Way Records (an 'archival' CD label that issued all the old, totally forgotten stuff; I think they're still around, actually, but not the same).

I don't think I have heard Dedicated to You... yet. I have the Centipede Septober Energy CD and Sunset Glow as well... it's been a while since I've listened to them, though. I had Streetnoise a long time ago but sold it impulsively... :(

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 4 March 2006 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

Holy Moly!!!! I have NOT heard that Couple In Spirit record and I MUST!!!!

― brianiast (briania), Saturday, 4 March 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

By the way, a great 2CD set to pick up is SoupSongs: The Music of Robert Wyatt (on the Voiceprint label in the U.K.). It's a tribute concert to Wyatt led by trombonist Annie Whitehead, and the band includes Julie Tippetts, Phil Manzanera, Didier Malherbe (of Gong)...Tippetts puts in an incredible vocal performance on "Sea Song", and a number of other Wyatt tunes. I was really impressed with the concert.

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 4 March 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

i was reading about that Centipede album recently. seemed alternately intriguing and impenetrable. from reading about it, seemed like it would be a mix of Escalator Over the Hill (which i like) & something by Alan Silva (which i'm too scared to listen to). seemed obvious that Marcello was one of the few people to mention it on ILM.

― team jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 4 March 2006 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

If you like Escalator, then Septober Energy oughta be right up your alley. Stick with it, and it goes into some moving and beautiful directions.

― brianiast (briania), Saturday, 4 March 2006 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

found Septober Energy and you're right, it's very much like Escalator. from that first track, i even thought it was Carla Bley's arrangements (is it?). it does get pretty freaked out, but nothing i can't handle.

― team jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 4 March 2006 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

ive been playing sunset glow all through the winter. so good

― kephm (kephm), Saturday, 4 March 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

Replaced my scratched 99 cent vinyl copy of Streetnoise w/an import CD last year. Boy it was worth it. Wish I had $ for more!

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 5 March 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

I downloaded Streetnoise thanks to this thread, liking it a lot so far! Thanks ILM :)

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

u need Sunset Glow. like badly

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Streetnoise LP currently in Revival Records for £75. I think I'll wait til I find a CD copy...

― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 24 January 2008 17:22 (seventeen years ago)

i've seen it for like $15.

i'm sure you can do a simple webbernet search and find the mp3s

― jaxon, Thursday, 24 January 2008 19:21 (seventeen years ago)

oh, just looked above, you already downloaded it

― jaxon, Thursday, 24 January 2008 19:21 (seventeen years ago)

I bought it last weekend for $6. Isn't the going rate on eBay like $10-15?

― s. morris, Thursday, 24 January 2008 19:36 (seventeen years ago)

I'm going to download that Sunset Glow you recommended er 2 years ago instead.

(xpost)

― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 24 January 2008 21:55 (seventeen years ago)

I have only heard "This Wheel's On Fire" but that song has kind of made me curious about both Driscoll and Brian Auger.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 24 January 2008 22:19 (seventeen years ago)

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