Bit of a change of
pace today. James Wylie posted a link to his podcast on Iranian music, and while my plan was to listen to that, I ended up listening
to the other music he had posted. I know some of this was from his
time at New England Conservatory, which must be going back about 10
years or so, but I’m sure some of it I hadn’t heard before.
Outside of Benjamin Schaefer’s Quiet Fire, my collection lacks
music from James. I need to work on this!
Usually I don the
headphones for computer listening in the morning and then move over
onto the stereo, but I finally moved by computer speakers into my
workspace as the headphones had been bugging me for a while. But I
forgot, it’s wired for the U.S so that put the brakes on the plan.
That means James’ Iranian music podcast will have to wait for
another day. Instead I threw on Baliphonics which, incidentally,
features someone who used to collaborate with James, bassist Issac
Smith. It’s a fascinating recording (that I picked up courtesy of
Jeff Henderson – cheers Jeff!) recorded in Sri Lanka. I know
nothing about Sri Lankan music but I guess this album fuses elements
of jazz with Sri Lankan music. Whatever it is, I’m enjoying it. It
has developed a couple of glitches so I need to make sure I have a
digital copy.
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