One World is the seventh studio album by British guitarist and singer John Martyn, released in November 1977 by Island Records. The album, produced by Island owner Chris Blackwell at his Berkshire farm, was recorded with a myriad of musicians, including Steve Winwood, Danny Thompson, John Stevens, Hansford Rowe and Rico. The album followed a sabbatical where, at Blackwell's invite, Martyn holidayed in Jamaica in 1976 with his family, having become disillusioned with the music business. The trip helped revitalise his interest in music.
The album combines Martyn's experimental tendencies with more pop-leaning material, with influences from the dub music of Lee "Scratch" Perry, with whom Martyn worked during the trip to Jamaica and co-wrote the song "Big Muff". The record features a relaxing, echoing sound with usage of Martyn's distinctive Echoplex guitar effects, while his lyrics discuss love, specific people and his disintegrating marriage. Some of the recording was achieved outdoors, with Island's mobile recording studio being used to operate a live feed across the farm's surrounding lake; microphones picked up the full ambience of the area, including natural reverb and surrounding geese and trains, helping contribute to the album's sweeping sound.Upon its release, One World received acclaim from music critics who hailed its inventive, unique sound and lyrics. Martyn toured in promotion of the album in late 1977, whilst a televised performance at the Collegiate Theatre, London in January 1978 helped the album becoming Martyn's first chart success, reaching number 54 on the UK Albums Chart. "Dancing" was released as the album's sole single a month later. In later times, the album has been credited for helping develop trip hop music. In 2004, a deluxe edition of the album was released by Island, containing bonus live material (1001 Albums You Must Hear)
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* Formed in 1982 in the town of Rugby by Pete Kember (Sonic Boom and Jason Pierce (J. Spaceman). Spacemen 3 (along with The Jesus And Mary Chain) were the pioneers of the shoegaze and drone-rock scene which blossomed in the UK at the close of the 1980s. But while both bands showed an obvious affinity for the pioneering sounds of The Velvet Underground, they otherwise found different sources of inspiration, with Sonic Boom and J Spaceman eschewing the The Beach Boys influenced pop symphonics favored by the J&MC's Reid Brothers and instead channeling noisy minimalists ranging from John Lee Hooker to Red Krayola to Suicide. Both founding members have enjoyed considerable success with their respective subsequent projects: Spectrum and Spiritualized. *
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By the ‘90s, Leonard Cohen foresaw bad things coming. He spelled it out in “The Future,” one of 17 tracks gathered for Hallelujah & Songs from his Albums. “The Future’s” lightly rocking tempo belied the apocalyptic vision of a world directionless and on fire. “Give me back the Berlin Wall,” says the narrator, nostalgic for certainty, even bad certainty. “It’s over, it ain’t going any further. You feel the devil’s riding crop, get ready for the future.” Will the arts save us? “All the lousy little poets coming round trying to sound like Charlie Manson,” he scoffs. And yet, a ray of hope: “Love’s the only engine of survival.”
The “Hallelujah” of the album’s title seems meant as a selling point for novices as well as fans who want everything—the version opening the album is previously unreleased, recorded during one of his epilogue tours in the years before his death in 2016. “Hallelujah” was his unexpected late career triumph, a song that had languished in relative obscurity until covered by Jeff Buckley. The fans have heard the other 16 tracks many times before, yet it’s still a pleasure to hear someone else’s mix tape. Songs from his Albums is a curated litany of songs, flowing one through the other as they roughly chronicle the journey that began with the enigmatic love song “Suzanne” (1967) and ended with memories of love, “Thanks for the Dance” (released posthumously in 2019).
Cohen emerged in the ‘60s as a troubadour, a poet with an acoustic guitar, yet he was restless. Songs from his Albums skips his ridiculous LP with Phil Spector, but doubles down on his later discovery of the marvels of cheap electric keyboards. Somehow the tick-tock drum tones and tinny synthesizers on “Dance Me to the End of Love” and “I’m Your Man” only deepen the pathos, his voice sunken deep in cantorial registers on melodies from some sad cafรฉ of long ago.
He continued to seek new musical formats for his poetry. The half-spoken, nearly whispered “In My Secret Life” is robed in quiet soul; “Show Me the Place” hovers like an old-time spiritual. His words continued to wrestle with finding the spiritual in the physical; they were like psalms written in the present tense. (Shepherd Express)
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* I opened the site email, this morning and this was there waiting for me, from friend of Vibes Moezeke, a fresh Wav rip. So here it is for you all to enjoy. Many thanks Moezeke for your submission. Let the good times roll. *
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* Well here is another video/movie/documentary for ya all. Hope you will find it interesting. I am trying to post more movies and books here on vibes to expand the type of things we share. We already share a broad selection of musical genres. I have found the trailer on you tube for this one.*
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The best of the best, 1998, compiling the first five, utterly foundational Burial Mix releases, 1996 - 1997, featuring Paul St. Hilaire fka Tikiman on vox plus all the versions, amounting to an hour of the most sub-heavy, softly contoured, emotionally and physically hard-hitting productions of the era.
A close travelling companion for so many of us since its 1998 release, ’Showcase’ rolls out in a classic dub reggae album style and pattern, vocal and version, plucking choicest numbers from the preceding Burial Mix 10” series. At the time the only way to hold them on digital format, the CD came to be understandably cherished as a night-ender, quite likely in sequence over the years with Rhythm & Sound’s eponymous CD session and ‘w/ The Artists’ / ‘The Versions’. Simply a go-to when little else will suffice.
In trio with St, Hilaire, Ernestus & Von Oswald would fully indulge their dub passions in an effectively groundbreaking form, distilling the OG Jamaican template according to minimal techno principles in ways never before heard to this extent. Our all-time percy ‘Ruff Way’ and its version are perhaps the strongest examples for their balance of driving 4/4 steppers pressure and mellifluous vox, punctuated by a St. Hilaire shriek that still send electric shivers down the spine, but in all fairness shake a stick and you’ll hit a gem anywhere you look across ‘Showcase’ - trust it’s 100% killer no filler! (Boomkat)
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