HW: Nik thoughts

[J D]

Hi,
I think that the poetry pieces on PoT are the worst element about the CD.
Armor For Everyday makes me cringe.
That, the Announcement piece and Lost Chances remind me of a 10-year old kid
learning how to emphasise (badly).
PoT is an extremely disjointed CD with some great moments, like the abductee
talking about Mandra Olika, Lunar Sky & Children Of The Sun.
Then there's ICU covers from 80 - 85(?), which have varying degrees of
success.
Then a coupe of new songs which are OK.
It draws on far too many sources for my liking.
30% of the Nik Space Ritual CD is great, but that's not enough to make it a
worthy purchase.
Fast & Future is a far better attempt overall at consistancy.
Having witnessed one of the Nik 2000 shows (Ystalefera) I fail to see how
anybody could contemplate releasing any of it.
I had a fantastic time but that doesn't make up for the music being dire to
the extreme.
Very 1970 in it's random jamming but a free-form gig too far when only 10
seconds of each song make it recognisable!
Having said that, I'm looking forward to seeing them again should they do
another low key festival.
Jez




----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Pearson <jasret at MINDSPRING.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: HW: Nik thoughts


> On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 02:28:32 +0100, Jon Jarrett
> <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK> wrote:
> >On Tue, 22 May 2001, Paul Mather wrote:
> >> _Prophets of Time_ is for Nik
> >> kompletists, at least as far as I'm concerned.
> >
> >        Yeah, it's not up to much. The P'Orridge poetry readings are
> >worthwhile and the two or three electronic pieces which are basically
> >Grenas, del Rio and Fox quite nice; of the actual Nikwerx however only
> >`Stonehenge Decoded' lives up to its old glory and the two newish Nik
> >pieces are very odd.
>
> <nit-pick>
> That would be "Stonehenge, Who Knows?"
> </nit-pick>
>
> (I'm sure I've said this many times, but I'll say it again ...)  That
track
> alone justifies the purchase of 'Prophets of Time' for me, and it should
> for any Simon House fan.  His violin work is OUTSTANDING on that one (no
> slight to Dead Fred Reeves, who did a fine job on the original), which is
> the main reason why it betters the original Inner City Unit version (as
> opposed to the rest of the album, on which all the other ICU covers don't
> come close to the originals [I can see the Judge gloating over that
> statement, I'm sure...]).
>
> But if it's on the Dossier comp that Jon referred to, you may as well pick
> that up over 'Prophets of Time' ...
>
>     -Doug
>      jasret at mindspring.com
>