FarFlung techincal question/Grenas apology?

[Dave Hall]

Hi Chaps

Have just listed both on e-bay. Good luck. Start of mass clear out.

Dave
---- Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK> wrote: 
> On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, mike coleman wrote:
> > oh good, despite the timewarp my switched cd's didn't mess him up.
> > I dropped out of 11 th grade Jon, but if Brian's still running around in
> > Marina Del Rey, and releasing music I'm willling to chase him and Tommy too
> > I don't have "when science fails" or "Nine Pin Body" so any comments as to
> > how deep my food rations should now go- appreciated
> 
>  	I don't have _When Science Fails_--I must hunt it down for 
> Kompletism reasons--but I do have _Nine Pin Body_. If you happen to have 
> one of the boot versions of the never-released _Myth of Solid Ground_ 
> there is very little on NPB you don't already have. If you don't have that 
> though then there are several awesome crunchy heavy tracks about things 
> coming through portholes, wormholes, dimensional divides, and so on which 
> I would thoroughly recommend and not wish to be without, though there is 
> also some filler stuff that sounds as if Tommy decided one day that Can 
> wasn't minimalist enough and to make that point he'd record something with 
> even less variation *really quietly*. Bracketed by the creeping 
> riff-horrors from outer space, though, so you still finish the record with 
> a grin on your face and a tendency to twitch at unexpected noises. does 
> that help?
> 
> > On 1/5/10, Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>  	<snip>
> 
> >> (ii) I had it `roughly right' that `Raven' as it stands is the correct full
> >> track #1, `Sonic Evaporation' is the following track with the "I'm
> >> disintegrating..." refrain as far as the unexpected multicoloured organ
> >> cascade, which is `Helianthus', `Candied Electronic Atmospheres' is what
> >> happens next and `Alius Orbis' starts with the crushing downwards riff that
> >> we can also identify because it's been in a live set or two like the Strange
> >> Daze CD-R. `The Way the Sky Is' is of course on _So Many Minds_ so we know
> >> that one, and `(It's Not A Bad Dream)' refers to the forty-minute circus
> >> organ outtro we all know and dread. (Dare *you* listen to the thing
> >> carefully enough to see if it repeats anywhere? I'm not sure it's looped, I
> >> think they may actually have played it.)
> 
>  	A postscript, on relistening to this it seems to me that really, 
> the `disintegration' refrain must belong to `Candied Electronic 
> Atmospheres' as the section that precedes it just has too much in it that 
> doesn't relate to be one track. So now I would say `Raven' as far as the 
> end of the female vocal section, `Sonic Evaporation' for what follows as 
> far as the organ, which is `Helianthus' as I say, then the breakout and 
> build-up from there `Candied Electronic Atmospheres'. The extra track 
> number should probably be in `Sonic Evaporation' somewhere, if we agree 
> that #8 is the outtro to `The Way the Sky Is'. I do wish I could have 
> recovered what I originally thought and McGibbony's response though. 
> Yours,
>  	Jon (who seems to be closing in on real-time)
> 
> -- 
>        Jonathan Jarrett, Cambridge    jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
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