From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V8 #334 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Saturday, December 6 2003 Volume 08 : Number 334 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Scott Walker [Heather Marie Buch ] Re: [AVALON] Scott Walker [LeeSullivanart@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] Scott Walker [Heather Marie Buch ] Re: [AVALON] Scott Walker ["Christian H. Soetemann" Subject: [AVALON] Scott Walker Hi, I finally sat down to read the liner notes on my Scott Walker anthology "It's Raining Today". A recent expat myself, I've been feeling a bond to Walker lately... anyway, the notes say: "Walker has only broken his silence twice in 20 years, in both instances producing music that seems to exist in its own universe entirely. 1984' impenetrable Climate of Hunter drifted eerily through a post-Roxy Music Avalon soundscape, while 1995's Tilt is an alternatly dreamlike and nightmarish ambient work that has been compared favorably to Tricky's Maxin Quye." anyway, I would love to hear "Climate of Hunter". Has anyone heard it and does it really compare to Avalon? How about Scott Walker 1-4? What is the best of these. Scott Walker sings Jacques Brel is outstanding! Heather ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 07:07:48 EST From: LeeSullivanart@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Scott Walker In a message dated 05/12/2003 11:41:57 GMT Standard Time, hbuch@imf.au.dk writes: > "Climate of Hunter". Has anyone heard it and > does it really compare to Avalon? It doesn't have the hits! Both it and the more extreme 'Tilt' are wonderful albums, but much less accessible than 'Avalon'; much darker and stark, though very beautiful. The track 'Rawhide' from COH is extraordinary. On 'Tilt', SW sounds like he's had a long break from singing (as was the case), and the fractured quality of his voice makes it even more stunning. Lee S ____________________________________________ Easily distracted? Displacement activity a problem? Me too. Going to: www.leesullivan.co.uk and definitely http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho won't help either ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:07:57 +0100 (MET) From: Heather Marie Buch Subject: Re: [AVALON] Scott Walker Oh dear, I just read that Climate of Hunter is deleted. Heather On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 LeeSullivanart@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 05/12/2003 11:41:57 GMT Standard Time, hbuch@imf.au.dk > writes: > > > > "Climate of Hunter". Has anyone heard it and > > does it really compare to Avalon? > > It doesn't have the hits! Both it and the more extreme 'Tilt' are wonderful > albums, but much less accessible than 'Avalon'; much darker and stark, though > very beautiful. The track 'Rawhide' from COH is extraordinary. > > On 'Tilt', SW sounds like he's had a long break from singing (as was the > case), and the fractured quality of his voice makes it even more stunning. > > Lee S > ____________________________________________ > Easily distracted? Displacement activity a problem? > Me too. Going to: > > www.leesullivan.co.uk > > and definitely > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho > > won't help either > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 16:56:38 +0000 From: "Christian H. Soetemann" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Scott Walker I could make you a copy, if you like - or I'm sure others on this list have this record. Lee is right, compared to Avalon COH and especially Tilt are rather extreme albums. In common are some atmospherics, the attention paid to detail, for example in percussive elements. Farmer In The City from Tilt is an absolutely breathtaking track, and the voice still shines. Of Scott 1 to 4 I'd recommend Scott 4, which is considered to be the outstanding one, containing only Walker's own compositions. It has the singular Boy Child on it, which is just, well, bloody marvellous. The 60s stuff from SW and the Walker Brothers seems to have influenced Ferry a bit, witness Beauty Queen. Sessions with Eno and Fripp from the mid-80s seem to exist, but incomplete, i. e. without vox, so we'll probably never get to hear them... Christian - ---------- >Von: Heather Marie Buch >Betreff: Re: [AVALON] Scott Walker >Datum: Fre, 5. Dez 2003 13:07 Uhr > >Oh dear, I just read that Climate of Hunter is deleted. > >Heather ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V8 #334 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest