Muddy Waters, Magic Sam, The Three Degrees, Bobby Womack, Gil Scott Heron, Tom Waits, John Martyn, Joan Armatrading, Manu Dibango, Van Morrison, David Keenan, Sinead O'Connor, Bap Kennedy, The Waterboys, Tom Verlaine, Bruce Springsteen, The Modern Lovers, Velvet Underground Primal Scream, Pulp

Roots Rock Reggae 11-02-2025

Koral & The Goodbye Horses debut EP - Nocturnes

Little Sister Waltz

First track of the night. This is the place to be on a Wed night in Bris Vegas

B Flat Jam 101

Quasimodo's Dream - FLiNDERS

Steam 2003
penned by Charles Maddison and Ian Gaskell- 

Charles Maddison - vocals
Ian Gaskell - guitar
John Midworth - drums
Stuart McVicar - bass
Brad Scriven - sax
Brian Somerville - trumpet


Kiss of the Foam - steam

This is Stephen Strahle's riff, played with a slightly different harmonization by me, on a  loop-pedal.

Stephen strahle riff in 11

This is a traditional negro work song. It is pentatonic, and is the sort of thing that slaves used to sing in the fields. I played two version of the melody on top of one another, with a time delay, as though the melody were a canon. The piece has strong self-similarity although it has more dissonance than a normal canon. I have added a driving bass line.

To my ears, this sort of sound reminds me of the geometric patterns one finds in Islamic art.

Work song 031 1

This is electric guitar, played with a slide and fed through a sustain pedal, and recorded on a loop pedal.

I used a socket wrench that I inherited from my deceased father, as the slide. When I played the piece back, I was reminded of one of my father's favourite sayings, which was to "play it straight." 

I am not certain whether he would have approved of this use of his sockets... so the title is ironic.


Play it straight

Quasimodo's Dream - FLiNDERS

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