First playlist

My edit of a killer Bobby Keys track from his rare 1972 solo album, recorded in London.

Altar Rock

My edit of "Peter's Trip" from the soundtrack of mid 60s movie THE TRIP. Played by Electric Flag.

Peter's Trip (edit)

O'Neill's March by Sean O Riada and Ceoltoiri Chualann, from the 1969 album O Riada Sa Gaiety, running backwards and forwards simultaneously, and mashed with rock'n'roll elements.


Mighty March

The Antirealists - Second Nature

The intro and outro of "Is Trua nach bhfuil me in Eirinn", from the first Bothy Band album, edited together, then played both forwards and reversed at the same time, with the reverse band in the distance and to the right, behind the forwards band.  I know I should get out more, but I love the strange hazy pagan woodland orchestra this mash-up makes.

Bothy Band Both Ways

First release from forthcoming album 'To the Horizon, Sir'
Available as a free download here: http://iainmorrison.bandcamp.com/

Homeward

The intro to the Rolling Stones 1969 track Gimme Shelter is one of the greatest moments in rock'n'roll. Its sonic architecture is based around Keith Richards' modal-tuned guitar figures and it conjures a mood of imminent danger or doom.  Yet it feels great.  Well...so does danger sometimes.


In the 1990s I came across an album of Stones music performed by The London Symphony Orchestra, and the version of Gimme Shelter was arranged by Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke.  He did a pretty good job too; the mood of imminent chaos was accurately rendered even with the sedate classical sound of a full orchestra.


Last year, while creating a mix mash of instrumental music to be played before Waterboys shows, I synched the two versions - Stones' original and LSO treatment - and this is the result.  I did the whole song, in fact, though I found the bulk of the song works better without orchestra, just as nature and Keef intended.


But the Stones-and-orchestra intro came out great.  Play it loud and feel the mood of impending danger close round you - in a virtual way, of course.


Homeward

Iain Morrison

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