Apparently, I buy too many records

My wife Helen, like every other woman i've ever lived with, believes that I buy too many records.

Which, as every record-buying man knows, is a ridiculous belief.

I will concede, however, that I do indeed buy a lot of records and that I don't afford them the same amount of listens and attention that I did 20 or 30 years ago.

To this end, I have decided to blog about the records that I buy, in order to help my appreciation of them - and perhaps to show Helen that I don't buy that many records after all.

Because i'm crap with deadlines the blog posts will be sporadic and probably be about a month or 2 behind but that's just the way i am! The posts will not necessarily be actual reviews (most likely comments, at best) and will generally be pretty damn short due to the reasons outlined above. As a writer in a previous existence i have decided not to worry about writing as art in the pieces but, instead, to attempt to convey feeling over semantic (and often grammatic) perfection.

And 'OCRB'? It stands for 'Obsessive Compulsive Record Buying' - a little known mental health affliction that is potentially damaging to the bank account but ultimately life-affirming. It is sad.......but a nice form of sad.

Friday 17 June 2011

Box: Studio 1 (Rune Grammofon)

Four heavy hitters of the free improv scene get together and bash out 6 tracks of such an awesome racket that the LP is a blessing in that you get some respite in turning the thing over (or of putting it away and replacing it with something pretty for a while). Recorded over 2 days with no practice, no editing and no overdubs, what you hear here is what went down (or the best/most successful of what went down, anyway - these free improv guys may be masters of the genre but they're also savvy in only releasing the cream of the crop, which is why some free improv snobs state that free improv should never be recorded and only ever experienced live). Most successful on the second track ('untitled 11') when they reign themselves in a bit and don't go for the macho instrument shredding option so often utilized on the other tracks. Good stuff though, in its own little noisy way.
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