Sid Smith’s Postcards From The Yellow Room: Climate Of Hunter by Scott Walker
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Sid Smith’s Postcards From The Yellow Room: Climate Of Hunter by Scott Walker
The latest post on Sid Smith’s marvellous blog is a review of Scott Walker’s album ‘Climate of Hunter’. When Sid likes something he has a way of writing about it which draws you into it, and makes you want to go out and buy it. Sid’s book about King Crimson (‘In the Court of King Crimson’) achieves this with each of the albums over the band’s 40 year history. It’s a great read.
I wrote about the Scott Walker 5-CD set ‘In Five Easy Pieces’ ages ago, and also posted a link to an informative site about him. Thanks to Sid’s review, I’ll be diving back into that 5-CD set – as soon as I have finished listening to Robert Fripp’s latest album ‘Love Cannot Bear’ which has been played at least once a day since I bought it just over a week ago. I know I referred to it on the last post, but it deserves another mention. Beautiful and serene soundscapes that touch something deep into the soul and leave the listener breathless. And there’s even a track where Fripp ‘sings’ a poem – well, he does it through a heavily treated piece of electronics. It is very moving and unsettling in the way that Laurie Anderson can be.
Oh, and it’s a great CD to play whilst working too!