August 4th | Posted by: NMJ
Here’s the original ‘Pinetop’s Boogie Woogie’ from 1928 as referenced in ABON 0181.
The first and only Pinetop Smith hit.
The first Boogie Woogie hit record.
The first record to feature the words Boogie Woogie.
And like all the many hundreds of Boogie Woogies that followed in its tracks, it’s difficult to imagine it being played on anything except a piano.
Unless you are Blind Willie McTell of course.
October 23rd | Posted by: NMJ
I don’t think we discuss particle physics on ABON quite as often as we should. The most mind-boggling consequence of the recent claims that neutrinos may be able to travel faster than the speed of light is that the concept of causality may not be as universally valid as we had imagined. Because – and you may not follow this completely – but, if things can travel faster than the speed of light, then results can occur before the actions that supposedly caused them have taken place in the first place. Hence the rib-tickler of a joke that’s been doing the rounds in all the funkiest labs over the last few weeks: “Barman says ‘we don’t serve neutrinos’. A neutrino walks into a bar”.
Which sort of gives me a perfect excuse to introduce the 2011 album of the year in October before all the albums of 2011 have been released.
Not necessarily putting it down to my intake of neutrinos but I do already know for sure that ‘Looping State Of Mind’ by The Field is the album of 2011.
More consistently brilliant than his debut (see ABON 0019) and a massive return to form after his disappointing second album, ‘Looping State Of Mind’ takes what you can do with a sampler and looping machine to higher levels than us lesser mortals thought possible.
Here’s ‘Arpeggiated Love’ as a taster. Other – even more remarkable – tracks from the album will feature on ABON at a later date. Or maybe they already have. Who can tell these days?
Tracks are usually filed in the Vault in the year they were released. There are exceptions:
a. very old tracks tend to be filed in the year they were recorded and
b. anything that has been released for the first time many years after it was recorded has been filed in the year of recording rather than release.
Allena Muldoon: Nice one for using time to writing this, made a great read
NIcko66: Never heard of these guys but they're great. Happy, hard-hitting, hair-messing indeed.
NMJ: Probably about time another Mr Smith track featured on ABON. Coming soon. NMJ
Eduardo Bankey: This post is pretty enlightening. Everyone loves how you will compose them.
sd: he still plays pablo picasso. heard him play it live .
Vincent Mugleston: Interesting article. I enjoyed it very much! Thanks. Vincent Mugleston
September 2nd | Posted by NMJ