MIX RETROSPECTIVE – 2006 LA NOCHE INVENTADA
November 2, 2020 § Leave a comment
2006 was a big year for me : I got my viola da gamba, recorded Colleen et les Boîtes à musique, in summer learnt that I had been granted at the last minute a one-year sabbatical from my teaching job (which led to my resignation the following year), in November went to Japan and totally fell in love with the country, and in December recorded Les ondes silencieuses! I had a big obsession at the time with John Coltrane and listened to a lot of sixties music… Saw The Innocents for the first time…As for This Heat, their first album changed my life when I first heard it in 1995 and still sounds way ahead of its time (released in 1979 and recorded even earlier than that!) …And I still love that Blue Rondos song soooo much – every single instrument sounds so right -long live Joe Meek’s legacy!!!
A big thank you to Luis J.Menendez for commissioning this mix for his La Noche Inventada radio programme!
Harry Partch – Two Studies On Ancient Greek Scales
The Innocents – O Willow Waly
Sibylle Baier – Tonight
Chet Baker – Grey December
Half Asleep – Morning Dust – Soon
Anne Briggs – Fine Horseman
Medicine Head – Next Time The Sun Comes Round
The Index – Rainy Starless Nights
Mississipi John Hurt – Frankie
John Lee Hooker – Rock House Boogie
John Coltrane – My Favorite Things
This Heat – Horizontal Hold
Broadcast – Black Cat
Carole King – He’s A Bad Boy
The Blue Rondos – Little Baby

Photo from EME festival, Setubal, Portugal, 7th October 2006, by Rui Minderico: my first time playing the gamba live!