Mandy Martin, Puritjarra 2, 2005. For further information on MANDY MARTIN, refer here: http://www.mandy-martin.com/
If there are diverse kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing place, then we need to learn to value the different ways each of us sees a single place that is significant, but differently so, for each perspective.
adrift on a sea of information at a time when the world's night is a destitute time. In the age of the world's night, the abyss of the world must be endured.
--Adelaide is home. Relaxation is Victor Harbor. I'm a frustrated photographer who has lost his way in life.I have trouble coping in the technological mode of being of our complex digital world.
I watched a documentary on Tom Waits early music the other night. The music was the albums he made for Asylum Records between 1973 and 1980s. The album that I know the best from this period of the dark world of bars and all-night diners is Small Change.
The documentary referred to Waits shift to Island Records and Swordfishtrombones (1983), which found him experimenting with horns and percussion and using unusual recording techniques:
Waits sounds more like Captain Beefheart and closer to Kurt Weill and German cabaret here than on his earlier barfly albums. I find the album very accessible and musically interesting.
| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 9:15 PM | Permalink
This is the album, that has sent me on a lifelong journey of Tom Wait album listening & purchases, I still however wish to see him perform 'live' before I shuffle off this mortal coil
Johnsburg is a beautiful ballad--one of my favourite songs.