"Music is the best"

I can get you a pretty ‘robust’ discussion on this subject in some of the more ‘traditional’ towers if you want.. .

Meanwhile. On Wednesday I was at the only remaining bell foundry in the UK….

Where they do bells. . .

For all kinds of people….

and even minor & major scales. . . .

And there is one of these very close by. . . .

That’s Loughborough for you…

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Somebody needs to do it . . .

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They certainly do! Mafra carillons - Wikipedia

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@cfausto Bless you. It was a joke designed to tweak the relegated, which it did perfectly. Nothing serious.

It did bring tales of a bell forge though, which makes me feel honoured to have unknowingly walked into the the bell forge at Whitechapel, prior to it’s closure in 2017.

Keep smiling @wyleu :wink:

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@wylue I was convinced angine de wassit were a Clownc0re tribute band :wink:

See

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All beings hail the Gold Pyramid!

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Polyphia meet Henge. Meet king gizzard Meet residents, Meet cardiacs.

It certainly produces some fairly marmite like responses, but its dancable, and makes a refreshing change from six costume changes, four chords and twenty dancer and one perpetual smile epics that seem to predominate. Maybe something genuinely underground at last for a proggy mentality?

I like the anonimity, but it needs to pass the cd in the car blind music test yet.

I’ve seen it generate VERY violent reactions in some, quite discerning quarters, particularly the imagery. I hope its not a sea sick steve like scam.

More news as we get it.

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Great pity about whitechapel.

And loughborough really isnt busy.

They aren’t casting new bells such is the cost of metal and falling demand, It’s nearly all breaking up old bells for recasting and there are genuine shortages of competent ringers, and encounters with council & church employees overly filled with what WB Yeats described as passionate intensity.

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Peter Gabriel 1979. Still impressive.
With his Yamaha CP70 in all it’s glory.

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A similar time, and what happened when the record company insisted on a single…

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Got hooked on this gem of an album a few months back. My personal favorite is “Touch” from Side B.

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Also got around to listening through a two-disc Slinky tech-house mix I got from a friend. I love the synth lick from this one.

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Finally found a track that I was looking for in a while.. from a legendary release by Warp records

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For mellotron lovers everywhere…

As a bonus I tabbed it…

BENEDICTUS.pdf (33.8 KB)

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And some superb Rick Wakeman keyboard noodling on early Strawbs…

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Stylish 1970s “spiritual rock” arrangement, really beautiful lyrics. :star:

Paris 2026

* “Life during wartime” :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeFWklZBvPI

* “Everybody’s coming to my house” :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETniue8rw1c

* “Slippery people” :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlidOYjp-rI

or at “Tiny Desk Concert”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNmcF6eRE7w

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It was the meaning of life. To buy a Zynthian. In order to join the forum. To watch these glorious 41 minutes & 45 seconds. Revealing the great purpose. Of all of Creation.

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Here is a amazing track sent to me last week by a friend.

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Synthopia found something :wink:

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