too bad
joe roe
get lost in a day of audio drivel pushed by a tasteless media.
Have Elements and a number of very old vinyls if I want to hear
something that, like a fine wine, has aged beautifully.
Dave Platt
>It's too bad a couple of guys so far ahead of their time and so talented
> get lost in a day of audio drivel pushed by a tasteless media.
Agreed. Their music didn't "pigeonhole" worth a darned at the time,
and doesn't do so all that well even today (is it "new age" or
"ambient" or "ethnic" or "fusion" or what?). Darned near impossible
to promote. And, as Jon Field commented, they didn't set out to write
music that other people would want to listen to - they just wanted to
create the sort of music they heard inside their own heads, and ended
up being a bit surprised that anyone else was interested in it.
>Have Elements and a number of very old vinyls if I want to hear
>something that, like a fine wine, has aged beautifully.
Nicely said!
I'd be encouraging you to get copies of the recent remasters of the
Island albums (I think they sound quite a bit better than Elements,
although I'm admittedly biased on that issue) but unfortunately the
label which issued them has apparently gone legs-up and the remasters
are now essentially out-of-print after only a year of availability.
Keep your eyes on my site below, and on the band's new official web
site (www.jadewarrior.com) for news of the "Now" album, to be released
this fall by the new/old band lineup (Jon Field, Glyn Havard, and Dave
Sturt).
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