Hey there folks. A life time of loving music has led me to some pretty great and some pretty crazy stuff, and this here spot is where I’m going to tell you about some of it. In particular some of the homegrown stuff.
Will kick off this week with this fairly nuts track from a very young Ms Renee Geyer, who began her recording career in the early ‘70s with the esoteric progressive jazz-rock combo Sun. They cut one LP for RCA in ’72. I’d never heard of the band until recently but came to it via the sax player Keith Shadwick, who was later in great pre-punk proggy bluesy druggy street rock band called the Bleeding Hearts (and who subsequently became esteemed jazz writer in the UK before passing away a couple of years ago). The Bleeding Hearts blew my mind when I was 14 with numbers like ‘The Emptiness of Life’ (and whose sole album ‘What Happened?’ has just been reissued by Aztec) and maybe we’ll hear something from them in a future episode.
In the meantime, dig the very funky, very freaky and very fine ‘Vendetta’ by Sun!
- Professor Dave
