[andy popp]

What's the painting Duma? There's a couple I'd like to post in reply but have found decent images of them yet.

[benpritch]

I agree, this is a brilliant thread

"Spirit of the Beehive" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070040/ amazing haunting film that will stay with you for a while.

[andy popp]

[andy popp]

Some background. The painting above is Coming Home by Finnish Painter Albert Edelfelt. I was in the city art gallery in Gothenburg with a Finnish friend last summer when we came across it. My friend was delighted as it is her favourite painting and she had been longing to see it again but had no idea it was in that gallery. She was totally enraptured and I fell a little in love with it too. I like the composition but mostly I like the intensity of the girl's gaze and her composure and then the sense of relationship between the two figures.

When I came home I found the painting below (Stanhope Forbes' To the Fishing Grounds) in the Walker, Liverpool, and it seemed like an English counterpart, though setting out rather than returning.

[Duma]

Hi Andy, its Repin's "Barge Haulers on the Volga", I've never seen it in the flesh (think it's in St Petersburg) but there's a good big image on wikipedia. Actually now I look it up it's not neglected at all, I'm just culturally ignorant! Still, brilliant, I love the almost petulance of the youth's expression.

Not as taken by "To the Fishing Grounds" (though the wet deck of the lugger is beautifully done), but "Coming Home" is gorgeous, love the mirroring of the stances, as well as her glowering! I am a sucker for old fishing boat paintings though, having grown up on one. If you like this sort of thing a nice (unlikely) source is on the tins of fish from The Pilchard Works, available from a supermarket near you...

[Falling Down]

Duma - waddage for resurrecting this thread. 

[fried]

Yeah, nice one Duma. I never knew this thread existed before JohnCale, Neu!,Swell Maps...Nice stuff. So I'll add some stuff here rather than on my other thread.

So, more neglected Japanese rock from the early '70s. This group never released any studio albums, hence the quality. Don't listen if you don't like feedback.



From their snappily named album 'Heavier than a death in the family'

[Falling Down]

Is that Keiji Haino (of Fushitsusha?)

[fried]

Nope, it's Takeshi Mizutani. The rest of the band were regularly changed when they played something different from instructed or Hijacked aircraft!

[andy popp]

Yes, thanks Duma, Ben, Ben and Fried

Still, brilliant, I love the almost petulance of the youth's expression.

And the way he chafes against the harness whilst the older men, all in shadow, are defeated.

Fried, I think you totally dominate the whole thread with your first post. Excellent stuff! Amazingly, it even seems to be obtainable on amazon!

I'm going to recommend a book, Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End (which actually encompasses four novels, they should be read as one though) - simply one of the most complex, brilliant, and moving books I've read.

[fried]

I thought you might like that Andy. I'm not sure if you caught the recommendation I put on another thread, but Satori by Flower travellin' band is also excellent.

[fried]

Wife just fucked off and left you, 'Blood on the tracks' don't cut it no more....

[Seb]

Only really neglected by me to be honest but Id never heard Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division before today. Its one of those albums that I wish I could have heard when it first came out because I think It would have been even more amazing in context.

[andy popp]

Keep'em coming.

[mrjonathanr]

One amazing track from an amazing album. Written for Phil Lesh to sing, while his father was dying of cancer.

[fried]

Criminally neglected. The American 'Brel' from the album 'American gothic'.

[fried]

I should put the cover too.



it's nice.

[Duma]

Cover art, now we're talking...

Late for the Sky:

[andy popp]

Wow, Fried, that's incredible stuff. And truly neglected, I'm sure I've never heard that name before. The CD seem to be incredibly expensive, so much as it would be nice to have the cover and notes it'll have to be the MP3 - downloading now.

[fried]

You can pick it up much cheaper on vinyl if  you have a turntable, should be able to find it for a tenner.

[mrjonathanr]

Criminally neglected. The American 'Brel' ....

[Falling Down]

One amazing track from an amazing album. Written for Phil Lesh to sing, while his father was dying of cancer.

I love this song.

[fried]

Can't beat a bit of Scott Walker. This is one of my favourites from Scott 4. The video is errm pretty crap but..



Although not really neglected (at least round my gaff).

[fried]

Cover art, now we're talking...

Late for the Sky:

I was going to post a link to some of this  stuff before but never got round to it.

http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/worst-album-covers

Not that I'm 'dissing your cover just came to mind that's all.

[duncan]

The CD seem to be incredibly expensive, so much as it would be nice to have the cover and notes it'll have to be the MP3 - downloading now.

Probably too late.