Prog points

[greatbear]

This may or may not tag me as a 'musician'.

My 'ex', Kit Watkins, has just released his latest CD "SkyZone", a collection of ambient/experimental/meditative music previously unreleased on his other works. Included among the tracks is a piece that we did as a jam one night, "Harmonic Hum". This has me with a guitar, my ebow, lots of reverb along with Kit on keys and his new-at-the-time Yamaha fretless bass. The track resembles something Steve Roach might have come up with. Anyway, this one recording of us managed to find it's way out of the dustbin of obscurity and into a released CD. I forgot how flowing and dreamy the piece was.

I guess I really should dust off the axes here and try playing again. My increasingly stiff fingers keep telling me otherwise. Oh well. At least in terms of obscure progressive music, I have gained a point in street cred.

Go me!

(Kit's website is set to randomly play songs from SkyZone. "Harmonic Hum" is in the rotation. You can click the button on the upper right of the frame to turn off the music then turn it back on again, repeating the process until the track shows up. Better yet, leave it play, turn it up a bit, and relax.)

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[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

True story. In the late 70s I had a record from a band called Happy The Man. Loved the jazz/prog fusion and incredible musical interplay. Sadly, the band became popular at the end of the prog era. Fast forward 25 years. I am chatting with guys in gay.com and make friends with Kit. When I asked him what he does for a living, he said he runs a grants newsletter company. His userpic showed some equipment behind him. I asked what that was about and he said he is a musician. I asked him if he is/was in any bands, and he said he was up to recently doing solo stuff, and way back when he was in Camel and Happy The Man, two bands he was positive I never heard of. It blew my mind. It blew his that I not only knew but also had the record (since lost or loaned). It went on from there, but sadly didnt quite last a year. We are still good friends though, and try to keep in touch as much as possible.

[progbear.livejournal.com]

HTM’s 3rd “Better late” contains the “original” version of “Eye Of The Storm” (recorded 1979, but released after Camel’s version). It’s not as essential as Crafty Hands or the band’s self-titled debut, though. (3rd is essentially a demo tape, and pretty much sounds like it.)