That Music List: LIST 224 - 30/12/16 (a 1996 collection, part two)

Friday, 30 December 2016

LIST 224 - 30/12/16 (a 1996 collection, part two)

Hello again,

As promised, herewith the second half of my trawl through some favourites from 1996. In a parallel universe the two of them together might soundtrack some stay at home New Year's Eve parties tomorrow night, but don't feel under any obligation to do so.

Fractal Flow has been placed first in this line-up with feeling. I can still remember clear as day the astonishment in John Peel's voice when able to announce, on his Radio 1 show of December 1st 1996, the first single from Silver Apples in 26 years.

Given Simeon Coxe III's retreat from music and into art (in so far as he was sighted much at all) following the band's original early-1970s demise, this just before Xmas release on the Enraptured label will have surprised John as much as anyone.

This second coming of Silver Apples has, of course, extended to the present day, and it's been a pleasure to see Simeon manipulating his upgraded bank of oscillators live on stage on three occasions, roughly a decade apart (the last time literally down the road from me here in Sheffield, just three months ago). Given his relative antiquity and far from the kindest hand where fate and wellbeing have been concerned, this is nothing I've taken for granted.

...Which leads me in a roundabout sort of way towards wishing all regular That Music List readers a happy, healthy 2017. Do it all again some time soon?

J xx

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SILVER APPLES – Fractal Flow