[kj] at last...

[Steve Hackett]

Ghosts
Kali
In Excelsis
Endgame
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: jon chapman 
  To: gathering at misera.net 
  Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 7:11 PM
  Subject: Re: [kj] at last...


  If anything it's the worse - 
   

  Ghost of Ladbroke grove 

  In excelsis 

  Endgame 

  Ka -LI-Yoo- GAAA. 

   

   

  In that order. 


   
   




    




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  From: karen.weil at sddt.com
  To: vassifer at earthlink.net; gathering at misera.net
  Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:54:14 -0700
  Subject: Re: [kj] at last...


  Alex's thoughts on "Kali Yuga" are mine, too. My favorite song on that release. 

  k.w.
  SoCal
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Alex Smith 
    To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) ; gathering at misera.net 
    Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 5:36 AM
    Subject: Re: [kj] at last...



    "This reminds me of what it was like to get your hands on new Killing Joke record back in the eighties..."

    "Kali Yuga" certainly gave me that feeling -- that indefinable compulsion to play and play again. Cannot stop grinning when I hear it.

    Alex in NYC





      -----Original Message----- 
      From: jpwhkj at aol.com 
      Sent: Jun 25, 2010 7:26 AM 
      To: gathering at misera.net 
      Subject: Re: [kj] at last... 


      Further thoughts, typed as I listen for the first time:

      In Excelsis is much better on CD than the version we'd previously heard.  I like it a lot.

      Endgame still doesn't do it for me.  Quite chuggy guitar; Jaz sings a bit, but quite growly vocals; not very catchy; no underlying funky vibe.  I pressed "Next" before it was over, not 'cos it's really awful, but because I want to hear...

      Kali Yuga is really powerful!  Excellent singing from Jaz.

      Ghosts is just starting... sending a shiver down my spine, partly anticipation from what everyone's said, partly the eerie dub sounds...  It's *very* unusual - totally different from anything they've done in the last 30 years.  Harks back to that first EP.  Great that they've taken a musical risk again - it's been far too long.

      (Just thinking that it's great that they have so much material.  On previous "recent" albums, it's felt like they included pretty much everything available in order to fill an album.)

      Jaz's vocals on Ghosts are still a bit growly, but he is *singing* which is great.

      OK, now for the dub version.  Sounds ....unsurprisingly.... like some of the stuff off the Killing Joke In Dub bootleg.  And sorry Jaz, but I prefer it without vocals!  Some wicked guitar in there.  I could live without some of screechier siren noises, but overall it works really well.  Love the way the guitar blasts in.  This feckin' rocks!

      It's over.  Time to press "Play" again.  This reminds me of what it was like to get your hands on new Killing Joke record back in the eighties...

      By the way, mine is numbered 789.  What about the rest of youse?

      Jamie


       



      -----Original Message-----
      From: jpwhkj at aol.com
      To: gathering at misera.net
      Sent: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:56
      Subject: at last...


      Nothing on Monday.

      Nothing on Tuesday.

      Nothing on Wednesday.

      Nothing on Thursday.

      But it arrived today.

      First thought: artwork looks better in my hands than on the web.

      Second thought: remove cassette from stereo and put on IE CD.

      Here we go...

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