The Colins Of Paradise

Music:

Member Since: 22/07/2006
Band Website: You're on it!
Band Members: Bobbie Watson - Vocals, Samplers
Jon Seagroatt - Keyboards, Saxophones
Ryan Bradshaw - Bass
Lee Smith - Drums

Influences: Please do visit our ’best pals’ boxx - there’s lots and lots of good stuff there, much of it influential, at least as of recent date.
How shall we determine causality in the making of ’influences’?
From whence spring such things?
How should we calibrate the cyclical eruptions of the past into the present?

Always quite liked ’Little Drummer Boy’.

Found out recently that it’s a religious song.

Still like the tune though, and the bit where it goes ’rupa pum pum’.
Sounds Like: A wigged-out genre mash-up

or

"Space-jazz-drum&bass-funk-rock-fusion-upside-down-cake. If you invited them into your home they'd probably turn your kitchen into a debauched jazz rave up"
Ronan, Nighshift Magazine, Oxford, May 2007.

Which brings us very neatly to........

and........

....or, have a look at this.....(don't forget to switch the playboxx off first!)...

Modules from endemic project on Vimeo .

This is pretty good too....

SVG Midi Sequencer from Bill Orcutt on Vimeo .

Meanwhile, back at what passes for a ranch in these parts......

Well Spring is here at last, and the first cows have been spotted frolicking in the back garden.
Thanks to everyone who sent their 'first cow of spring' photos in. Here is this week's winner:

LAST FM RECENTLY PLAYED 'WIDGET'.
This is a bit of a weird thingy - not very elegant. I wonder where we found it?

Mind you, how elegant can something called a 'widget' be?

(Actually, it's from Peter @ www.vancooten.com/blog. Thanks, Peter!)

OK. Hands up all those who thought Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was pretty cool...Well. Welcome to...

Red Detachment of Women
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And the accompanying album......

And, of course, the track listing:

1 Prologue: Escape From the Tiger's Maw
2 Flying Off to the Red Base Under Chang-Ching's Guidance
3 Ching-hua Tells of Her Grievance and Joins the Red Army
4 Strike From the Outside and From Within - A Night Assault on the Bandit's Lair
5 The Party Nurtures Heroes; The Soldiers and Civilians are of One Family
6 Holding Out in the Mountain Pass; Valiantly Killing the Enemy
7 Forward! Along the Path Crimson With the Blood of the Fallen

So. Not much scope for a twirl in a tutu there then.

Bit heavy? Try this nice thing instead;

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Phew! That's as nice as a nice cup of tea and a nice bun. What a relief!
If you have been profoundly moved by this picture, you may well need to pay a visit to www.unicornlady.net

On the other hand, if you want to nail your berets to the beat vibe mast and remain irredeemably cool beyond belief, you could do a lot worse than track down a copy of this collection of Village Voice cartoons by Jules Feiffer. First published in 1956. This cat is the bomb.

Record Label: Whatever happened to Parlophone?