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This new compilation of old Kirchin material comes as a result of the free CD I produced for Hull 2017 City Of Culture. There was a Basil Kirchin “weekender” this February, three days of talks, music and events based on the life, music and world of Basil Kirchin. As the person who resurrected and oversees the music of this great British ...
An awe-inspiring sampler of the late, great musical polymath’s music. From pop punk pop to field recordings, jazz, horror film music, ambient sounds, experimental ideas and all points in between. Many tracks have not been released before. "Basil Kirchin was a unique talent. A man brought up as a drummer in the post war big band era, he soon shunned the sounds of London ballrooms for world travel, marijuana and spiritual enlightenment. On his return to London in the mid 1960s he started ...
Jul 19, 2017 · 2011. Basil Kirchin Is My Friend: A Trunk Records Sampler (Basil Kirchin) 2017. I Start Counting (Basil Kirchin) 2018. Kpm 1000 Series: It's About Time. 1968. Listen to Basil Kirchin is My Friend: A Trunk Records Sampler by Basil Kirchin on Apple Music. 2017. 18 Songs. Duration: 39 minutes.
The trick of this Trunk Records compilation is to bring together Kirchin’s disparate factions into a coherent whole. Basil Kirchin is My Friend plays somewhere between a conventional LP and a mixtape. Tracks like the cosmic punk-funk jam ‘Silicon Chip’ sit between processed recordings of found sounds, and the LP is peppered with snippets ...
Jul 19, 2017 · Experimental composer Basil Kirchin was born in Great Britain in 1927. He made his professional debut in December 1941 at London's Paramount, playing drums in his father Ivor's jazz band, and remained a fixture of the group throughout the remainder of World War II, playing 14 shows per week. After the war ended, Kirchin joined Harry Roy's newly ...
Jul 19, 2017 · Album · 2017 · 18 Songs
Listen to Basil Kirchin Is My Friend: A Trunk Records Sampler on Spotify. Basil Kirchin · Album · 2017 · 18 songs.
