#Miles Spilsbury

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Listening Post - December 2023

Words: Andy Hughes (Photo Credit: Louis Canadas) As snow settles throughout the land and the Christmas deccies go up in every other house on the street, we eschew the festivities of the month and crack on with our regular monthly playlist! For those not in the know – every month we focus on twenty tunes as part of our ‘Listening Post‘, compiling a list of the very tracks that have had us all…

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Light Manoeuvres 💙🌊

By: @miles.spilsbury

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The Physics House Band - Incident On 3rd - skronk-leaning instrumental prog rock from UK trio

A 54 minute roaming of a specious metropolitan environment, dusk to dawn. At moments standing on the sidewalk cleansing in the neon and ornate structures, precipitating to other moments slumped in the rotting jazz clubs that populate the district's underworld. Keep watch for physical pre-order and merch drop soon. All digital revenue will go towards pressing the vinyl and printing merch - your support is hugely hugely appreciated :)  

Samuel Organ (Guitar, Keys) Miles Spilsbury (Saxophone, Keys) Dave Morgan (Drums) Artwork by Elliot Elder

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Maybe I’m just looking for any good news at all from the western US right now, but amid all the environmental and human devastation we’ve seen in this region in 2020 I’m taking a minute to be grateful that a pipeline that would have redirected water from rural valleys and Goshute and Shoshone tribal lands in western Utah and eastern Nevada was finally defeated this year.

From the article:

For decades, the Great Basin Water Network has made a point of strange bedfellowing. Its ranks include ranchers, environmentalists, sportsmen, rural county commissioners, Indigenous leaders, water users from Utah, and rural and urban Nevadans. Over the years, these groups united against a single cause: the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s “Groundwater Development Project,” a proposal to pump 58 billion gallons of water a year 300 miles to Las Vegas from the remote rural valleys of Nevada and Utah. Nevadans called it the Las Vegas Pipeline; its ardent foes called it a water grab. In May, their three decades of resistance to the pipeline ended in victory: The project was terminated.

“Never give up the ship,” Delaine Spilsbury, an Ely Shoshone tribal elder who played a significant role in the Water Network, said in a recent interview. “Never. That’s the kind of feeling that I think most of us had. Just do the best we can and let’s make something happen, even if it does take forever.”

The Vegas Pipeline, had it succeeded, threatened to make a dust bowl of 305 springs, 112 miles of streams, 8,000 acres of wetlands and 191,000 acres of shrubland habitat, almost all of it on public lands. Major utilities in the West rarely fail in getting what they want (witness California’s Owens Valley, circa 1913), but the Water Network’s multipronged, intergenerational legal battle creates a different precedent, showing that diverse water interests can transcend any single approach or ideology — and win.

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The Physics House Band - Metropolis - on which they declare “we explore light and dark themes in jazz fusion, prog, noise and electronic music“ - what’s not to like about THAT?

The Physics House Band present METROPOLIS. A 50-minute mind warping performance recorded live at Metropolis Studios, to a small invited audience. The set brings together pieces from across our diverse back catalogue, weaved together with furious energy. On this record we explore light and dark themes in jazz fusion, prog, noise and electronic music. We teamed up with world leading product developers, BOSS and Roland to present the sessions, incorporating a diverse range of instruments from synthesizers to a wide range of effect pedals, alongside acoustic instruments such as vintage drums, grand piano and saxophone. Adam Hutchison (Bass Guitar & Additional Synthesizers) Samuel Organ (Lead Guitar & Additional Synthesziers) Miles Spilsbury (Saxophone, Grand Piano & Additional Synthesizers) Dave Morgan (Drum Kit) Recorded live at Metropolis Studios, London (2019) Engineered & Produced by Mark Roberts Tracks 1, 3, 4 appear on Death Sequence (Unearthly Vision) Tracks 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 appear on Mercury Fountain (Small Pond) Track 7 appears on Horizons / Rapture (Unearthly Vision)