#beck ola

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[lord-aldhelm]

August 23, 2024: Behind the scenes photos and videos posted by Mangus Bruun on Instagram.

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12:58 PM EST November 10, 2024:

The Jeff Beck Group - "Rice Pudding" From the album Beck-Ola (June 1969)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

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The Jeff Beck Group - Cosa Nostra Beck-Ola (UK 1969)

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Play ▶ Jeff Beck Compilation

Goodbye Pork Pie Hat Steelin' Let Me Love You Come Dancing Big Block Blue Wind Superstition Chuckles The Train Kept A-Rollin' What Do You Want (Instrumental Master, Take 4, 1966) Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You You Shook Me All Shook Up I Ain't Superstitious Drinking Again Blues De Luxe Rock My Plimsoul Sugar Cane Head For Backstage Pass Constipated Duck Livin' Alone Spanish Boots Blues Stay Away From Me Glad All Over Shapes Of Things I've Been Drinking (Single B-Side, Stereo Remix) Heart Full Of Soul (Single Version, 1965) Space Boogie Sling Shot Play With Me Over Under Sideways Down Grease Monkey Pork-U-Pine

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urgent list part four

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[idrinkyouryouthquake]

Can we just take one fucking minute to appreciate Nicky Hopkins? Aka the greatest sessions pianist of all time (also a founding member of The Jeff Beck Group and the keyboardist in Quicksilver Messenger Service)

No one actually knows everything he played on, this is just what's available on wikipedia and I'd like to double underline the part where it casually mentions that he played with Jefferson Airplane at Woodstock:

Solo albums

The Revolutionary Piano of Nicky Hopkins (1966)

The Tin Man Was a Dreamer (1973)

No More Changes (1975)

Soundtracks

The Fugitive (1992)

Patio (1992)

Namiki Family (1993)

Selected performances and collaborations

with the Rolling Stones

Their Satanic Majesties Request album (1967)

"We Love You" (1968)

"She's a Rainbow" (1968)

"Sympathy for the Devil" (1968)

"Street Fighting Man" (1968)

"Gimme Shelter" (1969)

"Monkey Man" (1969)

"Sway" (1971)

Exile on Main St. (1972)

"Angie" (1973)

"Time Waits for No One" (1974)

"Fool to Cry" (1976)

"Waiting on a Friend" (recorded 1972, released 1981)

with Jeff Beck

"Morning Dew" (1967)

Truth (1967)

"Girl From Mill Valley" on Beck-Ola (1969)

with Joe Cocker

I Can Stand a Little Rain (1974)

"You Are So Beautiful" (1974)

Jamaica Say You Will (1975)

with Art Garfunkel

Breakaway (1975)

Lefty (1988)

with George Harrison

Living in the Material World (1973)

Dark Horse (1974)

Extra Texture (Read All About It) (1975)

with Jefferson Airplane

Volunteers (1969)

"Wooden Ships" (1969)

"Eskimo Blue Day" (1969)

"Hey Fredrick" (1969)

Woodstock Festival set

with the Kinks

The Kink Kontroversy (1965)

Face to Face (1966)

Something Else by the Kinks (1967)

The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968)

with John Lennon

Imagine (1971)

"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" (1971)

Walls and Bridges (1974)

with Quicksilver Messenger Service

Shady Grove (composer of "Edward, the Mad Shirt Grinder") (1969)

Just for Love (1970)

What About Me (composer of "Spindrifter") (1970)

with Ringo Starr

Ringo (1973)

Goodnight Vienna (1974)

with Rod Stewart

Foot Loose & Fancy Free (1977)

Blondes Have More Fun (1978)

Every Beat of My Heart (1986)

with the Who

My Generation (1965)

"The Song Is Over" and "Getting in Tune" on Who's Next (1971)

"Let's See Action" (1971)

The Who by Numbers (1975)

This isn't even including the selected works section on Wikipedia which WILL NOT EVEN FIT IN THIS TUMBLR POST!!!!!

[justforbooks]

Renowned as a pioneering guitarist who pushed the boundaries of the instrument to places unknown to most of his contemporaries, Jeff Beck, who has died from bacterial meningitis aged 78, could more than hold his own with fellow luminaries such as Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton (all three of them played in the Yardbirds). Yet unlike them, Beck was something of a reluctant celebrity, unwilling to pursue the superstardom that his musical gifts could have brought him.

“When Led Zeppelin made it so big, I was jealous, absolutely jealous as hell,” Beck said in 1986. “But I’m glad I carried on as I was. I personally couldn’t have put up with that mass adulation.”

When Clapton and Page appeared at Live Aid in 1985, Beck preferred to stay at home and tinker with his beloved collection of classic hot rod cars. “I didn’t want to go, because I hate large crowds,” he claimed. The Melody Maker journalist Chris Welch wrote that “he can appear sullen, lazy and difficult. He has an expressive face that appears to give away his every mood and thought.”

Nonetheless, Beck was a central figure in several key developments in rock music’s history. As a member of the Yardbirds in 1965-66, he featured on some of their best-known hits, including Heart Full of Soul and Shapes of Things, while expanding the band’s musical palette hugely. His solo recording Beck’s Bolero was a firework display of contrasting guitar techniques and textures, and pointed to Beck’s future, in which he would move away from mere rock to embrace jazz fusion and even classical crossover. His 2010 album Emotion & Commotion included versions of Benjamin Britten’s Corpus Christi Carol and Puccini’s Nessun Dorma, interpreted through Beck’s uniquely sensitive touch. He would frequently pick strings with his thumb while modifying tone and pitch with the tremolo bar.

Beck’s gifts burned most intensely after he left the Yardbirds in November 1966 and formed the first incarnation of the Jeff Beck Group in early 1967, featuring Ronnie Wood on bass and the telltale rasping vocals of Rod Stewart. Beck’s previously recorded solo hit Hi Ho Silver Lining, which reached 14 on the UK chart in the spring of 67, gave the group a handy launch platform, although their debut album, Truth, was not released until the following year. When it was, it reached 15 on the US chart.

This was largely down to the group’s tour manager Peter Grant (later Led Zeppelin’s manager), who had taken the band to the US for some ecstatically received live performances and then persuaded Epic Records to sign them. Truth’s soulful mix of blues and hard rock was a trailblazer for a new wave of bands, not least Led Zeppelin themselves, whose own debut album appeared six months later.

Although Truth failed to chart in Britain, the Beck band’s second album, Beck-Ola, gave them another No 15 hit in the US and this time reached the UK Top 40, and they followed up with successful touring in the US, but internal friction was beginning to pull the unit apart. With impeccably poor timing, they broke up just before they were due to play at the Woodstock festival. Stewart launched his solo career, and formed the Faces with Wood. A rebuilt Jeff Beck Group released the albums Rough and Ready (1971) and Jeff Beck Group (1972), but the magic moment had passed.

Beck was born at his family’s home in Wallington (then in Surrey, but now in south London). His father, Arnold, was an accountant and his mother, Ethel, worked in a chocolate factory. Jeff attended Sutton Manor primary school and Sutton East county secondary modern.

He credited his mother with pushing him to study music, because she “used to force me to play piano about two hours a day. But that was good, because it made me realise I was musically sound.” He became fascinated by the electric guitar when he heard Les Paul’s version of How High the Moon. After experimenting with “stretching rubber bands over tobacco cans and making horrible noises”, he graduated to an old and battered acoustic guitar, and then built his own instrument using a cigar box and a picture frame.

Beck attended Wimbledon Art College, where he was mostly preoccupied with guitar-playing, inspired by albums by American bluesmen such as Buddy Guy and Muddy Waters. He bought himself an electric guitar and played briefly with Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages, and in 1963 formed the Nightshift, who recorded the single Stormy Monday. Later that year he joined an R&B band, the Tridents. He took a great leap forward in 1965 when he joined the Yardbirds, replacing Clapton. This was on the recommendation of Page, whom Beck had known since being introduced to him by his sister Annetta in his teens.

He was with the Yardbirds for less than two years, but during this period they recorded some of their best-known material, including the hit singles Heart Full of Soul (featuring Beck’s raga-like guitar), a UK No 2 and a Top 10 hit in the US, Evil Hearted You (UK No 3), Shapes of Things (UK No 3) and Over Under Sideways Down (UK No 10). Happenings Ten Years Time Ago (1966) only made it to 43 on the UK chart (and 30 in the US), but its complex mix of guitar parts by both Beck and Page have led to it being considered a milestone along the road to full-blown psychedelia. Page would go on to bend the boundaries of rock music with Led Zeppelin, while Beck was experimenting with different tunings and feedback effects.

In May 1966, Beck made his first solo recording, Beck’s Bolero. It featured Page, the Who’s drummer Keith Moon and the future Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones (indeed, the musicians on the track almost became Led Zeppelin), but was not released until it became the B side of Beck’s single Hi Ho Silver Lining the following year. Based on the rhythm of Ravel’s Bolero, it was a spectacular display of guitar tonalities, from ethereal slide guitar to hard-rock riffing, and suggested the extent of Beck’s ambitions.

After the Jeff Beck Band ended, he formed the “power trio” Beck, Bogert and Appice in 1973 (his bandmates being ex-members of Vanilla Fudge), but the project failed to match expectations and they split in 1974. In 1975 Beck re-emerged in a jazz-inflected guise with the all-instrumental album Blow by Blow, produced by George Martin. It became Beck’s most successful album, reaching No 4 on the US chart and selling a million copies. For Wired (1976), he teamed up with Narada Michael Walden and Jan Hammer, veterans of the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Subsequent live shows were preserved on Jeff Beck With the Jan Hammer Group: Live (1977).

Beck released intermittent solo albums, including Flash (1985), Jeff Beck’s Guitar Shop (1989) and Jeff (2003). Flash delivered a hit single, with a cover version of Curtis Mayfield’s People Get Ready, and the track Escape won Beck the first of his eight Grammy awards. He made guest appearances on Mick Jagger’s album Primitive Cool (1987) and Roger Waters’s Amused to Death (1992). In 2020, he released the single Isolation, a John Lennon song on which he collaborated with the actor Johnny Depp. In July last year, the pair released an album, 18, after Depp had joined Beck onstage for some UK and European concerts.

Beck was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 for his work with the Yardbirds, and in 2009 for his solo career.

He is survived by his second wife, Sandra Cash, whom he married in 2005.

🔔 Geoffrey Arnold (Jeff) Beck, composer and musician, born 24 June 1944; died 10 January 2023

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Jeff Beck Dead at 78

- “Jeff could channel music from the ethereal,” Jimmy Page says

Guitarist Jeff Beck is dead at 78.

The former Yardbird who went on to forge a career steeped in blues, fusion jazz and rock died Jan. 10 “after suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis,” his family said in a statement.

“His family asks for privacy while they process this tremendous loss,” they said.

Beck’s former Yardbirds bandmate Jimmy Page mourned the man he called the “six-stringed warrior.”

Beck’s playing cast a “spell he could weave around our mortal emotions,” Page said.

“Jeff could channel music from the ethereal,” Page added. “His technique (was) unique. His imaginations apparently limitless.”

From the Yardbirds to the Jeff Beck Group, solo and in various collaborations, Beck’s recorded legacy spans 1966-2022. His impact on fellow players is deeper.

Former JBG band members Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood credited Beck with starting their careers. Beck, Stewart said, “was on another planet.”

“He was one of the few guitarists that when playing live would actually listen to me sing and respond,” the singer said. “Jeff, you were the greatest, my man. Thank you for everything.”

Said Wood: “I want to thank him for all our early days together in Jeff Beck Group, conquering America.”

Beck’s death death reverberated through the music community, his fellow musicians giving testament to his influence.

“I feel sick,” Adrian Belew said.

David Gilmour called Beck “my hero;” Tony Iommi praised him as an “outstanding, iconic, genius guitar player;” and Dave Davies eulogized Beck as “a good friend and a great guitar player.”

“He made the electric guitar sing,” Steve Hackett said. “A powerful influence on myself and many others.”

Al Di Meola said he grew up on the Truth and Beck-Ola albums and recalled seeing Beck in concert in London.

“There was no one like Jeff,” Di Meola said. “He had the most unique style - in a very prestigious category.”

1/11/23

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Happy 78th Birthday pop star Rod Stewart.

Being Scottish is not always a physical thing,  Roderick David Stewart being one such instance, he was born in London on January 10th 1945, his father was Scottish and had been a master builder in Leith, his mum was a Londoner.

To steal the words of two Rod Stewart aonga being Scottish to him is “ You're in my heart, you're in my soul” or one that is littered with nods to his Scottish roots”Every beat of my heart” includes   “Here's one Jacobite “, “ Just for auld lang syne, “  And to the northern lights, And the swirling pipes, How they make a grown man cry”. I could fill this post up with lyrics from many of his songs, Rythm of my Heart, or his unofficial 1978 world cup song,  Ole Ola, his cover of Purple Heather, or his versions of The Skye Boat Song and Auld Land Synes .

During the 1960s, Stewart was a part of several different bands. In 1966, he joined the blues-influenced Jeff Beck Group and experienced his first taste of success. The group toured the United Kingdom and the United States and released two hit albums. In 1969, he joined what became known as the Faces. Ron Wood was one of his bandmates and became a member of the Rolling Stones. Stewart also performed as a solo artist and scored his first big solo success with the album Every Picture Tells A Story, which featured the hit single “Maggie May” in 1971. That same year, the Faces had a hit with the song “Stay With Me.”

Stewart moved to the United States in 1975. The next year, he reached the top of the U.S. charts with “Tonight’s the Night” from A Night on the Town. Stewart continued to have a slicker, more pop sound as the decade progressed. He also developed a reputation for his partying lifestyle and for dating numerous actresses and models. With 1978’s Blondes Have More Fun, he had another smash hit single with “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?”

The 1980s proved to be more challenging for Stewart. While 1981’s Tonight I’m Yours went platinum, the albums that followed did not fare as well. He ended the decade on a positive note, however. His remake of the Tom Waits song “Downtown Train” in 1989 received a lot of radio play. A few years later, he released Unplugged and Seated, which was recorded at MTV Unplugged concert and featured the hit “Have I Told You Lately.”

With his distinctive throaty, almost scratchy-sounding voice, Stewart decided to take on some of the classic songs and make them his own with It Had to be You: The Great American Songbook. He recorded four volumes of the Great American Songbook series, and won his first Grammy Award (best traditional pop vocal album) for Stardust: The Great American Songbook, Volume III in 2004.

t the age of 60, Stewart became a father for seventh time. His son, Alastair Wallace Stewart, was born on November 27, 2005. This was his first child with then fiancée Penny Lancaster. The couple married in 2007 and welcomed a second son, Aiden, in 2011. He also has a daughter, Kimberly, and a son, Sean, from his first wife Alana Stewart and a daughter named Ruby with former girlfriend Kelly Emberg. He also has two children from his marriage to model Rachel Hunter—Renee and Liam. Stewart publicly acknowledged his oldest daughter, Sarah Streeter, in 2013. Streeter was born when Stewart was only 18 years old, and he and the girl’s mother had decided to put their baby up for adoption. Stewart and Streeter first met in 2008.

In 2006, Stewart returned to rock music with Still The Same: Great Rock Classics of Our Time. The album reached the top of the pop charts in October of that year. Stewart put down the microphone and picked up a pen to write his 2012 memoir Rod: The Autobiography. The following year, he made an impressive return to songwriting with his album Time. Stewart co-wrote of many of the record’s songs as well as serving as a co-producer on the project.

Always a bit of a rascal  Rod shows no signs of living a quiet pensioner lifestyle, a couple of years ago he and his son were involved with an altercation in Florida, with Rod throwing a punch at a security guard after he refused them entry to an event.  He will need to be careful or he might end up being arrested by wife,  Penny, who as well as working as a model, has volunteered as a Special Constable in the police.

Stewart was estimated to have a fortune of £215 million in the Sunday Times Rich List of 2021, making him the 12th wealthiest person in the British music industry.

Rod was knighted in 2018 for his contributions to music and charity, and while many of us don’t agree with the notion we can’t take away that Sir Rod is not just a talented musician – he is also a philanthropist who has dedicated much of his life and resources to giving back

Sadly, life has not been so giving to Sir Rod of late. The music icon recently lost his brothers, Don and Robert ‘Bob’.

Bob died in November, a day before his 88th birthday and only two months after the loss of Don.

Recently, Sir Rod surprised a Brighton barber and singer to thank him for raising £14,000 for charity. The touching gesture from the British rock legend was shown during an episode of The One Show.

In recent years, Sir Rod’s charitable focus has become a little more direct due to his own health scares following his diagnosis of thyroid cancer (2000) and later prostate cancer (2019).  It all opened his eyes to the preciousness of life, and Stewart has now devoted much of his time to helping publicise the various fights against cancer and help those who are not as fortunate as he was.

More recently, the Maggie May rocker has also shown his caring nature by renting a home for a family of seven fleeing from the ongoing Russian war. Despite saying he usually keeps ‘all my charitable efforts nice and quiet,’ he publicised this hoping to inspire others to help.

So, as Sir Rod celebrates his 78th birthday, it is clear that he is not just a talented musician but also a kind and generous individual who has made a positive impact on the world.

Here’s to many more years of great music and philanthropy, Happy birthday, Sir Rod Stewart!

[lord-aldhelm]

Cast from "The Last Kingdom" Season 3 from the Blu-ray 'making of' video.

[rastronomicals]

1:29 AM EST February 5, 2024:

The Jeff Beck Group - "Plynth (Water Down The Drain)" From the album Beck-Ola (June 1969)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

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3128º Álbum: Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow

(1975) Epic

Jeff Beck es conocido principalmente por haber tocado en los Yardbirds, y siendo uno de los tres grandes guitarristas que pasaron por esta formación, junto con Eric Clapton y Jimi Page, de los tres tal vez el mejor y más desconocido.

Jeff Beck comenzó a ser conocido como guitarrista cuando llegó a los Yardbirds de la mano de Lord Sutch, con los que estuvo casi dos años, hasta finales de 1966.

En 1967 formó la que para mí es una de las más grandes bandas del rock de todos los tiempos, la primera formación de The Jeff Beck Group, en la que también estaban el vocalista Rod Stewart, el bajista Ron Wood, el teclista Nicky Hopkins (desde principios del 68) y Aynsley Dunbar a la batería (sustituido después por Mickey Waller).

Esta magnífica formación grabó dos discos rock blues asombrosos, Truth y Beck-Ola. Sobre todo, Truth, es una auténtica joya anterior al primer álbum de Led Zeppelin y al que no tiene nada que envidiar. El carácter errático y autodestructivo de Jeff Beck y las continuas peleas desbarataron una banda que habría podido llegar muy lejos de haber continuado. De todos modos el resultado de la marcha de Ron Wood y Rod Stewart fue otra estupenda banda, The Faces.

A partir de aquí parece que Jeff Beck empieza a deambular de un sitio para otro. Intentó crear un power trío del estilo de Cream, con Carmine Appice a la batería y Tim Bogert al bajo, pero todo esto se frustró cuando Jeff sufrió un grave accidente en 1970. La base rítmica de Vanilla Fudge se fue a Cactus y Jeff formó una nueva versión del Jeff Beck Group con el teclista Max Middleton, el batería Cozy Powell, el bajista Clive Chapman y el vocalista Bobby Tench. Grabaron Rough and Teady (1971) y Jeff Beck Group (1972) que pasaron sin pena ni gloria.

La disolución de Cactus en 1972 dio la oportunidad de crear el tan ansiado trío junto a Bogert y Appice. La formación registró un álbum en estudio y otro en directo (publicado inicialmente sólo en Japón). El resultado no convenció a nadie y el trío se disolvió.

Jeff Beck desapareció de la escena musical para aparecer en 1975 con la joya a la que está dedicada esta entrada: Blow By Blow. El disco fue producido por George Martin, y resulta un cambio bastante grande con respecto a lo que el guitarrista había venido haciendo hasta entonces. Fue un álbum instrumental de jazz-fusión que recibió muy buenas críticas.

Blow by Blow tipifica la genial carrera de Jeff Beck y lo imprevisible de sus discos. Lanzado en 1975, es su primer álbum instrumental, muy distinto del rock de sus anteriores trabajos. Solo el compositor / teclista Max Middleton había trabajado en formaciones anteriores de Beck. Blow by Blow cuenta con un tremendo nivel en los músicos que ayudaron a crearlo, desde Max Middleton, que añade calidez y emoción con sus teclados, pasando por el baterista Richard Bailey, que combina hábilmente elementos de jazz y funk, aportando una sección rítmica sólida y precisa. Los solos de Beck, variados y diversos, repletos de calidad y genialidad por igual, son el principal aliciente del álbum y en él demuestra ser un guitarrista rítmico igual de hábil. Una de las cualidades de este álbum es el sentido de la diversión que se respira en los temas, que los músicos se divertían y sentían lo que estaban haciendo. En la apertura de "You Know What I Mean", los solos de blues están llenos de formas imaginativas y saltos atrevidos. "Air Blower" contiene elaborados muros de ritmo donde van apareciendo los solos de guitarra. "Scatterbrain", con un teclado vertiginoso y líneas de guitarra repletas de energía. En la balada de Stevie Wonder "Cause We've Ended As Lovers", Beck desata suspiros, lamentos y gritos de dolor con su guitarra, en el más puro estilo de Roy Buchanan. "Freeway Jam" al igual que "Scatterbrain," son temas divertidos con impecables arreglos. El tema que cierra el álbum "Diamond Dust", otra joya perfecta y repleta de sentimiento. Blow by Blow marcó un pico creativo en la música de Jeff Beck y resultó ser un disco difícil de superar. Beck reapareció aquí rodeado de músicos geniales y entre todos lograron crear uno de los mejores discos del jazz rock, uno de esos discos imprescindibles que pasaron a la historia de la música.

(Fuente: Mingus, discososcuros,blogspot,com).

Personal:

Jeff Beck: guitarra.

Max Middleton: teclados.

Phil Chen: bajo.

Richard Bailey: batería

Stevie Wonder: clavinet en B2.

Listado de temas:

CARA A:

1. "You Know What I Mean" (Jeff Beck-Max Middleton) 4:05

2. "She's a Woman" (John Lennon-Paul McCartney) 4:31

3. "Constipated Duck" (Jeff Beck) 2:48

4. "AIR Blower" (Jeff Beck-Max Middleton-Phil Chen-Richard Bailey) 5:10

5. "Scatterbrain" (Jeff Beck-Max Middleton) 5:39

CARA B:

1. "Cause We've Ended as Lovers" (Stevie Wonder) 5:42

2. "Thelonius" (Stevie Wonder) 3:16

3. "Freeway Jam" (Max Middleton) 4:58

4. "Diamond Dust" (Bernie Holland) 8:26

Grabado en Octubre de 1974 en AIR Studios, Londres.

Publicado el 20 de Marzo de 1975.

[inner-islands]

Golden Brown - Weird Choices

“Weird Choices”, Stefan Beck’s third release with Inner Islands as Golden Brown, sees Beck taking decidedly different approaches from last year’s “Luminous”. Whereas “Luminous” featured a very guitar-centric palette, these new pieces focus on augmenting the familiar guitars with keys, synths, and electronics in favor of more spacey compositions. These tracks also grew out of experiments with compositional duration as Beck elaborates, “I started a practice of making these miniatures - one to two minute long songs that still felt fully formed and expressive but simple and concise.” Glass Frog, Larvae, Worm Charming, Milton Banana, and Busted Crystal were all realized under that intention. The longer pieces feature some of the familiar fingerstyle and slide guitar that listeners to Beck’s previous work may be acquainted with. These pieces, by and large, are layered improvisations that conjure floating moods, untether to the terrestrial. The final piece, Olas/Ondas, features a similar approach to the tracks on “Luminous” by using field recordings as a springboard for further extemporizations based on the feel and events of that space. In this case Beck used recordings from a trip to Anini Beach in Kauai to influence the gently cascading piece. The novel “The Actual Star” by Monica Byrne played a significant role in shaping the mental images and mood that Beck was feeling while recording the album. Beck explains, “part of the book takes place in a future where society collapsed from climate change and had to be adapted/reformed by those who survive. The way they live in that future is through near constant global migration, stopping in refuges along the way for shorter periods of time. It sounds kind of bleak but is actually a more hopeful vision of the future than what our current trajectory looks like.” And related to these ideas of possible imminent futures, the title of the album acknowledges our present; he says it encapsulates “all the maddening aspects of daily life in the last few years that we have to process and compartmentalize just to go about our daily business. Do I choose to go about my day like normal in spite of the ongoing escalating climate crisis? How do I respond in my daily life to the erosion of our civil rights and rising fascism? Do I see my loved ones in spite of an ongoing pandemic? I guess the phrase just kind of stuck with me as we have come to accept as normal circumstances that are anything but.”

[metalcultbrigade]

The Jeff Beck Group - Beck-Ola. 22/06/1969