The accidental collisions and seemingly random mouse clicks lead me to an amazing piece of music today. For a moment, I was transported back in time, to a younger place, a place when I was seventeen again, where the world held no obstacle and I was a superman, before the cynicism and brutality of life crushed my youthful, optimistic spirit.
There was a link thrown up on my other music site’s newsfeed about a piece of music written for eighteen electric guitars and I clicked on through to the composer’s MySpace page where I found a remarkable piece of music called “The Fourth Door” by a band called Regular Music, which was helmed and written by this chap called Jeremy Peyton Jones. Unfortunately, this album is out-of-print but luckily for me I found a copy on eBay and purchased it immediately. The music is from the minimalist movement and sounds very much in a similar vein to the experiments made by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra crossed with a healthy dollop of Michael Nyman.
Thankfully, by chance or fate or whatever, there was one copy on eBay which I bought up immediately. On perusal of the recording credits, I noticed that the percussionist on that album was a fellow called Charles Hayward who worked with a band called Quiet Sun, an experimental rock-jazz band led by Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera. Of course, I am very familiar with this chap and that album but I am always bowled over by the interconnectedness of things, especially in the world of music.

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