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"HiGH ▀ iNTELLiGeNCE tRoLLS"
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a r t i s t : John Fahey
t i t l e : Live In Tasmania
d a t e : 2004
l a b e l : Takoma Records 6513-2
g e n r e : Folk
r l s. d a t e : June/2004
t r a c k s : 06
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 73,1 MB
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To celebrate our 4th anniversary, HiT2k brings you a rush of
releases from all over the musical map, but never within the
borders of the mainstream! Why not take this time to try
something new, and peek in the strange dark corners of music
where so many are afraid to? Many thanks to all the groups and
kindred spirits who've supported us and taken chances!
John Fahey was well known as a perfectionist who played
concerts for over two decades without releasing a live album.
It was therefore something of a surprise when he not only
recorded a full album in front of an audience, but did so at a
concert booked on four days notice, at a hall he had never seen
much less checked for acoustics, and with almost all material
written on the spur of the moment. Fahey hadn't even planned on
visiting Tasmania, but during an Australian concert tour he got
drunk on an airplane flight and decided on the spur of the
moment that he wanted to record an album there. A hall was
booked, an audience rounded up, and the resulting show was
recorded. The results were fantastic. The notoriously
unpredictable Fahey was in a cheerful mood, playing an
outstanding set and genially favoring the audience with a
rambling monologue about the strangeness of finding Tasmania
less wild and esoteric than he expected. A thoughtful version
of "Waltzing Matilda" was a predictable crowd-pleaser, but so
were more, er, esoteric pieces like The Approaching of the
Disco Void." The transcendent moment of this album, and one of
the finest pieces of Fahey's career, is "Indian-Pacific R.R.
Blues," a complex work that has elements of ragtime, blues, and
Americana strung together into a magical whole. It was a
marvelous gift to an audience that had probably never heard of
him five days before, and it is fortunate indeed that this
concert was not merely recorded, but captured brilliantly so
that not a note was lost.
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01-On the Sunny Side of the Ocean [13:34]
02-The Approaching of the Disco Void [06:49]
03-Waltzing Matilda [02:27]
04-Fahey Establishes Rapport with the Tasmanians [08:54]
05-Steamboat Gwine 'Round de Bend [04:55]
06-Indian-Pacific R.R. Blues [04:58]
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41:37 min
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