As some of you may know, Beachy Head is a famous suicide spot in the Sussex coast not far away from Brighton. It is the place depicted in the front cover of Throbbing Gristle’s 20jazzfunkgreats, and soundtracked in a most foreboding manner in the selfsame record. It also seems to be a place that Gatto Fritto, perhaps the most accomplished sage of the neo-Kosmische diaspora (with Lindström and Subway), has given some thought to. His Beachy Head is a wonderful quantum waltz that stares not at the maelstrom swirling below, but at a night sky above, where subtle shifts in the luminosity of the constellations reveal a soothing message of galactic rebirth.
Beachy Head closes a limited edition International Feel compilation for the Japanese market that 20jazzfunkgreats was lucky enough to get its greasy paws on.
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Indeed I’ve inhaled the foul stench of Moriarty near the chalky steeps. A sort of English Patient malaise that blows ill from the beaches of Calais, catching on dunes and sedge. The Moonraker Elite’s plot to blow up the Cliffs of Dover, or maybe an Austen romance on Masterpiece Theatre, or be damned those shoddy rings in Wessex, traced by battles between Celts and Normans.
Yours sincerely
sean Orr30th November 2010
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[...] back in November of last year, when 20jazzfunkgreats posted the epic “quantum waltz” of “Beachy Head.” The song’s dizzying oscillations immediately overtook me, and despite its relatively [...]
Yours sincerely
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