This today from one of the MoL’s curators: I don’t know if you remember this 1970s vogue – started by Walter (later Wendy) Carlos, for souped-up versions of the Classics? Other week I found an as-new copy of “Symphonies For The Seventies” by Waldo de Los Rios. Vaguely familiar. What I didn’t know but GOOGLE did = A periodic victim of an acute depression, while working on “Don Juan Tenorio”, de los Rios committed suicide in Madrid in 1977… aged 43…Very George Sanders…
We have embarked on a correspondence about middle-of-the-road music as part of the great overlooked that interests the MoL, based on a recent reading of writings on Scott Walker, published by the Wire, including the excellent essay by Ian Penman on Walker’s lost years in mid-career as an MoR artiste. MoL salutes MoR. MoL says the Middle of the Road is not a safe place to be. Preliminary recommendations include: The Bunnies Again – Singing & Swinging At The London Playboy (1969, Decca) (including their version of Give Peace A Chance!!!); soundtrack to Bilitis; soundtrack to Nashville; Planes & Boats & Trains by the Wally Stott Chorale (Wally arranged some of Scot Walker’s most sublime 60s songs, before becoming … *Angela* Stott nee Morley).
This yesterday from The Modern Warehouse (after asking if they were interested in buying Pulkka lounge chair and footstool, aluminium frame and black leather, designed by Ilmari Lappalainen for Asko, Finland, circa1967): Thanks for offering us your chair and footstool but unfortunately we don’t think it’s for us.
(Presented as evidence of the fact that no one says “no” any more.)
Would you be interested?