In which a miscellany of John Martyn's live performances and stray studio sessions are assembled into a coherent whole – even if it takes two handily compartmentalised CDs to do so.
Around about 1999/ 2000, Belfast-based film producers Lyn and Eleanor McMullan began to film many feet of footage of the musician John Martyn playing with his band of the time, whose members were: Spencer Cozens, keyboards, Arran Ahmun, drums, John Giblin, bass, and Jim Lampi on that peculiar twelve string guitar-like of his called the Chapman Stick.
"I like the idea of a video that wasn't a concert, and the lads backstage," notes a comfortably overstuffed John Martyn from a similarly overstuffed armchair. "That's Spinal Tap stuff."
Over zijn kwaliteiten als singer-songwriter hoeven we niet te twisten, luister maar eens naar Bad Company en het adembenemende titelnummer, en dat maakt zijn allerlaatste album met nieuwe nummers alleen maar waardevoller.
Célébration. Deux CD envoûtants, un inédit et un hommage, ressuscitent le Britannique à la vie cabossée.
Still, highly recommended.
De zwoele mix van stijlen op Heaven And Earth neigt naar de warme sfeer van carrièrehoogtepunt One World uit 1977.
Mye flott, noe grått på den siste innspillingen fra en av britisk rocks fineste.
