Showing posts with label Julie Driscoll. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Julie Driscoll. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Julie Driscoll - 1969 (1971)

Year: 1971 (CD 2000)
Label: Disconforme SL (Andorra), DISC 1966 CD
Style: Folk Rock, Progressive Rock, Acoustic
Country: London, England (8 June 1947)
Time: 38:41
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 208 Mb

Julie Driscoll Tippett (born 8 June 1947) is an English singer and actress, known for her work with Brian Auger and her husband, Keith Tippett.
Driscoll is known for her 1960s versions of Bob Dylan and Rick Danko's "This Wheel's on Fire", and Donovan's "Season of the Witch", both with Brian Auger and the Trinity. Along with the Trinity, she was featured prominently in the 1969 television special 33? Revolutions per Monkee, singing "I'm a Believer" in a soul style with Micky Dolenz. She and Auger had previously worked in Steampacket, with Long John Baldry and Rod Stewart.
"This Wheel's on Fire" reached number five in the United Kingdom in June 1968, number 13 in Canada, and Bubbled Under the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States at #106 that August. With distortion, the imagery of the title and the group's dress and performance, this version came to represent the psychedelic era in British rock music. Driscoll recorded the song again in the early 1990s with Adrian Edmondson as the theme to the BBC comedy series Absolutely Fabulous.
A turning point for Driscoll was meeting Keith Tippett when his group were among the session players on her first solo album 1969 released in 1971. She soon after married Tippett and has since that time concentrated on experimental vocal music, using the name Julie Tippetts, which adopts the original spelling of her husband's surname. She frequently collaborated with Tippett, not only as a duo - which includes 1987's phenomenal Couple in Spirit album - but also on many of his group projects, up until his death in 2020. In 2009 she also started collaborating with saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist Martin Archer up until the present, releasing a half-dozen albums up through 2022.
She took part in Keith Tippett's big band Centipede, and sang in Robert Wyatt's Theatre Royal Drury Lane concert in 1974. She released a solo album, Sunset Glow, in 1975; was lead vocalist on Carla Bley's album Tropic Appetites; and performed on John Wolf Brennan's "HeXtet".
Later in the 1970s, she toured with her own band and recorded and performed as one of the vocal quartet Voice, with Maggie Nichols, Phil Minton, and Brian Eley. She reunited with Auger for the 1978 album Encore.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Driscoll)

01. A New Awakening (03:50)
02. Those That We Love (04:48)
03. Leaving It All Behind (04:50)
04. Break-Out (05:22)
05. The Choice (05:59)
06. Lullaby (04:22)
07. Walk Down (04:15)
08. I Nearly Forgot - But I Went Back (05:10)

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Saturday, September 20, 2025

Brian Auger & The Trinity - Befour (1970)

Year: Recording July & December, 1969 (CD 1998)
Label: Disconforme SL (Andorra), DISC 1006 CD
Style: Progressive Rock, Classic Rock, Art Rock
Country: United Kingdom
Time: 46:39
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 307 Mb

Brian Auger and his band outdo themselves on this extraordinary album, which boasts playing that is both passionate and of virtuoso caliber, and encompasses just the right repertory. From the opening of the soaring rendition of "I Wanna Take You Higher" through the jazzy interpretation of Gabriel Faure's Pavane, the Albinoni-based Adagio per Archi e Organo, the impassioned rendition of Traffic's "No Time to Live" (sung by lead guitarist Gary Boyle), and the smooth interpretation of Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage" (featuring some elegant lead playing by Boyle before Auger's organ moves into the foreground), Befour delivers superb musicianship, crossing the lines between jazz and rock with touches of soul and even some lingering traces of psychedelia. The one fully experimental track, "Listen Here," which was cut in a single take of nine minutes and 22 seconds, is a hard, pounding piece driven by Boyle's jagged lead guitar and showing off the band augmented by three additional drummers (Mickey Waller, Barry Reeves, and Colin Allen) and an extra bassist (Roger Sutton) -- it reminds one somewhat of the kinds of experiments that the Nice sometimes attempted a lot less successfully. "Just You and Me" is a worthy finale to the original album, a hard-rocking showcase for each of the players.
(allmusic.com/album/befour-mw0000175821)

01. I Wanna Take You Higher (05:08)
02. Pavane (03:49)
03. No Time to Live (05:27)
04. Maiden Voyage (05:02)
05. Listen Here (09:25)
06. Adagio Per Archi E Organo (03:30)
07. Just You, Just Me (06:26)
08. Rain Forest Talking (bonus track) (04:06)
09. Pavane (Demo Version) (bonus track) (03:43)

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