I'm very excited about the incipient tape tree but I'm a little bit worried that my tastes are so relentlessly mainstream (I've never heard of half the bands mentioned on this list) that there will be few unknown gems for my treemates to enjoy. But I shall honestly try my best. The talk of Gregorian chant made me wonder if I might stick "a dope cut" (as they say down the Abbey) or two on my selection but I don't think that would really work. But anybody keen to get with the superflyest in Medieval Plainsong action could do worse that cop a load of Tomas Luis de Victoria - particularly his Requiem "Missa Defunctorum". This is without doubt the most beautifull piece of music I have ever heard and it's the only thing that has ever made me cry from the sheer beauty of it. I was sitting with my dad at home in Oxford looking out into the garden (well I say garden - acres of rolling parkland with muntjack deer and performing otters gamboling on the greensward,you know the sort of thing...) and we listened to the Victoria Requiem together. There's no instruments just human voices and there are moments of such intense beauty and glorious humanity that we both found the tears cascading down our cheeks.Then again that's what I love about my Dad - he cries so easily at the glory of the human spirit be it a Micheal Owen goal or a nobel peace prize winner. But that pure humanity in the music is something i see in bits of B&S - in some of those fragile moments when Mr M's voice offers up the lines before the music kicks in. Also on Cof Elvis just hearing the talking is something I've grown to love. Oh blimey I'm not really explaining myself that well but anyhow I know what I mean! Rollin' with da Friars xx John ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For unsubscribing, list rules, Tigermilk and sessions tapes, . please see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . *** B&S new LP worldwide release 7th September, tour news etc. at *** . *** http://www.majordomo.net/sinister/news.html *** . Coinini athasach ata muid - ag canuint amhrain na . coinini - nach bhfuilimid? -----------------------------------------------------------------------