Daevid Allen & Euterpe: Wise Man In Your Heart [1976]

featuring Mike "Fingers" Howlett on bass guitar and Pierre Moerlen on percussion

Great story behind this album: At a Gong gig in Cheltenham in 1975 Daevid refuses to go on stage, claiming a "wall of force" stands in his way. So he leaves the band and decamps with life-partner Gilli Smyth and her two children to the island of Majorca to recuperate and generally get his space together. There he falls in with a quintet of Catalan musicians calling themselves Euterpe, after the Greek God of Music. They record and mix Good Morning at Daevid's Majorcan pleasure palace on a 4 track Teac and 2 Revox's.

As for this track, featuring two guest Gongers (see above), I will let it speak for itself, except to add that when something is the bomb, it's the bomb, and this is the fucking Bomb.

Available on CD! But it will cost you a pretty penny.

Daevid Allen & Euterpe -
Children of the New World
Wise Man in Your Heart

I finally got around to listening to side one of this album and encountered the lovely "Children of the New World", in which Daevid expands upon the theme of Eternal Recurrence.

"Wise Man in Your Heart" is from the archives {original air date 2/6/07}, and features Mike Howlett on bass and Pierre Moerlin on percussion.

I climbed through many lives to find the secret golden flower
But when I woke I found I slept for less than half an hour

The Flock of Seagulls - Wishing (instrumental)

The triumphant return of Mike Howlett to these pages.

The Teardrop Explodes - When I Dream*

Folks, I need some recommendations on obscure tracks released in 1980. This is for the next Viva playlist. I'm not looking for "That Was The Year That Was"-type stuff, just good, somewhat obscure songs or pieces of music released in the year 1980. The deadline is this Thursday at midnight. Please send your recommendations early and often!

Your friend,
Emmett

*produced by Mike "Fingers" Howlett