and here's a devastatingly beautiful song that collapses the ol' arterial walls:
the movie "24 hour party people" was worth a few well-earned laughs, but i have to contend with how much they the film seemed to shit all over the durutti column. the durutti column is something of a pseudonym for vini reilly, and his music is mostly built on concussive layers of reverberated, echoing guitar figures. his playing is preternatural, as he doesn't really enunciate chords or work in predictable scales, but rather seems to sinuously ring himself around a haze of fog and smoke. his guitar notes seem almost inhumanly clear and fluid, hanging weightlessly in the air like paper ribbons, reminding me of a patti smith lyric ("moving in like cold streams of logic...").
though durutti column was the first act signed to tony wilson's imaginary factory record label, neither it nor vini reilly have obtained the kind of renown that has found a certain ratio, new order or - of course - joy division. that's such a shame it would make fats domino weep unconsolably. vini reilly also served as morrissey's guitarist and arranger on his immensely satisfying, fuck-you-johnny-marr solo debut, "viva hate" (one need only to listen to reilly's guitar parts on "late night maudlin street" to appreciate how much he contributed to morrissey's first post-smiths album).
i just recently lost my cd of this, so i was obviously happy to find it on the all night party blog.
download "return of the durutti column"
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