Gonzai Magazine - Talk Talk Revisited - a 6-Part Article Series (en français) by Gwenaël Breës

The Reaction - Aylesbury Friars - September 2, 1978 - Mark Jordan

 

So it is with much surprise and much delight that I have become a footnote in an article about Talk Talk.

My new and amazing friend Gwen who directed this beautiful movie about Talk Talk called In A Silent Way has embarked on writing a six part series about Talk Talk.  I have been bestowed the title of "Shadow Archeologist" by the author. I am absolutely ok with this and will eventually design a certificate or diploma to hang in my office. 

Links for the article below (in French):

In a Silent Way - https://www.facebook.com/inasilentwayfilm/

The Introduction - https://gonzai.com/talk-talk-revisited/

Part 1 of 6 - https://gonzai.com/talk-talk-revisited-1-6-mark-hollis-en-reaction/

Part 2 of 6 - https://gonzai.com/talk-talk-revisited-2/

Part 3 of 6 - https://gonzai.com/talk-talk-revisited-3/

Part 4 of 6 - https://gonzai.com/talk-talk-revisited-4/

Part 5 of 6 - Pending

Part 6 of 6 - Pending

In a Silent Way (de Gwenaël Breës) - Trailer VOSTFR from Dérives asbl on Vimeo.

Stuff I'm Listening To - The Lion Sleeps Tonight

Artist: the Tokens 

Title: The Lion Sleeps Tonight

Lyrics: 
A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh

Why?:
I baked today. It seems to be the in-thing lately with SARS-CoV-2 (I recently learned that this is the name of the virus and coronavirus and COVID-19 is the disease caused by said virus) running rampant. 

Baking and posting your successes (and if you're brave or oblivious, your failures) on-line is what you need to do in order to let people know 'Hey! I baked stuff and didn't burn the house down!' I like to bake and I think I'm ok at it... Except for the one time I made singularity banana bread muffins*, everything else has eaten and complimented immediately. 

I discovered that when I bake, there are specific songs that I need to start off on to get me inspired. Today I decided to start off my baking exploits with the song The Lion Sleeps Tonight. 

Then I remembered that Tim Friese-Greene had something to do with the song and in the time between plunking the tin in the oven to the time it was going to be done, maybe (given I'm like this raging Talk Talk fan) I should look up what it was that he'd done. It obviously wasn't the version that kicked off my baking. But here are three more versions of this song (that's been covered a billion times it seems). I'll let you guess which one inspired me to bake my banana bread today.

*Singularity Banana Bread Muffins: when you toss caution and the recipe instructions to the wind, and triple on the number of bananas and have a little less flour than you were supposed to add. And forget baking soda. You get these dense pucks of banana goodness with it's own gravity and event horizon. 

Also special thanks to threadpennyvinyl on Instagram for bringing the documentary ’ReMastered: The Lion’s Share’ about the origin of this song originally called ‘Mbabe’ composed by Solomon Linda and the where all the royalties went. It was super informative for me. I strongly suggest if you are interested to give it a watch. It is currently available on Netflix. 



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