The Return of The Durutti Column

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Vini's playing, I feel, is so disappointingly unappreciated. His melodic sensibility is so unlike other guitarists. His technical ability also seems to go largely unnoticed. (I mean, the Durutti Column goes pretty unnoticed for the most part, but his chops are go especially unnoticed!) He seamlessly melds his classical training with his jazz influence, creating a sound that is not quite like either. His chord voicings have an almost ethereal quality that never quite commands a clear emotion. Is it melancholic? It's certainly not happy. It's Vini! Two lesser Durutti Column albums also slipped out during 1983. Live at the Venue was an official bootleg, released in June, while Amigos En Portugal was a patchy collection of studio offcuts released by Fundacao Atlantica in November. The latter found space for yet another version of A Little Mercy, this time titled Nighttime Estoril. Thankfully the relationship between Crépuscule and Durutti Column survived the complications around Short Stories for Pauline, with the band taking part in a Musique Epave tour of Japan in April 1984 with Mikado and Winston Tong, and a date at Crépuscule cafe Interferences. The next visit to Japan, in April 1985, would result in a live CD album and laserdisc, Domo Arigato. In 'D'" is actually a different mix of "Sketch For Winter", and the label of side 2 is the same for both pressing. A Situationist group of Strasbourg University students spent their student union's budget on a giant flyposted comic strip in 1966. One of its panels, featuring two cowboys discussing philosophical reification, was called The Return of the Durutti Column[ sic], in reference to Durruti's military unit. This, in turn, influenced Tony Wilson's naming of his English post-punk band, The Durutti Column. [16] The music ends up being very simple," Vini told NME. "People can dismiss it as being very simplistic, easy listening or whatever. It's very honest, it's very personal. People say it's ambient, and it's like Eno. I don't like that, because the music's made to be listened to, it's not wallpaper."

Every time I listen to The Return I have the sense I’m hearing something no one else has, and I catch myself continually rediscovering the album and listening to nothing else for weeks.There’s a comfort in The Return’s instrumental soundscape. Void of human voices and saturated by dreamy arpeggios it’s the kind of album you never want to end. Durruti had a very developed chest. Given the topography of the thorax, I realized that the diagnosis that surgery was impossible had been mistaken. An operation could have produced positive results, although doubtlessly the patient would not have survived." [8] Vin was very easy to play with, no problem at all," agrees Mitchell. "The way he would play, the sequences would have an unusual logic. It wouldn't be strict in 4 or 8 bar formations, and his chord changes would just seem to happen in a different way. Plus he was running a lot of echoes, so my drums had to be about meter more than beat. And it had to go down very fast as Vini has a certain intolerance in the studio." Liner notes to "The Durutti Column Live at the Bottom Line, New York" by A.H. Wilson". Users.rcn.com. 24 January 1978. Archived from the original on 5 October 2013 . Retrieved 4 October 2013. When he played on his own, a whole room would hold its breath’ … Bruce Mitchell, drummer in the Durutti Column, with Reilly. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardiana b c d e f Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Firsted.). Guinness Publishing. p.750/1. ISBN 0-85112-939-0. In 1937, as a response to the further participation of the CNT-FAI in the Republican government, and after the May Days in 1937 in Barcelona, the Friends of Durruti Group was founded, to try and save the anarchist principles of the revolution. The name of Durruti clearly taken because of the revolutionary commitment and the symbol that he still was for that in the anarchist camp. The Friends of Durruti group had a newspaper called El Amigo del Pueblo (The Friend of the People) and tried to make revolutionary propaganda among the rank and file of the CNT. The group was however fiercely repressed by the reformist wing of the CNT, in collaboration with the Republican government.

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