once again it was sunny before horsemouth woke up and has gone cloudy-ish after. later he goes to a meeting (how much good it will do he doesn't know). edith sitwell's english eccentrics ends with the treatment meeted out to milton in his coffin at st. giles cripplegate, his jaw smashed, his arm taken, his hair ripped out by souvenir hunters - all this in a chapter entited on the benefits of posthumous fame.
horsemouth will never be famous (posthumously or unposthumously). he will never have groupies by the score, a stately pile and/or musical differences (horsemouth, venal creature that he is, is mainly interested in the unposthumous benefits of fame). in this, as in so many other things, life is deeply deeply unfair. he will however continue to live (what's the alternative).
next week (half term for breeders and educationalists) horsemouth goes to make some music with howard, to finish off noah most probably. it looks like howard will be away somewhere sunny over the summer - then horsemouth will probably put some work into recording his solo album (with the odd guest spot) and his existing collaborations. he wants to do some more work with john clarkson on a harmonium/ omnichord and guitar duo (they haven't for a while) and the guitar and vocal duo with andrew minty continues well. he will hunt out some more collaborations. it's all part of his plan to move from having guest spots to appearing as a collective the next time he is booked as the musician of bremen.
he'd just like to make a further plea for the genius of alice coltrane here...
horsemouth has been playing la fille au cheveux de lin a lot - slide, guitar tuned open-G. there's more to be done like this - debussy's pagodes for example (which horsemouth planned out in november 2008 but never completed leaving the guitar tuned ready to play it in the cupboard for a number of years), l'arlesienne the main theme from bizet's opera later adapted as the hymn agnus dei (this horsemouth would have to relearn how to play).
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