alsoknownas
some bloke
Disrespectful actually.I keep seeing this and thinking it's about a disaster at a glamping site.
Ruddy Yurts RIP
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I keep seeing this and thinking it's about a disaster at a glamping site.
I'd be very careful. Diehard Yurts fans, and I'm thinking especially of Kate Kamikazi Jennings, have taken extreme umbrage at this kind of thing. You only have to ask the wind-instrument critic of Jazz Today. Except that you can't.
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JimW
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It would be fitting, when you consider Ruddy touched up so many members of his audiences.
You must be thinking of this 1986 rarity:I keep seeing this and thinking it's about a disaster at a glamping site.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
If it was intended as disrespectful I' have put a
at the end instead of
alsoknownas
some bloke
I think if you had Ruddy in the blood (and I don't mean his middling live album of the same name, though you should have that too, though not the truncated 'International' pressing) you would understandIf it was intended as disrespectful I' have put a
.
Glamping is a bassoon embouchure technique and the glamping site is the exact spot where the upper lip vibrates. Ruddy was not a master of the technique and it is deeply hurtful to be reminded of this, regardless of emojis
Having teeth would have helped.
Having teeth would have helped.
I was bidding on a vinyl copy of Donut vol.3 on ebay; I didn't win but yesterday I was contacted by the seller offering me a CD version of The Mirror'd Maze. The seller seemed to think that this was a perfectly ordinary thing to be selling so I tried to subtly find out a bit more about the album but I couldn't tell whether they believed it is a real thing or whether it's just a scam.
For those who don't know the story, it starts back in 1983 when Ruddy wanted to 'build bridges' with the Argentine community by releasing an ill-advised tango album, for which we actually tried to learn the bandoneon. For tax purposes he couldn't release the album under his own name, so he invented the character Yurda Rubiᶍon, supposedly an Argentine Yurts impersonator, but of course it was just Ruddy himself, photographed for the cover with a huge false moustache, worn over his own real moustache.
The album was actually a modest success, with sales reaching triple figures, and that should have been the end of it, but in 1989 the young British artist Jago Clench created a show (part of his graduation show at Goldsmiths) based around a fictional collaboration between Yurts and Rubiᶍon, called The Mirror'd Maze. The show consisted of album artwork, track listings, reviews and publicity material, and even photos of supposed gigs, with Clench himself playing the parts of both musicians. Years later there were rumours that Yurts was so impressed with the show that he actually recorded an album matching the made-up track listing and presented it to Clench. No actual music has ever emerged, and Clench always swore right up to his death that he had never even met Ruddy in person.
So what I'm wondering is, what is the ebay seller trying to flog? Is it, as I first thought, a scam? Is there someone who doesn't realise that the whole album was made up? Or is it a clever joke? Or, could it really be the work of Ruddy dueting with himself as Rubiᶍon?
Thoughts?
For those who don't know the story, it starts back in 1983 when Ruddy wanted to 'build bridges' with the Argentine community by releasing an ill-advised tango album, for which we actually tried to learn the bandoneon. For tax purposes he couldn't release the album under his own name, so he invented the character Yurda Rubiᶍon, supposedly an Argentine Yurts impersonator, but of course it was just Ruddy himself, photographed for the cover with a huge false moustache, worn over his own real moustache.
The album was actually a modest success, with sales reaching triple figures, and that should have been the end of it, but in 1989 the young British artist Jago Clench created a show (part of his graduation show at Goldsmiths) based around a fictional collaboration between Yurts and Rubiᶍon, called The Mirror'd Maze. The show consisted of album artwork, track listings, reviews and publicity material, and even photos of supposed gigs, with Clench himself playing the parts of both musicians. Years later there were rumours that Yurts was so impressed with the show that he actually recorded an album matching the made-up track listing and presented it to Clench. No actual music has ever emerged, and Clench always swore right up to his death that he had never even met Ruddy in person.
So what I'm wondering is, what is the ebay seller trying to flog? Is it, as I first thought, a scam? Is there someone who doesn't realise that the whole album was made up? Or is it a clever joke? Or, could it really be the work of Ruddy dueting with himself as Rubiᶍon?
Thoughts?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
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Steel Icarus
we move
Libertad
Sparking up a rollie in the Reichstag
existentialist
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And I think Erik Drescher's dad was in one of the Octet's incarnations. 
Libertad
Sparking up a rollie in the Reichstag
And I think Erik Drescher's dad was in one of the Octet's incarnations.
It's a murky business right enough.
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Usenet newsgroup, TBF
. Or the dark web. Last time I tried something like this, I got banned from every online collaboration tool I'd ever heard of, and then a few.
alsoknownas
some bloke
There are those deep-learning Yurts generators now, but I'd steer well clear.
And everybody else. Being in the front row when he played was like being in a brandy flavoured mist. With lumps in it.
existentialist
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Observing a moment's reflective silence as we mark the sixth anniversary of Ruddy Yurts' alleged demise...
ska invita
back on the other side
Paul Hanson - for it is he - posted this on his facebook in tribute
Something called 'The New Yurts Octet' is advertising some socially distanced gigs in Penge. As best I can tell it features five former Octet members (very few of whom appeared in the same line-up though), plus Jimmy 'Hayfield' Reeks (formerly of The Almonds) standing in for Ruddy on the bassoon. I don't think I'll bother.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Word among yurts conspiracists is ry was going to return this year on the vernal equinox in the Auvergne. But he caught the virus and really died. Pictures said to be his corpse are circulating which could be yurts. Or hundreds of other people.
existentialist
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The myth of Yurts' demise/longevity will never die...
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Some might argue as to the magnitude of this loss
, although I believe he is in talks with an instrument maker with a view to developing a one-handed 'cello.
Poot
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It's about time. I don't think anyone will forget that solo he insisted on playing with his teeth. Least of all his dentist.Some might argue as to the magnitude of this loss
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No, I couldn't. TBH, I think it was a big mistake doing the limited edition depleted uranium disc. There were people queuing with fucking wheelbarrows, FFS.
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