Happy Birthday! Gavin Bryars 70 today!

wearesaltpeter 16 Jan 2013

Bear with this, it's worth it! :)   5

Phyl 1 Oct 2013

Can't believe I've never heard this before today. Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet is a 1971 arrangement by Gavin Bryars of a composition by an unknown composer. It is formed on a loop of an unknown homeless man singing a brief stanza. Rich harmonies, comprising string and brass, are gradually overlaid over the stanza. The piece was first recorded for use in a documentary which chronicles street life in and around Elephant and Castle and Waterloo, in London. When later listening to the recordings, Bryars noticed the clip was in tune with his piano and that it conveniently looped into 13 bars.

mrbensiddall 3 Dec 2013

Undoubtably the best song ever performed that's based around a sample of a tramp singing. All 25 minutes of it.

fraserlewry 25 Nov 2013