[kj] Jihad, and Songs From The Victorious City ... and Kaddish

[Ed Grapes]

Right on the nail, Tim, on all counts.  It may have been a naive first go at "Eastern" sounds, but I still like it, judging it according to the time and circumstances under which it was made.  It was only an extra on "My love of this land" and Killing Joke appeared to be a bit of the cusp of major change at that stage - not to mention that plenty of people have pointed out how OTG was to all intents and purposes a Jaz solo thang ... 
 
And on the subject of the Middle Eastern Orchestra/guitar thing, playing constantly in my headphones at the moment is "Kaddish" by Towering Inferno, definitely one of the most terrifying pieces of music I've ever heard ... fantastic

Tim Bucknall <tim.bucknall at btinternet.com> wrote:
I Liked Jihad to be honest, though i completely understand why some 
people think it has no place in the kj catalogue,
it just showed how diff kj were from anyone else on the planet in the 80's!
you could see it as a forerunner of some of the pandemonium stuff

i don't think KJ ever used that kind of eastern sound enough, not the 
acoustic stuff like jihad or the orchestral stuff, but stuff like the 
fanatic where the guitar is like some monstorous Middle Eastern Orchestra

you all know what i mean!
i really hope they release those tracks that Colesy found - jubilation etc



Paul Rangecroft wrote:

>I hope not! what a stinker 'jihad' was. just jaz getting his first
>naff earstern sounding solo effort out of the way, if you ask me. he
>certainly stepped it up a level or two for the anne dudley
>collaboration, which has its moments but i'd be lying if i said i
>played it much. there were a few dance mixes of 'ziggarats of cinamon'
>from back then which i quite liked. you may enjoy 'kashmir', the LED
>ZEP classical album from jaz if you're a fan of his orchestrated
>eastern-influenced stuff.
>
>On 5/9/05, Ed Grapes wrote:
> 
>
>>Someone more up with the pace may be able to enlighten me here, but was
>>there any more similar recordings where "Jihad" came from? Speaking of
>>going through the archives, I've been enjoying listening to SFTVC again for
>>the first time in years, a bit dated, but still has atmosphere.
>> 
>>
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