Philip Jeck at Londonewcastle Project Space

Philip Jeck? Performing live AND playing and talking about some of his favourite records with Touch’s Jon Wozencroft? FOR FREE? Not an invitation I was likely to turn down. Actually, as I’ll probably be returning to the subject of his An Ark For The Listener soon, I’m not going to dwell too much on his performance (as it was based on many of the themes from that new album). Really I’m posting this to a) Give me a chance to put up the photo above, which I really like b) Plug the last weekend of the Anti-Design Festival, under whose banner this event took place and c) To post the track below. Who’d have thought that one of Philip Jeck’s favourite ever records (he also played Howlin’ Wolf, Gillian Welch, and some Vietnamese blues) was this sublime piece of psychedelic soul from Norman Whitfield-era Temptations? Enjoy.

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