Campbell, Dirk Mont - Long Time Gone CD
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This is the third album by the long ago composer and bassist for Egg and National Health, Mont Campbell.
Since that time, he’s mastered a number of ethnic instruments and studied music from all over the world.
Does it sound like National Health? No. Can you draw the line from the man who composed those amazing pieces for National Health to this? I think you can.
“As a teenager in the late 1960s I wrote for the rock group Egg, one of the bands now described as 'prog' by students of the era. In the mid-1970s I forswore the genre of rock music altogether - even the experimental variety! - and began to develop an interest in folk tradition and, increasingly, non-western music.
Starting with the Balkans and moving through Greece and Turkey into the middle East, and then India and the far East, I gradually discovered a vast Aladdin's cave of entirely new musical ideas and instrumental sounds. Since that time I have been learning and gestating these various forms of musical expression, for no good reason except that I find them fascinating and because they are not dependent on electronic technology, but produced by means of human skill acting on the acoustic properties of natural materials, something which we may have to learn to re-evaluate in the coming decades.
This is probably my last musical collection and features all my instrumental skills acquired over many lifetimes packed into one.”
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