Long Live Lost Love
Browsing through Spotify1 something reminded me of a lost musical love from the eighties, namely drummer Pål Thowsen and his album Sympathy from 1983. It contains a really good version of the Chick Corea song “Duet Suite”, but the album is not to find on neither CD, Spotify or iTunes. I can’t hear it again unless I get a hold of a used copy of the old LP2, and that just plain sucks.
This makes me think of all the musical treasures of olde that are not currently available to new listeners, and which will be more or less brutally lost when the master tapes fade into oblivion in one way or another. Some resourceful people should really come together on this and see to it that all music, old or new, is
made available to the public
replicated to serveral sites around the world for better access times and data security
Few people would probably dispute that cultural heritage is something too valuable to lose. Now’s the time to make it so it doesn’t happen. The only problem is the fact that copyright holders may be an obstacle that prevents this from happening, with loss of intellectual property as an inevitable result. Ah, the bitter irony.
(This post was written in the midst of listening to Bugge Wesseltoft’s new album Playing. I rate it five stars!)
