Available for the first time on vinyl, and pressed on opaque red vinyl. Recorded live at GRAMMY® winner Arooj AftabÂ’s triumphant sold-out headline show at LondonÂ’s Barbican Centre on June 17, 2022. Wings|Sunset Boulevard|Hidden Conversations|John Lee Hooker|Live With Me|Once I Dreamed Of Heaven Terry collaborated with the producers Christopher Grabowski and Mark Hardy on the remaining other songs on the album. The combination of Robert Del NajaÂ’s haunting production and TerryÂ’s captivating, emotive vocals fused beautifully. Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja co-wrote ‘WingsÂ’, ‘John Lee Hooker', and ‘Live With MeÂ’. After coming out of musical semi-retirement and returning to the stage in the 90s, Terry's light continued to shine, wowing both old and new audiences with the exquisite beauty his music and voice channelled.įollowing his stunning performance at the 2008 Meltdown Festival, curated by Massive Attack, Terry teamed up with the legendary British trio, which resulted in ‘Hidden Conversations'. But maybe, the initial catalyst of friendship began from a little ball of air-filled celluloid sailing over that nostalgic table, one rainy night in NYC.The late, great Terry Callier was an icon and inspiration to many his work on Cadet Records with Charles Stepney and Elektra in the 70s made him a cult artist. It’s possible that the icebreaker was when we all first cried together over chopped onions. In contrast, a group picture taken many months later shows everyone relaxed, arms draped over each other’s shoulders, with big smiles across their faces. When I look at a photo from the first day of culinary school, all of my classmates looked a little stiff and stood a very safe distance away from one another. By the end of the night, our faces hurt from laughing so much. Dodging the bright orange ping-pong balls whizzing around to the beat of the DJ spinning music, we found our tables, whipped out our paddles, and joined in to play a number of rounds while eating some pretty decent food. With about 12 of us in tow, it was a good thing that we had reservations when we arrived – the place was packed. Really, what could be a better way to get to know a new group of people than hanging out with a bunch of Richard Simmons impersonators? As one of the city’s premier ping-pong establishments, SPiN has a cult following of regulars who are so devoted that it is not uncommon to see them rocking their short shorts, knee-high white socks, and sweat bands. On a rainy September night in New York City, we decided to visit SPiN Galactic. I remember checking one of these places out back when I was first getting to know my classmates from culinary school. It was a sport where it was better to participate as a spectator instead of a competitor. After several rounds, the ball became nicely breaded in dust bunnies, and you can imagine how it turned one’s cheap beer into something completely unrecognizable. I recall watching several matches go down, where the ultimate goal was to have the ball land in the other player’s cup of beer. Most likely, the equipment was acquired either from a Goodwill store or garage sale, and it’s very possible that the table just might have been the one my brother and I had once built a fort out of. Well into my university years, table tennis resurfaced again, but this time it had evolved into “beer pong” at a local dorm house. Eventually, I’m quite certain that my parents got tired of seeing our refugee camp downstairs, and so it was packed up and later donated to Goodwill. All that was required was remarkable feat of engineering by throwing a blanket over the sides. So logically, my little brother and I converted the table into a fort. But for some reason, the paddles and balls always went missing, leaving behind an awkward obstacle to move around in the basement. This was the “it” piece of household furniture to have at the time, along with other trendy items such as olive-colored kitchen appliances, brass lamps and macrame plant hangers. Yet over the years, it has become a social sport that literally went underground into the dingy basements of the original hipsters (the former hippies known as your parents), only to resurface again at garage sales to display used tea-towels, He-Man action figurines and scruffy-looking Cabbage Patch Kids for sale.Īs a child, both my family and several others had a ping-pong table. Originally meant to be played like a professional round of tennis, the game is a fast paced rally which can send the 2.7 g air-filled ball flying at speeds over 100 km/hr / 60 MPH (random fact of the day: this is apparently faster than a cheetah). The game of table tennis, also known as ping-pong, seems to have evolved many times throughout the course of time. The hip and trendy SPiN Galactic Ping-Pong bar.
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