It was a perfect Spring day here in Portland. This is my favorite time of year, when everything is new and fresh, the flowering trees are so pretty. People in the neighborhood have been out gardening and mowing their lawns. The birds around my house have been busy, too. Today there was a happy little black-capped chickadee singing nearby.
I am hearing the birds even now...in the opening of Sketch for Summer. After twenty seconds they are joined by a one beat drum and a couple of shimmering entwined guitars. Around 1:00 the guitars become a bouquet of chords, complementing each other with Bb and Gm7 chords, key of F. Two guitars with the same tones and some delay can kind of blur the lines. Those birds just keep on singing throughout the instrumental.
Sketch for Summer is the first track on the first album by The Durutti Column. They formed in Manchester, England, and were one of the first groups signed to Factory Records. Their name is a variation on the Durruti Column, an anarchist military unit in the Spanish Civil War. They are still performing today.
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