"Palatine" compilation relevant liner notes Sketch For Summer Is it magick or is it musick? Vini Reilly and a thousand acoustic angels dance on the head of a pin and suddenly the air feels light, the floor covered in gossamer, and it's cool to lean back -- the first time I heard this track the sun was shining and the birds were singing, which is really strange because it was the middle of the night. /CPL Otis Steve Cropper once said his guitar never sounded better than when accompanying Otis Redding's voice. On this standout track, in a career of standout tracks, Vini's guitar never sounded better... strange alchemy. /PLS Instead of crying out in nameless, gazeless wonder for the keys to the mind that dreamt this beauty, remind yourself that, yet again, Vini Reilly has suppressed his true self; the metal vandal cursing the face of unsolicited poetry. Is there such a thing as "Post-Raphaelite" soul? There is now. /CC The Together Mix So Vini's sat in Dry tentatively handing over a mix and apologising all over the place for its shortcomings but not for its technothrusts which he says tapped into the energy of the Hac on Wednesday nights. He shouldn't have apologised. This perfect loopalong acid lullaby absorbed the Zeitgeist of '88 and dreamt it into his own classic guitarscape; rising well above the copyist sonic zootique posing below. This track should never get lost in the sycophantic backslapping that produces music history... /SK Names of above reviewers are: CPL - C P Lee PLS - Phil Saxe CC - Cath Carroll SK - Stephen Kingston Additional notes: Otis Redding was a great soul/r&b singer from the 60s. Like many legends, he's dead now (died in a plane crash). Yes, "Otis" does have what seems to be wordless vocal sample of the man himself. Steve Cropper was the guitarist for the Stax house band, otherwise known as Booker T & the MGs. Otis Redding was a Stax artist. - Robert P Krajewski Dry is a bar which Factory opened in 1989. Its full title is Dry 201, and its record number is Fac 201. - Richard W Rackham