If you’re a Spotify user, you’ll be pleased to know that you can now listen to Salter Cane on Spotify. If you’re not a Spotify user, you should be …unless you live in one of those territories that doesn’t have Spotify, in which case I’m sorry I brought it up.
Anyway, you can listen to:
- The album Salter Cane and
- The EP Black Swollen River.
Services like Spotify and Last.fm are starting to change the way we interact with music. As recorded music moves from being a scarce, expensive resource into something ubiquitous and free, the value of live music gets ever greater.
But you don’t have to just believe me. Here’s Bill Drummond delivering an excellent talk called The History of Music, Part 19. Yes, it’s kind of pretentious and no, being in the KLF doesn’t automatically mean you’re an expert on music, but this is well worth a listen.