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Baker's Dozen

Fertile Ground: Lol Tolhurst's Baker's Dozen
Julian Marszalek , October 18th, 2023 09:08

Following the publication of his goth chronicle and ahead of a new album with Budgie and Jacknife Lee, The Cure's founding drummer Lol Tolhurst takes Julian Marszalek through his favourite records, from Jimi Hendrix to Low via the wonders of Trout Mask Replica

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Cluster & Eno – Cluster & Eno

I live in California so there's a lot of health and a lot of mystical things here, and there's also a lot of woo-woo stuff, as well. I belong to this place where you can go and you can do what they call ‘contrast therapy’. You basically submerge in an ice thing up to your neck for a few minutes. And then, when you can't stand it, you get out and you sit in an infrared sauna. It sounds like torture – and it kind of is at the beginning – but it's great because all those old bones start to feel so much better. It's like jumping in a mountain stream and then sitting on a rock.

They have a little thing where they say, ‘Bring your phone and you can hook up Bluetooth and listen to whatever you like because it's a private room.’ So me and my wife will go and we'll do an hour-long session in there. And Cluster & Eno is what we listen to, because it's absolutely wonderful for that. It's like your mind is floating off away. But what I really like about it is that it's happy-sad. That's what I love. Because it's not just like, ‘Oh, well, let's take this melody for a walk and we’ll come back 10 minutes later.’ They’ve really thought about how this kosmische music works.