Magic Moments & Moments That Are Not
"Magic Moments", the next album was released by Hungarian label Bahia Music in 1994 under the moniker of "Ted Milton And The Blurt Big Band", "big" being five members, heralding the return of both Steve Eagles on guitar alongside Chris Vine, and Nic Murcott on percussion with Paul Wigens manning the drumkit.
The album was dark and brooding, reflecting Ted's personal problems on the home front, and the tour to promote it, with guest musicians Baoudoin De Jaere on violin and Adrien Kessler on double bass proved to turn out disastrous when their rented van got stolen in Czechoslovakia.
Back in Brussels, life went on in it's dysfunctional ways and Ted teamed up with the Back-To-Normal Big Band from Liege to record the album "Nogales" and take it out on tour.
The End Of An Era
With a love gone sour and also Chris Vine leaving the band, Ted moved back to London, licking his wounds and trying to survive by manufacturing his series of handmade books and taking odd jobs to pay the bills. Blurt seemed to become a thing of the past now, and Ted didn't even touch his sax for some time.
However, with the assistance of guitarist Jon Wygens, in 1996, Blurt was revived, recording the album "Celebrating The Bespoke Cell Of Little Ease", with Paul Wigens on drums. Released again on Bahia Music, the album came out as a blistering work of art, focused and highly emotional, with excellent musicianship. Sadly, the album proved to suffer from lack of widespread distribution and remained largely unnoticed. Now it probably is the most sought after Blurt recording out there.