last.fm says 2012 has been mostly:
1 James Brown2 Claude Debussy3 De La Soul4 Jungle Brothers5 Beastie Boys6 Enya7 Squarepusher8 Actress9 N.W.A10 Olivier Messiaen11 Ibrahim Ferrer12 Dolly Parton13 Bob Drake14 Johann Sebastian Bach15 Bill Withers16 Maurice Ravel17 A Tribe Called Quest18 Duke Ellington19 Herbie Hancock20 Thelonious Monk
Except something is up here, because I've listened to the shit out of that new Lone album
― Dominique, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
cherry picking the james brown singles collections: vol 6 (1969-70) and 7 (1970-72) are ridiculous, sick. prolific ain't the word. promiscuous genius
― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
i liked that new dr john album more than expected but i agree it sounds more like black keys than mac rebbenack
― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
dipping into TANGERINE DREAM. played Edgar Froese's second album this AM alongside Isaac Hayes and Jimmy Smith's Back At The Chicken Shack.
― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes box
price is steep for this box. how is the packaging? they throw in a nice book at least?
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:29 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Not really any extra packaging, every disc is in an individual card sleeve replica of its own lp sleeve. But no booklet in mine, I was expecting to have to try to translate from French since I ordered from there, but firstly there wasn't really anything to translate and more oddly the back of the box is in English. I thought t was a French product of a French band so it would be in the native tongue. maybe its cos its on Universal?I'm really hoping somebody else picks up the music for release elsewhere and it is somebody who is as good as Esoteric. Would even settle for a Sanctuary 2 or 3 cd set as long as the material was remastered at a decent volume. & liner notes were included, Esoteric are very good for those normally.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
Price isn't anywhere near so steep when you order directly from France!
http://www.amazon.fr/4-Albums-Originaux-Catherine-Ribeiro/dp/B007FHLTOW/
― Lil' Kim Philby (Call the Cops), Thursday, 31 May 2012 05:49 (twelve years ago) link
Moebius + TietchensPauline Oliveros - Modulations 12CD boxComplete Music of Carl Ruggles - 2CD (Michael Tilson Thomas / The Buffalo Philharmonic)Charles Ives - Old Songs Deranged (James Sinclair / Yale Theatre Orchestra)Catherine Christer Hennix - Chora(s)san Time-Court MiragePaul McCartney - RAM 2CD reissue
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
The Mills Tape Music Center discs of that Oliveros boxset are beauuutiful.
― is capybara gay? (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 11:47 (twelve years ago) link
my friend put out this pauline oliveros thing on vinyl recently if you guys are interested:
http://roaratorio.com/21.html
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
some recent lissnin
Il Baletto di Bronzo Ystotally 'kin intense Italian prog record which I've been hearing bits of intermittently for way too long on my walkman. Thought I better bung it on the 3 changer for once and immediately asked myself why I'd been neglecting it.It don't half kick out the jams in its own keyboard heavy way. not sure what other pre-punk stuff hits with similar intensity outside of Detroit which it doesn't really resemble. But pretty essential record which I'd try to hear ifyou haven't already.
Irma Thomas Time is On My sideKent label compi of New Orleans soulstress. The rolling Stones covered the title track early on though she apparently hated their version. Think it's on their 2nd lp. & I do think I prefer hers.really like quite a bit of this compi. Not sure if this is the best way to get her stuff or the 2cd thing that came out last year in that series of New Orleans r'n'b/soul compis that included Allen Toussaint's Evrything I do Gonh Be Fonky. This is great anyway.Did Traci Ullman have an '80s hit with her song Break-a-way? I know I've heard it done by someone else.
Royal Trux s/tthis is their 1st lp. not quite as out there as Twin Infinitives but sounding stoned and damaged veering between some great 60s/70s rock revisitation and them sounding too stoned to be coherent so getting overly repetitive. Not bad for €3 though.
God is my Co-pilot The Peel sessionsanother €3 purchase, bought cos i'd been intrigued by comparisons to the band with another group called JOnestown who i got a live set by recently but could find out next to nothing about. Don't think the comparison is quite as clearcut on hearing this.This is very erratic, veering into the avant and away from the English language quite a bit. Might be something I might explore a bit further though. I don't know.
Amanaz AfricaZam rock, with weird production presumably because of limited budget. Fuzz guitar often sounds ghostly instead of thick and creamy. I'd heard some comparisons to stoner rock antecedents which I guess is there but the production gives it other elements.There are a few places here that sound like the Velvets from s/t & Loaded. I assume that is totally a coincidence. Not sure if that band could have even been heard of by these Zambians.
Go Go Get down various artists disc 1not heard the 2nd disc yet. But this does rerelease one of my alltime favourite tracks War On the Bullshit by Osiris. Some of this does sound a bit glossy which might have to do with it coming form the 80s.Think what I really need is the grittiness of the live gig sound. This is pretty good though. Glad to see people are remembering the downtown DC sound.Recent compi compiled by Joey Negro
Velvet Underground Caught Between The Twisted starsSome long droning early live stuff from '66 and some more rhythmic later stuff. I've been very slowly reading Richie Unterberger's day by day guide recently which is interesting.
various other bits and pieces which will probably come back to me later.The usual array of surprises from my walkman.
Reading Umberto Eco the Prague Cemeterytales of intrigue and anti-semitism from 19th century Europe
Judge Dredd epics catching up on several stories I hadn't read at the time & revisiting ones I have. Currently reading Tale of the Deadman which I've noticed was preceded by an announcement at the end of the previous Dredd story which I didn't think it was supposed to be. Thought you were only supposed to work out who it was gradually. Not sure if there was an actual Dredd story running in the same comics at the same time.Also read Cursed Earth & Oz and its preceding stories or at least the introduction of Chopper over several stories.
Watchinga bit of Nazi Robots at The Centre of the Earthlovely grade z schlock on the Syfy channel. quite gorey. hadn't realised things like this were still being made but the tv guide had it listed as this year.The nazis discovered Pelucidar or whatever it's called during teh 2nd world war. They need to get new scientists to help those who've survived continue to survive but several of the team who've been lead down there are not pure aryans. Syfy's been showing some really iffy material over the last few months.
The Amazing Spiderman in 3denjoyed this new version even with the lack of coloured characters ( except the baddy) and the gnarly machine.
Stevo
― Stevolende, Saturday, 14 July 2012 09:47 (twelve years ago) link
Il Baletto di Bronzo Ys
Great record. I was more into their heavy rock first album for a long time, finally came around to this a year or so ago. Got it at the same time as Battiato's Sulle Corde di Aries, also excellent in a different way.
― Amoeba, Fish, Monkey, Shame (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 14 July 2012 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
So far today at work:
Jim Ford - Sounds of Our Timethat Ry Cooper record Skot tried to get ILM to like (and he's right, it's awesome)Roller Ball 45 and Elton Motello's first albumvarious tracks by Godz (NY), Gift (German heavy rock), Lee Scratch Perry early stuff, some skaMassenger s/t (cool local band who will probably either move or stay here and be ignored to death)Rome - Beware Soul Snatchers 12" & Sons of the Sun - Heavenlamp 12"
― Amoeba, Fish, Monkey, Shame (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 14 July 2012 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
which ry cooder?
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 16 July 2012 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
But this does rerelease one of my alltime favourite tracks War On the Bullshit by Osiris
this was on the 'nme does go-go' vinyl release back in '86.
brilliant track.
― mark e, Monday, 16 July 2012 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
electric wizard - dopethronesleep - dopesmokermelvins - eggnog, lysolblack sabbath - first 5 recordsj dilla - donutsmf doom - mm foodmagma - felicite thoszannette peacock - I'm the onephilip glass - music in 12 partsthee satisfaction - awe naturale
― Dominique, Monday, 16 July 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
Ry Cooper aka Rusty Evans - "1983" (futuristic garage folk rock from 1965 with killer snarl/guitar and theremin!)
It's Ry CooPer, though, AKA Rusty Evans from The Deep! Pretty cool pre-psych garage 45.
― Amoeba, Fish, Monkey, Shame (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 03:54 (twelve years ago) link
Sa Dingding - The Coming Ones
Jury is still out but I'm enjoying parts of this immensely.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:53 (twelve years ago) link
tangerine dream - force majeureellington/roach/mingus - money junglelester young/oscar peterson - lester young w/the oscar peterson triomatthews southern comfort - later that same yearduane allman/various artists - anthology volume 1 contortions - buyaurra - "when i come home"pleasure - "let's dance"
― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 11:40 (twelve years ago) link
― mark e, Monday, July 16, 2012 10:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah, that's where I initially came across it. Loved it, lost way too much vinyl including it in '96. Started running through my head last year or possibly earlier, yeah think it was a while over which I tried to find out where it was available then found out there was a Best of Osiris http://www.amazon.com/Best-Osiris/dp/B001DGSAKC/ref=sr_1_16?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1342529500&sr=1-16&keywords=osiris
that has some other pretty decent stuff on too.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 12:53 (twelve years ago) link
& odd thing about that new GOgo set is there seems to be more synth on it than actual horns. Odd to hear a hornless Troublefunk when I thought they had several people on brass.
But have been wondering if anybody ever remixed Sister Ray with congas?
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 12:55 (twelve years ago) link
It's pretty much Fleetwood Mac and Burzum around these parts lately.
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 17 July 2012 13:01 (twelve years ago) link
fleetwood mac - bare treesrandom mozart stufftom rush - the circle gamelena lovich - flexredman - dare iz a darksidebrief candles - fractured daysbunch of fugazi
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
Craig Peyton - Be Thankful for What You Gotcover of the william devaughn classic. i love this so much, and my total failure to find an mp3 of it has been killing me today.
― your friend, (Z S), Saturday, 21 July 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
the instrumental is easy to find, the vocal version, not so much.
Non-2012 edition:
Butterfly Child - OnomatopoeiaManuel Gottsching - E2-E4Long Fin Killie - AmeliaBobby Kondors - A Lost Era in NYC 87-92A. R. Kane - 69Fleetwood Mac - Future Games / Bare TreesDJ Rolando - The Aztec Mystic MixThe Comsat Anges - FictionFiona Apple - When the Pawn...
― Tim F, Saturday, 21 July 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
Larry Young Fuel s/t/Spaceball 2cdgreat mid 70s electric space funk jazz that's pretty out there.Bits of the s/t remind me heavily of the Sharrocks' Paradise lp which is from around the same time.Spaceball seems a bit more glossy while remaining pretty out there.
Dexys One Day I'm Going to Soar Return of Kevin Rowland, his voice seems to owe less to General Johnson's nasality these days. The music seems to pick up on a lot of the band's earlier influences plus possibly a bit more 50s stuff though more smoothly blended.I don't think I'm massively into the mid song skits. Would rather have the songs straighter, I fear novelty might wear off pretty fast.Nice lp though.
Omar Khorshid Guitar El Chark disc 2not heard disc through yet but this 2nd one i as good as I'd hoped.Guitar has more bite in places than on the Tribute to El Atrache se t which was the only cd by him I could get my hands on before this appeared in its cd version.Songs are largely about 5-6mins long, very atmospheric instrumentals. Khorshid's electric guitar, some Arabic hand percussion and possibly some synth.Think this might appeal to other people into middle eastern psych though it's a bit different to Erkin Koray etc.Anyway I've been trying to get my hands on his material for years and this is a great starting place, probably more than that. Whole set is 2hrs+ long.
Sun Ra Disco 3000 disc 2the small size version of Sun Ra's crew in Italy in '78. The electrc rhythm machine seems less dominant here than I thought it was supposed to be.Art Yard pressed another run of the 2cd set which I think sold out a dark red covered run last year. This has electric orange sleeve.Might still be some copies if you missed last year's version.
Can The Lost Tapes boxso far only heard disc1, glad to have it and it will take a while to absorb. Some compelling grooves so far anyway.
Pregnant Unnatural LoverI think I picked this up for about 26p + p+p. Gareth Sager of Pop Group's early 90s band. Think they thought they were being post modern. i don't think this as hit me as well as the e.p. I had of them back then. Think I'll listen to it a bit more though.
Dollar brand live set from 68Pretty out sound with both Gato Barbieri and John Tchicai in the band.Really think I need to find out more about the guy's work since i've enjoyed what I've heard of it. he seems to be doing much straighter jazz now with overt township folk influences.Head other more atmospheric stuff from the mid 70s. All seems to be pretty great.
Skin Yardvarious lps by early Seattle band. Some nice psychy touches among the heavy guitar etc. & bits where it sounds like the singer has been singing to the Bunnymen's Mac for vocal influence
Fine Art Minneapolis based new wave band from early 80s. i enjoyed this set.
various other bits and bobs that will no doubt come back to me later.Walkman still throwing up the continually surprising melange of sounds, psychedelia, prog, african, jazz, country, rockabilly etc all in a mix worthy of a good dj. Intelligent shuffle is such a good idea, not heard the ipod version does it work as well?
ReadingJudge Dredd epics. getting almost up to date now. Just been reading through the PJ Maybes, & the Fargo clone family history. Actualy just started Origins which is all about going after Fargo's body.
Still reading Umberto Eco's Prague cemetery.about 100 pages from the end, Think this has been far less satisfying than I've normally found him.
Richie Unterberger White Light/White Heat The Velvet Underground Day by Daygot this as my bog book at the moment so I'm only as far as '66 but an interesting read. Should have got through it quicker. But does show things like how much r'n'b was getting into the mix of the band's sound as well as other influences.No mention of Downliner Sect so far though & I think they covered not just one pre-Velvets song but 2. Definitely got Why Don't You Smile Now on Rock Sect's In, but if I read this right I think the song Tiger In Your Tank which is on the The Sect lp is a Reed co-write too.
― Stevolende, Monday, 23 July 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
Hot Chip, In Our HeadsHappy Mondays, Pills Thrills and BellyachesLa Dusseldorf, Viva
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
La Dusseldorf, Viva
ha! funnily 'nuff i listened to it too the other day. alongside michael rother's first solo alb. and the hosono box, and some takahashi solo cd's.
of nu'er sounds, tho:marielle v jakobsons, glass canyonthe remote viewers, city of netspeter cusack's sounds from dangerous places 2cd/booksteve maclean & chris cutler, the year of the dragonla piramide di sangue, tebethe fog signals, ghosts of bush housewaves on canvas, into the northseatastatur, electric lounge machine
― t**t, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
Biota - Cape FlyawayLaurie Spiegel - The Expanded Universe 2xCDBob Drake - Bob's Drive-InMatmos - The Marriage of True MindsUstad Abdul Karim Khan - 1934-1935Chris Brown w/ William Winant - IconicitiesTim Story - Untitled
― Milton Parker, Friday, 3 August 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
Very immersed in this band at the moment: Company of Thieves.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 6 August 2012 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
Actually, would be better to imbed the video in this case, since it's a great capture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y-MHuLAWgw
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 6 August 2012 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
Patti Smith, HorsesElectricity Mute Records free CD with MojoMGMT, Oracular Spectacular
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Monday, 6 August 2012 12:17 (twelve years ago) link
Biota - Cape FlyawayLaurie Spiegel - The Expanded Universe 2xCDBob Drake - Bob's Drive-InMatmos - The Marriage of True MindsUstad Abdul Karim Khan - 1934-1935Chris Brown w/ William Winant - IconicitiesTim Story - Untitled― Milton Parker
O yes! The Biota and the Bob Drake me loveth a whole lotta, too:)
― t**t, Monday, 6 August 2012 13:10 (twelve years ago) link
hello t**t fellow ReR customer
that Bob Drake record was worth the crazy wait
how are those maclean/cutler & cusack releases?
RROSE x Bob Ostertag - The Surgeon GeneralAlice Coltrane - Turiya SingsChris Cutler - Probes #1 podcast for Radio Web MACBA
― Milton Parker, Monday, 6 August 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
hullooo hullooo, kustomer Milton
Cusack's quite a... mmm... package, to say the least. Really gripping when you get into it, especially the Chernobyl disc.The MacLean-Cutler I've listened to only once, so far. Will listen again, certainly. Could be a grower:)
*R. Weis, Excitable AudibleGilbert Bécaud, ÉternalCathy Berberian, magnifiCathyNatacha Atlas, MounqalibaHong Kong in the 60s, Collision/Detection V4
― t**t, Monday, 6 August 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
Tim Story - Untitled
― Milton Parker, Friday, August 3, 2012 11:27 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
!! weird i recently got a mint copy of this on vinyl in a dollar bin....it's a really great new age record (i think it's new age, or i think it's new age)
― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 6 August 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
I am still blind-sided by my sudden love for Company of Thieves. It seems to drive home the lesson of not writing off any genre (especially any genre that has ever done anything for me, which is most of them, at least).
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 10 August 2012 04:38 (twelve years ago) link
My favorite CoT songs are like: everything I like in rock, with everything I don't like filtered out. Crazy. And they do fit the "what band do I listen to now that Tokyo Jihen has broken up?" bill extremely well for me, even if the similarities are limited.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 10 August 2012 04:44 (twelve years ago) link
Genevieve's vocals cover so much ground!
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 10 August 2012 04:55 (twelve years ago) link
Seems you're having really great Company time there, Rudy. Glad for you!:)
― t**t, Friday, 10 August 2012 11:09 (twelve years ago) link
Mothers of Invention Weasels Ripped My FleshLoud & in your face the more avanty rockin compi lp from just after the original Mothers of Invention split. Been really enjoying this.
Frank Zappa Hot RatsZappa's 2nd solo lp inspired by his dissatisfaction with the rhythm section of the recently split MOI. Largely instrumental except for the Don van Vliet sung Willie The Pimp.Sound is great, & I don't know if I've actually heard the longer version of Gumbo Variations. Pretty satisfied with what's on here.
Zappa various live sets 69,71, 72 & 73Checked the '71 because of the live sets on the Zappa reissue campaign and realise that I'm not missing anything by not grabbing them.Don't think I'm that into the Flo and Eddie beginnings of Zappa smut. Do like the Turtles & the Crossfires though.There si some pretty ok extended instrumental stuff on that set though.'72 and '73 both have the liquid jazz influenced stuff featured largely. Zappa at his best to me is the Stravinsky/Gamelan/jazz influenced stuff or the earlier garagey Mothers stuff.Not into the overly smutty stuff
The Pontiacs Burstinggreat psych stuff from South America sounds very 60s influenced but does have bits where a more overt Spacemen 3 type influence appears. Think this was a limited edition of 100 or thereabouts.Gets pretty sublime in places.
Cosmic Dead s/tHeavy spacey psychy stuff, another limited edition that may be gone by now. Can get lost in those grooves.Trying to work out if the first track, Black Rabbit has more than nominal connection with Skullflower's track of the same name. Here it's dragged out to 18 minutes in a way somewhat reminiscent of Loop or Spacemen 3 but more rocked up. Skullflower tried to beat it into the mud for 4 and a bit minutes but I think the central riff is somewhat similar.worth checking out anyway, nice to know there is good stuff currently being made.
Grateful Dead 21/8/80was struck by how good they sounded at this point. Energetic, could be seen as an update on something like the '68/'69 sound. Probably a bit more mature and less psychedelic than that but great nonetheless.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse 3/8/12still bringing it on. Nice grungey stuff wish I was going to see this live.
Dead Meadow 12/11/11Wombadelic heaviosity. I should listen to this band more.
Mothers of Invention Absolutely FreeGreat sounding remaster of the Mothers 2nd lp. I can now get into the long instrumental which I don't think I could enjoy anywhere near as much on the old Ryko version.Really getting into this record anyway.
" We're Only In It For The Moneythe old Ryko version. It wasn't one of those remastered in this campaign. I guess it still sounds ok. Zappa was supposed to splash on the electronic reverb on all of the remasters of at least the 60s stuff he did before he died. But at least this no longer has the new rhythm section he grafted on in the mid 80s.
Graham Bond & Pete Brown 6/8/72just been reading Pete Brown's autobio so heavily coincidental that this live set turns up at the same time. Though Brown has just been doing live readings from the book this week. None anywhere near here so finding this in my 2nd hand/remainder bookshop may or may not have something to do with more copies being circulated.This was a coupe of years before Graham Bond fell under a train. I think it sounds pretty good. Heavy grooves with Brown singing and Bond playing organ.Last few songs on set get drawn out to around 10 minute + length.
Rotomagus The Sky Turns Redlargely 3 piece heavy stuff almost Stooges like intensity but can have more proggy complexity. This cd consists of a demo lp that the band cut in '71 as a 3 piece, hoping to get a contract to flesh it out properly that never came and it sounds great rough. The rest is singles and other demos.When I say largely 3 piece, the first single is here and was recorded when the band still had several other members. They had started out as a harmony group an influence that shows here though the band had already begun to get a bit rougher and more complex musically. That first single was the only one recorded for their original label, after that they split up. Then the 2 brothers who had been central to the band returned along with a drummer and the band recorded another, heaver single for a different label CBS. Anyway this is reccommended proto-punkyness. I think JC himself was extolling them last month.
Fugs Tenderness JunctionThe first '68 lp by the East Village scatologists. I thought it sounded better as a psychedelic rock lp than its follow up It Crawled Into My Hand honest. I've just finished Fug You their singer Ed Sanders' 60s memoir which was a great read.I love The Garden Is Open on here, a song about springtime frolics with youthful women I think.The band they had at the time was pretty good anyway.
Henry Cow In Praise Of LearningLove this record but found at least its lead off track War's percussiveness didn't lean too well to quiet listening as I went to sleep.This is after the band had absorbed Dagmar Krause from Slapp Happy and her harsh teutonic vox are all over it. I really like her singing style but could see how other people might not fully appreciate it.Lp is alot more avant than they started out being but I think is pretty essential possibly because of that.
some other stuff which will probably come back to me later
the usual surprises from my walkman. Still love the way this segues tracks but I'm now getting worried that the battery may be on its way out & it's supposed to be a tricky job replacing it while keeping the display working.
reading Strontium Dog & related storiesread up to the death of Johnny Alpha, through the Grant Morrison stories following Feral & the Gronk after JA's death. & through the young Middenface McNulty stories.Now reading the stories looking back at earlier events throughout JA's life from when the character was brought back later in 2000AD.
Flapper by Joshua Zeitzthe wayward female fashion type in jazz age America. This book has been criticised for being so focused on the white female to such an extent to the almost complete exclusion of other races. Black influence during the jazz age etc would have been interesting.But it is an interesting read, so far it's been talking a lot about Zelda & Scott Fitzgerald.Thought I'd missed this book after seeing it on the shelves a couple of weeks back but found a copy on the pile above the bookshelves and managed to get it down.
White Rooms and Imaginary Westerns: Ginsberg, Clapton and Cream an Anarchic Odyssey by Pete BrownAutobio of 60s/70s poet/singer and Cream lyricist. Been very interesting so far. think I'm up to about 1973. Started off with him talking about his Jewish upbringing from the 40s - the 60s before he started getting bohemian and hitching around the country. I hadn't realised he was pretty straight from drink/drugs throughout his time with Battered ornaments/Piblokto after stoner days to the mid 60s.
The travels of Ibn Battuta translated by Tim Hodgkinson Smiththe 14th century travels of a Moroccan throughout the known Islamic world. He traveled as far as China at the time and over the course of about 30 years. Hoping to get through the book this time, have been distracted every time I've picked it up over the last number of years.Looks like he traveled several times as far as Marco Polo, who was the most exotically traveled Westerner in popular thought had done, so if I don't leave the book lying around again this should be very interesting
― Stevolende, Friday, 17 August 2012 10:36 (twelve years ago) link
Karoshi - Ruby My Dear
uh oh, i still love idm ... er, breakcore.
― hot slag (lukas), Friday, 17 August 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
recent adds on spotify:
Thelonious Monk - It's Monk's TimeJosephine Foster - All the Leaves are GoneLaurel Halo - Hour Logic EPKitty Wells - Queen of Honky Tonk AngelsDirty Projectors - Swing Lo MagellanTeddy Charles Tentet - Teddy Charles TentetSun Araw/Congos - FRKWYS Vol. 9Peaking LIghts - 936Bear In Heaven - I Love You, It's CoolMoby Grape - Moby Grape 69Tom Verlaine - AroundHorace Andy Meets Naggo Morris / Wayne Jarrett Mini ShowcaseFaraquet - Anthology 97-98
― bert yansh (Hurting 2), Friday, 17 August 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
Mebusas Blood Brothersmid 70s african stuff. Funky rocky psychy stuff with a few other influencesbunged in.Not the biggest fan of their attempt at reggae though the caustic laugh thatpunctuates the song need to be heard.Guitar fuzz snarls in heaps that sound like piles of something looking at younasty.& this is nice when it doesn't get too poppy.Would love to hear further chinese whispers of the sounds they'reincorporatingfrom elsewhere. Just reminded of Led Zep doing D'Yer Maker which was based onreggae but when fed through LZ became something else that would've beeninteresting to hear developed inits own right. In a couple of places here theband picks up on what sound like Latin influences but take them somewhere elsewhich would be interesting to hear developed similarly.
Rotomagus THe Sky Turns RedInteresting French take on '71 heaviosity . The first batch of tracks were ademo of an lp that they never got further financing on. It rocks quite heavilyas well as showing some level of complexity that isn't ramalama.Recommended to those who like protopunk cos it does have some of that level ofintensity.
Da Demons Contact HighScuzzy psychy rock stuff from '09. Bought this cos I missed the limited run oftheir recent Cardinal Fuzz compi. Good thing I did get to grab this cos it is agreat set. You can hear the major influence of 60s psych on it while they're notexactly slavish to it.Plus there is a great deal of efx noise on this which I'd assume was created onguitar. Gets downright filthy inplaces.I think the band name may actually be longer but I can never remember it.
Mothers Of Invention Burnt Weeny SandwichI think this was supposed to be the more classical of 2 compilations made of theold Mothers almost immediately after they dissolved.The title was supposed to be from one of Zappa's favourite dishes, he alludesfurther to the idea of sandwich by placing the songs here between 2 doo-wopcovers.I think this new version sounds a lot more inviting than the old Ryko version,warmer.
Kiss Alive!been meaning to buy a copy of this for years but never saw it at the right priceuntil this week. Raucous 70s r'n'r, one of their best I think. Garage metalglam.Still not sure what, if any, of the studio stuff is necessary. But this is theiredition of that essential 70s icon, the double live lp. Wretched excess, oh yes,well that and beefy riffs.
Loudest whisper Children of LirI couldn't get into this previously but now find it quite listenable.May have been prompted into listening to it because of the connection with theCorrib Project Tunnel Boring Machine being called Fionnuala after one of thecharacters of the title, which has brought the legend up in severalcircumstances recently.I think this was done as the music for an early 70s stage or tv play.Has been considered to be a psych folk classic by some for years but I think Ifound it too stagey. Might get more into it now though.
Gun Club various live setsPeople have been torrenting quite a bit of the band(s)over the last few days.That has meant several different line-ups since it has covered 82-93 so far.Band sound changes quite a bit depending on line-ups though I guess there is agreat deal of stylistic unity.I hadn't realised how short Terry Graham's return tenure when he replaced DeePop was until I read notes regarding this series of uploads. I had hoped thatthere was more of him with Jim Duckworth since that was a quite formidablepairing & I tend to find Pop overly frenetic, while Graham's one of my favdrummers.
Tribal Stomp '78 sets by Big Brother & the Holding Co and Country Joe & theFish.Both of which were closer to the sound they had 10 years earlier than i'dfeared, I think BB&HC was most of the players who'd been in the pre-Janisversion though Peter Albin was definitely also playing with Country Joe. BB&HCwere fronted at this time by a singer called Kathi McDonald who might be tooclose to Janis's sound. Nice psychedelic set though.Country Joe & the Fish were in a line-up pretty much totally different to theirheyday, though Peter ALbin did join the 2nd major line-up the one that playedWoodstock (I think). This '78 line-up doesn't even feature 'The Fish' since thatname was a nickname of Barry Melton the lead guitarist from their heyday.This band does still make a decent account of itself though.
Sun Ra disco 3000 disc 2the smaller lineup of the band that toured Italy in '78. Pretty funky throughoutand long expansive pieces. This was a reissue of last year's Art Yard 2cd set,may still be some copies around. Worth getting if so.
various other bits & pieces taht will no doubt come back to me later
Walkman still throwing up a lot of unexpected segues European Son into Exile'sHappy yesterday. Bits of Buck Owens, Albert Ayler, Charlie Feathers , FallenAngels, Roberta Flack, Leonard Cohen, live Gun Club etc etc
ReadingBob Mould See A little LightThis has been vilified by some who say that Mould comes off looking like aself-centred idiot.I've enjoyed it. Still hoping for back catalogue remasters & expanded reissuesbut from what he's saying here, not sure how remotely likely that is going tobe.
Flapper Joshua Zeitzinteresting read on sociology of jazz-age female hipsters. Does seem to leaveout non caucasian influences a great deal though, which it has been criticisedfor elsewhere.
― Stevolende, Monday, 27 August 2012 13:37 (twelve years ago) link
stevo i really like your updates
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 27 August 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
the last month has been:
Maurice Ravel - mostly piano music. will probably be in my top 10-20 for the rest of my lifeCourt Music Orchestra Of National Gugak Centre, Korea - CD given to me by willie winant after his trip to S.KoreaJ Dilla - Donuts and the new Dillatroit setSubmerse - Tears EP and They Always Come Back EP. some of the best IDM of 2012 imoFranz Schubert - piano impromptusRandy Newman - see ravel, never goes out of (my) styleDennis Wilson - pacific ocean blueOm Unit - Aeolian EP, post dubstep/IDM. this guy should be famousThe Beach Boys - various tracksScreamin' Jay Hawkins - various tracks, usually accompanied by whiskey
― Dominique, Monday, 27 August 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
Finally getting around to listening to some of the several thousand hours of Hibari Misora available on Spotify. Fairly pleasant so far.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 8 September 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
made this playlist last night
Vladimir Ussachevsky – Music for Line of Apogee: I.Ilhan Mimaroglu – La Ruche - An Elegy for Electromagnetic TapeStuttgart Vocal Ensemble – Mitternachtsstuk: I. MitternachtsstukCathy Berberian, Luciano Berio – VisageManhattan School of Music Percussion Ensemble – Synchronisms No. 5 for Percussion and TapeUniversity of Wisconsin Percussion Quartet/University of Wisconsin River Falls Concert Choir – Sound Patterns and TropesAlice Shields, Airi Yoshioka – KyrielleElizabeth Brown – Centre BridgeMilton Babbitt, William Anderson, Oren Fader – Soli e DuettiniDavid Lang, Bang on a Can All Stars – Cheating, Lying, StealingOtto Luening, Ralph Kneeream – Fantasia for OrganGerd Zacher – ASLSP (Organ²) (1985)
― arvo peart (get bent), Saturday, 8 September 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
CTI allstars California Concertmay be too smooth but does have some pretty cool bits in it. Seems to avoid the jagged edges of new thing jazz but interesting to hear George Benson playing guitar and not singing soporific soul. Also odd to hear Billy Cobham not being heavy.
Sylvester Anfang II the '09 s/t set.pretty heavy guitar stuff with droney bits and folk influence. I think the folk bit had been accentuated at the time of release but I like the psych rockiness.
Jethro Tull Benefit3rd lp by brit heavy folkrockers. really enjoying this, first bunch by this lot were all pretty decent. as were the ones around '78
Zappa loads, trying to work out what I need from the remasters.
Gun Club loads since there are a lot appearing on torrent sites. & I've loved the band since I first discovered them in late '83.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 8 September 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
Stevolende - Heavy Horses by Tull is an underrated gem
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 8 September 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link