New/Improved PROG/KRAUT/SPACE/PSYCH ROCK Listening Club - New albums every Friday!

there's some good stuff on that album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDHftJzkk74

I have the title track of "The Ladder" and yes it is fantastic, like maybe one of my favorite ten Yes tunes ever. I've heard the rest of the album wasn't as good. Though I do like that keyboard player in the live stuff I've heard; apparently he got sacked for hitting on a security guard. Too bad because he was definitely one of the best they'd had (outside of Wakeman and Moraz I guess).

Lately I've been voyaging out into the later Yes. Drama is underrated as everyone says. 90125 is way too slick and corporate for my tastes; though it has some better individual tracks, for my money Big Generator is a little better. I have the AWBH album; despite the tracklisting I don't think it's a "return to prog" at all, it's rather lightweight and a lot of talented players are nearly inaudible (or, like Bruford, not really playing to their strengths). I think it's a little similar to the "Emerson, Lake, and Powell" album. May have to give it another shot but I don't think you're missing a whole lot.

Just checked out the track listing for Union Live. Only ONE track from the studio album! Screw that then.
I wonder if a remix/remaster is possible because the band really did hate the way it sounded.

Any solo or Yes related stuff anyone wants to recommend? I'm quite fond of some Jon & Vangelis. Friends Of Mr Cairo has some really good stuff, the title track has some quite distracting movie star impressions and I can imagine some people finding it too cheesy but I think it is kind of unique. I still need 2 more albums of that pair.

Kind of tempted to buy the 12 Yes albums I don't have and a few solo albums in one go. But if I do that I'll be tempted to do that with several other bands I've neglected.

you ever hear the Refugee album? its way more an offshoot of The Nice than Yes, but it's definitely one of my favorite one-offs

refugee is pretty good. so is mainhorse. patrick moraz is cosmic. peter banks' post-yes band, flash, isn't bad, either. never could get into tony kaye's badger, though

http://thequietus.com/articles/14936-henry-cow-unrest-review

Thanks for the article.

I saw this Chris Cutler interview a while ago...
http://www.mitkadem.co.il/RIO_interview.html
"Personally, I have to say that I never had much time for King Crimson. I disliked their first album and, apart from a track here and there, didn't find much I cared for on later albums either. To make things harder, they were contemporaries of Henry Cow and we were often pointlessly compared with them (especially Fred Frith who got foolishly compared/confused with Robert Fripp). But we never saw the connection really; they were working in a much narrower musical field than we were. And when they began to make big statements about their originality for improvising (around Jaimie Muir/Larks Tongues time) we found that frankly rather pathetic. But that was their way - after all Fripp claimed to have invented 'frippertronics', which is either a mark of ignorance on his part or outrageous arrogance, since every guitarist 'invented' that obvious procedure"

I never knew what Frippertronics meant.

I have to say again how fantastic the first three tracks of Chris Squire's Fish Out Of Water are. Really love them.

ram, have you listened to much john zorn?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpDNNKQP-Rs

I wouldn't say that every guitarist was using tape delay by the mid-70s but, yeah, I also find it a bit ridiculous that Fripp basically used reel-to-reel tape delay and named it after himself. Frippertronics obv = some of my favourite music ever though.

cutler makes some fair points. on the other hand, henry cow never, to the best of my knowledge, opened for black oak arkansas, so i'd take what he has to say on the topic with a grain of salt.

Thanks for the Zorn clip, one of many artists who have been on the shopping list for years but I haven't got around to yet.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51hPbJWEaiL.jpg

North Sea Radio Orchestra - s/t

http://open.spotify.com/album/6eu8FXY7tCL7u4O1cVOUxg

standout track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX2rUUcs0G4

This album overwhelms me. It's enormous, sprawling and unutterably ambitious without once going above speaking volume. No fuzz, no sonic gymnastics - but in its pastoral/neoclassical psychpop it locates something I can't get anywhere else. There are no original lyrics - all non-instrumental tracks are adaptations of English poetry. The melodies are spry and astounding, as you'd expect from a band firmly located in the post-Cardiacs fallout. However good the ensemble musicianship (mostly classical, with acoustic guitars and synths) is, the composition is the main draw (along with the voice of singer Sharon Fortnam, whose husband Craig is the principal songwriter). The whole thing is like Kenneth Grahame trying to remember his childhood in a slightly overgrown rose garden as dappled sunlight catches a butterfly's wing. It's airy, sublime and complete. Its arc is leisurely but yearning; one feels one can make a home within its folds - cling to these truths before all is obliterated. It's a London album, in fact - written in and about the capital, as the Fortnams discovered something in the city that more than resembled the most idyllic and untainted wilds of bucolia - a synthesis, indeed, that works more convincingly the longer the album progresses - the longer the dream elaborates.

Anyway, none of you (well, barely any of you) have heard them and they're astonishing, so I post them here in the hope someone latches on.

anyone want to get this doggie going again?

listen to that NSRO album, it's one of the best things ever

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=6139812&boardid=77&threadid=81522

(For Michael B)

Lol sorry nm

awww i thought this had been revived to start over again

Lmao no...my bad, folks

Shall we?

yes

The youtube algorithm came through with this French band Meule, two drummers + guitarist/modular dude:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnvJVKw7xCc

I too latched on to that North Sea Radio Orchestra album.