What are you listening to? 2022

frohes neues!
once again
we enthuse our muse
while celebrating cover art of the ages

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Morbid Angel-Altars of Madness
Morbid Angel-Blessed are the Sick
Morbid Angel-Covenant
Morbid Angel-Domination
Morbid Angel-Entangled in Chaos
Morbid angel-Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
Morbid Angel-Gateways to Annihilation
Morbid Angel-Kingdoms Disdained
Radiohead-Kid A

THis week's listens were subject to a cd player that was refusing to read reliably which I've now corrected . Just took me taking the case off and wiping the lens with a qtip head of isopropyl alcohol and then clean teh excess of taht off and this cleared up totally. So wish I'd got it together earlier. Hadn't moved the player in a number of years so getting it out to a place where i could do that was a bit of a chore but seems to be worth it so far. Cd lens cleaning disc just didn't seem to get to the laser . I hadn't realised that had a shutter which might have added to that. Kept getting cds being skipped entirely and having one of these discs being acted as though it was the only one on the 3 changer. not playing onto the next one when it finished etc.

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Official live set by New York Punk band from 1978 which is about my favourite year fro the band. This came out as a Rhino Handmade set nearly 2 decades ago. I had had a recording of the same show as a bootleg before that and this was a bit of an improvement in sound and completeness.
Catches them sounding really jagged, angular and exploratory. I Love thsi band live since they get pretty hypnotic in full flow.
Has material from throughout their career up to that point including a lengthy exploration of Little Johnny Jewel .
Was thinking earlier this week that that angularity did tend to stop this from sounding as classic rock as some detractors might posit.

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2nd lp by Anadolu Pop brothers. THis gets really heavily fuzzed out in places in a really abrasive way. Combines earlier sonding western rock influences with traditional Turkish melodies and airs in a great way. I think I still need to further explore the scene this came from . It was something i had been interested in for years then read Anadolu Psych which I've since heard slagged so would be interested in other sources on the subject.

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First disc of this By AEoC which is lps with shorter tracks. Combining a lot of historic jazz influences with a sense of wilder freedom.
UNfortunately this was the disc that was being skipped most.
But I do love the track A Jackson In Your HOuse more now than before. So will have to spend more time listening to this.
Picked it up in a FOPP about 5 years ago when they seemed to be having a deal on a lot of these Charly Actuel cds . Wish I'd got even more of this stuff at the time. Definitely want a copy of the much later Urban Bushmen anyway.

^^ good run of albums there

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Speaking of xxxpost Rhino Handmade, a bunch of them are still available as mp3 sets (want Fugs, Television, prob more)(only one I have on CD: Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band's I’m Going To Do What I Wanna Do:Live At My Father’s Place, 1978, which I got when it first came out and is very good duhhhh
Cliche listening choice for a rainy winter's day (3 times in a row, which never happens, and getting more into details and the overall each time)jazz-blues-r&b ballads, small group, female singer, that 60s-early 70s vibe extended even though new songs, yet the scene is now/you are there: Lady Blackbird's Black Acid Soul, which title I thought was just hype before listening, but recording set-brings out just enough hyperreal, dry edge to voice and baby grand piano, also occasional vibes, used for inst. on one track as piccolo bass-range drone, sparingly, countering the upright bass on that same and I think every other track. Eventually some variety of instruments and tempo (also the closing title track sees and raises previous sonic designs' increasingly bolder, splashier advance into the 21rst Century).
Stylish singing, writing, playing, recording never affected, always and increasingly affecting---that one you might be hearing on local public radio, that you're thinking (esp. w piano) might be written by Laura Nyro? Actually Tim Fuckin Hardin, and nothing like "If I Were A Carpenter," although I could imagine Blackbird (whose opener, "Blackbird," is not the Beatles') getting away with that too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkuqQifTC_k

Upright bass, I meant to say, is on every track (I think)

recording set-up, I meant.

xxxp aw yeah MILK ROCK!
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First lp by Jazz singer recorded in japan in 1974 a year after the Abbey Lincoln lp I was listening to a couple of weeks ago. INterestingm is that like a thing, black American female singer records in japan either as debut or after long gap since last recording session.
She i sbacked here by her husband Cecil playing a load of different instruments and his brother Ron on a similar array a couple of other Americans and a pair of japanese none of whom I know other recordings by. Pretty cool new thing /spiritual jazz and some interesting choices of covers.
This was reissued by Mr Bongo a couple of years ago right at a time i was getting intrigued to hear it. Do love the Afro Blue here.

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Disc 1 of the New York noise band's reunion era album. NOt been listening to this enough and getting to hear this yesterday on a higher volume did enhance teh sound. Had been playing it a lot more quietly since last friday.
Verges on the psychedelic in places, has some long trancey sections. I think I need to sit down and listen through the whole reunion era .
& regret not going and seeing the band while it was around again. As i did when i watched the documentary.
I think what I'm hearing here ties in with what I loved specifically about the 1988 live shows .The loudest heaviest folk rock band in history. Glad they kept that as part of the sound.

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Australian long hair garage/freakbeat band of a Pretty Things bent.
THis was a result of my having to move things around to repair my cd player. It has been sitting on a shel on the far side of my bed that I can't get to easily . I bought it in the mid 00ies direct from teh label Half A Cow. It is that kind of rough r'n;b garagey stuff as espoused by teh early pretty Things and teh Sonics and stuff. Some comparisons to some of teh Dutch bands of teh mid 60s like Q65 etc.
A nice compi anyway , 28 tracks including a few by earlier bands that developed into the main one.

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Sorry should have double checked that
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is the actual MIssing Links cd I've been playing. The cover is taken from teh lp they put outand Sundazed reissued.
BUt this mops up a lot more of their ouevre as well as that of pre bands
ONly thing on here taht i'm not a fan of is teh backward version of Keep Your Big Mouth shit which goes on too long.

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Ernst Krenek - They Knew What They Wanted

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Maurice Ohana - Silenciaire

Wow, just reading more about Ohana while listening... he composed a piece called "Sacral d'Ilx" (Rites of Ilx)!

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like the henze^^^^ need to hear more ohana than the one piece of his i know.

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Andre Boucourechliev - Archipel 4

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I've owned or at least heard all the other Faces records, although it's been years, but somehow never their debut.

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not sure of the purpose of the bailey's foot contraption there?

& playing side 2 it would appear to be some kind of string bender

the ct sides
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Heavy droney Irish trad based music. Sounds like it was influenced by a few external influences, drone may actually be heavy enough to come from Power Electronics or something but is Uillean pipes, bits of psychedelia and things also appear.
This is my introduction to the band really , though I think I may have heard tracks elsewhere. I did see the singer perform at a traveeler festival called Misleor that the Traveller society in the local University put on. She sang the lead off track here unaccompanioed and said she learnt it from a traveller in London who was realted to another person on the same panel.
I think i will be buying the other recentish lp by this lot. Glad I picked this one up first though maybe would have wanted to grab both anyway.

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80s pop band from Leeds singles collection. I' don't think this is as comprehensive as it might have been but it is really enjoyable. I know i hada couple of singles and possibly the first lp back around the time they came out but didn't get heavily into them.
Picked this up a couple of weeks back in the same purchase as the Lankum. & now finding myself getting into it quite a biit.
Wish it did give dates of releases etc. Would like to see when development happened & so on. I find that Marc's voice is a lot stronger than I remembered it being from the time. Thought he was struggling a bit at first from memory. I know he became a pretty powerful singer later on.
Also interested to work out to what extent this was 2 people. Were tehy a band after a certain point. Quite enjoying the artificial sound in places and wondering how much of that is the one electronic keyboard Ball is playing. Also need to look up what his background was pre band. Oh yeah suddenly realised that Soft sell is an advertising term, I had been thinking that soft cell was something photographic for a short while.
Think I might look into getting hold of some more of their stuff now. This had just been a somewhat random item in a local shop's racks .

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self titled release by jazz pianist's late 70s combo. Pretty avant and stuff while still showing some of its roots in passing.
Think I still need to expand on what I have by him and related.
noted coincidence that he is the artist 2 in a row from different posters

So far:

Autechre - AE LIVE LOS ANGELES 151015
Luke Stewart - Works for Upright Bass and Amplifier
Lee Morgan - The Complete Live at the Lighthouse
Sightings- Absolutes
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Laraaji - Sun Zither
Brian Eno - Compact Forest Proposal
The Fun Years - Baby, It’s Cold Inside
Elizabeth Veldon - adieu to old england, adieu,
Christina Giannone - Glazed Vision
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Mirror Traffic
David Bowie - Low
Autechre - LP5
Herbie Mann - Memphis Underground
Eddie Harris - The In Sound
Taylor Deupree - Mur
Laurie Spiegel - The Expanding Universe
Kyle Flanagan - Stuck Inside
Kyle Flanagan - Studded Middle Finger
The Orb - Orbvs Terratvm
Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson
Christina Giannone - Zone 7 (promo)
Pavement - Terror Twilight Farewell Horizontal (promo)
Christina Giannone - Descend
Christina Giannone - The Portal
Dustdevils - Geek Drip
Khan Jamal - Infinity
Mike Mainieri Quartet - Blues on the Other Side
Gil Evans - Gil Evans & 10
Jonathan Richman - I, Jonathan
Olivia Block - Change Ringing
Earl Sweatshirt - SICK!
Merzbow - StereoAkuma
Spoon - Lucifer on the Couch (promo)

(This is just albums played in full)

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Stevolende, whats the name of this?

not sure

Lankum Between The Earth & The Sky
Soft cell
Cecil Taylor Unit

unless its older I'm getting my images displaying here and just got a weird text line from you

Michael B, that's the Lankum album.

right, didn't notice lack of title on cover.
last but one lp by them so far.
Between The Earth and the Sky

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Disc 5 of the box set of the band that nhelped launch the mod revival. Comprised of alternative takes of tracks throughout their career.
Mainly got put on cos the rest of the box set is elsewhere, not sure where. I got this before I left Dublin so contents may be scattered in a load of places. I was prompted to listen to them from That Record Got Me High covering Setting Sons a couple of weeks back.
Hope I can find more fo teh set. Quite enjoying this.
They worked together quite well as a 3 piece anyway.

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Dub reggae combo featuring Sly Dunbar among others. Largely instrumental but does havea few vocals.
This was the one disc by the band I found when looking. Want to hear more, particularly the cover of Watermelon man

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2nd disc of box set by 60s mod group. Mainly soul influenced material and covers. They had a pretty powerful rhythm section which I'm not sure comes across clearly in the production, seems it's not the focus. Also the songs I've heard the originals of have been made a lotmore serene here, tend to be a lot rougher/rawer in the original. they were a pretty good harmony band with a great lead singer and Rickenbacker guitar which I think is more chorded than lead.
I really like the band and have done since the Edsel collection the Ultimate Action came out when i was like 14 years old, linernotes by Paul Weller though I put this on cos the box set has been sitting around my bedroom visibly for too long.
This is the stereo disc of their mod era stuff as opposed to the slightly later psychedelic stuff. It does have a few tracks taht are beginning to edge into psych . It's also material that was pretty much finished by George martin at around the time plus some demo/unfinished material as bonus.
very stylish

I dig your capsule reviews, Stevolende. I've checked out a number of artists based on them.

My standard morning routine is a jazz record, a blues record, and a rock record I've not heard before. Today's "jazz" find was closer to kitschy 50s pop, with accordion featured alongside guitar. Fortunately I love that stuff. Joe Puma's Wild Kitten has been re-released, and I find it hard to believe there are enough people who would want to own it to warrant a reissue.

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Followed up with Memphis Slim's No Strain. Really nice piano blues record from 1961, featuring the undersung Lafayette Thomas on guitar on some tracks.

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And Cricklewood Green by Ten Years After. I won't bother posting the cover as most have seen this record; I had never heard it before today.

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Just heard them through my song of the day playlist. Just my jam, husky female vocals over droning guitars.

Ooh, this is nice for when I finally make it past the middle of last century, thanks!

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Jean-Joel Barbier - Deodat de Severac: Pieces pour Piano

been quite enjoying the cure live in los angeles from 1983, thanks to ilxor Mar3snest.

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San Francisco keyboard punk band led by outrageous queer activist and featuring some pretty harsh noise from a pair of electronic keyboards.
The band consisted of severaL members who went onto leading record labels but consciously refused to release anything during their existence. I'm not sure about the legitimacy of this Xeroid double cd but it rocks like a bastard.
It consists of several live sets and several sets of demoes. Sound is not always perfect but it does sound like the gigs must have been great. Keyboards here have the same attack that guitars do elsewhere.
I think there are some legal releases out now and there is definitely video material circulating and commerically released.

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Malian early 70s melange of traditional sounds and some Western influences played on electric instruments. I love this stuff, their contemporaries Les Ambassadeurs and Orchestra baobab are both really good too.
I am slowly reading a book on Mande music which talks about the traditional music this is based on.
THis stuff is pretty awesome and has 2 companion volumes all of which compile material from a series of lps released at the time they were recorded.

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LP recorded by a short lived version of the prog band. Bill Bruford an dRick Wakeman have both left so there's different drums and keyboards.
I have been trying to find an EQ setting that this sounds right on from a set of presets on my midi system. & it doesn't quite sound right on any of them. Oddly I keep trying though. Think I may have bought this about 10 years ago and tried it out a few times and just thought nah. Can tolerate the lps from the start of the 70s even enjoy bits of them. Though never going to be a fan of Jon Anderson's voice asnd do find the arrangements frequently overly busy, Am finding some of this interesting though, I think I do like bits of Chris Squire and Steve Howe, a bit of Patrick Moraz too.
Did hear people like Thurston Moore thought this was the bees knees but still not something I'm going to be overly championing.
People died in the punk wars after all

Second the appreciation for the King Hannah mention. Great vibe.

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Savatage - everything except Fight for the Rock
Obituary - Slowly We Rot, Cause of Death

That Rail Band disc has some of my favorite stuff of theirs. IIRC this this entire LP is included.

You gotta get the Kanaga de Mopti reissue on Kindered Spirits.

now if i could have just found that out when the cd was easily available. It is on Spotify though and does seem to be pretty sublime.

Love is the Message had a show on Malian music last week
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may have contributed to me sticking the cd on though I think I had an inkling to listen to that Yes and had to find it and may have found the cd in the pile i went through.
I think I noticed them not having Les Ambassadeurs on or at least not connected to the scene that included teh Rail band , think they went from them to Orchestra baobab who did some interesting stuff in the early 70s but maybe didn't appear on a lot of people's radar until Pirate's choice 30 years later. I have a set that compiles some of their 70s work though. A Night At club Baobab, I was thinking it had another french name since Mali was francophone through colonisation.
Also didn't mention the latin tinge that was on a lot of the music from the time when I did the review a few days ago and I think the podcast does talk about it.

Starting my day with cool jazz meets exotica: Tanganyika from Chico Hamilton and Buddy Collette.

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Mexican indie-folkie singer Silvana Estrada seems good. She’s on tour now but I just missed her DC City Winery gig last night

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/arts/music/silvana-estrada-marchita.html

Natalie Lafourcade and Chavela Vargas fans might like Silvana Estrada new album

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New York based psychedelic band with very fuzzed out country hues. Finally got this after meaning to for something like 30 years, possibly more. I know they got some coverage in Strange Things Are Happening the psychedelic magazine that came out in the late 80s and I think that tied in with an Edsel reissue that i somehow failed to pick up. now got thsi Acadia version which came out in 2000 and I'm not sure why it didn't get beyond the wantlist then, maybe the company folded before I got to get it.
Bandname was a songtitle that Frank Zappa thought would make a better bandname than the one they were using. They are pretty other and are really growing on me. I thought when i was first hearing about them I was seeing some comparisons to the Meat puppets being mentioned which I'm not really hearing per se. there is a combination of bluegrass, rock, avant and fuzz which might have some people thinking taht but I can't say the approach is that similar. Good though

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Sun Ra live lp from the first date of a 1980 European tour before all of his equipment or band have arrived. Elsewhere this year he's doing some really out there electric music, this is all horn, piano etc and not electric but still pretty far out. Apparently the music included here excluded some of the songs more associated with electricity which were played at the date, I think this is early and late shows about half and half. So do wonder if there is more of the recording from this date anywhere that has those tracks .
Anyway this concentrates more on the songs by other composers, Ellington, Monk, Henderson etc in a pretty wild way. Do love the Big John's Special here especially. & it is still pretty far from stayed. Do wonder if technique used is going to be much later developed than the songs written but don't really know playing technique history and do think I have heard of wildness in the playing in early jazz taht may not have been palatable to the ears people were selling to . JUst do think it unlikely that these songs attempted at teh time they were written would sound exactly the way they were played here. Great date anyway.

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Paisley Underground related band gets career spanning compilation . I have been listening to the first disc which has the same material released a few years ago as a single disc called Hollywood Holiday Revisited which contained the first mini lp called Hollywood Holiday and the 2nd lp Drifters and a 1983 session recorded by Tom Verlaine.
Television are one signpost to the sound though I think the band is more interested in the 60s sound than they were. First couple of tracks sound like they are going to go off in a different possibly quasi industrial direction with drums used in a way closer to world music or something. But most of this is rooted also in classic rock and shows some really great guitar. I remember seeing them in Dingwalls in 1985 and thinking the main guitarist Richard McGrath really reminded me of the skinhead from the film Diva.
I found out on my last trip to London taht I had a copy of Drifters the 2nd lp. I don't remember getting very into it which seems odd o hearing it here cos it does sound pretty great here. Maybe production is too polished and muted or something. But sounds like i missed something if I didn't enjoy it at the time. & maybe i was much more interested in other things at the time , maybe it just got eclipsed.
THis is somewhat countryish guitar rock which i think is quite great right now anyway. Guitar textures float above the main sound. maybe i was looking for something more edgy I think I just didn't hear what was there at the time and i needed to sit with it longer. maybe it just didn't have the edge that the live band had had. I don't get it, do get the music now.
So I have a later lp plus bonus to listen to and a live set plus early demoes to get to. that includes a whole live set from the tour i saw them on. So should be good

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new music circles

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not sure what happened with the link above, but: https://www.discogs.com/release/3023369-Various-New-Music-Circles

the jocy de oliveira piece is the stand out (later released on her own album)

she was a visitor, she was a visitor...

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I am slowly reading a book on Mande music which talks about the traditional music this is based on.

hi Stevolende: what is the name of this book and would you recommend it?

Simply called mande Music by Eric Charry.
It goes into the history of the area from about the 13th century and the role of the various people who are allowed to be musicians and what they are allowed to play. IT seems that to a greta degree teh instrument chosen ties in with the trade one does at least traditionally.
I started off finding it a bit dry but I think i'm getting into it quite a bit though I'm also reading about 10 other books which is meaning i'm not concentrating on it fully. But yeah does seem to be a good read.
Charry is an ethnomusicologist I think which means this can be a little academic possibly.
But yeah glad i got it as an interlibrary loan.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo3629899.html

thanks! I've been listening to a lot of Malian and Senegalese music the past couple years but have never read anything in depth about it. I'm very curious about griot culture and the history of the area in general, so have been vaguely on the lookout for something to read

seems to be quite good, I think it may be a bit expensive cos it is a University Press publication. Glad i got to read it and hope i finish it before it needs to be returned. Seem to be getting a lot of good stuff from the same library so wonder if that's down to a specific individual or membership of a buying decision panel. Really not sure how that works, assume it's not just one reader continually requesting good titles be bought.

I actually used to work at that university press—I should have stolen a copy when I had the chance :/

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4th solo lp by ex-Monkee as he explores what he can do with country and finds his own way into Cosmic American music or whatever he calls it. I think this may be less psychedelic than the first 2 First National Band lps. But probably the most worthwhile music to come from an ex-Monkee, though would be interested to hear what the competition was. Nesmith was already being covered by other bands at the time he was beginning to vie for more musical input to the Monkees since Paul Butterfield Blues Band covered his Mary Mary on East-west.
Great stuff, glad i finally got the Original Album series of the 5 lps from the early 70s. had been meaning to since it first appeared. Then again after he died and what eventually got me to do so was checking that my credit card was working. Oh well silly response but great result.

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Great band led by Malian kora player. THis obviously hasa lot to do with traditional material but I think it blends quite heavily with western stuff, jazz, funk and rock but really not sure what is what since it blends quite amazingly well.
Very melodic and has some really great interweaving of instrumentation. THink I got my copy cheap from FOPP around the time it came out.
I'm quit e knocked out by this and i think putting it on was a last minute thought since i think what I had been thinking of wasn't at hand whereas this came out of a pile i was going through. Utterly great anyway so very glad i did put this on.
Very recommended.
THink I have a couple of live sets by the Symmetrical orchestra somewhere too. JUst wondering if the image of Diabate I have on the wall behind me from Glastonbury in presumably 2007 is with this same band.

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This is actually the Direction Reaction Creation disc focused on this lp so the tracklisting is this plus. Seems to have a lot more semi acoustic stuff on this disc than I was expecting. Thought it might all still be the somewhat punky rock but they were already expanding their palette by this point which is probably why this is thought to be about their classic lp. Anyway, really enjoying the Jam right now and probably should never have neglected doing so. Still love the mid 60s bands i was getting into in the early 80s from ties into the mod scene. So may look more at the 80s bands from then. Do wish the Purple Hearts lp was easier to get.
Looking at the tracklisting this even expands on what teh deluxe edition of this lp has on it, since it has several singles from between this and Setting Sons including Eton Rifles and the alternative version of Smithers-Jones. I guess this was somewhat nostalgic at the time or at least commenting on that process and it certainly makes me feel that to when I was first hearing the material.

seems like All MOd Cons has had tracklisting significantly jumbled by the box set. I have the booklet stuck so I can't see the tracklisting but cfing it on RYM shows that they haven't stuck with the way the band programmed it. Disc starts with a previous single anyway.
Then sticks up some of teh heavier tracks which I think may have been released as singles. IT has a sequence of mainly pastoralish songs sequenced in teh order of teh album but I'm not sure if thaht helps it retain the feel the lp had. I'm assuming it had more of a feel of cihiroscura on the original lp leading up to a crescendo at teh end of side 2. Now everything stands on its own a bit more. I think it does so.
Good box set, I may wind up buying another copy now that I've had this as long as i have. Think I wound up with a windfall at the end of a day working on Grafton street and I went and picked this up then when it would possibly have stayed an afterthought otherwise. & it's been with me through several moves and neglected for too long. Then I heard the edition of That Record Got Me High on Setting Sons a few weeks ago and that had me wanting to relisten. Still haven't found that disc but hope i do so before too long

so right, the 2 crescendo tracks finishing o9ff the lp were released on singles in the months leading up to the lp. & I guess the band would have been more of a singles band than an lp one at teh time at least. Though this si thought of as possibly their classic lp it was one i never had until the box set for some reason.
So this is much more in order of release than recognising a tracklisting that may be less concrete in light of that.
Haven't checked if there is a different US tracklisting to muddy up the waters even further. & now that I have done I see that they add in the Butterfly Collector which was a single bside in the UK.
Anyway its all good stuff, they were very good when they were good and getting there before that

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Side two especially. Side one has the hits, but it's the flip side that rewards close listening, particularly "Car on a Hill" and "Just Like this Train."

Oops haha

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got a gift certificate from my local shop for xmas and treated myself to this:

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various strains of kraut and electronic german music, has heavy hitters like can, neu!, amon duul ii, etc, but lots of really cool more obscure acts that i've never heard of

pretty much the best music in existence

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Levitating live lp by Spiritual jazz titan. Sounds like it has an internal luminosity.
Glad i finally got this a couple fo years ago. Do love him around this time.
Want some more along these lines. & to find out who was picking up on this sound too. Like the Gun Club spent a while covering a number of spiritual and other New Thing jazz tunes and i think it is an influence you can hear in a lot of their sound. Not sure who else.
THink I need the slightly earlier Live At the East too.

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first collaboration lp by the married folk duo and band. Veers from some gnarly electric guitar to some much more stately beautiful acoustic stuff. Drones quite heavily and incorporates some interesting textures from a wide array of non rock instrumentation, concertinas, crumhorns and fun stuff. Has a couple of tunes heavily coloured by colliery band sounding horns.
Can get pretty melancholy but i think the pair get even more so a couple of lps later.
I think this definitely benefited from the remastering it got in the early 00ies and it has 3 bonus tracks from a Roundhouse performance from 1975 of tracks from this lp including a much more drawn out guitar heavy Calvary cross. I remembered while listening to this that I think I heard teh Peter Laughner cover of the song on Take the Guitar Player For A Ride way before i heard Richard & Linda doing their song.
Anyway this and Pour Down like Silver are both pretty necessary, Hokey Pokey slightly less so.

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THird lp by Tempe Arizona post-hardcore mavericks. Think this is them actually getting into something more overtly psychedelic i fpossible. Seems pretty sui generis but then tehy do seem to have started out taht way and references to other things seems to be fleeting where present. It does remind me of Grateful Dead around 74 in places, possibly elsewhen at other points but the bubbling bounciness reminds me of what the Dead were doing in 73 & 4 especially that latter year.
I've had the cd since it came out on Rykodisc and it is showing wear so it is semi skipping in some places so may need to pick up a replacement. Anyway do love the band in teh early and mid 80s so should listen to it more.
Gt to see them a couple of years later so taht was great.
How do you describe this stuff? A melange of different influences possibly played by semi virtuosic mavericks who sing somewhat less well. Mixes jazz, country, psychedelia, rock and so on . I think you need to hear it to know what it's like I also really think you need to hear it anyway.
Continually swirling, bubbling sound I guess. Love this stuff.

live at the east might just be my favourite pharoah, so would definitely recommend!

listening to some of the post-babaluma can lps which i'm not so familiar with...
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what is the Ash Ra Tempel there, I'm not seeing it anywhere. the s/t has a Pharoah or soemthing on the cover. & Tapes looks different too.

https://www.discogs.com/release/8598120-Ash-Ra-Tempel-The-High-And-Mighty-Priestess being live selections from "the private tapes" + a 1970 demo track

yeah was thinking it might be Private Tapes related , wonder if I have actually seen it before.

Incredible find!

The best version of "House of the Rising Run" ever!!

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That albums of extended vocal compositions looks amazing, no lime tangier.

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at https://moderecords.bandcamp.com/album/makrokosmos-i-ii-for-solo-amplified-piano-mode-142

RIP

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extended voices IS amazing! & rip to crumb, indeed.

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otherwise the closing electric feb 13 set from dp 4 with the missing 'we bid you goodnight' encore

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LOcal band play an arty jazzy folky sort of music which might be a bit white. I think the word quirky may be apt.
I like them live but am wondering how much i want to listen to the lp repetitively, still it is quite nice hook laden stuff which has some promise. I think they were around as an 8piece for a number of years before stripping down a few years ago. The female keyboardist/electronics player is doing some solo and soundtrack stuff which has been interesting.
My Fellow sponges, interesting.

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Iranian rocker's compilation on Pharaway Sounds. has some pretty funky stuff on including a recontextualisation of the Kinks You Really got Me Riff which has had me thinking about song structure and stuff, Like having a repetitive heavy riff as a theme that isn't central and stuff.
Does have a couple of semi annoying tracks on too which is a shame.
But I think it's quite good.

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Gilles Petterson documents a club he hosted at Dingwalls on a Sunday afternoon that i went to several times and wish I had stuck with going to . I think I wound up hitching the UK at roughly that time which is on emain reason I didn't. But it was great and dancing to this stuff is still qui8te compelling.
IT covers a broad range of material including some then contemporary material by bands like Weekend who featured teh vocals of the Young Marble Giants' Alison Stratton through some 60s/70s jazz material which was teh main stuff he played. It also features a jazz track by Michel Legrnad which is pretty groovy.
Would love to get another club like this i could frequent cos want to get down to the tunage.

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Listening to Amnesty Free Your Mind: The 700 West Sessions prompted by the Rare Groove Suggestions thread. Obscure 70s Indianapolis R&B/funk/jazz band with lovely group harmony vocals, killer brass, and intricate arrangements.

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Coltrane in late 61 with Eric Dolphy and Reggie Workman onboard. I hadn't realised how little Workman was used as a bassist by Coltrane, realising that i can easily name his pianist and drummer but didn't have an immediate fill for bassist which I think is more often Jimmy Garrison.
Anyway this is bloomin tasty as is probably inevitable really. So, great jazz stuff and so on.
I have the Village Vanguard box somewhere or at least most of it. Think the rest of that is pretty good too.

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Another pretty sublime set by ex-Monkee and new backing band. A bit more rocky than elsewhere and more effects laden and stuff.
NOt quite sure what Highway 99 with Melange is aiming at. Rest of this is countryish with some somewhat psych tinge. I do enbjoy his early 70s work a lot. This has 3 extra tracks and is the version from the Original Album series box.

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classic female blues singer best of. Bought this when I'd started reading her biography now relistening to it after i returned teh book. Maybe should have put it on while i still had teh book so I could check over some descriptions and things.
Anyway good set with 21 tracks. I think I might get a couple more. She is backed by various different line ups of bands with horns and things as part of the sound. Haven't heard the music she was developing when she died. Want to though, more swing orientated as she tried to stay current. Always have to wonder what she would have done if she hadn't died suddenly, but that's true with a number of artists

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just learning now the cd version of the lacy lp has an extra couple of tracks :-/

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somehow still the only thing I have by this lot. Well a least on physical cd. May need to remedy that. I got this back when it came out so not sure why.
Anyway singles by Derby drone psychers . Gets quite good in places. Been sitting in a pile on a cupboard for ages and now i find out why it shouldn't have been. Can be quite hypnotic.
I know they were pretty heavily influential on a lot of things taht came after them. At the time I was more into Loop though.

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1977 3rd (4th?) studio lp by folk rock band. NOt sure to what extent this does sound like a folk rock lp and to what extent it just sounds contemporary. It does have a couple of traditional numbers on though not sure to what extent they sound like it. Blackwaterside doesn't seem to have much of its original tune for one thing.
A few tracks have string arrangements by Robert kirby of Nick Drake fame which work quite well. & Mandy Morton has a pretty decent voice.
All of the band's recordings are being released as a set shortly. I think I do want to hear the others.

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1971 lp by jazz drummer who palyed with Albert Ayler among others. Picked this up last year and quite enjoy it.
Can be more melodic than one might expect. First song sounds like a praise.
Sunny's own playing seems to be a continual haze of cymbal wash for a lot of this. Pretty intense.
BOth Actuel lps seem to use different crops of the same photo.

S3 were Rugby rather than Derby. don't think you can go wrong with any of the original studio albums, but can't speak to any of the seemingly 1000s of reissues.

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brilliant metal/funk/weirdness from booty collins + buckethead via bill laswell.
found today for a coin in a charity shop that until today never gets anything of interest in.
thus proving it's always worth to check.
and yeah, i am totally sticking with cds.

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Samantha Glass Rising Movements
Kinda 70s cosmic music/home organ vibes.

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tropical fuck storm dirty three necks guys

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Comprehensive compilation of the No Wave trio(s) featuring the jagged guitar of Arto Lindsay and the sui generis drumming of Ikue Mori plus either the anti-groove keyboards of Robin Crutchfield or the groove defining bass of Tim Wright,
Odd jagged soundscapes of sound defining its own world. This contains pretty much everything though i think the final live set has been released separately in much more complete form. I think there was an extended version of Dazed and Confused released somewhere too.
I've been reading a No Wave forum recently so when casting around for a disc to put on from several piles around my 3changer when this turned up I thought yes please. & it has rewarded repeat listening recently.

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first single and e.p. by early 70s folk related underground band who really did seem to be doing their own thing pretty massively.
Combining acoustic guitar with electric bass and drums and a few other instruments including some electric guitar. & coming out with something hectic and busy and manic sounding in places, quite stately in others. Not sure to what extent this does actually reference folk themes beyond the acoustic guitar and references to greek mythology etc.
The set I have is the sanctuary compilation which came out 16 years ago and includes the less successful 2nd lp from 1974 but not the recordings from 1972 which were released separately a while later I think with a more recent live set on the b-side.
Very interesting band whose history needs to be looked into possibly for some clarity. I think their membership etc was unknown a least as related to other projects for years though they do feature Lindsay cooper in later years I think prior to her joining Henry Cow.
So this has gained a deserving legendary status. not sure what else was anything like this before or after. I do know that Opeth among others were citing this as an influence a while back. Would like to hear things that do cite this as a recognisable influence and see what they did with the ingredients.

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The dub compilation from the time that Trojan records were being released through Sanctuary. They put out a load of really great 2cd sets that were pretty comprehensive on a number of artists or curated with a bit of intelligence when it came down to compilations.
I've been listening to the first disc which covers the 1st half of teh 70s . & it is about the full length of a cd. GOt some really great stuff on it. Starting with Pop A Top by Andy Capp, running through a few Lee Perry and Upsetter tracks & King Tubby. Not listened to this in a while before this week which is silly. Maybe i need to work back through my collection now that I'm broke so won't be buying new stuff. Hope i get the chance to.

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such a lovely sleeve, is it synaesthetic to the music?
Something semi cartoonish about it while still quite deeply reverent. & do love that background colour.

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Absolute gem of a little fuzzed out psych-funk record that snuck out on Madlib Invazion back in 2020.

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Grauzone's "Eisbär" going around in a loop (my boy's bedtime wish)

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Compilation of Youssou N'Dour's early band dating back to the turn of the 80s. Combines influences from local traditional stuff, some Latin which gets quite noticeable in places and some psychedelic type stuff. There's some great fuzzy guitar throughout a lot of this stuff.
Pretty melodic throughout and good beats and things.
Think I finally got this a couple of years ago after having been aware of it for way too long. & it was very worth getting. Pretty recommended.

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Soul jazz compilation of late 80s early Acid House stuff. Getting quite into this set again after having neglected it way too long and just turned it up while looking for something else, realised that the jewelbox for my King Crimson Nightwatch set was empty and I had a 2nd copy which should be good but couldn't find it so got this instead.
I had some of the popular early Acid stuff on vinyl at the time but didn't get massively into it. Now listening back to this and liking it so may explore further.

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compilation of the slacker band seems to focus on their middle period and I'm not sure how good a compilation for representing them this is. Hangs together pretty well asa listening experience. Again I think I was looking for something else and this turned up.
So yeah it's kind of decent. & may make me check out some of their other stuff. INtreresting guitar parts and wordplay and things and it's kind of alright, like.

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Françoise Hardy compilation -- Cristal Collection

Cannabis Corpse - Nug So Vile

Absolute gem of a little fuzzed out psych-funk record that snuck out on Madlib Invazion back in 2020.

― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, March 1, 2022 9:47 AM

hey, this is good! glad i read this thread today. thanks for sharing this one, i dig it.

i've been binging numero group's eccentric soul series. haven't listened to all of them and some are better than others (in both catchiness and fidelity), but it seems like every album has at least one or two stunners.

also maybe wrong thread, BUT HEY NEANDERTHAL! can you recommend some metal that's kind of more melodic? new or old, doesn't matter. i want to live and learn.

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So excited to find a Dorothy Ashby album I haven't heard.

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Just discovered this excellent comp, which came out last year. Female-fronted U.K. New Wave obscurities. Tons of fun.

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Experimental rock lp with a lot of electronic texture and various rhythms from hip hop to something more tribal.
I quite enjoy this but haven't heard much of their later stuff. Think i have at least teh next lp but wasn't aware they had kept going as long as they had . Loads more albums than I had assumed. I thought the si9nger had relocated to Berlin so the band hadn't been as functional . Look slike i may have some catching up to do,.
THought they were quite good live when I saw them too.
Loads of noise in this.& thoughts about witch persecution and fun things like that. Another cd taht's bee sitting on a shelf for ages being neglected that I thought i would bung on for a week. Though it was also a last minute substitute for a glitching

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early singles by Berlin metal percussion band. I got to track 6 and the sound just went to bits as the cd glitched. Need to find a way to correct that since i think the rest of teh disc works ok. Do love thema round this point and this is the really early stuff up to the Durstiges Tier single. Not sure if it is still available. Think this must have been carried around for a while in a cd wallet/case and been randomly scratched in the process.
Very frustrated that I can't get this to play through co s I do love the music here or antimusic here. & I thought it would work well as contrast to

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The live 1972 set by the great British space rock band.
Again been neglecting this which si the remaster fro about 16 years ago. The one that came with the video material.
Good to be able to hear the electronic wash which is something I've been trying to focus on while listening to this as in mentally separate from whatever effects are on the guitar.
Love usage of instrumentation on here and it does seem a bit less ostentatious than contemporaries. Love the bass which seems less aggressive than one might expect from the player. Possibly more melodic and felt not sure how to express its expression . band operating asa unit is so cool though.
NOt sure what is directly influenced by this so would like to know more wonder if anything did get a similar feel or if the projected understanding would automatically alter the resulting sound. Like the process of Chinese whispers that influence always seems to have.
I think I need to find my copy of the 1999 Party which is a couple of years later and is more rock orientated i think . Do think the melodicism here does still show some earlier influence, folk etc etc.
Anyway great to hear this again.
I do think this is adjacent to what I like about the Krautrock scene. Its reduction ad absurdum of things its repetition and various other things. Not sure if the sci fi thing would appeal to everyone but if it doesn't I don't think the band is likely to be missing those that excludes.

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2nd disc of this 3cd compilation of the label's turn of the 70s releases. The all New thing Jazz set whereas the other 2 have bits of rock with heavy jazz influence. Bit this starts with Sun ra's the Utter-nots which has a lot of noise in it. Goes through Paul bley's melodic piano focused version of Ornette Coleman's Rambling via some other noisy pretty free jazz stuff.
GOt this in FOPP a few years ago and regret not picking up copies of all of the other titles from the series. THink I did get a copy of Gong's Magic Brother and a AEOC set of its early stuff. Well, glad i have this bi should probably play it more frequently.

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Really not sure why it has taken me so long to discover the band, or at least up until something like the last couple of years. I met Epic Soundtracks a few times. Not sure why that didn't prompt me to look into them in the mid 80s. Enjoying this now which si teh Secretly Canadian version of the cd. Not sure how great teh sound is still, since it comes across as a bit of a wash rather than having the instruments totally distinctive.
Anyway enjoying their take on somewhat amateurist krautrock post-punk stuff. So sounds like something I would have got into earlier.
Great stuff anyway. Must get the Secretly Canadian Marinevillle and Jowe Head's book

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Vancouver in 73 and 74 mainly longer tracks 2x roughly 12 minutes and teh 47 minute version of Playing In Th eBand plusa shorter China Doll .
I listened through the first couple of songs here wondering why I couldn't hear piano since it seemed that Keith Godchaux only played piano foir years. Looked it up and in fact Godchaux had bought an eloectric keyboard sometime in 73. I was listening to see what the parts being played were . Can hear Lesh's maverick bass lines interlacing with Garcia's piercing leads and what sounds like Weir doing cat-scratch bits of rhythm. He doesn't sound as much like he is coming a step behind the beat as he did in the late 60s. May take some more listens. & with teh electric keyboard sounds like Godchaux blends in with the 2 guitarists a bit too well. His piano is a biit more distinct on Playing in The Band though.
Npot sure if Playing in the Band does fulfill 47 minutes of listening properly. It seems to get a biit abstract from the riff for long periods. May be worth a listen though. Thinking I was going to have this on for a week nearly had me swapping to disc 3 which hasa half hour Truckin on but I think I'm enjoying most of this disc.
73 and 74 is a bit more jazzy rock and not so much psychedelia but do love early 70s dead for the most part.

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African influenced record from 1975 by one time freejazzer and Arkestra participant.
This starts off with a rhythm taht I think was purloined for hip-hop.
So spiritual jazz meets some influences from Africa plus some spiritual positivity in the lyricisim.
Sounds pretty clean and maybe not as organic as it might do otherwise. Wonder if taht's the production though.
I had heard about the record or band for years and then picked this up from Rough Trade several years ago and am now rediscovering. Quitie good and I think I want to get the compilation that came out a few years ago too.

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a one off release by stephen duffy and roger 'pigbag' freeman.
to this day its one of those albums that never ever fails to his the spot with its samples from cartoons, and fairlight cmi excess.

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Saturday morning listening:
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Start of the week
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New Bellows (US)

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Egyptian guitar doyen, sounds a bit like Dick dale or link Wray though cleaner than the latter . Dale uses some ideas borrowed from his Lerbanese heritage which winds up i roughly the same ballpark. This was a compilation put together by Sublime Frequencies. I had discovered him by chnace when somebody had sold a copy of his With Love Volume 2 to the local 2nd hand record shop I frequented in the late 80s and i picked it up from there. I think I made the link to an Eastern/Arabic Link Wray at the time and then found it really difficult to find his material on cd for ages. Think I wound up with a copy of his tribute to Farid El Atrache while not being able to find anything else.
THis seems to have the bulk of his mid 70s stuff on, or at least that which isn't on the 2 tribute lps. 2 nearly full length cds.
It's mainly mid tempo guitar stuff with a wash of some form of keyboard behind, Frequently synth stuff and crashes of hand drums. Some of it was done with the intention of s/trking bellydance and it is mainly based in related genres., But it is also largely electric .
I think there was a recent compilation that came out over teh alst few months but i need to check that. Also just seen taht there wasan lp of him live in Australia in 1981 that i would love to check out. & i found some clips on youtube.
I like this a lot so good to see that it has had some recognition. I mean even having this released back in 2010 was more Western recognition than I was aware of beforehand.

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THis was a cd in the Zanzibara series which is a companion/parallel series to Ethiopiques done by the same label. This concentrates on one band from the early 70s. I think I am hearing more of a Latin tinge to the music tahn I heard on teh other couple of volumes I have i the series. Zanzibara is mainly a genre called Taraab which seems to be at least semi unique to the East African island where local traditional sounds blended with some Arabic influences etc.
Anyway finding this pretty infectious. Great grooves and one song I'm trying to work out if I am remembering being covered by a local band to where i live now lead by a Congolese vocalist at the time i think they were playing it or if it is something with a shared history that both are referencing. I'm not sure how popular this band was. I'm also not great with knowing how well known/obscure bands I enjoy are outside of some more obvious ones and even then may be into more obscure parts of their work. But hearing this does make me wonder.
Anyway great stuff and i think I need to have another look at the Zanzibara series cos what I've heard has been good i think.

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The Residents 3rd lp the one that coincided with punk, though I think that is more chronologically than by intent. Seems to be pretty eerie melodic music played by a somewhat amateur band in a weird way with odd vocals. So that's lovely for you.
This is from the remastered pREServed series which I should get some more from .
Have enjoyed what I have heard from the early era of the band but not been fully versed in what was exactly what. I think I need to read th biography of the band to get the chronology etc right. But this is kind of sui generis and delightfully weird and all like that.

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Tomas Fujiwara Triple Double- March: sounding excellent, with some great Halvorson skronk

Well some of the guitar skronk could be Brandon Seabrook

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trophies - a family of three (band photo)
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I've been doing a deep dive into Kraan. They don't get mentioned much on ilm, and if they were it was usually dismissive. I like the earliest albums the best, but even as they went on to get more into jazz/funk/fusion they're never less than interesting, even the ones with very 80s production.

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george russell sextet in K.C.

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Bitter Funeral Beer is so wonderful. Though watching the YouTube performance on the big tv elicited the deepest eyerolls ever from the passersby in my household

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Early 00ies reissue of the 2nd SRlp combined with their Trudge e.p. This was remastered and several not very tuneful vocals were removed from the lp. It shows the cinematic panoramic influence of North African/Middle Eastern sounds mixed with Post Punk and Krautrock and stuff. Pretty sedately paced in a lot of places but still pretty intense.
Do love the 80s band. Got to see them a couple of times when they played London.

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Been neglecting this for too long, should be more familiar with it. Bought i shortly after it came out and it has been sitting on myshelf possibly because it's been in an oversized box. Did it get repackaged to something smaller since?
Anyway pretty interesting, though i've only played disc 1 recently. I'm finding it odd that I'm not finding Schmidt more distinctive on the first couple of tracks here. Wondering if I'm hearing his input as being Karoli. Definitely hearing Czukay and Liebezeit ok and what I'm thinking is guitar but not hearing something standing out as keyboard. Oh yeah also whatever wind instrument is being played.
Pretty great. I think I need the live sets that came out last year and really should be in my possession already.

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Early 00ies compilation of Mapfgumo's work over the previous few years.
Pretty good listen . Fits quite well with these other 2. Spacious grooves with distinctive guitar playing. Quite poppy.
I think I first came across Mapfumo in the early 80s being introduced as though he was a South African playing some version of Reggae. I can see some connections but i think the music is made up from some other ingredients. More locally sourced and stuff.
I need to look furthe rinto him, especially the 70s stuff.

This was remastered and several not very tuneful vocals were removed from the lp.

I had only ever heard the instrumental mix until recently and finally hunted down the original and you're not kidding.

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will have to check out that bitter funeral beer footage! i do remember downloading some (later?) non-ecm recordings years ago which i don't think i ever got round to listening to. but yes, just an astounding album.

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Maybe this will work better?
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Excellent power pop

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"That's It for the Other One" is so great.

^still getting used to the differences of the '70s remix which i've only recently become aquainted with. certainly more subtle than what they did to:

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2nd lp by Brixton based postpunk band that evolved out of Quiet Sun. Like 2/3s of the band were in taht band and they replaced Phil Manzanera on guitar. Nice angular abrasive stuff with abstract lyrics.
Anothe ron eI've been ignoring for way too long. THis was the first time i played this actaul disc not sure what I did with my previous one. Very recommended and i think I need to get their Camberwell Now continuation's compilation cd.

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First disc of the first lp by famous Zeuhl band. I think they are still finding their feet but they are already signing in Kobaian.
I think guitar may be more conspicuous here than elsewhere and there also seem to be some overly conspicuous time changes for time changes sake that I think they smooth out better later.
THis is from the Studio Zund box set which again I haven't been listening to or through enough and thought i ought to better familiarise myself with. I think I'd read a reference to this disc in something I was reading a couple of weeks back too.
Jazz influence may be more clear here than later. I'm not sure. Seems to be more easily traceable as such in places anyway.
Do definitely need to familiarise myself better with the other eras of the band than Kohntakhorz and Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh anyway.

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Pretty good cheap compi of the Peruvian princess if that's what she was. This is the first disc which has things like Monos from Voice of the Xtabay on which I've loved since i was a kid.
I've been meaning to get teh el compilation of several lps for a while. I think this is a good place to start though and i think I found it in the local cd shop which is good. Not sure what recognition she has at the moment. Think she may have been more obscure when Creation stuck out a cd compilation using the Xtabay sleeve but omitting Monos in the mid 90s. But I could be like totally wrong. I never know comparative recognition with any of the bands I enjoy. Apart from like the Beatles and a few like that.
Anyway multi octave voice, exoticism , some epic orchestrations and some very different backings including some choirs of grunting men.
I always wanted to nick the riff from Monos and do something new with it. But I never did.

oh yeah was going to say that I had wondered for a minute if the cover image on the Magma had anything to do with the symbol they adopted as a logo later. But seems that taht is something else. Just seemed taht it could have been a further stylised version of the idea of having a claw stomped down on you.
Oh well.

Found these fit together oddly well. Not sure if taht is just something that is inevitable if I have discs playing together whenever I'm in bed. Like over a week like. Or if there was some subconscious quality they shared when i was choosing what I was going to put on .

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Olivier Messiaen, Jocy de Oliveira – Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant-Jésus

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some pretty nice pre-fusion ponty with wolfgang dauner on piano

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Combination of Derek Bailey and Japanese hard prog duo the Ruins. THis is the 2nd release by the grouping. I don't think I've heard teh first. & I think they may have played together live a few times in teh interim. Seems a semi weird pairing since Bailey was an older seated player. This does rock quite a bit though. Just not sure how memorable any of it is really since I don't think it concentrates on coherent melodies etc. It is pretty brutal and hard hitting though.
I had originally tried playing the 2nd disc of Hundred Year Hall by the Grateful Dead in this slot but the disc signal glitched quite heavily at the start of Other one which is a shame since i think it might have been pretty out. THis started glitching yesterday after having played through for a couple of days. Hoping that I can get the GD disc to work over teh next couple of weeks. may have to take player apart and clean the lens with Isopropyl alcohol again. Otherwise a little surprised this is picking up dirt from being in the player. I dunno.
Quite brutal , quite intense but not exactly something you will be whistling later. & probably should find its way onto the player more. I dunno if it would have if it hadn't been in the pile that I picked up when GD started glitching though which I had sorted through while looking for Pelt's Ayahuasca a couple of weeks earlier.

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Reissue of a Charly records compilation of Arkansas r'n'rer. He seems to come from a bit of a different tradition than some contemporarfies. Sounds more like a broader r'n'b hollerer than a streamlined rockabilly. Focus in the sound seems to be more to piano and horns than guitar though there is some pretty wild guitar here.
I have thought he tied in with a lineage that lead forward into like The (early) Pretty Things, The Sonics and possibly the Stooges which seems really cool . Raw party down atmosphere in the sound. I think this set is pretty necessary so glad it was one of the first in this Charly series I picked up. Not sure how well known he is and think he should be mandatory listening, like.

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2nd lp by NYC rap group. Blunted beats that were played live by a live group plus dj.
One of my fav lps . I remember getting this after having finally caught up with heavy load a couple of years after the fact. Taking it back to my living space and listening to it and wondering where the beats were since it seems to have just submerged them in the grime. Production team the lumberjacks had a thing about the dirtyness of their sound. They also remixed the Brixton band God around the time for the e.p. Appeal To Human Greed.
Sebastian looks like me with a major afro instead of dreads. NOt sure how much that has to do with me liking them, I think I would otherwise.
It struck me a few years ago taht the distroted sound reminded me heavily of a Black version of Chrome. & I will always wonder what teh next lp would have sounded like. How much further tehy would have taken the distortion. They do seem to have sampled a lot of early 70s stonerish hard rock into the sound. Anyway blooming love this record and should listen to it even more.

That New Kingdom is in my top 10 of all time, so fucking good.

ben folds five, "smoke"

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was once foolish enough not to take hearing protection to a merzbow performance :-/

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complete victor/bluebird recordings

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even though "acabou chorare" is one of my very favorite albums, it somehow never occurred to me to check out NB's subsequent output (although i did explore the earlier, more tropicalia-adjacent material). this s/t from 1974 is very good and "F.C." from the year before is even better, almost on par with AC

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Every once in a while I "book" an imaginary 70s rock triple bill. Today it's 1973. Argent is headlining, with support acts Manfred Mann's Earth Band and Sopwith Camel.

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Ymac Sumac had a cut from her Mambo album used in a commercial that was played repeatedly during the last World Series. I thought she'd maybe blow up after that, but I guess that's not the way things work nowadays.

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new reissue sounds absolutely stunning

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1990 compilation of pretty much all of later incarnation of the urinals. I think the lineup had remained the same but the possibly too overtly punk readymade name was changed for something possibly more arty sounding which is actually from a Mao quote. Though I guess taht isn't entirely contradictory.
The band seems to have deepened and expanded on teh very minimal sound of its earlier incarnation. Is using effects and learning how to play more fluidly etc. So you are hearing the influence of some maverick punk and postpunk bands from the UK and elsewhere channeled through California artists heads. I think the results are quite good. I thought a cd this old might not be the best sounding but this is pretty good still. I think I got this as a long box about 20 years ago and it's been sitting on a shelf probably since I constructed teh shelving unit. Have been looking for a copy of Pelt's Ayahuasca that I still haven't found and in the process turning up a load of stuff i haven't listened to in too long.
The Urinals comprehensive compilation Negative Capability .... Check It Out is also really worth checking out. Not sure about the later descendant band Trotsky Icepick though that does also feature Vitus Matare but does seem to have taken off in its own direction.

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Opera trained dreampop singer's 2nd lp from 4 years after the first one but still sharing a lot of the same sound. So i guess she's developed what works in taht form a bit more, she has 2 later lps where she has changed style a bit.
Another one I just found after having it on a shelf too long. I think I had actually just been reading Greil Marcus talking about her and me wishing I could get the cds again when this turned up. It appears that there is a remastered reissue of this from 2018 on Sacred Bones but apparently the previous lp is only available in the 1989 master on Warners if it is still available. I had seen some availability of that first lp in a printed to order form on Amazon a few years ago which had me questioning the availability now.
This lp is pretty great deeply luscious, somewhat psychedelic though not necessarily tied to the era.
This was a further collaboration with both Angelo Badalementi and David Lynch who had been behind the Twin Peaks soundtrack which is where Cruise had first come to widespread recognition and that first lp Floating Into The Night appears to be an offshoot of. Do love these 2 lps anyway. I'm seeing the next lp as referencing Trip Hop a sound i quite enjoy so I may pick that up if i ever come across it, it is up on Spotify so I think I may need to listen to it through.

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pairing of 2 1973 lps right around the time the Argentinian saxophonist was coming to recognition thanks to Last Tango In Paris.
THis goes Bolivia then Under Fire.
He's supported by a number of artists who were coming to recognition largely in spiritual jazz. He is getting somewhat more MORish I guess but I'm still really enjoying this. This happened to be a cd I found when looking around either the Piccadilly Circus branch of Virgin which had previously been a Tower or failing that the same premises under its shortlived independent name. So not something I really have a comparison for in terms of knowing the rest of his work. I thought his fame might have lead to him watering down what he was originally like which appears t be a perspective on his later work held by some. I do love the fire in his sax sound which sounds like he's harnessed something Albert Ayler was doing and made it more contained and melodic and things. I'm hearing what I would think are South American themes in the sound but if i'm thinking that might just mean things are already overtly fitting a somewhat orientalised version of the nascent sound I dunno. Particularly if the band that is playing them is largely not schooled in the tradition of those sounds.. I quite enjoy it anyway. Does it for me. Resonates with me and fun things like that so shouldn't be left sitting on my shelf for year long plus intervals but that's true of a lot of things.
& meanwhile I might find something more representative of his not overly commercialised era. But this pairing is quite bloomin great.

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weird i was thinking about listening to that later

i'm on weatherhead now. they really do let rip!

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oh well. the Joshua tree by U2, 2007 double vinyl

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excellent ambient-ish from Lorraine James with some sick breaks mixed in

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warmer milks - let your friends in
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Stunning compi of Malian early 70s electric band based in traditional sounds with some nods to teh West. There si a latin tinge to some of this definitely and Salif Keita's keening vocals.
Languourous, stately swaying rhythms very evocative. I find this music so otherworldly.
There si something about the tuning of music from the region that i always find pretty psychedelic even in the mainly acoustic stuff. This was recorded in the early 70s when electric instrumentation was appearing and being introduced.
The book Mande Music by Eric Charry gives a really good background history to music of the area. Reading that has meant that I've been meaning to put this on for the last few weeks but current habit has me leaving 3cds on the player for a week to familiarise myself with the music.
Really recommended, there are a few performances by a later incarnation of the band up on youtube that are worth checking out. & I wish I could get my hands on the rest of the material from this era. It's only one of the 2discs here that feature the vocals of Salif keita but I think it's all good. The Rail band who were on the same scene in Bamako at the same time are also worth checking out for most of the same reasons as are the early recordings of Orchestra Baobab if you can find them I have the set A Night at Club Baobab which is the material from this era but i think they are better known for the material around Pirate's Choice when they were repopularised in the early 00ies.

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3rd lp by Canterbury group has them venturing into something more pastoral possibly. The songs seem to remain a good sense of groove as teh alternative versions on the cd demonstrate.
I'm not a massive fan of the tweeness of Golf Girl and maybe the home counties feel of some of the lyricism may not be to all tastes. But I think this is pretty fine otherwise.
Do love the grooves on the extra tracks a lot. May not be the first thing one would think with this band but maybe should be.
I picked this up from a local chain cd shop in the early years of the milennium. It still has the price in 2 currencies on the price sticker. Euro and punt, which must show age. It captures a point from the start of the 70s quite well possibly, though that could be projecting. Have been enjoying the tv series of David Hepworth's book on the year it came out 1971 and do enjoy a lot of music from that year.
Cover seems to tie in with Hobbit ideation. Or Mervyn Peake and Gormenghast.

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2nd disc from this epic box set. Peel's fav band with some somewhat definitive recordings. Semi surprised by length of interval between recording sessions but there was a lot of great music coming out at the time but I think there's a year plus between a couple of these sessions. I think I put this on partially under the influence of listening to a few episodes of the Hanley Brothers' Oh Brother podcast. It has been sitting with the spine facing me next to my cd 3 changer for years and unfairly neglected
Starts with the Hex Enduction hour era session which is about my favourite era, goes into mid 83 which is just before i disocvered them and then I think goes onto 84. So that was the time i was really going to see them this and the next disc, & i think I mainly went backward in my listening to the start of the decade and didn't keep up with them. But do love that 80-83 era and maybe a bit later. I know I had Wonderful and Frightening World somewhen around then.
Anyway, pretty essential band that I was semi aware of at teh time. One worth catching definitely , didn't know the back story overly well so great to be able to read up and listen up on people filling in that knowledge. I still need to read the Brix memoir I bought a couple of years ago but the Hanley one was good.

Those all sound great, Stevolende!

My mother got this album at KMart when it came out. I remember being mesmerized by the large number of people on the cover.

I thought Sergio Mendes was old people music and didn't listen to it...man do I regret it.

This album is seriously funky and I play it all the time. I wake myself in the morning to "Love Me Tomorrow".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXNYjyUPg-M

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charles tyler - eastern man alone

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Josef Matthias Hauer - Das Zwölftonspiel

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Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer - Le Parnasse Musical / Pieces de Clavecin - William Christie

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Received both of these in the mail today from a German Discogs seller. Two of my favourite underrated composers. The Hauer LP will benefit from a cleaning but the Fischer sounds like it has never been played before - beautiful sound.

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Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire (Christine Schäfer / Pierre Boulez)

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Ooh nice one

love that charles tyler lp above

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Has been a while since i last played that. Has some pretty good stuff on Shorter approaching psych with Sharrock and Mclaughlin aboard. Not sure if they played together elsewhere much.
Oddyssey Of Iska was also good and right around the same time.
THink I'd just been thinking about psychedelic electric music by ex members of the mid 60s Miles Quintet in relation to Ron Carter and had this running through my head. Found it in one of teh HMV sales in Dublin in the early 90s just as i was getting a radio show and I think the copy i got was Japanese. Think I may have got a later edition since too since i think the disc I had got pretty heavily scratched.
Oh yeah think I had a copy of the latin jazz track Dindi on here and a different version on Flora Purim's Butterfly Dreams

oh right, was just going to add taht I picked up the original Albums series of Wayne Shorter lps from a Rough Trade East sale a few years ago. JUst realising it's actually Herbie Hancock. Very good though.
& I have an Eddie Henderson 2fer set I recently dug up from a pile in my room that is really good and shouldn't have been ignored so long.
HIm and the Mwandishi band. More on taht in a few days.

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ITalian weird semi avant messing around with psychedelic tropes from about 20 years ago just after the millenium. Bandname comes from a line in Lucifer Sam by Barrett era Floyd. I think that gives a partial pointer but this is a bit more self consciously weird I think.
It's also an all male band I think which the female bandname isn't likely to suggest.
I think I bought this around when it came out. May have been a couple of years later. & may have been something Julian Cope or the Seth man recommended. I see there are more lps out by this band than I was aware of. Might be worth further investigation at some point. I think this is quite good.

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Mixed race mid 60s band with stunning use of melody and lyricism. This is an Elektra best of so it has 4 or 5 songs from each lp plus both sides of the post Forever Changes single which is brilliant.
Goes from the Stones meets Byrds hard folk rock of the s/t lp, the more Latinate sounds of the shorter tracks from Da Capo and the multidimensional lushness of the tracks from Forever changes and adds on a bunch of tracks from Four Sail. I think it hangs together quite well as a listening experience. Again it's something that I've had lying around on a shelf for way too long. They were a band i was first getting into in my early teens when I was discovering psychedelia and being a skinny brown skinned boy I was getting compared to looking like Arthur which was pretty cool. They looked pretty great in most photos. Shame Getty has laid claim to most of those circulating.
His lyricism is truly great which has been an outstanding feature of the band throughout. But interesting to hear details like the cheesestring textures of the 12 string on the first lp and harpsichord etc on the 2nd one. I would love to hear live material from teh band so would love to find some exists. I think they closed down any attempts they saw happening during their live sets though so not holding my breath.
I think Johnny Echols has a memoir underway which is likely to be a good read considering what the interviews he was doing a few years ago came out with.

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2fer of the first 2 Solo lps by Mwandishi horn player which is actually another pair of Mwandishi lps under slightly different leadership.
NIce melodic amorphous electric liquidity. Think it's really worth an ear. So really need to keep abreast of what I've left sitting on a shelf for a few years. There had been an anthology of earlier material by him a couple of years earlier. But not 100% sure what that was if Realization was his first lp.
I really like the Mwandishi material anyway. Worth looking out for what one can get. I know the 3 main lps were reissued individually about 15 years ago. & Sextant turns up in a number of different sets. There are also tv performances from France and Norway that are up on youtube and a few live sets. The book You'll Know When You Get There by Bob Gluck was an interesting read too.
I think there are also a few other solo lps by the members that are worth looking into, quite apart from Herbie Hancock having released lps throughout the 60s outside of the Miles Davis Quintet which is itself worth investigating.

I am disappointed that Jennifer Gentle is not a woman, but I will check it out.

This one:

Lo-fi swinging bossa rock that is just eerie because it is so familiar and yet there is no way you heard it before. It's just so haunting especially with the scratchy vinyl feel of it.

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

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Ligeti is my fave

Check out his organ etudes, they're the best thing in the world

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYT0SJyUXkE

Oh, that DG Ligeti album is great.

I'm listening to this on NML, thought I'd try different recordings than the Martin Jones CD I always listen to. Not sure this will replace that.

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Switched to
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a new single by Suggs and Paul Weller that youtube recommended to me, called 'OOH DO U FINK U R' but unfortunately it's not very good.

should have called it ALL OVER THE NEWSY WEWSIES

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I've been working my way through transcribing th ebibliography and discography of Mnde Music by Eric Charry. Sticking up th ediscography on RYM .
So have been listening to which bits of that are up on Spotify at a track between each podcast I've been listening to and have found a load of great stuff I'd love to get my hands on if i had the dosh.
Would love to find some Bembeya Jazz National especially.

I listened to this album a ton in 1976, then punk reared its ugly head and I sold most of my prog and fusion records. This one still works for me in a way that Mahavishnu and Weather Report and many others of that ilk don't anymore.

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oh yeah that’s a smokin album, I dig it a lot

been on a REKIDS, Buzzin' Fly, KOMPAKT redisovery groove.
this mixtape ticks all of those boxes :

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That's a great CD, I remember buying it and Seth Troxler's Boogybytes mix on the same day.

ewan pearson in the mid 00s was basically god

ewan pearson in the mid 00s was basically god

― brimstead,

agreed.
this and the 2cd 'piece work', and you were sorted.

his Sci Fi Hi Fi mix cd is where it all started for me. amazing stuff.

oooh ... one i missed at the time.
ta for the reminder.

Discovered this last week from a queer music history website:

https://imgur.com/a/XJnN7WW

Well that didn't work. It was a jazz record called Love is a Drag. Standards sang by an anonymous male singer. Frank Sinatra and Liberace were apparently fans.

^^^ this is amazing, thanks for bringing it to my attention. Here’s the back story.

https://jazztimes.com/features/profiles/the-true-boundary-pushing-story-of-gene-howard-and-love-is-a-drag/

No problem. I love how it’s short and doesn’t overstay its welcome.

thanks for that story!

his Sci Fi Hi Fi mix cd is where it all started for me. amazing stuff.

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Nice!

https://moontoothny.bandcamp.com/album/phototroph

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Oswald von Wolkenstein on EMI Reflexe

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Career spanning compilation of soft soul band from Philadelphia, pretty funky too. Lush might also be a descriptive.
THink I picked this up in a sale somewhere though I think I had some stuff by them previously. THis has been sitting in a pile beside my bed for a while so I kept seeing the name down the spine. Had to replace a cd that was skipping last week so stuck this on which I'd been meaning to do for a while. Glad i did so, this is sweet and funky and all like that.

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disc 1 of this box set by the Liverpool psych combo. I just read the Will Sergeant memoir Bunnyman so wanted to stick on some of their material & not sure where individual discs are.
THis starts with 4 tracks still with the drum machine which I thought I'd read was called Echo but doesn't seem to be repeated in the Bunnyman memoir, so maybe some spiel for the music weeklies. The rhythms remain the same throughout which just about works but I can see why they would want to add some more fluid rhythms and Seymour Stein apparently wouldn't sign them without a drummer. So they got a friend's boarding school mate from a school in Somerset to join them. NOt sure about the logistics of that or exactly when they were schoolmates sounded like it was at the time he was needed.
Interesting to note that pretty much every member apart from this drummer Pete de Freitas started playing around teh time they joined the band. Sergeant and McCullough jammed together for moths on instruments tehy had just got and were set up with a support gig for Teardrop Explodes at which point Les Pattinson stepped in to play bass and bought a bass on the same day which he went on to teach himself. Sergeant talks about how odd his style is, he directs his stroke the opposite way to most players which apparently makes playing more tiring, He did come up with some pretty decent basslines though.
This goes through the first 2 lps taking 4 or 5 tracks from each and adds in some tracks from singles and Peel Sessions etc.
Quite a decent listen, think I need to find my copy of Heaven Up here since it's my favourite of theirs. Probably Crocodiels and Porcupine too really.

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2nd lp by SF group formed by Texas blues guitarist. Seems to exst in its own foggy sonundworld which I think may be down to some influence from Sgt pepper at least in the idea of what one could get from a studio creatively. I had this in my early/mid teens not sure how I picked it up but I think I played it a few times. THink I had it on cd in the mid 90s though not in as good a mastering as this which I picked up a few years ago. It has been relegated to a shelf for the last couple of years until I was looking for my Pelt Ayahuasca which I still haven't found.
Do enjoy this, spacey bluesy stuff with good use of melody. Still somewhat psychedelic but also looking for its own thing I think. Anyway I think its a good lp that I'm not sure is very well known apart from a couple of tracks which turn up on best ofs etc.

i love that steve miller band album.
picked up the cd years ago not really knowing anything other than his big hits.
yeah, this album aint anything like those.

sunday evening vibes to soundtrack a glass of wine :

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teeth of the sea : master

a band that on paper always sounded like the perfect hit for me : epic noise, instrumental, synths, guitars, psych.
however, until today the urge has never really hit hard.
but this evening, this is totally working its magic.

I have the first couple of lps I think. I saw them in London around then too. Several used to work in the HMV shop on Oxford st.
Nice expansive Kraut/psych landscapes.

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THat was one I really loved in my teens. Particularly the track Lemon Chimes.

Do love Doug's work with Gene Clark too especially the first lp. I have the 2 together as a 2fer set.

Is Wheatstraw Suite the first post Doug Dillard lp? Hadn't taken that in until I noticed that his name was missing from the RYM credits or had forgotten. May have read that somewhere years ago. & is that actually why he was free to work with Clark? Had assumed he was doing both.
Do think I enjoyed it anyway and Lemon Chimes had a haunting nostalgic air I liked at the time.

yep: banjo provided by herb pederson on ws up till the early 70s albums i think

i'm a fan of all things dillard(s) that i've heard, but wheatstraw suite is something special

Babe Ruth - 1975 Montreal concert on YouTube. Haan is great on this.

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1977 solo live recording by New Orleans pianist which I think was covermounted on a magazine. I bought it 2nd hand last week after being semi aware of the artist. It's taking me a while to get overly excited by this but I'm seeing something iI think. Not sure how well this works as an introduction which I think the series was intended to be.
May be back to this and may find some other recordings to see if they are any more immediate. Can see some intricacy and stuff not sure he's likely to be a favourite artist but ask me in 10 years time.

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Postpunk era offshoot of Henry Cow that sound a bit pere Ubuish or something. THink my 3 changer has been skipping discs again so not heard this as much as I was hoping. It was something that I'd seen for the last few weeks as i went through discs and wanted to hear, so specifically looked for it this week.
It's windplayer/multi-istrumentalist Tim Hodgkinson who is now singing and Chris Cutler on drums plus 2 new guys. Think its quite enjoyable.
Looks like discs are getting dirty from being in the cd player which is odd so this started glitching and getting stuck repeating a 3 second section. Dang.
I think I picked this up in an RERMegacorp shop £5 sale a few years ago and is probably something i should be more familiar with. I think I have See somewhere too which I picked up from a Tower sale back in Dublin days.

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Big Beat remaster of dark psychedelic lp by twin-drummed band that gave the Doors their live bassist. It seems to be mastered a little quietly so I think I was needing to turn it up from the volume i had the other 2 on.
I had this on after reading the Ugly Things article a few days earlier. Article is same writer and reworking the linernotes more thoroughly.
Some nice guitar and interplay plus the lyrics get pretty dark. So worth hearing I think. I like the genre a lot and this is quie good but not sure if it would ever be an absolute favourite. Does have its moments anyway.

oh yeah have been listening to a lot of single tracks from the discography in Sue Steward's Salsa! as well as ones from the Discography of Eric Charry's Mande Music alongside what Spotify has suggested otherwise. between podcasts on Spotify.

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Still holds up remarkably well.

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compilation of 70s recordings by Senegalese band with some fantastic guitar. They go from a heavily Latin sound on their earlier recordings which they returned to later to something closer to the Mande music of local custom. I also have their Pirate's Choice compilation of early 80s recordings which initially appeared in he late 80s then was fully com,piled in the early 00ies and the latin thing is back there.
I do love this set, I think I picked it up initially in the wake of getting the Ambassadeurs and Rail band sets a few years ago and wanting some more of that psychy stuff. Pretty sublime and Barthelemy Aisso's guitar adds a whole other layer. Loping grooves and some of this seems to tie in more with a james Brown influence though i think it is still a step or 2 away from sounding exactly like him. Intensifies the funk anyway.
THere is a set called Belle Epoque of the earlier recordings too and I'm not sure what else you can actually get. Or how easy it is to get this. Blooming great anyway.

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I think this may be a single disc sampler for a larger set. Anyway Best of the minimalist composer taken from a few different operas etc .
Nice repetitive stuff sung in a language I've tried to make out and can't tell if I'm missing bits of an English lyric or the singing is in a different language. Quite enjoying this anyway. & think I need to get some more. I should be more familiar with his ouevre,. have been aware of him since about the mid 80s./
I was goingto put on Vangelis cd Earth as a memorial to him for the week then the cd disappeared. I think a pile went flying . & I had been at a performance for ebow electric guitar and 4 piece classical string ensemble on Sunday that played some track sfrom Glass's Mishima Suite so this made sense plus it was at hand. Will have to stick on Earth when i find it.
Got this when a new local cd shop opened last year which wasa good buy.
I heard a story at Glass partially arriving at his style by mistranscribing Indian classical music which had me thinking about chance elements or reworking mistakes and how they arrive at interesting results.

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1984 set by post punk psychedelic band with Robert Smith on guitar for the 2nd time. I had a couple of the John McGeoch lps around as I went back through piles looking for the Vangelis lp on Sunday and couldn't decide which to go for, among a few other titles. So when this turned up I decided for it instead. I think I'd actually wondered if I'd had it a week or so before. Maybe thought triggered by listenig to teh Curious Creatures podcast done by Lol Tolhurst and Budgie.
THis has some very interesting textures as well as the band playing around with strings and things.
Glad I put this on cos I'm appreciating how good it is, think I may have dismissed it as more mediocre from memory. Do love those McGeoch titles though.
I don't really know the band after this so probably need to check those out.
This would have been around teh time I was getting into punk and postpunk after having spent time more into 60s psych. BUt I'm not sure what I had, think I had Scream at some point though it may have been years earlier, Once Upon A Time the singles set and possibly Nocturne double lp. Should have discovered the Mcgeoch lps much earlier. I think I enjoyed the singles when they were in the charts. Had far less access to new music at the time though. No internet for one.
But I guess Siouxsie's pretty solid.

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Orchestra Baobab - thanks, ILX!

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orchestra boabab - made in dakar

I think Made in Dakar is years later than A Night At Club Baobab so is going to be more Latin influenced than a lot of the music on that.
Still has Barthelemy Atisso on guitar but I think the Mande elements are less pronounced. Pirate's Choice is also great.

If you like the sound you might be interested in Etoile De Dakar which was a band that Youssou N'Dour was in for years and grew out of the Star Band whose name they translated. The compilation Once Upon A time in Senegal is quite superlative.

I also really love Les Ambassadeurs du motel de Bamako who are far more Mande influenced though do have some Latin tinges as Latin was something that exploded across Africa in the 50s and early 60s and also have long loping grooves played on electric instruments. There was a great 2cd put out by Stern's about 10 years ago which is fantastic. 1 disc features the vocals of Salif Keita who is a brilliant singer.

Their contemporaries in Bamako were the Rail band who have a lot of their material mopped up as a 3 x 2cd series called Belle Epoque. I have the 2nd volume and probably ought to have the other 2. But Vol 2 features Salif keita.

Also if you can find it and the time to read it I would recommend the book Mande Music by ethnomusicologist Eric Charry which gives a history of the music dating back to about the 13th century and a chapter on the electric version played by these bands.

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on Spotify

Haha so Steve Perry was not just influenced by Cooke, he was straight-up quoting "Nothing Can Change This Love" on "Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'". He should have probably got a writing credit.

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late 40s radio broadcasts by charlie parker live at the royal roost

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Finally got a copy of this now that it has been remastered and reissued. Quite sublime set. Irish folk material reworked in the mid 70s.
I have been aware of the existence of this for years but not been familiar with it. So, glad to have it now.
Pretty essential if you like this genre. I don't think that's hyperbole. & remaster/reissue is 2 or 3 months old at the moment.

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Potomak cd reissue of german metal percussion band's 4th lp. THis is so resonant throughout deep bass tones punctuated with metal on metal beats. Seems like they are going against their previous directive of anti-music and are more about making music out of sound. There are bits of orchestration in places too. & a great version of Morning Dew which seems to set a bit of a tone, as much as the opening bass tones of Zerstorte Zelle.
I think this is thought o0f asa lesser lp but listening to it for the last week it strikes a major tone with me.I need to listen through the rest of their material I have and hopefully pick up a couple more of the Potomak reissues. I also remember this was the lp whose London performance featured Showaddy Waddy as the support act. Not sure how teh band fel;t about that, seems overly gimmicky really and probably down to one time manager Stevo (not where I got my name btw)

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Disc 2 of this which includes Rambling some more of the music from the lp Change of The Century and others from This Is Our Music. Its set up chronologically so doesn't follow lp tracklisting which may mean a different contextualisation of material included. Some of the material also appeared on later mop up compilations but I think this is a handy way of having things. I think I will return to this set for later discs soon. Do need to familiarise myself much better with his material . Hope to get hold of one of his biographies soon, the Howard Mandel book i read recently was quite good.

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one day i will find a copy of that ian carr record!

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Tine Surel Lange - Works for Listening 1-10

Angel Rat is cool. I should pull it out.

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questlove and james poyser remix pharrell's in my mind.

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The more Lo fi of a 2 voume series of the band from Benin West Africa. Really rather funky. Combines heavy influence from James Brown and other Western influences with some more traditional influences. This set was the music they recorded for smaller more independent labels in West Africa as opposed to its companion volume's recording in the much more up to date studio of EMI in Lagos. Not sure why I never got the other volume, need to remedy that. THink I mainly listened to this as tracks on random on my walkman which is rater neglectful of me since this is so 'kin superlative.
The one problem with listening to this on a 3 changer is that it has a hidden track like 10 minutes after the end of the music, which si a French language interview I think followed by another track of music. So I have to remember to switch discs at the end of the music. I don't think I'm a big fan of hidden tracks.
But jeez this is so great. Really not great that I don't listen to this even more. I think the cover image may fit the sound rather well.
Wondering if this music has had a direct influence on anybody. Cos would love to hear that if so. Just think things like this could revitalise rock and stuff which is probably not the best perspective sinc eit should be celebrated in itself and I don't want to encourage cultural appropriation but do think, what would garage/psych or punk with bits of this sound like and hope one isn't going to come up with Vampire Weekend who i did just about enjoy when they first appeared but were a bit white.

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I'd rather think of this with this cover than the one i have on the cd
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The bathroom cover just seems so much more stylish. & strikes me as much more synaesthetic than the street hippies one.
I think the band had better technology for this lp and a producer who was looking for a more polished product. I just listened to a Lydia Lunch podcast where she had Michael Zilka of ze records as the guest. He disparaged the lp itself as not having the feeling he would have liked, though he did like Dream Baby Dream/Radiation which are hear as bonus tracks. I really like it, it has some tracks on i I really love and sing in the shower etc.
I find the music really funky, Rev is really good at programming rhythm. I think the first lp has a pretty great rhythmic swing too. & the melodies he is using on top of that here are more pronounced too. Vega is pretty fantastic too. I think this is an archetypal sound that I would like to hear was heavily influential. But would hate to be universal since i think it took some taste to pull off.
Do love Diamonds , Fur Coat, Champagne and Harlem especially. BUt rest is good.

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Stompy proggy early 70s material by ex-Aphrodite's Child multimusician and future solo star.
I got this when it turned up cheap on Discogs a couple of years ago. Think it's quite good. Stompiness seems to verge on glam but other aspects of music seem more complex. I thinK i need to pick up another couple of the lps from around this era, not sure about later. Though his s/trk stuff was quite good. This was one of his first solo lps after leaving Aphrodites Child who are also worth checking out if you're not familiar with them. Combines heavy Greek folk themes with Western rock/pop influences which is prevalent here too.
Found this in a pile I'd set up to stop it getting lost while I searched through a load of cds. So finally getting to hear it a couple of weeks after it was quite as topical as it would have been. So RIP Vangelis.

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SALVATORE SCIARRINO: Musiche per il "Paradiso" di Dante

seth nehil - flock & tumble: lovely electroacoustic
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Chinchilla, how is that Sciarrino?

xxxxpost Stevolende, did you refer in passing to this other Orchestre Poly-Rythmo Continou, Echos Hypnotiques, Vol. 2 ?
My gateway and Top Ten that year:
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xpost Also really dig this collection, pretty no-budget demos in some cases, but yeah The Skeletal Essences of Afro Funk indeed!
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Some others, like the one you show, I still need to get to. Agree that Western bands should pick up on this Western etc.-aware, definitely African sound, keep things going back and forth.

Speaking of Ella, the local jazz station still plays some really good performances from these long-lost tapes, finally released a couple of years ago:

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Wow didn't know about those. I've been going through my LP collection, pulling out unjustly neglected records. These three are all gems.

Dow yes that green cover set was the other much better produced material volume in the same series as the king fu pose one.
Not sure why I never got hold of it since Voudun one so great. Maybe price and me wanting to buy a load of other stuff at same time. Or that and me thinking will pick this up at next shop I am heading to. Need to remedy

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1964 lp by jazz pianist, with bassist and 2 Latin artists on percussion . So no horns present and the piano is the sole melodic instrument though the percussion adds texture as well as rhythm. Quite tasty, I got this as part of a 5 Original Albums set which I picked up in a Rough Trade sale a few years ago. haven't familiarised myself with the contents of the box as much as i possibly should have. This is pretty good and i need some more Willie Bobo anyway.
IT's largely based on improvisation in the studio , like they seem to have very little written and just jammed up some stuff that turns out to be pretty worthwhile. If so, like wow.
So glad I did go ahead and stick this on this week cos it is a pretty rewarding listen, can get more positive than that about it but am just getting to know it. It's from 1964 and a current Miles Davis sideman so do wonder what the mods or whatever the elite in crowd of that group (which was then being morphed in the public mind by media attention) called themselves thought about it. Would be something you would expect a group of people who had called themselves modernists at one point might be expected to have an opinion on . Not sure if it was something that would be passed down as a must have though may find it was canonical to the Acid Jazz element of mod etc. Anyway just thinking of that since passing through the mod revival at an early age did influence my tastes as i grew up.
& on its own standing this is an lp I think i need to know better but would recommend, though checking out the box set is probably as good a pointer. NOt sure what else I'm missing by him from the era since the set skips a few titles from the era. & goes from 63 to 70 in 5 lps and he probably learnt a lot at the time.

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The first lp from a Ghanaian band that became better known through working with Hugh Masekela on the next 2 lps which I have on his Masekela 66-76 box set, THis is a really good somewhat psychedelic mix of traditional sounds and western influences. It's a bit frustrating cos I'm not seeing a listing of who played what and there are some sounds I would like to know what instruments are making. Like teh coiled spring thing that i assume is a form of jaws harp but could be totally wrong about.
So, great funky lp from 1973. Recommended. I would love to find a book on the African psychedelic lps that show th emix of Western influence and traditional sounds that produced some fantastic lps around this time. Haven't come across one so far , I think I bought a Vernon Joynson book a few years ago that I thought might cover that in depth and i think had way more on settler colonial type youth making western style rock than more indigenous people taking on Western influence and making decent mixtures. Would love to be more thoroughly versed in all of teh individual traditional sounds taht were being mixed with. But think that is an intensive immersive process.
Anyway one of the good African psych lps and that Masekela set is good for a few more things than just their next 2 lps. I think that set was going for pretty cheap when I bought it a while back .

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pretty comprehensive 3cd box set by California guitar band tied into Paisley Underground etc. This week its been the 3rd disc which is mainly live stuff from various sources after 6 demoes featuring a drum machine.
I think the band got television guitar pretty much down. I saw them live at Dingwalls in 85 or 84 which is a period that has several recordings represented here. I think there may be more lead/ rhythm guitar than the interplay that Verlaine and Lloyd had but lead does seem reminiscent of that sound at least, probably schooled a bit differently so may be superficial. Works quite well anyway. I thought Russ Tolman was more prominent asa guitarist so need to see if he does just fall into rhythm role more than Lloyd did.
My memory of the time had the other guitarist Richard McGrath standing on stage looking like the skinhead guy from Diva and pealing out these awesome guitar leads. Though Gavin Blair was a non instrumentalist singer who would be darting around the stage instead of there just being 2 guitarists as the front section. Blair had been drummer in the earlier band The Suspects which also featured Tolman and half of the Rain Parade
It has taken me way too long to get hold of decent representation of this band and also to get back to hear the other discs in this set once i did so. I was very impressed by the first disc here a few months ago. Made me wonder why I hadn't got massively into the drifters album when i had it on vinyl. Live sets do have a lot of covers in but they are done pretty well. Richard Lloyd's Alchemy, The CCR version of I Put A Spell On You, Iggy Pop Lust For life, ELvis Suspicious Minds. All done with that guitar style.
Do enjoy this, though not sure they're quite up to the standard of Thin White Rope who get semi hypnotic at places. Very close to .

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Great album

Stevolende, I'm impressed that you got to see True West at Dingwall's! In my experience, they were mostly working their way through the US boondocks in a crappy little van, when indie rock was especially DIY if you couldn't get on MTV, and I sure never saw them on there (ditto anybody on SST, lots of other labels not so far from show biz central geographically).
Your comments on African bands remind me of these guys, who had I think one album marginally released during their time together, and a collection in 2013, which made my Pazz & Jop ballot:

National Wake---Walk In Africa 1979-1980: Music made by young South Africans, of various RSA racial classifications: punk-funk-reggae-dub, reminding me of Australia's Us Mob, No Fixed Address, Coloured Stone, early live Police, some of Tom Robinson's combos, Bad Brains kinda. The finale, a dub workout, is over 17 min long, like over three times as long as any other, but despite my habitual editorial fantasies, wouldn't part with a particle so far. Would have Top Tenned this set, but already got all those reissues on there already…

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Thanks Dow, band sound interesting. I checked out the title track of tehir compilation earlier. May need to get hold of it.

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halfway successful turntable repair:
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Welsh language 2nd lp by Welsh singer-songwriter in folk and blues orientated electric setting. I also have the previous lp Outloander which I need to dig out and listen to.
Quite a nice lp but I have no idea what he's singing about. This was reissued on Sunbeam about 14 years ago. I think I've enjoyed most of the reissues they've chosen to put out.

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Pretty good covermount cd from the latest Mojo which has Patti Smith on the cover hence this being about music from NYC. It covers Richard Hell, Glenn Branca, Sonic Youth, Moondog and a few others including a spoken word excerpt from Howl read by Alan Ginsberg.
Hangs together quite well I think . So can be listened to several times. I think a load of these cds from Mojo will still stand for relistening in years to come. Can turn me onto some stuff i haven't heard before at times to. I'm not familiar with teh Patti Smith track here anyway.

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Sanctuary era Trojan 2cd of one of Reggae's inventors covering the era of the turn of the 70s from more ska-ish stuff in 67 to early roots stuff in 73. I have managed to listen to both cds this week cos i had to clean the player . I'm still not sure if I can tell rocksteady from ska at immediate listen. But I think there is some evolution.
Quite enjoy this as I do with a lot of this Trojan 2cd set series from the era. Think they were quite exemplary

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I don't think that worked. The Art Tatum Solo Masterpieces 10 LP box, disc 1 now

I'm also listening to that now! Quite a lot to get through in one session, not sure if he's someone that benefits from such an extended set of unaccompanied records, though he does keep up the variety in there. Would prefer a single-CD highlights compilation, if there's one out there.

xxp I heard a similarity between Mad River s/t and the Day Of Phoenix Wide Open N-Way if you haven't heard that No Lime Tangier (did I just spot a pun there when i stop thinking of a place in Morocco. Tasteful fruit won't let you go?)

& BGO released the 2 lps together as a 2cd a few years ago. 2nd has them going more countryish. 1st is a set that was apparently initially pressed too fast so various reissues have correected the speed making it sound a lot less crazed. Still has some pretty tasty extended guitar improvisation. There is also like a 10inch of previously unreleased material that came out about 10 years ago around the time the band's full history was being told in the first issue of Flashback! the magazine that Richard Morton Jack put out. I think I was turned onto them by an article in the 80s psych zine Strange Things Are Happening and picked up the Edsel lp in the wake of that.

Cheers, CaAL! I definitely wouldn't listen to all 10 records in one sitting but it's cool to have it all there to dip into. I look forward to exploring it in more depth.

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well that didn’t work

asocial - religion sucks (the compilation).. angry brutal swedish hardcore

^would message someone with that bio on their dating profile

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Am I thinking right and Hayward has appeared live on drums with Haino so Fushitsusha has literally met This Heat?
Think I may have some recordings of the result somewhere.

But that sounds like it ought to be an lp worth checking out

yeh hayward was dressed as a schoolboy a ala angus young when he played drums for the foosh in london in the 20th C. i remember being disappointed it wasn't jun kosugi. can't remember a thing about the gig. there was a super keiji solo at the spitz where one of the spring heeled jack guys knocked a pint of beer off the mezzanine railing & it fell right in front of keiji weaving the spook - spell well & truly broken.

Farewell to Stromness by Peter Maxwell Davies

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A Foot in Coldwater - All Around Us

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3 Peel sessions from initially all girl punk band. I had assumed this would have Budgie on the 1978 session but that and the 77 one both feature Palmolive . Not sure what else available does, there are a number of punk era live sets around though . She isn't as chaotic as one might assume, there is order here of sorts. I do like the material from those first 2 sessions . Could do with the last session which is Return of era with Bruce Smith of the Pop group on drums not being quite as long. Tracks are like 8-12 minutes and I think could all be a couple of minutes shorter, definitely the longest one.
Reminds me that I never saw the documentary on the band that came out a couple of years ago. I caught the end of it on Sky Arts and thought it would be repeated then I don't think I have seen it being. Did read the 2 books by guitarist Viv Albertine and thought they were great. First one give perspectives on punk era figures that I'm not seeing said elsewhere. Gosh, Sid actually comes off as semi intelligent in places.
Cut is great as I'm sure you know. Return of the Giant Slits I want to hear again . Not really checked out New Age Steppers and there is a reunion lp by the Slits that I have and am not very familiar with

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1978 punk era lp by intense prog band. Pretty dark and more guitar than at their popular peak but I think this sets a template of sorts for some forms of post-punk music.
This is the 2005 remaster where they have sorted out the sound of the returning David Jackson's saxophone better than on the original lp I think. Hammill is on guitar for parts of this and they have the 2 string players onboard too but Hugh Banton the organist who was with them at that early 70s peak has left so textures are a bit different.
Did I mention this was pretty intense. Well maybe better say it again. Do love this era of the band live . There are quite a few sets from like 76-78 doing the rounds but this was the official one. I assume that John Lydon saying they were a fav band of his will have lead to some punky types who wouldn't have been interested attending their gigs. Not sure to what extent that worked though and hoping it would have been positive anyway. Hope it did lead to some decent influences seeping into bands that might have been more generic otherwise and not sure how easy it would be to copy something like this without being aware of its own influences. Might be semi interesting to see where one might wind up if one was trying to do that though, might not be of course.

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Etho-Jazz singer compilation from 2020. I had tracks by him on Ethiopiques #8 which I thought were pretty great so snapped this up when it was released.
NIce mix of traditional sounds and more Western influences from soul, funk, jazz etc.

Hey Camaraderie, I'm on side 4 of the Art Tatum Solo Masterpieces box rn. I really like this one!

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I thin they've targeted the marketing for the song above to BROS and I am not sure why.

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Interesting choice of percussion on that there lp. Think it includes concrete slabs, they seemed to live at least.
I have that somewhere as well as at least one live set I hope. Need to check old hard drives though.
Do love Caspar with the Massaker trio and Mufti with Neubauten.

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Third album from this now

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deep in the radical sensitivity of an introspective summer for this month’s show on @ntslive: 80s/90s sounds + newer things from @htrk_, you’ll never get to heaven, and hysteric love project (who just put out a lovely thing on @motionward). 12PM PST. come say hi in the chat. ☁️ pic.twitter.com/R31hbycJ0h

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Masami Akita & Russell Haswell - Satanstornade

Many, many xposts... The latest Sciarrino on Kairos is wonderful, I listened to it every night for about a week and hey I might put it on again after this noise is over.

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Kali Malone - Living Torch

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Finally found a vinyl copy. Sounds more spacious and less squashed than the CD version I have, even with a bit of surface noise on side 1.

Advance tracks here:
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This sounds so terrific, so pure, that I'm thinking of getting a turntable and taking up vinyl again.

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disc one which is
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plus 3 tracks. Instrumental dub stuff by the Upsetter simple poppy tunes done well with heavy rhythm.
I was looking through a pile of cds last week and i found this loose among them so thought I'd bung it on when I changed the discs over for the week .
Another great Trojan era Sanctuary 2cd set. I have a few of these Lee Perry ones.

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Australian band that I camke across supporting the Gun Club the first time i saw them. THought they were great with the line up they had in the mid 80s when they were livingin London the textures of metallic scree of Mick Turner later of teh Dirty 3 and the punching bass of Chris Walsh ex of teh Negatives. Adding to the general haze of the music and Dave Graney's crooning voice. They bunged in some unexpected rhythms things like what I would see as a Northern Soul influence though think its played in a different way than anybody on that scene would,
Great undersung band. Unfortunately living broke in London wasn;t doing them a great deal of good so the band gradually splintered. I think Mick Turner went back to Australia and didn't return then a year or so later Chris Walsh split too. But do love the lp and couple of mini lps that the band cut with that line up . Most of that is here unfortunately not all. But I had to wait years to get hold of this or that is for this to be compiled .
When Turner and Walsh had left they were replaced by a couple of players who had been on the Scottish scene in the shape of Malcolm Ross on Guitar and David McClymont on bass so they were decent players but just not the same as those they replaced and teh chemistry was a bit less magical,

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Recent Mojo covermount dedicated to 70s live Dead though more songform than open improvisation. Quite decent I guess and possibly a good introduction . I can listen to this anyway though do have other material by the band I prefer. Had this floating around my desk area for a while so thought I would give it an ear. So yeah does the job I guess and hopefully turns some other people onto the band. Mojo can do really good covermount cds and this one works

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Spent - Songs of Drinking and Rebellion

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mamahttps://i.discogs.com/vERS7hI4UNeEmErcHczTrt5iMz_SiJulaZZAIUkDCa0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExOTE0/NjAxLTE1MjQ2NTc5/MzgtNzI0Mi5qcGVn.jpeg

I revisited Senyawa’s Alkisah this morning. Holy fuck, what a record. Absolutely unearthly, and yet totally grounded and human. I’m incredibly grateful that they let me be one of the labels to release it.

https://senyawa-bam.bandcamp.com/album/alkisah

https://i.discogs.com/SqXK1K-Bv-P-kx-qG8NCHKn5oFeBu57NIUExqn9N5Qw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:598/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTYyOTgz/LTExMjk1NzU0ODMu/anBlZw.jpeg 1996 - some ropey accordion techno, but "hope processor" is absolute killer 10 min thumping drone & herky jerk blippety shit that wouldn't be out of place on mego

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god i love Woo

A truly lovely album, appeals to my love of fusty-quality analogue synths doing cheery naive melodies. A sort of harbinger of Position Normal and F ingers.

One track reminds me of the Sorry! theme tune, and for mostly different reasons to Cardiacs' Insect Hoofs on Lassie which also does

That's the Woo I have. THink I read a review somewhere of an earlier lp that made it sound semi magical at least. May have got this from a Recommded sale or something.
Has been quite a while since i've played it.
But yeah think it was quite noice

earlier lp is Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are going Wrong which is a phrase that has stuck in my head for various reasons ever since I think though don't think I connected it to the lp it came from. Sounds like a harsher vibe than I connect to the Woo I have.
Like it seems existentialist verging on nihilistic. Reasons to revision etc.

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semi ambient seeming r'n'b lp by son of Johnny Otis and sometime potential Rolling Stones member. I think this version of the lp which is the Luaka Bop one fro9m the 90s comes with about half of the previous lp Freedom Flight as bonus. Superlative guitar and very laid back atmosphere. I think this is a must hear still. I found that Lewis Taylor's 1st s/t lp shared a lot of qualities with this when I first had it.
Otis plays a lot of instrument so this and programmes the drum machine quit effectively. Sounds almost like it is an actual drumkit. On Inspiration Information he is augmented by strings and horns, on the previous lp its mainly him multi-instrumentalising.
very good and yet again should be listened to by me much more.

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Feedback drenched 2nd lp by Bristol based band I think they may be tied in to Shoegaze but they seem to have a very idiosyncratic approach.
I'm also not sure to what extent this was a band and not mainly a one person project.
Do love the combination of melody and fuzz and do find them reasonably unique.
I think this was a mid 90s cd I picked up somewhere. Not sure if the 2016 reissues had any more linernotes or anything cos this has very little.

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Canadian punk/post-punk band with prosaic lyrics and reminiscences of bubblegum rhythm and thereby or more closely Talking Heads. Interesting stuff i picked up after reading a review . Think they're pretty good, have seen some dismissive reviews of them recently.
Vocalist has a weird voice.

(that middle one is flying saucer attack's further)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJiSKyKGsM4

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florian hecker / yasunao tone - palimpsest
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xpost - funny, I was just listening to the live album from which part of that album was pulled:

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That's a really good album (the full Live In Tokyo).

Yeah, it's killer.

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Sorry...making a playlist.

"Fart Her Along"
"Fart Her On Down the Road"

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a vegetative listening afternoon after a sleepless swelter last night: highlights:
https://i.discogs.com/FWyS5s8VoO4ogW87V_b7QqTpEMTC94t8tRA6P_hURTI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:597/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQwMTMy/OS0xMTU1NDYyOTQ0/LmpwZWc.jpeg surprisingly cardiacsy & uncomfortable sounding with that keening weirdness they had back on the fat skier
and christian lillinger's grund's "C O R":
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which is like braxton's #96 but much groovier, lillinger is up there w/ andrew cyrille, thurman barker, nick fraser, chris corsano, kevin shea et al

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Digging into as much Halim El-Dabh as I can today; went through Leyila and the Poet on CD, from the Sony 20th Century Masterworks box, then all the acoustic pieces on Naxos Music Library, now delving into more of the electronic works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR2YprO04zk

i read this thread so much more than i post in it. i want to discuss things! limbo!! shuggie! weird stuff that i don't know! big sigh. thank you all for sharing.

i've discovered the chilean folky/proggy rock group los jaivas. just into the first album now and there's lot of hand percussions and chanty kind of vocals. maybe mildly santana-ish but a lot more folky? or incredible string band, but without the relenting trippiness (tho definitely trippy at times). more than a few albums on the internet jukebox, so yippeeeee off i go. . . !

also anybody like anouar brahem? mystical soothy early morning times jams. very pleasant.

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Souljazz compilation of 1980s Bronx minimalist funk band's career. I think this is quite comprehensive and maintains great groove throughout. IT does leave some tracks off the e.p. and lp but what is here is pretty dashed fine.
Emerald, Sapphire and Gold were 3 of the members' birthstones.
Picked this up around the time it was released but haven't played it in a while. I think it's quite infectious.
A band put together to keep the Scroggins sisters, cousins and friends off the streets. So this is a great result. Is this 80s street funk?
Punk meets funk meets repetition and some slinky grooves.
This is all early material, the band reformed and put together several lps between the turn of the 90s and now.

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3rd lp by SF based psychedelic rock band. Veers between near white noise guitar explosion to far more spacious grooves.
Picked up all their cds in the mid 00ies and haven't listened to them in a while. Saw them around that point and impressed them with my shimmying throughout the set. But have been neglecting the cds.
Cd opens with this gush of guitar rush which reminds me of something like the Blue Humans or similar guitar noise. BUt yeah does intersperse with waves of far more minimal semi melodic touches. Some points where there are notes being played far more sparsely but I think mainly in waves and grooves. THink I need to find the other cds and listen through them.
LIke they base things in 60s & 70s rock but reinvent things to something more individual. Howlin Rain Ethan Miller;s next project is also really good as are the various incarnations of 6 Organs of Admittance the band lead by Ben Chasny who is also a mainstay of this band post the first lp.

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Compilation of early 70s singles by Turkish dentist/folk singer. Here backed by band with great keyboardist.
Pretty atmospheric. Turkish psych stuff.
I picked this up from a sale in Guerssen records after the first lockdown eased enough for them to start being able to send packages out again. Quite enjoy this area of music . Eastern European/Middle Eastern folk influenced reworking of turn of the 70s Western rock influences..

OMG LIMBO
where do you listen to it??
it's not on spotify
tar kissers ftw

wait this makes me realize that i OWN it and it's in my chest of cd's ........... score

went through a phase a couple of months ago where all i could listen to was Kristin for like a month straight - she / the muses and Led Zeppelin are for me the most consistent rock musicians ever, album after album

here's limbo in full on youtube.

oh that's right! i forgot about that

THink I need to find the other cds and listen through them.

Yes, yes you do. All of their albums are great, Field Recordings from the Sun is probably my favorite.

I'm revisiting this gem today:

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pneumaphone project

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ellen arkbro - sounds while waiting

https://i.discogs.com/kGORDsNzWSaf-RsYDnbSW13r9yRRAyev1_SLLI5zsYs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:588/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEyMDQ5/MDgzLTE1MjcyNjcz/NzYtNjkyMy5qcGVn.jpeg rafael toral - space quartet. clean feed stock off delivery innit. also been enjoying cp unit before the heat death which is ornette/luttenbachers fun https://i.discogs.com/68t_lfX8MsQd6mLsW_VC1xz5SAondevcaZhZMsyYkho/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk3MzIz/MjktMTQ4NTUwNTgw/NC0yMDA5LmpwZWc.jpeg

Thanks for the link to Halim El-Dabh's music.

You're welcome! I was barely aware of him until recently but he was really good! Made musique concrète before Schaeffer. His work always seems to keep one foot in Middle Eastern tradition and maintain an approachability and clarity of form.

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