What Are You Listening to? 2020

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^^ good one, it's been years since I listened

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^ Nice

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Threadgill-inspired knotty-headed T.O. quintet
led by guitarist Ken Aldcroft, who passed away suddenly in 2016

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Noice. Fuzzed out electric saz stuff. Sounds enough like guitar that i coulds see it becoming an influence for some.
Noodlesome brilliance. yum.
I think Uzelli was a german based label catering to the immigrant population back when the Turks were the big immigrant workforce there.
This just came out a month or so ago. There's a companion volume of psych related stuff from the same label that I think I might look into getting. Also want to increase my other Anadolu Psych stuff. Shouldn't have put that off.

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Has been the first disc of this so far . Sat unplayed on my shelf for way too long. I think I got this in Dublin in the late 90s.
I knew his material largely from other people covering him for years before buying this. His own versions are quite classic as tehy are, he was a great singer and a great songwriter.
I worked next to somebody who had direct contact with him in the late 60s when I was selling historic posters in Dublin.
Shame about his personal life.

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got this in a box set thing of 5 lps which I think I mainly picked up because i was grabbing things from a sale. & I think mainly put it in my 3 changer cos it was lying around in the vicinity & i needed a 3rd disc.
Really enjoying it. Think his solo stuff from the 50s and 60s seems to be pretty consistent.

^ "Succotash" on that Herbie album is esp great IMO--nice propulsive uptempo danceable vamp-out in the vein of Ahmad Jamal's "Poinciana"

new archie shepp x damu the fudgemunk
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Thought this recent quarantine-era podcast interview w/ the drummer who joined Fairport right after this one was pretty interesting:
http://www.thetrapset.net/261-dave-mattacks-fairport-convention-nick-drake-brian-eno-xtc-paul-mccartney-etc/

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That Jacques Loussier OST has some brilliant tracks. Thank you no lime tangier.

no worries! not sure anything else he did is in a similar vein to that but would love to know.

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new music circles

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bruce cockburn - stealing fire

I need to get to know this guy better, this album rules.

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"This is the story of three Texas boys busy mindin' their own bidnis"

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new m geddes gengras is imo well goood

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Little known prog band i think. THink I payed £2 for this in Sister Ray a coupolke of years ago. Seems to have 3 songs each from each of the 3 lps. If tits as good as the material here i might have another look at the rest of their work.

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James Brown produced lp by r'n'b organist , backed by James Brown band of the time.
I Think thi sis feircer than other stuff by him.
Also features a couple of tracks backed by some of Funkadelic

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2cd best of late singer songwriter. I've been listening to the 2nd cd which starts in about 1979.
I think the first disc is a bit scratched which is a shame cos its got some great stuff on it.
might need to replace it.
THink I need some more stuff by him anyway.

If tits as good as the material here i might have another look at the rest of their work.

a good yardstick, IMO

Helped me get to sleep last night--am trying to pick my poison for tonight atm
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This did the job splendidly, if not for 40 nights
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Psychic Warriors Ov Gaia

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Kick Out The Jams

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75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band Live at Tubby's
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so good

Yeah, that 75 Dollar Bill album is great--I love bands who have the drummer as the live host/mic liaison w/ audience (there's an amazing jazz drummer here where I live, in Toronto, named Nick Fraser who comes to mind in terms of my local scene)

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U.S. Maple - Talker (inspired by reading that Tone Glow Jim O'Rourke interview)
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Gacha Bakradze - Quick Dreams
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Alan Licht & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe - Lost Tonic Session
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Cooooool I love Rob Lowe

Also xp but Jim O'Rourke seemed to refer to "Purple On Time" as being the best-recorded US Maple album (and their best album overall) and the truth is......... I have never listened to it, I remember when it came out all my friends were complaining that the LP pressing was shit shit shit and so I actually passed on that album as a whole, to my shame

I had to refer to the Discogs, uh, discog to refresh my memory when it came to checking that opinion of O'Rourke's, and the fourth one is Acre Thrills (w/ Brian Paulson at Pachyderm, where Albini recorded Rid Of Me and In Utero)--I remember liking but not loving Purple On Time at time of its release, which b/c I was used to U.S. Maple always blowing my mind which each succesive new album was a relative letdown

(XP with, rather)

Oh shit it's 0wen, hey man

Lollllllll I was and am literally listening to this rn

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And ya you're right, nvm, Jim was referring to Acre Thrills

Oh, man, tables turnt!

Am working on another quarantine Dun-Dun demo to post there soon.

https://p-rosa.bandcamp.com/album/the-kinspiral

“ The album is a beautiful mix of long, sprawling ambiance, and trance like psychedelic rock. Mixed in are elements of shoegaze, vaporwave, and almost cinema like interludes of soundscapes. ”

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Whoa, nice--am checking out Berio's Sequenza from this, very cool, was not expecting the avant-courtly feel to the lines/dynamics

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that looks great