What Are You Listening to? 2020

Groovies, even.

Went back to one of my all-time most-listened-to to fall asleep last night
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in the top 2% of piano trio perfection!

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Pretty authentic sounding turn of the 70s britfolk rock stuff. Actually from the early 00s.
Recently reissued with a bonus 2nd cdr through Cardinal Fuzz.
Very nice, haven't heard teh 2nd disc yet

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LIve set by Japanese psych group. O)verload typical of some of this PSF stuff. A little bit of structure i here too.
Think its pretty great.
Have seen it's up on Bandcamp

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Still got the 2nd disc of this on my 3 charger . Put it on last week.
I think that takes Bland from around 1970 on wards.
Pretty great soul stuff. I think I've mainly concentrated on the 1st disc of this previously cos it has the songs i knew from mid 60s beat groups covers as well as the Grateful Dead.
But disc2 is pretty tasty too.

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Hillage's first solo lp backed by the post Daevid Allen Gong and Lindsay Cooper. Pretty much carries on the sound from the Flying Teapot trilogy. Pretty great, thought I'd finally grab a couple of his solo titles in the wake of reading Mike Barnes' A New Day Yesterday.

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overdriven rock by Bristol psych band. Haven't really taken in which disc is which in this set. This one sounds like its got very low production levels, verite like.

Are you following the post-18th Day of May bands, Stevolende? The Left Outsides and The Trimdon Grange Explosion are both putting out really good records broadly along the same lines as 18DoM.

Have cds by both. Which are pretty good.
I think Left Outsides have a new one due.

Classic Chicago cosmic earthy stratafying:

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As Peter Magarsak says in liner notes:
...the group injects something new and distinctive into every piece, including the opener “Orgasm,” an Alan Shorter tune from 1969 that Taylor first arranged for a 2018 project in Philadelphia, which toggles between groovy hypnosis and spacey yet tumultuous exploration. And group originals take their own directions from that gateway.

released March 27, 2020

JOSH JOHNSON - synth bass, organ, piano
ROB MAZUREK - piccolo trumpet, electronics, bells
JEFF PARKER - electric guitar
CHAD TAYLOR - drums and percussion

https://astralcuq.bandcamp.com/

Ditto Jeff Parker's latest solo album

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“I’m always looking for ways to be surprised,” says composer and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Parker as he explains the process, and the thinking, behind his new album, Suite for Max Brown, released via a new partnership between the Chicago–based label International Anthem and Nonesuch Records. “If I sit down at the piano or with my guitar, with staff paper and a pencil, I’m eventually going to fall into writing patterns, into things I already know. So, when I make music, that’s what I’m trying to get away from—the things that I know.”
eleased January 24, 2020

Build a Nest (feat. Ruby Parker)
Jeff Parker - drums, vocals, piano, electric guitar, Korg MS20
Ruby Parker - vocals

C’mon Now
Jeff Parker - sampling, editing

Fusion Swirl
Jeff Parker - electric guitar, bass guitar, samplers, percussion, vocals

After the Rain
Paul Bryan - bass guitar
Josh Johnson - electric piano
Jeff Parker - electric guitar and percussion
Jamire Williams - drums

Metamorphoses
Jeff Parker - glockenspiel, sequencer, sampler, Korg MS20

Gnarciss
Paul Bryan - bass guitar
Josh Johnson - alto saxophone
Katinka Kleijn - cello
Rob Mazurek - piccolo trumpet
Makaya McCraven - drums and sampler
Jeff Parker - electric guitar, JP-08, sampler, midi strings

Lydian, Etc
Paul Bryan - bass guitar
Jeff Parker - electric guitar, pandeiro, midi programming, etc.

Del Rio
Paul Bryan - bass guitar
Jeff Parker - electric guitar, mbira, sampler, Korg MS20, drums, electric piano

3 for L
Jay Bellerose - drums and percussion
Jeff Parker - electric guitar, Korg MS20

Go Away
Paul Bryan - bass guitar and vocals
Makaya McCraven - drums
Jeff Parker - electric guitar, vocals and sampler

Max Brown
Paul Bryan - bass guitar
Josh Johnson - alto saxophone
Jeff Parker - guitar, Korg MS20, JP-08
Nate Walcott - trumpet
Jamire Williams - drums

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/suite-for-max-brown

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enchanted hunters - dwunasty dom

https://latarnia.bandcamp.com/album/la017-dwunasty-dom

tagged as hip hop for some reason...
polish synth pop

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Whoa, thx brimstead for the Enchanted Hunters share--well-done electro-pop w/ live drums IMO! Very neat.

Tonally-appropriate early-morning sleep aid atm
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reissue form '17, repressed last year.

That's a really great album! I got it in '17

Just bought and DLed this a half-hour ago (2h30m to go)--very impressed with it so far
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xps just DL'd that 75 Dollar Bill, psyched

Where are you guys getting that? Not seeing it on their bandcamp.

www.cafeoto.co.uk

Whatta trove, thanks!!

for a good cause, as well!

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"worried blues" !!

Cleaning my basement and going through boxes of old promo CDs. I’ve had five Putumayo African collections on shuffle for the past week. I know they got a bad rap as yuppie wallpaper music or whatever, but I’m finding them extremely comforting right now.

Just (presently) gimme indie rock
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AC fucking DC with my morning coffee

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^ Heck yeah--Powerage is my go-to but damn if that one does not also kick all of the ass
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xp Powerage/HtH is the peak, I agree, in retrospect I shoulda thrown on the live one which imo has superior versions of numerous LTBR tunes

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