What are you listening to? 2021

The Standells Dirty Water

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On a Bill Fox kick today.

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recently released compilation of Ethiopian funk . Great fuzz guitars and stuff.
UNfortunately nop liner notes. So I need to see if the label will sell me a set o fthe liners for the 12" vinyl versions. I'm assuming taht is the problem here for some reason looks like the complete set on vinyl gets a linernote booklet but the cd doesn't and I thin the same is true for the individual sets not sure why they couldn't make a 5" set of teh lnernotes too.
Would like to know what Ayalew is singing about

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I bought the originak album series of Mountain lps when I heard that Leslie West had died over Xmas. Not sure why I hadn't picked up on them before. Have picked up on West's earlier band The Vagrants.
Listening to this over the last few days shows me more nuance than I first thought but still not sure how good the sound on this is .
NIce heavy stuff but now hearing other dimensions to it.

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free cd with the book on the Third Ear Band that came out recently . it claims to be the Unreleased lp The Dragon Wakes sounds like the band from different times though and some bits with a great sense of groove. I thought I got a version of the Dragon Wakes with the Esoteric version of the 2nd lp as Elements. Anyway some great semi hypnotic music that I'm glad to have./
THis unreleased lp has more electric input than I was expecting.

Listening to Phelimuncasi's out-of-print 2016, 'Intakatho Yama Phelimuncasi.'

oh man I gotta check out that Third Ear Band thing, I am similarly confused as I have expanded versions w/at least some of those songs

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A couple of Canadian deathened black metal albums:
Shezmu - À Travers Les Lambeaux (from Montreal)
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Brulvahnatu - Menstrual Extraction Ceremony (from Edmonton - I dig the Caroliner-y cover)
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Fuckin' Flyin' A-Heads 7"

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the entire "alphabet series" by Thomas Brinkmann

oonce oonce oonce

Early 60s jazz albums that feature a conga or other Latin percussion player, but not necessarily Latin jazz. Currently digging Johnny Lytle Trio with Ray Barretto.

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the entire "alphabet series" by Thomas Brinkmann

wow that's gotta take a while!

for me, On The Beach.

lol it was just over 5 hours for the Brinkmann series

On The Beach rules

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^ Nice--listening now, and the trombone/stand-up bass combo on the bottom end gives a bit of a Threadgill-y tint

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Ved Buens Ende - Written In Water
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Karmacipher - Introspectrum
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Grim Reaper - Rock You to Hell

Tewepaf
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i've decided Steve Grimmett is the evil metal version of Lou Gramm

Grimm, Gramm, it works

I have always wondered about them but never checked em out, big fan of the see you in hell sleeve

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timeless early Theo Parrish comp

xpost i mean it's pure cheese, pretty much the exact caricaturic thing most people think of when they think of 80s heavy metal which...is why I love it. plus dude had piiiipes, man.

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^ Big up Predatah masseev 'ead, big up Aich Ah Geezah

The 'Trilogy of Knowledge' at the end of this is both too Xtian and neo-classical/-operatic for me, but it is admittedly v unique--whole A-side fully charmed me w/ its charmingly weirdo prog-thrash, tho
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Frak - 88-92 >> Ext. Tempo Mix By Parlour <<

mnml lefield electronic hijinks from sweden, on d lissvik’s label.

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BGO 2cd has the 2 lps paired with the correct playing speed on the 1st lp.

Day of Phoenix really reminded me of the sound of Mad River on their first lp. Not sure if 2nd lp is anywhere near as good. Esoteric paired the 2 recently.

I think there was a thorough telling of the Mad River story in an early edition of Flashback! The Richard Morton Jack fanzine from about 5 years ago.

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Dodgy cultural appropriating sleeve masks a pretty decent Italian prog lp . I heard soe bits of this on Spotify and enjoyed the squalling guitar which reminded me of Ray Russel's in Running Man.
THink this is pretty great and apparently it does get a lot of recognition among fans of the genre. Not really sure why it's taken me so long to discover this. Have been semi aware of it for a couple of decades but not really heard it until I started looking through Italian prog stuff this year and hearing tracks on Spotify. Does occur to me that at one point in the early 00ies I had a habit of d/ding stacks of MP3s so do now wonder if I heard any of it then. Glad to find it now anyway. It's in a digipak paper sleeve from BTF.it who I bought it from.

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Quite impressive hard rockking compilation of material by the band evolved out of the Pleasure Seekers the Quatro sisters earlier 60s band.
I think this is the Sundazed release of an earlier set that had been cdr only and released by a smaller label. This was last year's record store day release. I had been interested in teh cdr version a few years ago but i think it had been put on a backburner because of price or availability. So really glad to have it . I think it stands up to repeated listens. Not sure what competition they had as all female rockers at the time, Ace of Cups were around San Francisco is as far as I can think right at this moment, might be different at other times. Fanny are a little later.
I think I might look into getting that Pleasure Seekers companion release on the strength of this and possibly some of Suzi's 70s stuff.

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compilation of several lps across a few years before the 2005 release of this.
I love the swirling guitars which i think are by Jonah Sithole who was trying to translate the influence of the mbira to the guitar. Not sure if this is him I'm not really seeing credits for players on here. But really nice stuff and i think i need more by him.
I remember reading about Mapfumo in the music press in the early to mid 80s so really should have checked him out way before this. What turned me onto him recently is a Zoom webinar on the mbira that happened a few weeks ago.
There are several mbira in the mix here alongside the guitar on all tracks too

re: the mad river s/t... my copy looks like a post-2000 reissue, but no idea if it's the "corrected" version or not. think i may be alone in preferring the follow-up lp: their particular brand of acid fried pysch is still present, but leavened with country/folk elements.

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Nice reggae comp from 1980 on EMI

Savatage - Sirens

Eximperituserqethhzebibšiptugakkathšulweliarzaxułum - Šahrartu

(thanks jon)

^ I'm also keen on checking out Eximperitusetc.

Listening to the Hennies piece on this
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With supplemental interview viewing here
(where the interviewer is David Grubbs,
which is a nice bonus IMO where you can really tell in a sweet way
by his questions and demeanour that he's been teaching for a while):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwyGhCYgQ6Y

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you just get numb

can’t find it anywhere

sorry, not drunk (or depressed, really). just, yknow, eagles doom n gloom

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the early 80s are back - not only that, but what a voice

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