What are you listening to? 2021

https://thecee.bandcamp.com/album/canadian-electronic-ensemble

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Early 90s compilation of 60s work by former teen heart-throb. Takes him from doo-woppy r'n'r to his bluesy folky stuff. I got it cheap and was thinking it might be angled more toward that later folky stuff. What's here is pretty good though some of the r'n'r stuff is a bit disposable.
I'm just getting into his voice which now that I notice it is quite great. I think I might need to get his more 65ish stuff in one place which I think exists as one cd . may have even had it way back. NOt sure though.
Do know that somebody invited him into their office at the record label and gave him a blues record which I think was just coming out and t had a lasting effect on his taste. Even though the reason for the gift was a recognition of some influence already there. may have been the early 60s Robert Johnson King of the Delta Blues or something as significant .
Yeah want to get more of that mid 60s stuff which wasn't really circulated at the time and the later 60s stuff which was.
I found this on the cd shelves of a local 2nd hand record shop so was one of the somewhat limited choice of things there but this and the next item for 3Euro a piece wasn't bad so need to check there again regularly.

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2cd of various songs covered by and feeding into the London Blues scene of the early 60s. You get a load of these songs on the lps that came out from taht scene.
Hangs together very well I think and I do enjoy this material. I have only heard teh 2nd disc so far. It has some interesting stuff like Richard perry's Louuie Louie which i somehow don't have elsewhere as far as I can remember. the compilation of him I do have conspicuously does not have it on.
Also Odetta's Bald Headed Woman. BOb Dylan's House of the Rising Son but not an earlier blues version, so maybe that has already appeared elsewhere i the series. Buddy Holly Not Fade Away.
I'll try to remember to keep an eye out for the rest of the series.

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Early 70s lp by jazz singer. This captures her when she was in Japan in 1973 and was given studio time so had to get a pick up band taht features several of Miles Davis band fro that time. Unfortunately not Pete Cosey who might have been interesting but may just have not fit
Anyway great soul jazzy original material.
Shame this is her last album for absolutely years, as well as her first solo one since 64 9 years earlier.
I got into Abbey at the start of teh summer after having only been familiar with the Freedom Now Suite stuff and the European tv appearances related to that. She is pretty dashed great really.

have you heard her album painted lady from 1980 (I think)? I like it a lot. It has Archie Shepp on it.

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I was unfamiliar with Leslie Winer, but this new compilation is excellent. Dubby/arty, combination of spoken and sung pieces, she's cool.

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Yeah that C witch lp is pretty great. JOrdan has a go at her in Defying Gravity which i'd like to know more about. Apparently her relationship with matthew Ashman wasn't very healthy. I knew he was on the lp but nothing much more about them being a couple or anything.

I came across the lp on cd in the early 90s. Not sure how exactly but i think it was something I picked up in a sale after having seen it reviewed somewhere obscure previously. Very good.
I want to get this new compilation thing.

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Wow, no lime tangier, been a while since I've listened to the Canadian Electronic Ensemble!

was pleasantly surprised to see they had a bandcamp presence. haven't heard anything past their debut so hopefully the later releases are made available at some point.

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Thanks for the tip, no lime tangier.

On NML:
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"one of France's most original writers this century" come on, Blaise Cendrars was Swiss first, and only took French citizenship after La Prose du Transsibérien :) Love that poem. I've just read his "Au coeur du monde" collection.

ashamed to admit i've barely made a dent in my copy of his complete poems! one day though.

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Dope post vaporwave ambient mood beat landscapes

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I need a 33 1/3 on this album

oh I see it was a chapter in the bsides book

Just discovered this great old timey banjo player, Nora Brown, then found out she's a kid -- only 16 now and only 14 when the record I listened to (Cinnamon Tree) came out. Just insanely good.

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Comprehensive compilation of Anadolu Pop singer.
Very catchy music, simple riffs tied in with traditional music.
Picked up a few titles by people in thsi area a few years ago. I read the book Anadolu Psych which I've since heard slagged by somebody who I think knows quite a bit about the genre but he also slagged the Can Book from a couple of years ago , so not sure to what degree I totally agree with him. Would like a book on the genre from him though, may give a better perspective.
Anyway Turkey early 70s exploring the interface between traditional sounds and more recent psych and rock begat some great music.

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Cover mount cd from a magazine taht looked into the artist's history this edition Dizzy Gillespie. I think it begins very early but soon hits the bebop stuff.
I had this floating around the front room and hadn't listened to it in years. BUt it is still working and has some really great stuff on it.
I also have Dizzy's memoir TO Be Or Not TO Bop lying around the bedroom after finding it in a 2nd hand shop a couple of years ago. I read it back in the mid 80s and thought it was great. have wanted to get back to it since, has some real insight into the black experience in the mid 40s & 50s as well as some more lighthearted hipper stuff. I remember it being one of the better musical memoirs, but not sure what comparisons i would have been able to make at the time and not reread to guage it since. think its a good one though.

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Underground hard rcok at the tail end of teh psychedelic era I think, may have dates a bit askew . Like Sabbath era garage rock or something along those lines. like if garage is a process as well as a more specific scene this has the same relationship to the later heavier end of things that the better known garage stuff had to the British invasion.
Gnarly, a great potential ingredient for later stuff so hope its being picked up on. Would love to hear the consequences of a semi decent bunch of players being isolated somewhere on a diet of this, Ethiopiques and a few other esoteric releases.

probably including a few of this bands releases
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rocking record by a band with a weird instrumental line up various horns and 2 sets of drums.
Enjoying this and kicking myself for having missed grabbing the previous release for 2 Euro a couple of years ago when it was in a sale in a local shop. I think it just wound up getting cleared off the racks and probably destroyed. I don't know why I couldn't check the title online . maybe just forgot at the time.
Oh well, good to see an overview of Shabaka Hutchings releases in Uncut this week, though I think that may be the previous issue right now. Need to pick up some more of them, presumably must be a Wire how to buy article on the same thing. Really should have grabbed the Comet IS Coming cd a couple of years ago cos it was cheap around town and was on a lot of end of year lists.
Well I'm aware fo how good this is now so will have my eyes open in future.

Currently mainly listening through a load of podcasts each day with a single track of music between each 2 from various sources but through Spotify. So am discovering some new stuff through the process.

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Autechre live at Coachella 1999 - found a much longer recording than the one I had, weird to hear them kick on for half an hour after the set I know so well.

Ysi?

oh yeah on e other thing that I got to hear part of over teh last couple of days was the live set by Sonic Youth from Dublin Olympia in 1998. I thought it was great when i was there and bought a tape from a local bootleg selling shop. Not sure where that is so glad that this turned up on Dime recently.
It says in the blurb for it that the sound quality isn't great so would love to find tehtape and compare. had meant to transfer it to Flac and up it so glad there is either the same recording or an alternative source already in circulation. & itt does resonate massively with me. I liked the long drawn out droney stuff taht year, quite blissful. Reminded me heavily of teh long songs on the VU Columbus University set from 66. Seemed to have a different feel than elsewhere or possibly elsewhen. I had a friend who was a massive SY fan who said 98 was a bit of an off year for them live so great to find this one good. I now have a few other dates from the same year which I have yet to listen to. I'm spending a lot more time listening to Spotify for podcasts etc so rarely listening to the live stuff i have which uses a different program. But yeah this still connects.

sorry ledge, dunno how, do you have slsk?

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yayyyy I love her so much

newer one "Prodigal Light" is really exceptional, and she has tons of stuff on Bandcamp

have actually considered starting a thread on her

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sorry ledge, dunno how, do you have slsk?

i do, though haven't used it in years! is it easy to find on there?

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On a bluegrass/old time/country kick. These are in rotation a lot lately

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I start almost every morning down a youtube jazz rabbithole, exploring one of the thousands of Blue Note, Verve, Prestige etc. albums I've never heard of. Today it's Lorez Alexandria on Impulse, showtune-y vocalist supported by Wynton Kelly.

Also listening to mike t-diva's Record Mirror disco playlist. And a ton of ZZ Top.

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Clicked on a review of this thinking I'd hate it because of the frankly awful name, but then was pleasantly surprised by how much I loved the sample track, downloaded...great record!

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The Blixa Sounds edition of the Miami Remaster is up on Spotify so I've been listening through bits of teh 2nd disc. Including several tracks with presumably working titles that sound a lot like the version sof songs on Death Party e.p. I can't tell if they are in fact different takes on som eof them. I think the version of Come Back Jim did sound like it could be one done by a different line up which would be contemporary to the recordings on Miami possibly. Did strike me that there were a lot of songs that Jeffrey lee Pierce had reworked from having written them much earlier, things like I Hear Your Heart Singing which has a studio version on 1990's Pastorla Hide & Seek and a live version on the recording used on the live disc of Early Warning which is like 9 years earlier and features a totally different line up so the style changes quite a bit I think. Or teh version of Walking With The Beast which was a single b-side when the better know version is on Las Vegas Story about 2 years later. I think there may be a 3rd version on this set.

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