What are you listening to? 2021

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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https://esp5037.bandcamp.com/album/every-dog-has-its-day-but-it-doesnt-matter-because-fat-cat-is-getting-fatter

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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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Any stripped down Kenny Burrell record is dope.

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Dark late 70s garage prog stuff from Texas. Verging on the psych. NOt sure how to categorise this other than really good. But does seem to be something that I would be looking for if I hadn't already found

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Compilation of a series of singles that were released over the course of 1981 to help keep the band financed. A lot of very dodgy experimental techniques were tried out by the band. This winds up sounding pretty krautrocky among other stuff. I hope that Alan Rankine is going to complete a memoir sometime soon cos would love to hear what his take on this era was. Do love the band when he was in them, less so after he left.

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3cd set of Masekela material recorded and released between the mid 60s and mid 70s. Covers a lot of ground in a very funky way. I wasn't as familiar with his work as i would like prior to buying this and still want to get more. This is pretty sublime.
THis week I have been on disc 2.

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red krayola coconut hotel
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silentist chariot swing
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Leprous - Aphelion

https://phanepunx.bandcamp.com/album/phane

kinda uk82 style stuff

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soft machines 3 & 4 +

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Billy Strings - Renewal

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pretty great compilation of music recorded for an immigrant worker population in Germany throughout the 70s. Dopes get pretty psychedelic in places. I think I need the Psychedelic compilation that came out on the same label around the same time too.,

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eclectic bunch of post punky etyc sounds from American band. I really should pick up some more by these I think . & they do have a new one out this month.

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I think this was a cheap compi of Billie Holiday's stuff, probably picked up from an HMV when they were still around Ireland. THis week it has been the 2nd disc of this, which starts off with Strange Fruit and has several other similarly iconic tunes on.
I should be much more familiar with her work than I am. Great stuff anyway.
I find the harmony singing that starts God Bless The Child a little artificial and cloying though maybe it'll grow on me. I'm just somewhat reminded of some very stiff backing singing on a Roy Orbison collection i had on vinyl a couple of decades ago. Otherwise this does seem to be pretty classic throughout.

Right, that didn't work. Was just wondering if it was going to be a more versatile version. may find that that works on the mobile when the alternative option on RYM never seems to show up there.
Here are the 2 covers that didn't show up
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I love those Metamkine mini-CDs, haven't heard that one

William Parker - Mayan Space Station.

Tight as fuck, perfectly lean, just no fat on it, even with the extended guitar jamming.

and some early tatlises demos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RexkhPxBvIU

Slikback- MELT

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Slint - EP

xp That Bernard Fort rec is awesome; great call.

that slint EP is perfection

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(on Spotify, sadly)

I sprung for the Pye Corner Audio black mills tapes vinyl box a month or so ago and have been seriously “caning” it, as they say.

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what a coincidence!
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