What are you listening to? 2022

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Early 00ies reissue of the 2nd SRlp combined with their Trudge e.p. This was remastered and several not very tuneful vocals were removed from the lp. It shows the cinematic panoramic influence of North African/Middle Eastern sounds mixed with Post Punk and Krautrock and stuff. Pretty sedately paced in a lot of places but still pretty intense.
Do love the 80s band. Got to see them a couple of times when they played London.

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Been neglecting this for too long, should be more familiar with it. Bought i shortly after it came out and it has been sitting on myshelf possibly because it's been in an oversized box. Did it get repackaged to something smaller since?
Anyway pretty interesting, though i've only played disc 1 recently. I'm finding it odd that I'm not finding Schmidt more distinctive on the first couple of tracks here. Wondering if I'm hearing his input as being Karoli. Definitely hearing Czukay and Liebezeit ok and what I'm thinking is guitar but not hearing something standing out as keyboard. Oh yeah also whatever wind instrument is being played.
Pretty great. I think I need the live sets that came out last year and really should be in my possession already.

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Early 00ies compilation of Mapfgumo's work over the previous few years.
Pretty good listen . Fits quite well with these other 2. Spacious grooves with distinctive guitar playing. Quite poppy.
I think I first came across Mapfumo in the early 80s being introduced as though he was a South African playing some version of Reggae. I can see some connections but i think the music is made up from some other ingredients. More locally sourced and stuff.
I need to look furthe rinto him, especially the 70s stuff.

Stevolende, Monday, 4 April 2022 13:19 (four years ago)

This was remastered and several not very tuneful vocals were removed from the lp.

I had only ever heard the instrumental mix until recently and finally hunted down the original and you're not kidding.

made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 4 April 2022 13:34 (four years ago)

will have to check out that bitter funeral beer footage! i do remember downloading some (later?) non-ecm recordings years ago which i don't think i ever got round to listening to. but yes, just an astounding album.

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no lime tangier, Thursday, 7 April 2022 03:58 (four years ago)

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no lime tangier, Friday, 8 April 2022 02:55 (four years ago)

https://deathisnot.bandcamp.com/album/i-had-the-craziest-dream-modern-jazz-and-hard-bop-in-post-war-london-vol-3

And liberty she pirouette (Sund4r), Friday, 8 April 2022 03:38 (four years ago)

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And liberty she pirouette (Sund4r), Friday, 8 April 2022 13:09 (four years ago)

Maybe this will work better?
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And liberty she pirouette (Sund4r), Friday, 8 April 2022 13:10 (four years ago)

https://i.discogs.com/Ut6ziWfXDiOMGk9Nd0bhTGwjhCC2nyZJOvvJaTCMo4Y/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTg1MDU3/NTEtMTQ2Mjk3Njk2/NS02ODAzLmpwZWc.jpeg lxmp - drums / keys instr. equal parts aavikko, stereolab, ruins, max tundra

massaman gai (front tea for two), Sunday, 10 April 2022 15:16 (four years ago)

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And liberty she pirouette (Sund4r), Sunday, 10 April 2022 22:53 (four years ago)

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And liberty she pirouette (Sund4r), Monday, 11 April 2022 00:13 (four years ago)

Excellent power pop

And liberty she pirouette (Sund4r), Monday, 11 April 2022 01:27 (four years ago)

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And liberty she pirouette (Sund4r), Monday, 11 April 2022 02:59 (four years ago)

"That's It for the Other One" is so great.

And liberty she pirouette (Sund4r), Monday, 11 April 2022 03:34 (four years ago)

^still getting used to the differences of the '70s remix which i've only recently become aquainted with. certainly more subtle than what they did to:

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no lime tangier, Monday, 11 April 2022 04:25 (four years ago)

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2nd lp by Brixton based postpunk band that evolved out of Quiet Sun. Like 2/3s of the band were in taht band and they replaced Phil Manzanera on guitar. Nice angular abrasive stuff with abstract lyrics.
Anothe ron eI've been ignoring for way too long. THis was the first time i played this actaul disc not sure what I did with my previous one. Very recommended and i think I need to get their Camberwell Now continuation's compilation cd.

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First disc of the first lp by famous Zeuhl band. I think they are still finding their feet but they are already signing in Kobaian.
I think guitar may be more conspicuous here than elsewhere and there also seem to be some overly conspicuous time changes for time changes sake that I think they smooth out better later.
THis is from the Studio Zund box set which again I haven't been listening to or through enough and thought i ought to better familiarise myself with. I think I'd read a reference to this disc in something I was reading a couple of weeks back too.
Jazz influence may be more clear here than later. I'm not sure. Seems to be more easily traceable as such in places anyway.
Do definitely need to familiarise myself better with the other eras of the band than Kohntakhorz and Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh anyway.

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Pretty good cheap compi of the Peruvian princess if that's what she was. This is the first disc which has things like Monos from Voice of the Xtabay on which I've loved since i was a kid.
I've been meaning to get teh el compilation of several lps for a while. I think this is a good place to start though and i think I found it in the local cd shop which is good. Not sure what recognition she has at the moment. Think she may have been more obscure when Creation stuck out a cd compilation using the Xtabay sleeve but omitting Monos in the mid 90s. But I could be like totally wrong. I never know comparative recognition with any of the bands I enjoy. Apart from like the Beatles and a few like that.
Anyway multi octave voice, exoticism , some epic orchestrations and some very different backings including some choirs of grunting men.
I always wanted to nick the riff from Monos and do something new with it. But I never did.

Stevolende, Monday, 11 April 2022 14:00 (four years ago)

oh yeah was going to say that I had wondered for a minute if the cover image on the Magma had anything to do with the symbol they adopted as a logo later. But seems that taht is something else. Just seemed taht it could have been a further stylised version of the idea of having a claw stomped down on you.
Oh well.

Found these fit together oddly well. Not sure if taht is just something that is inevitable if I have discs playing together whenever I'm in bed. Like over a week like. Or if there was some subconscious quality they shared when i was choosing what I was going to put on .

Stevolende, Monday, 11 April 2022 14:04 (four years ago)

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Olivier Messiaen, Jocy de Oliveira – Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant-Jésus

budo jeru, Monday, 11 April 2022 16:38 (four years ago)

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some pretty nice pre-fusion ponty with wolfgang dauner on piano

no lime tangier, Thursday, 14 April 2022 06:40 (four years ago)

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Combination of Derek Bailey and Japanese hard prog duo the Ruins. THis is the 2nd release by the grouping. I don't think I've heard teh first. & I think they may have played together live a few times in teh interim. Seems a semi weird pairing since Bailey was an older seated player. This does rock quite a bit though. Just not sure how memorable any of it is really since I don't think it concentrates on coherent melodies etc. It is pretty brutal and hard hitting though.
I had originally tried playing the 2nd disc of Hundred Year Hall by the Grateful Dead in this slot but the disc signal glitched quite heavily at the start of Other one which is a shame since i think it might have been pretty out. THis started glitching yesterday after having played through for a couple of days. Hoping that I can get the GD disc to work over teh next couple of weeks. may have to take player apart and clean the lens with Isopropyl alcohol again. Otherwise a little surprised this is picking up dirt from being in the player. I dunno.
Quite brutal , quite intense but not exactly something you will be whistling later. & probably should find its way onto the player more. I dunno if it would have if it hadn't been in the pile that I picked up when GD started glitching though which I had sorted through while looking for Pelt's Ayahuasca a couple of weeks earlier.

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Reissue of a Charly records compilation of Arkansas r'n'rer. He seems to come from a bit of a different tradition than some contemporarfies. Sounds more like a broader r'n'b hollerer than a streamlined rockabilly. Focus in the sound seems to be more to piano and horns than guitar though there is some pretty wild guitar here.
I have thought he tied in with a lineage that lead forward into like The (early) Pretty Things, The Sonics and possibly the Stooges which seems really cool . Raw party down atmosphere in the sound. I think this set is pretty necessary so glad it was one of the first in this Charly series I picked up. Not sure how well known he is and think he should be mandatory listening, like.

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2nd lp by NYC rap group. Blunted beats that were played live by a live group plus dj.
One of my fav lps . I remember getting this after having finally caught up with heavy load a couple of years after the fact. Taking it back to my living space and listening to it and wondering where the beats were since it seems to have just submerged them in the grime. Production team the lumberjacks had a thing about the dirtyness of their sound. They also remixed the Brixton band God around the time for the e.p. Appeal To Human Greed.
Sebastian looks like me with a major afro instead of dreads. NOt sure how much that has to do with me liking them, I think I would otherwise.
It struck me a few years ago taht the distroted sound reminded me heavily of a Black version of Chrome. & I will always wonder what teh next lp would have sounded like. How much further tehy would have taken the distortion. They do seem to have sampled a lot of early 70s stonerish hard rock into the sound. Anyway blooming love this record and should listen to it even more.

Stevolende, Thursday, 14 April 2022 11:23 (four years ago)

That New Kingdom is in my top 10 of all time, so fucking good.

made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 14 April 2022 16:35 (four years ago)

ben folds five, "smoke"

Karl Malone, Friday, 15 April 2022 17:36 (four years ago)

https://i.discogs.com/607MTuCxteKqE67XQXc1Z4tk2LUNOb5w9adYu4R4I-c/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE5Nzgz/NzE3LTE2MjgzOTI0/NjUtMzk3OS5qcGVn.jpeg my son found this in a "zum verschenken" box and it is quite possibly the worst thing I have ever heard. like a mix of that komar & melamid least wanted song, danny elfman with a lobotomy. it is beyond words

massaman gai (front tea for two), Saturday, 16 April 2022 07:18 (four years ago)

https://merzbow.bandcamp.com/album/dharma

And liberty she pirouette (Sund4r), Saturday, 16 April 2022 10:59 (four years ago)

was once foolish enough not to take hearing protection to a merzbow performance :-/

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complete victor/bluebird recordings

no lime tangier, Saturday, 16 April 2022 18:36 (four years ago)

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even though "acabou chorare" is one of my very favorite albums, it somehow never occurred to me to check out NB's subsequent output (although i did explore the earlier, more tropicalia-adjacent material). this s/t from 1974 is very good and "F.C." from the year before is even better, almost on par with AC

budo jeru, Sunday, 17 April 2022 21:47 (four years ago)

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budo jeru, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 17:04 (four years ago)

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massaman gai (front tea for two), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 09:53 (four years ago)

Ymac Sumac had a cut from her Mambo album used in a commercial that was played repeatedly during the last World Series. I thought she'd maybe blow up after that, but I guess that's not the way things work nowadays.

Josefa, Friday, 22 April 2022 04:20 (four years ago)

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1990 compilation of pretty much all of later incarnation of the urinals. I think the lineup had remained the same but the possibly too overtly punk readymade name was changed for something possibly more arty sounding which is actually from a Mao quote. Though I guess taht isn't entirely contradictory.
The band seems to have deepened and expanded on teh very minimal sound of its earlier incarnation. Is using effects and learning how to play more fluidly etc. So you are hearing the influence of some maverick punk and postpunk bands from the UK and elsewhere channeled through California artists heads. I think the results are quite good. I thought a cd this old might not be the best sounding but this is pretty good still. I think I got this as a long box about 20 years ago and it's been sitting on a shelf probably since I constructed teh shelving unit. Have been looking for a copy of Pelt's Ayahuasca that I still haven't found and in the process turning up a load of stuff i haven't listened to in too long.
The Urinals comprehensive compilation Negative Capability .... Check It Out is also really worth checking out. Not sure about the later descendant band Trotsky Icepick though that does also feature Vitus Matare but does seem to have taken off in its own direction.

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Opera trained dreampop singer's 2nd lp from 4 years after the first one but still sharing a lot of the same sound. So i guess she's developed what works in taht form a bit more, she has 2 later lps where she has changed style a bit.
Another one I just found after having it on a shelf too long. I think I had actually just been reading Greil Marcus talking about her and me wishing I could get the cds again when this turned up. It appears that there is a remastered reissue of this from 2018 on Sacred Bones but apparently the previous lp is only available in the 1989 master on Warners if it is still available. I had seen some availability of that first lp in a printed to order form on Amazon a few years ago which had me questioning the availability now.
This lp is pretty great deeply luscious, somewhat psychedelic though not necessarily tied to the era.
This was a further collaboration with both Angelo Badalementi and David Lynch who had been behind the Twin Peaks soundtrack which is where Cruise had first come to widespread recognition and that first lp Floating Into The Night appears to be an offshoot of. Do love these 2 lps anyway. I'm seeing the next lp as referencing Trip Hop a sound i quite enjoy so I may pick that up if i ever come across it, it is up on Spotify so I think I may need to listen to it through.

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pairing of 2 1973 lps right around the time the Argentinian saxophonist was coming to recognition thanks to Last Tango In Paris.
THis goes Bolivia then Under Fire.
He's supported by a number of artists who were coming to recognition largely in spiritual jazz. He is getting somewhat more MORish I guess but I'm still really enjoying this. This happened to be a cd I found when looking around either the Piccadilly Circus branch of Virgin which had previously been a Tower or failing that the same premises under its shortlived independent name. So not something I really have a comparison for in terms of knowing the rest of his work. I thought his fame might have lead to him watering down what he was originally like which appears t be a perspective on his later work held by some. I do love the fire in his sax sound which sounds like he's harnessed something Albert Ayler was doing and made it more contained and melodic and things. I'm hearing what I would think are South American themes in the sound but if i'm thinking that might just mean things are already overtly fitting a somewhat orientalised version of the nascent sound I dunno. Particularly if the band that is playing them is largely not schooled in the tradition of those sounds.. I quite enjoy it anyway. Does it for me. Resonates with me and fun things like that so shouldn't be left sitting on my shelf for year long plus intervals but that's true of a lot of things.
& meanwhile I might find something more representative of his not overly commercialised era. But this pairing is quite bloomin great.

Stevolende, Friday, 22 April 2022 10:33 (four years ago)

weird i was thinking about listening to that later

made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 23 April 2022 02:01 (four years ago)

i'm on weatherhead now. they really do let rip!

massaman gai (front tea for two), Saturday, 23 April 2022 07:29 (four years ago)

oh well. the Joshua tree by U2, 2007 double vinyl

brimstead, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 00:23 (four years ago)


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