What are you listening to? 2022

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excellent ambient-ish from Lorraine James with some sick breaks mixed in

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warmer milks - let your friends in
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Stunning compi of Malian early 70s electric band based in traditional sounds with some nods to teh West. There si a latin tinge to some of this definitely and Salif Keita's keening vocals.
Languourous, stately swaying rhythms very evocative. I find this music so otherworldly.
There si something about the tuning of music from the region that i always find pretty psychedelic even in the mainly acoustic stuff. This was recorded in the early 70s when electric instrumentation was appearing and being introduced.
The book Mande Music by Eric Charry gives a really good background history to music of the area. Reading that has meant that I've been meaning to put this on for the last few weeks but current habit has me leaving 3cds on the player for a week to familiarise myself with the music.
Really recommended, there are a few performances by a later incarnation of the band up on youtube that are worth checking out. & I wish I could get my hands on the rest of the material from this era. It's only one of the 2discs here that feature the vocals of Salif keita but I think it's all good. The Rail band who were on the same scene in Bamako at the same time are also worth checking out for most of the same reasons as are the early recordings of Orchestra Baobab if you can find them I have the set A Night at Club Baobab which is the material from this era but i think they are better known for the material around Pirate's Choice when they were repopularised in the early 00ies.

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3rd lp by Canterbury group has them venturing into something more pastoral possibly. The songs seem to remain a good sense of groove as teh alternative versions on the cd demonstrate.
I'm not a massive fan of the tweeness of Golf Girl and maybe the home counties feel of some of the lyricism may not be to all tastes. But I think this is pretty fine otherwise.
Do love the grooves on the extra tracks a lot. May not be the first thing one would think with this band but maybe should be.
I picked this up from a local chain cd shop in the early years of the milennium. It still has the price in 2 currencies on the price sticker. Euro and punt, which must show age. It captures a point from the start of the 70s quite well possibly, though that could be projecting. Have been enjoying the tv series of David Hepworth's book on the year it came out 1971 and do enjoy a lot of music from that year.
Cover seems to tie in with Hobbit ideation. Or Mervyn Peake and Gormenghast.

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2nd disc from this epic box set. Peel's fav band with some somewhat definitive recordings. Semi surprised by length of interval between recording sessions but there was a lot of great music coming out at the time but I think there's a year plus between a couple of these sessions. I think I put this on partially under the influence of listening to a few episodes of the Hanley Brothers' Oh Brother podcast. It has been sitting with the spine facing me next to my cd 3 changer for years and unfairly neglected
Starts with the Hex Enduction hour era session which is about my favourite era, goes into mid 83 which is just before i disocvered them and then I think goes onto 84. So that was the time i was really going to see them this and the next disc, & i think I mainly went backward in my listening to the start of the decade and didn't keep up with them. But do love that 80-83 era and maybe a bit later. I know I had Wonderful and Frightening World somewhen around then.
Anyway, pretty essential band that I was semi aware of at teh time. One worth catching definitely , didn't know the back story overly well so great to be able to read up and listen up on people filling in that knowledge. I still need to read the Brix memoir I bought a couple of years ago but the Hanley one was good.

Those all sound great, Stevolende!

My mother got this album at KMart when it came out. I remember being mesmerized by the large number of people on the cover.

I thought Sergio Mendes was old people music and didn't listen to it...man do I regret it.

This album is seriously funky and I play it all the time. I wake myself in the morning to "Love Me Tomorrow".

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charles tyler - eastern man alone

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Josef Matthias Hauer - Das Zwölftonspiel

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Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer - Le Parnasse Musical / Pieces de Clavecin - William Christie

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Received both of these in the mail today from a German Discogs seller. Two of my favourite underrated composers. The Hauer LP will benefit from a cleaning but the Fischer sounds like it has never been played before - beautiful sound.

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Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire (Christine Schäfer / Pierre Boulez)

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Ooh nice one

love that charles tyler lp above

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Has been a while since i last played that. Has some pretty good stuff on Shorter approaching psych with Sharrock and Mclaughlin aboard. Not sure if they played together elsewhere much.
Oddyssey Of Iska was also good and right around the same time.
THink I'd just been thinking about psychedelic electric music by ex members of the mid 60s Miles Quintet in relation to Ron Carter and had this running through my head. Found it in one of teh HMV sales in Dublin in the early 90s just as i was getting a radio show and I think the copy i got was Japanese. Think I may have got a later edition since too since i think the disc I had got pretty heavily scratched.
Oh yeah think I had a copy of the latin jazz track Dindi on here and a different version on Flora Purim's Butterfly Dreams

oh right, was just going to add taht I picked up the original Albums series of Wayne Shorter lps from a Rough Trade East sale a few years ago. JUst realising it's actually Herbie Hancock. Very good though.
& I have an Eddie Henderson 2fer set I recently dug up from a pile in my room that is really good and shouldn't have been ignored so long.
HIm and the Mwandishi band. More on taht in a few days.

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ITalian weird semi avant messing around with psychedelic tropes from about 20 years ago just after the millenium. Bandname comes from a line in Lucifer Sam by Barrett era Floyd. I think that gives a partial pointer but this is a bit more self consciously weird I think.
It's also an all male band I think which the female bandname isn't likely to suggest.
I think I bought this around when it came out. May have been a couple of years later. & may have been something Julian Cope or the Seth man recommended. I see there are more lps out by this band than I was aware of. Might be worth further investigation at some point. I think this is quite good.

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Mixed race mid 60s band with stunning use of melody and lyricism. This is an Elektra best of so it has 4 or 5 songs from each lp plus both sides of the post Forever Changes single which is brilliant.
Goes from the Stones meets Byrds hard folk rock of the s/t lp, the more Latinate sounds of the shorter tracks from Da Capo and the multidimensional lushness of the tracks from Forever changes and adds on a bunch of tracks from Four Sail. I think it hangs together quite well as a listening experience. Again it's something that I've had lying around on a shelf for way too long. They were a band i was first getting into in my early teens when I was discovering psychedelia and being a skinny brown skinned boy I was getting compared to looking like Arthur which was pretty cool. They looked pretty great in most photos. Shame Getty has laid claim to most of those circulating.
His lyricism is truly great which has been an outstanding feature of the band throughout. But interesting to hear details like the cheesestring textures of the 12 string on the first lp and harpsichord etc on the 2nd one. I would love to hear live material from teh band so would love to find some exists. I think they closed down any attempts they saw happening during their live sets though so not holding my breath.
I think Johnny Echols has a memoir underway which is likely to be a good read considering what the interviews he was doing a few years ago came out with.

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2fer of the first 2 Solo lps by Mwandishi horn player which is actually another pair of Mwandishi lps under slightly different leadership.
NIce melodic amorphous electric liquidity. Think it's really worth an ear. So really need to keep abreast of what I've left sitting on a shelf for a few years. There had been an anthology of earlier material by him a couple of years earlier. But not 100% sure what that was if Realization was his first lp.
I really like the Mwandishi material anyway. Worth looking out for what one can get. I know the 3 main lps were reissued individually about 15 years ago. & Sextant turns up in a number of different sets. There are also tv performances from France and Norway that are up on youtube and a few live sets. The book You'll Know When You Get There by Bob Gluck was an interesting read too.
I think there are also a few other solo lps by the members that are worth looking into, quite apart from Herbie Hancock having released lps throughout the 60s outside of the Miles Davis Quintet which is itself worth investigating.

I am disappointed that Jennifer Gentle is not a woman, but I will check it out.

This one:

Lo-fi swinging bossa rock that is just eerie because it is so familiar and yet there is no way you heard it before. It's just so haunting especially with the scratchy vinyl feel of it.

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Ligeti is my fave

Check out his organ etudes, they're the best thing in the world

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Oh, that DG Ligeti album is great.

I'm listening to this on NML, thought I'd try different recordings than the Martin Jones CD I always listen to. Not sure this will replace that.

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Switched to
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a new single by Suggs and Paul Weller that youtube recommended to me, called 'OOH DO U FINK U R' but unfortunately it's not very good.

should have called it ALL OVER THE NEWSY WEWSIES

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I've been working my way through transcribing th ebibliography and discography of Mnde Music by Eric Charry. Sticking up th ediscography on RYM .
So have been listening to which bits of that are up on Spotify at a track between each podcast I've been listening to and have found a load of great stuff I'd love to get my hands on if i had the dosh.
Would love to find some Bembeya Jazz National especially.

I listened to this album a ton in 1976, then punk reared its ugly head and I sold most of my prog and fusion records. This one still works for me in a way that Mahavishnu and Weather Report and many others of that ilk don't anymore.

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oh yeah that’s a smokin album, I dig it a lot

been on a REKIDS, Buzzin' Fly, KOMPAKT redisovery groove.
this mixtape ticks all of those boxes :

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That's a great CD, I remember buying it and Seth Troxler's Boogybytes mix on the same day.

ewan pearson in the mid 00s was basically god

ewan pearson in the mid 00s was basically god

― brimstead,

agreed.
this and the 2cd 'piece work', and you were sorted.

his Sci Fi Hi Fi mix cd is where it all started for me. amazing stuff.

oooh ... one i missed at the time.
ta for the reminder.

Discovered this last week from a queer music history website:

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Well that didn't work. It was a jazz record called Love is a Drag. Standards sang by an anonymous male singer. Frank Sinatra and Liberace were apparently fans.

^^^ this is amazing, thanks for bringing it to my attention. Here’s the back story.

https://jazztimes.com/features/profiles/the-true-boundary-pushing-story-of-gene-howard-and-love-is-a-drag/

No problem. I love how it’s short and doesn’t overstay its welcome.

thanks for that story!

his Sci Fi Hi Fi mix cd is where it all started for me. amazing stuff.

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