What are you listening to? 2022

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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or rather disc 1 of this
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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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDFLaNfNXxs

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Ligeti is my fave

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3gVRPmx9cI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYT0SJyUXkE

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:

https://imgur.com/a/XJnN7WW

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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Nice!

https://moontoothny.bandcamp.com/album/phototroph

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Oswald von Wolkenstein on EMI Reflexe

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Career spanning compilation of soft soul band from Philadelphia, pretty funky too. Lush might also be a descriptive.
THink I picked this up in a sale somewhere though I think I had some stuff by them previously. THis has been sitting in a pile beside my bed for a while so I kept seeing the name down the spine. Had to replace a cd that was skipping last week so stuck this on which I'd been meaning to do for a while. Glad i did so, this is sweet and funky and all like that.

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disc 1 of this box set by the Liverpool psych combo. I just read the Will Sergeant memoir Bunnyman so wanted to stick on some of their material & not sure where individual discs are.
THis starts with 4 tracks still with the drum machine which I thought I'd read was called Echo but doesn't seem to be repeated in the Bunnyman memoir, so maybe some spiel for the music weeklies. The rhythms remain the same throughout which just about works but I can see why they would want to add some more fluid rhythms and Seymour Stein apparently wouldn't sign them without a drummer. So they got a friend's boarding school mate from a school in Somerset to join them. NOt sure about the logistics of that or exactly when they were schoolmates sounded like it was at the time he was needed.
Interesting to note that pretty much every member apart from this drummer Pete de Freitas started playing around teh time they joined the band. Sergeant and McCullough jammed together for moths on instruments tehy had just got and were set up with a support gig for Teardrop Explodes at which point Les Pattinson stepped in to play bass and bought a bass on the same day which he went on to teach himself. Sergeant talks about how odd his style is, he directs his stroke the opposite way to most players which apparently makes playing more tiring, He did come up with some pretty decent basslines though.
This goes through the first 2 lps taking 4 or 5 tracks from each and adds in some tracks from singles and Peel Sessions etc.
Quite a decent listen, think I need to find my copy of Heaven Up here since it's my favourite of theirs. Probably Crocodiels and Porcupine too really.

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2nd lp by SF group formed by Texas blues guitarist. Seems to exst in its own foggy sonundworld which I think may be down to some influence from Sgt pepper at least in the idea of what one could get from a studio creatively. I had this in my early/mid teens not sure how I picked it up but I think I played it a few times. THink I had it on cd in the mid 90s though not in as good a mastering as this which I picked up a few years ago. It has been relegated to a shelf for the last couple of years until I was looking for my Pelt Ayahuasca which I still haven't found.
Do enjoy this, spacey bluesy stuff with good use of melody. Still somewhat psychedelic but also looking for its own thing I think. Anyway I think its a good lp that I'm not sure is very well known apart from a couple of tracks which turn up on best ofs etc.

i love that steve miller band album.
picked up the cd years ago not really knowing anything other than his big hits.
yeah, this album aint anything like those.

sunday evening vibes to soundtrack a glass of wine :

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teeth of the sea : master

a band that on paper always sounded like the perfect hit for me : epic noise, instrumental, synths, guitars, psych.
however, until today the urge has never really hit hard.
but this evening, this is totally working its magic.

I have the first couple of lps I think. I saw them in London around then too. Several used to work in the HMV shop on Oxford st.
Nice expansive Kraut/psych landscapes.

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THat was one I really loved in my teens. Particularly the track Lemon Chimes.

Do love Doug's work with Gene Clark too especially the first lp. I have the 2 together as a 2fer set.

Is Wheatstraw Suite the first post Doug Dillard lp? Hadn't taken that in until I noticed that his name was missing from the RYM credits or had forgotten. May have read that somewhere years ago. & is that actually why he was free to work with Clark? Had assumed he was doing both.
Do think I enjoyed it anyway and Lemon Chimes had a haunting nostalgic air I liked at the time.

yep: banjo provided by herb pederson on ws up till the early 70s albums i think

i'm a fan of all things dillard(s) that i've heard, but wheatstraw suite is something special

Babe Ruth - 1975 Montreal concert on YouTube. Haan is great on this.

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