What are you listening to? 2022

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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1977 solo live recording by New Orleans pianist which I think was covermounted on a magazine. I bought it 2nd hand last week after being semi aware of the artist. It's taking me a while to get overly excited by this but I'm seeing something iI think. Not sure how well this works as an introduction which I think the series was intended to be.
May be back to this and may find some other recordings to see if they are any more immediate. Can see some intricacy and stuff not sure he's likely to be a favourite artist but ask me in 10 years time.

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Postpunk era offshoot of Henry Cow that sound a bit pere Ubuish or something. THink my 3 changer has been skipping discs again so not heard this as much as I was hoping. It was something that I'd seen for the last few weeks as i went through discs and wanted to hear, so specifically looked for it this week.
It's windplayer/multi-istrumentalist Tim Hodgkinson who is now singing and Chris Cutler on drums plus 2 new guys. Think its quite enjoyable.
Looks like discs are getting dirty from being in the cd player which is odd so this started glitching and getting stuck repeating a 3 second section. Dang.
I think I picked this up in an RERMegacorp shop £5 sale a few years ago and is probably something i should be more familiar with. I think I have See somewhere too which I picked up from a Tower sale back in Dublin days.

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Big Beat remaster of dark psychedelic lp by twin-drummed band that gave the Doors their live bassist. It seems to be mastered a little quietly so I think I was needing to turn it up from the volume i had the other 2 on.
I had this on after reading the Ugly Things article a few days earlier. Article is same writer and reworking the linernotes more thoroughly.
Some nice guitar and interplay plus the lyrics get pretty dark. So worth hearing I think. I like the genre a lot and this is quie good but not sure if it would ever be an absolute favourite. Does have its moments anyway.

oh yeah have been listening to a lot of single tracks from the discography in Sue Steward's Salsa! as well as ones from the Discography of Eric Charry's Mande Music alongside what Spotify has suggested otherwise. between podcasts on Spotify.

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Still holds up remarkably well.

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red house painters

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compilation of 70s recordings by Senegalese band with some fantastic guitar. They go from a heavily Latin sound on their earlier recordings which they returned to later to something closer to the Mande music of local custom. I also have their Pirate's Choice compilation of early 80s recordings which initially appeared in he late 80s then was fully com,piled in the early 00ies and the latin thing is back there.
I do love this set, I think I picked it up initially in the wake of getting the Ambassadeurs and Rail band sets a few years ago and wanting some more of that psychy stuff. Pretty sublime and Barthelemy Aisso's guitar adds a whole other layer. Loping grooves and some of this seems to tie in more with a james Brown influence though i think it is still a step or 2 away from sounding exactly like him. Intensifies the funk anyway.
THere is a set called Belle Epoque of the earlier recordings too and I'm not sure what else you can actually get. Or how easy it is to get this. Blooming great anyway.

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I think this may be a single disc sampler for a larger set. Anyway Best of the minimalist composer taken from a few different operas etc .
Nice repetitive stuff sung in a language I've tried to make out and can't tell if I'm missing bits of an English lyric or the singing is in a different language. Quite enjoying this anyway. & think I need to get some more. I should be more familiar with his ouevre,. have been aware of him since about the mid 80s./
I was goingto put on Vangelis cd Earth as a memorial to him for the week then the cd disappeared. I think a pile went flying . & I had been at a performance for ebow electric guitar and 4 piece classical string ensemble on Sunday that played some track sfrom Glass's Mishima Suite so this made sense plus it was at hand. Will have to stick on Earth when i find it.
Got this when a new local cd shop opened last year which wasa good buy.
I heard a story at Glass partially arriving at his style by mistranscribing Indian classical music which had me thinking about chance elements or reworking mistakes and how they arrive at interesting results.

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1984 set by post punk psychedelic band with Robert Smith on guitar for the 2nd time. I had a couple of the John McGeoch lps around as I went back through piles looking for the Vangelis lp on Sunday and couldn't decide which to go for, among a few other titles. So when this turned up I decided for it instead. I think I'd actually wondered if I'd had it a week or so before. Maybe thought triggered by listenig to teh Curious Creatures podcast done by Lol Tolhurst and Budgie.
THis has some very interesting textures as well as the band playing around with strings and things.
Glad I put this on cos I'm appreciating how good it is, think I may have dismissed it as more mediocre from memory. Do love those McGeoch titles though.
I don't really know the band after this so probably need to check those out.
This would have been around teh time I was getting into punk and postpunk after having spent time more into 60s psych. BUt I'm not sure what I had, think I had Scream at some point though it may have been years earlier, Once Upon A Time the singles set and possibly Nocturne double lp. Should have discovered the Mcgeoch lps much earlier. I think I enjoyed the singles when they were in the charts. Had far less access to new music at the time though. No internet for one.
But I guess Siouxsie's pretty solid.

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Orchestra Baobab - thanks, ILX!

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orchestra boabab - made in dakar

I think Made in Dakar is years later than A Night At Club Baobab so is going to be more Latin influenced than a lot of the music on that.
Still has Barthelemy Atisso on guitar but I think the Mande elements are less pronounced. Pirate's Choice is also great.

If you like the sound you might be interested in Etoile De Dakar which was a band that Youssou N'Dour was in for years and grew out of the Star Band whose name they translated. The compilation Once Upon A time in Senegal is quite superlative.

I also really love Les Ambassadeurs du motel de Bamako who are far more Mande influenced though do have some Latin tinges as Latin was something that exploded across Africa in the 50s and early 60s and also have long loping grooves played on electric instruments. There was a great 2cd put out by Stern's about 10 years ago which is fantastic. 1 disc features the vocals of Salif Keita who is a brilliant singer.

Their contemporaries in Bamako were the Rail band who have a lot of their material mopped up as a 3 x 2cd series called Belle Epoque. I have the 2nd volume and probably ought to have the other 2. But Vol 2 features Salif keita.

Also if you can find it and the time to read it I would recommend the book Mande Music by ethnomusicologist Eric Charry which gives a history of the music dating back to about the 13th century and a chapter on the electric version played by these bands.

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on Spotify

Haha so Steve Perry was not just influenced by Cooke, he was straight-up quoting "Nothing Can Change This Love" on "Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'". He should have probably got a writing credit.

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late 40s radio broadcasts by charlie parker live at the royal roost

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Finally got a copy of this now that it has been remastered and reissued. Quite sublime set. Irish folk material reworked in the mid 70s.
I have been aware of the existence of this for years but not been familiar with it. So, glad to have it now.
Pretty essential if you like this genre. I don't think that's hyperbole. & remaster/reissue is 2 or 3 months old at the moment.

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Potomak cd reissue of german metal percussion band's 4th lp. THis is so resonant throughout deep bass tones punctuated with metal on metal beats. Seems like they are going against their previous directive of anti-music and are more about making music out of sound. There are bits of orchestration in places too. & a great version of Morning Dew which seems to set a bit of a tone, as much as the opening bass tones of Zerstorte Zelle.
I think this is thought o0f asa lesser lp but listening to it for the last week it strikes a major tone with me.I need to listen through the rest of their material I have and hopefully pick up a couple more of the Potomak reissues. I also remember this was the lp whose London performance featured Showaddy Waddy as the support act. Not sure how teh band fel;t about that, seems overly gimmicky really and probably down to one time manager Stevo (not where I got my name btw)

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Disc 2 of this which includes Rambling some more of the music from the lp Change of The Century and others from This Is Our Music. Its set up chronologically so doesn't follow lp tracklisting which may mean a different contextualisation of material included. Some of the material also appeared on later mop up compilations but I think this is a handy way of having things. I think I will return to this set for later discs soon. Do need to familiarise myself much better with his material . Hope to get hold of one of his biographies soon, the Howard Mandel book i read recently was quite good.

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one day i will find a copy of that ian carr record!

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Tine Surel Lange - Works for Listening 1-10

Angel Rat is cool. I should pull it out.

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questlove and james poyser remix pharrell's in my mind.

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The more Lo fi of a 2 voume series of the band from Benin West Africa. Really rather funky. Combines heavy influence from James Brown and other Western influences with some more traditional influences. This set was the music they recorded for smaller more independent labels in West Africa as opposed to its companion volume's recording in the much more up to date studio of EMI in Lagos. Not sure why I never got the other volume, need to remedy that. THink I mainly listened to this as tracks on random on my walkman which is rater neglectful of me since this is so 'kin superlative.
The one problem with listening to this on a 3 changer is that it has a hidden track like 10 minutes after the end of the music, which si a French language interview I think followed by another track of music. So I have to remember to switch discs at the end of the music. I don't think I'm a big fan of hidden tracks.
But jeez this is so great. Really not great that I don't listen to this even more. I think the cover image may fit the sound rather well.
Wondering if this music has had a direct influence on anybody. Cos would love to hear that if so. Just think things like this could revitalise rock and stuff which is probably not the best perspective sinc eit should be celebrated in itself and I don't want to encourage cultural appropriation but do think, what would garage/psych or punk with bits of this sound like and hope one isn't going to come up with Vampire Weekend who i did just about enjoy when they first appeared but were a bit white.

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I'd rather think of this with this cover than the one i have on the cd
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The bathroom cover just seems so much more stylish. & strikes me as much more synaesthetic than the street hippies one.
I think the band had better technology for this lp and a producer who was looking for a more polished product. I just listened to a Lydia Lunch podcast where she had Michael Zilka of ze records as the guest. He disparaged the lp itself as not having the feeling he would have liked, though he did like Dream Baby Dream/Radiation which are hear as bonus tracks. I really like it, it has some tracks on i I really love and sing in the shower etc.
I find the music really funky, Rev is really good at programming rhythm. I think the first lp has a pretty great rhythmic swing too. & the melodies he is using on top of that here are more pronounced too. Vega is pretty fantastic too. I think this is an archetypal sound that I would like to hear was heavily influential. But would hate to be universal since i think it took some taste to pull off.
Do love Diamonds , Fur Coat, Champagne and Harlem especially. BUt rest is good.

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Stompy proggy early 70s material by ex-Aphrodite's Child multimusician and future solo star.
I got this when it turned up cheap on Discogs a couple of years ago. Think it's quite good. Stompiness seems to verge on glam but other aspects of music seem more complex. I thinK i need to pick up another couple of the lps from around this era, not sure about later. Though his s/trk stuff was quite good. This was one of his first solo lps after leaving Aphrodites Child who are also worth checking out if you're not familiar with them. Combines heavy Greek folk themes with Western rock/pop influences which is prevalent here too.
Found this in a pile I'd set up to stop it getting lost while I searched through a load of cds. So finally getting to hear it a couple of weeks after it was quite as topical as it would have been. So RIP Vangelis.

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SALVATORE SCIARRINO: Musiche per il "Paradiso" di Dante

seth nehil - flock & tumble: lovely electroacoustic
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