What are you listening to? 2022

"Fart Her Along"
"Fart Her On Down the Road"

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a vegetative listening afternoon after a sleepless swelter last night: highlights:
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and christian lillinger's grund's "C O R":
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which is like braxton's #96 but much groovier, lillinger is up there w/ andrew cyrille, thurman barker, nick fraser, chris corsano, kevin shea et al

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Digging into as much Halim El-Dabh as I can today; went through Leyila and the Poet on CD, from the Sony 20th Century Masterworks box, then all the acoustic pieces on Naxos Music Library, now delving into more of the electronic works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR2YprO04zk

i read this thread so much more than i post in it. i want to discuss things! limbo!! shuggie! weird stuff that i don't know! big sigh. thank you all for sharing.

i've discovered the chilean folky/proggy rock group los jaivas. just into the first album now and there's lot of hand percussions and chanty kind of vocals. maybe mildly santana-ish but a lot more folky? or incredible string band, but without the relenting trippiness (tho definitely trippy at times). more than a few albums on the internet jukebox, so yippeeeee off i go. . . !

also anybody like anouar brahem? mystical soothy early morning times jams. very pleasant.

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Souljazz compilation of 1980s Bronx minimalist funk band's career. I think this is quite comprehensive and maintains great groove throughout. IT does leave some tracks off the e.p. and lp but what is here is pretty dashed fine.
Emerald, Sapphire and Gold were 3 of the members' birthstones.
Picked this up around the time it was released but haven't played it in a while. I think it's quite infectious.
A band put together to keep the Scroggins sisters, cousins and friends off the streets. So this is a great result. Is this 80s street funk?
Punk meets funk meets repetition and some slinky grooves.
This is all early material, the band reformed and put together several lps between the turn of the 90s and now.

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3rd lp by SF based psychedelic rock band. Veers between near white noise guitar explosion to far more spacious grooves.
Picked up all their cds in the mid 00ies and haven't listened to them in a while. Saw them around that point and impressed them with my shimmying throughout the set. But have been neglecting the cds.
Cd opens with this gush of guitar rush which reminds me of something like the Blue Humans or similar guitar noise. BUt yeah does intersperse with waves of far more minimal semi melodic touches. Some points where there are notes being played far more sparsely but I think mainly in waves and grooves. THink I need to find the other cds and listen through them.
LIke they base things in 60s & 70s rock but reinvent things to something more individual. Howlin Rain Ethan Miller;s next project is also really good as are the various incarnations of 6 Organs of Admittance the band lead by Ben Chasny who is also a mainstay of this band post the first lp.

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Compilation of early 70s singles by Turkish dentist/folk singer. Here backed by band with great keyboardist.
Pretty atmospheric. Turkish psych stuff.
I picked this up from a sale in Guerssen records after the first lockdown eased enough for them to start being able to send packages out again. Quite enjoy this area of music . Eastern European/Middle Eastern folk influenced reworking of turn of the 70s Western rock influences..

OMG LIMBO
where do you listen to it??
it's not on spotify
tar kissers ftw

wait this makes me realize that i OWN it and it's in my chest of cd's ........... score

went through a phase a couple of months ago where all i could listen to was Kristin for like a month straight - she / the muses and Led Zeppelin are for me the most consistent rock musicians ever, album after album

here's limbo in full on youtube.

oh that's right! i forgot about that

THink I need to find the other cds and listen through them.

Yes, yes you do. All of their albums are great, Field Recordings from the Sun is probably my favorite.

I'm revisiting this gem today:

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pneumaphone project

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ellen arkbro - sounds while waiting

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Thanks for the link to Halim El-Dabh's music.

You're welcome! I was barely aware of him until recently but he was really good! Made musique concrète before Schaeffer. His work always seems to keep one foot in Middle Eastern tradition and maintain an approachability and clarity of form.

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Another in my on-off exploration of disliked albums by major funk bands. This is my second listen

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This one is... interesting. Partially pretty good for the era blooz rawk Mike Bloomfield on guitar, partially some awkward sounding soul.

white horse—
i like that album! tho i also like very messy albums, just generally speaking.

this morning's selection:
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david axelrod — strange ladies (1977)

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https://crashensemble.bandcamp.com/album/wingform
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Dublin based classical/avant group who had this as an installation in the festival that finished last weekend. THey also played 2 different live sets elsewhere in the festival. One that was a repeat performance in the shape of the First Child opera by Enda Walsh.
THis came with a digital video appearing on a set of 3 different screens in a darkened room

red heaven yes! so good

jane child - here not there

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improvisatory acoustic group from San Francisco mid 60s. Featuring guitar and vocals by Pat kilroy and flute by Susan graubard who would later be involved in Habibiya and some other UK folkish stuff. Not sure if the band is a trio or a quartet since photos show them completed with a hand drum player and credits have a bassist. Shame this is the only lp they recorded, even if the cd is abouttwice the length with bonus tracks. Pat Kilroy was suffering from a rare disease which caused his death prior to the lp being released so this RD version was the first time it was widely available.
There is a solo lp by Pat Kilroy called Light Of Day which has featured in some must hear lists of folk-psych. That lp also features Susan graubard. There is a really good article by David Biassotti from an Ugly Things from just before this cd came out UT #25. May be available online not sure, told the history of kilroy and the fate of the band. Cd also comes with linernotes i need to download cos they're enhanced in the disc hopefully still accessible. Haven't read either in a while.
Music is acoustic blend of folk, jazz and middle eastern and probably Indian influences and a lot of jamming. Would be intereste din hearing if anybody had actually covered any of these tracks since they are pretty individualistic. Would be interested in hearing what influence a band like this has had or if they had much influence at the time they were around. Which would obviously be limited to those who had actually seen them live since I think this wasn't widely known prior to the RD release though the Pat kilroy lp had some recognition though not sure if that was a late discovery itself. Like wow, with a load of releases happening at a time and no internet much pre millennium I'm not sure what channels of communication would make what non immediately obviously popular titles well known. Have heard of collectors discovering gems amongst things they've picked up and turning friends onto them which would be years after release and possibly after Nuggets etc had caused people to reevaluate seemingly throwaway recordings. Though I think that may have been a process underway prior to Lenny Kaye highlighting the ones he selected. Definitely very different level of access to knowledge than now and now one needs to know where to look and what to edit out.
Anyway worth hearing if you get the chance.

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3rd lp by French ex-pat psych/metal group now LA based. Incorporates influences from middle eastern traditional, surf (which ties in with that anyway) and several other sources. Can be a bit bombastic but is pretty psychedelic though does have a bit of a metal tinge.
I think I came across this while looking through SVART's sales stock some time a couple of years ago. Sounded intriguing from the description and does sound pretty good on listening to it. Think I might get around to checking out the earlier lps which have a slightly different band name Blaak Heat Shujaa.
Do love the cover art. Do love Aubrey Beardsley, Harry Clarke and Art Nouveau anyway and this reminds me of both.
Blends its influences quite well, does verge on the bombastic and not so hot on the metal but it is pretty decent. Does make me want to check out Nile again who I haven't listened to in a long time but was getting into 20 years ago.

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Disc 3 which is more electric spacious grooves I think. Covers the period from early 70s onwards. Has some really great stuff on.
I think my favourite Ra is the deep space funk he was playing at the turn of the 80s but this is probably about the 2nd favourite era I think.
Do enjoy some of the earlier less electric stuff but this is more what i would reach for when looking for Sun Ra. Possibly need to listen through what earlier stuff i have of the band. My introduction was Strange Celestial Road and possibly the 70s live at Montreux and i think I was looking for music which was 'out' and then fell for those spacious grooves. But yeah some very very great music by the various line-ups of this band.

Lately I've revisiting my parents' old albums.

Like this one:

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One of the first records I remember my mother playing.

That got an expanded edition a year or so back. Included some material from aabout a year earlier.
I've always loved the combination of folk,jazz, soul and whatever. Leonard Cohen cover with break beats and Ewan McColl as one of the most beautiful songs ever.
Sublime lp.

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The Sadies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig11RSMz2VI

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Listening again to Halim El-Dabh and thinking that a lot of it seems to be deliberately foregrounded to make us listen to what we normally hear as background for its acoustic properties and associations. Language is an intrusion IMHO and should have not been included.

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more zorny harmolodic luttenbachers frun from mr pitsiokos:
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buncha shabazz palaces earlier, but molto's "versatile international service" right now
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2nd disc of this which starts on a b-side which is ironically called Gotta Get Away which is hardly inviting. But blooming great music from the dawn of rock and pretty formative in the creation thereof. Bunch of pseudo reprobatic middle class would be hoodlums. Opportunistically capitalising on being the dark side of the phenomena the Fab Four figureheaded. Made some Great music anyway. THis seems to be an expansion of an earlier much shorter collection which had the same sleeve image. Its now 3 discs with the 3rd including some rereleases of earlier tracks. All the early singles in stereo which is pretty good especially since I got this on much reduced sale price.
THis disc spans the years 65-68, that b-side is the flip of As Time GOes By which ends the first disc. Not sure how that was worked, how intentional it was to start there. I think it's a good song which might otherwise have been overlooked just seems like an odd move to start on a bside.
What is here is pretty great, covers some of their most iconic tracks. Slight shame Get Off my Cloud is on the previous disc since it fits with teh bunch of tracks that start this. BUt if this was reshuffled they would lose Child of The Moon which would be tragic. Do love taht song.
I'll probably find there are better compilations around but this does have a load of their psychedelic stuff too which i really enjoy. Seems to be about 1/2 of Satanic Majesties here. NOice.
I think I've been neglecting my Stones listening. But they're still pretty good at this time anyway.

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Actually the 2nd disc of the 2cd set but since this did have a separate sleeve depicted thunk I'd bung it in this way. Banging house like, some intricate electronic stuff working away at yer cerebellum while you moves yer feets like. Quite enjoyable and indeed toetapitudinal .
I picked up a few compilations of the music at different times but only really dipped my toes in. So not sure how much more i need to hear .
This is quite good and on a label that seems to be able to compile things quite well. I think I've read more on teh Acid House scene than I've heard. But I do quite enjoy this.
Do still think in terms of rock more and again would be interested to hear things in that scene influenced by this type of music. I guess there were a few things around that did pick up on this at the turn of the 90s.

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Japanese psych band lead by ex-Ghost leader Masaki Batoh. This is the only set I have by them so far which is not the best idea. Should have more probably. Hadn't realised there were a few more since this. I think this turned up in a place i wasn't expecting to see it, may have been the HMV that opened here for a short time. Anyway grabbed it when i got the chance but have been neglecting it and this week my stereo is skipping discs again so this has been neglected again.
Nice trance like psych stuff. Possibly a bot more rock than Ghost. I think I need to find my Marble Sheep set which is also a bit similar.

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poly styrene — translucence (1980)

first ever listen this morning. went in expecting NOT A PUNK ALBUM . . . but wow, not only completely unexpected but somehow mildly reminiscent of durutti column or early everything but the girl!

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or to give both sides of teh external gatefold
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Mid 70s Brazilian ethno-folk-psych double lp which I've just realised is a concept lp about the 4 elements. Quite amazing really.
Veers between rocky things with ethno-folk influences and fuzzy guitar and more acoustic bits, also seems to be a jazz influence running through it.
So can be seen to be krautrock adjacent in places and should appeal to people into that area of music.
THis has been frustrating this week cos until yesterday when i cleaned my cd players lens with isopropyl alcohol again this has been skipping and looping nad things,. I got the cd a decade ago or more so seems to have got a bit scratched. Cleaning the lens this way does seem to have made this play properly so have been able to listen to this since then. Had tried with a cleaning disc before taht and it just didn't seem to work
do think think this is a classic anyway, gets really psychedelic and has a great sense of groove too.
Mr Bongo put this out and some other titles by I think both artists. But this is definitely pretty necessary

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The 2nd and possibly even more comprehensive compilation that I've had by this New York based group. Had teh Mo'Wax one when it was current which is also really good but i think this has even more stuff on it. Seems to be 5 more tracks, not sure if all of the other 18 are the same . Anyway great skeletal spacious funk by post-punk band who released music through 99 Records.
I think this is pretty much everything from the era. Fantastic stuff tying in minimalism, repetitive infectious grooves and a few other things. Again pretty necessary.
I saw this and ESG described as the leading bands in No Wave which confused me since I thought neither quite fit that description , think they were around at the same time and probably played on the same bills as No Wave bands but this stuff sounds more positive, groove based and not as scratchily avant as I would think anything fitting the term No Wave would be. & I do love that stuff.
& again a disc that wasn't playing fully properly before I cleaned the player lens yesterday.
GOt so bad that the player was claiming it had NO DISC several times. & wouldn't recognise the disc cleaner either. But did mean that it would actually be able to play the next disc it skipped to. Hope taht has at least temporarily stopped but did clean the thing about 6 months ago and hoped it might last longer,

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Volume IV i.e. Disc 3 of this set which is a combination of 2 nights from The Rainbow in Finsbury Park in late July 73. Some tracks from these concerts made it onto the original 74 release of the live lp It's Too Late To Stop Now which is now volume 1. & the set comes with a live dvd from the concert on teh 24th, some of the audio of which seems to match what is being said on that first volume.
Anyway van Morrison back when he was amazing, here playing a set of songs from various sources of his previous lps including a version of Here comes the Night which dates back to Them days. & a version of Being Green which he borrowed from Kermit the Frog, oddly literally. That and a few great standards from people like Bobby Bland, Muddy Waters and Ray Charles. plus things from both Astral Weeks and Moondance.
Caledonian Soul Orchestra firing on all cylinders.
Really does show Van at some of his best. That he did have an era that should earn him some respect. He was always a cantankerous individual but he did have a great deal of talent. Wasn't just an annoying conspiracy theorist about things like Covid etc.