What are you listening to? 2022

that D. O. Misiani is on spotify and sounds fantastic. had never heard of him before. thx!

Yeah, thanks for the detailed writeups Steve... I'm looking forward to checking these out... I love that Schizophonics artwork...

THis may be the video I saw. I was trying to work out if there was a 3rd player on taht lp cos I don't think there is a bass credited.
Seemed to be other parts being played than a 2 piece. & I couldn't work out how they would get things to cohere as just guitar and drums.
But definitely a bassist here and in other videos I've seen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTgUz6d66wM

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ivory ticklers.
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Solo piano, sounds like jazz at first but everything is composed:

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First disc of this which covers the years up to 1971. BBC sessions from maverick prog related band. I think they were always doing their own thing to some extent. Always had slightly different instrumentation to contemporary bands etc. & always were pretty melancholy and intense.
The 1968 material has more overt soul/r'n'b influences in the keyboards than elsewhere. I still haven't really heard Aerosol Grey Machine so think I really need to remedy that before long. That material doesn't feature David Jackson the winds player who hasn't joined the band yet but is pretty prominent on later stuff. I think he plays the parts or at least in the range that one would expect guitar to play in more normally structured bands. Anyway pretty great stuff,
I haven't really heard covers of material by the band so not sure if this translates to more conventional instrumental lineups easily or not.
Am intrigued though.
THis has a load of versions of songs from the lps in possibly faster recorded versions. I think the process at the BBC was to go in and bash out songs pretty much live but in studio settings but could have that picture wrong. Versions here are pretty great anyway.
& Vedergerge are such a fine band. I'm glad to hear coherent grooves on songs that I had initially heard in less coherent ways on earlier cds. I did enjoy the improvement of the 2005 cd versions to the earlier cds I had. But will probably hear I'm missing something. Just seemed to be getting a more complete picture on them. These were alternative versions to the familiar ones anyway since they were recorded for BBC sessions. There was an earlier BBC session collection called Maida Vale after the BBC studio location that this expanded on but I think this is the most comprehensive they could get with surviving masters. There was an actual live set broadcast in I think 1971 that no longer survives in the archives that is missing but this fills 2cds with pretty classic material. I haven't listened to the 2nd disc in a while but think it should be great. Actually interesting to see how many tracks here are around the 10 minute or plus mark since I'm not sure how easy it is to fit a song that long into a scheduled 2 hour slot, on the other hand it stops you having to cue 2 or 3 more songs I guess.

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Visceral 1982 offering from the Australian band. I think I need to get hold of a remaster cos this is still the 1988 cd printing. Surprised by this still being the main cd version circulating and the remaster was the one done for Rollins label 21361 and then reused by 4AD for a cd taht came free with a vinyl release 12 years later. I'm wondering to what extent the sound picture fills out. It sounds from a podcast interview I heard with Mick Harvey recently as though he is pretty strict on things like how warm the bass sounds on remasters.
Anyway very diverse set of influences. I think the band was getting a reputation for playing blues which may be an element in here but I think is truer of the band Crime & The City Solution in its lineup featuring Rowland S Howard and his brother. Here it is mixed in with a lot of other things, Stooges worship, girl group pop, folk, rock'n'roll, various eras of jazz and whatever Phill Calvert had picked up beats from.
I have wondered recently what time signatures they are playing in for bits of this. Certainly seem to be more complex than the burning intensity and viscerality that hits you might suggest.
There is a story about the cover that turns up in Harvey's interview with Conan Neutron
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7an3th4mfoA3OMqfxH03E5?si=e306bd80e2d04537
unless its the Phill Calvert one i heard within a few days of it
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Q47KbyasDP0cFv8XXLQdF?si=14f1815c3c004c19
surprised to hear they didn't like the lettering but maybe its not surprising. & I guess I saw the thing asa fait accompli which seems to have a really great synaesthetic relationship with the sound it contains.
So this is a classic recording which could do with a better release, would love to see it come out in a package like the recent Blixa Sounds Gun Club releases, this remastered with a live set from the time as a 2nd disc & expanded liners etc. I've recently been trying to remember what teh booklet that came with the Missing Link box set had in it since i haven't seen it in a couple of decades.
Finding some of the lyricism may be offputting for some. 6" Gold Blade has a backing which verges on pop, I think is based in girl group sounds but heavily amped up, but has a manic lyric about violently killing a girl which would seem problematic right now. It is a song which must have been weird at the time and i think the idea of actually writing things with some structure which one might then try to destroy thoroughly was pretty influential at the time. BUt the sentiment of teh songs is really problematic.
Anyway an lp I love but haven't listened to much recently. I think I must get a better version of it. Cos this stuff is so incredibly good.
Do wish I had got into listening to this 6 months earlier in my teens cos I might have got to see them a few times. I did get to see Nick Cave with the Cavemen in May 84 but the band had a different focus even if they were still playing a few songs written before they split.

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First disc of this set which is the band live in Germany in 1970 and is an expansion of an earlier release. Gets very noisy in places slivers of exquisite keyboard scrape among other textures.
Another set I bought a long time ago and haven't played ina while. I really enjoy this. Probably an era of the band i rate up with the 78-83 deep space funk thing I love though this is more abstract and less groove orientated.
I must have bought this around the time it was released which surprises me. I thought i had bought i earlier in the 90s when I was still based in Dublin,. Looks like the double cd expansion came out in 98 though.
I think I need to listen to the 2nd disc soon anyway which is supposed to be even spacier.
Big band playing discordantly while hitting some grooves but not as deep funk as my favourite period. Great anyway.l

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on the turntable
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in the car
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For a second I thought
FRANZ
LISZT
was going to be an ambient Tom-Tom Club side project.

Yesterday's listening was all prompted by current ILM threads. (This happens a lot, actually.)

Gene Ammons - Brother Jug
Miles Davis - The Man with The Horn
Zappa/Mothers - Uncle Meat

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compilation of pre garage r'n'r guitar by famous raw player. This is a lot of slightly lesser known late 50s/early 60s raunchy numbers put together by Sundazed around the turn of the millennium.
Great stuff and i think should be seen as an archetype for what r'n'r is supposed to be like. primitive, rocking tuneage. I do hear bits of this in later material I enjoy. Keep hearing some influence from this or possibly Davie Allen and the Arrows in the Marquee 84 Black Flag set so I wonder how intentional taht is. part of the melange there anyway. Scientists used to play his Rumble live when they were living in London. Very basic riffs rocked out totally so an influence on more minimal rock. Do love the corrosive guitar against piano or sax here.
Great set and not sure what other sets by him are necessary. The early 70s Shack recordings are also interesting but in a different direction.

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Kissing Spell release of early 70s recordings by Czech underground/psych band seems to have a pretty different tracklisting. Explores the influence of drones, atonality etc in a good way.
I have been neglecting this and shouldn't have been. Pretty great.
I saw a play in London's West End based on their story or at least heavily featuring them around 10 or 15 years ago which was pretty good.
Haven't really heard much of their work outside of this and may need to remedy that.
Has some similarities to things like Amon Duul II, possibly Velvets, Faust and a few others. Riffage is kind of chunky and amateurist.
Lyricism seems to be dadaist and intentionally amateurist too.
Not sure what label is best to pick the band up on either, may be something where money goes more directly to the band.

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a semi decent lp by the renamed Motown band followed by a more classic one. Love child has some really great tracks on it, A GoGo is an lp I should have discovered in my mid teens when I first had the record.
Anyway both seem to be of their time, just seems that Love Child may have had more filler on it than they had earlier in the decade.
The good tracks are pretty great though.
A Go-Go seems to be mainly covers including a Money that's several years after the original works kind of well at this point looking back not sure how anything like this would work at the time. Is it moving forward or looking back. Anyway I think it does hang together quite well as an lp and most of the songs are in decent versions. Also has them doing Lee Hazlewood's These Boots Are Made For Walking.
Another thing that's been sitting on a shelf for way too long and is worth a listen.
I think I may have not listened to it cos I wasn't happy about the politicking within the band and Florence Ballard should have been given more recognition of course.

I used to make mixtapes where i would put Link Wray up against Albert Ayler cos of simnilarities in execution. Starting from apparently familiar simple riffs and getting more frenzied I think I used to bung in some tracks from the canadian avant rock band Fat also because of teh way it sounds like the members of trios were circulating each other in the parts they played. Like you got the feel of something actually spinning in mutual orbit.
Wray seems to kep the same feel on tracks on this Sundazed compi while expanding the group to include a pianist or horn player.
But seems like things are frenziedly spinning around each other.
I think the first Thin Lizzy lp has some of the same feeling in places. There it feels like everybody is playing both lead and rhythm at the same time all the time. Not sure if it keeps the feeling on the next couple of Eric Bell lps. & after that they gain a member.

Fat Hit and Play For You have both been added to Spotify. Would be great if taht meant there was a cd of them around somewhere. I think both were just vinyl when released
https://open.spotify.com/album/2Yff3iRlJcQYO9s9vFSc5w?si=zN-gpeTeSgemXnPglAJxuQ

says it was added in 2015, so wonder if i just didn't look cos I assumed it was so obscure. Looks like it may have been reissued digitally then, do wonder if there was a cd at the time. Not seeing one listed on discogs.

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There are also a lot of good comments and links on the Link Wray and Plastic People threads, the latter recently updated.

About halfway through this (recent release) now, will try to say something adequate later maybe
Lee Scratch Perry: King Scratch---(Musical Masterpieces from the Upsetter Ark-ive)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0mC3F7XVUY

Short-ass trailer but gives a glimpse of the glint.

Here's a track from the comp I just heard, chorus vocal spiraling beauty through my skull w/o losing the point of commentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6iKdV6STK4

Also the way it builds while almost seeming to stay the same

Also never heard anything like this/never heard THIS before, amazing viibe:

Susan Cadogan: Hurt So Good (7" Mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHG8uxf6PZs

I'm listening to the 40-track edition on Spotify, also available as download elsewhere.

That Susan Cadogan album is gucking awesome. Nice n Easy is a big fave of mine

Sorry, meant to post that one! Not seeing it as one of the King Scratchofferings on YouTube, but here it is, provided to the 'Tube (by Trojan Records) way before this new comp came out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKv033dmXcE

At that point it was from another comp I'd like to hear

Provided to YouTube by Trojan Records

Do It Baby (aka Nice and Easy) (7" Mix) · Susan Cadogan

Lee ''Scratch'' Perry & Friends - The Black Ark Years (The Jamaican 7"s)

℗ 1974 Trojan Recordings Ltd., a BMG Company

Producer: Lee "Scratch" Perry

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first lp by early incarnation of 80s pop group here more invested in psychedelia and a few other influences. I've always heard something based in britfolk plus definite influences from soul and things. The backing band here consist of half of both Blondie and Can which is a pairing I'm not sure happened elsewhere. I find the results pretty rewarding. Annie Lennox seems to be hung up on singing in French in several places.
have loved this since hearing it in clubs around the time it came out. I think my brother may have had it soon after it was first released too and I wound up getting a 2nd hand copy. Then wound up with a pretty tinny sounding cd sometime in the 90s and I think this is the 2nd remastered version I got which sounds a lot better.
Pretty different to later stuff, do heavily reccommend this. Annie lennox does have a great voice which does make some of the alter stuff worth hearing at least. & I guess they could write a g=decent tune. THis is a bit more experimental .

put that on asa substitute for this since I was getting a tapping sound from it
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shame could have got into this. May need to get a new copy. Thoughtthe sound had cleared up when I washed it again but tapping sound reappeared as I listened to 2nd half.
Anyway 2 members of Comets on Fire plus drummer/singer from Espers playing a guitar drenched folk-psych thing that I really enjoy.
Long overdriven guitar sections extend out of folk tuneage.
BUt sound problem distracting from my enjoyment of 2nd half of disc. So I swapped it over. Otherwise thought it would have made good mid point between other 2 discs I had on this week.

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1st disc which i think is this
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but this is the Fled'gling remaster by Joe Boyd.
Still pretty weird traditional influenced folk now adding the vocals of the 2 girlfriends Rose and Licorice as well as some instrumental input. Still acoustic and i think still pre Scientologist. I think I need to check out the later material still. But its the first 4 that i'm most familiar with.
may be a bit of a retreat from the extreme eclecticism of HBD but still pretty great. Does have some continuity in sound I guess but that is probably a bit further out.

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compilation featuring edited versions of Spiritual Jazz saxophonists late 60s material. 10 or 15 minute edits of tracks taht are initially about 1/2 or 3/4 hour. Features a lot of Leon Thomas' vocals too.
I think this era of Spiritual/New Thing jazz sounds really psychedelic and has the effect of making rock derived from it sound that way too.
Do love this stuff and it makes it a bit easier to dj with to have shorter versions of songs but may not be as immersive as the full length versions. But does work as a good introduction I think.
Leon THomas' yodel may be an acquired taste but I think once you do so his solo work is also worth checking out.
Sanders is pretty intense and the band together seem pretty levitating.
Pianist Lonnie Liston Smith went on to put out some worthwhile electric jazz-funky stuff once he went solo and formed the Cosmic Echoes. I think he was also the writer of Astral Travelling which John Martyn went on to basing Solid Air on

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xp absolutely love that first Eurythmics, special and strange record. There's some kinda proto-shoegaze/dreampop moments on it even.

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Mojo cover mounted cd of songs that inspired Bruce Springsteen. Stands pretty well as a listening experience on its own and doesn't appear to tie directly into his forthcoming covers lp.
Starts with Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels and goes through a lot of late 50s & early 60s r'n'b , soul and beat stuff. Beat here is represented by the Searchers with When You Walk in The Room which is pretty stately and magnificent.
Detroit Wheels were pretty scorching for a white r'n'b/soul covers group and really worth checking out in their own right. I think I came across the track here on a compilation in my mid teens and spent a while trying to get more. Did so with a double cd around the mid 90s. Guitarist Jim McCarty went onto cactus and you can hear some of that in his guitar here.
Also has Richard Berry with a version of Have Love Will Travel that makes sense of the Beach Boys version of Louie Louie which has a similar bass rhythm vocal going on. So I assume must predate the Kingsmen's version or at least the popularity thereof.
So some great upbeat soul/r'n;b including what I assume must be a late Moon Mullican track Seven Nights To Rock which sounds like his teeth may be loose. I have a set of his earlier stuff on Proper tha I need to find and listen to.
Pretty great, shouldn't have taken me a couple of months to get around to listening to. Still not heard the Kate Bush related set which came on teh next month's cover.

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Rhino Handmade version of the normally Welsh language singer's 1970 psych folk lp which is pretty magisterial.
Does have one track in Welsh but is mainly in English . I think this is becoming a favourite record after having neglected it for way too long., Now seriously resonating with me.
Great mix of him on acoustic guitar and Bernard Holland on either wah wah or slide electric guitar. band cooks quite well throughout.
I think this should be better known so I could say it was truly archetypal and I should definitely have been better aware fo what I wasn't listening to. Seems i liked it well enough to get the next lp which is all in Welsh when it came out on Sunbeam and i think has been similarly neglected though I did have it on for a week a couple of months back. Not sure if my 3player was playing as well then.
Anyway seriously recommend Outlander. I think somebody else has reissued it since.
One drag in this set is the packaging seems to have an undersize linernote book permanently glued to the inside of the gatefold digipack possibly to keep the photo/cut sleeve lined up. Which has the effect of making reading the linernotes that bit more fiddly. & I think they're wprthwhile being written by Johan Kugelberg whose writing i know from Ugly Things. THink he was also the Iggy Pop collector who has his collection in the book Total Chaos or at least one of a couple of collectors who do.
THis version has 9 extra tracks including outtakes and a contemporary single.

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French chanteuse over American new thing Jazz band come up with a melodic upbeat lp I dig muchly.
Another disc I've been meaning to put on for a while and finally did and now wish I had done so earlier. Blooming great anyway.
Brigitte sings and chats in French so I don't think I'm getting the semantics of everything sung here. AEoC come out with largley linear lines which sound somewhat structured as i guess they would need to be to accommodate a singer. Brigitte has a decent voice so I think I will need to hear more of her work. Could do with some more of this but not sure they worked together again.
I'd be interested in hearing music made by a more conventionally instrumented rock band that borrowed influence directly from this not to detract from this which is rather fantastic. But think it would wind up at a very interesting place. Guitar replacing the horns etc would be interesting. Not sure if Stereolab or somebody gets close. Anyway think I made some great choices this week cos everything was pretty dashed fine. Not sure why it's taken me 14 years or something to realise I'm missing her previous lp Brigitte Fontaine est .... which i think was put out on cd at the same time. So hope i can get a copy at some point. I was thinking i might already have the AEoC lps surrounding this but the set I have is spread out chronologically a bit wider.
Very recommended.

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Toshi Ichiyanagi (RIP) - Music for Living Process

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Best version of "Amazing Grace".

Almost made me born again.

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2nd lp by LA based psych band. Featuring guitar of ex member of Hendrix's almost immediately pre-fame band and his 40 year old stepfather on drums. I think its quite good but may just be a little understated. Repeated listening is bringing out more and more detail including some fine guitar filigree of an audio nature. Other instrumentalists are quite great too.
I've been meaning to pick up some more Spirit for years. A friend picked up 3/5s of the Original Albums collection set in a charity shop hen decided he wasn't into them so passed them onto me. I had the other 2 lps as a 2fer on vinyl way back but that is long gone. That's the s/t and 3rd lp Clear. I do remember enjoying Clear at least and the first set has some good stuff on. 12 Dreams of Dr Sardonicus is also pretty cool I do think I hear echoes from there in a lot of 70s rock so do wonder if that is teh source.
Anyway this is a pretty good lp with a b+w sleeve which I think contrasts with the music. Nice sleeve and I think it may have been a trend to try to get away from the trend of extremely colourful psychedelic sleeves from the previous year.
Currents of jazz, folk etc work their way through this I think everything was finding its way into rock at the time before a real formula was arrived at by many.I enjoy it anyway.

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Disc 3 of this which is the Peel Sessions one. Not sure if that is repeated exactly by this
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I read Barry Adamson's memoir a couple of weeks ago which was pretty good so had meant to stick some Magazine on but not sure what I have done with my individual discs. Then wound up with something else on for the last week but this is good. I thought the chronology Adamson mentioned had a couple of different lineups during the different Peel Sessions but this is all David Formula on keyboard and John McGeoch on guitar which is great. I think the drummer may change though.
I haven't done side by side comparisons of teh versions of tracks here and on the lps etc but what is here is good. THink it may have been recorded a bit faster than the lp versions and thereby be a bit more live.
They did do some very good songs and this covers their first couple of years. Amazing if Adamson really hadn't played bass at all prior to joining the band he seems to have picked it up pretty fast. This is all David Formula on keyboards so there is some gap between the very start of the band and the first session I think it is a matter of months though. Basslines are pretty strong, picking up- on influences from 60s soul and other dance musics. Can be pretty upbeat for the darkness of the subject matter which makes a good contrast possibly.
Very good band and this is a good overview I think they changed a bit when they lost John McGeoch and they did continue to make worthwhile music with the guitarists that replaced him & Siouxsie and the Banshees got 2 fantastic lps out of their time with him too.
I haven't listened to the Buzzcocks version of Boredom in ages so not sure if the same set of cues taken from different language versions of the title are on it. Quite fun though.

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and pretty funky, a bit slicker possibly than the very first couple of lps.
New Orleans funk stuff. I think the bulk of th ebox is pretty worth hearing. may just get too glossy by the last disc but I think getting all of their music is worth doing . Not sure why they needed to split Rejuvenation which is supposed to be their best or most popular. Anyway I think they're pretty necessary, essential like.

I've been listening to the works of Tak Shindo. There is only one record on Spotify, it's this awful thing.

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I was horrified by the cover and song titles.

On further reading, Tak Shindo was a Nisei who had been interned during the war.

He was a musicologist and scholar of Japanese music & studied under Miklos Rosza but his music was primarily used in what are probably awful movies about WWII and Japan.

His music is really good, though. In interviews he said that the "exotica" genre was one way for him to make money.

Infuriating, though, that talented people had to do this kind of crap.

Brings back really bad traumatizing memories of overhearing a bunch of old white farts and their nasty colonizer prejudices.

La Cloche by France Gall (There was an opinion article about Section 530 of a law related to free speech and corporate responsibility in the LA Times today that mentioned Youtube's algorithms for recommendations and in this case it worked pretty well as part of a mix rather than an individual song that was recommended. If my previous selections had reflected any interest, I would say that they were in presentations of France Gall but who knows.)

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Swedish shoegazing space rock.

I will never forget when this arrived in the mail (from Europe) more than two decades ago. It cost me a week's worth of lunches I'm sure. It was 2 Les Baxter moog records in one. Worth ever penny.

It's funky and disco classical, the rhythms are brilliant.

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Elodie Lauten's synth(s) never leave me lonely on this comet EP: first track is sparkling cloud of pontillist beats: choose your own and hold on. Second track they're framed by something more interior, a little spooky (vibraphone effect) Third janglier, leaner rhythm, fourth round and round with some CPR chordal pressure ("breathe for me," like) like bait for Cocteau Twins. Fith more of a percussive ripple, w bluesy lingering overhead. Bonus remix adds faster beats to track 2, "Quit." Also works. Gotta hear the whole album these are from---label copy:

Wilde Calm Records is honored to present new work from the late Elodie Lauten, New York City composer and recipient of the 2014 Robert Rauschenberg Award. Lauten had been exploring microtonality and alternative temperament since working on a Fairlight CMI synthesizer in the early 1980s and up until her untimely death, had been continuing these explorations with the Klio, her custom modular Reaktor software synthesizer.

Many Wilde Calm fans will be familiar with Lauten’s music from her numerous collaborations with fellow downtown luminary Arthur Russell. Lauten and Russell met through their mutual poet friend Allen Ginsberg and shared a similar sensibility of musical openness and possibility as evident in their spiritual club classic “In the Light of the Miracle” and Russell’s appearance on Lauten’s seminal post- minimalist masterwork The Death of Don Juan.

Five remastered selections from her most recent album Transform feature on the EP in addition to a Wilde Calm remix. For fans of Laurie Spiegel and Suzanne Ciani, Lauten’s synth explorations are essential.
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released December 10, 2014

PS: re

Russell’s appearance on Lauten’s seminal post- minimalist masterwork The Death of Don Juan

And here's Elodie's father, Errol Parker, stage name of the French-Algerian jazz star who crashed his car, messed up his piano-involved anatomy, and started over, conceiving his Errol Parker Tentet as an orchestral keyboard, with himself on drums. Not seeing much of that online, but here's a de facto sextet from later on, when he was able to overdub his own piano again (playing drums live in the studio, and Jimmy Owens adds flugelhorn to his trumpet: all blending, in a freewheeling way, with Monty Waters' soprano sax, and Byard Lancaster brings cool, rich flute solo:

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Found this by accident: it's actually a cover of a Parker tune, "Street Ends," by Lysergicfunk, who are not psychedelic, but pretty frisky, sufficiently funky, another strong flute:
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