What are you listening to? 2022

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVGTkirF-r8

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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Unfortunately culturally appropriating italian prog band, though that mainly comes down to the last track on the lp and the 2 bonus tracks and I think one vocal chant on another track. Otherwise some very nice musicianship, guitar and bass are both notable and their interplay at times is pretty innovative. Band was apparently formed by Franco Battiato though he left before this lp was recorded.
I got this from BTF a couple of years ago and they seem to be a very good source for this genre, specialists from the country involved to some degree. I think p+p was pretty decent, not sure if that is still true but what is these days,
This was lying around teh cd player so was at hand when I was looking for the last couple of weeks playing. So had wanted to put it on. Glad i did but cod Indian chanting is questionable, does sound from its time though.
Gets quite heavy in places but not cliched. THink there's bits of jazz and other syncopation in the influence too.
Worth a listen if you get the chance

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compilation of various single and compilation tracks by the heavy guitar crew. I think Stefan Jaworzan used to live around Walthamstow or a bus ride away from there cos I think I saw him waiting for buses as I came home from gigs in the mid 80s a few times.
I like the form of rock that these and Ramleh tie into. Seems semi referent to things like Link Wray while also writing in a mire fo its own noise.
THis was from the Kino series of reissues etc that came out a few years ago. I had IIIrd Gatekeeper from its previous cd release so wanted to get hold of some more. THis Kinda rocks.

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wound up with this on cos my Ape-Ology wouldn't play. I need to create a system for my cds or something cos not sure where the rest of my stuff by this guy is.
This is long mixes of tracks, 6-8 minutes and so on.
Has some interesting stuff on, some with added toasting etc.
It starts with Norman the Gambler which I also have on Arkology. Does have some decent grooves with decent frontmen etc but think I want to hear Kung Fu Meets the Dragon etc.
Good set anyway.

Perry is pretty good , has some decent grooves but nothing really wildly unexpected or mindblowing. Roots singers are pretty great but not exactly what I was looking for, Now not sure if I had a faulty Ape-ology or if my cd player needs another isopropyl alcohol cleaning.
NOw screwing up on playing a Nina Simone disc I just bought so wondering the same thing.
Ape-ology played for years I thought. BUt has been sitting on a shelf for a while. So hope this is something I can clear up or hopefully could clear up wiothout major effort of shifting player around and taking it apart but it is getting on a bit. Bought it 17 years ago.

had to wash mould off this
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good EP, worth demolding

Gilla Band "Most Normal" album (3rd one in 8 years)- Irish group is a noise, noisy , post-punk indie rock band that got a 8.4 best new music from Pitchfork and I saw Anne Powers praising em on Facebook. I am not completely won over.

Also listened to Isabella Lovestory new reggaeton album

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XP really liked girl band /gilla band's "holding hands with jamie" but nothing else has ever clicked

trying to wake my son for school with this really quite good puerile glitch-core space-streakings-on-tigerbeat6 type thing. emotional rollercoaster ride: ooh a white CD tray! lap full of white cd-tray-teeth :-(
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wow, there's a cover connection for you

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Are any of your students listening to his improv noise ?

no, i'm not sure they listen to anything. they are largely engineering & IT students and spend most of their spare time in the gym. i think there is a bit of rammstein, deichkind, meshuggah, fantastischen vier fandom etc. IME 99.9% of Germans haven't heard of einstürzende neubauten, faust, cluster, can or werner herzog. anyhow - i forgot what this was when playing it and was quite disoriented in a very pleasurable way by the fahey/mouthus mish/mashhttps://i.discogs.com/c7CTQT-hKFwc_tPIDqut_RzXEbC3KmvOlNqOqrYHQzc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:360/w:400/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTY5MTg5/OS0xMTQ4MzA4MDkz/LmpwZWc.jpeg

recording this into my laptop for mixcloud-ing purposes. razoul üzlu - idiot /genius synth tinkering halfway between vangelis & shakin' ray levis
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Pretty great compi of pianist/singer's turn of the 70s recordings from about 67-73ish. I was trying to listen to disc 2 mainly this week which has a lot of Dylan covers on . I have previously noticed the amount of white singer/songwriters she was covering around the time which I found notable since she was vehemently black power orientated at the time so seemed a possibly odd juxtaposition Anyway she does them in her won style which is pretty great. Bands she is using are pretty tasty too, there's some nice guitar here.
I think my cd player may need another isopropyl alcohol clean out cos it keeps stopping this on different tracks which it will play at different times. Ho hum, frustrating.
Do love her around this era. loved the Sugar iN My Bowl compilation which covers the same era in a more chronologically random way. I think the tracklisting worked ok from what I can remember just that instead of having the music in chronological order as it is here it was the same years and some of the same material mixed up. I think this series is pretty good from what I've seen of the rest of it. Good overview of a specific artist for cheap.

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Another decent compilation, haven't got that into this band before despite enjoying The Jam.
But they do do a decent groove, like. Weller showing how well he channels his soul etc influences. Interesting to see he picked an ex Merton Parka to be his musical foil at the time. I thought they were somewhat also rans so good that Talbot seems to account for himself pretty well.
yeah, enjoying this may check out his further solo stuff at some point.

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yet another great compi this week. I think this is the most recent Mojo cover mount. It's definitely the latest in a series that has been running for the last couple of decades.
Do like this early 70s heavy stuff. Grapefruit's I'm A Freak series covers some fo the same ground;.
Glad to see that Mojo are still taking care over the compilation of their covermounts. Hope people are being turned onto new stuff by them still. This ends with a track from Kingdom Come's galactic Zoo Dossier which I think is a pretty essential lp. pretty necessary one might say

That looks like a cool one to get. Although I haven't seen a cover mount CD on Mojo for quite a few months, though they had ditched it.

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Played the first of this 3cd set this week which is roughly 1967. THe set is chronologically set out.
I love the era this covers, not sure if it's the era of her most celebrated but I think it's great. Do love My Baby Just Cares For Me and things of similar chronology too but this stuff is so great.l
She is placed with some pretty sympathetic players including some great guitar from Eric Gale who is a performer whose name i recognise but am nt very familiar with his own work. Drums are Bernard Purdie too apparently since some of this at least is the Nina Simone Sings the Blues l;p. I think some of this is different performances to what I knew from the Sugar iN My Bowl set, different live versions for one. She introduces a song by talking about Langston Hughes here which I don't think she does there
Nice cheapish way to pick up a bunch of her material from a period I really enjoy. Think I may need to fill out my collection a bit more. This stuff resonates with me massively anyway.

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I think this is considered a lesser lp by the Japanese Noise band. Title somewhat belies the melodicism here but there is some decent heaviness in places as well as shoegazing and stuff. It happened to be the one cd by them to turn up in a local charity shop .
Has some good bits I'm not as familiar with teh band as I should be. Have known of tehir existence for a couple fo decades and not picked up anything by them . May check out the heavier stuff.

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noirish beat influenced 90s band with offbeat instrumentation. Very syncopated drums, baritone sax and a 2string slide electric bass.
Another tbing that turned up in the charity shop, could have also got a Brainiac lp but it looked like it wasn't in great nick.
Enjoying this anyway. THey may be of a time but they did seem to do it successfully.