What Are You Listening to? 2023

Mandy, Indiana - "Injury Detail"
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excellent video too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d9RnTONexY

Briefly wondered why I always bookmark these threads despite pretty much never following up what happens here by e.g. listening to the records mentioned; realized it must be because they tend to be really awesome album cover galleries.

Älgarnas Trädgård, both records plus the bonus tracks

https://i.discogs.com/PVHu8fD32w_Svi5XsVfLsi8sg6NGmOFeI9jwndgBnck/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI1Mzk0/NTk5LTE2NzI3ODgz/OTItMjY3MS5qcGVn.jpeg the "extra" disc on the bogshed bog-set

p much all nihilist/depressive sludge, as this world grows more painful each day

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Ethiopian singer who I know about from the Ethiopiques series own compilation from a few years ago
Great mix of fuzz guitar and funked up versions of what sound to be more traditional sounds.
I think he was one of the highlight artists on the series and this is pretty archetypal. But do wonder if other bands did pick up on this stuff as a recognisable influence. Seemed like its appearance and popularity in the West could inject a new flavour to garage rock but not sure that would be what that scene would be looking for. I love it anyway.
Seemed to go very well with the other music i eventually wound up having on the 3 changer this week which went througha number of different discs cos I think I need to get the top off and the laser cleaned again but have a load of things obstructing my way to get to moving the player. Ho hum. THings skipping and not being recognised and just playing a line or 2 then turning the disc off.
BUt did wind up with

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Later than I would normally listen to Great german experimental/psychedel;ic/improvisation band here as mainly instrumental 4 piece.
Set was shorter than I'd realised but still pretty great, just may be even better to have more of it. I thought they did play longer gigs so semi surprised by length of discs here. Quite transcendental anyway.
4th track starts off with some pretty heavy symphonic rock and Jaki Liebezeit playing in a way I don't remember hearing him play much elsewhere. Sounds like something other bands reached for being addressed and then moved away from quite rapidly.
Not played disc 2 yet, need to do so.

Initially the Can went on with disc 2 of this
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but it wouldn't play beyond half of the first track. I tried teh other disc to teh same result. Had picked this up on the other side of the country while away for the day. Seems to be recognised by my Blu Ray player thankfully so hope cleaning will allow it to play.
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same thing as Lee Perry disc. Played a bit of one track, crashed. Disc taht came with a book from teh library.

so put on
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which I hadn't listened to in an age. Stoner folk stuff that is pretty great. By this point the 2 main members had added a supporting band who were pretty ok.Unfortunately disc glitched azt one point quit ebadly so listened to it a few times but had to change it . Hopefully get back to it once i get player properly cleaned.

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First lp by Stoner rock band. Waslying around my player when Holy Modal Rounders wouldn't play properly and hadn't been played ina while.
I think I need some more by this bunch. Especially from this early era. Reworkings of a sound rooted in early 70s heavy/space rock stuff which came out quite well. Have been aware of these for a long time so should have more stuff by them

https://i.discogs.com/upSs1QNJDFa4aHEKhFJczKi5pmWroubW-65PI4qaTQk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:472/w:472/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI1NDAz/MDEtMTI4OTYwNjk5/My5qcGVn.jpeg leslie q - "into handicapped" no-wavey vox & acoustic gtr w/ tape warble

whoa I had her Majora records but never knew abt any others!

and bizarrly enough i stumbled across zips of the casual plane and presque vu while looking for something else on an old drive last night! wer hätte es gedacht?

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hmr vol. 1&2

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Tia Blake - Folksongs & Ballads

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3rd lp by band that started with a pretty different line up here getting pretty avant and noisy while adding several horns as front line instruments. THis is the edition with the Proms set as a disc 2. But it's been the main set that I've played when the 3 changer has actually played it. I did clean it out last week but still not reliably working it seems.
Anyway do think this is pretty interesting, semi ambient before that became a thing while also being screamingly loud in places as Ratledge's organ goes into overdrive.
4 lengthy tracks which were initially an lp side each.Here all 4 sitting on one cd. May help if you're stoned I guess.
Was sitting around the flat neglected for too long hope that didn't screw up the disc. 3 changer is getting older though.
But yeah pretty otherworldly. & I think necessary. Fits well with Can, Henry cow and a few others.

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Luaka Bop release from teh late 90s which turned up in a local charity shop. I think it is sung in Portuguese and featuires a lot of pretty funky jazzy acoustic guitar. I'm enjoying this quite a bit. Can get a bit melancholy in places but also pretty beautiful.
Glad I found this cos I think I do like it a great deal. Don't think I was aware of uits existence before seeing it in the charity shop but yeah pretty good. Reminds me of tropicalia, Salsa and a few other things . So good use of a Euro. & was in pretty decent nick too.
Part produced by Arto Lindsay too.
Only just taking in that it dates from 98, not sure when I would have placed it . But pretty fine anyway.

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Another random charity shop find. I think I was semi aware of their existence at teh time but not familiar with a lot of their stuff. Enjoying this anyway.
I think this is a band playing as a band and sounding pretty trip-hoppy or something.
All woman band with ties to Beastie Boys and a number of other groups. Drummer was in the hardcore version of that band i.e. very early on.
Glad i got this cos am enjoying it . Do think they do it quite well anyway.

Can't even find a good version of the cover art to link to, but I'm currently spinning the self-titled debut from Italy's London Underground, apparently a spin-off of 90's prog rockers Standarte.

Basically, a circa 2000 take on the first couple of Yes albums, striking a balance between prog ambitions and still beholden to late '60s pop writing conventions. Not sure yet how much I love it, but it is endlessly fascinating.

(ftr I had no idea the roots of that particular band name until just now googling it... yikes)

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new Gina Birch record, it rules

https://ginabirch.bandcamp.com/album/i-play-my-bass-loud

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https://i.discogs.com/SSbhyUXwtIFib_JkoAwlb91iU9Ke8rHX34QiksYjqUo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM0MDk4/LTExNjg3MjYzNzku/anBlZw.jpegjohn harding - "marbat" muscular minimal dubby tech stuff from 2001. managed to put an almighty scuff in this with clumsy turntable shenanigans ( gotta take the turntable off to change the belt speed )

Right this second one of the newest releases by the ever productive Mike Vest, king of UK shadowy psych overload. This one is from his newish duo with Charlie Butler, Neutraliser:

https://visualvolume-mikevest.bandcamp.com/album/liquid-oxygen-kerosene

Good slow burn dark ambient vibes out of the gate.

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just realised what another of the books on the (no pussyfooting) cover is. 3 down, 12 to go!

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Early 70s Free Jazz set with a good melodic sense and decent riffs forming. Picked this up a decade or 2 ago and should probably play it more. IT is pretty fantstic.
Does sound like something people should be adopting and adapting riffs from so wonder if anybody has done. The track Your Eyes Are Like a Cup Of Tea from the Brian Jones produced Pipes of Pan at Jajouka has a similar effect on me in that I just think it would sound amazing translated to teh guitar.
Really enjoy this

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THis was the sampler 2cd fr the Early Years compilation box set, I've been listening to the first disc which has them from the late 60s starting with the psychedelic pop material written by Syd Barrett through to the more spaced out material from the turn of the decade.
Quite great, not sure why I never picked up a couple of the smaller breakdowns of the box set dedicated to individual years.
I was thinking that Scream Thy Last Scream was on here or at least released outside of the box sets. Also I think I would have bunged in a track from the Ahoy gig featuring Syd. But what's here is pretty great.

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First disc of this I think initially because i wanted to hear the original version of Mystery Train which I knew from th Elvis cover,.
But the rest of teh disc is also pretty fine. r'n'r, blues r'n'b etc.
Do like the Mystery Train a great deal seems to be an updated blues but rhythm seems to be a bit less obvious than the jump blues i'd heard it described as.
Also has Billy Riley and Sonny Burgess who are always worth hearing. PLus classics from Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Warren Smith.
It's a box set but turned up as individual discs in a charity shop locally. Great set I think.

same purchase got me
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which played through a few times initially and seems to be a pretty good overview I think.
Unfortunately 3player seems to be reluctant to play it and it was getting progressively fuzzy sounding. Shame cos I was enjoying it.

I'm listening to the motherfuckin NEW BOMB TURKS, that first run of singles and the debut LP are all time great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnVsKvaOt00

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Ned Milligan & John Atkinson, Call Me When You Can

Very atmospheric, lots of wind chimes. A good listen while working.

I bought the entire Facture catalog recently from Bandcamp. I already had a fair number of titles, but the price was ridiculous. Making my way through it now.

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shana cleveland — manzanita (2023)

lead singer/guitarist from la luz' third proper solo album. continues the dreamy acid folk from her last album and just generally sounds like early fog creeping up from the beach through the redwoods. shades of hope mazzy star jamming with the pentangle. nothing revelatory, but damn pretty music.

*hope sandoval and mazzy star

https://i.discogs.com/IuR3jwgmE1T9ZOCFXJl_YWwyQdoC5S0i0bpgf4lCMCQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTc3NTUw/NTQtMTQ0ODExNTE0/Ni0zODI0LmpwZWc.jpegabercrombie hammer dejohnette - timeless

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The Individualism of Gil Evans.

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lol whatever

Cecil Taylor – Nuits De La Fondation Maeght Vol. 1

aw, yeah - one of the best, that!

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Six Finger Satellite Severe Exposure, y'all heard of this?

Yngwie Malmsteen - Trial by Fire

I saw 6FS on that tour opening for the Jesus Lizard. Their drummer was a machine.

nice. never got to see them sadly.

They were rocking some Moog Keytars at one point.

I really like that one and the last one Law of Ruins.

I've been diligently listening to Wayne Shorter in chronological order over on that thread, but last night I was really vibing on Cannonball Adderley. Wiki says this was the first soul jazz album taped in a noisy club environment, a practice later copied by others.

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disc one which is
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Nice cheap compi of a singer I knew the name of but not much work by that turned up in the local cd/tat shop anI thought I'd grab. Glad I did she has a great voice, I'm not 1000% taken by the backing though it does its job relatively well. I think it is more MOR when I would prefer something more fluid and non saccharine, more dialogic or something. Not heard disc 2 which is 2 songbooks of earlier artists, Bessie Smith and Fats Waller.
Enjoying it and think I will look further into her including Dinah Jams which is more jazz orientated and may look further.
I am enjoying listening through these female singers from around the middle of the 20th century. There are some great ones I need to be more familiar with.
Songs here I knew already from singers like Sinatra. So interesting to hear her interpretations.

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This is not the disc pictured but appears to be the same material but differently ordered and with a different cover. I picked it up in a local charity shop for a Euro. Had gone over on being told that Tommy Tiernan had dropped in a load of stuff to te shop. Picked up a load of books and sorted through a load of cds only to find taht tey weren't in great condition. Got a copy of Supergrass's compilation but 3 changer keeps rejecting it. Also got a few dvds which I haven't checked out yet.
But back to the cd. I haven't been able to find the recording dates of the tracks. The cash in lp came out in 74 so must predate taht. I say cash in cos this seems to be presented as a current lp but with no input from the artist, in terms of agency.
Tracks are at least semi decent turn of the 70s soul stuff. I thought Long Black Veil might be interesting but not sure it's the same song. Hearing him do the standard might be interesting at least.
I see this gets viewed as substandard in most of the review sites I'm seeing. I don't think it's that bad but certainly not his classic material. Worth a Euro , somewhat decent music but not transcendent like.

3 changer still acting up;. Got knocking sounds on Dinah Washington this morning. & it's refusing to play some things. Supergrass started on couple of occasions but I had to turn it off and get up for the day. So thought it would play next time and just got the player attempting to read it and then skipping onto next disc.
Wire Tapper played first track seriously fuzzed out then stopped oin teh 2nd. I thought if i go it to play through it might work better teh next time round. May just need a new player. But 17 years is somewhat good going.
Don't have a 2nd player so can't tell if it is te player and not the disc. Hoping I don't have a load of cds that won't play if I do get a new player anyway.

Did wind up with this playing though
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The lp recorded by 2 ex Tourists backed by several members of Can and Blondie and produced by Conny Plank. So something of a stand alone lp.
I think it doesn't sound much like later work. I hear a load of influences in it, obviously psychedelia and some other earlier rocky stuff. I have always heard a degree of Britfolk in the mix too.
I have loved this record since it came out. Tracks were being played in nightclubs etc when I was first going out to things like that in the early 80s. I have had several copies of this on vinyl and cd. There was a mid 90s cd release I had that seemed very tinny so I was glad to get a remaster that returned the warmth etc to the sound.

I heard a little bit of early stereolab type vibes on a few tracks of in the garden.. v cool album

Prime Dinah Washington is just some of the sauciest music around