What Are You Listening to? 2023

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Great charity shop find. Has some great choices on it, particularly on this 3rd disc of 5 which is ska/rocksteady classics from late 60s to early 70s.
This also seems to play all of 25 tracks without fuzzing out or tapping noises. Still having trouble with the player elsewhere.
But this disc has been solidly good has a lot of tracks that the initial ska revival bands were playing so hangs together well and avoids being cheesy. Liquidator, Message to You Rudy, Long shot Kick the Bucket and some less obvious ones by Lee Perry and Max romeo etc.

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THe only disc by this band that I have which si a shame since it is pretty dashed tasty. Very sensuous in its grooves etc.
So post hardcore with a sense of sex in the beat.
Unfortunately cd player has been playing back badly so it didn't last the week. Have just found out that the blu ray player in the front room does seem to play everything ok. So may need to replace my bedroom player. Shame grown attached to it over teh years.
BUt have enjoyed what I could listen to of this.

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possibly overly smooth Brazilian disc I bought in a purchase with another couple of titles from teh area a couple of weeks ago.
Does have a couple of decent tracks on .
But 3 changer was adding fuzz and tapping sounds which si a pain.
Have been busy so not tried to clean the player again, hoping i can return function it seems a stabiliser feature or something has been disabled or worn out.
Hopfully can have another go at it in a couple of days.
Not sure what is allowing some things to play properly still though.

wound up trying to play these as replacements
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Looks like a great intro to the Irish traditional institution but 3changer wouldn't play it. Gave totally distorted sound. Blu ray sounded fantastic.

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A couple of different discs from this 6 disc compilation set. A live thing from 1968 which started having beating sounds from the 3changer but played smoothly on the blu ray.
Minimalist abstract sound which I think I need to spend a while listening to

& a later disc La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ, for 100 voices, pno, cello, fl, clar, xylorimba, vib, mar & orchestra, which does appear to be playing,

carolina boogie!
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mainly listening to my final selections from 1956, however i also stumbled across this from 5 years ago and the end section has been playing in my head for the last week now.

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

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okay i'm weirdly intrigued by that tim berne/matt mitchell cover art. i've just now learned that the artist is warren linn and that the dude's resume is 100% legit. dang. also thx no lime; def gonna check out bj cole!

as for me. . .

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so many tears — so many tears (2011)

fishmans rhythm section with takashi kato from tokyo ska paradise orchestra replacing shinji sato. definitely leaning towards the rock side of their influences. it's only marginally similar to fishmans. they try to do a driving pearl jam (?) style rockin` rhythm gallop on some songs and there's some approaching wanky guitar work that uhh... well, they can play so why not? not like it's every song(guitar solo kinda old fashioned innit?). they really get going when they end up sounding like kashiwabara's other band polaris (who i highly recommend btw) and, in that respect, the second half of the album is definitively stronger than the first. i downloaded their entire output (not on streaming) and some of the albums were tagged with the genre "j-alternative" and . . . yeah, pretty much! haven't gotten to everything yet, but this is my favorite of their albums so far. another solid "RIYL" satellite in the fishmans universe. i did skim the live album after peaking at the tracklist; it seems like tons of fun and has some rather kickass r+b covers.

fav thread on ilx currently, fyi. thx everyone.

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desert island disc for sure, lofi dreamy semi-ambient paradise, like Eleventeen Eston on ‘ludes (???)

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There's at least one 2cd set of the Dollar Film Morricone s/trks which are all good. Nice atmospheric stuff.
I do love Quicksilver Messenger Service's Calvary which seems to explore very similar territory.

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The God Machine - Scenes from the Second Storey

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disc 2 which is these 2 in succession
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which seems to be how they were originally released, ir at least both in the same year.
The Bessie Smith has Washington in a setting which apparently wants to echo the jazz of Smith's time in a not totally authentic way. It's done better than I had feared, quite tastefully in fact. The singing is pretty fantastic too.
I'm hearing less attempt at recreation in the Fats Waller set. & listening to this earlier I was wondering if my player was speeding up cos it does sound a bit pinched or something.Not sure if that's the recording or my player. (cleaned it but still having trouble, may need to take it apart more thoroughly)
Cover photo used for this compilation seems to be used pretty heavily but this is a cheap but very useful compilation. Other disc is another 2 great lps.
Love Dinah Washington's voice. This turned up in the local popular music/tat shop and I thought I'd give it a bash. I knew her name but wasn't very familiar with her work. Now want to explore more thoroughly.

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2nd disc of this too. A recentish compilation of mod revivalist's post Jam work where he expanded a bit on the things being reinvestigated.
Strike's me taht the idea of mod as a retro style is counter it's initial purpose which was to be continually cutting edge leading me to wonder what the idea of 'mod' meant way after its initial 60s heyday.Like it would boil down to being about remaining stylish and having a taste in music taht updated similarly and encapsulated later developments. Origins being people in Italian suits listening to Modern jazz and continuing to morph from there through the related develo0pments in jazz, soul, rock etc that came in the next few years so likely to continue to adapt to fit around a semi amorphous idea of stylishness.
So Weller taking in the newer influences he shows in this work would follow that pattern. IT may get a bit glossy in places but overall glad I finally got around to picking up some of this stuff. Think this may be as far as I've gone with anything later tahn The Jam so far but may look further into this lot and his solo work.

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2nd lp by current band. Interesting set of influences and abstract lyrics.
I'm hearing guitar that borrows influence from Johnny Marr and probably some others. I think a lot of his influences and mid 60s stuff etc.
The lyrics are odd , maybe the lack of traditional structure is striking. Think I may need to more of this stuff and get around to listening to the live set(s) I've picked up since. I guess they are sung so can be morphed live to fit some live interplay. But the structure does seem weird and abstract. I do need to hear how things are reproduced live if there is a lot of flexibility or what. Have a couple of sets I grabbed off Dime etc but just have not had a chance to listen to them yet.

finally got a chance to take the cd player apart and daub isopropyl alcohol on the laser lens but still not working properly. Had thing s fuzzing out earlier. I think I may need to take the machine apart again and remove the sections of it above the lens set up. There is a problem of access and a shutter across the lens which means that the area possibly didn't get cleaned as thoroughly as it should have been. I think that used to suffice when I was first having to dismantle the machine instead of just using a cd cleaning disc. Now its getting older I may need to actually dismantle further. may be dust accumulated that I'm not seeing or something. Seemed like a stabilizing process has been marred recently and I'n getting beating sounds etc when trying to play some discs. Hoping the thing is still salvageable. Not had to buy a new player in a very long time and getting attached to this after 17 or 18 years. Wonder if I can actually swap out the laser if it comes to that.

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physical graffiti, disc 2

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^reminds me i keep meaning to listen to this: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018857289/toody-cole-return-of-the-living-dead-moon

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xp THere was a really interesting looking Turid compilation that i was thinking of buying a couple of years back. That's not it is it?
Same label who were reissuing other Swedish prog stuff

yep... if only they'd rerelease those first 3 lps in full!

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Debut lp of Bristol post-punk group, dubbed out to psychedelic excess. One of my all-time fav lps since I was turned onto it by comparisons in Birthday Party articles I read in 83 though they were actually from a while earlier.
Prompted by it sitting by my bed and Mark Stewart had just died.
THis is the version from the anniversary 3cd set. So its on a weird black disc thing not a silver cd. So my player got fuzzy half way through.
Cleaned that more thoroughly this morning so may have sorted.
Love the way it sounds like the sound is in freefall when this does play properly though.

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1st disc of this which may be more ska and soul than reggae. A lot of thsi does sound like it would be classed as soul if played by different groups, I'm assuming it is actually Jamaican or UK artists picking up on soul before they wind up really getting into what constitutes reggae. Have definitely heard reggae with a major Impressions/Curtis Mayfield influence elsewhere. I think this is mainly 60s recordings so a bit early to be reggae per se.
Anyway hangs together quite well even crossing several genres . I think I picked this up in Sister Ray a few years ago and was happy to see a second wave of Trojan 2cd compilations after the Sanctuary version of Trojan 2cd sets were pretty exemplary. Not sure if this is quite to that level, good though.

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Heavy, primitive Brazilian psychedelic rock stuff with stun guitar. Trying to get the cd cleaner cleaned I was next to a shelf I haven't really been getting to for a while so checked this out. I think it's pretty good.
Very doomy too.
THis version comes with a load of bonus tracks from the earlier incarnation of the band as the Love Machine

Ultima Thule, a long-running Australian ambient podcast, drops about 20 episodes at a time every quarter or so. I'm listening my way through them now. It's a nice, eclectic mix presented each show by a different member of a rotating cast of DJs.

I've been listening to all the Lou Donaldson records, pretty much one per day. Today's was Alligator Bogaloo, which I had never noticed before is misspelled!

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And that led me to these two great Idris Muhammad albums.

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This thing rocks hard.

Sad man in him room

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San Franciscan psychedelic band not to be confused with the Lemurians. I take it this name refers to an internal light which I think is audible.
THey use loads of repetition but reference a wider palate of music than i think one might assume. I'm hearing bits of things like Telstar in teh mix here. Alongside a lot more Krauty and spacerock stuff. But done pretty much right.
I really liked this. So shouldn't have been sitting on a difficult to access shelf for so long.

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ONe of my favourite lps. Luo benga guitarist picking out melodic lines in a percussive way. Rhythm section doing something very danceable that isn't really funk but is pretty infectious.
Bits of this remind me of Television who I think I was discovering at around teh same time my dad gave my family a single by him on one of the trips he made through London in the early 80s. So when this compilation appeared it was something I'd been dying to get hold of for years.
Very colourful music that isn't intentionally psychedelic but I'd love to hear some psych with this incorporated as influence.
I'm still having trouble with the sound on the cd player so this is fuzzing out at times I've been trying to play it. BUt has played through at others.

tried playing
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both discs. Got through about 1/2-2/3s of teh live stuff a couple of times before it became unlistenable then tried playing the studio compilation and first track was just a cloud of fuzz. Does work on dvd/blu ray in front room. I'm going to see if I can actually fix the bedroom cd player again hoping I can keep it running.

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great set by pioneer of electric guitar in jazz. Player only played first half a couple of times. Which is a pain.

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Late 70s heavy psych/garage prog . THis has played through a few times.
Really like this, it came out a few years back. An archival release from a previously unknown band that were doing their own thing

discreet music side a

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I bought like fifteen Edward Ka-Spel records on Bandcamp last weekend, filling in some gaps, I think I have 66 releases by him now. Great stuff, particularly this 2003 live recording w. a guest theremin player:
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first thought on seeing that^ was trying to imagine some kind of zappa/harmonia mash-up & just couldn't do it

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lol I actually thought the same thing for a sec. It's chamber music arrangements of Zappa compositions. I'm listening again today, it's really nice morning music.

Maybe "nice" isn't quite right, it gets a little prickly. But I like it better than most real Zappa albums these days. Anyway, onto other morning music:

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3rd lp by legendary underground rock band and possibly the first of their absolute classics. I think I haven't been giving this enough if a chance, not sure how much better I know its follow up. Anyway great burning rock stuff with smouldering guitar leads.
I think this must have been an influence on both grunge and stoner rock later on as well as being something that a few post-punk bands admitted to liking. I known Mark E Smith has said he liked them .
THink I picked this up in a FOPP not sure how long ago, think it's the version that came out about 20 years ago. I also have the next 2 and have also neglected Who Will Save The World. I hadn't realised they had just continued putting records out for so much longer after the material I'm aware of. Not sure if I've really heard Hogwash and don't know what I've heard after that. Think I may have been turned onto the band more by Julian Cope writing about them in the early 00ies.
Very worth checking out if you haven't already. They started out rooted in the blues but there's a number of other influences coming in here. Like the syncopated drumming and use of dynamics.

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Senegalese singer's early 2000s exploration of his view of Islam and how it has influenced him.
Beautiful record with interesting rhythmic use of strings.
N'dour has a great voice and I really like his earlier 1980s work with Etoile De Dakar.
I got lucky with this, picked up a nice conditi8on one for a euro from a charity shop in town.
So glad people are disposing of cds in this way. Just wish I could rely on my player more. Think I need another go at it.

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Did finally get to hear this through a couple of times but it has fuzzed out and not played at other times.
It's a really great set by a mid 20th century jazz guitar pioneer normally in a setting with vibes also dominant playing pretty short tunes which are pretty melodic and really atmospheric. I love what I'm hearing and wish the player would play clearly and consistently cos i could really get into this if it did.

I started the week with Groundhogs, Charlie Christian and this on the 3 changer
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First disc of this which is the blues/soul singer from the early 60s singing the original versions of a number of songs heavily picked up by Beat bands in the mid 60s also artists like the Grateful Dead who did his Turn On Your Lovelight as extensive raveups throughout 1969.
I love the way his voice can be as smooth as Sam Cooke or as rough as Howlin Wolf often within the same song.
Also enjoy the backing group who utilise some odd textures in the sound. Otherwise some pretty exemplary r'n'b type stuff.
But player is fuzzing out prt wa through disc.
Will see if i can get into the machine over the next couple of days and see if I can improve things.

https://i.discogs.com/MXgsn9ZDQwViMhe6O55Z6T62PA2eMTtIf_zmeGN3Sd4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:228/w:227/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM0MDE3/NzktMTMyODk4MzY2/NC5qcGVn.jpegtom abbs & frequency response - lost & found: punky & poignant bass/tuba, sax, drums, vn. plangent rumblatum. what an absolute gem.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE1-7P1reTFjXuWYyLspwuImnLzDdPg6U

https://i.discogs.com/oOIi1k2klASaEcjCQf9Eg5lyXfbzrqPNXcGvFcve-9c/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:500/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE4Njk0/NDYtMTI2ODk2NzU4/OS5qcGVn.jpeg

I've long been into the Invictus / Hot Wax catalog, but I've had to get most of the stuff at thrifts on the south side of Chicago, or scavenged stuff from Ebay / Amazon.

This would be an awesome record to have but I'm listening to it on YouTube.

I think Edsel did some pretty comprehensive sets of COTB some years ago. 2 or 3 lps together on 2cds. I managed to pick one up a few years ago. Wish I'd got more.

Think it may have been a more comprehensive reissuing of the Invictus catalogue cos I think I have a related Ruth Copeland set. Seems to be just before teh turn of the millenium they put out the series.I was just thinking I had another band's material tied in with Invictus, early 70s funk bunch. The 8th Day.

Invictus being the label that the Holland brothers and Lamont Dozier set up after leaving Motown

https://i.discogs.com/j3ugCmxE7cgTM5IlmAFbHIMiorwMjukteZSa6w-Yr-g/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:200/w:200/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIxMjgz/NDgtMTI2NTU2MDAy/MC5naWY.jpeggay against you - "righteous signals, sour dudes" proggy punky chiptune nonsense

https://i.discogs.com/kKMb-zfkbzMoKJtG0G6x3Wz2XCKkyP7RPjTkbXuPJfQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:400/w:400/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE5MTgx/NzYtMTI1MjM2MzE0/Ni5naWY.jpegvoks - "astra & knyst" like if sun city girls did casio yamaha presets. RIYL aavikko, yximalloo etc