What Are You Listening to? 2023

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Nyabinghi drumming, parping horns and other elements of groove. Reissue from 2003 .
Really does sound quite amazing. Mystic Jamaican trance. Heavy influences from Jazz and Africa tied in with repetitive communal drumming makes for a sublime result.
I should be more familiar with this. It is pretty great. I must have bought it around the time it was reissued since it has the price tag from a shop that closed way back on the cover.

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White hillbilly blues artist sounds like he is playing pretty much what would just be thought of as blues if he was black. Like seems to be little differentiation apart from skin colour. Not notably more European derived I think .
Pretty good.
I think this was something i had meant to get for years after having read an NME piece on the Gun Club where the writer threw in a stack of names of artists from both blues and hillbilly and other early roots music . Took me about 20 years to get this after reading that and I've had it for about the last decades. It's on Document who are often pretty good.

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Compilation from the start of the millennium covering outtakes and live tracks. This bridges the last few years of what I think of as the classic line up and the first few of the new.
Deeply resonant epic music.
Classic line up is the one I prefer hence my use of the term. I did continue buying the lps on release for a while after the lineup change but don't think I've picked up the last few.
Classic line up features the very idiosyncratic guitar style of Blixa Bargeld. I think he stopped playing on all of the newer stuff, Also the classic band had Marc Chung on bass and Alex Hacke on 2nd guitar among other stuff, reshuffle with new line up had Alex move over to bass. & Chung become a record label executive. They also lost F.M. "Mufti" Einheit in the reorganisation which is a shame.

Stevo, Sunday, 14 May 2023 10:29 (one year ago) link

Still listening to one Lou Donaldson record per day. I'm up to 1976, when Lou moved from a long tenure at Blue Note to Cotillion Records and dove fully into (pretty cheesy) disco.

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Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 18 May 2023 14:50 (one year ago) link

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3rd album by Dublin based folk meets avant band, level of drone makes things pretty psychedelic. I'd heard the band name around for a while but not looked into them prior to picking this up last year. Great record though.
I think most of the material is traditional or at least based in the traditional style. They do heavily accentuate teh drone though which gives it a different feel. The vocals may be an acquired taste though.

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Again avant meets melodic reinvention. Coltrane taking Mary Poppins tune apart as well as Eden Ahbez.
But this is Coltrane post Love Supreme as he's getting further out with the original quartet.
Player is totally temperamental these days still so not getting full sound picture. But album is pretty good. Just don't need the extra fuzz.

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First disc of this which combines pretty poppy bands with guitar distortion and the start of heaviness.
Really enjoying what I'm hearing of this but need to get myuself together and seeif taking the 3cd player apart again will sort anything out.
This and other Grapefruit sets are very worth investigating But I need to sort my player out cos this recently has been frustrating.

I also tried putting this on
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but only got a cloud of hiss, which si a major shame cos it is a pretty great set. First disc is the first 2 lps in totla plus a couple of bonus tracks i think from singles.
I got this when it was released in the early 00is or shortly after that.
I had the 3 lps on vinyl since the late 80s. Do love teh bands' sound the mix of Television/ballroom sound guitars and the melodicism etc. & Perret's lyricism.

so have had to listen to various tracks on Spotify instead alongside bits of Drexciya 2 of whose cds I will be getting before long in the mail so definitely need to see if there is anything I can do about the player. Tresor were on single digits of cds they still had on their bandcamp page if you are looking fo rthei rmaterial.

Stevo, Saturday, 20 May 2023 17:27 (one year ago) link

i have no where Stevo lives, but if i live nearby, then i would love to given them my unused cd player thats in my attic.
the never ending cd player issues are heartbreaking.

mark e, Thursday, 25 May 2023 18:44 (one year ago) link

Thanks. I'm in Ireland.
IT is frustrating.
I've now got one cd taht seems to be playing ok with no distortion and growing amounts of distortion from a couple of others. Which is a bit confusing, always seems to be one that is almost listenable and others that aren't. So not sure what is triggering major distortion and what is avoiding it.

Keep hoping that I can sort out the thing myself and not managing to.

Inow have Martin Hayes Peggy's Dream that I can hear nuances etc in and very little distorion.
Irishfiddle player plus band playing pretty sublime stuff.
amd have gone through
Frank Sinatra Only The Lonely charity shop find still sealed 50th anniversary reissue that cut off half way
Plastic Cloud Canadian psych band that started out sounding clean and fuzzed out within a few tracks.
and a few others I've swapped out.

Think I just need to get something else to play things on while I take the player apart and try to se what I can do

Stevo, Thursday, 25 May 2023 19:22 (one year ago) link

I have the reissue of Mendocino on Acadia it's got some great grooves. Title has also been used for a number of compilations representing other parts of the band's career.

Haven't heard the later 1+1+1=4 material which I need to remedy.

Have heard some of the garage era stuff . She's About a Mover is pretty great.

Stevo, Friday, 26 May 2023 08:32 (one year ago) link

1+1+1=4 is from a bunch of different sessions & players, so not as cohesive as mendocino. still solid though.

no lime tangier, Friday, 26 May 2023 08:58 (one year ago) link

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singers unlimited - the complete a capella sessions (1970s)

so great.

my beard exists more than i do. (Austin), Friday, 26 May 2023 18:14 (one year ago) link

this unexpected lo-fi house stormer on the new nabihah iqbal album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWMY-JKFhL4

undomondo, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 09:20 (one year ago) link

this upcoming psychedelia & stoner fusion from japan on guruguru brain https://mayaongakuggb.bandcamp.com/track/approach

undomondo, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 09:22 (one year ago) link

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Because nothing says warm early summer day like massive funeral doom.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8b5X-_pOOY

friend saw them recently in austin, recommended them to me on that. i like the album a lot, though it def is not novel in any of its stylings.

Laurie Anderson’s Singing Bowl Migraine Orchestra (Hunt3r), Sunday, 4 June 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link

my partner bought me church my billy woods so I am listening to that

brimstead, Sunday, 4 June 2023 19:08 (one year ago) link

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I grew up with Peggy Lee but these post-LSD era LP's of hers are real Scott Walker territory.

Confessions of an Oatmeal Eater (I M Losted), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 04:44 (one year ago) link

https://i.discogs.com/0kMizzGB_v_oUA6udV19i2aQNVHrfxWfrsoASPbmsuI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:345/w:350/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEyMzQx/NDE0LTE1MzMyOTY3/NTUtOTUwNi5wbmc.jpeg fernando - fernando- lovely lp of lo-fi vhs '80s pop horror soundtrack vibes recalling the best of early james ferraro etc

massaman gai (front tea for two), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 03:36 (one year ago) link

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Latest lp, & 1st in a few years by Irish fiddle virtouso that I've seen play locally a couple of times. He's here with other people of similar skill but I think he may be best known for a duo he had with teh guitarist Dennis Cahill who died a few years ago.
I don't know exactly why bit this is a cd that has distorted possibly the least in any I've tried to play recently. I'm still stuck with the old player but trying to get something new. I don't get why it sometimes p[ays quite cleanly and at others distorts almost totally. YOu could hear nuances in this disc for ages and even that is now being obscure by intermittent distortion. Would have thought it was either one way or the other. With a few other things they start out ok and then get fuzzed out by about the 3rd or 4th track. Hopefully I'll get something sorted shortly . I think I will miss the process of having a 3 changer so I can have 3cds I have on for a week and therefore get more familiarised with those through extended exposure. Having a single disc player would just mean discs were being changed all the time so wouldn't be hearing things appear on repeated listen as much. Oh well.
This is pretty sublime. I love teh bit on the first track where a swell of sound resembles a usage of feedback in a rock track. This combines trad, classical and jazz as main influences I think . Some use of repetition which had me thinking systems music and possibly a few other elements that may become clearer if I actually hear this fully properly.

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Really liking what I'm hearing of this. I bought 2 Tresor cds in the wake of Kodwo Eshun and Deforrest Brown giving talks on the band at the opening of an exhibition influenced by the mythology they came up with about Subaquatic civilisations descendant from women cast overboard in the middle passage.
have been listening through the band's oeuvre on Spotify too as single tracks as I listen through podcasts among a load of other music.
But definitely need to get a player and hear these discs properly since they are fuzzing out a bit towards the end of the disc.

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Canadian psych band from the late 60s. They combine a really melodic poppy element with noisier distorted guitar in an interesting fashion. Seemed to be a Canadian quirk from teh time where you got a Beatlesy pop element in material that did verge on heaviosity. I hear something similar in Bent Wind though not as poppy as this is .
Good record if you're into the genre at all.
But have only been able to hear first few tracks before player acts up. Ho hum.

Stevo, Friday, 9 June 2023 11:03 (one year ago) link

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esmark - māra I & II amolog snyth bobblin' low key enough to put together a tech english exam to. kinda industrial. kinda cosmic, but somehow not ambient

massaman gai (front tea for two), Saturday, 10 June 2023 16:15 (one year ago) link

Water Damage, 2 Songs -- straight out of the Faust songbook but a really nice angle grinder to the brain

The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Saturday, 10 June 2023 16:28 (one year ago) link

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Lubomyr Melnyk - Corollaries

Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Saturday, 10 June 2023 21:47 (one year ago) link

got a 2nd hand cd ghetto blaster reasonably cheaply yesterday. Sound is ok if not brilliant and it will tide me over until I can get something more substantial. But has meant that I have been able to hear things through ok.
Started with
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or as I have it
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First listen through the album in full and yeah pretty great. I picked up the other Tresor full length at the same time and the stocks of teh discs they have on the bandcamp site seemed to have dropped 1 from the handfull they had when I bought mine in the interim until like 3 days ago when I checked back. A bit surprised it didn't sell outor alternatively have more available. Maybe everybody looking for it got it when it came out.
Anyway great electronic stuff with its own mythology which I need to get more into knowing. These cds don't have anything in the way of notes so would prefer something. Maybe i just need the book of Drexciya or Deforrest Brown's Assembling A Black Counter Culture.

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Atmospheric set from late 50s crooner, here singing lower thanI normally pictured his voice. Pretty divine anyway. Deep, dark and moving.
I love the sound I'm hearing glimpses of on a ghetto blaster so would probably be a lot better on a more solid player.
I really like him from this era anyway.

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cd that came with a book on flamenco called Song of the Outcasts by Robin Tottom. So samples of various styles of the music from across Spain . Mainly acoustic.
I need to clean the disc to listen to it better so only got about 1/3 of the way.
Have had this book out of the library for too long but it got a little mislaid so I only just refound it .
BUt good stuff until the player started glitching. So will listen to it through later.

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A set of lps together on a 2cd set by one of Jamaica's leading bands of the time. Starts in Ska/Rocksteady era and moves forward. I have only listened to about 2/3s of the first disc so far. But at least it is playing which it wasn't with the old player

Stevo, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 09:51 (one year ago) link

listening to: A House - On Our Big Fat Merry-Go-Round (1988)

(i never heard them in the 80s. or i don't remember hearing them. i would have liked this record in the 80s. one of those bands where every song reminds me of someone else. hey, woodentops! hey, echo & the bunnymen! hey, the bolshoi! hey, the blue aeroplanes? maybe the blue aeroplanes. been awhile since i've heard them. anyway, the more 80s janglepusses the merrier. hey, this song on now reminds me of robyn hitchcock! sorta. the singer definitely sounds like the bolshoi guy. haven't heard a song as good as books on the bonfire yet though.)

scott seward, Sunday, 18 June 2023 18:46 (eleven months ago) link

Speaking of janglepusses, I've been enjoying Freedy Johnston's 2022 Back On The Road To You (does he get there? Listen & hear!). Incl. a good strong duet w Susan Cowsill, a more (atypically) subdued but still ok cameo by S.Hoffs, a touch of country-folk-rock at beginning and more folkish toward end, sort-of-jangle-samba in middle, subtle-simple lyrics, jangle all the way duh:
http://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lCxE16gc4cPH-TzGEweOLISE2n77oA1bE

dow, Sunday, 18 June 2023 19:04 (eleven months ago) link

foo youtube---here's cover

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Freedy and Susan and Jon Dee Graham, billed as The Hobart Brothers & Lil' Sis Hobart, made a good campfire-gas-station album, At Least We Have Each Other, in 2012.

dow, Sunday, 18 June 2023 19:11 (eleven months ago) link

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a good 1 euro find last week. Presumably the kind of thing every charity shop has a copy of but quite toetapping. He was a vicious antisemite but he had a way with a tune. I quite enjoyed this probably shouldn't.

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I'm glad I picked this up , should be something I was familiar with a long time earlier. I do remember the Kodwo Eshun article in teh Wire that is now in the entrance to the Galway Arts Centre so should have picked up on the music in the interim. Have to wonder if I have not picked up a load of titles in sales etc because the bandname was one i was only partially aware of.
Oh well got it now and may pick up some more of their work.
Got this nd teh other Tresor full length. I see that both have the tracks from e.p.s included or at least share titles so assume it is the same recordings.
Intelligent electronica stuff, a genre again I'm only partially aware of . But this is good.

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I tthink I listened to both of the discs of this over the last week. I think I have normally concentrated on the 2nd disc which is the career til then spanning compilation and has some pretty good stuff on. Live disc is quite great too anyway.
Do wish I had seen him and possibly them a couple of years later, not sure why i didn't other than lack of dosh. & I could have seen a reunion of Television at some time and didn't. Which is an oversight.l Wish there was more peak era live footage of Television around than the Foxhole video .

Stevo, Thursday, 22 June 2023 08:04 (eleven months ago) link

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Picked this up in the same purchase as the Wagner I listed a few days ago. I know Concierto Di Aranjuez from teh Miles Davis take on Sketches of Spain which I think in turn begat the Grateful Dead's Spanish Jam. This version is quite tasteful anyway. Probably another much seen cd from charity shops etc.

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I've had this compilation for a couple of years during which the old player has regularly refused to recognise it's on the player or latterly fuzzed out part way through the disc. So great to hear teh details of later tracks now. Do love this stuff. I can hear how great the guitar here is, though not sure it's by the guy I really want to hear Joshua Sithole who was pioneering a guitar style incorporating the influence of the mbira playing style his tribe were known for, There is a lot of mbira here too which is cool.

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one disc of a Proper box set that I picked up a decade plus back. Got some pretty good stuff on. I do like a bit of bebop.
This does have Ella Fitzgerald straying into non pc orientalisation for no great reason but other than taht it's quite great.

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2nd lp by Mexican psych/prog band sung in Spanish. Also featuring a lot of flute that had me wondering how a 3 piece would play that live since presumably whoever is doing flute would be playing something else at the time.
Can get quite heavy in places. Quite good really.

Stevo, Saturday, 24 June 2023 11:39 (eleven months ago) link

I saw Wagner and thought it was the another thread for a second.

Johnny Bit Rot (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 24 June 2023 14:28 (eleven months ago) link

this is so awesome! i can't believe i'm hearing it for the first time today. better late than never. wow. love it. bought it at my friend's record store at the last minute. it popped out at me.

https://i.discogs.com/88tRndQUk_J-67nMUwzyzduAH2raDQ4ncJLj1z9Y5L8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:596/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM0ODg1/Mi0xMzA4NDg2OTQw/LmpwZWc.jpeg

scott seward, Saturday, 24 June 2023 22:44 (eleven months ago) link

got this dragons record too. french+chinese madness from 1982. so crazy.

https://i.discogs.com/GtXA1WvnLY80qheU6wHRT-Zb_3rl5la7jHuCtWZH8_A/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:499/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE3MjQx/MjEtMTIzOTMyNTE5/OS5qcGVn.jpeg

scott seward, Saturday, 24 June 2023 22:45 (eleven months ago) link

that damon edge album has a real Suicide vibe at times. so cool.

scott seward, Saturday, 24 June 2023 22:50 (eleven months ago) link


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