What Are You Listening to? 2023

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

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

so great.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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

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

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Sergio!!

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Lubomyr Melnyk - Corollaries

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george lewis - shadowgraph, 5 "sextet" inquisitive plinky plonk AACM goodness. playful

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

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.)

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

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.

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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 .

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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.

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

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.

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

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

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hmph

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xp I lost the Dragons lp a couple of decades back after finding it in Dublin years after readng about it in NME from when it was released. Really is quite other, also somewhat Crampsy.
Backstory is pretty crazy too, either the version told about a journalist having smuggled a tape out of Red China or the story I heard about it all being a total scam made up by a French journalist, recorded in France and then retrofit with teh released story. Have hoped somebody would reissue it on cd or make flac files available.

Oh yeah I watched a webinar on the actual Beijing punk scene over teh last couple of years and brought up this story but I don't think people had heard of the record.

this is a good letter about Dragons: https://stuartschrader.com/writing/letter-editor?fbclid=IwAR2IXgUDX85G7mBuIUuHy1MHmgp_2nJPxSM-bY8G0N-BEikdetnjIpOOQws

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friend lent me this tape. this seriously rules!

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this album is crazy! it's intense.

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