What Are You Listening to? 2023

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

https://www.discogs.com/master/126158-Bohannon-Goin-For-Another-One

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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https://real-numbers.bandcamp.com/track/chase-my-blues-away-dead-media

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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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Is Clastrier carrying a hurdy gurdy on his shoulder or what is that? Dulcimer?

& I need to get some of the Voivod remasters still.
Or that box set of that era.

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Mid 70s Nigerian siblings. This is a Soul Jazz compilation that slightly morphs their first lp sleeve.
Nice funky stuff taht can get pretty dubbed out in places. Infectious beats and things.

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Uncut cover mount from 3 years ago based around material released through the light In The Attic label. Pretty great, not sure to what extent I have played this before. I think it has mainly been sitting in a pile for ages.
BUt yeah more tahn a throwaway cover mount. Need to listen to this more.
Could do with having a 3 changer again but am getting through a load of things i have had sitting around for a whle this way. Just did enjoy that have 3 titles as main listening if I am in that room over the course of a week Has meant me familiarising a few things i hadn't, well until the player stopped playing cleanly.

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Anadolu Pop stuff i.e. Turkish beat/psych . I'm not 100% sure what eras this covers I think it does have some mid 60s stuff which might be the Siluetler and some that I think might be a bit later. I think I really need to pick up the first co0uple of lps by Mogollar if I get the chance. Always did love this middle eastern stuff either as purer folk or possibly preferably with the psychy touches they picked up at the turn of the 70s.

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Very interesting Canadian late 60s band. Seems to reach a near duality between a main band that seems to be pretty poppy and setting out to be a melodic combo and an overdriven guitar that seems to be doing its own thing while in semi tandem with the band but not in a way that most bands seemed to operate. I think it works pretty well. Would have liked to hear that some of the band went onto other projects including the guitarist developing further, but not seeing any links on RYM

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great 3 piece Irish trad set. Picked this up after seeing the band live at the local University. Had to order it online since it seems he hasn't put things out in a while and it is a pretty sublime record.

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Charity shop find so I thought I'd take the plunge
ECM label band so pretty spacious. This has female vocals as part of the ensemble singing songs of angst and introspection and things. Singing is jazz/blues type.
Think it's ok but have on ly played a couple of times.

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Quite stunning. Energu ball as vocals added to music that fits the 1970 release date a bit more. So there's pretty funky stuff and some great fuzz guitar.
A number of songs are cowritten with Esquerita who Penniman somewhat resembled in style though I think Esquerita may have been a nickname based on irony, -ita normally meaning diminutive and I think Esquerita actually being quite tall. His own material is a bit less tunefully sung. Still being pretty fine r'n'r.
Actually have this on the BGO version which is a 2cd of 3 lps from similar vintage. The Reprise lps.
I picked this up at a time when I was looking at artist who had been like r'n'b/ soul pioneers of great quality a while earlier and were finding their way around turn of the 70s sound. I think I was triggered into thinking about that by the Al green lp Gets Next To YOu which has a band sound that I wish was more archetypal .l Seems to have mainly been a momentary node point that was left before the artist moved on in a slightly different direction but does have me wanting more or finding other bands that utilise that sound at least for a while. Noticing that a more mercurial artist can create a record that is just going to be where they were at a specific point and not really something they are going to repeat. But that point they were at at that time be something one would want to continually revisit in one's listening and one won't find something taht is an exact match elsewhere but that being part of what keeps things interesting. Or one get sit together to get a band together and use the sound as part of a template one plays around with.

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soul divas 1974 lp which was recorded around teh time she was attending rehab. It is really funky and really emotional .
Pretty fine, would love to pick yup her other early 70s sets.
I think that turn of the 70s thing i was talking about in the little Richard entry may have also been triggered by having loved the song All The Way Down from a best of I picked up a couple of decades back. This does have some of that sound on but again would like some more.

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some decent music from a woeful bigot. Gives one a dichotomy over listening to him but oddly toetapping when one does.
I guess at least it isn't him one is listening t personally but still

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in honor of ilm

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um history of trance ‘91-‘96 part 1

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first visit to an actual real live record shop in over 3 years & walked out with the stunning sounding reissue of
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gnidnatsrednU repeeD A - sgurD no raW ehT

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Ok see if this one works https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71FjuNy2+dL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

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following the taylor swift chaos, the last week it has all been about cabaret voltaire and richard h. kirk for me.
which is a result.
still think that this is still the best 'solo' album i have of his.

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Fffffffff

https://seventhrule.bandcamp.com/album/stream-from-the-heavens

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cristian vogel - all music has come to an end (tresor - 1997)

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Danny Tenaglia – Global Underground 004: Danny Tenaglia - Athens (Thrive/Boxed - 1999)

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