What Are You Listening to? 2023

Space Opera s/t LP
Gary Stewart “out of hand” lp
Jandek “you walk alone” and “lost cause” Lps
Townes van Zandt “flyin shoes” lp
Peter brotzmann “the nearer the bone the sweeter the meat” lp
Steve lacy trio “the flame” lp

nice

I am continuing my "listen to all my CDs in alphabetical order" project that I have been doing for the last four years, I only listen while driving so it goes slow, currently I am in the last third of like 30 Legendary Pink Dots CDs.

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kate westbrook's vocals almost approaching dagmaresque territory at moments

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weirdly pretty for an SCG album. good all the way thru

yes, one of their very best

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Polygon Window - Surfing on Sign Waves

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1970 garagey psych lp with some pretty decent guitar on. Not listened to this for a while but it turned up in a pile of cdss I was going through. Pretty great.

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Canadian heavy psych with an Eastern European influence. A 3 piece who shared Slavic heritage which I think is the source of that Eastern European influence.

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Late 60s era soul jazz so in the vicinity of psych. THis was the first disc again which is the main one I've listened to since I first got the set. THis compilation mainly has edited versions of tracks taht are longer on the original lp release with a couple fo full length tracks around teh 15 minute mark.
So yeah, great band at a great point and music I think is just stellar or whatever other cliche for fantabulous you like.
Trancey in places which is one reason I like it. I may need to listen to the full length tracks a bit more.

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shortish free jazz set from great drummer. & band that he'd recently changed the lineup of.
I read the French linernotes despite not fully speaking the language.
I picked up this and the lp before it a couple of years ago.
I am missing the ability to stick 3cds on a player and have them on for a while while I hear them several times. THink I need to relisten to this a lot more.

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Another decent Mojo cover mounted cd with a few tracks I don't think I physically have elsewhere.
Hangs together quite well.

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a few different discs from this set . Have been sticking on over the course of teh last couple fo weeks now I can actually play them.
Spacious avant stuff.

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first disc which is the a-sides. Covers all of their history I think . & hangs together quite well again .

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Set based around a set of traditional songs about May from 2017. I picked this up when she played in the Arts in Action series and then met her at Rough Trade East when i was back in London later.
Pretty nice set with various degrees of traditional setting and several guest appearances including David Tibet.
I did think some of teh traditional songs about May were actually about the appearance of Hawthorn which is also known by that name. & I'm not sure how closely that sticks to April. Oh well great set taht I hadn't listened to in a while.

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The one studio set by the free jazz rock supergroup. Probably them at their most succinct since the tracks are about 4 or 5 minutes long.
Visceral psychedelic noisy duntoid melange of delectable sound. Oh yeah.

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the one set by this lot I have and on this strength odd that that is still true.
Think I picked it up in a sale somewhere. Still needs a few more i think.

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one of a number of Proper boxes I picked up about a month back. 3 discs of material by individual artists and one V/A compilation . Bill Monroe, Stanley Brothers and Flatt& Scruggs. All great so good find. Hoping I get some more of these appearing. Got another set of Bluegrass, One on teh Louisiana Hayride, Roy Acuff and this
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all of which I've listened to bits of.

Oh great, got the 2 Bluegrass sets backwards.
One with a disc each per artist is this one
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whereas the blue one Bluegrass Bonanza is 4 mixed discs or in my case 3 and no booklet. Maybe the previous owner kept the disc of classic bluegrass.

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another eurp find from a charity shop which is several downtempo and r'n'b tracks

also stuck this on this week
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the 1st cd of teh 2cd digipak which is the original lp.
& still the psychedelic melange of different styles that first turned me on in the early 80s. I bought my firs copy of this in teh same purchase as Never Mind The Bollocks from a Brick Lane market stall. I found out later that that had a weird tracklisting that I don't think reappears on many other releases of it.THough on comparison looks like this might be the same but seems a number of others followed the US lp release. I see the 2000CD had this tracklisting plus a number of bonus tracks..

Now rechecking on Discogs looks like Europe got a cd release in 2000 that followed the tracklisting I knew and the version released to the UK shuffled things around a bit in a new way than the original US version. I thought I was remembering it had changed.

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Arnold Dreyblatt - Resolve

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20th Century Duos for Violin and Cello (Kodaly, Sessions, and Ravel performed by Gil Morgenstern and Darrett Adkins); 75 Dollar bill; Emerging Artist Series recordings from tne Norfolk Chamber Music Festival 2023

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Self-titled debut from Laurel Canyon, a trio from Philly. Don't let the name fool you, this is gritty rawk in the vein of Stooges, Mudhoney, Green River, etc. Love it.

Brian eno - neroli

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Vietnam - Revolutionary Ensemble

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really like that revolutionary ensemble recording. the only other release of theirs i know is the very different people's republic.

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the levitts leading into cromagnon is a glorious juxtaposition.

I know I had teh East Village Other set in the mid 90s so maybe still do. Also know I had an ESP sampler with Caledonia on around the same time not sure if it is that one. Think it may be later.
Need to try the Cromagnon album again, don't think its as listenable as that track. Thought a jingle writer going semi avant might lead to something interesting and think that was just too concrete or something. But have a late 90s version somewhere I think. Definitely bought one. Caledonia is at least interesting.

I have an oral history of the label from a few years ago too which was also interesting.

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kind of an L7 / babes in toyland thing going on too, but the guitars are as rhys chatham and the rhythms are as spiky as you like

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xposts to stevo: could have been this esp disk sampler https://www.discogs.com/it/release/12610119-Various-Boots-n-Roots maybe? i remember trying to download it way back in the napster days

Ywah I think so. Picked it up Rom Smile records the Dublin shop that later had the Nick Drake blanket on the wall.

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Yawning Balch - Volume One
Fu Manchu's Bob Balch stops by to jam with the Yawning Man dudes in the Joshua Tree desert. Instrumental cosmic stoner rock, RIYL Causa Sui, Colour Haze.

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Kristian Poulsen & Anders Lauge Meldgaard

i know these guys, and that's a record i like too!