What Are You Listening to? 2023

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Polygon Window - Surfing on Sign Waves

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 17 August 2023 09:05 (two years ago)

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massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, 17 August 2023 10:57 (two years ago)

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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 .

Stevo, Thursday, 17 August 2023 13:01 (two years ago)

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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.

Stevo, Thursday, 17 August 2023 15:52 (two years ago)

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..

Stevo, Thursday, 17 August 2023 18:12 (two years ago)

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.

Stevo, Thursday, 17 August 2023 18:23 (two years ago)

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Arnold Dreyblatt - Resolve

Ward Fowler, Friday, 18 August 2023 10:47 (two years ago)

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massaman gai (front tea for two), Saturday, 19 August 2023 10:53 (two years ago)

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

youn, Saturday, 19 August 2023 12:48 (two years ago)

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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.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 21 August 2023 15:20 (two years ago)

Brian eno - neroli

brimstead, Monday, 21 August 2023 15:35 (two years ago)

Vietnam - Revolutionary Ensemble

Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 10:05 (two years ago)

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massaman gai (front tea for two), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 10:37 (two years ago)

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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no lime tangier, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 10:44 (two years ago)

https://i.discogs.com/xoqtYw2uLEM6fu-LJtOet50IalroMhabbBLTJ9sxew8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI5NjY1/MzMtMTUwMDg1Njg0/Ni03MDE4LmpwZWc.jpeg better than death's "swimman" lp meat puppetsy talking headsy TMBGish 80's no-wavey pop-rock. mark howell prime mover here afaict, hillbilly jon anderson like ed fromohio. some bass clarinet skronk. like the sorta gastr del sol record where they might have a kajagoogoo bassline awhile

massaman gai (front tea for two), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 17:28 (two years ago)

the levitts leading into cromagnon is a glorious juxtaposition.

no lime tangier, Thursday, 24 August 2023 08:50 (two years ago)

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.

Stevo, Thursday, 24 August 2023 10:03 (two years ago)

https://i.discogs.com/mMoMUHIikksfv6FbRovy7BdxBQuOir36uIwd-Erxd10/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:549/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwNzEx/NzAwLTE1MDY5NTMx/NzMtMTkwNi5qcGVn.jpeg supreme vagabond craftsman "my mum & dad went to kenya in 2004" wherein the usual loughborough bowie / wayward xtcisms are eschewed in favour of a suite of tangled proggy meanderings

massaman gai (front tea for two), Friday, 25 August 2023 06:07 (two years ago)

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massaman gai (front tea for two), Saturday, 26 August 2023 12:06 (two years ago)

https://i.discogs.com/loQacfXLML10Nn--ePnnrWtTOaBYBr1mU6n_aXHQjp8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI2MDE3/MTY1LTE2ODc4NTMw/MjItNjgwMS5qcGVn.jpeg tolouse low trax - leave me alone. fills a hole where the 2023 susanne brokesch album should be

massaman gai (front tea for two), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 20:46 (two years ago)

https://i.discogs.com/hBRlY6d6aMrThIMdWXxN0Lz9AUZoUT7azZpcUiywYoA/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:591/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTg4ODMx/NDItMTU1MDc1MjE4/MC04MTg5LmpwZWc.jpeg Kristian Poulsen & Anders Lauge Meldgaard – "Leben In Bewegung" Danish free-whatever - melodious & measured. riyl kemialliset ystävät, charalambides etc

massaman gai (front tea for two), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 13:25 (two years ago)

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massaman gai (front tea for two), Friday, 1 September 2023 12:26 (two years ago)

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

massaman gai (front tea for two), Friday, 1 September 2023 12:31 (two years ago)

https://i.discogs.com/pfTRzq4fLYUAp0UDQZtGfMRyuHPAZ4eD0MvraqBx9cY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:538/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTc3OTg1/MTItMTQ0ODk5NzAz/Ny04NzY2LmpwZWc.jpeg Trondheim Jazz Orchestra / Christian Wallumrød – Untitled Arpeggios And Pulses - totally jim o'rourke somehow

massaman gai (front tea for two), Saturday, 2 September 2023 15:37 (two years ago)

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massaman gai (front tea for two), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 11:08 (two years ago)

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

no lime tangier, Monday, 11 September 2023 08:02 (two years ago)

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

Stevo, Monday, 11 September 2023 08:06 (two years ago)

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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.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 11 September 2023 17:22 (two years ago)

Kristian Poulsen & Anders Lauge Meldgaard

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

budo jeru, Thursday, 14 September 2023 04:04 (two years ago)

say "hi"!, i love poulsen's ukulele 7"

massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, 14 September 2023 12:21 (two years ago)

will check that one out

budo jeru, Friday, 15 September 2023 23:12 (two years ago)

https://cheickhamaladiabate.bandcamp.com/album/anka-ben-mali-denou
The ex-pat MNalian Griot who fronts Africa to Appalachia solo lp from a few years ago. More African based sounding but also pretty sublime .
I thought Africa to Appalachia was a great gig that I'd like more of . THe organiser doesn't have a cd player so he passed this on to me.
So this and a load of youtube videos of the various versions of Africa to Appalachia.

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I think this is one of my all time favourite records but I've been neglecting it for a while. But when it starts and you get the searing guitar tone and Larry Young's divine snaking keyboard it gets me like right there.
I'm not sure where I would place thsi genrewise. I link it to acid rock because of its trancgendent questing nature.
It comes from after Mahavishnu Orchestra being up and running and Caravensarai also being out so I gues sit is likely to be grouped with taht but just seems to transcend it. Seems to have an internal light which I find quite psychedelic.
NOt sure how recognised it is and maybe teh cover showi8ng the 2 guitarists in their white clothing religious period may be offputting, might mean some potential listeners have a hurdle presented. But it levitates which seems to be a feature of most of Larry Young's recordings. I do remember Christgau was quite scathing about it but can't remember his exact take but I'd give it a listen.
There are also a bunch of live sets from the tour promoting the lps release which are worth hearing.
I'm not sure what the story is on the drumming on here either. I think both Michael Shrieve and Billy Cobham were playing full kits not sure about Don Alias and Jan Hammer. So like that makes 4 drummers and a congo player and it doesn't seen to dominate, not sure if taht si just production.

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guitar stood out for me this week. Maybe in teh light of thinking about Mea Puppets. I think I heard something about guitar player playing with metal fingerpicks which always has me thinking of the magic band but this is really melodic.
Great set and an artist I need more by and to be more familiar with.

Stevo, Sunday, 17 September 2023 10:51 (two years ago)

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Malian griot plus American old timey players = Africa TO Appalachia.
I think this is a patron complimenting song that they're using as their first number and using to compliment audience members and friends

Can you let me know if the link works. Not tried to link in to Instagram before.

Stevo, Sunday, 17 September 2023 13:38 (two years ago)

New to me the past couple of weeks:

John Scofield "Piety Street" - really soulful listen and immaculately recorded New Orleans funk/gospel/jazz record.

Little Feat "Electrif Leifmotif: Live at Ultra Sonic '74" - Lots of praise on this one on the Little Feat threads and with good reason, it is an excellent sounding and played live studio radio show by the band. I don't know that it is better than Waiting for Columbus, but is a good live recording of the Feat. Would eventually love to hear a well recorded early days, first couple of albums Feat show to contrast.

Gov't Mule "Dub Side of the Mule" - good New Years Eve show from 2006 of the band doing a reggae centered gig with a middle set guesting Toots Hibbard and then in the last set Greg Allman. Their hard rock/reggae version of Al Green's 'I'm a Ram' is better than you might expect considering the description. I liked it.

earlnash, Sunday, 17 September 2023 15:35 (two years ago)

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I just got reminded to play this after reading the Ugly Things review of a more recent version. I have the Aztec records cd version from about a decade ago which adds a loadd of single sides and a 15 minute guitar work called God which was live from the Sunbury festival.

Lp itself is great anyway. Loads of incendiary guitar and psychedelic interplay while this is from 1973. IUU think its pretty necessary le alone essential.

Stevo, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 10:43 (two years ago)

the art ensemble being a compilation of the longer pieces from the byg lps

no lime tangier, Thursday, 21 September 2023 09:07 (two years ago)

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arrived a couple of days ago and I've managed to get through it while listening to a load of other stuff.
Quite enjoying it and glad to find out about a bunch of guitarists I wasn't aware of. Though may find out they were mentioned on here.
Prompts me to want to read teh Michael Heller book on the scene even more so.

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Not really consciously heard her before but found this for a euro yesterday so took the plunge .
Quite pleasant, ties in with some other stuff I quite like. Good voice against music taht references soul/singer songwriter stuff from the 70s

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This was 50c so I thought i'd pick it up in the same purchase as teh Corinne Bailey Rae. Guitar si quite good but lyricism is a bit earnest .
Had heard or read that this was omewhat decent but do think could do with more of the guitar and less of that lyricism. Seems to be going for a populism based on some notion of authenticity which seems a little fake I dunno. Maybe very much of its time. I think the production may reflect that too. & this is a cd from then. Guess it was worth 50c but then again could have listened to Spotify versions of the tracks.
Guitar gets semi gnarly for a few moments at least.

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another decent cover mount cd from the anniversary edition of the magazine I think I have about half of it and hadn't heard a few of the other tracks. Plays quite well and may well be the first time a lot of people have heard a load of these tracks. Think I'm a more eclectic listener than the person in the street so yeah, probably does what it set out to.

Stevo, Thursday, 21 September 2023 10:44 (two years ago)

https://i.discogs.com/t31PsZjhJVT2mYYg5Q0rpVBI7MdN16EpAAl0s52q-4Y/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:540/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI3NTE3/ODk5LTE2ODc5Njg5/NTItODUwOS5qcGVn.jpeg christian lillinger / elias stemeseder - "umbra" querulous next-level lurch & filligree

massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, 21 September 2023 15:53 (two years ago)

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double disc of various mid 00s idm folks remixing machine drum (the kind of idm folks that continued where autechre left off in the mid 90s and fell hard for BoC). I mainly kept this because of the artwork but there’s some good lush vibes and crisp beat stuff with some smatterings of chiptuneage

brimstead, Thursday, 21 September 2023 16:10 (two years ago)


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