What Are You Listening to? 2023

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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!

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

will check that one out

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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

thought that said Mouthus at first

i love mouthus SO MUCH, but my son is listening to BTS right now

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see if this link works for people

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these two going in different rooms:
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https://xalamproject.bandcamp.com/album/brandon-terzic-xalam-project
50c charity shop purchase.
Based in a blend of Middle Eastern and North African sounds.
Seems to work quite well as music. Seems to reflect years of study.
Not sure how authentic to anything other than sounding quite good it is.

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sorry that's "adrian" not a drain

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This is early 80s global electro awesomeness.

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nice compilation of Black Ark era productions and performances with a couple of glitches over version of tracks chosen.
I have a few Perry compilations floating around andnot sure where they all are. Tyhis appeared a few days ago so I thought i'd give it an ear. Glad I did so.

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actually 2nd disc of a 2cd set by the jazz singer . I do like her voice . Like her with then husband Max Roach on Freedom Now Suite.
THis is more blues and torch songs and pretty fine. her later People in Me is pretty great too. I still haven't listened to her later stuff from the 80s etc

someone kind has shared another song by The Rain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwz4UA23xSE

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Was surprised that the youtube link was posted so long ago and that it took so long for me to find it.
Some good live performances here: https://unrest.bandcamp.com/

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kinda helps that my old turntable belt needs replacing so it has a touch of vangelis pitch-wheel wooze, too

wow. working cd player enables a spin of axolotl's "memory theatre", too. sweet https://i.discogs.com/fSgeIhsQevKGDHLZ2QThPnZxTdXlnyP3NQIKYjCwFX8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:598/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk3MzE3/OS0xNjY2NDQxMTA3/LTM5ODguanBlZw.jpeg

working through some selections based on the discography in Tony Russell's Country Music Originals
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/stevolende/country-music-originals-the-legends-and-the-lost-pt1-old-timey/

among some other stuff.

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double bill of seth nehil - "furl" & "flock & tumble" understated spacious concrete https://i.discogs.com/TI0OlCN6arthiU3rMdyGlVX2ZVQSA0MWFvesod09tdk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:271/w:250/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIzNDA1/MjItMTI3ODE1MTUy/OS5qcGVn.jpeg & https://i.discogs.com/XsDEh36gNDhkVWNDcnUgmVgC-Q2QRRj1LjCgXuP6Zdg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:236/w:250/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE4MzM4/NDctMTI0NjU1NjIz/Ni5qcGVn.jpeg

oh i wanted to enthuse about jan jelinek's "kosmischer pitch" in sunday but fudged the link
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lee gamble - koch

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