What Are You Listening to? 2023

B-52s "Whammy", way way better than I remembered

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Interesting melange of influences here. Half Indian singer partially brought up in Australia plays wityh international band including Tony Allen and a couple of members of Yat -Kha , I picked this up in a charity shop yesterday not knowing anything about it.
Brought it home and it is pretty great. May be the one really good lp by her apparently. So great find.

I found a copy of Tom Verlaine's Miller;s Tale for a Euro earlier in the week too but haven't played it yet so hoping it does play OK.

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Balllroom era psych with great lengthy guitar parts. I hear a soul influence in the sound as well as the great guitar.
Think I might need a new copy of this or the other compilation by them cos I've had this since around the time it came out & it;s showing wear.

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First couple of lps by US heavies from their original album series.
Getting into them. Went to find the first lp again and mislead it which is why I went for the 2nd.
Do enjoy them, asnd Leslie West's earlier Vagrants
somewhat heavy guiitar, bassist produced Cream. Rocks I guess

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First lp by band taht went onto play with Hugh Masekela for another couple of records.
Pretty sublime. African psych mixing traditional influences with electric guitar etc

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neo ouijia comp… more chill clicky blippy early 00s idm

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was familiar with a bunch of the doo wop and r&b material from other comps, but most of the rest is new to me. nuclear war... goddamn wow.

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I've been into 20s and 30s jazz of all kinds, this is an astonishing find. It sounds so fresh!

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That's an area I haven't looked into. Does it sound like it foreshadows later rock or anything at all. Keep hearingthings in 20s Irishand other ethnic folk stuff that I hear as echoing or pre echoing rock and roll things I'm aware of.

I have the preceding 2 cds in this thread. Was listening to the Sun Ra singles diwc 3 last week too. . Not heard taht Youssou N'dour in a while though.

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Galician folk in very celti8c style. Loads of percussion, a few pipes and a touch of medievalism.
THis turned up in a charity shop i infrequently visit but normally walk out with a stack of books frem. I only took one book this trip plus 10 cds. Now hoping i didn't leave anything by these behind because this is p[retty good. My one qualm about them was that on not being able to find anything about the band on the music rating pages I googled tehm and found one of their later sets highly regarded on Stormfront. NOt sure that has anything to do with them themselves though. Hope not at least.
Also trying to work out what teh music was like had me struggling with Spanish linernotes trying to decipher them based on my smattering of French and Italian. Understood enough to give it a try which is justy as well but I do think there were some other Spanish titles there so really do hope I didn't miss anything else as good.

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Solo Donegal fiddler, quite sublime. Another find in the same purchase and really really good. I think I may have come across teh title mentioned somewhere else. Seemed to ring a bell when I came across it.
Charity shop has started integrating cd shelves into the bookshelf . So I was working through and went through most of teh cds in the shop I think and did find some great ones. Think I'd recommend this to anybody who could take listening to a solo stringed instrument.
It is about Irish airs but it is just really really good.

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Another great one from teh same purchase. I know taht Sandy Denny covered a few of teh songs her. Not as sure about direct influence on Drake
. Do have teh Richard Morton Jack biography out of teh library right now so may find mention of some of this stuff, I do remember Patrick Humphries talking about him hitching into London to see Graham Bond quite frequently. Otherwise not sure to what degree Nick Drake actually ties into a traditional framework simply because he was an acoustic player.
But what is here is great and seems to hang together well.

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pretty quiet folky stuff by Canadian producer/performer who I think I know best for producing teh Simply Saucer material but went onto fame under his own right in the 80s. Some sung in French.
I had been looking at a copy of this in a different charity shop a couple of weeks earlier but I think it looked to be in questionable shape so wasn't sure it would play at home. It's nice enough I guess but not sure how much I will be returning to it.
Has member of U2 and The Neville Brothers on as well as Eno . Like its ok and may grow on me. I don't really like U2 after teh early singles taht much ho hum.

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Compilation of British r'n;r/pop star material from across several years in teh early to mid 60s. Not tyaken in how the later stuff fits with its time since i would have mainly associated him with late 50s/ear;y 60s. So will be listening again;.
Some of this stuff has a wall of sound type thing going on like a Spector.
I do like a lot of this stuff and possibly should know him a bit better. Got this now so will familiarise myself more

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Cheap compilation crossing a long period of time from Perry Como to Justin Timberlake. Mostly listenable, not very impressed by Timberlake.
But got some good stuff on. The 3 Guinness ad tie ins are fun as is Esquivel .

i'm really loving the new album by ilxor TtEG! its way cool. more Who fans should make records this good. the Who should make records this good.

https://mattweston.bandcamp.com/album/embrace-this-twilight

j Davey - the land of the lost

this fuzzy wobbly space r&b still jams

it is still supreme awesomeness

Eyvind Kang - Sonic Gnostic

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budget compilation of early electronic music... a nice mix of academic/classical/pop
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that does look like a pretty nifty selection!
been jamming religious knives it's after dark https://i.discogs.com/tBbo8EA3Yu9VEnPnJ3Ol9jyPYgxk8-Zk3crKdCo_sUc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:333/w:333/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzNTc4/NDktMTIxMjUyNTQw/MC5qcGVn.jpeg and toya delazy today

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remaster, totally rules

Baaba Maal- Being (2023)

El Alfa - Dembow Worldwide Hits Teteo 42 (2023)

POWERAGE

continuing my adventures in cheapo cd compilation listening with...
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Various – Qat, Coffee & Qambus: Raw 45s From Yemen

hmm. do images not work from discogs anymore, or is it just my browser?

okay, guess it was just me

i hope you hate "raw" in that title as much as i do!

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Greek post-punk. You can find it on comps on iTunes and also streaming.

Bands I like so far are Clowns and The Reporters.

Greek bands could have taught Americans a thing or two about rhythm.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvpRTJ6haE3ln1G9jCLxrQZczzKfiDKbs

whoops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srjo2f7d018

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disc 2 starts with percussion that sounds exactly like a skipping cd! muhaummad al-badri, i note, also (i don't know who any of these people are)

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The '67 self titled Small Faces record has been my jam this afternoon. I think "Eddie's Dream" kind of invents the Happy Mondays. Cool groove.

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Alan Stivell's material from around the same time was pretty great too.

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which was a UK release of something that I think is a lot less exploito than the sleeve would suggest
looks like its Greek release looked like this
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just rediscovered it on Spotify after having picked it up on vinyl in the mid 80s
I think the song Parelasis ought to be covered in a mire rock style.

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https://0records.bandcamp.com

highly riyl if you like topdown dialectic, acido, leftfield dub techno,

ooh thanks, that's nice!

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a stack of early jazz stuff I picked up from charity shops recently Harlan Leonard, Tab Smith, Lucky Millinder, Boots Douglas, among others.
a 2cd set of early New Orleans stuff.
a ;ive set by Louis Jordan and a great compi of Fats Waller both on a label I would have previously ignored.

a set by a musician I've enjoyed this year and met recently. One I've meant to pick up for a while
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the first stand alone lp by a band much better known with a largely different line up.
Heavy rock with howling vocals and some pretty psychedelic touches
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first couple of lps by heavy Texan blues boogie band led by one of Jimi Hendrix's most promising guitarists. A ;ot moreb bite than they had later
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from the box set that came out a few years ago
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early mid 60s demoes by future glam star
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I'd buy that for a dollar x 3!

On a related note since she's arguably one of the great next-gen composer/improvisors in the Berne chromatic unswung straight-8s/16s NYC abstract jazz lineage, I enjoyed listening to and watching this recent interview w/ saxophonist/flautist Anna Webber by Slovenian jazz guitarist Samo Salamon (I still need to hear her new album Shimmer Wince on Intakt all the way through, though):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6i9CmuWXOs