What Are You Listening to 2024

super skronky version of the blade runner feem choon, too

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Les Ambassadeurs Du Motel De Bamako* – Les Ambassadeurs Du Motel De Bamako
Swirling, psychedelic,Mande electric rock. Part of a widespread move in the early 70s for bands to electrify local indigenous music and mix it with Western influences. This also shows the legacy of the earlier Latin influence which swept the continent in the late 50s and 60s. There were some fantastic bands recorded in Northwest Africa who had some similarities in sound these included the Bamako based bands i.e. these and the Rail Band and bands from Senegal including Orchestra Baobab and the bands that descended from the Star Band notably Youssou N'dour's Super Etoile de Dakar.
This music was recorded between 1975 and 1977 after which the band moved base to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and became Les Ambassadeurs Internationaux
So, long electric guitar explorations as part of a larger ensemble. 1st disc here is all Salif Keita vocals , 2nd has 4 different vocalists on .

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4 piece band make a larger sound on a night on an Italian tour in 1978. Very spacious and pretty heavy. Sun Ra on various keyboards 2 horns and a drummer. This and Disco 3000 are both pretty great and recorded in pretty close succession. Not sure which to say is more essential/. I got lucky and got this for £5 from Rermegacorp in a sale a while back.
This helps show why the band got such a reputation. But so much by him does. Otherworldly, psychedelic , noisy music.May help reset the parameters of what can be done with music. & its just one night of live interplay between a small group of musicians. Like, wow.

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2nd lp by Brum heavies. I think more fluid than the first one and some of it sounds oddly Doorsy (Planet Caravan)
I'm still going through a phase of listening to a lot of early stoner rock stuff and this is an important part of that. I should be getting the first lp shortly, previous copy got heavily scratched.

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1st lp by another turn of the 70s heavy groups.This is very heavy and monumental and things.
I'm not familiar with the rest of their material I picked this up on hearing it was one of the killer heavies. May check out some more of their early stuff but I think they add orchestration etc on the next lp. This is just the band playing hard rock, they become more progressive with the next couple of records I hear.

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Interesting best of on Spectrum. Seems like it's more curated than you might expect a mid priced cd compi to be. I think anyway, I have a number of JB sets and albums and am not familiar with a few things on here. Not sure to what extent this qualifies as the best but there is a lot of great material from the time covered anyway. It goes on beyond a point I'd cut off at. I thought he had bowedvto the pressure of the influence of disco so quality had slipped. This has a few tracks from that era which avoid that. Now I'm wondering if Drunk On The Heavy Funk was worth checking out, that's the 2cd covering that era that came out about 20 years ago.
One thing that drew me to picking this up was the 1970 era sleeve photo and a number of track titles I would associate with a certain era. There are a load of tracks here from 68-73 and a few later plus some of the better known earlier ones Night Train, Cold Sweat, Papa's Got A Brand New Bag. I'm not sure what I'd put on a basic JB best of. Did have a couple of earlier Best Of sets of him a few decades ago that even then had tracks I'm not sure were immediately lowcomdenom but I am impressed by this for mid price.
Could just be that I'm out of touch with what the important points of JB are in the wake of Rare Groove and Acid Jazz etc. Where I was approaching things initially from the perspective of a 60sphile mod revival. Do love the early to mid 70s stuff anyway.

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big band jazz (with added ivor cutler)

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Reyna Tropical

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I love that Dead on the Heavy Funk late 70s/early 80s JB comp.

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I picked this up thinking it was going to be 20s and 30s old timey etc and it turns out to be 40s to 70s. Still pretty great. Lots of country and blues picking and frailing.
I grabbed a pile of stuff from a local 2nd hand shop. Would have been more if I'd had more dosh a couple of days earlier.

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This was from the same place and I think purchase. Good sounding set of acoustic blues stuff. With Frank Stokes on the cover. I got a Document set by him a couple of days earlier.
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compilation of various musics from North Africa from desert blues to more traditional Mande Sounds and had a free cd by Mamane Barka that I've yet to listen to.

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Sublime record by Malian guitarist and international band including Taj Mahal on acoustic guitar. Mix of his Malian blues and possibly more traditional stuff. Pretty great anyway, I think I missed another couple of his that had been there when I first looked.
All of this traditional stuff apparently came from one person's collection.

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Hungarian folk played by an official ensemble so not sure how authentic and gritty. ~Gets pretty noisy when woodwind drone instruments are in play.&I do find it pretty cool.

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Compilation of 2 cajun records from the time of the revival. I need to listen to this more but am enjoying what I've heard.
Need to go back to the shop to see if they've still got any of the things I didn't grab last week

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Uncut covermount sampler of the Can Bootleg series. Aston sounds interesting from this track

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Japanese psych prog band from the early 70s. Remind me of the Doors musically along with Pink Floyd, King Crimson and a few others.
Found this had fallen down somewhere after not being able to find it recently. But pretty good listen.

Isshoku Sokuhatsu [Yonin-Bayashi] was the last title there. Hadn't realised it didn't have a name showing.

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the byrds (untitled)

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Because I am suggestible (and because it's beautiful).

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definite skinny puppy vibes

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expanded anniversary edition with bonus track for japan

ornette coleman & t rex

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a4029812710_65 not sure if that link will work, but the whole "rap is back" EP by Hot Dad is some of the best shoegaze i've heard in ages, and stupid AF, to boot

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very rarely do i get excited about a bandcamp mailout, but freak the funk! it's a new montel palmer album!
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like mouthus or ashtray navigations doing laid back electro funk jamz
cough syrup

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glurp

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which is Kungiyar Akazama ta Dogon Dutse.
nigerien. they rule

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https://www.discogs.com/release/1547118-Robert-Horton-Dirt-Speak/image/SW1hZ2U6MjQzMzY2MQ== robert horton - dirt speak. gnarled homemade instrument drone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7m1hgsCNpA

Where has Phil Perry been all my life

the kevin volans piece "mbira" which is a groovin funky little minimalist masterpiece

...for two harpsichords, natch.

for sure, priv/appr Qs abound, but it sounds good

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part of a bunch of the covermount cds I picked up recently. There are a few other titles too. Just got into a set of Memphis Jug Bands who played a bunch of tracks I'n familiar with in Grateful Dead reworkings, The late 20s versions are really vital, sound like they could come from decades later.
Really liking the East Coast Blues set too I know the word Piedmont but not been massively familiar with all of the music that fits the genre. Have been familiar with some of it. Plus that's the style Jorma Kaukonen specialised in before he went electric. Do need to work through JA conscious of that to see how much of an influence it leaves on the band's work.

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Turn of the 70s London based stoner rock band. Whose work was released in the mid 90s by Kissing Spell. This is a later reissue by Guerssen.
Nice heavy guitar work outs. I think this is their better collection.

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Detroit stoner rock band who have been reissued by Mr Bongo because of funk elements I'm not really hearing. Does seem more heavy than funky but it was released on a Motown sub label.

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Current Finnish band trying to rework turn of 70s psych folk rock. Not sure how successful that is but results are pretty good. Just doesn't really hit the imaginary early 70s year that a number of bands were hitting in the late 00ies. It is pretty listenable.

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techno with its own narrative. Had this on for the first time in a while this week. Pretty great stuff.
I watched the Trolls World Tour or at least part of it yesterday. They have the Techno land as sub auatic so I wondered if it was a reference to this mythos.

xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U3563FPJo8
"If one looks at western music through the lens of traditional African music, you could just as easily refer to a piano as a ten-finger mbira."

I don't have the right to address these Q's but Volans to his credit at least does this^

love that sympathetic rattling is deemed necessary to the sound

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one of those nice legowelt synthy soundtracky thing

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*horton

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Just got a replacement copy of the 3cd of the 69 Fillmore West set. Got it when it came out but old copy is a bit worse the wear.
So here is the band with copious amounts of psychedelic jam from right around the time of Live Dead which used other recordings from the same series of gigs and another couple of sources. Songs here have notably different durations to the previously released versions which indicates some looseness as does the actual music itself.
Blooming great and epitomising the band at some of its best. I know August 68 and May 70 are highs I hold for the band, not sure about 69 for a total peak but this is great.

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one of several blues sets from this covermounted cd series I picked up recently. Love this one. It has a number of songs that I associate withb the Grateful Dead as set enders as well as a Viola Lee Blues which they covered on their first lp. Music here is energetic and sounds like it ought to come from decades later than its 1927-30 recordings. Definitely sound like archetype line ups for later band formations or however you want to put that. Just thinking prototype ideas for what a band should be, I found listening to Hank Williams Drifting Cowboys and a few others had me thinking similarly. I think jug bands may be filtered through 60s white recreations and wind up sounding more hokey, from the evidence of this they sound like they were far more innovative at the time of recording.
Sound here seems relatively good and listenable. Do wish I had the magazines though. Linernotes are pretty scanty in the cd booklet.

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Jazz saxophonist's return lp after a long time practising in the location of the title. He's joined here by guitarist Jim Hall who is pretty outstanding.
I'm less familiar with Rollins' work than I probably ought to be. Have heard bits of it but don't own much. Not sure why.