What Are You Listening to 2024

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

https://i.discogs.com/00b43FnjPsnH8AYv6MoZQkxQzBXVQ_g0msusCIA6nho/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:250/w:251/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTY2NDQz/My0xMTQ2MjA5NTc5/LmpwZWc.jpeg churinga canaries - ash nav adjacent echo swirl & rumblatum

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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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http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCWR93xva3BiogtTHTb_C6b5hTOVvHPnv
which is Kungiyar Akazama ta Dogon Dutse.
nigerien. they rule

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https://i.discogs.com/a8AcdcaW07g-gz0Nml3wWJsniOfi1QYxMeVa9a559dE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:500/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE4MzAw/MDktMTI0NjI3MDA2/Ny5qcGVn.jpeg this comp of mbira stuff, although not quite as stellar as the nonesuch shona music disc, does feature the kevin volans piece "mbira" which is a groovin funky little minimalist masterpiece that reminds me of pauline oliveros' "the wanderer". can't get enough of it

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

https://legowelt.bandcamp.com/album/schaduw-horizon

one of those nice legowelt synthy soundtracky thing

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https://i.discogs.com/wz-6SX0LBSDxdZ4FNAGSo0aqq3WiT1JrP6nhJ6gbx-8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:471/w:473/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1NDcx/MjAtMTIzNDA1OTI3/Ni5qcGVn.jpegrobert hortn & tom carter - steel jaguar for rocket - super skronky wigout drone

*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.

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or is it ambient i dunno

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some recent listening via spotify

JUN 24

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Stevo if you’re out there — I’m pretty sure it was you who posted in one of these listening threads within the last two years or so about a comp of relatively unknown female-led bands, I think mostly from the ‘80s, playing power-pop/new wave/garage style stuff. I think it had a mostly blue cover? Don’t remember if it was an international comp or focused on one country. Does that sound at all familiar? I remember really liking it but can’t find it now. All of my searches are turning up some recent comps on Ace/Big Beat but I don’t think it’s any of those. Thanks!

https://www.discogs.com/release/1835000-Berta-Waza-Bal-Naggaro-Abangara%C5%8B-Sudan-Die-Musik-Der-Berta-Am-Blauen-Nil-Music-Of-The-Berta-From-Th/image/SW1hZ2U6OTI3NTA4NTg= sudanese waza music. everyone has a wooden trumpet with a different note & they get a groove going it is flipin splendid

I'll have to think re girl fronted band thing. Wouldn't be a covermount thing or something?

Don’t think it was a covermount, pretty sure it was a commercial release. No worries if you can’t think of it!

Found it! “Heroes of the Night: Punk, Pop and Wave from the U.K. Underground ‘79-‘83.” On Reminder Records. And happily discovered that there’s a Volume II out now too.

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also this didn't link & you gotta SEE the trumpets:
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right now : "soldier-talk", the red krayola

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Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Nathan Salsburg and Tyler Trotter take two Lungfish songs and stretch them out to twenty minutes each, results even better than I expected.