What Are You Listening to? 2020

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The two keyboard Allman Brothers which featured Chuck Levell on piano gave the group a different sound. The mix really is not all that great, but the version of Elizabeth Reed on this LP is pretty cool as the electric piano and lack of a second electric guitar gives the tune quite a bit more space. I dare say it but really has a vibe not unlike ILM favorite "In a Silent Way". Worth checking out if interested in any of said parties.

Rajna Swaminathan - Of Agency and Abstraction
wonderful

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always loved that cover

currently: Ex-Cult Negative Growth

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Heard the 50th Anniversary Edition yet? I still gotta.

― dow, Saturday, August 29, 2020 10:37 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

not yet. am tempted to pick up a copy just for the live stuff.

― no lime tangier, Saturday, August 29
I've been working my way through their 50th Anniversary series on YouTube, hope to get to WD by Labor Day.

listening to skot's deep end mix.

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Owen Pallett - Island
Genesis - Selling England By the Pound
Mozart - Sonatas nos. 5, 6, 7, 8 (K. 283, 284, 309, 310) (perf. Daniel Barenboim)
Steve Cowan - livestream concert (https://www.facebook.com/events/911678792654170/?active_tab=about)

a bunch of cajun & zydeco lps, now bluegrass
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Bellows - Undercurrent
(this and CS + Kreme's Snoopy are likely going to be the two contenders duking it out for my fave electronic/experimental album of 2020)

Revival of Tony Williams Lifetime thread got me back into this

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Young's Lawrence of Newark is a trip too: he doesn't need a synthesizer, and neither do cellist Diedre Johnson nor saxophonist Dennis Mourouse (okay, DM does plug in sometimes). Also got Blood Ulmer, Pharoah Sanders, a lot of percussion but never too much. May have some abrupt endings early on, but hold onto your horsehead nebula for the homestretch/final third (it's only about 33 minutes, but action packed). He was as prolific as the other original Lifetimers, but this set is especially thread-relevant, boldness-wise.

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Now what the hell is that, not seeing anything in English yet.

Jarry related Dead covers?

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MId 70s avant jazz stuff with a stream of semi melodic piano shifting in an dout of focus alongside a backing quintet.
Not quiite got my head wrapped around this yet.
Probably better if I wasn't listening to it on low volume as I was going to sleep or a little louder as wi Was waking up.
Maybe needs higher volume and concentrated immersion?
Anyway glad i finally got it.

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outtakes etc from around the time of Y , got several alternative takes from the original lp plus Kiss The Book which turned up on the We Are Time set.
I love this band around the time of this first lp, some of my favourite sounds. Would love some more of it.
I'm a bit less into For How Much Longer though it is still pretty decent.

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Actually the live set taht came with teh remaster of The Idiot which is also represented here. Hadn't listened to either of teh live sets that came with the lps.
THis si about good enough, sound isn't perfect. It's abouot half Stooges and half songs from the lps including things Like Turn Blue.
Quite enjoyabloe I guess, not sure how often I'd bung it on if i wasn't conscious of having bought it and not listened to it.
Couldn't see a listing of musicians for the set, like he guitar a lot in places and the band is pretty solid.
So quite good I guess will see how frequently I revisit it though

My listening year so far is in this thread, about half of the Wire's 100 Records that Set the world etc. list

https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=92576#unread

Since then lots of Krautrock: Can -- from Soundtracks to Ege Bamyasi -- Faust IV, Pyschedelic Underground is such a good set, Yeti manages that intensity with a couple of CHOONS!!, currently on the first three Neu! albs and off to Ash Ra Temple next (whom I've actually never heard).

xp not really sure what oxomaxoma is tbh, or what to make of it

Oh, the Grateful Dead album of that title---didn't recognize it broken up like that, and w Spanish---is mostly enjoyable, in a damn-thee-torpedoes-of-budget-and-all-other-limitations way---talking about the rediscovered, remastered 1969 original, though I didn't listen to the meant-to-be more normie, reportedly drastic early 70s overhaul; both are on or in the 50th Anniversary Edition.

That previously mentioned Workingman's Dead 50th Anniversary Edition turned out to be good too: no bonus studio tracks (though there are a set of rehearsals etc. on a sep., apparently digital-only release, The Angel's Share; intriguingly described by Stephen Thomas Erlewine in Pitchfork), but the remaster brings out a lot of detail I didn't recall at all, prob never heard on my old record player. And the bonus live show is real good (with Bill the only drummer, sounding refreshed and refreshing).

dead 69 lp is Aoxomoxoa, I thought the mention of Patamusica might be a reference to pataphysics or something, hence Jarry

Right: Jarry Mason's Children Garcia.

xp right, the title is a reference to jarry:

With respect and admiration to Alfred Jarry - who in the early nineteenth century invented the 'Pataphysics to solve various situations with “formidable imaginary solutions for all problems that do not exist but hurt and hurt and to challenge the holy traditions of easy operation”*-, Oxomaxoma has founded the Laboratory for the Sound Des-occultation of the ‘Patamusic (LDSP) to produce and generate all those imaginary sounds that are not intended to solve anything

not sure if the band name is a nod to the dead recordor not; it's a group out of mexico city operating at least since the '70s

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damp cardboard box under a bridge vibe, too

after having a fun time with the shadow boat 12" I though i'd give this a spin
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that was my go-to bedtime album for like 3 years, still love it

Yeah that’s the stuff

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Bettye LaVette, Blackbirds (2020): I think of her as a Method actress song stylist, from the inside out, prob never much about, "Oh, that's a sweet bit, think I'll sing it" as "Okay, this means something to me," and you can feel the push and pull and twist and turn of that, even if you'll never know all it means to her, in her life. The comeback has been largely via songs by old white rockers, but as customized, chopped 'n' channeled vehicles, getting moreso: her 2018 Dylan collection, Things Have Changed is fearless, overall her most radical yet, and I hate using the r-word, at least as modifier.
This set is all blues as a feeling, whether or not of the genre, written by or strongly associated by women, mostly if not all of color, with some jazz in there: all modern, as the band goes where she leads, though not passively: musos can sound like, "Yeah that's bad, but whattayagonna do, and look out for that hearse now." Incl. a stalking, shuffling, actually kinda fast, yet unmistakable "Strange Fruit," and even a happy one or two, if you count "Blues For Weepers," where she seems glad to be here, anywhere she can sing for the lonely souls, heads(sounds dark and smokey), or three, counting the likewise "Drinking Again," where she sociably rhymes about smokin, jokin' tokin', without sounding like Steve Miller or Charlie Daniels.
Near-title track is the one that gives pause so far, like a vocally-shredded pile of bloody feathers, which may go against the words, which she's tweaked to 'bout how she has indeed taken broken wings and learned to fly---or is more like, positive statement in harrowing sound representing what freer living has cost her?

Bettye LaVette does an excellent version of 'Love Reign O'er Me'.

Yeah!
I meant "associated *with* women", "whattayagonnado".

9-8:
Hendrix, Jimi- Band of Gypsies
Hendrix, Jimi- Band of Gypsies
James Gang- Thirds
Walsh, Joe- But Seriously Folks
Styx- Man of Miracles
Little Feat- Sailin’ Shoes
Fleetwood Mac- Pious Bird of Good Omen
Nazareth- Exercises
Walsh, Joe- You Can’t Argue with a Sick Mind
Funkadelic- US Music
Golden Earring- Moontan

9-9: (so far...)
Winter, Johnny- Johnny Winter
Winter, Johnny- Nothing but the Blues
Captain Beefheart- Legendary A&M Sessions
War- the Black Man’s Burdon (D2)
Jefferson Airplane- After Bathing at Baxter’s

today:

Eno - Music For Installations
The Ex - At Bimhuis

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Charles Ives - Symphony no. 4 (LA Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel)
Reginald Smith Brindle - El Polifemo de Oro (perf Julian Bream)
Styx - "Babe", "Blue Collar Man", "Come Sail Away", "Crystal Ball"
Hannah Lash - Sonata for Harp
Charles Ives - Symphony no. 1

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young marco - biology

can chill vibes also be warm?

anyway this album makes me feel loved

Kaatayra - Toda historia pela frente; the first track is fantastic so far

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Young Jesus - Welcome to Conceptual Beach
random Françoise Hardy tracks on Spotify
Panic! At the Disco - "Tonight Tonight"
Feng E - "Bad Guy"
Mozart - Sonatas 9, 10, 11 (Barenboim)
Sarah Louise - Floating Rhododendron

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agricultural implement cover connections

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