what are you listening to 2012

http://www.factmag.com/2012/05/21/fact-mix-330-evol/

ome recent lissnin
Noah Howard The Black Ark
Legendary Free jazz set from late 60s reissued by Bo'Weevil a couple of years
ago. Tends to be pretty melodic but Arthur Doyle plays fiercely throughout. I
think this has got structured songs being played though so I'm not 100% sure
what it should be categorized as, though maybe if those structured bits are
actually riffs it might change designation?
Think this has made several people's new-thing-jazz top 10s and really should be
heard by anybody into that kind of thing I think.

Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes box
this has some great music in but has been mastered pretty quietly. So I've been
wondering if it was actually remastered or just repackaged.
Would love to hear what Esoteric would do with this material since the sound on
most of their discs has been pretty exemplary.
But nice semi avant prog stuff sung in French which I've been interested in
since Seth Man did reviews on this site
http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/search/?q=ribeiro
some time ago and have wanted to get in decent version since. I think there may
have been another pointer about the same time but can't think what it wa unles
it was lps turning up on Mutant-sounds

Dr John Locked Down
great grooves on this collaboration with the Black Keys guitarist Dan Auerbach.
This really is a great form for Mac, bit of a return to the quality of his early
Night Tripper stuff though the atmosphere is a lot less ghostly. I'm not sure
what his recent lps sound like so I can't compare. I just know that Gris Gris is
one of my all-time favourite lps and this seems worthy of that.
Have also heard that Mac is working on a reissue of Sun, Moon and Stars
including the material that was cut out when the lp was cut down from its
intended original length.
& judging by the quality of this lp I should probably check out the Black Keys
own stuff. I think the band here shines and I think they have more to do with
Dan Auerbach than Mac.

Small Faces Decca s/t disc 2
I think I might actually prefer this 2nd disc of outtakes etc to the first disc
which is the 1st lp. Keeps a heavy groove going throughout, enough to make me
wonder if not getting the From The Beginning set is an oversight. I mainly
wanted to get the 2 s/ts but they haven't been able to get the Immediate one in
locally nor Ogden's & I thought those 2 might be the better sellers.
Anyway, have loved the Small Faces since I discovered them when I was a 14 year
old moddy boy. & nice to finally get good, surviving band member
sanctioned/organised versions of the lps. Or at least it will be when I complete
the set.
The Paolo Hewitt band bio The young Mod's Forgotten Story was reissued last year
by Acid Jazz and is a good read.

Mol Triffid CBGBs 9/2/91
great, pretty other creepy metallic band that was apparently deeply undersung at
the time.

Young Bear Singers live
weird mix of Native American chanting to steady drumbeat interspersed with a
comic book hip dj/MC the mix is pretty funny. Wonder if it makes any more sense
seeing this live. Strikes me that the multi-voiced chanting might make
interesting sampling material.

loads of other stuff that I can't think of right now but will probably come back
to me later. Plus continual revelation as my walkman coughs up tracks that I
haven't heard in ages.

Reading
Flashback!
Richard Morton Jack's zine appeared after some delay and weighs more than
several books I have. Nice read and what reviews it has have been interesting.
I'll be intrigued as to what direction the 2nd edition goes in, hoping there is
one.

new Ugly-Things just out too. Definitive interview with Johnny Echols clearing up some of the mythology of Love. Group 1850, good glam, Electric Eels, a bio of The Craig of I must Be Mad fame and masses of reviews. Great as ever.

Fug You Ed Sanders 60s memoir

Red Cross First Aid manual trying to get through a course on this and blanked
heavily on a spot test last week so hoping that reading through this will get me
better acquainted with the subject.

REx Libris
comic about an action hero ancient, as in thousands of years old, librarian and
his adventures retrieving books from around the universe and falling into
bookworlds. it was supposed to be becoming a film at one point but I can't find
updates on that.
Rex was the librarian at Alexandria but survived the fire and is now in a
smalltown American library that happens to hold copies of pretty much every book
ever.
Pretty funny.

Russell Saga of a Peaceful man
not read this in almost 30 years I don't think. Story of a smalltown ageing
hippy/alternative type and his adventures at festivals etc.

Watching
Adam Richman's progressive bloat through the series of Man vs Food. this series
must create a lot of ethical questions for anybody with world economy or charity
issues at mind. Like if you hold an open challenge over food that's too hot to
be recycled properly or passed onto anybody else to eat you've made it inedible
intentionally and therefore wasted food, presumably you can't feed this to pigs
or goats cos it's too hot? Also the food size challenges, it just can't be
healthy to encourage individuals to gorge themselves to that extent but at least
waste could be recycled. But still the idea that one has enough food to waste in
this way surely has some knock on effect. I'm reminded of the Food not Bombs
project which recycles waste/excess food left over at the end of the week's
sales by business under the principle that food production is one of the central
impetuses for war.
I still find the program curiously watchable.

Buck & The Preacher
Sidney Poitier's directorial debut, a black orientated western about a
trailmaster and a conman. Stars him and Harry Belafonte in those 2 roles
respectively. Wish I'd paid more attention to the film instead of getting
sidetracked by my computer. Film is pretty good.

Vidal Sassoon A Cut Above
bio of the great hair innovator reshown on BBc4 tonight. I think I tried to cut
my dreads in a 5 point or similar when i cut them really short 20 odd years ago,
probably didn't show very well.
My mother used to go and get her hair cut by students at his school for years,
possibly still does so I wondered if she'd ever had it checked by him. But it
was & possibly still is a cheap way to get it done nicely. Assume that would be
true as long as the schools remain open.
Odd hearing the Mark Eitzel credits theme cos I don't think I've ever heard him
sound so commercial

Stevo

Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes box

price is steep for this box. how is the packaging? they throw in a nice book at least?

awesome post stevo :)

fwiw:

my wife was at Matt's Bar in Minneapolis (home of the Jucy Lucy hamburger), and he was taping Man vs Food there (not a challenge, just the part where he checks out cool places in a town)...but anyway, I guess women were throwing themselves all over Adam Richman

last.fm says 2012 has been mostly:

1 James Brown
2 Claude Debussy
3 De La Soul
4 Jungle Brothers
5 Beastie Boys
6 Enya
7 Squarepusher
8 Actress
9 N.W.A
10 Olivier Messiaen
11 Ibrahim Ferrer
12 Dolly Parton
13 Bob Drake
14 Johann Sebastian Bach
15 Bill Withers
16 Maurice Ravel
17 A Tribe Called Quest
18 Duke Ellington
19 Herbie Hancock
20 Thelonious Monk

Except something is up here, because I've listened to the shit out of that new Lone album

cherry picking the james brown singles collections: vol 6 (1969-70) and 7 (1970-72) are ridiculous, sick. prolific ain't the word. promiscuous genius

i liked that new dr john album more than expected but i agree it sounds more like black keys than mac rebbenack

dipping into TANGERINE DREAM. played Edgar Froese's second album this AM alongside Isaac Hayes and Jimmy Smith's Back At The Chicken Shack.

Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes box

price is steep for this box. how is the packaging? they throw in a nice book at least?

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:29 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not really any extra packaging, every disc is in an individual card sleeve replica of its own lp sleeve. But no booklet in mine, I was expecting to have to try to translate from French since I ordered from there, but firstly there wasn't really anything to translate and more oddly the back of the box is in English. I thought t was a French product of a French band so it would be in the native tongue. maybe its cos its on Universal?
I'm really hoping somebody else picks up the music for release elsewhere and it is somebody who is as good as Esoteric. Would even settle for a Sanctuary 2 or 3 cd set as long as the material was remastered at a decent volume. & liner notes were included, Esoteric are very good for those normally.

Price isn't anywhere near so steep when you order directly from France!

http://www.amazon.fr/4-Albums-Originaux-Catherine-Ribeiro/dp/B007FHLTOW/

Moebius + Tietchens
Pauline Oliveros - Modulations 12CD box
Complete Music of Carl Ruggles - 2CD (Michael Tilson Thomas / The Buffalo Philharmonic)
Charles Ives - Old Songs Deranged (James Sinclair / Yale Theatre Orchestra)
Catherine Christer Hennix - Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage
Paul McCartney - RAM 2CD reissue

The Mills Tape Music Center discs of that Oliveros boxset are beauuutiful.

my friend put out this pauline oliveros thing on vinyl recently if you guys are interested:

http://roaratorio.com/21.html

some recent lissnin

Il Baletto di Bronzo Ys
totally 'kin intense Italian prog record which I've been hearing bits of intermittently for way too long on my walkman. Thought I better bung it on the 3 changer for once and immediately asked myself why I'd been neglecting it.
It don't half kick out the jams in its own keyboard heavy way. not sure what other pre-punk stuff hits with similar intensity outside of Detroit which it doesn't really resemble. But pretty essential record which I'd try to hear ifyou haven't already.

Irma Thomas Time is On My side
Kent label compi of New Orleans soulstress. The rolling Stones covered the title track early on though she apparently hated their version. Think it's on their 2nd lp. & I do think I prefer hers.
really like quite a bit of this compi. Not sure if this is the best way to get her stuff or the 2cd thing that came out last year in that series of New Orleans r'n'b/soul compis that included Allen Toussaint's Evrything I do Gonh Be Fonky. This is great anyway.
Did Traci Ullman have an '80s hit with her song Break-a-way? I know I've heard it done by someone else.

Royal Trux s/t
this is their 1st lp. not quite as out there as Twin Infinitives but sounding stoned and damaged veering between some great 60s/70s rock revisitation and them sounding too stoned to be coherent so getting overly repetitive. Not bad for €3 though.

God is my Co-pilot The Peel sessions
another €3 purchase, bought cos i'd been intrigued by comparisons to the band with another group called JOnestown who i got a live set by recently but could find out next to nothing about. Don't think the comparison is quite as clearcut on hearing this.
This is very erratic, veering into the avant and away from the English language quite a bit. Might be something I might explore a bit further though. I don't know.

Amanaz Africa
Zam rock, with weird production presumably because of limited budget. Fuzz guitar often sounds ghostly instead of thick and creamy. I'd heard some comparisons to stoner rock antecedents which I guess is there but the production gives it other elements.
There are a few places here that sound like the Velvets from s/t & Loaded. I assume that is totally a coincidence. Not sure if that band could have even been heard of by these Zambians.

Go Go Get down various artists disc 1
not heard the 2nd disc yet. But this does rerelease one of my alltime favourite tracks War On the Bullshit by Osiris. Some of this does sound a bit glossy which might have to do with it coming form the 80s.
Think what I really need is the grittiness of the live gig sound. This is pretty good though. Glad to see people are remembering the downtown DC sound.
Recent compi compiled by Joey Negro

Velvet Underground Caught Between The Twisted stars
Some long droning early live stuff from '66 and some more rhythmic later stuff. I've been very slowly reading Richie Unterberger's day by day guide recently which is interesting.

various other bits and pieces which will probably come back to me later.
The usual array of surprises from my walkman.

Reading
Umberto Eco the Prague Cemetery
tales of intrigue and anti-semitism from 19th century Europe

Judge Dredd epics
catching up on several stories I hadn't read at the time & revisiting ones I have. Currently reading Tale of the Deadman which I've noticed was preceded by an announcement at the end of the previous Dredd story which I didn't think it was supposed to be. Thought you were only supposed to work out who it was gradually. Not sure if there was an actual Dredd story running in the same comics at the same time.
Also read Cursed Earth & Oz and its preceding stories or at least the introduction of Chopper over several stories.

Watching
a bit of Nazi Robots at The Centre of the Earth
lovely grade z schlock on the Syfy channel. quite gorey. hadn't realised things like this were still being made but the tv guide had it listed as this year.
The nazis discovered Pelucidar or whatever it's called during teh 2nd world war. They need to get new scientists to help those who've survived continue to survive but several of the team who've been lead down there are not pure aryans. Syfy's been showing some really iffy material over the last few months.

The Amazing Spiderman in 3d
enjoyed this new version even with the lack of coloured characters ( except the baddy) and the gnarly machine.

Stevo

Il Baletto di Bronzo Ys

Great record. I was more into their heavy rock first album for a long time, finally came around to this a year or so ago. Got it at the same time as Battiato's Sulle Corde di Aries, also excellent in a different way.

So far today at work:

Jim Ford - Sounds of Our Time
that Ry Cooper record Skot tried to get ILM to like (and he's right, it's awesome)
Roller Ball 45 and Elton Motello's first album
various tracks by Godz (NY), Gift (German heavy rock), Lee Scratch Perry early stuff, some ska
Massenger s/t (cool local band who will probably either move or stay here and be ignored to death)
Rome - Beware Soul Snatchers 12" & Sons of the Sun - Heavenlamp 12"

which ry cooder?

But this does rerelease one of my alltime favourite tracks War On the Bullshit by Osiris

this was on the 'nme does go-go' vinyl release back in '86.

brilliant track.

electric wizard - dopethrone
sleep - dopesmoker
melvins - eggnog, lysol
black sabbath - first 5 records
j dilla - donuts
mf doom - mm food
magma - felicite thosz
annette peacock - I'm the one
philip glass - music in 12 parts
thee satisfaction - awe naturale

which ry cooder?

Ry Cooper aka Rusty Evans - "1983" (futuristic garage folk rock from 1965 with killer snarl/guitar and theremin!)

It's Ry CooPer, though, AKA Rusty Evans from The Deep! Pretty cool pre-psych garage 45.

Sa Dingding - The Coming Ones

Jury is still out but I'm enjoying parts of this immensely.

tangerine dream - force majeure
ellington/roach/mingus - money jungle
lester young/oscar peterson - lester young w/the oscar peterson trio
matthews southern comfort - later that same year
duane allman/various artists - anthology volume 1
contortions - buy
aurra - "when i come home"
pleasure - "let's dance"

But this does rerelease one of my alltime favourite tracks War On the Bullshit by Osiris

this was on the 'nme does go-go' vinyl release back in '86.

brilliant track.

― mark e, Monday, July 16, 2012 10:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, that's where I initially came across it. Loved it, lost way too much vinyl including it in '96. Started running through my head last year or possibly earlier, yeah think it was a while over which I tried to find out where it was available then found out there was a Best of Osiris
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Osiris/dp/B001DGSAKC/ref=sr_1_16?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1342529500&sr=1-16&keywords=osiris

that has some other pretty decent stuff on too.

& odd thing about that new GOgo set is there seems to be more synth on it than actual horns. Odd to hear a hornless Troublefunk when I thought they had several people on brass.

But have been wondering if anybody ever remixed Sister Ray with congas?

It's pretty much Fleetwood Mac and Burzum around these parts lately.

fleetwood mac - bare trees
random mozart stuff
tom rush - the circle game
lena lovich - flex
redman - dare iz a darkside
brief candles - fractured days
bunch of fugazi

Craig Peyton - Be Thankful for What You Got
cover of the william devaughn classic. i love this so much, and my total failure to find an mp3 of it has been killing me today.

the instrumental is easy to find, the vocal version, not so much.

Non-2012 edition:

Butterfly Child - Onomatopoeia
Manuel Gottsching - E2-E4
Long Fin Killie - Amelia
Bobby Kondors - A Lost Era in NYC 87-92
A. R. Kane - 69
Fleetwood Mac - Future Games / Bare Trees
DJ Rolando - The Aztec Mystic Mix
The Comsat Anges - Fiction
Fiona Apple - When the Pawn...

Larry Young Fuel s/t/Spaceball 2cd
great mid 70s electric space funk jazz that's pretty out there.
Bits of the s/t remind me heavily of the Sharrocks' Paradise lp which is from around the same time.
Spaceball seems a bit more glossy while remaining pretty out there.

Dexys One Day I'm Going to Soar
Return of Kevin Rowland, his voice seems to owe less to General Johnson's nasality these days. The music seems to pick up on a lot of the band's earlier influences plus possibly a bit more 50s stuff though more smoothly blended.
I don't think I'm massively into the mid song skits. Would rather have the songs straighter, I fear novelty might wear off pretty fast.
Nice lp though.

Omar Khorshid Guitar El Chark disc 2
not heard disc through yet but this 2nd one i as good as I'd hoped.
Guitar has more bite in places than on the Tribute to El Atrache se t which was the only cd by him I could get my hands on before this appeared in its cd version.
Songs are largely about 5-6mins long, very atmospheric instrumentals. Khorshid's electric guitar, some Arabic hand percussion and possibly some synth.
Think this might appeal to other people into middle eastern psych though it's a bit different to Erkin Koray etc.
Anyway I've been trying to get my hands on his material for years and this is a great starting place, probably more than that. Whole set is 2hrs+ long.

Sun Ra Disco 3000 disc 2
the small size version of Sun Ra's crew in Italy in '78. The electrc rhythm machine seems less dominant here than I thought it was supposed to be.
Art Yard pressed another run of the 2cd set which I think sold out a dark red covered run last year. This has electric orange sleeve.
Might still be some copies if you missed last year's version.

Can The Lost Tapes box
so far only heard disc1, glad to have it and it will take a while to absorb. Some compelling grooves so far anyway.

Pregnant Unnatural Lover
I think I picked this up for about 26p + p+p. Gareth Sager of Pop Group's early 90s band. Think they thought they were being post modern. i don't think this as hit me as well as the e.p. I had of them back then. Think I'll listen to it a bit more though.

Dollar brand live set from 68
Pretty out sound with both Gato Barbieri and John Tchicai in the band.
Really think I need to find out more about the guy's work since i've enjoyed what I've heard of it. he seems to be doing much straighter jazz now with overt township folk influences.
Head other more atmospheric stuff from the mid 70s. All seems to be pretty great.

Skin Yard
various lps by early Seattle band. Some nice psychy touches among the heavy guitar etc. & bits where it sounds like the singer has been singing to the Bunnymen's Mac for vocal influence

Fine Art
Minneapolis based new wave band from early 80s. i enjoyed this set.

various other bits and bobs that will no doubt come back to me later.
Walkman still throwing up the continually surprising melange of sounds, psychedelia, prog, african, jazz, country, rockabilly etc all in a mix worthy of a good dj. Intelligent shuffle is such a good idea, not heard the ipod version does it work as well?

Reading
Judge Dredd epics. getting almost up to date now.
Just been reading through the PJ Maybes, & the Fargo clone family history. Actualy just started Origins which is all about going after Fargo's body.

Still reading Umberto Eco's Prague cemetery.
about 100 pages from the end, Think this has been far less satisfying than I've normally found him.

Richie Unterberger White Light/White Heat The Velvet Underground Day by Day
got this as my bog book at the moment so I'm only as far as '66 but an interesting read. Should have got through it quicker. But does show things like how much r'n'b was getting into the mix of the band's sound as well as other influences.
No mention of Downliner Sect so far though & I think they covered not just one pre-Velvets song but 2. Definitely got Why Don't You Smile Now on Rock Sect's In, but if I read this right I think the song Tiger In Your Tank which is on the The Sect lp is a Reed co-write too.

Stevo

Hot Chip, In Our Heads
Happy Mondays, Pills Thrills and Bellyaches
La Dusseldorf, Viva

La Dusseldorf, Viva

ha! funnily 'nuff i listened to it too the other day. alongside michael rother's first solo alb. and the hosono box, and some takahashi solo cd's.

of nu'er sounds, tho:
marielle v jakobsons, glass canyon
the remote viewers, city of nets
peter cusack's sounds from dangerous places 2cd/book
steve maclean & chris cutler, the year of the dragon
la piramide di sangue, tebe
the fog signals, ghosts of bush house
waves on canvas, into the northsea
tastatur, electric lounge machine

Biota - Cape Flyaway
Laurie Spiegel - The Expanded Universe 2xCD
Bob Drake - Bob's Drive-In
Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds
Ustad Abdul Karim Khan - 1934-1935
Chris Brown w/ William Winant - Iconicities
Tim Story - Untitled

Very immersed in this band at the moment: Company of Thieves.

Actually, would be better to imbed the video in this case, since it's a great capture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y-MHuLAWgw

Patti Smith, Horses
Electricity Mute Records free CD with Mojo
MGMT, Oracular Spectacular

Biota - Cape Flyaway
Laurie Spiegel - The Expanded Universe 2xCD
Bob Drake - Bob's Drive-In
Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds
Ustad Abdul Karim Khan - 1934-1935
Chris Brown w/ William Winant - Iconicities
Tim Story - Untitled
― Milton Parker

O yes! The Biota and the Bob Drake me loveth a whole lotta, too:)

hello t**t fellow ReR customer

that Bob Drake record was worth the crazy wait

how are those maclean/cutler & cusack releases?

RROSE x Bob Ostertag - The Surgeon General
Alice Coltrane - Turiya Sings
Chris Cutler - Probes #1 podcast for Radio Web MACBA

hullooo hullooo, kustomer Milton

Cusack's quite a... mmm... package, to say the least. Really gripping when you get into it, especially the Chernobyl disc.
The MacLean-Cutler I've listened to only once, so far. Will listen again, certainly. Could be a grower:)

*
R. Weis, Excitable Audible
Gilbert Bécaud, Éternal
Cathy Berberian, magnifiCathy
Natacha Atlas, Mounqaliba
Hong Kong in the 60s, Collision/Detection V4

Tim Story - Untitled

― Milton Parker, Friday, August 3, 2012 11:27 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

!! weird i recently got a mint copy of this on vinyl in a dollar bin....it's a really great new age record (i think it's new age, or i think it's new age)

I am still blind-sided by my sudden love for Company of Thieves. It seems to drive home the lesson of not writing off any genre (especially any genre that has ever done anything for me, which is most of them, at least).

My favorite CoT songs are like: everything I like in rock, with everything I don't like filtered out. Crazy. And they do fit the "what band do I listen to now that Tokyo Jihen has broken up?" bill extremely well for me, even if the similarities are limited.

Genevieve's vocals cover so much ground!

Seems you're having really great Company time there, Rudy. Glad for you!:)

Mothers of Invention Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Loud & in your face the more avanty rockin compi lp from just after the original Mothers of Invention split. Been really enjoying this.

Frank Zappa Hot Rats
Zappa's 2nd solo lp inspired by his dissatisfaction with the rhythm section of the recently split MOI. Largely instrumental except for the Don van Vliet sung Willie The Pimp.
Sound is great, & I don't know if I've actually heard the longer version of Gumbo Variations. Pretty satisfied with what's on here.

Zappa various live sets 69,71, 72 & 73
Checked the '71 because of the live sets on the Zappa reissue campaign and realise that I'm not missing anything by not grabbing them.
Don't think I'm that into the Flo and Eddie beginnings of Zappa smut. Do like the Turtles & the Crossfires though.
There si some pretty ok extended instrumental stuff on that set though.
'72 and '73 both have the liquid jazz influenced stuff featured largely. Zappa at his best to me is the Stravinsky/Gamelan/jazz influenced stuff or the earlier garagey Mothers stuff.
Not into the overly smutty stuff

The Pontiacs Bursting
great psych stuff from South America sounds very 60s influenced but does have bits where a more overt Spacemen 3 type influence appears.
Think this was a limited edition of 100 or thereabouts.Gets pretty sublime in places.

Cosmic Dead s/t
Heavy spacey psychy stuff, another limited edition that may be gone by now. Can get lost in those grooves.
Trying to work out if the first track, Black Rabbit has more than nominal connection with Skullflower's track of the same name. Here it's dragged out to 18 minutes in a way somewhat reminiscent of Loop or Spacemen 3 but more rocked up. Skullflower tried to beat it into the mud for 4 and a bit minutes but I think the central riff is somewhat similar.
worth checking out anyway, nice to know there is good stuff currently being made.

Grateful Dead 21/8/80
was struck by how good they sounded at this point. Energetic, could be seen as an update on something like the '68/'69 sound. Probably a bit more mature and less psychedelic than that but great nonetheless.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse 3/8/12
still bringing it on. Nice grungey stuff wish I was going to see this live.

Dead Meadow 12/11/11
Wombadelic heaviosity. I should listen to this band more.

Mothers of Invention Absolutely Free
Great sounding remaster of the Mothers 2nd lp. I can now get into the long instrumental which I don't think I could enjoy anywhere near as much on the old Ryko version.
Really getting into this record anyway.

" We're Only In It For The Money
the old Ryko version. It wasn't one of those remastered in this campaign. I guess it still sounds ok. Zappa was supposed to splash on the electronic reverb on all of the remasters of at least the 60s stuff he did before he died. But at least this no longer has the new rhythm section he grafted on in the mid 80s.

Graham Bond & Pete Brown 6/8/72
just been reading Pete Brown's autobio so heavily coincidental that this live set turns up at the same time. Though Brown has just been doing live readings from the book this week. None anywhere near here so finding this in my 2nd hand/remainder bookshop may or may not have something to do with more copies being circulated.
This was a coupe of years before Graham Bond fell under a train. I think it sounds pretty good. Heavy grooves with Brown singing and Bond playing organ.Last few songs on set get drawn out to around 10 minute + length.

Rotomagus The Sky Turns Red
largely 3 piece heavy stuff almost Stooges like intensity but can have more proggy complexity. This cd consists of a demo lp that the band cut in '71 as a 3 piece, hoping to get a contract to flesh it out properly that never came and it sounds great rough. The rest is singles and other demos.
When I say largely 3 piece, the first single is here and was recorded when the band still had several other members. They had started out as a harmony group an influence that shows here though the band had already begun to get a bit rougher and more complex musically. That first single was the only one recorded for their original label, after that they split up. Then the 2 brothers who had been central to the band returned along with a drummer and the band recorded another, heaver single for a different label CBS.
Anyway this is reccommended proto-punkyness. I think JC himself was extolling them last month.

Fugs Tenderness Junction
The first '68 lp by the East Village scatologists. I thought it sounded better as a psychedelic rock lp than its follow up It Crawled Into My Hand honest. I've just finished Fug You their singer Ed Sanders' 60s memoir which was a great read.
I love The Garden Is Open on here, a song about springtime frolics with youthful women I think.
The band they had at the time was pretty good anyway.

Henry Cow In Praise Of Learning
Love this record but found at least its lead off track War's percussiveness didn't lean too well to quiet listening as I went to sleep.
This is after the band had absorbed Dagmar Krause from Slapp Happy and her harsh teutonic vox are all over it. I really like her singing style but could see how other people might not fully appreciate it.
Lp is alot more avant than they started out being but I think is pretty essential possibly because of that.

some other stuff which will probably come back to me later

the usual surprises from my walkman. Still love the way this segues tracks but I'm now getting worried that the battery may be on its way out & it's supposed to be a tricky job replacing it while keeping the display working.

reading
Strontium Dog & related stories
read up to the death of Johnny Alpha, through the Grant Morrison stories following Feral & the Gronk after JA's death. & through the young Middenface McNulty stories.
Now reading the stories looking back at earlier events throughout JA's life from when the character was brought back later in 2000AD.

Flapper by Joshua Zeitz
the wayward female fashion type in jazz age America. This book has been criticised for being so focused on the white female to such an extent to the almost complete exclusion of other races. Black influence during the jazz age etc would have been interesting.
But it is an interesting read, so far it's been talking a lot about Zelda & Scott Fitzgerald.
Thought I'd missed this book after seeing it on the shelves a couple of weeks back but found a copy on the pile above the bookshelves and managed to get it down.

White Rooms and Imaginary Westerns: Ginsberg, Clapton and Cream an Anarchic Odyssey by Pete Brown
Autobio of 60s/70s poet/singer and Cream lyricist. Been very interesting so far. think I'm up to about 1973.
Started off with him talking about his Jewish upbringing from the 40s - the 60s before he started getting bohemian and hitching around the country. I hadn't realised he was pretty straight from drink/drugs throughout his time with Battered ornaments/Piblokto after stoner days to the mid 60s.

The travels of Ibn Battuta translated by Tim Hodgkinson Smith
the 14th century travels of a Moroccan throughout the known Islamic world. He traveled as far as China at the time and over the course of about 30 years. Hoping to get through the book this time, have been distracted every time I've picked it up over the last number of years.
Looks like he traveled several times as far as Marco Polo, who was the most exotically traveled Westerner in popular thought had done, so if I don't leave the book lying around again this should be very interesting

Stevo

Karoshi - Ruby My Dear

uh oh, i still love idm ... er, breakcore.

recent adds on spotify:

Thelonious Monk - It's Monk's Time
Josephine Foster - All the Leaves are Gone
Laurel Halo - Hour Logic EP
Kitty Wells - Queen of Honky Tonk Angels
Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
Teddy Charles Tentet - Teddy Charles Tentet
Sun Araw/Congos - FRKWYS Vol. 9
Peaking LIghts - 936
Bear In Heaven - I Love You, It's Cool
Moby Grape - Moby Grape 69
Tom Verlaine - Around
Horace Andy Meets Naggo Morris / Wayne Jarrett Mini Showcase
Faraquet - Anthology 97-98

some recent lissnin

Mebusas Blood Brothers
mid 70s african stuff. Funky rocky psychy stuff with a few other influences
bunged in.
Not the biggest fan of their attempt at reggae though the caustic laugh that
punctuates the song need to be heard.
Guitar fuzz snarls in heaps that sound like piles of something looking at you
nasty.
& this is nice when it doesn't get too poppy.
Would love to hear further chinese whispers of the sounds they'reincorporating
from elsewhere. Just reminded of Led Zep doing D'Yer Maker which was based on
reggae but when fed through LZ became something else that would've been
interesting to hear developed inits own right. In a couple of places here the
band picks up on what sound like Latin influences but take them somewhere else
which would be interesting to hear developed similarly.

Rotomagus THe Sky Turns Red
Interesting French take on '71 heaviosity . The first batch of tracks were a
demo of an lp that they never got further financing on. It rocks quite heavily
as well as showing some level of complexity that isn't ramalama.
Recommended to those who like protopunk cos it does have some of that level of
intensity.

Da Demons Contact High
Scuzzy psychy rock stuff from '09. Bought this cos I missed the limited run of
their recent Cardinal Fuzz compi. Good thing I did get to grab this cos it is a
great set. You can hear the major influence of 60s psych on it while they're not
exactly slavish to it.
Plus there is a great deal of efx noise on this which I'd assume was created on
guitar. Gets downright filthy inplaces.
I think the band name may actually be longer but I can never remember it.

Mothers Of Invention Burnt Weeny Sandwich
I think this was supposed to be the more classical of 2 compilations made of the
old Mothers almost immediately after they dissolved.
The title was supposed to be from one of Zappa's favourite dishes, he alludes
further to the idea of sandwich by placing the songs here between 2 doo-wop
covers.
I think this new version sounds a lot more inviting than the old Ryko version,
warmer.

Kiss Alive!
been meaning to buy a copy of this for years but never saw it at the right price
until this week. Raucous 70s r'n'r, one of their best I think. Garage metal
glam.
Still not sure what, if any, of the studio stuff is necessary. But this is their
edition of that essential 70s icon, the double live lp. Wretched excess, oh yes,
well that and beefy riffs.

Loudest whisper Children of Lir
I couldn't get into this previously but now find it quite listenable.
May have been prompted into listening to it because of the connection with the
Corrib Project Tunnel Boring Machine being called Fionnuala after one of the
characters of the title, which has brought the legend up in several
circumstances recently.
I think this was done as the music for an early 70s stage or tv play.
Has been considered to be a psych folk classic by some for years but I think I
found it too stagey. Might get more into it now though.

Gun Club various live sets
People have been torrenting quite a bit of the band(s)over the last few days.
That has meant several different line-ups since it has covered 82-93 so far.
Band sound changes quite a bit depending on line-ups though I guess there is a
great deal of stylistic unity.
I hadn't realised how short Terry Graham's return tenure when he replaced Dee
Pop was until I read notes regarding this series of uploads. I had hoped that
there was more of him with Jim Duckworth since that was a quite formidable
pairing & I tend to find Pop overly frenetic, while Graham's one of my fav
drummers.

Tribal Stomp '78 sets by Big Brother & the Holding Co and Country Joe & the
Fish.
Both of which were closer to the sound they had 10 years earlier than i'd
feared, I think BB&HC was most of the players who'd been in the pre-Janis
version though Peter Albin was definitely also playing with Country Joe. BB&HC
were fronted at this time by a singer called Kathi McDonald who might be too
close to Janis's sound. Nice psychedelic set though.
Country Joe & the Fish were in a line-up pretty much totally different to their
heyday, though Peter ALbin did join the 2nd major line-up the one that played
Woodstock (I think). This '78 line-up doesn't even feature 'The Fish' since that
name was a nickname of Barry Melton the lead guitarist from their heyday.
This band does still make a decent account of itself though.

Sun Ra disco 3000 disc 2
the smaller lineup of the band that toured Italy in '78. Pretty funky throughout
and long expansive pieces. This was a reissue of last year's Art Yard 2cd set,
may still be some copies around. Worth getting if so.

various other bits & pieces taht will no doubt come back to me later

Walkman still throwing up a lot of unexpected segues European Son into Exile's
Happy yesterday. Bits of Buck Owens, Albert Ayler, Charlie Feathers , Fallen
Angels, Roberta Flack, Leonard Cohen, live Gun Club etc etc

Reading
Bob Mould See A little Light
This has been vilified by some who say that Mould comes off looking like a
self-centred idiot.
I've enjoyed it. Still hoping for back catalogue remasters & expanded reissues
but from what he's saying here, not sure how remotely likely that is going to
be.

Flapper Joshua Zeitz
interesting read on sociology of jazz-age female hipsters. Does seem to leave
out non caucasian influences a great deal though, which it has been criticised
for elsewhere.

Stevo

stevo i really like your updates