(get off ilm jason)
― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 3 September 2004 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 3 September 2004 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― BbetaA, Friday, 3 September 2004 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 September 2004 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 3 September 2004 22:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 3 September 2004 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― BbetaA, Friday, 3 September 2004 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link
BbetaA's description of Farewell Aldebaran is spot-on - the album is one of my faves.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 3 September 2004 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― dr.do-good, Friday, 3 September 2004 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― duke warbler, Friday, 3 September 2004 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link
so this is on straight records? i know the early henske solo records were released as a twofer on elektra/WEA in europe. i saw them at gibert jaune in paris for about 7 euros.
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 3 September 2004 23:24 (nineteen years ago) link
the story behind it supposedly is of two incompatible personalities: Yester (who produced Tim Buckley's Happy/Sad among other records) was the easygoing sweet sunshine pop & experimental psych lover (fluffy yet expansive) while Henske is the dark, jaded, wickedly humorous blues sophisticate/mama. this yields unique combination of accessible faroutness - cheese with teeth - wide-eyed exploration grounded in sinister reality - modern effects / ancient themes.
much of it has life & death immanence. it's wickedly funny & sweet and also filled with a childlike wonder - like what a kid would hope a grownups album could be: yeah it's like naughty grownup children's stories: it can scare and delight.
just thought of more stuff it's a bit like: "Black Angel's Death Song", Buffy Sainte-Marie - Illuminations, Essra Mohawk - "Spiral".
― Paul (scifisoul), Saturday, 4 September 2004 01:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 08:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 31 October 2005 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 October 2005 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 31 October 2005 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― b8a, Monday, 31 October 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― josh w (jbweb), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hatch (Hatch), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― J (Jay), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 28 November 2005 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link
"One thing I can confirm is that Judy Henske is 100% aware of our release and is actually selling radioactive CDs herself on her current tour."
― imbidimts, Thursday, 1 December 2005 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link
there are maybe three good songs on this album. hype!
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Friday, 2 December 2005 04:10 (eighteen years ago) link
OTM. But those 3 are really good.When it's bad, Farewell is ludicrously awful.
Other much-hyped, long-lost albums over which I can't excited:Simon Finn's Pass the Distance [can't get past his ugly, awkward vocals; plus, I was expecting it to be way more psychedelic]Vashti Bunyan's Just Another Diamond Day [pleasant, but not earth-shattering at all]
Gary Higgins' Red Hash, however, is all that and then some.
― original plagiarist (Da ve Segal), Friday, 2 December 2005 04:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― petesmith (plsmith), Friday, 2 December 2005 04:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Sounds very similar to these ears... almost "what's the point?" similar. YMMV.
― original plagiarist (Da ve Segal), Friday, 2 December 2005 05:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― petesmith (plsmith), Friday, 2 December 2005 05:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― original plagiarist (Da ve Segal), Friday, 2 December 2005 05:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 2 December 2005 05:17 (eighteen years ago) link
the henske & yester is good, but i haven't listened to it enough times to say i love it.
i was tricked recently in picking up the Barry Dransfield s/t disc because i thought it was gonna be a lot like vashti's (according to forced exposure), but it was very traditional british folk. absolutely no psychedelia or wimsy.
i'd love to hear that Julie Tippett's record. what's it sound like? just last weekend i picked up the tippets and brian auger record, thinking it was gonna be psych folk, but it was funk/fusion (i like that too, so i was happy enough).
― jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 2 December 2005 06:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Just another Diamond Day is classic. Perhaps a touch cloying at first, but the mini arrangements are tops, so it all falls together perfectly.
My overrated pick: Linda Perhacs. Again, it's the vocals! If you'd asked me about folk when I was about 14 or 15, I'd have images of 70's dudes with moustaches doing acoustic numbers in roll-necks. Like inferior James Taylor type dudes, rather than freak-out hippy types. Her vocals, to me, sound more like the female version of this. Like the singing nun in Airplane who de-IVs the sick girl. And it's got a song about dolphins.
― Mestema (davidcorp), Friday, 2 December 2005 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link
j/k, but there is something a little muffled about the sound that somebody commented on, which I just try to ignore.
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Great, deep, athletic white female soul vocals with a killer band of Brit jazz/prog ringers (Keith Tippett, various Soft Machine members) crafting haunting, stormy ballads with subtle jazz and funk touches. It just oozes quality and spirituality (sans any organized religion hoo-ha).
Btw, it's Julie Tippetts. I think she added the 's' to distinguish herself from Keith. Maybe somebody has more info on this.
― original plagiarist, Saturday, 3 December 2005 01:55 (eighteen years ago) link
Scattershot.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 February 2007 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh, here's this nice thread. Should've searched the names instead. I knew it!
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 4 October 2007 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bx-_YgTucg
― I gave your mom morgellons (buzza), Saturday, 19 November 2011 05:05 (twelve years ago) link
i finally found a relatively clean vinyl copy for $20
and that julie tippetts record is one of my faves
― jaxon, Saturday, 19 November 2011 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
"Raider" is so good.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 19 November 2011 05:31 (twelve years ago) link
For a long time I thought Judy Henske was just a pop singer with a big, full voice.
― bamcquern, Saturday, 19 November 2011 09:11 (twelve years ago) link
My band is doing a cover of "Snowblind" now. 7 years since my last comment on this thread, and this is still one of my very favorite records! Also recommended: "Big Judy," the Henske anthology.
Ned, you really ought to give it another shot!
― J, Saturday, 19 November 2011 12:20 (twelve years ago) link
this is a funny revive. realize i've posted under three different names on it. but not too long ago i finally came across a vinyl copy in the wild and love the album even more now. it truly is an original, cat-stroking masterpiece. and hearing Judy belt out: "The menu will be a la carte" gives a singular sort of pleasure.
― beta blog, Saturday, 19 November 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.grammymuseum.org/events/detail/judy-henske-jerry-yester-celebrating-farewell-aldebaran
Omnivore Recordings @OmnivoreRecords 11m11 minutes agoJudy Henske & Jerry Yester LIVE @TheGRAMMYMuseum 8/11 performing songs from Farewell Aldebaran 1st time ever!
― velko, Monday, 1 August 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link
perform or just conversation?
― velko, Monday, 1 August 2016 18:11 (seven years ago) link
THis is getting reviews everywhere this month. Wire, MOjo, 1page article spread over most of 2 pages in Uncut with large photo.
Really looking forward to getting a copy and finding out what lies in the dark corners of the recordings.
― Stevolende, Monday, 1 August 2016 18:18 (seven years ago) link
welp
http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Lovin-Spoonful-Alum-Jerry-Yester-Arrested-on-12264611.php
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 15:47 (six years ago) link