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A Forest of Stars - Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes - magniloquent, abstract, metaphoric, with an abysmal message
The Adults - Haja - fusion of musical styles from Sudan and New Zealand
Anne Garner - Lost Play - celebrates the vital, unrestrained joy of childhood
J. S. Bach - Hilary Hahn Plays Bach: Sonatas 1 & 2, Partita 1 - plays the heartstrings of Bach
Bill Ryder Jones - Yawn - alternative rock folk rock indie rock minimal West Kirby
Blood Claat Orange - SweeTS 3D - punk dream pop electronic goth hip hop noise Leeds
Boy Azooga - 1, 2, Kung Fu! - a genre-transcending melting pot of styles and sounds
Carla Dal Forno - Top Of The Pops - six songs of sultry pop devotion
Chris Corsano / Bill Nace / Steve Baczkowski - Mystic Beings - 8 mins of previews are online, and wow!
Django Django - Marble Skies - a back-to-basics approach
Dream Wife - Dream Wife - God damn have we been waiting a long time for a band like Dream Wife
Earthling Society - MO-The Demon - an imaginary soundtrack to the Shaw Brothers batshit psychedicrazy Kung Fu horror ‘The Boxer’s Omen’
El efecto - Memórias do fogo - experimental rock new brazilian progressive
Goat Girl - Goat Girl - creates a half fantasy world out of a very dirty ugly city reality
Hilary Woods - Colt - an intensely personal journey through grief, abandonment, and mutating love
Jean-Michel Blais - Dans Ma Main - Recorded almost exclusively between 9pm and 3am
Job Sifre - Het Bestaan - electronic acid industrial synth techno wave
Julian Lage - Modern Lore - melds precision with possibility
Junes - A View - crisp grooves and ghostly palettes
Lionel Marchetti & Cat Hope - The Last Days of Reality - experimental australia france musique concrète
Kaku P-Model - Times = Times (Kai=Kai) - by Susumu Hirasawa - Individual tracks are online
Meg Bowles - Evensong: Canticles for the Earth - Deep space drifts and rich harmonic textures
Monetochka - Раскраски для взрослых (Colouring Book for Adults) - once a viral sensation but now a fully fledged chartbuster
Murmur Mori - La Morte Dell'unicorno - forest folk medieval folk neofolk occitan
Omit - Enclosures 2011-2016 - experimental bruce russell drone
Park Jiha - Communion - ancient sounds, modern vibe
Phew - Voice Hardcore - comprised entirely of her iconic, instantly recognizable voice, twisted, folded and layered
Riccardo - Imprints Records Podcast #004 - #Elettronica
Roy Kinsey - Blackie - chicago born, queer-identified, rapper and librarian
SOB X RBE - Gangin II - arrived amid uncertainty surrounding the group’s future
SRSQ - Unreality - electronic dreampop shoegaze Dallas
Sunwatchers - II - experimental jazz psychedelia punk rock
Tenderlonious featuring The 22archestra - The Shakedown - hip-hop, afrobeat, latin and exhilarating free form jazz
thee open sex - white horses - a decade-long practice of reductive composition
Various Artists - Drone Not Drones V - the 5th annual 28-hour drone
Various Artists - Silk To Dry The Tears - fogged house, fantasy acid, nocturnal electronics, sleepwalker pop
Yu Su - Preparations For Departure - Previews on Juno/Soundcloud
― sbahnhof, Sunday, 10 February 2019 06:23 (five years ago) link
eight months pass...
seven months pass...
So because I do love a treasure hunt, a non-exhaustive investigation into what versions of Unmask the Batman are out there:
*Lacy Gibson - 1969 Single Version
Chicago Blues guitarist, Lacy Gibson was the brother-in-law of Sun Ra and co-wrote 'I Am Gonna Unmask The Batman' with Sun Ra's business manager, Alton Abraham.
* Lacy Gibson - Extended Version of the above released on the Rocket Ship Rock compilation (assume this was recorded in 1969 as well)
*Sun Ra And His Astro-Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra 1974 Single Version
* Sun Ra Trumper Player Akh Tal Ebah shouts his way wildly through a home recorded (?) version collected on the Rocket Ship Rock compilation (19??)
* Sun Ra - Of Abstract Dreams version here - 1974 or 1975 - definitive as Sleeve suggests with James Jacson growling out the vocals
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEkW2IoYb28 - I do really enjoy the crowd interaction at the end of this 10min+ version purported to be from a 1990 date at Nightstage, Cambridge, MA that has popped up recently on Youtube.
* The Sun Ra Arkestra - 21 May 2014 Babylon Club, Istanbul (released on the deluxe Babylon Live) - they’re having fun with this messy blues boogie, great vocal interplay between Tara Middleton and Marshall Allen to start it off and then the sax takes over
*The Barrence Whitfield Soul Savage Arkestra - Songs From The Sun Ra Cosmos - Tribute Album - far from essential but check out those noisy breakdown sections.
HOL UP
So I did a little more digging and found four more Batman's on some bootlegs of varying quality (28 October 1984, 1 Jan 1985, 5 Jan 1985, 25 October 1985).
On the two early '85 ones the bass is high in the mix with Rollo Radford getting lots of freedom to play around. The mix on the New Year's day recording is pretty poor, bordering on unlistenable, and Rollo's not sounding 100% on it. These issues, however, are not present on the 5 January 1985 version which I've uploaded to Youtube for your aural pleasure. This might be my favourite the way it comes together post-bass explorations - joyous vocals.
three weeks pass...