What Are You Listening to? 2020

felt let the snakes crinkle etc, comforting like a baggy sweater. The CD I’m listening to has a plain white cover. I’m wondering if Lawrence was embarrassed by the headband he sported on the original sleeve photo. That full photo only appears on the very first pressing, iirc

these are the midtown 120 blues

and this is the way.. we deck the house

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smVoxgny20U

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Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou Ethiopiques 21, very nice solo piano disc

secretly the very best of the ethiopiques, and that's stiff competition.

Hard agree ^^^

On Facebook, Ethan Miller from Comets on Fire has been getting some of his musician pals to recommend albs that are on Spotify. Bill Orcutt repped for Solo Concert by Ralph Towner (1979 solo guitar show) and I listened to it yesterday on my balcony - it was the perfect accompaniment to blue skies, birds flying by, lockdown silence. A beautiful rec.

MERCY
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^^ good one, it's been years since I listened

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^ Nice

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Threadgill-inspired knotty-headed T.O. quintet
led by guitarist Ken Aldcroft, who passed away suddenly in 2016

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Noice. Fuzzed out electric saz stuff. Sounds enough like guitar that i coulds see it becoming an influence for some.
Noodlesome brilliance. yum.
I think Uzelli was a german based label catering to the immigrant population back when the Turks were the big immigrant workforce there.
This just came out a month or so ago. There's a companion volume of psych related stuff from the same label that I think I might look into getting. Also want to increase my other Anadolu Psych stuff. Shouldn't have put that off.

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Has been the first disc of this so far . Sat unplayed on my shelf for way too long. I think I got this in Dublin in the late 90s.
I knew his material largely from other people covering him for years before buying this. His own versions are quite classic as tehy are, he was a great singer and a great songwriter.
I worked next to somebody who had direct contact with him in the late 60s when I was selling historic posters in Dublin.
Shame about his personal life.

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got this in a box set thing of 5 lps which I think I mainly picked up because i was grabbing things from a sale. & I think mainly put it in my 3 changer cos it was lying around in the vicinity & i needed a 3rd disc.
Really enjoying it. Think his solo stuff from the 50s and 60s seems to be pretty consistent.

^ "Succotash" on that Herbie album is esp great IMO--nice propulsive uptempo danceable vamp-out in the vein of Ahmad Jamal's "Poinciana"

new archie shepp x damu the fudgemunk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUirEpnXves

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Thought this recent quarantine-era podcast interview w/ the drummer who joined Fairport right after this one was pretty interesting:
http://www.thetrapset.net/261-dave-mattacks-fairport-convention-nick-drake-brian-eno-xtc-paul-mccartney-etc/

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That Jacques Loussier OST has some brilliant tracks. Thank you no lime tangier.

no worries! not sure anything else he did is in a similar vein to that but would love to know.

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new music circles

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bruce cockburn - stealing fire

I need to get to know this guy better, this album rules.

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"This is the story of three Texas boys busy mindin' their own bidnis"

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new m geddes gengras is imo well goood

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Little known prog band i think. THink I payed £2 for this in Sister Ray a coupolke of years ago. Seems to have 3 songs each from each of the 3 lps. If tits as good as the material here i might have another look at the rest of their work.

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James Brown produced lp by r'n'b organist , backed by James Brown band of the time.
I Think thi sis feircer than other stuff by him.
Also features a couple of tracks backed by some of Funkadelic

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2cd best of late singer songwriter. I've been listening to the 2nd cd which starts in about 1979.
I think the first disc is a bit scratched which is a shame cos its got some great stuff on it.
might need to replace it.
THink I need some more stuff by him anyway.

If tits as good as the material here i might have another look at the rest of their work.

a good yardstick, IMO

Helped me get to sleep last night--am trying to pick my poison for tonight atm
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This did the job splendidly, if not for 40 nights
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Psychic Warriors Ov Gaia

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Kick Out The Jams

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75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band Live at Tubby's
https://75dollarbill.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-tubbys

so good

Yeah, that 75 Dollar Bill album is great--I love bands who have the drummer as the live host/mic liaison w/ audience (there's an amazing jazz drummer here where I live, in Toronto, named Nick Fraser who comes to mind in terms of my local scene)

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U.S. Maple - Talker (inspired by reading that Tone Glow Jim O'Rourke interview)
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Gacha Bakradze - Quick Dreams
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Alan Licht & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe - Lost Tonic Session
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Cooooool I love Rob Lowe

Also xp but Jim O'Rourke seemed to refer to "Purple On Time" as being the best-recorded US Maple album (and their best album overall) and the truth is......... I have never listened to it, I remember when it came out all my friends were complaining that the LP pressing was shit shit shit and so I actually passed on that album as a whole, to my shame

I had to refer to the Discogs, uh, discog to refresh my memory when it came to checking that opinion of O'Rourke's, and the fourth one is Acre Thrills (w/ Brian Paulson at Pachyderm, where Albini recorded Rid Of Me and In Utero)--I remember liking but not loving Purple On Time at time of its release, which b/c I was used to U.S. Maple always blowing my mind which each succesive new album was a relative letdown

(XP with, rather)