What Are You Listening to? 2020

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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
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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)

Oh shit it's 0wen, hey man

Lollllllll I was and am literally listening to this rn

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And ya you're right, nvm, Jim was referring to Acre Thrills

Oh, man, tables turnt!

Am working on another quarantine Dun-Dun demo to post there soon.

https://p-rosa.bandcamp.com/album/the-kinspiral

“ The album is a beautiful mix of long, sprawling ambiance, and trance like psychedelic rock. Mixed in are elements of shoegaze, vaporwave, and almost cinema like interludes of soundscapes. ”

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Whoa, nice--am checking out Berio's Sequenza from this, very cool, was not expecting the avant-courtly feel to the lines/dynamics

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that looks great

joy division - unknown pleasures
sonic youth - bad moon rising
minutemen - double nickels on the dime
led zeppelin - in through the out door

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Magnificent acoustic guitar music http://dimitrismystakidis.bandcamp.com/album/16-rembetika-me-kithara-album

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aaargh.... Dimitris Mistakidis - 16 Rembetika Tragoudia Me Kithara.

Michael franks - tiger in the rain

Jordan GCZ - Lushlyfe III
(recorded in quarantime/last month)
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Electro Band featuring Arthur Baker. I think I picked this up really cheap from a sale in a local chain record shop several years ago.
Has some interesting bits on it including a cover of gary Glitter's I Didn't Know I Loved You .
& some emlodies and thgings.
I think it overstays its welcome quite a bit may be down to bonus material on the cd. BUt may just lose steam on the 2nd side.

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Quite groovy 1971 guitar jazz lp.
I think I still need to pick up the resdt of his material from aroun dthis era.
Used to have Spaces on vinyl years ago.
Do have teh 2 free Spirits set.

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first disc of this which is the s./t lp and a set called Sessions .
First lp is pretty sublime. Weird hearing how mellifluous a voice that deep can get.
Mix of folk, blues , jazz etc. & a backing band including a couple of Mothers and several other people probably better know nfor later work.
LOve that first lp anyway, somewhat forward looking for 1965

Gastr Del Sol - Mirror Repair
("Eight Corners" still slays)
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^ Nice!

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baroque jazz trio s/t 1970

^reading some reviews of that, i think i may need to find a copy. for now more from c bley & co...

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& many xposts: haven't heard possum up a simmon tree, but i've found anything with with harry oster's name on it is worth checking out

tiny vipers' "laughter"
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