What Are You Listening to? 2020

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Reading through the mass of promo emails I got for Bandcamp Friday, I came across the new Miguel Mendez album on Deathbomb Arc. This is not one of the sounds I associate with that label, but I'm really digging it right now!

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actress' "hazyville", & this:
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that is beautiful, and also what is that

the one just above is the third (i think? second on esp-disk anyway) release by alan sondheim/ritual-all-7-70; jazz derived improv with a touch of early moog use (prob my favourite of his/their work, though the others are excellent too imo)

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The Circle! I love late period Wipers

can't find that molto album on the s0uls33k, grumble

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The Circle! I love late period Wipers

took me a while to come around to their later stuff but it is excellent. Greg Sage's guitar playing and sound just got better as time went on.

Yeah it’s so sweet. Really dig The Herd. I’ve been wondering lately why he hasn’t released anything in the last 20 years. It feels like a remarkable silence. Maybe I just missed the memo

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also dick gaughan/andy irvine & andy irvine/paul brady

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can't get enough of this one, especially "Nimbus"

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Uh that’s A Voz Do Samba by Alcione

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Raved about this on Rolling Jazz last night:

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was just listening to that last night. love the new version of "Mulatu"

xp YES that Astatke thing is fuckin awesome, I love it

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Is this more of a Pop lp than its immediate predecessor? Certianly seems a bit more upbeat and not quite as broodingly menacing.
I think this may be more about the riff too. Blooming great anyway. & Turn Blue has always stuck in my mind. Great existential angst feature,
Haven't listened to the live cd of either of these remasters yet. & haven't heard TV Eye lp in a few decades.
These studio lps do both sound quit egood right now. I think I was noticing more details in The Idiot though.

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Charlie Haden solo project. I thought this had more chanting on but great lp reworking some folk themes etc
Several great New Thing horn players involved.

actually just swapped this on last night after tiring of the recent Mojo Festival cd.

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Compilation of Iranina artists 70s work,. Got it from the Guerssen cheapos section and it took a while to arrive thanks to the lockdown's eeffect on the mail. Think I grabbed it as soon as the maiolorder satrted being able to send things out again. Now taken me way too long to get onto the player.
NOt 100% sold on it though. it has some interesting stuff on it but I'm not sure about first rate. Maybe it'll grow on me.

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THis which came from the same purchase was pretty good though.
An ex dentist from Turkey.
anpother great voice from Anadolu Pop

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Cardinal Fuzz label artist does great jazzy ambient lp

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The one good lp from the Arista run I think. Though even this has some dodgy moments African Man should be excised massively. Is it intentionally racist or did that even occur to him?
Some great stuff elsewhere though

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^that's a good 'un!

yeah i really dig it! being American it's a lot of stuff i wouldn't have much of a chance to hear the first time around, so it's always cool to find a comp like that.

Yeah, I posted the cover and info on Rolling Reissues, meant to check it out. Thanks for the reminder.

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Asher Gamedze, Dialectic Soul: "Fundamentally, it is about the reclamation of the historical imperative. It is about the dialect of the soul & the spirit while it moves through history. The soul is dialectic. Motion is imperative. We keep moving." From South Africa yesterday today tomorrow, another of my Rolling Jazz love objects:
Asher Gamedze (drums)
Thembinkosi Mavimbela (bass)
Buddy Wells (tenor sax)
Robin Fassie-Kock (trumpet)
Nono Nkoane (vox)

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Meant to incl. link! https://ashergamedze.bandcamp.com/album/dialectic-soul

Asher Gamedze, Dialectic Soul

been enjoying this one too

WaqWaq Kingdom- Essaka Hoisa
Terror Apart- Belly of Barghest
Archie Shepp- Yasmina, a Black Woman
Memnon Sa- World Serpent

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playing the 45rpm vinyl @ 33

earlier the dead c playing a tiny little community hall, but now the other dead...
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it’s a Grand Funk Railroad - Live Album kinda night, folks

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going to spend the rest of my life wondering if that's edible or not

Jorge Ben - força Bruta
Elevtenteen eston - at the water

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god i love that record. sometimes i really think he did all of the vocal takes in one sessions and drank more and more as the session went on.

Yet another Rolling Jazz fave

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(listing these artists in the order on album cover and credits below, though it's damu's page)(also because he has a stupid name)
Archie Shepp, Raw Poetic Damu The Fudgemunk---Ocean Bridges: good title for extended fluid grooves (Wurlitzer piano and vibes, framing and framed by selective guitar, tenacious bass, chop-and-roll drums, cut across by soprano and tenor sax, a little turntablism, and Raw Poetic's tuneful radio flow, switching back and forth from singing to rapping, sometimes syllable-to-syllable) between shorter, smaller-group, more down to earth exchanges (but still speculative and sometimes maybe splicey, slightly like riffling a deck of cards)("Professor Shepp's Agenda 1" is spoken, but brief and apt; the other 6 shorties are instrumental). Overall, it's pretty lengthy---the longest excursion, "Aperture," might be too diffuse---but I soon stopped thinking of taking a break; so far, it pulls me right through.
Hopeful, rueful, been around, ready for more, guess why they call it the blues.
released May 22, 2020

All songs written & performed by:
Archie Shepp: Tenor and Soprano Sax, Wurlitzer Electric Piano
Raw Poetic (Jason Moore): Vocals/Raps/Lyrics
Earl "Damu the Fudgemunk" Davis: Drums, Vibraphone, Backing Vocals, Turntable Scratching, Mixing/ Production
Pat Fritz: Guitar
Aaron Gause: Wurlitzer Electric Piano, Synthesizer
Luke Stewart: Acoustic and Electric bass
Jamal Moore: Tenor sax, Percussion
Bashi Rose: Drums, Percussion

Except: track 12 written by Pat Fritz and Jason Moore and tracks 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15 written by Archie Shepp

All Tracks Produced and Arranged by Raw Poetic

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PS: also check https://bandcamp.com/search?q=Archie%20Shepp Incl. several albums I'd never heard of!

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pre-revenant lp release of the rich-r-tone sessions with some overdubbed bass parts & absolutely swathed in reverb

and now thestarday sessions