What Are You Listening to? 2020

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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

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fuckin NICE

what the hail is it

last Tinder hookup

(actually Repulsion's Horrified)

guy came into the record store i worked at once and he had Horrified Guy tattooed on one arm and the Welcome to Hell goat on the other. we became friends.

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Irish rock. Was hoping this would be as boss as their "Stomp Stomp Stomp" 45, which is like loud-dumb glam perfection, but it's generally mellower.

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Moses Sumney,græ: Holy Moly, may well be ultimate-so-far Alternative R&B, although I hear he hates being called any kind of R&B, too limiting, but here are the trope (also some nice folkoid strumming etc), in lengthy yet fleet sequence, tracks of morphadelic momentum---did start wishing for more vocal variety toward the end, but overall he got me right way. Def liking him better than Frank Ocean.
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Er, "here are the *tropes*" is what I meant, was thinking of "These are the breaks."

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ooooooooh

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some poems on nature

noice

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feelin morose, guess it's time for

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this is becoming maybe my fav dam funk release

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1973 live recordings by Sanders and a few others, includes one studio track.
Great show of ensemble playing.
I got the copy before teh Universal Sound 2013 version so am I missing anything. That came with a hardcover described asa book so I'm wondering if it had much in the way of contents or if it was just the hard gatefold format.
THis sounds great but has little in the way of linernotes beyond the personnel.

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Anadolu rock band. Pretty good, been hoping to get the 2 cds for a while and wound up finding the 2 of the early 70s ones on Rockadrome for a good price.

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Great jazz vocalist with some things verging on the free but overall rooted in something more traditional. She covers the Mongo Santamaria title track and a few other standards including Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head.
I've been waiting for a while to get a copy of this. but Mr Bongo put out a cheap reissue about a month ago. Very nice.

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RIP