What Are You Listening to? 2020

^nice

It's a Carmen (Maria Callas/Paris Opera Orchestra/Georges Prêtre) kind of day.

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2nd disc of this, had forgotten t ended with one of the Ofo & The Black Company sides which is great in itself. Heavy, possibly not as much as Allah Wakbar but stiull pretty stunning.
I am struck by wondering how African sounding this stuff on the cd is. A lot of it is obviously very heavily influenced by mid 60s and a little later rock stuff and various funk and other r'n'b/soul and jazz stuff. I guess taht's why it was picked. & it does show some processing through a blender fo a different perspective from the usual but not sure how much directly African influence there is.
I've been lying i bed feeling ill for part of this week so been listening to the stuff on my 3 changer more and subsequently may have heard this cd like 3 times a day on a couple of days or so. Does about stand up to it. & i think I have been neglecting the disc.
Would like to know how many compis like this were done around the time and get more familiar with them.
Also would love to hear what bands since this was released claim direct influence from listening to this stuff.
I'm liking the hammond swathes and stuff, not liking not being able to put my finger on melodies I think I recognise. There'sd one i think comes from a Curtis Mayfield tune for on, though i think it takes off elsewhere shortly afterwards..

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This turned up at the time I was looking to stick a couple of new cds on my 3 changer and wasa semi random choice like the World Ends set was. It kind of fits and may have some influence from that kind of thing mixed into its influences. Certainly does seem to be taking some influences from some eclectic sources.
Augmentary instruments sound really good on here, keyboards and things.

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Kept this on for another week because i thought I hadn't been able to familiarise myself with it enough.
& i think its the cd taht I'm getting to hear least.
Am enjoying this and would like to familiarise myself with his work better. NOt sure I'm going to get the chance to get as familiar with everything i want to as much as I'd like to,.
BUt great anyway. Must learn to whistle it and so on.

I hadn't heard teh band really before picking this up at Xmas. Probably need to investigate much further.
& again this is something I've been neglecting too much.

just seen the last paragraph on there was actually referring to parquet courts. must have got separated and gone off bottom of screen or something
dang flu

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penderecki/cherry - actions

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Lacy, Mal Wadron, Elvin Jones, Buell Neidlinger, so good.

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Deep Purple - Whoosh!

Some really good stuff on here

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...i'm expecting this is probably going to take me some time to get through

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Deep Purple - "Nothing At All", "Step by Step"
Bach - BWV 1006 (perf Itzhak Perlman)
Emily Shaw - Vespers

That looks amazing, no lime tangier.

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xpost Richard Betts' Highway Call is very refreshing, with his signature sound, but not too much like an Allman Brothers Band album at all.

Stevolende, re the 70s African blends, you might like Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Colonou---Volume Two is my fave so far (haven't heard 'em all)---seems to be currently out-of-print or otherwise unavailable on vinyl (at least via US Amazon), but they've got the CD and MP3:

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Also like this collection of jams etc (which is still on all formats)

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Think the original leader died, but at least some of the others got back together for later tours, may have recorded. It's all an African response to 70s availability of Black Diaspora sounds, esp via radio, incl. but not only from Radio Free Europe, BBC World Service, France, Italy etc, also as cassettes became more available, where records, turntables weren't as handy----also white music strongly influenced by those blends: these are African musicians w their own interest in all or some of that, responding to that of their audience (as CD booklets tell it).

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(related co-sign on that Laubrock/Davis duo, too--Intakt are by far my fave contempo jazz label at the moment, such a dependable batting avg IMO)

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aka the 1966 gruppo di improvvisazione nuova consonanza lp

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https://sisterarchive.bandcamp.com/album/45-02

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from Captain Beefheart
Don't remember seeing this thread before the past week; it's gotten me looking around---a bunch of skeevey-looking CDs still on Amazon (several of which I bought quite a few years ago), but also, discovered that they now have a nicely-priced legit-looking Decals (ditto several others that I already have), also I'm Goning To Do... on mp3 (and a bunch of other Rhino Handmades likewise, incl. Television's Live at the Old Waldorf and that monster Fugs box). Grow Fins mp3 is $49.49, much less than even the used CD edition on there.
I've just finished first listen to Albums That Never Were's version of It Comes To You In A Plain Brown Wrapper---great work-outs, although I could live w/o this long-ass version of "25th Century Quaker," but so many hooks: "Kandy Korrrn, Beee reeeborn"---different from (though utilizing) the Sundazed, and, as always, he tells you exactly what and why and how he used which materials---sound is crisp, well-defined without getting anal about it (I listened to the flac; also offers mp3s: 2 "discs," 45 minutes each):
http://albumsthatneverwere.blogspot.com/search/label/captain%20beefheart

― dow, Monday, August 31

Oh wow, how is the new Sylvie Courvoisier?

Heiki Mätlik - Prelude from Bach's Partita in E Major (lute arrangement), BWV 1006a
Tony Price - Interview/Discount
Gorguts - Colored Sands

Dow I have the first volume of the Orchestra Polyritmo di Cotinou series.
The one where 2 members are in martial arts poses. It's pretty great.
Have meant to pick up the green one too.

But have wondered about influence on European/US bands from this stuff. Is there much where it's obvious.

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^^ hell yeah, love that one (it's "Kalte Sterne", yeah?)

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somehow hadn't seen that the double single by Neubauten and that Mute early singles compi had the same sleeve. or at least the front cover.

^^ yeah I assumed that was the CD version but they are the same

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Samo DJ & Maxxxbass - Snaker 008

(downtempo leftfield stuff)

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Laurel halo - raw silk uncut wood

very nice ambient stuff

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nothing but Rhucle on Bandcamp all day

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(ambient bliss)

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Soulful silver spacesuit tequila country, back from the future, whut's left of it. Get it while you can.

that looks kinda awesome, especially with that description!

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you people do too much listening and not enough RANKING

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Tauno Aints et al/Weekend Guitar Trio/Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir - Estonian Incantations 1
Lalgudi Jayaraman - Gana Sagaram (Live at Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, 1984) (partial)
Jack DeJohnette, Larry Grenadier, John Medeski & John Scofield - Hudson

Just put on:
Jakob Thiesen/Aidan Baker - À bout de souffle

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Late 70s garage prog? Anyway pretty hard prog based music made on low budget in the late 70s.
Pretty corrosive use of melotron.
This came out a few years ago I think unearthed from the unreleased tapes, its on the label that put out Brown Acid

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early 70s reggae or possibly still rocksteady in places. Here compiled by Sanctuary era Trojan.
I;ve been listening to the 2nd disc here which has some really great stuff by Scratch and he Upsetters among others.
I think I need to make sure I've got the Upsetters early 70s stuff compiled they had a great groove.
1st disc has several early Bob Marley tracks on.
Anyway loved the Sanctuary era Trojan 2cds that this is one of . The ones i got seemed to be comp;iled by people who knew the music really well and were packaged pretty good. Not sure if i totally love teh foldout booklet though.
But otherwise exemplary.

can't find a separate image for the Uncut covermount cd for the moment.
Which has some ok stuff on it. Including a track from Songhoy blues new one.