What are you listening to? 2021

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no moon - i left my dial in pirovac 2/2

“everything has a return” on side b is def my OPO lofi electro track of the 10s

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olivia tremor control - dusk at cubist castle

Bill Doss had one of the warmest, kindest sounding voices, like Alex Chilton’s non-evil twin.

taking a trip down to skull town

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Bill Doss had one of the warmest, kindest sounding voices, like Alex Chilton’s non-evil twin.

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Jesus, I had no idea he'd passed until just now!

When I was in my late teens, I had a number of excellent acid trips that featured OTC very prominently. I was obsessed with them.

it’s such a superb album.

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kinda want to check out these Stories album now.. diggin “brother louie”

been checking out late period Minutemen

it's...not too good :/

which ones? I like about half of 3-Way Tie a lot, Project Mersh is pretty meh though.

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BROADWAY DUTCHESS

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trux - s/t

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I have this as a 2016 remaster by Vangelis himself. I'm assuming its pretty authentic to the original but it has some textures I would associate with later eras. THis veers from stomping almost industrial sounding glammy stuff to atmospheric near ambient stuff.
Enjoying what I'm hearing haven't really dedicated much time to it yet since its one of 3 discs on a 3 changer.
There's a cameo vocal from a voice I recognise from earlier Aphrodites Child in a couple of places that I would have assumed was Demis Roussos earlier but is it the guitarist who is on this
Anyway quite enjoying this need to get more familiar with it and some of my opinions may alter with familiarity.
It's quite cheap on Dodax at the moment, not sure if that's standard price for it.

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Avant garagey post punk band from Georgia featuring Don Fleming and Bruce joyner.
THis was recorded in 1978 so is ahead of the curve I think. This cd version is augmented by a contemporary live set and some demoes.
Shows the influence of theh Velvets in the same way that the early Modern lovers did and I think some of their other influences.
Vocals may be naively poppy too.
reminds me heavily of Michael Yonkers Microminiature Love and the chunkiness of the first 13FE lp
Been meaning to pick this up for a while so glad i finally did.

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early solo set by Herbie that I got in an original album series or equivalent.
Has some names from Latin jazz scene on and is pretty sparse. Cool stuff from 64

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John Carroll Kirby - My Garden

chill, stately, piano led instrumentals, really fantastic lp

earth is so so great

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the kirby record is so good (as is grayfolded)! that eddie chacon record he produced last year is just incredible as well.

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Eddie chacon took the Kirby cover photo, btw. I gotta hear that record!

xp nice!

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KWJAZ self titled, lofi dreamy chillout on not not fun records

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Fulci - Tropical Sun

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^ Wow, thanks for the heads-up--hadn't heard or heard of this trio grouping of these great players before; am now checking out the 2015 S/T studio album's version of "If Not Now" with Lonberg-Holm instead on guitar, an inst I've never heard him play before

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It's quite good, yeah!

xp what the heck did they redo the cover art?

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Been meaning to pick this up since it came out, the 3cd summary of a series of shows teh Dead played in a region overa couple of years in the early 70s. So far I've only listened to disc 2 which has a 3/4 hrPLaying IN The Band and a shorter Eyes of The World.
I think the differentiation between 73 and before is in the way the music seems to be bubbled by the bass and maybe its not as thoroughly psychedelic as it was in earlier years more jazz as rock than thoroughly lysergic. Still pretty exploratory and questing.
I like all of the pre-retirement years I think , though probably slightly less 71 than other years. & this is still pretty great.
Then like the return stuff a deal less, don't like disco Dead do like them again around 80 and a bit less afterwards. They're doing something else later on which may be more roots related but to me the early years are what teh band are about and since I'm not going to see a live version of teh band again I might as well concentrate on the era I like the best.

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LIve sets by Finnish band from the time of their lp Lambertland . Exploring the material I think just pre-release.
More angular and less thoroughly freeflowing than someone like the Dead still pretty improvisatory.
Been trying to pick up the 50th anniversary sets by the band who I'd heard of a long time before exploring.
Really like the material anyway.

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Found this in a pile of cds at the end of my bed and I don't think I've really become familiar with it up til now. Another good volumne of Ethiopiques. Do enjoy most of the series I've heard I think this and the Zanzibar companion series.

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Been on a Polvo kick in a major way

Continuing to go through the Astral Spirits releases of last year while doing research and writing work

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I love this big band masterpiece that never really give much of a fuck what year it was.

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when you think about death do you lose your breath or do you keep your cool?

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which one is that?

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<3 <3 <3

There are a few live sets by an Albion Band with Richard & Linda Thompson onboard. Though maybe that's more relevant to Battle Of The Field which I think is pretty necessary let alone essential.
No Roses is really nice and is one of the few places where Shirley Collins has electric backing. Shame she hates jazz. But wow tis great.
Do love that Britfolk stuff from the time anyway.

yes, i remember reading an interview where she dismissed pentangle due to the jazz element in their playing :-/

re: crosby... never heard the david & the dorks material, another perro avenue to check out. i remember downloading some if i could only remember my name session tracks from some website 20+ years ago, not heard it since so that reissue looks enticing!

Digging in to this new CD box of Roland Kayn's Tektra - sounds great so far, fuck vinyl.

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A Primary Industry Ultramarine

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Does anyone know anything more about this band?

they came from basingstoke and have a wikipedia entry
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this too:
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Chinaski, how is that Mowest comp? Curious if they were using Mowtown session players/producers. Similar vibe to the Motown stuff of that era?

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Heez - that Mowest compilation is really great. It's kinda ragged around the edges but you can't deny the songs and the product. Gordy's vision for the expansion west was pretty much a disaster I think but it was more circumstantial than anything to do with quality.

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need to hear more wishart ^anticredos is the only piece of his i'm familiar with

listening to a dodgy boot of the emergency crew & scorpio sessions (amongst other bits and pieces)

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1920s big band blues by early great. She hasa pretty fantastic voice.
Got this 2nd hand then saw that there was a double cd available in the shop on th emain street. May go back for that.
Do still love these early blues, got turned onto it by Nick Cave, The Gun Club and probably early Bob Dylan a little earlier. In the early to mid 80s.

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Irish folk artist who I've been aware of for decades but not really had anything by. Am surprised by how much of this does not seem to be directly Irish folk though and also by how much I like it all.
Like he is doing a number of things from other traditions and more recently written .
I got the edition that came with a dvd too, there's a red covered one that is just the 2cds.

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Now got the actual lp on not the bonus disc. & loving it as much as i did when i discovered it in the late 80s. Not sure if this was something i got turned onto when looking for other things like Gris Gris as I did around teh same time with Eugene Macdaniels Headless Horsemen Of teh Apocalypse. I musthave been aware of Crosby as a Byrd already. Probably read Timeless Flight already or atleast its initial much shorter incarnation. I know I read his memoir while hitching around the UK in th e late 80s.
& do love all of this PERRO stuff or at least what I've heard. Especially the solo Airplane lps.
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is an image that is in the booklet too. Headstock face appears to be Michael Shrieve

need to hear more wishart ^anticredos is the only piece of his i'm familiar with

Red Bird is ridiculously good!

holy modal rounders 1 & 2, hurley's folkways lp +
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while prepping x-mas food

Sanjay Subrahmanyan - Vani Mahal Dec 2014 (Live)

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The first solo lp by ex-Byrd and contemporary CSNY member David Crosby. I realised thsi week taht it was a slightly altered version of teh lp since the final track jhere I Swear There Was Somebody Here originally appeared in a 1 minute 19second version which I used to punctuate mixtapes I was making when i first got the vinyl version in the late 80s and is now a full 8 minu8te odd track. Not sure why they didn't include both since the track is so short and this version while being nice has an inherently different feeling with the long wordless instrumental added. I dunno.
I am really enjoying the lp as I did at the time i got it first. Though I think the time i first got it I may have been experiencing the tracks isolated in mixtapes i listened to as I hitched teh UK. I think I very rarely listened to the first 2 tracks on side A which I have done since putting this on the 3 changer. So MUsic iS Love is hippies being hippies, Cowboy Movie is hippies bing racist and specifically about a bandmembers girlfriend. Tamalpais High at About 3am is sublime noodling tunefulness and so on.
I like teh structure of Cowboy Movie and the use of instrumentation way more tahn I like what the song is about. Would like to hear other lyrics, not that these are particularly bad just that this is all a dig at Rita Coolidge who I think was seeing Grahm Nash at the time and just shows off rather dodgy settler colonial mentality that would be better avoided. Great rhythm and guitar though.
Tamalpais HIgh has been a track I've loved since i first heard it, laughing was a song I played heavily when i first had a radio show I used to play it into Astronomy by Thin White Rope. It is apparently about the phoniness of the Beatles' indian experience.
What Are tehir Names has Neil Young playing off Jerry Garcia which I think I would have liked to hear more of. Odd taht drummer is Michael Shrieve not a GD member since bassist is Phil Lesh and one might have expected a bit of David and the Dorks in the studio.
I do enjoy the lp and wonder if there are bands that cite it as a central influence.

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Jazz singer's 1973 lp recorded in japan with a couple of Japanese players and 3 of Miles Davis' then band and some direction from Miles himself.
Abbey Lincoln had been a singer who emerged in the late 50s and then married Max Roach who she sang with on a few lps, notably Freedom Now Suite. The pair had split up by this point and Abbey had gone through a low point from which she was helped by Miriam Makeba. She had wound up booked to record in Japan and didn't like the drummer she had been set up with so asked if she could borrow Al Foster from Miles Davis and thereby wound up with both Dave Liebman and Mtume coming along for the session. I wonder how things would have sounded if one of Miles' guitarists at the time had come along but this does sound pretty great.
I just bought a copy of thsi for my brother for Xmas so stuck this on my 3 changer for teh week.
I'm still having trouble with the disc recognition on the player so still havingto clean it regularly. May have a look at the advice i was given alst week once whatver this cold/flu/whatever it is thing wears off.

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Irish folk singer's compilation cd which I would seriously recommend. I think it is not just diddley-oi music if taht would be teh assumption that one would have from associations with teh singer. This is the 2nd disc of teh set and i haven't watched the dvd that came as disc 3.
It starts with a track that really reminds me of Viv Stanshall's Men opening Umbrellas Ahead the combination of singing in a low register with teh musical backing which isns't really African based but has a certain slinkiness that has asi8milar feeling to that lp. he also goes into some material I would associate more with English folk . Great anyway.
I think I need to look more into his work both lps tracks here are from and other stuff. Also solo material by other members of Planxty.

i like pretty much everything i've heard that andy irvine has been involved with, but not really checked out the christy moore side of things though i believe it was one of his solo albums that provided the impetus for planxty forming in the first place

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not listened to this in years: lee hazlewood's funk lp!

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The Mermen- We Could See It in the Distance

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