What are you listening to? 2021

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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xp whistling about chickens

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jd emmanuel - wizards

Katalepsy - Gravenous Hour

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(Crash of Rhinos - Distal)

xxxxxp: "mackenzie in a rvb tank" a little disingenuous/glib- pretty exquisite psychoacousmatic ( or whatev) just difficult to listen to with traffic sploshing through rain while a 6 yr old howls for more "clarence" & gf having a zoom conf in the hall

RIP John Russell
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shipp absolutely terrific on this one

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I think I at least had that David S Ware a couple of decades ago. Must take some time this year and see what cds I bought when I lived in Dublin are still here and what still play. Is cd rot still a thing cos people were talking about it a couple of decades ago. Did manufacture change.

Anyway I recognise the cover and was having purchases shaped by reading various alternative press at the time Wire,Forcedexposure, Puncture and a few others. But really should have kept a database of what I had and lost over the years.

Do have a couple of box sets of Ribeiro releases which are mainly good. There was a French one had the early releases in a too quiet master from what I remember and a better one that went up to about 79 that I need to relishes to.
Also some pretty interesting live sets circulating on torrent sites from I think 71 and 72.

The Standells Dirty Water

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On a Bill Fox kick today.

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recently released compilation of Ethiopian funk . Great fuzz guitars and stuff.
UNfortunately nop liner notes. So I need to see if the label will sell me a set o fthe liners for the 12" vinyl versions. I'm assuming taht is the problem here for some reason looks like the complete set on vinyl gets a linernote booklet but the cd doesn't and I thin the same is true for the individual sets not sure why they couldn't make a 5" set of teh lnernotes too.
Would like to know what Ayalew is singing about

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I bought the originak album series of Mountain lps when I heard that Leslie West had died over Xmas. Not sure why I hadn't picked up on them before. Have picked up on West's earlier band The Vagrants.
Listening to this over the last few days shows me more nuance than I first thought but still not sure how good the sound on this is .
NIce heavy stuff but now hearing other dimensions to it.

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free cd with the book on the Third Ear Band that came out recently . it claims to be the Unreleased lp The Dragon Wakes sounds like the band from different times though and some bits with a great sense of groove. I thought I got a version of the Dragon Wakes with the Esoteric version of the 2nd lp as Elements. Anyway some great semi hypnotic music that I'm glad to have./
THis unreleased lp has more electric input than I was expecting.

Listening to Phelimuncasi's out-of-print 2016, 'Intakatho Yama Phelimuncasi.'

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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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