What are you listening to? 2021

just for a short period by the looks of it: https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=Island+Records+%E2%80%93+CIR&type=release

my l&l isn't pink, but that's the closest approximation i could find - doesn't seem to be any online evidence of the nz cassette :-|

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He is truly one of the greatest musical artists of our times afaic

Plus Jamal seems to go to the effort to wish pretty much anyone he's FB friends with a happy birthday, so bonus respect to the Sun God

The one time I saw him live, my partner and I were going nuts in the front while a bunch of hipster types gawked, waiting for some flash-in-the-pan young white dude from Berlin to headline. Jamal came up *to us* after and thanked us for being so into it and gave me his card and said we should email him and he'd send us a bunch of stuff. Lost the card, as we were living out of a converted U-Haul at the time and my life was very messy. But yeah, he's a lovely person.

that’s cool, his music contains such joy and wonder, this sounds super banal but his music just seems like it’s made by somebody who really really loves music and sound and getting freaky with machines

New Josh Abrams' NIS w/ Evan Parker def has a more consistently upbeat tempo than the courtlier trance of Mandatory Reality--could be a bit of a reach, but the sustained energy of the group playing at a higher tempo might be comparable to dancing to an extended set of some A1 techno or house
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(Four on the intricately-bespoke-patterned rug)

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had issues getting this on cd, but damn, it was worth the effort.
40 minutes of full on prog excess.
and that's just the first cd.
there is another 40 minute cd of 'remixes', that are basically more variations on a theme from the 12 minute core track.

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^ Damn, Arhoolie rules/that looks great

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I picked up this week's 3 changer music from the piles and shelves around me as I tidied my room thinking I had an inspection coming from the landlord, so may have been more random than usual still

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Really enjoying this so may get some more. I think these Essential sets can be really good, seem to be compiled by people with some idea of how to summarise large catalogues but still bound to be missing so much. This 2cd concentrates on the 20s and 30s, mainly the latter. Only seems to go beyond that for something like the last 5 tracks on cd 2.
I've mainly listened to disc 1 and that after having had it sitting on a shelf for a few years. Wish i could play guitar so I could learn some of these horn lines.
& wonder if I am hearing this mainly from the perspective of what I could pilch. Though whole thing seems to be really great. Also conscious that I am hearing it from a perspective so many decades later after hearing a lot of teh music that came after., So will never hear things as they were first heard.
Louis Armstrong wasa great innovator in his early days, probably much later too though it seems to have been eclipsed by him being a great entertainer. It still stands as great music this much later . NOt sure how universally, hope mostly anyway. So now got to find out what has been left out by the summarising nature of the format. & will probably find out that so much was left out by the constriants of the format back when it was recorded too. 3 minute snippets of what would presumably have gone a biut longer when played live. NOt sure people like dancing in 3 minute bursts and things, which was supposed to be something of a reason why the San Francisco bands of teh late 60s started stretching songs out. So the dancers could keep the groove, like.

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Viv Stanshall, ex Bonzo frontman's mid 70s Afro influenced prog rock lp. Really been getting into this so shouldn't have been ignoring it for so long. It got reissued about 10 years ago and I think I did like it quite a bit when I got it. It has ome great guitar and stuff on it, it is also very bawdy, verging on the puerile in places though.
Music is really great. Would have been good to get some more music orientated lps by him around the time. I think his other 70s stuff is more spoken word orientated though isn't it?

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ITalian prog lp from 1973. I think i didn't pay enough attention to this when i picked it up towards the end of last year.
Blends the usual range of musics for Italian prog from the time folk, classical, jazz and rock.,
Has biuts that sound seriously symphonic interjected with some really good angular guitar playing. IT feelps pretty intense in places, doesn't quite sustain to the level of Ys but still remains pretty interesting throughout.
THis is growing on me a lot more tahn i thought at the time i got it, don't think I thought it was naff when i got it anyway. So not sure how frequently this will return to my player but it is quite enjoyable when it does.
Maybe its not exactly immediate. But I like it enough.

seventy one minutes of...
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lots and lots of aphex twin.

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Hans Joachim soothing my soul this morning

xps I remain baffled by the Duotron/Quintron connection, if any - Bulb Records maybe?

i have never many any connection there even after all these years!
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jeck is the nuts for exam proofing

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^ Have never heard solo Sack before! Am glad so much Staubgold music is now on Bandcamp.
That circular moonface guy reminds me of east-coast Canadian Marc Bell's comic character Shrimpy:
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Drone & feedback inst. trio for fans of Body/Head, those electronic Dead C stretches when Robbie Yeats isn't playing kit, or Spacemen 3's Dreamweapon phase-outs: https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0327495124_10.jpg

Just saw that one somewhere...Fuestron catalog? or Foxy Digitalis?

Anyway, loving this:

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Oops, I meant to post the more informative side of that EP, which is Bochum Welt's Phial E.P.

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Japanese psych-prog band from the early 70s.
Can hear some really nice West Coast US influences in the sound, echoes of the Doors among others. Does get pretty noisy in places and rather smooth in others but pretty sublime over all.
Do like the guitar quite a bit.
Can't really say I can hear the Pink Floyd comparisons I'm seeing people elsewhere making.BUt glad I finally got hold of a copy of this , think I may have had some MP3s of it years ago. Dodax had it pretty cheap and i think that wasa version that has rising prices elsewhere.
NOt 100% sure getting your ginat sloths to smoke is a good idea . Also jus might be a bit taxing on an elephant's trunk to behave like that, just saying like.

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Ruth Copelkand great voce on a Northern English folkie, here backed by various members of Funkadelic. Sound reproduction may be a biit muffled seems quieter tahn the other discs on the 3 changer.
BUt interesting stuff . I have it on a 2cd set with her frist solo lp which seems to be more MOR orientated.
Somewhat interestng, can't say how much I'm going to revisit it.
So strong female vox over rock oriented playing. Some scorching leads. Not sure to what extent they sound like the band they normally play with thought that would be an inherent quality.
LP sounds somewhat of its time. may grow on me.

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Rag i Ryggen I thought it translated as strength and something, a bread company's motto. Garagey hard rcok stuff from mid 70s Sweden. NIce twin guitar playing.
Melodic, a little psychy, which may be a bit out of step with the times it being 1975 and all .
But pretty decent lp here with a number of live cuts from shortly after the lp.
I quite like it.

Really digging this right now
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Think Jordan rec'd it on the post-post-re-de-constructed thread lol

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Pixeltan - Get Up/Say What

^awesome

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Loud Night - Mindnumbing Pleasure again... relentlessly entertaining heavy as hell motorhead-ish... “louder you bastards!!!!!!”

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^ Gee, that's some really good modern d-beat

Harvey Milk - A Small Turn Of Human Kindness
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i would loooove harvey milk if creston didn't always sound like he's trying to sing below his range in a pigfuck masculinity issues panto performancehttps://img.discogs.com/1IS2BgKCoxOXQYwpmDMrOE3mjyE=/fit-in/600x596/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3636221-1546979592-1118.jpeg.jpg

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Anita Lane australian singer with Birthday party ties. THis si a compilation of a mini lp and an e.p. p[lus pone track backed by the Birthday Party. Also one backed by DIe Haut but most of the instruments on the set are played by MIck Harvey.
Quite sublime in places, shame she didn't record more. I found out there is a solo lp from the early 00ies too which I may have to get. PLus she's on Harvey';s the Intoxicated Man which I think I may have somewhere.
Sorry to hear that she died alst week. I'm just reading about her getting together with Nick cave in the early days of the Boys Next Door in Mark Mordue's Boy On Fire.
THink I picked this up before i left Dublin and I haven't paid it enough attention . it has some tracks on that I really like. Subteranean World especially.

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Sunny Murray legendary free jazz drummer. This is the 2nd one of his taht I've picked up and I really like it. Some spoken word over free jazz drone though somewhat intermittent, more music than vocals .
Do wish I'd found this earlier. Cos I do think it is pretty dang great.
4 tracks around the 7 or 8 minute mark

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UNcut tribute to Dylan from last month. Has some interesting takes but not sure how often I'll revisit.
Was bothered enough by cd not starting and moving onto the next one to try t sort it, so it played several times during the week.. But still not sure hwo often I'd be back.

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