What are you listening to? 2021

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Found a lot of gems when organizing my LPs this week

love those new world records comps^^^

i am listening to HOT ROCK

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i didn't expect the introspection comp to be on spotify but it is & it's good. most of these guys could still do with more love

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HUgh Masekela compilation with both that Hedzoleh Sounds backed lp and the previous collaboration on in full. Plus the next band that Masekela formed with African players in several tracks. The whole 3cd set seems to be pretty good though I've only heard 2 discs so far.
Nice comprehensive set of grooves with African sources and in collaboration with some American players.
I should have been more familiar with Masekela's work I think I was mainly aware of him as a South African exile and a Byrds collaborator as well as being married to Miriam Makeba at one point. That and his appearance on Monterey Pop which seems really iconic. Now also seen him on Summer of Soul which isn't quite up to the standard of Monterey. Oh yeah was aware of one version of Stimela the song about the South African mining workers train which i think I knew in an English language version from some point in the 80s though it just occurred to me that it was something a local dj was playing in his ethno funk sets in the local Gaelic club. (I think the thought behind that club was initially about keeping other languages than English being talked/sung)
Anyway superlative compilation which seems to be going pretty cheap at some online outlets. & an artist that I should be much more familiar with and this set does help with that a lot. Certainly for the decade from the mid 60s to the mid 70s as it says in the title.

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2nd solo lp by Annette Peacock here accompanied by various sidemen who I think changed over the time the record was recorded but include people like Chris Spedding on guitar who also pops up on a lot of other interesting somewhat proggy stuff over the 70s, and Bill Bruford on drums.
IT was recently reissued so I finally got it after wanting it for the last few years and having missed the compilation from about a decade ago which combined this with the next late 70s lp and I think some bonus material. Do need the next lp still I think. Think it might not be as immediate as this but still pretty necessary. This is jazzy, funky and a bit quirky, not quite as out there as her earlier 70s lp I'm The One which is also pretty necessary.

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New Zealand band's great anthology. Garagey amateurish playing with great melody etc .
Had meant to pick this up for ages, finally sorted that out a couple of years ago but should pay more attention to it. Have loved 'Getting older' since it was current I think, I may have had i on a Flying Nun sampler from somewhere in the mid 90s too.
I assume the Velvets are a massive influence as well as some other 60s material but I think channelled through punk era lens.
Pretty essential to these ears as I listen to it. So I shouldn't leave so long intervals.

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Singles anthology by garage punk/psych essentials. Covers all the well known singles as well as material by later lineups from the 60s which I'd known from an Eva compilation in the mid 80s.
Band chnged quite heavily in the late 60s. Also very early stuff i sfar closer to late 50s r'n'r than one might assume from the garage psych archetype stuff from 66 and 67. Great set which i also ought to be far more familiar with, like have been listening to some of this since my mid teens and other bits I'm only just discovering.

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Evan Miller - Transfigurations on Lap-Steel Guitar

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oh man I gotta revisit Wabi Sabi, I have that one.

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Now onto the first cd of this 3cd Masekela compilation. IT starts so slinky that I keep thinking its the Tim Buckley set here when it starts.
Again contains almost all of a couple of lps and a couple of tracks from others. Masekela was doing some great stuff at the time going from jazz not consciously influenced by his upbringing to him becoming more conscious about his input of traditional forms which I think would remain a feature from then on. He has his first Mbaqanga based tune on I think the 3rd lp selected from here.
Really heavily recommended set. I think I will be looking for more by him. As well as some of the sidemen he's working with here. Need to get the township meets spiritual jazz stuff by Abdullah Ibrahim and some stuff by Dudu Pukwana, Mongezi Feza, Louis Moholo-Moholo and others. Think I might check out that Brotherhood oF Breath lp too.

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Tim Buckley live set from 1969 which was released a couple of years ago. This actually contains undoctored versions of some of the tracks from Lorca which i think had some of the drum tracks removed.
I was listening to disc 1 which I think is all new though. THis is Buckley in jazzy mode like he's ingested the current Miles davis material etc and come up with this parallel which is electric and liquid and sublime.
Great set.

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There appear to be 2 different sets by the Commodores in the Gold series. This one with the image from their first lp as the photo has a lot of the early 70s street funk stuff which is what I was looking for. I think the other one is more common and concentrates more on the later hit stuff. They were a great funk band so I'm loving this , though Young Girls Are My Weakness is just a bit wrong. THis does include the hit songs that later bands covered including Easy and Three Times A Lady. Easy is ok and the other one can be ignored.
But I got this to get the Funk stuff so am very glad to have that now. The band was more than a MOR Quiet Storm band featuring Lionel Ritchie. I wonder to what extent that idea obscures how good this early stuff is.
& I haven't listened to the 2nd cd yet. So wonder if it is going to get repeat listens, the 1st one certainly will.

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YESSSSSSSSSSSSS great band/album

I’ve embarked on a classic thrash kick today. Also enjoying Devastation’s Idolatry. I’ll spare the thread from more cover art, though.

The first Demolition Hammer is so good, best gang shouts in the biz

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Oh, I'm glad people liked the Introspection comp. It's so good.

Now I'm listening to Ophidian I - Desolate.

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Need to get the township meets spiritual jazz stuff by Abdullah Ibrahim and some stuff by Dudu Pukwana, Mongezi Feza, Louis Moholo-Moholo and others. Think I might check out that Brotherhood oF Breath lp too.

will forever rep for this sublime lp: https://www.discogs.com/Dudu-Pukwana-Spear-In-The-Townships/release/1628739

wish somebody would do a similar set to that 66-76 3cd for some of the other artists from the SA jazz scene. I think I was looking at that one a couple of weeks back and saw that it hadn't been redone for cd since 1988. & that's my main medium.

That's quite the trio of albums, no lime tangier. Yikes.

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Cover connections:

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FLACs sound beautiful.

Getting a lot of play this year.

Cover connections:

Deliberate maybe? I know Curtis wrote the songs GK&TPs did for the film Claudine.

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perfect sunday vibes.
and yeah, dad helped quite a bit in the making of it.

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Another welcome find from my LP collection. Love these old CBC records.

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