What are you listening to? 2021

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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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ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah

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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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Used to listen to this all the time but haven't in a while. Still sounds amazing.

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Kent label Etta James compilation of various lesser known recordings from throughout the 60s and 70s.
Awesome full barrel voice and some great grooves behind it.
Starts with her covering I Pity The Fool which I first heard in teh David JOnes cover and then got familiar with the Bobby Bland clasic version. I think I need to pick up some of the early 70s lps if i can. Have been looking for more stuff like All The Way Down since i got a Chess compilation some years ago. Wasn't sure what else was like that since that was the only thing on that compilation from the era I think. Now looks like there area couple of lps though I'm not sure how currently available they are.
This is pretty great though, I think I may have bought it expecting a bit more stuff contemporary to that track. But cool and Kent tend to have good selecting ability.

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Fats Domino collection from the Charly label r'n'r series which I was picking up bits of rockabilly from a few years ago. Has taken me way too long to pick up a set by fats or to be at all familiar with his work.
I think there are bits of this that are more rocking than I might have expected. pleasant groove throughout anyway.
New Orleans has a different groove than Memphis i think. Anyway can immerse myself in this.
Though I think I still have a semi stigma of thinking he is a bit MOR which I need to get over.
Fats Domino on my stereo if not my radio.

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Current Mojo cover mounted cd . Chamber pop compilation. I was wondering what the theme was since the cover was lying on the other side of the room, thought Oh You Pretty Things meant Bowie related.
Anyway, has some interesting tracks on but I'm not sure much really stood out apart from Anoni's voice.
JUst been a murky presence on my cd player when I've been trying to work out what the story is.
Probably should be some stuff that stuck with me more, it has St Vincent, JIm O'Rourke and a Maria Mckee track on but it just doesn't seem to stick in my head the way I'd hope.

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This is pretty great and I'm glad to see a label finally tackling Miles' final decade.

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Arriver Emeritus

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just a big head's up for TOPDOWN DIALECTIC listeners.

first, Vol. 3 (of the trilogy, apparently) has been announced: https://peakoil.bandcamp.com/album/vol-3

in the past, the LPs sold out VERY quickly and are hard to find, so i was super happy to nab on this morning!

HOWEVER, i see that they now have repressed Vol 1 and 2, so basically they're all available again now.

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THANK YOU KARL MALONE, SERIOUSLY!!!!

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