What are you listening to? 2022

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Disc 5 of the box set of the band that nhelped launch the mod revival. Comprised of alternative takes of tracks throughout their career.
Mainly got put on cos the rest of the box set is elsewhere, not sure where. I got this before I left Dublin so contents may be scattered in a load of places. I was prompted to listen to them from That Record Got Me High covering Setting Sons a couple of weeks back.
Hope I can find more fo teh set. Quite enjoying this.
They worked together quite well as a 3 piece anyway.

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Dub reggae combo featuring Sly Dunbar among others. Largely instrumental but does havea few vocals.
This was the one disc by the band I found when looking. Want to hear more, particularly the cover of Watermelon man

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2nd disc of box set by 60s mod group. Mainly soul influenced material and covers. They had a pretty powerful rhythm section which I'm not sure comes across clearly in the production, seems it's not the focus. Also the songs I've heard the originals of have been made a lotmore serene here, tend to be a lot rougher/rawer in the original. they were a pretty good harmony band with a great lead singer and Rickenbacker guitar which I think is more chorded than lead.
I really like the band and have done since the Edsel collection the Ultimate Action came out when i was like 14 years old, linernotes by Paul Weller though I put this on cos the box set has been sitting around my bedroom visibly for too long.
This is the stereo disc of their mod era stuff as opposed to the slightly later psychedelic stuff. It does have a few tracks taht are beginning to edge into psych . It's also material that was pretty much finished by George martin at around the time plus some demo/unfinished material as bonus.
very stylish

I dig your capsule reviews, Stevolende. I've checked out a number of artists based on them.

My standard morning routine is a jazz record, a blues record, and a rock record I've not heard before. Today's "jazz" find was closer to kitschy 50s pop, with accordion featured alongside guitar. Fortunately I love that stuff. Joe Puma's Wild Kitten has been re-released, and I find it hard to believe there are enough people who would want to own it to warrant a reissue.

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Followed up with Memphis Slim's No Strain. Really nice piano blues record from 1961, featuring the undersung Lafayette Thomas on guitar on some tracks.

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And Cricklewood Green by Ten Years After. I won't bother posting the cover as most have seen this record; I had never heard it before today.

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Just heard them through my song of the day playlist. Just my jam, husky female vocals over droning guitars.

Ooh, this is nice for when I finally make it past the middle of last century, thanks!

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Jean-Joel Barbier - Deodat de Severac: Pieces pour Piano

been quite enjoying the cure live in los angeles from 1983, thanks to ilxor Mar3snest.

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San Francisco keyboard punk band led by outrageous queer activist and featuring some pretty harsh noise from a pair of electronic keyboards.
The band consisted of severaL members who went onto leading record labels but consciously refused to release anything during their existence. I'm not sure about the legitimacy of this Xeroid double cd but it rocks like a bastard.
It consists of several live sets and several sets of demoes. Sound is not always perfect but it does sound like the gigs must have been great. Keyboards here have the same attack that guitars do elsewhere.
I think there are some legal releases out now and there is definitely video material circulating and commerically released.

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Malian early 70s melange of traditional sounds and some Western influences played on electric instruments. I love this stuff, their contemporaries Les Ambassadeurs and Orchestra baobab are both really good too.
I am slowly reading a book on Mande music which talks about the traditional music this is based on.
THis stuff is pretty awesome and has 2 companion volumes all of which compile material from a series of lps released at the time they were recorded.

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LP recorded by a short lived version of the prog band. Bill Bruford an dRick Wakeman have both left so there's different drums and keyboards.
I have been trying to find an EQ setting that this sounds right on from a set of presets on my midi system. & it doesn't quite sound right on any of them. Oddly I keep trying though. Think I may have bought this about 10 years ago and tried it out a few times and just thought nah. Can tolerate the lps from the start of the 70s even enjoy bits of them. Though never going to be a fan of Jon Anderson's voice asnd do find the arrangements frequently overly busy, Am finding some of this interesting though, I think I do like bits of Chris Squire and Steve Howe, a bit of Patrick Moraz too.
Did hear people like Thurston Moore thought this was the bees knees but still not something I'm going to be overly championing.
People died in the punk wars after all

Second the appreciation for the King Hannah mention. Great vibe.

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Savatage - everything except Fight for the Rock
Obituary - Slowly We Rot, Cause of Death

That Rail Band disc has some of my favorite stuff of theirs. IIRC this this entire LP is included.

You gotta get the Kanaga de Mopti reissue on Kindered Spirits.

now if i could have just found that out when the cd was easily available. It is on Spotify though and does seem to be pretty sublime.

Love is the Message had a show on Malian music last week
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may have contributed to me sticking the cd on though I think I had an inkling to listen to that Yes and had to find it and may have found the cd in the pile i went through.
I think I noticed them not having Les Ambassadeurs on or at least not connected to the scene that included teh Rail band , think they went from them to Orchestra baobab who did some interesting stuff in the early 70s but maybe didn't appear on a lot of people's radar until Pirate's choice 30 years later. I have a set that compiles some of their 70s work though. A Night At club Baobab, I was thinking it had another french name since Mali was francophone through colonisation.
Also didn't mention the latin tinge that was on a lot of the music from the time when I did the review a few days ago and I think the podcast does talk about it.

Starting my day with cool jazz meets exotica: Tanganyika from Chico Hamilton and Buddy Collette.

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Mexican indie-folkie singer Silvana Estrada seems good. She’s on tour now but I just missed her DC City Winery gig last night

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Natalie Lafourcade and Chavela Vargas fans might like Silvana Estrada new album

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New York based psychedelic band with very fuzzed out country hues. Finally got this after meaning to for something like 30 years, possibly more. I know they got some coverage in Strange Things Are Happening the psychedelic magazine that came out in the late 80s and I think that tied in with an Edsel reissue that i somehow failed to pick up. now got thsi Acadia version which came out in 2000 and I'm not sure why it didn't get beyond the wantlist then, maybe the company folded before I got to get it.
Bandname was a songtitle that Frank Zappa thought would make a better bandname than the one they were using. They are pretty other and are really growing on me. I thought when i was first hearing about them I was seeing some comparisons to the Meat puppets being mentioned which I'm not really hearing per se. there is a combination of bluegrass, rock, avant and fuzz which might have some people thinking taht but I can't say the approach is that similar. Good though

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Sun Ra live lp from the first date of a 1980 European tour before all of his equipment or band have arrived. Elsewhere this year he's doing some really out there electric music, this is all horn, piano etc and not electric but still pretty far out. Apparently the music included here excluded some of the songs more associated with electricity which were played at the date, I think this is early and late shows about half and half. So do wonder if there is more of the recording from this date anywhere that has those tracks .
Anyway this concentrates more on the songs by other composers, Ellington, Monk, Henderson etc in a pretty wild way. Do love the Big John's Special here especially. & it is still pretty far from stayed. Do wonder if technique used is going to be much later developed than the songs written but don't really know playing technique history and do think I have heard of wildness in the playing in early jazz taht may not have been palatable to the ears people were selling to . JUst do think it unlikely that these songs attempted at teh time they were written would sound exactly the way they were played here. Great date anyway.

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Paisley Underground related band gets career spanning compilation . I have been listening to the first disc which has the same material released a few years ago as a single disc called Hollywood Holiday Revisited which contained the first mini lp called Hollywood Holiday and the 2nd lp Drifters and a 1983 session recorded by Tom Verlaine.
Television are one signpost to the sound though I think the band is more interested in the 60s sound than they were. First couple of tracks sound like they are going to go off in a different possibly quasi industrial direction with drums used in a way closer to world music or something. But most of this is rooted also in classic rock and shows some really great guitar. I remember seeing them in Dingwalls in 1985 and thinking the main guitarist Richard McGrath really reminded me of the skinhead from the film Diva.
I found out on my last trip to London taht I had a copy of Drifters the 2nd lp. I don't remember getting very into it which seems odd o hearing it here cos it does sound pretty great here. Maybe production is too polished and muted or something. But sounds like i missed something if I didn't enjoy it at the time. & maybe i was much more interested in other things at the time , maybe it just got eclipsed.
THis is somewhat countryish guitar rock which i think is quite great right now anyway. Guitar textures float above the main sound. maybe i was looking for something more edgy I think I just didn't hear what was there at the time and i needed to sit with it longer. maybe it just didn't have the edge that the live band had had. I don't get it, do get the music now.
So I have a later lp plus bonus to listen to and a live set plus early demoes to get to. that includes a whole live set from the tour i saw them on. So should be good

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not sure what happened with the link above, but: https://www.discogs.com/release/3023369-Various-New-Music-Circles

the jocy de oliveira piece is the stand out (later released on her own album)

she was a visitor, she was a visitor...

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I am slowly reading a book on Mande music which talks about the traditional music this is based on.

hi Stevolende: what is the name of this book and would you recommend it?

Simply called mande Music by Eric Charry.
It goes into the history of the area from about the 13th century and the role of the various people who are allowed to be musicians and what they are allowed to play. IT seems that to a greta degree teh instrument chosen ties in with the trade one does at least traditionally.
I started off finding it a bit dry but I think i'm getting into it quite a bit though I'm also reading about 10 other books which is meaning i'm not concentrating on it fully. But yeah does seem to be a good read.
Charry is an ethnomusicologist I think which means this can be a little academic possibly.
But yeah glad i got it as an interlibrary loan.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo3629899.html

thanks! I've been listening to a lot of Malian and Senegalese music the past couple years but have never read anything in depth about it. I'm very curious about griot culture and the history of the area in general, so have been vaguely on the lookout for something to read

seems to be quite good, I think it may be a bit expensive cos it is a University Press publication. Glad i got to read it and hope i finish it before it needs to be returned. Seem to be getting a lot of good stuff from the same library so wonder if that's down to a specific individual or membership of a buying decision panel. Really not sure how that works, assume it's not just one reader continually requesting good titles be bought.

I actually used to work at that university press—I should have stolen a copy when I had the chance :/

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4th solo lp by ex-Monkee as he explores what he can do with country and finds his own way into Cosmic American music or whatever he calls it. I think this may be less psychedelic than the first 2 First National Band lps. But probably the most worthwhile music to come from an ex-Monkee, though would be interested to hear what the competition was. Nesmith was already being covered by other bands at the time he was beginning to vie for more musical input to the Monkees since Paul Butterfield Blues Band covered his Mary Mary on East-west.
Great stuff, glad i finally got the Original Album series of the 5 lps from the early 70s. had been meaning to since it first appeared. Then again after he died and what eventually got me to do so was checking that my credit card was working. Oh well silly response but great result.

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Great band led by Malian kora player. THis obviously hasa lot to do with traditional material but I think it blends quite heavily with western stuff, jazz, funk and rock but really not sure what is what since it blends quite amazingly well.
Very melodic and has some really great interweaving of instrumentation. THink I got my copy cheap from FOPP around the time it came out.
I'm quit e knocked out by this and i think putting it on was a last minute thought since i think what I had been thinking of wasn't at hand whereas this came out of a pile i was going through. Utterly great anyway so very glad i did put this on.
Very recommended.
THink I have a couple of live sets by the Symmetrical orchestra somewhere too. JUst wondering if the image of Diabate I have on the wall behind me from Glastonbury in presumably 2007 is with this same band.

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This is actually the Direction Reaction Creation disc focused on this lp so the tracklisting is this plus. Seems to have a lot more semi acoustic stuff on this disc than I was expecting. Thought it might all still be the somewhat punky rock but they were already expanding their palette by this point which is probably why this is thought to be about their classic lp. Anyway, really enjoying the Jam right now and probably should never have neglected doing so. Still love the mid 60s bands i was getting into in the early 80s from ties into the mod scene. So may look more at the 80s bands from then. Do wish the Purple Hearts lp was easier to get.
Looking at the tracklisting this even expands on what teh deluxe edition of this lp has on it, since it has several singles from between this and Setting Sons including Eton Rifles and the alternative version of Smithers-Jones. I guess this was somewhat nostalgic at the time or at least commenting on that process and it certainly makes me feel that to when I was first hearing the material.

seems like All MOd Cons has had tracklisting significantly jumbled by the box set. I have the booklet stuck so I can't see the tracklisting but cfing it on RYM shows that they haven't stuck with the way the band programmed it. Disc starts with a previous single anyway.
Then sticks up some of teh heavier tracks which I think may have been released as singles. IT has a sequence of mainly pastoralish songs sequenced in teh order of teh album but I'm not sure if thaht helps it retain the feel the lp had. I'm assuming it had more of a feel of cihiroscura on the original lp leading up to a crescendo at teh end of side 2. Now everything stands on its own a bit more. I think it does so.
Good box set, I may wind up buying another copy now that I've had this as long as i have. Think I wound up with a windfall at the end of a day working on Grafton street and I went and picked this up then when it would possibly have stayed an afterthought otherwise. & it's been with me through several moves and neglected for too long. Then I heard the edition of That Record Got Me High on Setting Sons a few weeks ago and that had me wanting to relisten. Still haven't found that disc but hope i do so before too long

so right, the 2 crescendo tracks finishing o9ff the lp were released on singles in the months leading up to the lp. & I guess the band would have been more of a singles band than an lp one at teh time at least. Though this si thought of as possibly their classic lp it was one i never had until the box set for some reason.
So this is much more in order of release than recognising a tracklisting that may be less concrete in light of that.
Haven't checked if there is a different US tracklisting to muddy up the waters even further. & now that I have done I see that they add in the Butterfly Collector which was a single bside in the UK.
Anyway its all good stuff, they were very good when they were good and getting there before that

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Side two especially. Side one has the hits, but it's the flip side that rewards close listening, particularly "Car on a Hill" and "Just Like this Train."

Oops haha

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got a gift certificate from my local shop for xmas and treated myself to this:

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various strains of kraut and electronic german music, has heavy hitters like can, neu!, amon duul ii, etc, but lots of really cool more obscure acts that i've never heard of

pretty much the best music in existence

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Levitating live lp by Spiritual jazz titan. Sounds like it has an internal luminosity.
Glad i finally got this a couple fo years ago. Do love him around this time.
Want some more along these lines. & to find out who was picking up on this sound too. Like the Gun Club spent a while covering a number of spiritual and other New Thing jazz tunes and i think it is an influence you can hear in a lot of their sound. Not sure who else.
THink I need the slightly earlier Live At the East too.

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first collaboration lp by the married folk duo and band. Veers from some gnarly electric guitar to some much more stately beautiful acoustic stuff. Drones quite heavily and incorporates some interesting textures from a wide array of non rock instrumentation, concertinas, crumhorns and fun stuff. Has a couple of tunes heavily coloured by colliery band sounding horns.
Can get pretty melancholy but i think the pair get even more so a couple of lps later.
I think this definitely benefited from the remastering it got in the early 00ies and it has 3 bonus tracks from a Roundhouse performance from 1975 of tracks from this lp including a much more drawn out guitar heavy Calvary cross. I remembered while listening to this that I think I heard teh Peter Laughner cover of the song on Take the Guitar Player For A Ride way before i heard Richard & Linda doing their song.
Anyway this and Pour Down like Silver are both pretty necessary, Hokey Pokey slightly less so.

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THird lp by Tempe Arizona post-hardcore mavericks. Think this is them actually getting into something more overtly psychedelic i fpossible. Seems pretty sui generis but then tehy do seem to have started out taht way and references to other things seems to be fleeting where present. It does remind me of Grateful Dead around 74 in places, possibly elsewhen at other points but the bubbling bounciness reminds me of what the Dead were doing in 73 & 4 especially that latter year.
I've had the cd since it came out on Rykodisc and it is showing wear so it is semi skipping in some places so may need to pick up a replacement. Anyway do love the band in teh early and mid 80s so should listen to it more.
Gt to see them a couple of years later so taht was great.
How do you describe this stuff? A melange of different influences possibly played by semi virtuosic mavericks who sing somewhat less well. Mixes jazz, country, psychedelia, rock and so on . I think you need to hear it to know what it's like I also really think you need to hear it anyway.
Continually swirling, bubbling sound I guess. Love this stuff.

no idea where to put this, there’s no thread on j.t. iv and only a couple scattered mentions in the last 15 years. i don’t like the rest of his music at all (at least the tiny bit that’s available for perusal) but this cover of “fat lady of limbourg” (to be reissued soon by drag city) is bracing

j.t. iv - fat lady of limbourg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT0GVHU26AE

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0516546049_10.jpgmontel palmer's "wayback" lo-fi nothingy bedsit murmur. supremely half-assed

no idea where to put this, there’s no thread on j.t. iv and only a couple scattered mentions in the last 15 years. i don’t like the rest of his music at all (at least the tiny bit that’s available for perusal) but this cover of “fat lady of limbourg” (to be reissued soon by drag city) is bracing

j.t. iv - fat lady of limbourg

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Actually swapped these out so I had something new to listen to on New Year's Day. Then undid everything by having the first thing I listened to on the 3 player for teh New Year be the cd cleaner. Ho hum.

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which is an anachronistic photo for a trio performance. Prophecy has saxophone with rhythm section bass and drums which seems full enough sound. Bells has Saxophone plus added trumpet playing brother, alto saxophone different bassist and same drummer- Sonny Murray.
Got prompted to put this on by reading the Richard Koloda biography Holy Ghost. I need to sort through my cds and see what I have by Albert Ayler I know I had a few titles on vinyl decades ago not sure if I have replaced them all on cd still. So not sure what I dod have on cd at the moment.
Enjoyed this greatly so again should be listening to this more not letting it sit on a pile of cds for ages .This may be him at his most free not sure, does seem that Michael Samson did tie in with freedom well and was playing off other players, the addition of harpsichord seems to be a constraint elksewhere possibly more so than using piano which is itself a firmly tuned instrument.
I do like that thing he is doing when Samson and Cobb are onboard weird interplay based on folk and other simple themes. Seems like Donald brought in the idea of using marches more than Albert did. Anyway very interesting artist, would love to hear where he would have gone to if he hadn't died in 1970 still exploring areas that Marie Maria may have suggested . he appears to have been trying to get away from her influence and didn't manage to.
I think I do need to listen to those 3 lps from taht era and Fondation maeght. I think i have New Grass at least.

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the bonus disc of the Blixa Sounds version of the 2nd lp of LA band's 2nd lp. This has pretty full sounding versions of demoes of the tracks fromm the lp plus the next 2 which I'd like to know more about who was playing on.
Miami is a favourite lp, a claustrophobic New York studio winds up with teh band sounding pretty expansive. Not 100% sure where the demoes were recorded but these do seem to be decent alternative versions or at least mixes of the material therein.
Garagey psychy melange of various roots forms and post-punk rock which I've loved for close to 4 decades. I think I need to get the other 2 pre retirement lps in the Blixa Sounds versions . Have now seen that they have gone onto at least Mother Juno, not sure where they will continue to.

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2nd lp by current band. My first by them. It appeared in a local mainstream music shop so must be having some impact.
I enjoy the musical interplay, guitarist has a style that reminds me of some things I'm trying to place.
Female vocalist's lyric style is pretty unique. Repeating bits of small talk in a nearly cut up way. Haven't seen them live so not sure how she handles singing/vocalising there. If she repeats the same things exactly or what.
I think I will be picking up more of their output. THis is pretty good. Cover challenging views of tastelessness.

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probably about time i swapped the keyboard with the darkened keys over to the one I picked up a few months ago. Should be touctyping by now anyway I guess.

struggling with picking stuff