What are you listening to? 2022

Love is the Message had a show on Malian music last week
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2gDKx1ZOEZ7Cnmze45g6m1?si=b090a6b0b28c4e61

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

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/arts/music/silvana-estrada-marchita.html

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.

live at the east might just be my favourite pharoah, so would definitely recommend!

listening to some of the post-babaluma can lps which i'm not so familiar with...
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what is the Ash Ra Tempel there, I'm not seeing it anywhere. the s/t has a Pharoah or soemthing on the cover. & Tapes looks different too.

https://www.discogs.com/release/8598120-Ash-Ra-Tempel-The-High-And-Mighty-Priestess being live selections from "the private tapes" + a 1970 demo track

yeah was thinking it might be Private Tapes related , wonder if I have actually seen it before.

Incredible find!

The best version of "House of the Rising Run" ever!!

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That albums of extended vocal compositions looks amazing, no lime tangier.

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at https://moderecords.bandcamp.com/album/makrokosmos-i-ii-for-solo-amplified-piano-mode-142

RIP

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extended voices IS amazing! & rip to crumb, indeed.

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otherwise the closing electric feb 13 set from dp 4 with the missing 'we bid you goodnight' encore

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LOcal band play an arty jazzy folky sort of music which might be a bit white. I think the word quirky may be apt.
I like them live but am wondering how much i want to listen to the lp repetitively, still it is quite nice hook laden stuff which has some promise. I think they were around as an 8piece for a number of years before stripping down a few years ago. The female keyboardist/electronics player is doing some solo and soundtrack stuff which has been interesting.
My Fellow sponges, interesting.

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Iranian rocker's compilation on Pharaway Sounds. has some pretty funky stuff on including a recontextualisation of the Kinks You Really got Me Riff which has had me thinking about song structure and stuff, Like having a repetitive heavy riff as a theme that isn't central and stuff.
Does have a couple of semi annoying tracks on too which is a shame.
But I think it's quite good.

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Gilles Petterson documents a club he hosted at Dingwalls on a Sunday afternoon that i went to several times and wish I had stuck with going to . I think I wound up hitching the UK at roughly that time which is on emain reason I didn't. But it was great and dancing to this stuff is still qui8te compelling.
IT covers a broad range of material including some then contemporary material by bands like Weekend who featured teh vocals of the Young Marble Giants' Alison Stratton through some 60s/70s jazz material which was teh main stuff he played. It also features a jazz track by Michel Legrnad which is pretty groovy.
Would love to get another club like this i could frequent cos want to get down to the tunage.

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Listening to Amnesty Free Your Mind: The 700 West Sessions prompted by the Rare Groove Suggestions thread. Obscure 70s Indianapolis R&B/funk/jazz band with lovely group harmony vocals, killer brass, and intricate arrangements.

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Coltrane in late 61 with Eric Dolphy and Reggie Workman onboard. I hadn't realised how little Workman was used as a bassist by Coltrane, realising that i can easily name his pianist and drummer but didn't have an immediate fill for bassist which I think is more often Jimmy Garrison.
Anyway this is bloomin tasty as is probably inevitable really. So, great jazz stuff and so on.
I have the Village Vanguard box somewhere or at least most of it. Think the rest of that is pretty good too.

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Another pretty sublime set by ex-Monkee and new backing band. A bit more rocky than elsewhere and more effects laden and stuff.
NOt quite sure what Highway 99 with Melange is aiming at. Rest of this is countryish with some somewhat psych tinge. I do enbjoy his early 70s work a lot. This has 3 extra tracks and is the version from the Original Album series box.

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classic female blues singer best of. Bought this when I'd started reading her biography now relistening to it after i returned teh book. Maybe should have put it on while i still had teh book so I could check over some descriptions and things.
Anyway good set with 21 tracks. I think I might get a couple more. She is backed by various different line ups of bands with horns and things as part of the sound. Haven't heard the music she was developing when she died. Want to though, more swing orientated as she tried to stay current. Always have to wonder what she would have done if she hadn't died suddenly, but that's true with a number of artists