What are you listening to? 2022

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Egyptian guitar doyen, sounds a bit like Dick dale or link Wray though cleaner than the latter . Dale uses some ideas borrowed from his Lerbanese heritage which winds up i roughly the same ballpark. This was a compilation put together by Sublime Frequencies. I had discovered him by chnace when somebody had sold a copy of his With Love Volume 2 to the local 2nd hand record shop I frequented in the late 80s and i picked it up from there. I think I made the link to an Eastern/Arabic Link Wray at the time and then found it really difficult to find his material on cd for ages. Think I wound up with a copy of his tribute to Farid El Atrache while not being able to find anything else.
THis seems to have the bulk of his mid 70s stuff on, or at least that which isn't on the 2 tribute lps. 2 nearly full length cds.
It's mainly mid tempo guitar stuff with a wash of some form of keyboard behind, Frequently synth stuff and crashes of hand drums. Some of it was done with the intention of s/trking bellydance and it is mainly based in related genres., But it is also largely electric .
I think there was a recent compilation that came out over teh alst few months but i need to check that. Also just seen taht there wasan lp of him live in Australia in 1981 that i would love to check out. & i found some clips on youtube.
I like this a lot so good to see that it has had some recognition. I mean even having this released back in 2010 was more Western recognition than I was aware of beforehand.

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THis was a cd in the Zanzibara series which is a companion/parallel series to Ethiopiques done by the same label. This concentrates on one band from the early 70s. I think I am hearing more of a Latin tinge to the music tahn I heard on teh other couple of volumes I have i the series. Zanzibara is mainly a genre called Taraab which seems to be at least semi unique to the East African island where local traditional sounds blended with some Arabic influences etc.
Anyway finding this pretty infectious. Great grooves and one song I'm trying to work out if I am remembering being covered by a local band to where i live now lead by a Congolese vocalist at the time i think they were playing it or if it is something with a shared history that both are referencing. I'm not sure how popular this band was. I'm also not great with knowing how well known/obscure bands I enjoy are outside of some more obvious ones and even then may be into more obscure parts of their work. But hearing this does make me wonder.
Anyway great stuff and i think I need to have another look at the Zanzibara series cos what I've heard has been good i think.

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The Residents 3rd lp the one that coincided with punk, though I think that is more chronologically than by intent. Seems to be pretty eerie melodic music played by a somewhat amateur band in a weird way with odd vocals. So that's lovely for you.
This is from the remastered pREServed series which I should get some more from .
Have enjoyed what I have heard from the early era of the band but not been fully versed in what was exactly what. I think I need to read th biography of the band to get the chronology etc right. But this is kind of sui generis and delightfully weird and all like that.

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Tomas Fujiwara Triple Double- March: sounding excellent, with some great Halvorson skronk

Well some of the guitar skronk could be Brandon Seabrook

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trophies - a family of three (band photo)
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I've been doing a deep dive into Kraan. They don't get mentioned much on ilm, and if they were it was usually dismissive. I like the earliest albums the best, but even as they went on to get more into jazz/funk/fusion they're never less than interesting, even the ones with very 80s production.

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george russell sextet in K.C.

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Bitter Funeral Beer is so wonderful. Though watching the YouTube performance on the big tv elicited the deepest eyerolls ever from the passersby in my household

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Early 00ies reissue of the 2nd SRlp combined with their Trudge e.p. This was remastered and several not very tuneful vocals were removed from the lp. It shows the cinematic panoramic influence of North African/Middle Eastern sounds mixed with Post Punk and Krautrock and stuff. Pretty sedately paced in a lot of places but still pretty intense.
Do love the 80s band. Got to see them a couple of times when they played London.

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Been neglecting this for too long, should be more familiar with it. Bought i shortly after it came out and it has been sitting on myshelf possibly because it's been in an oversized box. Did it get repackaged to something smaller since?
Anyway pretty interesting, though i've only played disc 1 recently. I'm finding it odd that I'm not finding Schmidt more distinctive on the first couple of tracks here. Wondering if I'm hearing his input as being Karoli. Definitely hearing Czukay and Liebezeit ok and what I'm thinking is guitar but not hearing something standing out as keyboard. Oh yeah also whatever wind instrument is being played.
Pretty great. I think I need the live sets that came out last year and really should be in my possession already.

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Early 00ies compilation of Mapfgumo's work over the previous few years.
Pretty good listen . Fits quite well with these other 2. Spacious grooves with distinctive guitar playing. Quite poppy.
I think I first came across Mapfumo in the early 80s being introduced as though he was a South African playing some version of Reggae. I can see some connections but i think the music is made up from some other ingredients. More locally sourced and stuff.
I need to look furthe rinto him, especially the 70s stuff.

This was remastered and several not very tuneful vocals were removed from the lp.

I had only ever heard the instrumental mix until recently and finally hunted down the original and you're not kidding.

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will have to check out that bitter funeral beer footage! i do remember downloading some (later?) non-ecm recordings years ago which i don't think i ever got round to listening to. but yes, just an astounding album.

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Maybe this will work better?
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Excellent power pop

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"That's It for the Other One" is so great.

^still getting used to the differences of the '70s remix which i've only recently become aquainted with. certainly more subtle than what they did to:

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2nd lp by Brixton based postpunk band that evolved out of Quiet Sun. Like 2/3s of the band were in taht band and they replaced Phil Manzanera on guitar. Nice angular abrasive stuff with abstract lyrics.
Anothe ron eI've been ignoring for way too long. THis was the first time i played this actaul disc not sure what I did with my previous one. Very recommended and i think I need to get their Camberwell Now continuation's compilation cd.

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First disc of the first lp by famous Zeuhl band. I think they are still finding their feet but they are already signing in Kobaian.
I think guitar may be more conspicuous here than elsewhere and there also seem to be some overly conspicuous time changes for time changes sake that I think they smooth out better later.
THis is from the Studio Zund box set which again I haven't been listening to or through enough and thought i ought to better familiarise myself with. I think I'd read a reference to this disc in something I was reading a couple of weeks back too.
Jazz influence may be more clear here than later. I'm not sure. Seems to be more easily traceable as such in places anyway.
Do definitely need to familiarise myself better with the other eras of the band than Kohntakhorz and Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh anyway.

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Pretty good cheap compi of the Peruvian princess if that's what she was. This is the first disc which has things like Monos from Voice of the Xtabay on which I've loved since i was a kid.
I've been meaning to get teh el compilation of several lps for a while. I think this is a good place to start though and i think I found it in the local cd shop which is good. Not sure what recognition she has at the moment. Think she may have been more obscure when Creation stuck out a cd compilation using the Xtabay sleeve but omitting Monos in the mid 90s. But I could be like totally wrong. I never know comparative recognition with any of the bands I enjoy. Apart from like the Beatles and a few like that.
Anyway multi octave voice, exoticism , some epic orchestrations and some very different backings including some choirs of grunting men.
I always wanted to nick the riff from Monos and do something new with it. But I never did.

oh yeah was going to say that I had wondered for a minute if the cover image on the Magma had anything to do with the symbol they adopted as a logo later. But seems that taht is something else. Just seemed taht it could have been a further stylised version of the idea of having a claw stomped down on you.
Oh well.

Found these fit together oddly well. Not sure if taht is just something that is inevitable if I have discs playing together whenever I'm in bed. Like over a week like. Or if there was some subconscious quality they shared when i was choosing what I was going to put on .

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Olivier Messiaen, Jocy de Oliveira – Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant-Jésus

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some pretty nice pre-fusion ponty with wolfgang dauner on piano

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Combination of Derek Bailey and Japanese hard prog duo the Ruins. THis is the 2nd release by the grouping. I don't think I've heard teh first. & I think they may have played together live a few times in teh interim. Seems a semi weird pairing since Bailey was an older seated player. This does rock quite a bit though. Just not sure how memorable any of it is really since I don't think it concentrates on coherent melodies etc. It is pretty brutal and hard hitting though.
I had originally tried playing the 2nd disc of Hundred Year Hall by the Grateful Dead in this slot but the disc signal glitched quite heavily at the start of Other one which is a shame since i think it might have been pretty out. THis started glitching yesterday after having played through for a couple of days. Hoping that I can get the GD disc to work over teh next couple of weeks. may have to take player apart and clean the lens with Isopropyl alcohol again. Otherwise a little surprised this is picking up dirt from being in the player. I dunno.
Quite brutal , quite intense but not exactly something you will be whistling later. & probably should find its way onto the player more. I dunno if it would have if it hadn't been in the pile that I picked up when GD started glitching though which I had sorted through while looking for Pelt's Ayahuasca a couple of weeks earlier.

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Reissue of a Charly records compilation of Arkansas r'n'rer. He seems to come from a bit of a different tradition than some contemporarfies. Sounds more like a broader r'n'b hollerer than a streamlined rockabilly. Focus in the sound seems to be more to piano and horns than guitar though there is some pretty wild guitar here.
I have thought he tied in with a lineage that lead forward into like The (early) Pretty Things, The Sonics and possibly the Stooges which seems really cool . Raw party down atmosphere in the sound. I think this set is pretty necessary so glad it was one of the first in this Charly series I picked up. Not sure how well known he is and think he should be mandatory listening, like.

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2nd lp by NYC rap group. Blunted beats that were played live by a live group plus dj.
One of my fav lps . I remember getting this after having finally caught up with heavy load a couple of years after the fact. Taking it back to my living space and listening to it and wondering where the beats were since it seems to have just submerged them in the grime. Production team the lumberjacks had a thing about the dirtyness of their sound. They also remixed the Brixton band God around the time for the e.p. Appeal To Human Greed.
Sebastian looks like me with a major afro instead of dreads. NOt sure how much that has to do with me liking them, I think I would otherwise.
It struck me a few years ago taht the distroted sound reminded me heavily of a Black version of Chrome. & I will always wonder what teh next lp would have sounded like. How much further tehy would have taken the distortion. They do seem to have sampled a lot of early 70s stonerish hard rock into the sound. Anyway blooming love this record and should listen to it even more.

That New Kingdom is in my top 10 of all time, so fucking good.

ben folds five, "smoke"

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was once foolish enough not to take hearing protection to a merzbow performance :-/

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complete victor/bluebird recordings

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even though "acabou chorare" is one of my very favorite albums, it somehow never occurred to me to check out NB's subsequent output (although i did explore the earlier, more tropicalia-adjacent material). this s/t from 1974 is very good and "F.C." from the year before is even better, almost on par with AC

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