What are you listening to? 2022

seth nehil - flock & tumble: lovely electroacoustic
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Chinchilla, how is that Sciarrino?

xxxxpost Stevolende, did you refer in passing to this other Orchestre Poly-Rythmo Continou, Echos Hypnotiques, Vol. 2 ?
My gateway and Top Ten that year:
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xpost Also really dig this collection, pretty no-budget demos in some cases, but yeah The Skeletal Essences of Afro Funk indeed!
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Some others, like the one you show, I still need to get to. Agree that Western bands should pick up on this Western etc.-aware, definitely African sound, keep things going back and forth.

Speaking of Ella, the local jazz station still plays some really good performances from these long-lost tapes, finally released a couple of years ago:

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Wow didn't know about those. I've been going through my LP collection, pulling out unjustly neglected records. These three are all gems.

Dow yes that green cover set was the other much better produced material volume in the same series as the king fu pose one.
Not sure why I never got hold of it since Voudun one so great. Maybe price and me wanting to buy a load of other stuff at same time. Or that and me thinking will pick this up at next shop I am heading to. Need to remedy

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1964 lp by jazz pianist, with bassist and 2 Latin artists on percussion . So no horns present and the piano is the sole melodic instrument though the percussion adds texture as well as rhythm. Quite tasty, I got this as part of a 5 Original Albums set which I picked up in a Rough Trade sale a few years ago. haven't familiarised myself with the contents of the box as much as i possibly should have. This is pretty good and i need some more Willie Bobo anyway.
IT's largely based on improvisation in the studio , like they seem to have very little written and just jammed up some stuff that turns out to be pretty worthwhile. If so, like wow.
So glad I did go ahead and stick this on this week cos it is a pretty rewarding listen, can get more positive than that about it but am just getting to know it. It's from 1964 and a current Miles Davis sideman so do wonder what the mods or whatever the elite in crowd of that group (which was then being morphed in the public mind by media attention) called themselves thought about it. Would be something you would expect a group of people who had called themselves modernists at one point might be expected to have an opinion on . Not sure if it was something that would be passed down as a must have though may find it was canonical to the Acid Jazz element of mod etc. Anyway just thinking of that since passing through the mod revival at an early age did influence my tastes as i grew up.
& on its own standing this is an lp I think i need to know better but would recommend, though checking out the box set is probably as good a pointer. NOt sure what else I'm missing by him from the era since the set skips a few titles from the era. & goes from 63 to 70 in 5 lps and he probably learnt a lot at the time.

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The first lp from a Ghanaian band that became better known through working with Hugh Masekela on the next 2 lps which I have on his Masekela 66-76 box set, THis is a really good somewhat psychedelic mix of traditional sounds and western influences. It's a bit frustrating cos I'm not seeing a listing of who played what and there are some sounds I would like to know what instruments are making. Like teh coiled spring thing that i assume is a form of jaws harp but could be totally wrong about.
So, great funky lp from 1973. Recommended. I would love to find a book on the African psychedelic lps that show th emix of Western influence and traditional sounds that produced some fantastic lps around this time. Haven't come across one so far , I think I bought a Vernon Joynson book a few years ago that I thought might cover that in depth and i think had way more on settler colonial type youth making western style rock than more indigenous people taking on Western influence and making decent mixtures. Would love to be more thoroughly versed in all of teh individual traditional sounds taht were being mixed with. But think that is an intensive immersive process.
Anyway one of the good African psych lps and that Masekela set is good for a few more things than just their next 2 lps. I think that set was going for pretty cheap when I bought it a while back .

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pretty comprehensive 3cd box set by California guitar band tied into Paisley Underground etc. This week its been the 3rd disc which is mainly live stuff from various sources after 6 demoes featuring a drum machine.
I think the band got television guitar pretty much down. I saw them live at Dingwalls in 85 or 84 which is a period that has several recordings represented here. I think there may be more lead/ rhythm guitar than the interplay that Verlaine and Lloyd had but lead does seem reminiscent of that sound at least, probably schooled a bit differently so may be superficial. Works quite well anyway. I thought Russ Tolman was more prominent asa guitarist so need to see if he does just fall into rhythm role more than Lloyd did.
My memory of the time had the other guitarist Richard McGrath standing on stage looking like the skinhead guy from Diva and pealing out these awesome guitar leads. Though Gavin Blair was a non instrumentalist singer who would be darting around the stage instead of there just being 2 guitarists as the front section. Blair had been drummer in the earlier band The Suspects which also featured Tolman and half of the Rain Parade
It has taken me way too long to get hold of decent representation of this band and also to get back to hear the other discs in this set once i did so. I was very impressed by the first disc here a few months ago. Made me wonder why I hadn't got massively into the drifters album when i had it on vinyl. Live sets do have a lot of covers in but they are done pretty well. Richard Lloyd's Alchemy, The CCR version of I Put A Spell On You, Iggy Pop Lust For life, ELvis Suspicious Minds. All done with that guitar style.
Do enjoy this, though not sure they're quite up to the standard of Thin White Rope who get semi hypnotic at places. Very close to .

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Great album

Stevolende, I'm impressed that you got to see True West at Dingwall's! In my experience, they were mostly working their way through the US boondocks in a crappy little van, when indie rock was especially DIY if you couldn't get on MTV, and I sure never saw them on there (ditto anybody on SST, lots of other labels not so far from show biz central geographically).
Your comments on African bands remind me of these guys, who had I think one album marginally released during their time together, and a collection in 2013, which made my Pazz & Jop ballot:

National Wake---Walk In Africa 1979-1980: Music made by young South Africans, of various RSA racial classifications: punk-funk-reggae-dub, reminding me of Australia's Us Mob, No Fixed Address, Coloured Stone, early live Police, some of Tom Robinson's combos, Bad Brains kinda. The finale, a dub workout, is over 17 min long, like over three times as long as any other, but despite my habitual editorial fantasies, wouldn't part with a particle so far. Would have Top Tenned this set, but already got all those reissues on there already…

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Thanks Dow, band sound interesting. I checked out the title track of tehir compilation earlier. May need to get hold of it.

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halfway successful turntable repair:
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Disc 2

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Welsh language 2nd lp by Welsh singer-songwriter in folk and blues orientated electric setting. I also have the previous lp Outloander which I need to dig out and listen to.
Quite a nice lp but I have no idea what he's singing about. This was reissued on Sunbeam about 14 years ago. I think I've enjoyed most of the reissues they've chosen to put out.

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Pretty good covermount cd from the latest Mojo which has Patti Smith on the cover hence this being about music from NYC. It covers Richard Hell, Glenn Branca, Sonic Youth, Moondog and a few others including a spoken word excerpt from Howl read by Alan Ginsberg.
Hangs together quite well I think . So can be listened to several times. I think a load of these cds from Mojo will still stand for relistening in years to come. Can turn me onto some stuff i haven't heard before at times to. I'm not familiar with teh Patti Smith track here anyway.

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Sanctuary era Trojan 2cd of one of Reggae's inventors covering the era of the turn of the 70s from more ska-ish stuff in 67 to early roots stuff in 73. I have managed to listen to both cds this week cos i had to clean the player . I'm still not sure if I can tell rocksteady from ska at immediate listen. But I think there is some evolution.
Quite enjoy this as I do with a lot of this Trojan 2cd set series from the era. Think they were quite exemplary

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I don't think that worked. The Art Tatum Solo Masterpieces 10 LP box, disc 1 now

I'm also listening to that now! Quite a lot to get through in one session, not sure if he's someone that benefits from such an extended set of unaccompanied records, though he does keep up the variety in there. Would prefer a single-CD highlights compilation, if there's one out there.

xxp I heard a similarity between Mad River s/t and the Day Of Phoenix Wide Open N-Way if you haven't heard that No Lime Tangier (did I just spot a pun there when i stop thinking of a place in Morocco. Tasteful fruit won't let you go?)

& BGO released the 2 lps together as a 2cd a few years ago. 2nd has them going more countryish. 1st is a set that was apparently initially pressed too fast so various reissues have correected the speed making it sound a lot less crazed. Still has some pretty tasty extended guitar improvisation. There is also like a 10inch of previously unreleased material that came out about 10 years ago around the time the band's full history was being told in the first issue of Flashback! the magazine that Richard Morton Jack put out. I think I was turned onto them by an article in the 80s psych zine Strange Things Are Happening and picked up the Edsel lp in the wake of that.

Cheers, CaAL! I definitely wouldn't listen to all 10 records in one sitting but it's cool to have it all there to dip into. I look forward to exploring it in more depth.

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well that didn’t work

asocial - religion sucks (the compilation).. angry brutal swedish hardcore

^would message someone with that bio on their dating profile

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Am I thinking right and Hayward has appeared live on drums with Haino so Fushitsusha has literally met This Heat?
Think I may have some recordings of the result somewhere.

But that sounds like it ought to be an lp worth checking out

yeh hayward was dressed as a schoolboy a ala angus young when he played drums for the foosh in london in the 20th C. i remember being disappointed it wasn't jun kosugi. can't remember a thing about the gig. there was a super keiji solo at the spitz where one of the spring heeled jack guys knocked a pint of beer off the mezzanine railing & it fell right in front of keiji weaving the spook - spell well & truly broken.

Farewell to Stromness by Peter Maxwell Davies

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