What are you listening to? 2022

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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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A Foot in Coldwater - All Around Us

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3 Peel sessions from initially all girl punk band. I had assumed this would have Budgie on the 1978 session but that and the 77 one both feature Palmolive . Not sure what else available does, there are a number of punk era live sets around though . She isn't as chaotic as one might assume, there is order here of sorts. I do like the material from those first 2 sessions . Could do with the last session which is Return of era with Bruce Smith of the Pop group on drums not being quite as long. Tracks are like 8-12 minutes and I think could all be a couple of minutes shorter, definitely the longest one.
Reminds me that I never saw the documentary on the band that came out a couple of years ago. I caught the end of it on Sky Arts and thought it would be repeated then I don't think I have seen it being. Did read the 2 books by guitarist Viv Albertine and thought they were great. First one give perspectives on punk era figures that I'm not seeing said elsewhere. Gosh, Sid actually comes off as semi intelligent in places.
Cut is great as I'm sure you know. Return of the Giant Slits I want to hear again . Not really checked out New Age Steppers and there is a reunion lp by the Slits that I have and am not very familiar with

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1978 punk era lp by intense prog band. Pretty dark and more guitar than at their popular peak but I think this sets a template of sorts for some forms of post-punk music.
This is the 2005 remaster where they have sorted out the sound of the returning David Jackson's saxophone better than on the original lp I think. Hammill is on guitar for parts of this and they have the 2 string players onboard too but Hugh Banton the organist who was with them at that early 70s peak has left so textures are a bit different.
Did I mention this was pretty intense. Well maybe better say it again. Do love this era of the band live . There are quite a few sets from like 76-78 doing the rounds but this was the official one. I assume that John Lydon saying they were a fav band of his will have lead to some punky types who wouldn't have been interested attending their gigs. Not sure to what extent that worked though and hoping it would have been positive anyway. Hope it did lead to some decent influences seeping into bands that might have been more generic otherwise and not sure how easy it would be to copy something like this without being aware of its own influences. Might be semi interesting to see where one might wind up if one was trying to do that though, might not be of course.

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Etho-Jazz singer compilation from 2020. I had tracks by him on Ethiopiques #8 which I thought were pretty great so snapped this up when it was released.
NIce mix of traditional sounds and more Western influences from soul, funk, jazz etc.

Hey Camaraderie, I'm on side 4 of the Art Tatum Solo Masterpieces box rn. I really like this one!

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I thin they've targeted the marketing for the song above to BROS and I am not sure why.

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