What are you listening to? 2022

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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Interesting choice of percussion on that there lp. Think it includes concrete slabs, they seemed to live at least.
I have that somewhere as well as at least one live set I hope. Need to check old hard drives though.
Do love Caspar with the Massaker trio and Mufti with Neubauten.

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Third album from this now

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deep in the radical sensitivity of an introspective summer for this month’s show on @ntslive: 80s/90s sounds + newer things from @htrk_, you’ll never get to heaven, and hysteric love project (who just put out a lovely thing on @motionward). 12PM PST. come say hi in the chat. ☁️ pic.twitter.com/R31hbycJ0h

— jocelyn romo (@theeroamer) July 6, 2022

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Masami Akita & Russell Haswell - Satanstornade

Many, many xposts... The latest Sciarrino on Kairos is wonderful, I listened to it every night for about a week and hey I might put it on again after this noise is over.

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Kali Malone - Living Torch

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Finally found a vinyl copy. Sounds more spacious and less squashed than the CD version I have, even with a bit of surface noise on side 1.

Advance tracks here:
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This sounds so terrific, so pure, that I'm thinking of getting a turntable and taking up vinyl again.

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disc one which is
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plus 3 tracks. Instrumental dub stuff by the Upsetter simple poppy tunes done well with heavy rhythm.
I was looking through a pile of cds last week and i found this loose among them so thought I'd bung it on when I changed the discs over for the week .
Another great Trojan era Sanctuary 2cd set. I have a few of these Lee Perry ones.

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Australian band that I camke across supporting the Gun Club the first time i saw them. THought they were great with the line up they had in the mid 80s when they were livingin London the textures of metallic scree of Mick Turner later of teh Dirty 3 and the punching bass of Chris Walsh ex of teh Negatives. Adding to the general haze of the music and Dave Graney's crooning voice. They bunged in some unexpected rhythms things like what I would see as a Northern Soul influence though think its played in a different way than anybody on that scene would,
Great undersung band. Unfortunately living broke in London wasn;t doing them a great deal of good so the band gradually splintered. I think Mick Turner went back to Australia and didn't return then a year or so later Chris Walsh split too. But do love the lp and couple of mini lps that the band cut with that line up . Most of that is here unfortunately not all. But I had to wait years to get hold of this or that is for this to be compiled .
When Turner and Walsh had left they were replaced by a couple of players who had been on the Scottish scene in the shape of Malcolm Ross on Guitar and David McClymont on bass so they were decent players but just not the same as those they replaced and teh chemistry was a bit less magical,

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Recent Mojo covermount dedicated to 70s live Dead though more songform than open improvisation. Quite decent I guess and possibly a good introduction . I can listen to this anyway though do have other material by the band I prefer. Had this floating around my desk area for a while so thought I would give it an ear. So yeah does the job I guess and hopefully turns some other people onto the band. Mojo can do really good covermount cds and this one works

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Spent - Songs of Drinking and Rebellion

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I revisited Senyawa’s Alkisah this morning. Holy fuck, what a record. Absolutely unearthly, and yet totally grounded and human. I’m incredibly grateful that they let me be one of the labels to release it.

https://senyawa-bam.bandcamp.com/album/alkisah

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god i love Woo

A truly lovely album, appeals to my love of fusty-quality analogue synths doing cheery naive melodies. A sort of harbinger of Position Normal and F ingers.

One track reminds me of the Sorry! theme tune, and for mostly different reasons to Cardiacs' Insect Hoofs on Lassie which also does

That's the Woo I have. THink I read a review somewhere of an earlier lp that made it sound semi magical at least. May have got this from a Recommded sale or something.
Has been quite a while since i've played it.
But yeah think it was quite noice

earlier lp is Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are going Wrong which is a phrase that has stuck in my head for various reasons ever since I think though don't think I connected it to the lp it came from. Sounds like a harsher vibe than I connect to the Woo I have.
Like it seems existentialist verging on nihilistic. Reasons to revision etc.

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semi ambient seeming r'n'b lp by son of Johnny Otis and sometime potential Rolling Stones member. I think this version of the lp which is the Luaka Bop one fro9m the 90s comes with about half of the previous lp Freedom Flight as bonus. Superlative guitar and very laid back atmosphere. I think this is a must hear still. I found that Lewis Taylor's 1st s/t lp shared a lot of qualities with this when I first had it.
Otis plays a lot of instrument so this and programmes the drum machine quit effectively. Sounds almost like it is an actual drumkit. On Inspiration Information he is augmented by strings and horns, on the previous lp its mainly him multi-instrumentalising.
very good and yet again should be listened to by me much more.

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Feedback drenched 2nd lp by Bristol based band I think they may be tied in to Shoegaze but they seem to have a very idiosyncratic approach.
I'm also not sure to what extent this was a band and not mainly a one person project.
Do love the combination of melody and fuzz and do find them reasonably unique.
I think this was a mid 90s cd I picked up somewhere. Not sure if the 2016 reissues had any more linernotes or anything cos this has very little.

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Canadian punk/post-punk band with prosaic lyrics and reminiscences of bubblegum rhythm and thereby or more closely Talking Heads. Interesting stuff i picked up after reading a review . Think they're pretty good, have seen some dismissive reviews of them recently.
Vocalist has a weird voice.