What are you listening to? 2022

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.

(that middle one is flying saucer attack's further)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJiSKyKGsM4

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florian hecker / yasunao tone - palimpsest
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xpost - funny, I was just listening to the live album from which part of that album was pulled:

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That's a really good album (the full Live In Tokyo).

Yeah, it's killer.

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https://i.discogs.com/swtcXwsrZq23vAOou12IJvnAejx1QTsfkrIgu4y3cY4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:340/w:340/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI2NTUz/MTUtMTI5NTE5MTg4/MC5qcGVn.jpeg acapella hillbilly meredith monk bone thugs & harmony derangement. squeaky clean recording you don't expect on this type of thing

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Sorry...making a playlist.

"Fart Her Along"
"Fart Her On Down the Road"

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a vegetative listening afternoon after a sleepless swelter last night: highlights:
https://i.discogs.com/FWyS5s8VoO4ogW87V_b7QqTpEMTC94t8tRA6P_hURTI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:597/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQwMTMy/OS0xMTU1NDYyOTQ0/LmpwZWc.jpeg surprisingly cardiacsy & uncomfortable sounding with that keening weirdness they had back on the fat skier
and christian lillinger's grund's "C O R":
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which is like braxton's #96 but much groovier, lillinger is up there w/ andrew cyrille, thurman barker, nick fraser, chris corsano, kevin shea et al

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Digging into as much Halim El-Dabh as I can today; went through Leyila and the Poet on CD, from the Sony 20th Century Masterworks box, then all the acoustic pieces on Naxos Music Library, now delving into more of the electronic works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR2YprO04zk

i read this thread so much more than i post in it. i want to discuss things! limbo!! shuggie! weird stuff that i don't know! big sigh. thank you all for sharing.

i've discovered the chilean folky/proggy rock group los jaivas. just into the first album now and there's lot of hand percussions and chanty kind of vocals. maybe mildly santana-ish but a lot more folky? or incredible string band, but without the relenting trippiness (tho definitely trippy at times). more than a few albums on the internet jukebox, so yippeeeee off i go. . . !

also anybody like anouar brahem? mystical soothy early morning times jams. very pleasant.

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Souljazz compilation of 1980s Bronx minimalist funk band's career. I think this is quite comprehensive and maintains great groove throughout. IT does leave some tracks off the e.p. and lp but what is here is pretty dashed fine.
Emerald, Sapphire and Gold were 3 of the members' birthstones.
Picked this up around the time it was released but haven't played it in a while. I think it's quite infectious.
A band put together to keep the Scroggins sisters, cousins and friends off the streets. So this is a great result. Is this 80s street funk?
Punk meets funk meets repetition and some slinky grooves.
This is all early material, the band reformed and put together several lps between the turn of the 90s and now.

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3rd lp by SF based psychedelic rock band. Veers between near white noise guitar explosion to far more spacious grooves.
Picked up all their cds in the mid 00ies and haven't listened to them in a while. Saw them around that point and impressed them with my shimmying throughout the set. But have been neglecting the cds.
Cd opens with this gush of guitar rush which reminds me of something like the Blue Humans or similar guitar noise. BUt yeah does intersperse with waves of far more minimal semi melodic touches. Some points where there are notes being played far more sparsely but I think mainly in waves and grooves. THink I need to find the other cds and listen through them.
LIke they base things in 60s & 70s rock but reinvent things to something more individual. Howlin Rain Ethan Miller;s next project is also really good as are the various incarnations of 6 Organs of Admittance the band lead by Ben Chasny who is also a mainstay of this band post the first lp.

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Compilation of early 70s singles by Turkish dentist/folk singer. Here backed by band with great keyboardist.
Pretty atmospheric. Turkish psych stuff.
I picked this up from a sale in Guerssen records after the first lockdown eased enough for them to start being able to send packages out again. Quite enjoy this area of music . Eastern European/Middle Eastern folk influenced reworking of turn of the 70s Western rock influences..

OMG LIMBO
where do you listen to it??
it's not on spotify
tar kissers ftw

wait this makes me realize that i OWN it and it's in my chest of cd's ........... score

went through a phase a couple of months ago where all i could listen to was Kristin for like a month straight - she / the muses and Led Zeppelin are for me the most consistent rock musicians ever, album after album

here's limbo in full on youtube.

oh that's right! i forgot about that

THink I need to find the other cds and listen through them.

Yes, yes you do. All of their albums are great, Field Recordings from the Sun is probably my favorite.

I'm revisiting this gem today:

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pneumaphone project

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ellen arkbro - sounds while waiting

https://i.discogs.com/kGORDsNzWSaf-RsYDnbSW13r9yRRAyev1_SLLI5zsYs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:588/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEyMDQ5/MDgzLTE1MjcyNjcz/NzYtNjkyMy5qcGVn.jpeg rafael toral - space quartet. clean feed stock off delivery innit. also been enjoying cp unit before the heat death which is ornette/luttenbachers fun https://i.discogs.com/68t_lfX8MsQd6mLsW_VC1xz5SAondevcaZhZMsyYkho/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk3MzIz/MjktMTQ4NTUwNTgw/NC0yMDA5LmpwZWc.jpeg

Thanks for the link to Halim El-Dabh's music.

You're welcome! I was barely aware of him until recently but he was really good! Made musique concrète before Schaeffer. His work always seems to keep one foot in Middle Eastern tradition and maintain an approachability and clarity of form.

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Another in my on-off exploration of disliked albums by major funk bands. This is my second listen

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This one is... interesting. Partially pretty good for the era blooz rawk Mike Bloomfield on guitar, partially some awkward sounding soul.

white horse—
i like that album! tho i also like very messy albums, just generally speaking.

this morning's selection:
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david axelrod — strange ladies (1977)

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https://crashensemble.bandcamp.com/album/wingform
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Dublin based classical/avant group who had this as an installation in the festival that finished last weekend. THey also played 2 different live sets elsewhere in the festival. One that was a repeat performance in the shape of the First Child opera by Enda Walsh.
THis came with a digital video appearing on a set of 3 different screens in a darkened room

red heaven yes! so good

jane child - here not there

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