What are you listening to? 2022

wow, there's a cover connection for you

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Are any of your students listening to his improv noise ?

no, i'm not sure they listen to anything. they are largely engineering & IT students and spend most of their spare time in the gym. i think there is a bit of rammstein, deichkind, meshuggah, fantastischen vier fandom etc. IME 99.9% of Germans haven't heard of einstürzende neubauten, faust, cluster, can or werner herzog. anyhow - i forgot what this was when playing it and was quite disoriented in a very pleasurable way by the fahey/mouthus mish/mashhttps://i.discogs.com/c7CTQT-hKFwc_tPIDqut_RzXEbC3KmvOlNqOqrYHQzc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:360/w:400/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTY5MTg5/OS0xMTQ4MzA4MDkz/LmpwZWc.jpeg

recording this into my laptop for mixcloud-ing purposes. razoul üzlu - idiot /genius synth tinkering halfway between vangelis & shakin' ray levis
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Pretty great compi of pianist/singer's turn of the 70s recordings from about 67-73ish. I was trying to listen to disc 2 mainly this week which has a lot of Dylan covers on . I have previously noticed the amount of white singer/songwriters she was covering around the time which I found notable since she was vehemently black power orientated at the time so seemed a possibly odd juxtaposition Anyway she does them in her won style which is pretty great. Bands she is using are pretty tasty too, there's some nice guitar here.
I think my cd player may need another isopropyl alcohol clean out cos it keeps stopping this on different tracks which it will play at different times. Ho hum, frustrating.
Do love her around this era. loved the Sugar iN My Bowl compilation which covers the same era in a more chronologically random way. I think the tracklisting worked ok from what I can remember just that instead of having the music in chronological order as it is here it was the same years and some of the same material mixed up. I think this series is pretty good from what I've seen of the rest of it. Good overview of a specific artist for cheap.

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Another decent compilation, haven't got that into this band before despite enjoying The Jam.
But they do do a decent groove, like. Weller showing how well he channels his soul etc influences. Interesting to see he picked an ex Merton Parka to be his musical foil at the time. I thought they were somewhat also rans so good that Talbot seems to account for himself pretty well.
yeah, enjoying this may check out his further solo stuff at some point.

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yet another great compi this week. I think this is the most recent Mojo cover mount. It's definitely the latest in a series that has been running for the last couple of decades.
Do like this early 70s heavy stuff. Grapefruit's I'm A Freak series covers some fo the same ground;.
Glad to see that Mojo are still taking care over the compilation of their covermounts. Hope people are being turned onto new stuff by them still. This ends with a track from Kingdom Come's galactic Zoo Dossier which I think is a pretty essential lp. pretty necessary one might say

That looks like a cool one to get. Although I haven't seen a cover mount CD on Mojo for quite a few months, though they had ditched it.

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Played the first of this 3cd set this week which is roughly 1967. THe set is chronologically set out.
I love the era this covers, not sure if it's the era of her most celebrated but I think it's great. Do love My Baby Just Cares For Me and things of similar chronology too but this stuff is so great.l
She is placed with some pretty sympathetic players including some great guitar from Eric Gale who is a performer whose name i recognise but am nt very familiar with his own work. Drums are Bernard Purdie too apparently since some of this at least is the Nina Simone Sings the Blues l;p. I think some of this is different performances to what I knew from the Sugar iN My Bowl set, different live versions for one. She introduces a song by talking about Langston Hughes here which I don't think she does there
Nice cheapish way to pick up a bunch of her material from a period I really enjoy. Think I may need to fill out my collection a bit more. This stuff resonates with me massively anyway.

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I think this is considered a lesser lp by the Japanese Noise band. Title somewhat belies the melodicism here but there is some decent heaviness in places as well as shoegazing and stuff. It happened to be the one cd by them to turn up in a local charity shop .
Has some good bits I'm not as familiar with teh band as I should be. Have known of tehir existence for a couple fo decades and not picked up anything by them . May check out the heavier stuff.

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noirish beat influenced 90s band with offbeat instrumentation. Very syncopated drums, baritone sax and a 2string slide electric bass.
Another tbing that turned up in the charity shop, could have also got a Brainiac lp but it looked like it wasn't in great nick.
Enjoying this anyway. THey may be of a time but they did seem to do it successfully.

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boy with the arab strap but i've got to stop or I'll be late to work!

the same because he was successful in the terms for that age but nonetheless in a funk and given to wandering (one can suppose)

the full album on my computer using a cd player that hooks up via a usb port that will be outmoded soon

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Currently listening to a lot of KMFDM.

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jazz meets the world

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ashbalkum
by Salamanda

Young South Korean women, stage names Sala and Manda (or manda); the friend who tipped me to them speculated that they owned only 2 records, and those records were by Jon Hassell and Steve Reich, and then their rich businessman fathers gave them synthesizers and music software so they decided to make the only kind of music they knew. Jeez John, let's not jump to dependence on Daddy money[ they're obviously quick-witted and resourceful but yeah they may well have figured out all they needed to know from those 2 records, for this catchy, atmospheric, spare grooving, which can expand and contract right when it should. Instrumentation up front but some singing slides through at times, theirs and, on one track, that of Ringo The Cat (not too loud and tuneful enough, for a cat in a trance).
Written in the summer of '21, feelgood music suitable for autumn and the next quarantine:
https://8salamanda8.bandcamp.com/album/ashbalkum

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diamond terrifier (sam hilmer from Zs doing harmonized feedback sax skronk over loops, more skronk & vaporwavey bits)

Saturday morning slow cleaning listening to early rock and roll piano instrumentals by Camille Howard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J4PW_3fT6I

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song at the intersection blasted from car radio with a chorus line of I'm laughing at you know plus lines delivered as rap?

grim reapah

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Sheffield left field electronic post punk trio, last lp before Chris Watson left . This was the cd version that came with teh remastered vinyl lp a few years back. Do love the band's trio period though do get stuck playing spot the influence quite often and winding up with a few things on the tip of my tongue. Mix of funk, krautrock, a bit of prog, possibly the Residents though that may be more on earlier lps.
Anyway they came up with something suitably dark and dystopian and pretty danceable in places.

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2nd disc of this anthology of the soul singer I think it captures him at the middle of the 60s quite well. YOu can hear roots in the church and so on. Think I blooming love his voice and delivery.
This does duplicate a few songs in succession in different versions which may not be the best for repeat listening but otherwise this hangs together quite well I think I grew up knowing his songs more by mid 60s British beat bands but the originals here are pretty essential.
Good compilation from what I think was a pretty good series or at least there were a load of soul compilations came out in somewhat similar looking sepia toned cd covers at a similar time a couple of years ago. Not sure how coherent a series it was.

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wideranging reflection of Paul weller's current tastes at some point in 2021. THis turned up beside my bedside table last week so I stuck it on the player.
It has some interesting stuff on, a lot of soul and indie and stuff. Blow Monkeys investigating early 70s soul influences. NOt very familiar with their work did see Doctor Robert featured in teh press a lot 30 odd years ago.
GOt some THird Ear Band in there too

somehow skipped the word dub in the Cabaret Voltaire description.

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and this goofy nonsense which reminds me of irdial discs & OSKA tapes:
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I like the Roadworker track on that compilation

it's good that, innit.
now spinning witcyst's "roslyn" which is a superb '90s tape-murk derek bailey one-man indie rock mess
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the boy with the arap strap (full album) by Belle & Sebastian on my computer (which may not be the best sound quality but sounds appropriately canned contained starving of atmosphere on this particular track)

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Felipe* + Forté - shaggy black - sweet spot between oval & the traditional bedsit tapeloop & free murk stylings of chocolate monk

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Quark, Strangeness & Charm by Hawkwind

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Recently acquired, somewhat belatedly and probably somebody I should have been more familiar with anyway. Seems to be pretty authentic however valid a concept taht is and largely avoids schmaltz. Like this is downhome working class angst driven and possibly more of a continuation of what made country great from honky tonk days and got diverted into poppy string drenched countrypolitan meh which this greatly avoids. Reading the linernotes I see Patsy Cline was a personal friend so wonder if she would have been making similar fare if she had survived.
2nd track here is Fist City which I thought may be an outlier when I first came across it when she died. But its on a Greatest hits introductory thing like this which may be a good sign.
Anyway, think I need to school myself better in worthwhile female country artists of the era. I'm aware of Dolly Parton having been a great lyricist and also making decent music one can enjoy unironicallyn Bobby Gentry in general and a couple of decent Billy Sherrill produced lps from the turn of the 70s by Barbara Mandrell. Otherwse think I need a better look.
THis is pretty great gritty stuff and reminds me of the stuff Gram parsons was introducing to teh Stones though I think that was more male dominated.

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Another disc from a backlog of Mojo covermounts I've been working through recently. Has some interesting stuff on. I need to find the magazine and find out why it suddenly has Nat King Cole's Unforgettable in the middle of it though.
It starts with a piece of spoken word by Timothy Leary that they lifted some fo teh lyrics for Tomorrow Never Knows from and go through AMM and Delia Derbyshire among others. Hangs together ok I guess.

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Acid House type stuff from Larry heard etc. I had this on vinyl when it came out. Lost that mid 90s then had to wait for an age for it to be reissued. I think Heard was against a full reissue for ages so when this did appear on cd i was really happy.
I enjoy this stuff. Probably should know a lot more of the area but only have a smattering of titles from around this point.
Anyway this is great

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a truly dreadful cover for a wonderful collection of songs.
most of these were consigned to the 'never to be released demo' bin,
but a weird little label in sweden decided to turn them into a proper release.

Been listening to the greatest hits of Red Ingle. This one in particular blows my mind -- that it's high (Paganini) and low (novelty record of "hillbilly music"). I'm often so into its energy and performance, I forget that it's supposed to be humorous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMYl9m0iGh8

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More than twenty years ago, I got this for four bucks at Reckless. Rare Dutch import, but the girls outshine the boys IMO.

Track list:

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Vinyl just breaks my back these days. Steal it if you can.

Backstory to this is that i saw it on the wall of a record store and I had to have it so bad...but they wanted $75 for it.

A few years later, I found a beat-up copy in a thrift store. I think a cat had peed on it. But I figured it would hold me over until mp3 came along.

https://i.imgur.com/6kkNEqZ.jpg

In retrospect, I don't think orchestral music sounds best on vinyl, anyway.