What are you listening to? 2022

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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

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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.

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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.

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

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Doi.

I will never forget the Tom ZE show I saw at the Park West in 1999.

It was a once in a lifetime thing.

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Nice noisy electronic enhanced dunt from a bunch of ex public school boys from Ohio
PIcked this up from a charity shop a couple of weeks ago. & should probably have been familar with it much earlier.
The first sound on this sounds like the cd isn't playing properly, seems too thin a level of distortion not fully bodied so more fo a glitch. have been meaning to see if i can find another source to see if it sounds teh same from different sources.
IT does seem to get back to a more standard sound palette a mi9nute or so in but swings back and forth from there.
I think I heard they were nice and aggressive live, also thought i was reading comparisons to teh Birthday Party in the music press.
Also got to listen to 2 hours of the guitarist talking about this and the other bands he was in
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Bloomin great psychedelic noise.

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Full length cd cataloguing well known Italian American vocal group's history through their career. Seem to be 3 main eras of tehir work, the initial early 60s doo wop with band, a move toward a more soully sound and then about 10 years later a disco era. It finishes with the Night a track from 1972 that I need to look more into what else was recorded at teh time.
I'd been looking at a copy of this in a local record shop for a few years and not buying it. Part of what prompted me to finally do so was hearing Marcia Scofield of the Fall talking on Oh Brother about Mark E Smith's tour listening habits. Him subjecting everybody else to listening to a compilation, possibly this and a compilation of Truck Driving Country in a very dictatorial way. Pretty glad i finally got it anyway.
The early stuff has the falsetto that Frankie Valli is using sounding pretty odd, gets a bit brattish in places. he seems to use it in a more natural sounding way later on if that isn't a contradictory idea natural falsetto.
Anyway pretty classic stuff i guess. I quite enjoy it and have done for years so should have picked this up a while back. I think I want to revisit the psychedelic cash in record The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette which i haven't heard in decades. Definitely want to see what else they were coming up with in 1972 cos i do like that song the Night. Not that hot on the disco era material and can't see how Valli's solo song Grease tied in with a 50s sound I thought it was meant to. But not watched film in a while and not sure if any of it's music really ties in with the era it is supposed to represent.
Also odd reading Valli's comment in the linernotes here that he would suggest that the stage version was 12 years old when he recorded the song in 1978. Hadn't realised there was a nostalgia market like that for r'n'r at that point in the 60s. I guess Sha Na Na came from somewhere.

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Compilation of 70s dub from a 2nd era of decent Trojan 2cds after some utter classics in the 90s when Sanctuary were in control. I think a lot of those were reissued around this time and a number of new ones came out too. I picked up a few of those including this. I don't think this series is quite as classic as the Sanctuary era but this hangs together quite well.
Has a load of the classic artists and does seem to have been sequenced with some thought. King Tubby, Augustus Pablo, Lee Perry, Upsetters, Aggrovators, Revolutionaries etc. Would seem to be a pretty decent starting point if one is not familiar with the area and is an enjoyable listening experience. Which is what you want really.
I think these were around at mid price too in FOPP and the other London megastore size record shops which were still around at the time.

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"High Street" by the Pines

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Martin Carthy is so underrated! Thank God I don't have to pay a fortune for his stuff anymore.

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It's a 70s fusion kind of day.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhOB5U-zKL4

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3 sessions from the band from 83 and 84. Some of it is minimal as f and I assume is consciously emulating Suicide.
THe limits of performance dictated by the use of a drum machine is pretty conspicuous. Means a lack of flexibility etc but I still enjoy most of this. Comes with a Dolly Parton cover I don't think I've heard elsewhere and a Hot Chocolate one I think had a couple of versions. One from the Stooges too which is one of teh more minimal tracks.
I'm semi surprised one fo these sessions was for Kid Jensen not sure if I should be, other 2 are Peel.
So Leeds based Goth pioneers with changing lineup reinvestigate early 70s and other influences in a reasonably interesting way.
I do enjoy these early on anyway.
THis reappeared in a local record shop after i missed a copy a few months ago so I thunk I would grab it.

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End of year wrap up.
Some interesting stuff, Dry Cleaning and Vieux farka Toure/Khruangbin tracks stand out for me.
& I think a couple of the others.,

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Early years of Tex Mex material on a budget price cde. Again has some interesting stuff on. I meant to buy more along these lines when I got this but haven't managed to . & the Flaco Jimenez cd I thought I bought at the same time wound up getting cancelled.
But yeah this si pretty good for a cheapo .

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also this ( aryo adhianto's "sintaksis" ) has blown me away. sorta zappa jazz from hell vibe but with that relentless jeff mills samba churn and some folksy south east asian improv wandering https://i.discogs.com/ZICGNcouZqviNCAiCmsJMr720OxVfEBpsZwTInJXR3A/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIwMzEy/MzIzLTE2MzMwODY1/NjctNzE2NS5qcGVn.jpeg seriously, wow.

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cosmic hypno noise & psychoacoustic shenanigans

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Love the title track. On a similar level (and vibe) to his Carmen Villain remix earlier this year.

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Intere4sting take on jazz meets rock since I think this is mainly horns but shaped into something that apes rock or r'n'b but seems to have parping tuba doing basslines etc.
I should know more of Shabaka Hutchings etc's work but so far this is the one thing I have.
Some raps about the London experience for someone of African descent etc. Think I need to investigate.

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This should really be in everybody's collection in some form. Here it's the original lp but bookended with bonus tracks. Starting with a shorter single version of All Tomorrow's Parties which threw me cos I was having trouble getting one copy to play. THink that may have disc rot or something anyway, now swapped to a different version from a different copy of the box set I picked up at some point. NOt sure how many I have.
Anyway interesting customisation of a formula that is still based in some form of r'n'b though reduced to a distillation and melded with some more avant influences. As I guess you will already know. Interesting points where the group quotes soul tracks or things like teh Byrds' take on Chimes of Freedom in guitar lines. Though there i think it is a specific part repeated endlessly.
The cd ends with 3 avantish tracks including a 10 minute stretch of a live version of Melody Laughter which you can now get in full if you get the 45th Anniversary Box set.

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Manchester band's 3rd lp getting pretty abstract but deeply funky at least in places.
I wanted to put this on a while back or the lp before it but only just found it last week .I think I should be more familiar with these.