What are you listening to? 2022

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Birds Of Maya Valdez

Best thing I've heard by them, just taking a good riff and hammering the thing to death in the best way possible.

steve lacy "anthem" has some magma / zardoz energy, this one
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omg yeeeeesssssssssssssss

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LP recorded as an arts project by the head of a local label last year. Took me way too lonjg to get my hands on a copy but put that right last week.
Nice melodic low fi stuff with echoes of a few bands like Mercury Rev, though not quite as fluid.
I enjoy this and want to support the label cos they are putting out some good folky somewaht psychy stuff.
Main artist here has a girlfriend who is also putting out some interesting folky stuff on the same label as a Lilac Decline, she is on backing vocals in a few places here.
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European compilation of movie star's vocal work from various films and thing. Has Happy Birthday Mr President, a song called Some Like It Hot which i don't immediately recognise.
Picked this up in a charity shop a couple of weeks back. A habit I've got a bit more into after seeing FB posts from Keef who is the main guy from Loner Deluxe, he seems to have a lot of luck with the habit. I had forgotten to while scouring for books for ages.
Anyway this is quite good, maybe a bit white and did have me wondering if I should feel a dichotomy over liking this a great deal while rejecting Xmas music from this and other times for being overly white among other things. Though it probably has more to do with this being good and that being pap for the most part. I dunno, do prefer what she stood for but may overlap with teh white privileged society that the Xmas music of the time stood for from the same time. & she was a working class girl made good who got married to a leftist writer which might stand for something.
Toetapping tuneage anyway with her voice oozing breathily over it.

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much expanded cd version of the Reggae classic lp.
Deejay vocalising in pre rap manner over dubby background.
Think this is at least twice as long with bonus tracks and its all pretty great.

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1st disc of cheap 3cd of country chanteuse with great voice. THis has a lot of the pre Decca stuff and a smattering of later stuff. Her career was cut way too short thanks to a plane crash.
Loving the steel guitar here which adds a pretty dreamy texture in places. Early stuff is pretty stripped down. Decca stuff seems less schmaltzy than I feared but have only heard first disc so far. & there is a process of selection I think. Anyway quality stuff, sound is good
& I'm discovering a singer I've managed to overlook for way too long. & looking for some more intentionally psychedelic pedal steel guitar since I'm getting hints of that here but it's way too early for it to be that. Just making me think of possibilities in the sound here. & wondering what did consciously pick up on that from here .

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Mojo covermount cd from current issue, some influences and things on Floyd. Bookended by thge 2 tracks that are supposed to be teh sources of Interstellar overdrive, somebody humming or vocalising the tune of Love's take on Little Red Book to Syd Barrett and the Steptoe and Son theme tune i thought for years was something I was the only person hearing in it. Looks like Andrew Hickey was noticing it too and the presence of the track here would suggest it was more widespread still.
Got a great 11+ minute version of East West by Paul Butterfield group on too which may be the well known version, I should listen to the source lp more and recognise better. I think this was one of the big influences on psychedelic bands stretching tracks out in the mid 60s, this, the Yardbirds, John Coltrane and a few other things including recreational drugs, like. Thinking of which just read Robby Krieger saying that once he was using heroin regularly Butterfield got some off him and never payed and stuff. Which was a major let down from a one time idol of his. Not sure if he's on this anyway since i don't hear vocals or harmonica here. It's more about instrumental interplay.
Also got Chico Hamilton track that Nick Mason picked up use of mallets in drumming from.
Fills out an hour plus of great music and shows that whoever they have compiling the cds for the magazine is still on form or delegation as to who that is is still good.

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1965 set from jazz saxophonist and no augmented group for the most part, I think there are 2 basses on Nature Boy though.
I was knocked out by the version of My Favourite Things from Belgium in the same year
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and intrigued as to what hge did with other show tunes at around the same time. I had bought this a few years ago and was looking through my racks and this turned up so thunkj I'd bung it on.
It seems like he references the main theme of Chim Chim Cheree very limitedly on like 2 occasions during the version here. What he winds up with is pretty great but is this even a swirl running through the performance, seems to be more My Favourite Things in the various versions.
& I think Nature Boy too has more statement of the theme. Though maybe that's not really teh point.
It's not being sold to somebody who isn't already converted in my case. THough I think I have struggled with teh Quartet at this time before.
Do love what they're laying down in 62 and wish there was more of the later Quintet recorded.
Interesting to hear about crowds in 66 only listening to the band state the theme to My Favourite Things together and leaving when they went onto solos. I had the full version of My Favourite Things from Japan on my walkman turning up at random or that is to say I edited off the introductory bass solo which went on for 15 minutes or whatever. I like that stuff , would love more of that stuff. Apparently its not to everybody's tastes though. I have been listening to that for like 25 years when it would have only been available to audiences for a couple of years when it was around. Interesting , do you need to be weaned onto it and not have it dropped on you or something.
This is a good record, seems to be pretty melodic to me and interesting choice of songs to cover. I need to check out a list of the show tunes he took outside for a duff up or re/de constructed or whatever.
What constitutes pop music if these are standards, & is a standard seen to be anything more than a launchpad post his released version of My Favourite Things though presumably similar things could be said of the work of earlier artists like Charlie Parker among others. I think he may have played for longer and more intensely but still that reinvention was a large part of what made jazz or the new thing or whatever one wanted to call it. The idea that people no longer wanted to call it jazz because that was a form that had been usurped by whites and then applying the techniques of whatever one wanted to call it to very white songs is interesting innit? Now wondering if teh same thing applies to Nina Simone's covering of very white singer songwriter tunes from the mid 60s onwards.

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Witch Trail Thole

Can't remember if they came up in regular Rolling Metal or the Branca metal thread but thanks to whomever introduced me to their angular weirdness

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Recently reissued , long not easily available live set by Canadian artist. Think it is pretty necessary ojn finally getting it.
I had a thing a few years ago of trying to work out what the archedtypal groups on the birth of rock were, thinking about things like the Drifting Cowboys and I think at least one of the groups that backed Al Green on his turn of the 70s Hi material, though maybe that is more one case had me thinking who was actually shaping what would become the sound for rock and what I wished was. Anyway the band here is another one for the latter. Takes a sloppy sound part based in honky tonk country and electrifies it more and adds in a few more influences. Not sure if this is a basis a lot of later bands did use as an archetype or not but I think it is pretty ideal. Also had the idea of what is the default band sound in one's head when they think of rock and does it map directly to a single band, think that's probably pretty personal and helps define what one is into in terms of bands. Could see that applying here. In short I do like this band a lot.
Stumbled on this when i was looking through racks in local record shops a few weeks ago. Hadn't heard it had been released individually, think it has been available for a while in a small box set that has been pretty pricey.
Young thinking that the correct response to his releases becoming mainstream is to head for the ditch winding up with material like this is pretty great. I have heard this maverick streak was pretty influential on a number of people who you might not immediately associate with teh sound here. But the sound is so great anyway.

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Jazz singer compilation ranging from mid 50s to mid 60s. What a voice.
I seem to be picking up some great chanteusey stuff recently. THis has more strings than I would really like but they do seem to have been done rather well. Think I might look at what smaller band stuff she has but do like a decent violin.
The word mellifluous comes to mind on hearing her. Really what a voice.
Think I've been aware of the name for years though think I've been skipping the a in the surname.
went into a local book shop to get the recent Bob Stanley (pre) history of pop music book cos I knew they had it in cheap and while looking around the shop I found this and very glad i did . I should have been aware of her much earlier now wonder who else along these lines I've known the name but not the music of . Need to further explore Ella Fitzgerald for one.

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Manchester institution's late 80s single bsides, possibly more creative though As are also pretty good. Due to bad curation on my part I only have one disc of this that I think is playable, bought this like 25 years ago when I was still living in Dublin. Looks like other disc has some heavy gouges. I think I might try to get a new copy o9f this though I think the full singles set may be taking the place of this. I think I bought it for tracks on the first disc mainly which is why this is in better shape possibly.
Anyway quit ea decent band in places. This covers an era when Mark's girlfriend Brix has come in on more conventional guitar so the band is still a bit more poppy than it had been at one point. Still very interesting. Mark's lyricism was always worth a perusal I think, had a really idiosyncratic worldview like.
I think I was still going and seeing them quite regularly throughout this period. Probably started around the beginning of the set and may have tailed off towards teh end though I do remember heading to Belfast from Dublin to see them so not sure exactly when taht was.
I think my peak period for them may be around 82 and the late 70s though. Hex and Dragnet and stuff.

Another word for Sarah Vaughan 's singing style is melismatic. Pretty great breaking up of lines into note array like.

no idea where to put this, there’s no thread on j.t. iv and only a couple scattered mentions in the last 15 years. i don’t like the rest of his music at all (at least the tiny bit that’s available for perusal) but this cover of “fat lady of limbourg” (to be reissued soon by drag city) is bracing

j.t. iv - fat lady of limbourg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT0GVHU26AE

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0516546049_10.jpgmontel palmer's "wayback" lo-fi nothingy bedsit murmur. supremely half-assed

no idea where to put this, there’s no thread on j.t. iv and only a couple scattered mentions in the last 15 years. i don’t like the rest of his music at all (at least the tiny bit that’s available for perusal) but this cover of “fat lady of limbourg” (to be reissued soon by drag city) is bracing

j.t. iv - fat lady of limbourg

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Actually swapped these out so I had something new to listen to on New Year's Day. Then undid everything by having the first thing I listened to on the 3 player for teh New Year be the cd cleaner. Ho hum.

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which is an anachronistic photo for a trio performance. Prophecy has saxophone with rhythm section bass and drums which seems full enough sound. Bells has Saxophone plus added trumpet playing brother, alto saxophone different bassist and same drummer- Sonny Murray.
Got prompted to put this on by reading the Richard Koloda biography Holy Ghost. I need to sort through my cds and see what I have by Albert Ayler I know I had a few titles on vinyl decades ago not sure if I have replaced them all on cd still. So not sure what I dod have on cd at the moment.
Enjoyed this greatly so again should be listening to this more not letting it sit on a pile of cds for ages .This may be him at his most free not sure, does seem that Michael Samson did tie in with freedom well and was playing off other players, the addition of harpsichord seems to be a constraint elksewhere possibly more so than using piano which is itself a firmly tuned instrument.
I do like that thing he is doing when Samson and Cobb are onboard weird interplay based on folk and other simple themes. Seems like Donald brought in the idea of using marches more than Albert did. Anyway very interesting artist, would love to hear where he would have gone to if he hadn't died in 1970 still exploring areas that Marie Maria may have suggested . he appears to have been trying to get away from her influence and didn't manage to.
I think I do need to listen to those 3 lps from taht era and Fondation maeght. I think i have New Grass at least.

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the bonus disc of the Blixa Sounds version of the 2nd lp of LA band's 2nd lp. This has pretty full sounding versions of demoes of the tracks fromm the lp plus the next 2 which I'd like to know more about who was playing on.
Miami is a favourite lp, a claustrophobic New York studio winds up with teh band sounding pretty expansive. Not 100% sure where the demoes were recorded but these do seem to be decent alternative versions or at least mixes of the material therein.
Garagey psychy melange of various roots forms and post-punk rock which I've loved for close to 4 decades. I think I need to get the other 2 pre retirement lps in the Blixa Sounds versions . Have now seen that they have gone onto at least Mother Juno, not sure where they will continue to.

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2nd lp by current band. My first by them. It appeared in a local mainstream music shop so must be having some impact.
I enjoy the musical interplay, guitarist has a style that reminds me of some things I'm trying to place.
Female vocalist's lyric style is pretty unique. Repeating bits of small talk in a nearly cut up way. Haven't seen them live so not sure how she handles singing/vocalising there. If she repeats the same things exactly or what.
I think I will be picking up more of their output. THis is pretty good. Cover challenging views of tastelessness.

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probably about time i swapped the keyboard with the darkened keys over to the one I picked up a few months ago. Should be touctyping by now anyway I guess.

struggling with picking stuff