What Are You Listening to? 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp-J4GCBRf4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqg8nN4KAto

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"This time" being one of my all-time favorite disco tracks.

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https://i.discogs.com/tnO9ap_bAw1KbIwruVKg9yNiA7C99FXmYEvuXsPpJC8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEyMDI5/NzgyLTE1MjY4ODUz/ODYtNjUxNC5qcGVn.jpeg TOC- "will never play these songs again" french gtr keys drums trio get kinda psychic paramount

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montel palmaer - catastropheland
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that's palmer, not palmaer

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Korean post-rock band I discovered through somebody on the bike course.
Epic texture with an underlying metallic influence.
Glad I discovered these, probably even more so that I did when I did cos I caught a sale from the record company so saved a few quid. I think the sale ended a couple of days after i did buy this. May pick up some other material by the band if I come across it.
Hadn't realised there was a post-rock scene in Korea before finding out about these and it looks like there are a few bands involved.
Vocals and some of the linernotes are in Korean so I'm not fully getting what is being sung about but it's done quite well.
Avant classical, local folk , and some bits of a more metal feel.

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Atmospheric 3rd lp by LA based psych band.
This appears to be seen as a lesser lp by the band but it was one of the first I heard so I really enjoy it. GOt given this by a friend a couple of months back along with another couple of their lps on cd. I think these were from the Original album series but came loose in a charity shop he picked them up in. Could do with linernotes for this.
Anyway, really enjoying this and should know Spirit better tahn I do.
Had this on vinyl as a 2fer with the first lp back in the late 80s but that disappeared a long time ago.
This has a couple of jazz instrumentals written by the keyboard player . & I think Give A Life Take A Life has popped up in my head for decades.
Could be heard as touching on the prog since it melanges jazz and something epic and a bit classical as well as the use of melody. Sombre feel to quite a bit of this too but it is a bit beautiful.

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Zanzibara series compilation by band from mid 70s. Slightly latin tinge to the Taraabs here.
THis is really growing on me. Pretty good guitar standing out among the melody etc.
Zanzibara is another series by the record label that brought us Ethiopiques and has some pretty great stuff in it.
I'd recommend this, just wish my 3player played it better. But seems to be distorted on some playbacks but seems intermittent.
Worth a listen though.

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60s Dutch pop artist in a somewhat baroque/circus music style.
I don't understand Dutch so not sure what is being sung here. I picked this up for 50c and I guess it's ok. Not sure how frequently I will revisit, might be different if I understood what teh songs were about a bit more. Dutch can be pretty glottal. I'm not sure it's a very pretty language.
Anyway, saw this while looking at cd spines in a charity shop I frequent and recognised the name. Not sure where from, assume it's from reviews in Ugly Things etc,
well, interesting find since not sure how many people would recognise the name. May grow on me in future listens, not sure.

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enjoyed some of this, Americana compilation covermount from the most recent Uncut magazine.
Love the starting track Kassi lavazza Watching PLanes Go By which is her current release, hearing it through the air it seems reminiscent of some psychy Britfolk stuff with pretty psychedelic guitar stuff. I listened to it on headphones earlier and it sounded more overtly country. I think i will be looking further into her work based on this and the couple of tracks I have heard more recently.
Has some more traditional country based stuff smattered across the cd including what I think is an Australian band from what I can work out from the town names.
So, listenable and i think I have discovered an artist I like and hadn't known about before.

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2nd disc which appears to include a lot of this,
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i.e. the a-side
and teh first disc of this
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It all comes from one gig on February 26th 1967 and captures him in the era his brother was in the band as well as European violinist Michel Sampson reworking folkish themes in a free manner. I would really love to see all of one of teh European live sets from teh previous year. Loved the book by Richard Koloda which I got for Xmas.
Enjoy this so think I do need to pick up some more. I thought I had a lot of his earlier stuff but not seen it in a while so need to check through my collection and see what I do still have.

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I have a smart playlist that grabs all of the ambient music in my library that I haven't listened to in at least 12 months. I've been shuffling it for two weeks now. One of the highlights is the Em:t catalogue I downloaded from some pirate site years ago.

This album, to take one example, is pure gold.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApsGBlEaK8Y

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The Tubs - Dead Meat
Never really got into Joanna Gruesome, but this is a new band formed by two former members. Reductive, but not entirely incorrect, description is what if Richard Thompson joined a New Zealand jangle pop band.

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76 minutes of New Orleans Italian singer/trumpeter/bandleader. Raucous enough for rock'n'roll though maybe more directly jazz based? May be in a similar neighborhood to Sonny Burgess possibly. I just discovered his career dates back to the 30s too.
I've been a\ware of him voicing King Louie in The Disney cartoon of Jungle Book since I was a child so took me way too log to get to this. I picked up another compilation of him a few yeas ago but that was a single disc and way too quiet it coming from the early 90s. May have been in the wake of reading an Ugly Things review of the Bear Family Rocks series volume on him but not sure of exact chronology with that right now.
Anyway this is pretty superlative and I've yet to hear the 2nd disc of this set. Handy label for artists like th8is In think, assume cheapness is down to things becoming public domain. & I think the public has a right to know about this stuff. Even if the artist himself did have the dubious taste to call his singing partner/sometime wife Keely Smith 'Tonto' thanks to her ancestry. She has such a great voice too.

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2nd disc of this, Saturnian bandleader takes small combo to Italy but sounds so much bigger. Fits oddly well with the above.
Both this and Disco 3000 sound oddly expansive for a band so small. I think Disco 3000 even more so but this is pretty gnarly in places.
I picked this up in the Rermegacorp £5 sale over Xmas and pretty glad i did. Did take me a few weeks to get around to playing this 2nd disc though.
THis is Blount on various keyboards including trying out a Crumar Mainman organ/keyboard which i think may still be a protoype. So he can get pretty noisy . Also has a lot more of what sounds like a conventional piano than the first disc. He is joined by 3 other players including a trumpeter who was better known beforehand for his work with the Stylistics. Plus John Gilmore the great saxophonist and drummer Luqman Ali.
This is the Art Yard expanded version which I can recc9ommend, same with their Disco 3000
Wow just seen this was recorded on my 11h Birthday though I didn't get to see him, then with a larger band, until 5 or 6 years later.

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2nd disc of this too. Way shorter than I had thought it was going to be. German improvisatory band who I thought played 2 -3 hour shows as a matter of course and possibly a bit longer. So surprised this disc is 20 minutes long. Good though, just wish there was more of it.
Atmospheric instrumental stuff . Shows they still have it live even if I rarely listen to the lps from his era. Though maybe that needs reexamination.
Do love that earlier really psychedelic stuff anyway. They still have quite a bit of that feel here but I think I'm possibly more into them a few years earlier. Quite ecstatically great music still though. I think I need to hear the rest of this series.

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said it in the other thread but the Tubs are phenomenal

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Great live set from NY band. I think live 1978 is a peak for them for me. It took me a couple of weeks to get something on by them after their bandleader died. That was initially the remaster of the Marquee Moon lp but that turned out to be severely distorted for some reason.
This was a limited edition live set from Rhino Handmade when I got it , I think it may have been reissued since though, I know it was around as a bootleg before. This appears to have better sound than the boot cd I had of it though.
Guitar interplay can get really hypnotic at times. Love this stuff so definitely need to get another Marquee Moon. Do have a copy of the Adventure from that early 00ies remaster series somewhere too.
Combination of improvisation based around garagey riffs, heavy repetition, great syncopation and a great load of inspiration. Should be mandatory listening at least a few times. Quite addict6ive though.

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First disc of the 3cd version of live 73-74 set from Canada and Northwest US. More great guitar interplay. Songs more medium length on this disc, than the other 2.
Great takes on some tracks they played frequently. This is them as jazz based takes on folk/country stuff, Do like tehm in this era . I mainly stick to the pre-retirement era as in pre-75 though Blues For Allah and One From The Vault are both pretty great. & I enjoyed seeing them in 90.
Great, possibly elegaic sound. I find 73/4 feels a bit different to 72 and that to their more overtly psychedelic stuff of a couple of years earlier. Glad I got this a while back anyway. I do like their jammed out take on NOt Fade Away quite a bit. & Bird Song is sublime.

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2nd disc of this set of mainly edited versions of tracks by Spiritual jazz saxophonist. I rarely listen to this one, mainly bung on the earlier stuff on disc one. This starts in like 72 and goes into the 90s.
This is not all quite as psychedelic as the first disc but stays pretty transcendent. Has a couple of very danceable tracks on, kind of thing Gilles Peterson would have been playing in Dingwalls in the late 80s.
Yeah, really not sure how much I have played this disc and am not as aware of his later stuff as I should be i think. But I think I was mainly listening to him for the near tranced out stuff from the turn of the 70s. So could be missing out.

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and out US mapling US maple by 10000% in the drunken clown falling over dept Joe Maneri Qt's "coming down the mountain" https://i.discogs.com/_sacFasAtTBX-0Gtua103hRw79rolTwiIbKRMmz9fQg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:447/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTY0NTUz/MC0xMTYxNDMzOTE3/LmpwZWc.jpeg

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natural calamity — let it come down (1992)

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Mandy, Indiana - "Injury Detail"
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excellent video too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d9RnTONexY

Briefly wondered why I always bookmark these threads despite pretty much never following up what happens here by e.g. listening to the records mentioned; realized it must be because they tend to be really awesome album cover galleries.

Älgarnas Trädgård, both records plus the bonus tracks

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p much all nihilist/depressive sludge, as this world grows more painful each day

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Ethiopian singer who I know about from the Ethiopiques series own compilation from a few years ago
Great mix of fuzz guitar and funked up versions of what sound to be more traditional sounds.
I think he was one of the highlight artists on the series and this is pretty archetypal. But do wonder if other bands did pick up on this stuff as a recognisable influence. Seemed like its appearance and popularity in the West could inject a new flavour to garage rock but not sure that would be what that scene would be looking for. I love it anyway.
Seemed to go very well with the other music i eventually wound up having on the 3 changer this week which went througha number of different discs cos I think I need to get the top off and the laser cleaned again but have a load of things obstructing my way to get to moving the player. Ho hum. THings skipping and not being recognised and just playing a line or 2 then turning the disc off.
BUt did wind up with

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Later than I would normally listen to Great german experimental/psychedel;ic/improvisation band here as mainly instrumental 4 piece.
Set was shorter than I'd realised but still pretty great, just may be even better to have more of it. I thought they did play longer gigs so semi surprised by length of discs here. Quite transcendental anyway.
4th track starts off with some pretty heavy symphonic rock and Jaki Liebezeit playing in a way I don't remember hearing him play much elsewhere. Sounds like something other bands reached for being addressed and then moved away from quite rapidly.
Not played disc 2 yet, need to do so.

Initially the Can went on with disc 2 of this
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but it wouldn't play beyond half of the first track. I tried teh other disc to teh same result. Had picked this up on the other side of the country while away for the day. Seems to be recognised by my Blu Ray player thankfully so hope cleaning will allow it to play.
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same thing as Lee Perry disc. Played a bit of one track, crashed. Disc taht came with a book from teh library.

so put on
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which I hadn't listened to in an age. Stoner folk stuff that is pretty great. By this point the 2 main members had added a supporting band who were pretty ok.Unfortunately disc glitched azt one point quit ebadly so listened to it a few times but had to change it . Hopefully get back to it once i get player properly cleaned.

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First lp by Stoner rock band. Waslying around my player when Holy Modal Rounders wouldn't play properly and hadn't been played ina while.
I think I need some more by this bunch. Especially from this early era. Reworkings of a sound rooted in early 70s heavy/space rock stuff which came out quite well. Have been aware of these for a long time so should have more stuff by them

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whoa I had her Majora records but never knew abt any others!

and bizarrly enough i stumbled across zips of the casual plane and presque vu while looking for something else on an old drive last night! wer hätte es gedacht?

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hmr vol. 1&2

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Tia Blake - Folksongs & Ballads

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3rd lp by band that started with a pretty different line up here getting pretty avant and noisy while adding several horns as front line instruments. THis is the edition with the Proms set as a disc 2. But it's been the main set that I've played when the 3 changer has actually played it. I did clean it out last week but still not reliably working it seems.
Anyway do think this is pretty interesting, semi ambient before that became a thing while also being screamingly loud in places as Ratledge's organ goes into overdrive.
4 lengthy tracks which were initially an lp side each.Here all 4 sitting on one cd. May help if you're stoned I guess.
Was sitting around the flat neglected for too long hope that didn't screw up the disc. 3 changer is getting older though.
But yeah pretty otherworldly. & I think necessary. Fits well with Can, Henry cow and a few others.

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Luaka Bop release from teh late 90s which turned up in a local charity shop. I think it is sung in Portuguese and featuires a lot of pretty funky jazzy acoustic guitar. I'm enjoying this quite a bit. Can get a bit melancholy in places but also pretty beautiful.
Glad I found this cos I think I do like it a great deal. Don't think I was aware of uits existence before seeing it in the charity shop but yeah pretty good. Reminds me of tropicalia, Salsa and a few other things . So good use of a Euro. & was in pretty decent nick too.
Part produced by Arto Lindsay too.
Only just taking in that it dates from 98, not sure when I would have placed it . But pretty fine anyway.

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Another random charity shop find. I think I was semi aware of their existence at teh time but not familiar with a lot of their stuff. Enjoying this anyway.
I think this is a band playing as a band and sounding pretty trip-hoppy or something.
All woman band with ties to Beastie Boys and a number of other groups. Drummer was in the hardcore version of that band i.e. very early on.
Glad i got this cos am enjoying it . Do think they do it quite well anyway.

Can't even find a good version of the cover art to link to, but I'm currently spinning the self-titled debut from Italy's London Underground, apparently a spin-off of 90's prog rockers Standarte.

Basically, a circa 2000 take on the first couple of Yes albums, striking a balance between prog ambitions and still beholden to late '60s pop writing conventions. Not sure yet how much I love it, but it is endlessly fascinating.

(ftr I had no idea the roots of that particular band name until just now googling it... yikes)

kristian poulsen's "layer" lp - fahey / basho / orcutt raga twangathon

gaah is there any way to hear this apart from ordering a secondhand copy from discogs?

herr poulsen is kind enough to have put the A side up on soundcloud here:
https://soundcloud.com/kristian-poulsen-4/layer-side-a
. i'd digitize the B but my setup's currently suffering from a 4KHz electronic whine - can't pin it down

ah, thank you!