What Are You Listening to? 2023

*hope sandoval and mazzy star

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The Individualism of Gil Evans.

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lol whatever

Cecil Taylor – Nuits De La Fondation Maeght Vol. 1

aw, yeah - one of the best, that!

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Six Finger Satellite Severe Exposure, y'all heard of this?

Yngwie Malmsteen - Trial by Fire

I saw 6FS on that tour opening for the Jesus Lizard. Their drummer was a machine.

nice. never got to see them sadly.

They were rocking some Moog Keytars at one point.

I really like that one and the last one Law of Ruins.

I've been diligently listening to Wayne Shorter in chronological order over on that thread, but last night I was really vibing on Cannonball Adderley. Wiki says this was the first soul jazz album taped in a noisy club environment, a practice later copied by others.

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disc one which is
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Nice cheap compi of a singer I knew the name of but not much work by that turned up in the local cd/tat shop anI thought I'd grab. Glad I did she has a great voice, I'm not 1000% taken by the backing though it does its job relatively well. I think it is more MOR when I would prefer something more fluid and non saccharine, more dialogic or something. Not heard disc 2 which is 2 songbooks of earlier artists, Bessie Smith and Fats Waller.
Enjoying it and think I will look further into her including Dinah Jams which is more jazz orientated and may look further.
I am enjoying listening through these female singers from around the middle of the 20th century. There are some great ones I need to be more familiar with.
Songs here I knew already from singers like Sinatra. So interesting to hear her interpretations.

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This is not the disc pictured but appears to be the same material but differently ordered and with a different cover. I picked it up in a local charity shop for a Euro. Had gone over on being told that Tommy Tiernan had dropped in a load of stuff to te shop. Picked up a load of books and sorted through a load of cds only to find taht tey weren't in great condition. Got a copy of Supergrass's compilation but 3 changer keeps rejecting it. Also got a few dvds which I haven't checked out yet.
But back to the cd. I haven't been able to find the recording dates of the tracks. The cash in lp came out in 74 so must predate taht. I say cash in cos this seems to be presented as a current lp but with no input from the artist, in terms of agency.
Tracks are at least semi decent turn of the 70s soul stuff. I thought Long Black Veil might be interesting but not sure it's the same song. Hearing him do the standard might be interesting at least.
I see this gets viewed as substandard in most of the review sites I'm seeing. I don't think it's that bad but certainly not his classic material. Worth a Euro , somewhat decent music but not transcendent like.

3 changer still acting up;. Got knocking sounds on Dinah Washington this morning. & it's refusing to play some things. Supergrass started on couple of occasions but I had to turn it off and get up for the day. So thought it would play next time and just got the player attempting to read it and then skipping onto next disc.
Wire Tapper played first track seriously fuzzed out then stopped oin teh 2nd. I thought if i go it to play through it might work better teh next time round. May just need a new player. But 17 years is somewhat good going.
Don't have a 2nd player so can't tell if it is te player and not the disc. Hoping I don't have a load of cds that won't play if I do get a new player anyway.

Did wind up with this playing though
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The lp recorded by 2 ex Tourists backed by several members of Can and Blondie and produced by Conny Plank. So something of a stand alone lp.
I think it doesn't sound much like later work. I hear a load of influences in it, obviously psychedelia and some other earlier rocky stuff. I have always heard a degree of Britfolk in the mix too.
I have loved this record since it came out. Tracks were being played in nightclubs etc when I was first going out to things like that in the early 80s. I have had several copies of this on vinyl and cd. There was a mid 90s cd release I had that seemed very tinny so I was glad to get a remaster that returned the warmth etc to the sound.

I heard a little bit of early stereolab type vibes on a few tracks of in the garden.. v cool album

Prime Dinah Washington is just some of the sauciest music around

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Stuff by The Middle Class from A Blueprint For Joy and a few tracks from Out Of Vogue: The Early Material. Kinda wish they had stayed hardcore but the Mission Of Burma-esque tracks aren't bad.

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this morning:

Athanor - Flashback
Lovely punchy Beatlesque private press bearded power pop from 73-81. Great vocal harmonies and hooks. There’s a song recorded in 2006 which doesn’t stick out too bad.

Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh
Canadian technical death metal, slicing and dicing, brutal precision and unfettered ecstasy.

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early d.,i.y. post punk stuff compiled in the mid 00ies.I was aware of the band but not much of this early stuff before buying this around the time it came out. Pretty gppd, roughly played material nowhere near as smooth as the later chart stuff.
I think this was recorded at a time the band were living in squats in London. I have heard that Green hung out with Henry Cow before his own band really took off. I think there is some hint of melody but nowhere near what that later stuff has. Not sure how proficient band members were with their instruments yet, almost sounds like some of these are pretty tentative, could be wrong could just be the style required.
Anyway do really enjoy this. It's an era I really enjoy, people with ambition beyond their current playing proficiency. Need some more stuff along these lines and to see what articles from the time the music was first appearing I have. Rescued a pile of the ones my brother had just not looked through them in a while, think Scritti were interviewed quite a bit.
Also need to look up and read through the lyrics, what I can make out is pretty interesting.

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Irish prog-folk from the early 70s.This is the Acme version from 2004 that comes with the first single as bonus.Nice melodic atmospheric stuff, gets pretty rocky in places.
I heard some of Clodagh Simonds' later soundtrack stuff a while back which was also very interesting.

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Been hoping to pick up some material from this guy for a while, several Latin titles turned up in a local 2nd hand shop last week. So I grabbed this and 2 others I haven't played yet.
Barretto appears in Summer of Soul which was about the first time I actually saw him play.
Songs seem to hinge on semi classical sounding piano themes on top of syncopated latin beats. I thik this si a decent compilation but I probably need to pick up more stuff by him.

3changer problem this week
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only got a couple of tracks into this, shame enjoy it.

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spacey pedal steel work-outs, canterbury sound-ish art rock with a leavening of country/pub rock, even an aereo-plain era john hartford cover.

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Brazilian funk compi I picked up in the same purchase as the Ray Barretto cd last week. I think I mkay have had it way back when it was first around but long since lost it. It starts with a track with a bassline that seems to be on the verge of becoming disco which colours the rest of the set I think.
Unfortunately 3changer is still fuzzing out regularly so that's been interfering with listening to this clearly. I think it is still a pretty good compi when i does play with the proper sound. That verging on disco is not something I'm that into would prefer the heavy funk, thinking of contemporary James Brown who also seemed to be on the cusp between the 2 and tilted towards disco unfortunately. It was one thing taht stopped me from getting into the Banda Black Rio compilation from a band featured here, seemed like a wrong move from more organic funk when i was first listening to that stuff. I may be more tolerant of it now. & maybe should look into early disco after reading Tim Lawrence.
Still stuck on the idea of it being somewhat fake so should give it a better listen. Though i think that was what George Clinton was talking about when saying faking the funk, may have been a bit later though so the actual music more diluted?

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Last lp by Sheffield based band. Has an ecological them throughout.
LP starts with a track called Weeds that I keep hearing an echo of Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song in which seems ironic since i think the song is about refugees. I take it that is intentional, I think the band were well known for arch irony etc in their work. Actually song reminds me of a cross between Immigrant Song and i think Venus in Furs, certainly a song from the first Velvets lp melanged with the band's own sounds.
I haven't really got into Pulp before, I was aware of tem at teh time they were releasing music and did enjoy hearing tracks but never had any so may pick up some more. This was a charity shop find for a Euro so good find. I think I may need to replace it though keep finding it going into a repetitive glitch on the last track. Waking up with this noise going off which is a second or 2 of a song in continual repeat.

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Classic archetypal rock band from the mid 70s. This is the first disc of a 2 disc set with 4 or 5 songs from each of 5 lps and 2 from a 6th one. A band that initially swam against the tide but seems to have set the agenda for a lot of what came after it so may seem a lot less iconoclastic now.
A wash of sound comprising semi minimalist repetitive playing by 3 players and a singer in places making a wall of noise. Blooming love i. Do wonder to what extent this is the default sound of what a band should sound like for people this late in the aftermath of its release. I think the aesthetic as deliberately against what was happening at the time it was created. Now wondering to what extent teh Ramones tshirts that were semi ubiquitous a few years ago reflected the wearer's actual taste and to what extent it was just fashion. I think the ripped knee jean thing that I still see everywhere is still traceable back to them though do wonder who else popularised it along the way. Well, enough to have so many young ladies have cold knees throughout the winter.
3 changer seems to be fuzzing things out by the end of a long cd but interesting to hear that the band seem to be introducing elements of technique by the time of their 4th or 5th lp. Could be earlier, no actual solos but seem to be trying to get there. Has been a long time since i was listening to those lps, did always love teh song Danny Says so shame I'm not actually getting to hear it because of the sound on the player by that point. I think I bought End of The Century as my first Ramones lp, 2nd hand back in around 81 and also think I saw the TOTP performance for Baby I love You.

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John Lee Hooker - Free Beer and Chicken (1974)

In which Hooker is inspired to "Make It Funky" with the Tower of Power horns and Joe Cocker pops in to sing a few.

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Hey hey my Lordy, Lord. I'm gonna buy three mocking birds. One for to whistle. One for to sing. One to do most any little thing.

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Great charity shop find. Has some great choices on it, particularly on this 3rd disc of 5 which is ska/rocksteady classics from late 60s to early 70s.
This also seems to play all of 25 tracks without fuzzing out or tapping noises. Still having trouble with the player elsewhere.
But this disc has been solidly good has a lot of tracks that the initial ska revival bands were playing so hangs together well and avoids being cheesy. Liquidator, Message to You Rudy, Long shot Kick the Bucket and some less obvious ones by Lee Perry and Max romeo etc.

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THe only disc by this band that I have which si a shame since it is pretty dashed tasty. Very sensuous in its grooves etc.
So post hardcore with a sense of sex in the beat.
Unfortunately cd player has been playing back badly so it didn't last the week. Have just found out that the blu ray player in the front room does seem to play everything ok. So may need to replace my bedroom player. Shame grown attached to it over teh years.
BUt have enjoyed what I could listen to of this.

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possibly overly smooth Brazilian disc I bought in a purchase with another couple of titles from teh area a couple of weeks ago.
Does have a couple of decent tracks on .
But 3 changer was adding fuzz and tapping sounds which si a pain.
Have been busy so not tried to clean the player again, hoping i can return function it seems a stabiliser feature or something has been disabled or worn out.
Hopfully can have another go at it in a couple of days.
Not sure what is allowing some things to play properly still though.

wound up trying to play these as replacements
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Looks like a great intro to the Irish traditional institution but 3changer wouldn't play it. Gave totally distorted sound. Blu ray sounded fantastic.

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A couple of different discs from this 6 disc compilation set. A live thing from 1968 which started having beating sounds from the 3changer but played smoothly on the blu ray.
Minimalist abstract sound which I think I need to spend a while listening to

& a later disc La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ, for 100 voices, pno, cello, fl, clar, xylorimba, vib, mar & orchestra, which does appear to be playing,

carolina boogie!
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mainly listening to my final selections from 1956, however i also stumbled across this from 5 years ago and the end section has been playing in my head for the last week now.

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okay i'm weirdly intrigued by that tim berne/matt mitchell cover art. i've just now learned that the artist is warren linn and that the dude's resume is 100% legit. dang. also thx no lime; def gonna check out bj cole!

as for me. . .

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so many tears — so many tears (2011)

fishmans rhythm section with takashi kato from tokyo ska paradise orchestra replacing shinji sato. definitely leaning towards the rock side of their influences. it's only marginally similar to fishmans. they try to do a driving pearl jam (?) style rockin` rhythm gallop on some songs and there's some approaching wanky guitar work that uhh... well, they can play so why not? not like it's every song(guitar solo kinda old fashioned innit?). they really get going when they end up sounding like kashiwabara's other band polaris (who i highly recommend btw) and, in that respect, the second half of the album is definitively stronger than the first. i downloaded their entire output (not on streaming) and some of the albums were tagged with the genre "j-alternative" and . . . yeah, pretty much! haven't gotten to everything yet, but this is my favorite of their albums so far. another solid "RIYL" satellite in the fishmans universe. i did skim the live album after peaking at the tracklist; it seems like tons of fun and has some rather kickass r+b covers.

fav thread on ilx currently, fyi. thx everyone.

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desert island disc for sure, lofi dreamy semi-ambient paradise, like Eleventeen Eston on ‘ludes (???)

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There's at least one 2cd set of the Dollar Film Morricone s/trks which are all good. Nice atmospheric stuff.
I do love Quicksilver Messenger Service's Calvary which seems to explore very similar territory.

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The God Machine - Scenes from the Second Storey

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disc 2 which is these 2 in succession
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which seems to be how they were originally released, ir at least both in the same year.
The Bessie Smith has Washington in a setting which apparently wants to echo the jazz of Smith's time in a not totally authentic way. It's done better than I had feared, quite tastefully in fact. The singing is pretty fantastic too.
I'm hearing less attempt at recreation in the Fats Waller set. & listening to this earlier I was wondering if my player was speeding up cos it does sound a bit pinched or something.Not sure if that's the recording or my player. (cleaned it but still having trouble, may need to take it apart more thoroughly)
Cover photo used for this compilation seems to be used pretty heavily but this is a cheap but very useful compilation. Other disc is another 2 great lps.
Love Dinah Washington's voice. This turned up in the local popular music/tat shop and I thought I'd give it a bash. I knew her name but wasn't very familiar with her work. Now want to explore more thoroughly.

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2nd disc of this too. A recentish compilation of mod revivalist's post Jam work where he expanded a bit on the things being reinvestigated.
Strike's me taht the idea of mod as a retro style is counter it's initial purpose which was to be continually cutting edge leading me to wonder what the idea of 'mod' meant way after its initial 60s heyday.Like it would boil down to being about remaining stylish and having a taste in music taht updated similarly and encapsulated later developments. Origins being people in Italian suits listening to Modern jazz and continuing to morph from there through the related develo0pments in jazz, soul, rock etc that came in the next few years so likely to continue to adapt to fit around a semi amorphous idea of stylishness.
So Weller taking in the newer influences he shows in this work would follow that pattern. IT may get a bit glossy in places but overall glad I finally got around to picking up some of this stuff. Think this may be as far as I've gone with anything later tahn The Jam so far but may look further into this lot and his solo work.

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2nd lp by current band. Interesting set of influences and abstract lyrics.
I'm hearing guitar that borrows influence from Johnny Marr and probably some others. I think a lot of his influences and mid 60s stuff etc.
The lyrics are odd , maybe the lack of traditional structure is striking. Think I may need to more of this stuff and get around to listening to the live set(s) I've picked up since. I guess they are sung so can be morphed live to fit some live interplay. But the structure does seem weird and abstract. I do need to hear how things are reproduced live if there is a lot of flexibility or what. Have a couple of sets I grabbed off Dime etc but just have not had a chance to listen to them yet.

finally got a chance to take the cd player apart and daub isopropyl alcohol on the laser lens but still not working properly. Had thing s fuzzing out earlier. I think I may need to take the machine apart again and remove the sections of it above the lens set up. There is a problem of access and a shutter across the lens which means that the area possibly didn't get cleaned as thoroughly as it should have been. I think that used to suffice when I was first having to dismantle the machine instead of just using a cd cleaning disc. Now its getting older I may need to actually dismantle further. may be dust accumulated that I'm not seeing or something. Seemed like a stabilizing process has been marred recently and I'n getting beating sounds etc when trying to play some discs. Hoping the thing is still salvageable. Not had to buy a new player in a very long time and getting attached to this after 17 or 18 years. Wonder if I can actually swap out the laser if it comes to that.

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physical graffiti, disc 2

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