What Are You Listening to 2024

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Right on on both fronts, fgti! Thanks again...

I don't care where just fart (away) (Craig D.), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 22:50 (three months ago) link

Lately ingesting the most vaporous, formless, endless ambient dub that I can find. Really loving SVLBRD, Purl, Docetism, Deadbeat, Tikiman and the like. Also wonderful bumpy garage artists like Chaos in the CBD, Duke Hugh, Andras and Oscar Key Sung. Also just found Library Tapes? Wonderful little ambient piano vignettes.

Psychocandy Apple Grey (Pyschocandles), Thursday, 15 February 2024 08:14 (three months ago) link

if you like Plone etc search the fuck outta this

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O Fundo Escuro de (Deflatormouse), Monday, 19 February 2024 18:38 (three months ago) link

Chris & Cosey - Take Five

I painted my teeth (sleeve), Saturday, 24 February 2024 18:25 (three months ago) link

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massaman gai (front tea for two), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 09:27 (three months ago) link

https://i.discogs.com/_PWCbkq_hG4PS26Z83LhTtE-HIk7MeH14ATybzSIWcU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI4Mjk5/MjMtMTMwMjk1NTU0/My5qcGVn.jpegLaos: Lam Saravane - Musique Pour Le Khène / Music For The Khen, on Ocora. that descending "hoo!"/ sigh thing in the vocals gets me every time. delightful

massaman gai (front tea for two), Friday, 1 March 2024 12:36 (three months ago) link

https://i.discogs.com/8yaE-5796kfhZ89UqzKQZOYixqIzGTmyNUOVYJYjqXs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:593/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM0OTQ1/MzYtMTQ0NTI4NzQ1/OS0zOTE3LmpwZWc.jpegGato Barbieri - "Obsession" hard swingin skronk from 1967. Jean-François Jenny-Clark on bass, Aldo Romano (new to me) on drums

massaman gai (front tea for two), Monday, 11 March 2024 13:13 (two months ago) link

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3rd lp by London space rock band. Gets pretty corrosive in places. Love the usage of electronics

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Feral then-Yugoslavian Hard rock/stoner band from the early 70s who sing in phonetic sounding English. Really one of the more extreme of these bands I've heard veering into noise. Like an adult garage but heavy. Possibly more uptempo than a lot of bands of the era.
I'd heard about the existence of this for years but finally got a copy.

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3rd lp by Californian desert rock/stoner band. I just replaced a scratched up copy of this I had 20 years ago.
I can't hear this without hearing the early 70s stuff running through it. So do wonder how truthful Josh Homme was in separating himself from earlier influences. His bandmates went on to cover artists from the era in later projects. Homme said he listened to Black Flag and indie stuff. I'm definitely hearing echoes of the psych and hard rock stuff in here.
Anyway, powerful, visceral, archetypal rock that I think still stands up well a few decades later.

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Australian indie pop band best of. Turned up in a pile. Erudite jangley stuff. I got to seer Robert Forster do a talk on music that influenced him during the Arts Festival last year which was interesting. Don't think I found this at t6he time.
Picked this up at reduced price a couple of decades ago, do listen to it from time to time and could get further into bits of it.
Has their song about Lee Remick as an unlisted extra track. That has apparently intentionally ironic bad rhymes on things but was about their first single so their craft came along in leaps and bounds. It's still quite catchy.

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Ethan Miller of Comets On Fire's later band picking up on various turn of the 70s styles.hard rock, psych, folk rock, gospel a melange I had noticed was pretty similar to the one that Paul Kantner and Grace Slick's solo lp Sunfighter was based around. I listened to that earlier in the week too.
Looks like I've got very behind with this band. I know I enjoy the first couple of lps anyway.

Stevo, Monday, 18 March 2024 22:43 (two months ago) link

checking out some late period carthy/swarbrick recordings. maybe not quite as fleet & sprightly as in their earlier days, but still what a glorious combination they made.

no lime tangier, Thursday, 21 March 2024 03:50 (two months ago) link

Listening to this currently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrlKxV5KWJo

Vintage, Friday, 29 March 2024 22:56 (two months ago) link

Schlager Beat Girls and their sub-par impression of France Gall.

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Enjoy Nuoc Mam With Mr. Qualk (I M Losted), Saturday, 30 March 2024 21:26 (two months ago) link

It's Saturday night, time for retro party records with Sandy Nelson and his drums!

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Enjoy Nuoc Mam With Mr. Qualk (I M Losted), Saturday, 30 March 2024 23:22 (two months ago) link

Also, they packaged this at one time.

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Enjoy Nuoc Mam With Mr. Qualk (I M Losted), Saturday, 30 March 2024 23:28 (two months ago) link

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Julie Driscoll got married to a pianist then made this so,lo lp with him and Blossom Toes' guitarist Brian Godding backing her on various tracks. ?Not a;; at the same time.
Pretty otherworldly, it has been seen as twinned with Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom. So maybe oceanic too.Mid 70s semi avant music. Blooming lovely.

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Zeuhl band's 3rd lp and beginning to define what Zeuhl was as opposed to the earlier lps jazz-rock. This is shaped by John Coltrane, Carl Orff, Heavy repetitive chants, heavy bass and Christian Vander's drumming. Guitar is present but not the most prominent instrument, when it is heard it is quite acidic. Music is telling the saga of Kobaia in an invented language. I think this album is about the betrayal of Kobaia by an earth that kills a Kobaian ambassador.

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Compilation of distorto blues group's recordings for the B??BC. I've been listening to the 1st disc which is selections of recordings from 1969. There is another version of this set that adds another disc which fills out all of the material they recorded for the company and apparently remixed the sound to add more bass.
Zep were pretty raw in 69, which is also shown on a number of bootlegs from the time.I think this is still the only live material from the time to have been officially released. (including the other material from the source of course).

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VDGG lead singer's 1974 solo lp backed by VDGG but with him playing guitar. Seen to be protopunk partially because it was one of Lydon;'s choices for playing on Capitol Radio and partially because it's visceral and vitriolic. Dashed fine piece of music anyway.

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Japanes hard rock, like a fluid Sabbath. This is their 2nd lp with some of the lp recorded backing singer Carmen Maki added as bonus. She has a great voice but her phonetic pronunciation detracts from her singing, so I'd prefer this if she had sung in Japanese.
The lp itself is one of the better hard rock sets from the time. Quite a progression from their too authentic blues band s/t 1st lp. Guitar is more overblown for one thing.
I find this really satisfying anyway.
It's very heavy, intense and quite hypnotic. I have the version that came in the Studio Zund box set

Stevo, Sunday, 31 March 2024 12:27 (two months ago) link

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massaman gai (front tea for two), Monday, 8 April 2024 17:18 (one month ago) link

super skronky version of the blade runner feem choon, too

massaman gai (front tea for two), Monday, 8 April 2024 18:16 (one month ago) link

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Les Ambassadeurs Du Motel De Bamako* – Les Ambassadeurs Du Motel De Bamako
Swirling, psychedelic,Mande electric rock. Part of a widespread move in the early 70s for bands to electrify local indigenous music and mix it with Western influences. This also shows the legacy of the earlier Latin influence which swept the continent in the late 50s and 60s. There were some fantastic bands recorded in Northwest Africa who had some similarities in sound these included the Bamako based bands i.e. these and the Rail Band and bands from Senegal including Orchestra Baobab and the bands that descended from the Star Band notably Youssou N'dour's Super Etoile de Dakar.
This music was recorded between 1975 and 1977 after which the band moved base to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and became Les Ambassadeurs Internationaux
So, long electric guitar explorations as part of a larger ensemble. 1st disc here is all Salif Keita vocals , 2nd has 4 different vocalists on .

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4 piece band make a larger sound on a night on an Italian tour in 1978. Very spacious and pretty heavy. Sun Ra on various keyboards 2 horns and a drummer. This and Disco 3000 are both pretty great and recorded in pretty close succession. Not sure which to say is more essential/. I got lucky and got this for £5 from Rermegacorp in a sale a while back.
This helps show why the band got such a reputation. But so much by him does. Otherworldly, psychedelic , noisy music.May help reset the parameters of what can be done with music. & its just one night of live interplay between a small group of musicians. Like, wow.

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2nd lp by Brum heavies. I think more fluid than the first one and some of it sounds oddly Doorsy (Planet Caravan)
I'm still going through a phase of listening to a lot of early stoner rock stuff and this is an important part of that. I should be getting the first lp shortly, previous copy got heavily scratched.

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1st lp by another turn of the 70s heavy groups.This is very heavy and monumental and things.
I'm not familiar with the rest of their material I picked this up on hearing it was one of the killer heavies. May check out some more of their early stuff but I think they add orchestration etc on the next lp. This is just the band playing hard rock, they become more progressive with the next couple of records I hear.

Stevo, Thursday, 11 April 2024 20:16 (one month ago) link

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Interesting best of on Spectrum. Seems like it's more curated than you might expect a mid priced cd compi to be. I think anyway, I have a number of JB sets and albums and am not familiar with a few things on here. Not sure to what extent this qualifies as the best but there is a lot of great material from the time covered anyway. It goes on beyond a point I'd cut off at. I thought he had bowedvto the pressure of the influence of disco so quality had slipped. This has a few tracks from that era which avoid that. Now I'm wondering if Drunk On The Heavy Funk was worth checking out, that's the 2cd covering that era that came out about 20 years ago.
One thing that drew me to picking this up was the 1970 era sleeve photo and a number of track titles I would associate with a certain era. There are a load of tracks here from 68-73 and a few later plus some of the better known earlier ones Night Train, Cold Sweat, Papa's Got A Brand New Bag. I'm not sure what I'd put on a basic JB best of. Did have a couple of earlier Best Of sets of him a few decades ago that even then had tracks I'm not sure were immediately lowcomdenom but I am impressed by this for mid price.
Could just be that I'm out of touch with what the important points of JB are in the wake of Rare Groove and Acid Jazz etc. Where I was approaching things initially from the perspective of a 60sphile mod revival. Do love the early to mid 70s stuff anyway.

Stevo, Monday, 15 April 2024 10:05 (one month ago) link

Reyna Tropical

curmudgeon, Friday, 19 April 2024 15:27 (one month ago) link

I love that Dead on the Heavy Funk late 70s/early 80s JB comp.

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Saturday, 20 April 2024 16:25 (one month ago) link

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I picked this up thinking it was going to be 20s and 30s old timey etc and it turns out to be 40s to 70s. Still pretty great. Lots of country and blues picking and frailing.
I grabbed a pile of stuff from a local 2nd hand shop. Would have been more if I'd had more dosh a couple of days earlier.

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This was from the same place and I think purchase. Good sounding set of acoustic blues stuff. With Frank Stokes on the cover. I got a Document set by him a couple of days earlier.
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compilation of various musics from North Africa from desert blues to more traditional Mande Sounds and had a free cd by Mamane Barka that I've yet to listen to.

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Sublime record by Malian guitarist and international band including Taj Mahal on acoustic guitar. Mix of his Malian blues and possibly more traditional stuff. Pretty great anyway, I think I missed another couple of his that had been there when I first looked.
All of this traditional stuff apparently came from one person's collection.

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Hungarian folk played by an official ensemble so not sure how authentic and gritty. ~Gets pretty noisy when woodwind drone instruments are in play.&I do find it pretty cool.

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Compilation of 2 cajun records from the time of the revival. I need to listen to this more but am enjoying what I've heard.
Need to go back to the shop to see if they've still got any of the things I didn't grab last week

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Uncut covermount sampler of the Can Bootleg series. Aston sounds interesting from this track

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Japanese psych prog band from the early 70s. Remind me of the Doors musically along with Pink Floyd, King Crimson and a few others.
Found this had fallen down somewhere after not being able to find it recently. But pretty good listen.

Stevo, Monday, 6 May 2024 10:30 (three weeks ago) link

Isshoku Sokuhatsu [Yonin-Bayashi] was the last title there. Hadn't realised it didn't have a name showing.

Stevo, Monday, 6 May 2024 10:31 (three weeks ago) link

the byrds (untitled)

no lime tangier, Saturday, 18 May 2024 06:33 (two weeks ago) link

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Because I am suggestible (and because it's beautiful).

I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Saturday, 18 May 2024 08:19 (two weeks ago) link

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massaman gai (front tea for two), Saturday, 18 May 2024 09:26 (two weeks ago) link

definite skinny puppy vibes

massaman gai (front tea for two), Saturday, 18 May 2024 09:44 (two weeks ago) link


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