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Stevo, Monday, 1 January 2024 11:32 (four months ago) link

First thing I listened to on waking up this morning was this
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which elsewhere looks like this
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and sounds like a bunch of middle class youth discovering how heavy one could set its distortion at the turn of the 70s. It does rock but I don't think I would ideally pick that vocalist cos I think he reflects his background but this is decent garagey heavy rock with corrosive distortion.
I think I picked it up in Minus Zero in the mid 90s and hadn't played it in ages. But it is pretty great.

sorted through a pile of cds I hadn't looked through for a while andd found several essential titles including this
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which I have in a bootleg version from before the band themselves released a remastered version.
Heavy rock that sounds like a heavier take on The Doors with a street preacher/street person expanding on Morrison. The guitarist is heavier than Kreiger and there is an u8nderkying Xian message though I think it can be overlooked. The singer's manic vocal is pretty great though.
I have thought about picking up the remaster but never got around to it.

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Finnish heavy prog/psych. Quite heavy. I just got this after spending some time perusing a couple of lists of heavy psych/hard rock that had been written on headheritage a couple of decades vback and one I'd been sent elsewhere
https://www.headheritage.co.uk/headtohead/unsung/topic/30590/threaded/381991
and
https://www.headheritage.co.uk/headtohead/unsung/topic/5500/threaded/45556
which both have some seriously great stuff on.
I was able to find tracks from a load of the lps I still didn't have up on Spotify.
This sounded very interesting so I grabbed a copy. It arrived on Friday.
Great guitar and band interplay. May take a while for the singer to grow on me. Reminds me of Brian Blesse4

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ery heavy, pretty late heavy psych lp dating from 1976. I thought this was considered a Stoner Rock classic which contributed to me buying it fromn Rockadrome when they reissued it in the late 00ies.
It's been sitting in a piule neglected for an age.I started spinning it again recently and its really growing on me.

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Manchester band signed to John Peel's Dandelion label. Brutal thuggish reworkings of a number of blues asnd psych rock numbers and some original material which always stood out to me. I picked this up in a Dublin HMV sale in the early 90s and played bits of it regularly on my radio show, think I'd seen a review in Forcedexposure or something.Have meant to get the cd box set of all of their work.

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very funky free jazz lp which I'd meant to pick up for a while. I picked up a copy in Honest John's late last year then put it back in the racks for some reason. Picked up a Sun |Ra compilation thing instead got back here and wondered why I had missed getting it. So wound up listening through it on spotify and going duh what'd you do. So got it through Spotify and may have wound up with a better version the Corbett vs. Dempsey one. Not sure if that was the one I'd initially rejected, sleeve doesn't seem to mention bonus tracks but this about doubles its length in cover versions.
Pretty essential.

also been lkistening to a load of jazz I picked up from charity shops and seems to have a leaning to early eras 30s & 40s and a few artists from then's later work. So much great stuff here. I'm now reading Ted Giotta's history of Jazz which is helping place some of this, though I do have some understanding.
also a load of classical stuff I'm picking up from the same charity shops. Classical is an area I really haven't spent a great deal of time listening to. Though have intermittently tuned into classical radio at different points.

mot sure what else extremely left field has turned up . Bound to be some stuff, various folk and stuff.
Mainly listening to podcasts on spotify and therefore the phone as walkman interspersed with tracks a lot of which come from the lists I mentioned.

Stevo, Monday, 1 January 2024 12:38 (four months ago) link

epic vapor version of McDonald / labelle “on my own”

https://jpro.bandcamp.com/track/--81

calstars, Monday, 1 January 2024 14:46 (four months ago) link

the Unpopular 1/24 mix, very old-school UK indie heavy, simply a wonderful way to welcome the new year for me

https://www.mixcloud.com/unpopularuk/unpop-238-january-2024/

J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 1 January 2024 15:04 (four months ago) link

Gospel funk from the 70's!

Confessions of an Oatmeal Eater (I M Losted), Sunday, 7 January 2024 15:28 (four months ago) link

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I've been on a pretty heavy hippie album rock binge lately.

Confessions of an Oatmeal Eater (I M Losted), Friday, 12 January 2024 00:23 (four months ago) link

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Post-Roxy new wave not available via streaming that sounds exactly 1982. Pleasant enough.

Confessions of an Oatmeal Eater (I M Losted), Friday, 19 January 2024 22:57 (four months ago) link

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no lime tangier, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 09:00 (three months ago) link

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German teen heavies 1st lp.
I'm listening to a lot of early 70s heavy material at the moment. This arrived yesterday and is pretty great. I think I need a better music player to hear things properly though. This is the Lumpy Gravy version, not sure how it compares to the previous cd.
But been meaning to pick this up for ages so glad I finally did get a copy.

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1st lp by international heavy quartet. The rhythm section had been used by Brainticket on their lp Cottonwoodhill which is also the title of a track here.
Great very heavy psychedelic rock. Again been meaning to get this for years. Now need Tomorrow Blue

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I think my fav of the Eno era, dark psychedelic otherness. Eno treating the rest of the band's instruments and creating dubbed out epics.
Manzanera getting quite heavy in places.

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superheavy German trio. Get very abstract in places. Refound my copy this week. Should be much more familiar with it.

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German psych which I guess is krautrock. It gets very noisy in places. 1st track seems a bit corny lyrically, maybe overtly English as 2nd language. But music on that gets really out too.

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1976 set which gets pretty out.
Couldn't find this recently so glad I finally have done. Found a load of titles while looking for Silberbart.
I think this was one of the first sets I heard by the band cos my brother had a copy of the vinyl. I remembered it as being heavily drum dominated which seems less true on the cd I listened to.

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The Grapefruit label set devoted to the Ladbroke Grove/Portobello scene. Wish I'd been more aware of the music being made around me when I was there, which was at the start but also my start.
Got some great stuff on as always. I'm also reading Andrew Lauder's book Happy Trails which overlaps.

Stevo, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 12:04 (three months ago) link

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massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, 25 January 2024 11:32 (three months ago) link

soooo much new punk

starter packs:
https://geeteeband.bandcamp.com/album/g-t-r-r-c-iii
https://geeteeband.bandcamp.com/album/g-t-r-r-c-iii

dead precedents (sleeve), Friday, 26 January 2024 23:50 (three months ago) link

unnerving and beautiful

https://byqow.bandcamp.com/album/elmosameh-sherine

butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 27 January 2024 02:52 (three months ago) link

https://i.discogs.com/ecIT7o4EO2_5d2vJqum3cABg0zkAPxfJVTocm4UKHPM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTgxOTA5/NTUtMTQ1Njg0MTc4/NS04MTkyLmpwZWc.jpeg just picked this up from the DHL Paket shop that exists inside the posh health food store run by tired looking hippies who seem you've ruined their day - an old friend had sent it totally unbidden just by way of "Hi" Sugai Ken's "鯰上 - On The Quakefish" never heard of him before but super gloopy ambient / concrete. what a pleasant surprise!

massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, 1 February 2024 13:29 (three months ago) link

https://i.discogs.com/rZDRC65R6R5vm5Tk_SaCR1vlbmfiIEfd7MqHP877Yr4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:590/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIyOTg0/MDUtMTUxNjUzNDE0/NS05MDc0LmpwZWc.jpeg richard teitelbaum w brax & g. lewis "Concerto Grosso (1985) For Human Concertino And Robotic Ripieno". distracting plinky plonk

massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, 8 February 2024 12:47 (three months ago) link

Really lovely EP of saxophone/bass clarinet + electronics
https://bossada.bandcamp.com/album/cantina-days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW3SPgx2CPk

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 8 February 2024 19:36 (three months ago) link

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Heavy prog from Germany. Got some scorching leads and keyboard. Pretty psychedelic. Have been aware of the existence of this since the early 00ies when it cropped up on mp3 blogs but only just got hold of a physical copy.
So only heard it through a couple of times so far. But will be listening to it a lot more. Going through a heavy stoner hard rock phase so picking up a bunch of stuff I've been aware of for a while but not got around to getting.

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Turkish heavy Anadolu rock trio combining trad influences with electric rock in a heavy psychedelic way. Some great snaking lead lines.
I was trying to work out earlier if the theme to their s/t track was borrowed from somewhere else, sounds familiar.
Have had this for a few years but neglected it for a while so getting back into it.
Maybe not quite as heavy as it could be but think it's pretty good.

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2cd compilation of 20s blues chanteuse cheap but with pretty decent sound.
I grabbed this last week after it wasn't around locally for several months. I got a different compi of her last year, I think while I was reading her biography and had wanted to get this so did next time I saw it.
Janis Joplin bought her grave a headstone at the turn of the 70s and I think she was popular with the current hippy underground as a number of other reissues from the time were. This shares a cover image with a compilation that was released in 1970 and I think sold pretty well.
Her blues is played with a jazz combo so is a bit different to the delta blues that I think a lot of people associate prewar blues with. In Delta blues you normally have a solo performer accompanying themselves with a portable instrument like a guitar. It has been interesting to note that this music which has partially been portrayed more recently in terms of legacy going back to time immemorial actually seemed to be pretty new when it was being introduced in the early 20th century. The guitar as popular instrument ties in with the popularisation of the Sears catalogue, mail order and instalment payments. Which does also tie in with older traditions but new technology morphs the way that music is performed and also how it is heard. Like the fact that it is recorded for posterity was only a couple of decades old at the time. Commercial criteria narrowed what was being recorded all too soon and introduced formulae as well as excluded things it deemed outside of what was wanted to sell or represent the type of music to be recorded.
Sonow you have a load of older music coming out of copyright and some firms are doing their best to make it sound listenable on current technology. This is Not Now who do seem to be coming out with good audio. I'm enjoying this.

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Country music guitarist who was heavily influential in the creation of countrypolitan and a few other not so great innovations. His own playing is pretty interesting so I've wanted to get some for a while. This does seem to avoid overt schmaltz in what I've heard so far.
It's certainly way more MOR than avant but this is a handy 3cd to have I think.

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First 2 lps by the band that morphed out of Timebox and took its name from the lead singer. Featuring the very dextrous guitar of Ollie Halsall who had only been playing guitar for a couple of years by this point. He had played vibraphone beforehand which he does in some places here. Wondering if his conception coming from another instrument impacted his playing on guitar, it's quite great anyway.
Pretty blues based with a heavy jazz influence. So maybe like a more jazzed out Zep anyway recommended bband.

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RIP Wayne Kramer but I think I wuld havev been listening to these anyway. I think I only found 66 Breakout last week while going through piles of things. The Total Energy label was run by John Sinclair I think or at least heavily involved him. So they released a load of previously unreleased material some of which has been reissued since and some hasn't.
These 2 are great anyway.

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Heavy folk rock from Chicago with female vocals.
Production has a lot of space in it. Guitar is very heavy and distorted in places.
Lengthy version of Train Kept A Rollin is sung by someone with no knowledge of the lyrics. So has complete mumbled nonsense being sung
, not sure what to think of that, positive or negative? Garage innit?

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2nd lp from early 70s twin guitar band.I rediscovered the band recently. Love the first couple of lps and the live in Memphis mini lp which takes its tracks from this lp and extends them. I don't love the vocals on Argus so not listened to that in an age. They had a lot of promise early on. 1st s/t lp has them taking off in an impactful hard rock direction, this takes off in a more folky jazzier direction with some psychedelic influences. Argus has some guitar interplay that sounds like a more mature take on the ballroom sound but I find the vocals really bland.
Not sure what the best releases of this set are. Have heard it was remastered and overcompressed a few years ago. Think it's a great lp anyway.

Stevo, Friday, 9 February 2024 12:58 (three months ago) link

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massaman gai (front tea for two), Friday, 9 February 2024 13:50 (three months ago) link

i've been listening to this Rie Nakajima release a bunch:
https://rienakajima.bandcamp.com/album/four-forms

it's very well mixed and sounds amazing in headphones, quite ASMR-ish. she's maybe the most compelling voice doing this kind of found objects/ kinetics sound stuff rn... anne-f jacques is also really great.

also i haven't heard any other jazz that prominently features the celesta, which is a terrible shame because it sounds like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyk4GtvBhZo

Deflatormouse, Friday, 9 February 2024 18:41 (three months ago) link

diiv - is the is are

brimstead, Friday, 9 February 2024 18:56 (three months ago) link

^ i played that a few weeks ago, holds up really well

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 February 2024 18:59 (three months ago) link

for sure! the guitar/bass interplay, the textures, the feeling at times of being carried along by a dreamy motorik cloud… classic

brimstead, Friday, 9 February 2024 19:30 (three months ago) link

That Jonas Burgwinkel record is great, thanks. I've heard on him a few other things, he's a pretty astonishing drummer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SOvuvl9C4I

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 9 February 2024 22:55 (three months ago) link

- this is amazing stuff. so much fun to listen to. originally a 4xCassette box set from 2018. i'm listening on Youtube Music but i'm sure its on Bandcamp or Spotify and all the rest. almost 4 hours of sound. highly recommended!

Girih: Iranian Sound Artists

https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b27337d15eb0e136af5d4cbb5a16

https://open.spotify.com/album/7aY3NmdY0qrV0Wj5kIBBiA

scott seward, Saturday, 10 February 2024 19:06 (three months ago) link

Allaudin William Mathieu- Streaming Wisdom


just anticipating spring over here

butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 11 February 2024 16:10 (three months ago) link

https://i.discogs.com/bBMwoUtf6_RtDgQSKq03v2fgYFl8I11Q8twwXNasrIw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:594/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExNjQ3/MDcxLTE1MTk5OTQy/MzgtMjg2Ny5qcGVn.jpeg Martin Blume, Wilbert De Joode, John Butcher – "Low Yellow" v low key, but not "lower case" subdued & lyrical incus-adjacent free improv scrabble. keep putting it on while i'm writing and it's gone. 40 minutes every time just disappears.

massaman gai (front tea for two), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 09:13 (three months ago) link

https://i.discogs.com/zf23TuHq5CxmlfxQV1cjp_RNl7M_VAL6fuxH5msy7dM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:598/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExMDI1/NjgyLTE1MDg4NTA3/ODQtMjUyMC5qcGVn.jpeg sugai ken - "UkabazUmorezU = 不浮不埋" more temple-gloop to file with your christophe charles & tetsu inoue reckids

massaman gai (front tea for two), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 11:48 (three months ago) link

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Shabason/Gunning - Ample Habitat (forthcoming on Seance Centre)

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2898142043_16.jpg
Mija Milovic - Still Life (new on Escho)

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0065927541_16.jpg
Fields Of Mist - sketches 21-22 (a relatively older but still contempo release by someone who got on my radar yesterday via an intriguing new 12" EP on Ilian Tape)

I don't care where just fart (away) (Craig D.), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 14:24 (three months ago) link

thanks for the headsup on the Shabason/Gunning

butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:40 (three months ago) link

Cheers!
It's so far my fave album of this year
(I've pre-ordered the files on BC, but was also kindly privy to an advance of it late last year to 'premiere' (ha) on my hobbyist internet radio show last fall, since am IRL friendly with them here in Toronto and we've nerded out about music in person in recent yrs)

Back to regular sched prog, I keep coming back to this IMO modern rap classic album by MIKE - Weight Of The World
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1764027466_16.jpg

I don't care where just fart (away) (Craig D.), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 22:29 (three months ago) link

(Return thx for that Donna Leake DJ set SoundCloud link above, table!
She is great, and I missed her playing a set here in T.O. recently)

I don't care where just fart (away) (Craig D.), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 22:37 (three months ago) link

(P.S. If you're Fatik/host of said link, I've listened to your Lot Radio show a ton--great stuff)

I don't care where just fart (away) (Craig D.), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 22:41 (three months ago) link

Hi Craig I still have that Feldman score to give to you, text me and let me know where you’re gonna be at!

I was listening to “Computer Incantations For World Peace” today and decided I’d try and learn to play it

a hyperlink to the past (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 22:44 (three months ago) link

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

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

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 (two months ago) link

https://i.discogs.com/fKIkjQTg86TZ-Da-sXKTqvARxHVM0uzj5AR67HkpgKc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:598/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTE3Njkw/MTItMTY0NTg5NzM1/NC01MzU3LmpwZWc.jpeg bellows - bellows - providence RI sax / tuba / drums trio: doom metal / lightning bolt type thing from 2008. grand stuff

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

Listening to this currently

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Vintage, Friday, 29 March 2024 22:56 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (four weeks 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 (one week 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 (one week ago) link

the byrds (untitled)

no lime tangier, Saturday, 18 May 2024 06:33 (yesterday) 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 (yesterday) link

definite skinny puppy vibes

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


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