New compilation of Japanese folk (with the marvellous title of Even A Tree Can Shed Tears) is an absolute stunner. So much gorgeous music, so many artists I've never heard of who I'll now need to check out. Big recommendation.
― bamboohouses, Sunday, 12 November 2017 21:14 (six years ago) link
Absolutely lovely comp with invaluable lyric translations by Hisham Bharoocha, whose name is unfortunately misspelled in the liners.
― Yelploaf, Sunday, 12 November 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
2nd Pacific Breeze comp announced!
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 13:19 (four years ago) link
In very, very welcome news, Hiroshi Yoshimura's 'Green' is getting a reissue: https://lightintheattic.net/releases/6773-green
― cooldix, Sunday, 22 March 2020 07:11 (four years ago) link
green owns
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 09:11 (four years ago) link
Hello friends. We would like to take this time to announce a very special live stream, this Friday, April 3rd to benefit @MusiCares COVID-19 relief fund. Full lineup below, and more information here: https://t.co/VaK0YdCj5g pic.twitter.com/FXnQYPwjyF— Light In The Attic 🌱 (@lightintheattic) March 31, 2020
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:16 (four years ago) link
Acetone!!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:17 (four years ago) link
Even a Tree Can Shed Tears has been my quarantine soundtrack so far. love it.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:28 (four years ago) link
Gigi masin!
― Evan, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:47 (four years ago) link
so relieved to hear that gigi was keeping well
― ymo sumac (NickB), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:49 (four years ago) link
New Pacific Breeze comp is pretty great. Not sure it's as great as the first volume, need a few more spins to determine.
THIS TRACK is dope as hell
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 4 May 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link
Paul, you'd like the "Tokyo Nights" compilation.
i had this on repeat for longer than i care to say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDKXlXzjWLE
Liking Pacific Breeze 2 almost as much as the first... that was more than enough for me to order the CD and dig a bit deeper on some of this stuff. All these compilations are getting me back into Japanese music after a long time away ٩(◕‿◕)۶
― maffew12, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 02:01 (three years ago) link
Spring Cleaning 20202 Sale happening. Lots of interesting looking stuff here. Anyone have any favorites from this list they'd recommend? I have a few things in my cart already but I'm gonna spend at least $75 to get the free shipping. Not a huge fan of horror soundtracks (though I can be convinced if there's one that's especially good or unique) but everything else is fair game:
https://lightintheattic.net/shelves/Vinyl%20Distancing%20and%20Spring%20Cleaning%202020
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 31 May 2020 11:41 (three years ago) link
Oh, and I did love that link above, maffew12! Thank you. If the whole comp is of that caliber I'm going to have to pick it up.
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 31 May 2020 11:42 (three years ago) link
Thanks for the spring cleaning tip. I picked up the 8LP Giant Sand box for $54!
― Cow_Art, Sunday, 31 May 2020 12:46 (three years ago) link
Yeah, the Giant Sand box is an incredible deal. I snagged a couple of the Bevis Frond records from them recently too.
― daily growing, Sunday, 31 May 2020 16:04 (three years ago) link
Spring Cleaning pages are staggering, but---The ones I'm most familiar with here are the Blaze soundtrack, if you're into outsidery Texas singer-songwriters (not too outsidery: Blaze was cherished and covered by ornery inside-outside stars like the latter-day Merle Haggard etc). This one made my Nashville Scene Top Ten. Also, even more in thee same vein, because vintage and various artists who are smokey pillars of East Nashville etc, the Heartworn Highways soundtrack, from the classick 70s documentary, with Townes Van Zandt, David Allan Coe, Guy and Susanna Clark and so on. Country Funk Vol. 2 has some keepers, though also some "OMG we're white stoned country *and* funky!" self-amazed goobers.A friend of mine used to play Bernard Hermann's Taxi Driver quite a bit, and though I never heard it when my friend wasn't talking, the music came over and around him pretty well.Only heard The Exorcist in the theater, but music and sound design by far the best elements of that otherwise lurid-to-ludicrous/70s-as-hell-flick (not nec. a bad thing, but sonics best of all).Haven't heard those particular Goblin soundtracks, or other titles, but how bad could they be? Ditto those Lizzy Mercier Descloux titles, judging by the ZE reisses I do have.Early 70s live Funkadelic, Bert Jansch, maybe This Heat, The Camberwell Now.
― dow, Sunday, 31 May 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
alas the shipping to canada is unspeakable
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Sunday, 31 May 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
worth checking out imo:
bobby brown - prayers of a one man bandsam waymon - ganja & hesscharles wain - the last wavealbert washington - sad & lonelycaeser frasier - 75aleke kanonu - alekeaktion - groove the funkthe apostles s/t
― budo jeru, Sunday, 31 May 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
thanks!
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 1 June 2020 00:22 (three years ago) link
If you're at all interested this edition of the Taxi Driver Soundtrack is the one to own. It's the only release that contains the complete score. The original release is sort of a train wreck; the first side is some chirpy shit that wasn't even in the movie IIRC.
― Freeze Instr., Monday, 1 June 2020 03:20 (three years ago) link
I am so excited about this reissue of Yoshimura's Green. This new / restored version without the dumb sound effects is a revelation. Usually that stuff doesn't bother me ("Humming The Sea" by Yutaka Hirose is one of my favorite ambient tracks ever and there's the sound of surf all over it), but losing the stock birds-and-water sounds of the previous issue of this album really puts a different perspective on it. Now it sounds like an all-time classic. Love love love this record.
Any word about a reissue of Soundscape 1?
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 18:32 (three years ago) link
Please, please let there be a Soundscape 1 reissue.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
green has been my lockdown s/t
― per aspera ad scampo (||||||||), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
Yeah, it's ideal for lockdown for sure (especially right before bedtime)
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
Two months later I am still listening to Green on an almost nightly basis. It's so beautiful, but it's also become my pandemic anti-anxiety medication. Like many of you I have heard my share of chill ambient and new age but I swear the middle of this record - the run from "Sleep" through "Feet" - feels like it actually slows down my heart rate a little.
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 12:35 (three years ago) link
It's still on order at my record store. Have been streaming it for months now but I don't think I've ever reached the end of the album as I mostly put it on when I go to bed lol
― willem, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 12:52 (three years ago) link
Yes, this and Kankyo Ongaku, which I only just got into this year, have been *immensely* helpful over the past few months
― rob, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 13:56 (three years ago) link
Very hard agree. Green operates in its own space & overall the Japanese ambient scene has been a godsend these last few months.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
do you all prefer the SFX version or the clean version? i used to be a 100% clean advocate, but the SFX enhance the napping experience even more, sometimes
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 15:25 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38q7p2c3eSE
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 15:27 (three years ago) link
I think it’s time for a critical re-evaluation of CAKE. Deeply weird songwriting, an absolute shredder playing guitar, and a surprising pop sensibility. They also take an intermission when they play a show and I like that— Light In The Attic (@lightintheattic) September 11, 2020
― spastic heritage, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
CAKE were my favorite band in high school but the last time I listened to Fashion Nugget my impression was "the critics might've been right about these guys"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
Haven't played in in forever, but looking at the tracklist now I feel like just removing "I Will Survive" and "The Distance" would instantly make it a much better record. I think I'd still like most of the debut, but WXRT absolutely killed this band for me by (still, I'd imagine) playing "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" every hour.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
This is weird to say but the Weird Al parody almost ruined them for me, it was so on the nose that I couldn't hear them the same way
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
i'm listening to green and trying not to doom scroll atm. wait why the hell are you guys talking about cake
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 16:36 (three years ago) link
LITA tweeted about reevaluating the legacy of Cake
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
well i guess the answer to this thread title is that they can do wrong
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
Recently heard Cake set as finale to a quarantine-unearthed broadcast concert, feat. various artists---long-running public radio series Mountain Stage, prob in online archives----and deadpan singer just kept droning, band just kept unfolding, grew horns etc, all very effective. Good songlist too. I'd go see 'em.
― dow, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
Don't know the records.
― dow, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
they are hit and miss live. they benefit a lot from being one of those bands where the fans know the records very well so their shows have sort of a party atmosphere. but the band itself came off kinda unrehearsed one of the times I saw them, plus John McCrea was a dick to the audience, I very much got a "we're only doing this because you buy tickets" vibe to it. the other time they were pretty fun and seemed to enjoy themselves.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
The set I heard was maybe 20 minutes, at most, which prob helped, and he did *seem* begrudging---but dour, pithy comments effectively introduced the songs: good contrast with the colorful, energetic band.
― dow, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
Best use of said dickishness, for a few minutes anyway.
― dow, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
probably discussed on another thread, but I am getting a lot of targeted ads for this
https://lightintheattic.net/releases/7377-somewhere-between-mutant-pop-electronic-minimalism-shadow-sounds-of-japan-1980-1988
I actually don't know any of this stuff...dip in the pool is the only artist I've heard more than a couple songs by...anyone wanna give a thumbs up or thumbs down
― frogbs, Friday, 15 January 2021 20:22 (three years ago) link
yeah, that got discussed briefly here: Please recommend me some Japanese new wave...
thanks for the reminder though!
― kieth chagrin (NickB), Friday, 15 January 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
can't hate on any comp featuring Wha Ha Ha / Ogawa / RNA Organism. it's just shocking as you wouldn't expect the result to sound like a study music playlist. you wonder if it's trying to open doors to the weirder chaos or airbrush out all the variety so that all we remember is the maximally streamable lounge
weird getting old, right?
― Milton Parker, Friday, 15 January 2021 21:20 (three years ago) link
recommend the recent vanity records reissues as counterpoint
― adam, Friday, 15 January 2021 22:03 (three years ago) link
yes
― Ãœberschadenfreude (sleeve), Friday, 15 January 2021 22:15 (three years ago) link
I like what this label does, but I sure wish they would offer the same compilation tracklistings across all formats. Somewhere Between is 14 tracks on LP and cassette, 13 on CD, and only 8 for download.Kankyo Ongaku is 25 tracks on LP, 23 on CD, and only 10 for download.
Is this a rights thing for different formats or are they just trying to steer people to the most expensive version?
I would totally understand if they don't want to put the complete comps on streaming. But let people pay to download the whole comp!
Perhaps I should be writing to them instead of complaining here. Perhaps I will.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 23 January 2021 06:30 (three years ago) link
Let us know if you do. I bought the Somewhere Between comp on CD and wasn't aware that it was, like Kanyo Ongaku (which I also bought on CD), shorter than the LP version. But yeah I'm guessing it's a rights issue, especially since CDs still sell in Japan from what I understand, and I'm assuming the license holders for a lot of that music are in Japan
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 23 January 2021 10:47 (three years ago) link
This guy was always in the background of my adolescence, it never occurred to me that he was worth paying attention to.
You people are going to have me listening to Garth Brooks next, wtf.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 13:05 (yesterday) link
Oh cool! Are they doing more than one album?
― brimstead, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 13:44 (yesterday) link
Cow art, there’s a good thread on his album Like Red on a Rose, one of my favorite country albums ever
― Heez, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 14:24 (yesterday) link
so back in my youth...
the biggest alan jackson album with "chattahoochee" was the blockbuster and in those days, the record stores would often put the artist's prior pre-blockbuster catalog albums on budget price. we were poor, so my mom bought don't rock the jukebox on cassette and we rocked it (er, didn't... you know what i mean). if you like that sort of thing, yeah it's damn good. the title track is a new nasville standard, the ballads are great (esp "midnight in montgomery"), and his voice is just what it's always been: not overbearingly impressive, but strong and familiar. i'm far from a proper fan and i don't know most of his catalog, but i absolutely have fond memories of that album.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 20:57 (yesterday) link
I always think this thread is about the Shel Silverstein poetry collection
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 23 May 2024 00:40 (sixteen hours ago) link