What are you listening to? 2022

La Cloche by France Gall (There was an opinion article about Section 530 of a law related to free speech and corporate responsibility in the LA Times today that mentioned Youtube's algorithms for recommendations and in this case it worked pretty well as part of a mix rather than an individual song that was recommended. If my previous selections had reflected any interest, I would say that they were in presentations of France Gall but who knows.)

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Swedish shoegazing space rock.

I will never forget when this arrived in the mail (from Europe) more than two decades ago. It cost me a week's worth of lunches I'm sure. It was 2 Les Baxter moog records in one. Worth ever penny.

It's funky and disco classical, the rhythms are brilliant.

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Elodie Lauten's synth(s) never leave me lonely on this comet EP: first track is sparkling cloud of pontillist beats: choose your own and hold on. Second track they're framed by something more interior, a little spooky (vibraphone effect) Third janglier, leaner rhythm, fourth round and round with some CPR chordal pressure ("breathe for me," like) like bait for Cocteau Twins. Fith more of a percussive ripple, w bluesy lingering overhead. Bonus remix adds faster beats to track 2, "Quit." Also works. Gotta hear the whole album these are from---label copy:

Wilde Calm Records is honored to present new work from the late Elodie Lauten, New York City composer and recipient of the 2014 Robert Rauschenberg Award. Lauten had been exploring microtonality and alternative temperament since working on a Fairlight CMI synthesizer in the early 1980s and up until her untimely death, had been continuing these explorations with the Klio, her custom modular Reaktor software synthesizer.

Many Wilde Calm fans will be familiar with Lauten’s music from her numerous collaborations with fellow downtown luminary Arthur Russell. Lauten and Russell met through their mutual poet friend Allen Ginsberg and shared a similar sensibility of musical openness and possibility as evident in their spiritual club classic “In the Light of the Miracle” and Russell’s appearance on Lauten’s seminal post- minimalist masterwork The Death of Don Juan.

Five remastered selections from her most recent album Transform feature on the EP in addition to a Wilde Calm remix. For fans of Laurie Spiegel and Suzanne Ciani, Lauten’s synth explorations are essential.
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released December 10, 2014

PS: re

Russell’s appearance on Lauten’s seminal post- minimalist masterwork The Death of Don Juan

And here's Elodie's father, Errol Parker, stage name of the French-Algerian jazz star who crashed his car, messed up his piano-involved anatomy, and started over, conceiving his Errol Parker Tentet as an orchestral keyboard, with himself on drums. Not seeing much of that online, but here's a de facto sextet from later on, when he was able to overdub his own piano again (playing drums live in the studio, and Jimmy Owens adds flugelhorn to his trumpet: all blending, in a freewheeling way, with Monty Waters' soprano sax, and Byard Lancaster brings cool, rich flute solo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVGTkirF-r8

Found this by accident: it's actually a cover of a Parker tune, "Street Ends," by Lysergicfunk, who are not psychedelic, but pretty frisky, sufficiently funky, another strong flute:
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Unfortunately culturally appropriating italian prog band, though that mainly comes down to the last track on the lp and the 2 bonus tracks and I think one vocal chant on another track. Otherwise some very nice musicianship, guitar and bass are both notable and their interplay at times is pretty innovative. Band was apparently formed by Franco Battiato though he left before this lp was recorded.
I got this from BTF a couple of years ago and they seem to be a very good source for this genre, specialists from the country involved to some degree. I think p+p was pretty decent, not sure if that is still true but what is these days,
This was lying around teh cd player so was at hand when I was looking for the last couple of weeks playing. So had wanted to put it on. Glad i did but cod Indian chanting is questionable, does sound from its time though.
Gets quite heavy in places but not cliched. THink there's bits of jazz and other syncopation in the influence too.
Worth a listen if you get the chance

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compilation of various single and compilation tracks by the heavy guitar crew. I think Stefan Jaworzan used to live around Walthamstow or a bus ride away from there cos I think I saw him waiting for buses as I came home from gigs in the mid 80s a few times.
I like the form of rock that these and Ramleh tie into. Seems semi referent to things like Link Wray while also writing in a mire fo its own noise.
THis was from the Kino series of reissues etc that came out a few years ago. I had IIIrd Gatekeeper from its previous cd release so wanted to get hold of some more. THis Kinda rocks.

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wound up with this on cos my Ape-Ology wouldn't play. I need to create a system for my cds or something cos not sure where the rest of my stuff by this guy is.
This is long mixes of tracks, 6-8 minutes and so on.
Has some interesting stuff on, some with added toasting etc.
It starts with Norman the Gambler which I also have on Arkology. Does have some decent grooves with decent frontmen etc but think I want to hear Kung Fu Meets the Dragon etc.
Good set anyway.

Perry is pretty good , has some decent grooves but nothing really wildly unexpected or mindblowing. Roots singers are pretty great but not exactly what I was looking for, Now not sure if I had a faulty Ape-ology or if my cd player needs another isopropyl alcohol cleaning.
NOw screwing up on playing a Nina Simone disc I just bought so wondering the same thing.
Ape-ology played for years I thought. BUt has been sitting on a shelf for a while. So hope this is something I can clear up or hopefully could clear up wiothout major effort of shifting player around and taking it apart but it is getting on a bit. Bought it 17 years ago.

had to wash mould off this
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good EP, worth demolding

Gilla Band "Most Normal" album (3rd one in 8 years)- Irish group is a noise, noisy , post-punk indie rock band that got a 8.4 best new music from Pitchfork and I saw Anne Powers praising em on Facebook. I am not completely won over.

Also listened to Isabella Lovestory new reggaeton album

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XP really liked girl band /gilla band's "holding hands with jamie" but nothing else has ever clicked

trying to wake my son for school with this really quite good puerile glitch-core space-streakings-on-tigerbeat6 type thing. emotional rollercoaster ride: ooh a white CD tray! lap full of white cd-tray-teeth :-(
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wow, there's a cover connection for you

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Are any of your students listening to his improv noise ?

no, i'm not sure they listen to anything. they are largely engineering & IT students and spend most of their spare time in the gym. i think there is a bit of rammstein, deichkind, meshuggah, fantastischen vier fandom etc. IME 99.9% of Germans haven't heard of einstürzende neubauten, faust, cluster, can or werner herzog. anyhow - i forgot what this was when playing it and was quite disoriented in a very pleasurable way by the fahey/mouthus mish/mashhttps://i.discogs.com/c7CTQT-hKFwc_tPIDqut_RzXEbC3KmvOlNqOqrYHQzc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:360/w:400/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTY5MTg5/OS0xMTQ4MzA4MDkz/LmpwZWc.jpeg

recording this into my laptop for mixcloud-ing purposes. razoul üzlu - idiot /genius synth tinkering halfway between vangelis & shakin' ray levis
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Pretty great compi of pianist/singer's turn of the 70s recordings from about 67-73ish. I was trying to listen to disc 2 mainly this week which has a lot of Dylan covers on . I have previously noticed the amount of white singer/songwriters she was covering around the time which I found notable since she was vehemently black power orientated at the time so seemed a possibly odd juxtaposition Anyway she does them in her won style which is pretty great. Bands she is using are pretty tasty too, there's some nice guitar here.
I think my cd player may need another isopropyl alcohol clean out cos it keeps stopping this on different tracks which it will play at different times. Ho hum, frustrating.
Do love her around this era. loved the Sugar iN My Bowl compilation which covers the same era in a more chronologically random way. I think the tracklisting worked ok from what I can remember just that instead of having the music in chronological order as it is here it was the same years and some of the same material mixed up. I think this series is pretty good from what I've seen of the rest of it. Good overview of a specific artist for cheap.

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Another decent compilation, haven't got that into this band before despite enjoying The Jam.
But they do do a decent groove, like. Weller showing how well he channels his soul etc influences. Interesting to see he picked an ex Merton Parka to be his musical foil at the time. I thought they were somewhat also rans so good that Talbot seems to account for himself pretty well.
yeah, enjoying this may check out his further solo stuff at some point.

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yet another great compi this week. I think this is the most recent Mojo cover mount. It's definitely the latest in a series that has been running for the last couple of decades.
Do like this early 70s heavy stuff. Grapefruit's I'm A Freak series covers some fo the same ground;.
Glad to see that Mojo are still taking care over the compilation of their covermounts. Hope people are being turned onto new stuff by them still. This ends with a track from Kingdom Come's galactic Zoo Dossier which I think is a pretty essential lp. pretty necessary one might say

That looks like a cool one to get. Although I haven't seen a cover mount CD on Mojo for quite a few months, though they had ditched it.

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Played the first of this 3cd set this week which is roughly 1967. THe set is chronologically set out.
I love the era this covers, not sure if it's the era of her most celebrated but I think it's great. Do love My Baby Just Cares For Me and things of similar chronology too but this stuff is so great.l
She is placed with some pretty sympathetic players including some great guitar from Eric Gale who is a performer whose name i recognise but am nt very familiar with his own work. Drums are Bernard Purdie too apparently since some of this at least is the Nina Simone Sings the Blues l;p. I think some of this is different performances to what I knew from the Sugar iN My Bowl set, different live versions for one. She introduces a song by talking about Langston Hughes here which I don't think she does there
Nice cheapish way to pick up a bunch of her material from a period I really enjoy. Think I may need to fill out my collection a bit more. This stuff resonates with me massively anyway.

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I think this is considered a lesser lp by the Japanese Noise band. Title somewhat belies the melodicism here but there is some decent heaviness in places as well as shoegazing and stuff. It happened to be the one cd by them to turn up in a local charity shop .
Has some good bits I'm not as familiar with teh band as I should be. Have known of tehir existence for a couple fo decades and not picked up anything by them . May check out the heavier stuff.

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noirish beat influenced 90s band with offbeat instrumentation. Very syncopated drums, baritone sax and a 2string slide electric bass.
Another tbing that turned up in the charity shop, could have also got a Brainiac lp but it looked like it wasn't in great nick.
Enjoying this anyway. THey may be of a time but they did seem to do it successfully.

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boy with the arab strap but i've got to stop or I'll be late to work!

the same because he was successful in the terms for that age but nonetheless in a funk and given to wandering (one can suppose)

the full album on my computer using a cd player that hooks up via a usb port that will be outmoded soon

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Currently listening to a lot of KMFDM.

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jazz meets the world

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ashbalkum
by Salamanda

Young South Korean women, stage names Sala and Manda (or manda); the friend who tipped me to them speculated that they owned only 2 records, and those records were by Jon Hassell and Steve Reich, and then their rich businessman fathers gave them synthesizers and music software so they decided to make the only kind of music they knew. Jeez John, let's not jump to dependence on Daddy money[ they're obviously quick-witted and resourceful but yeah they may well have figured out all they needed to know from those 2 records, for this catchy, atmospheric, spare grooving, which can expand and contract right when it should. Instrumentation up front but some singing slides through at times, theirs and, on one track, that of Ringo The Cat (not too loud and tuneful enough, for a cat in a trance).
Written in the summer of '21, feelgood music suitable for autumn and the next quarantine:
https://8salamanda8.bandcamp.com/album/ashbalkum

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diamond terrifier (sam hilmer from Zs doing harmonized feedback sax skronk over loops, more skronk & vaporwavey bits)

Saturday morning slow cleaning listening to early rock and roll piano instrumentals by Camille Howard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J4PW_3fT6I

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song at the intersection blasted from car radio with a chorus line of I'm laughing at you know plus lines delivered as rap?

grim reapah

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Sheffield left field electronic post punk trio, last lp before Chris Watson left . This was the cd version that came with teh remastered vinyl lp a few years back. Do love the band's trio period though do get stuck playing spot the influence quite often and winding up with a few things on the tip of my tongue. Mix of funk, krautrock, a bit of prog, possibly the Residents though that may be more on earlier lps.
Anyway they came up with something suitably dark and dystopian and pretty danceable in places.

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2nd disc of this anthology of the soul singer I think it captures him at the middle of the 60s quite well. YOu can hear roots in the church and so on. Think I blooming love his voice and delivery.
This does duplicate a few songs in succession in different versions which may not be the best for repeat listening but otherwise this hangs together quite well I think I grew up knowing his songs more by mid 60s British beat bands but the originals here are pretty essential.
Good compilation from what I think was a pretty good series or at least there were a load of soul compilations came out in somewhat similar looking sepia toned cd covers at a similar time a couple of years ago. Not sure how coherent a series it was.

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wideranging reflection of Paul weller's current tastes at some point in 2021. THis turned up beside my bedside table last week so I stuck it on the player.
It has some interesting stuff on, a lot of soul and indie and stuff. Blow Monkeys investigating early 70s soul influences. NOt very familiar with their work did see Doctor Robert featured in teh press a lot 30 odd years ago.
GOt some THird Ear Band in there too

somehow skipped the word dub in the Cabaret Voltaire description.

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and this goofy nonsense which reminds me of irdial discs & OSKA tapes:
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I like the Roadworker track on that compilation

it's good that, innit.
now spinning witcyst's "roslyn" which is a superb '90s tape-murk derek bailey one-man indie rock mess
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the boy with the arap strap (full album) by Belle & Sebastian on my computer (which may not be the best sound quality but sounds appropriately canned contained starving of atmosphere on this particular track)