I think absolutely scores of albums spanning over 5 decades by Mal Waldron are great and underappreciated. But his only excursion on an electric piano on the album The Call (w/Eberhard Weber in the band) is the sort of jazz-quartet guitarless Krautrock album that only Mal Waldron could make. It was ILX poster J who alerted me to it's brilliance.
― calzino, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 09:29 (six years ago) link
Caspar Brotzmann Massaker Home live in the studio best of and farewell to the original trio. Very visceral heavy psychedelic stuff, essential but I'm not sure how well known it is.
Fat Hit most songlike set by Canadian Free Improvisation trio. Pretty deeply psychy too.
Room oF Lights Crime & The City Solution The one lp by the Howard Brothers line up of the band. Cd came with a lot of bonus stuff from earlier singles and eps.
Eurythmics In The Garden I think this is the only record the band made in this direction. Backing band here are half Blondie and half Can and the direction is psychedelic Brit folk with some contemporary touches. I'm assuming this is still not very well known and not going to be something people will really think of when they think of the band. has English Summer on as well as Take Me To Your heart.
John Renbourn Group A Maid In Bedlam could be totally wrong about this not being well known. I have it on as I type. BUt sublime.
Roberta Flack First takeit has First Time Ever I saw Your Face on so may be better known but has a pretty unique folk jazz soul quality to it that is different to the later material I think is much better known.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 09:47 (six years ago) link
Great Society Live at The Matrix, the combination of the 2 sets released in the late 60s as Conspicous Only In ITs Absence and How It Was.Grace Slick's first band put together with her then husband Jerry and his brother Darby. Darby Slick plays a great raga guitar style that I wish had been recorded a lot more. But when Grace left for jefferson Airplane right at the point the band was about to be signed he took off for India to further study music. He did release an lp as Saddhu Brand in 1970 but i Think that's a lot more traditional Indian stuff.
Sylvia Moore Jungle MagicNorthern English accented singer plays with a load of exotic instrumentation. Tracklisting seems to be half Northern English folk and half more exotic stuff all played in a similar way plus the poignant original You made Yourself Clear I picked this up from a miscellaneous section in the local 2nd hand record shop back in the mid 80s. It has a cartoony pre photoshop cover with her playing Kora against a painted jungle with an appreciative crocodile.
Herman's Hermits Blazetheir psychedelic lp. I've loved tis since I picked it up for 60p from a different 2nd hand record shop back in the early 80s.Probably gets dismissed by some after them being better known for their novelty teenybopper songs.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 10:13 (six years ago) link
Off the top of my head:
A Tribo - Great psych MPB project with Joyce and Nelson Angelo, never released an album proper but recorded 35 minutes worth of material that are super top notch.
Sathima Bea Benjamin - A Morning in Paris: From around the time of Dollar Brand's first recordings; trios with Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, and Dollar Brand on piano. Benjamin's voice is splendid on these standards.
On - Shifting Skin: Electronic rock by Ken Andrews post-Failure. Quality stuff.
― The Saga of Rodney Stooksbury (rushomancy), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 13:33 (six years ago) link
Gary Numan - DanceSoft Cell - This Last Night in SodomHeaven 17 - How Men AreAlice Cooper - DaDaVisage - The Anvil
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 14:43 (six years ago) link
The Glands
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 15:20 (six years ago) link
Clock DVA ThirstNoir influenced jazz industrial stuff. Pretty dark, pretty unique. The band the Box who were the other players than Adi Newton here are very undersung too.
D.A.F Die Kleinen Und Die BosenI think the 1st 2lps by these are both pretty undersung. Think that most attention is spent on the bodybeat duo stuff isn't it?Die Kleinen Und Die Bosen is like a hardcore lp with electronics or something. Always had me thinkking of driving around a town like Berlin at night too.
Gun Club Miamimy favourite of their lps. I think most attention with these is given to the 1st lp which I think is widely cited as influential on various psychobilly and garagey bands. Miami is the next lp, features the same line up as the first one, though Rob Ritter the bassist is uncredited because he left before it was released. He was replaced in the live line up by Patricia Morrison though she doesn't get into the studio asa band memeber until Las Vegas Story.lp is more country and more psychedelic than the debut. I think the cover image is very evocative.
Savage Republic Jamahiriya One of my favourite lps to listen to while tripping. Seems quasi cinematic in its depiction of driving through deserts etc. Penultimate lp by the 80s line up since they cut Customs on some time off in Greece during a European tour. I like that lp too.
John Martyn Inside Outlp improvised wjhile Martyn was seriously drunk I think. Think it tends to be eclipsed by the previous lp Solid Air.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 15:33 (six years ago) link
A one-off band from ten years ago I still listen to, and I may be the only one, is Michael Dracula
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP_tRVZLu10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP8uPyigiD0
3AM nightmare disco rock, like early Chromatics, HTRK, Celebration and the also excellent and forgotten Veronica Lipgloss and the Evil Eyes. Rowland S. Howard couldn't produce everyone like this, but I love that basic sound, and Michael Dracula are my favorite execution of the style. Looks like the principal Emily MacLaren is still doing good stuff as an engineer and producer:
http://www.m-magazine.co.uk/features/interviews/interview-emily-maclaren-green-door-studio/
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 16:20 (six years ago) link
Casket Girls debut is pretty underrated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI0KNAYeKgw
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 03:10 (six years ago) link