What Are You Listening to? 2020

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Been listening to the 2nd disc of this which I think I'd heavily neglected. Think that runs from the turn of the 70s onwards. Still pretty great though all the tracks i'm familiar with through covers are on the 1st disc. Bland still has a great voice tyhough not noticing the extremes quite as much as on the earlier stuff. On that he veers from Sam Cooke smoothness to Howlin Wolf level of growl.
I think I'm noticing more growl here than smoothness but still pretty decent quality stuf with some interesting textures from instruments.

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The actist blues trio live in the studio in front of a small audience in 1969. I think this was the same recording session that produced their jam on the Fugs recording of the levitating of the Pentagon which was released as a single at the time as out Demons Out.
This was finally released on cd back in 2004 as the full session. it rocks and grinds and fun things like that. Somewhat Beefheart Mirror Man-y and i assume Beefheart was a cited influence. Singer is really gruff sounding to the point of laryngitic in places.& they cover Dropout Boogie which they would later combine with the Shadows' Apache

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Not really getting a sonic connection to why this sleeve seems to be aping a Brian Eno sleeve. Seems to be some great stuff on here anyway. May just tie in with the Talking Heads being the cover artists though does look more reminiscent of the Ambient Series and is called Music for Homes. Seems to be a mop up of the best stuff of the year
LOve thsi stuff would like to find some more rock of thsi type that I haven't come across before still.

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i ordered about a dozen LPs over the last couple weeks, in various pre-birthday binges, and they've started to arrive at my doorstep! this morning:

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^ Whoa, that is some purdy (and purdy strange) nu-age

yessir. yeah, they had a track on the recent kankyo ongaku comp which i really liked, so i decided to take the plunge. and to be honest, i think the cover is outstanding and had to have a 12" glossy version of it. :)

nice score Karl

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I have that somewhere it's quite nice. Her and at least one member of Blossom Toes who was an in-law of hers.
Folky-poppy stuff not very avant unlike what I assume is her next move.

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What's your take on Disclosure, front tea? Some appealing reviews.

“Phoenicia wireless” and “drift model” are jams

Thx for the reminder that this Kassem Mosse album was released--have been enjoying most of the releases on his own label Ominira these days, esp. Speculative Ero

i like disclosure. it is crisp and subtle

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xp i am so behind on Kassem hopefully this'll goad me into catching up

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Super (almost power-) poppy Jesus stuff with really cool production that almost sounds like a polished up Wray's Three Track Shack recording or something. Lots of mandolin, some fuzz, even a little backwards dubbing on one track. "Sweeter As The Days Roll By" rips off "My Sweet Lord" a little. Apparently he was Mary Ford's brother.

Found it here:
http://archive.org/details/lp_when-im-dead-and-gone_bob-summers

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1.
Journey in Satchidananda 05:57
2.
The Dolphins 05:15
3.
Claudia Cardinale  02:53 video
4.
Morning Dew 09:18
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East West 16:28
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Reverberation 03:5
Dave Alvin (Flesheaters/Blasters/X/Knitters) Victor Krummenacher (Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven), Michael Jerome (Toadies, Better Than Ezra) and David Immerglück (Counting Crows, Camper Van Beethoven), with Jesse Sykes (of Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter): Cosmic and Kozmik blues, "psychedelic folk rock," like it says on bandcamp (Dave's big ol' Fred Neilian voice, a tad world-weary, gets lifted a bit by Sykes on Neil's "The Dolphins," and she's cool down in the choruses of 13th Floor Elevators' "Reverberation, and she gets to do all the singin' on Tim Rose's "Morning Dew," which could get to be too much of a death slog way back when the Dead etc. used to haul it out on stage, but she keeps everybody awake and igniting at just the right times here. Unperson points out these Dick Dale Middle Eastern chunnelings of Alice Coltrane's "Journey," and Dale might be a gateway for all of this---also well-absorbed Link Wray, Sonny Sharrock, John Cippolina, Bloomfield & Bishop on "East-West," with crystalline outcroppings, moonlight drives, nice.
https://thethirdmind.bandcamp.com/

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currently on "Sketches Of Spain" but it's been playing all day

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Well, that didn't work.

Upcoming Flamin Grooves on Rolling Reissues.

Groovies, even.

Went back to one of my all-time most-listened-to to fall asleep last night
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in the top 2% of piano trio perfection!

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Pretty authentic sounding turn of the 70s britfolk rock stuff. Actually from the early 00s.
Recently reissued with a bonus 2nd cdr through Cardinal Fuzz.
Very nice, haven't heard teh 2nd disc yet

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LIve set by Japanese psych group. O)verload typical of some of this PSF stuff. A little bit of structure i here too.
Think its pretty great.
Have seen it's up on Bandcamp

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Still got the 2nd disc of this on my 3 charger . Put it on last week.
I think that takes Bland from around 1970 on wards.
Pretty great soul stuff. I think I've mainly concentrated on the 1st disc of this previously cos it has the songs i knew from mid 60s beat groups covers as well as the Grateful Dead.
But disc2 is pretty tasty too.

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Hillage's first solo lp backed by the post Daevid Allen Gong and Lindsay Cooper. Pretty much carries on the sound from the Flying Teapot trilogy. Pretty great, thought I'd finally grab a couple of his solo titles in the wake of reading Mike Barnes' A New Day Yesterday.

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overdriven rock by Bristol psych band. Haven't really taken in which disc is which in this set. This one sounds like its got very low production levels, verite like.

Are you following the post-18th Day of May bands, Stevolende? The Left Outsides and The Trimdon Grange Explosion are both putting out really good records broadly along the same lines as 18DoM.

Have cds by both. Which are pretty good.
I think Left Outsides have a new one due.

Classic Chicago cosmic earthy stratafying:

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As Peter Magarsak says in liner notes:
...the group injects something new and distinctive into every piece, including the opener “Orgasm,” an Alan Shorter tune from 1969 that Taylor first arranged for a 2018 project in Philadelphia, which toggles between groovy hypnosis and spacey yet tumultuous exploration. And group originals take their own directions from that gateway.

released March 27, 2020

JOSH JOHNSON - synth bass, organ, piano
ROB MAZUREK - piccolo trumpet, electronics, bells
JEFF PARKER - electric guitar
CHAD TAYLOR - drums and percussion

https://astralcuq.bandcamp.com/

Ditto Jeff Parker's latest solo album

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“I’m always looking for ways to be surprised,” says composer and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Parker as he explains the process, and the thinking, behind his new album, Suite for Max Brown, released via a new partnership between the Chicago–based label International Anthem and Nonesuch Records. “If I sit down at the piano or with my guitar, with staff paper and a pencil, I’m eventually going to fall into writing patterns, into things I already know. So, when I make music, that’s what I’m trying to get away from—the things that I know.”
eleased January 24, 2020

Build a Nest (feat. Ruby Parker)
Jeff Parker - drums, vocals, piano, electric guitar, Korg MS20
Ruby Parker - vocals

C’mon Now
Jeff Parker - sampling, editing

Fusion Swirl
Jeff Parker - electric guitar, bass guitar, samplers, percussion, vocals

After the Rain
Paul Bryan - bass guitar
Josh Johnson - electric piano
Jeff Parker - electric guitar and percussion
Jamire Williams - drums

Metamorphoses
Jeff Parker - glockenspiel, sequencer, sampler, Korg MS20

Gnarciss
Paul Bryan - bass guitar
Josh Johnson - alto saxophone
Katinka Kleijn - cello
Rob Mazurek - piccolo trumpet
Makaya McCraven - drums and sampler
Jeff Parker - electric guitar, JP-08, sampler, midi strings

Lydian, Etc
Paul Bryan - bass guitar
Jeff Parker - electric guitar, pandeiro, midi programming, etc.

Del Rio
Paul Bryan - bass guitar
Jeff Parker - electric guitar, mbira, sampler, Korg MS20, drums, electric piano

3 for L
Jay Bellerose - drums and percussion
Jeff Parker - electric guitar, Korg MS20

Go Away
Paul Bryan - bass guitar and vocals
Makaya McCraven - drums
Jeff Parker - electric guitar, vocals and sampler

Max Brown
Paul Bryan - bass guitar
Josh Johnson - alto saxophone
Jeff Parker - guitar, Korg MS20, JP-08
Nate Walcott - trumpet
Jamire Williams - drums

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/suite-for-max-brown

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enchanted hunters - dwunasty dom

https://latarnia.bandcamp.com/album/la017-dwunasty-dom

tagged as hip hop for some reason...
polish synth pop

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Whoa, thx brimstead for the Enchanted Hunters share--well-done electro-pop w/ live drums IMO! Very neat.

Tonally-appropriate early-morning sleep aid atm
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reissue form '17, repressed last year.