What Are You Listening to? 2020

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Been meaning to get this for a while. It's a canadian heavy rock lp from 1970 based on some of the folk musics from the bands' parents Eastern European roots. It touches on math rock in places, really intricate intersecting lines and things.
Not sure it's what you'd expect from the time. & really weird gruff vocals that might pass for an ersatz beefheart which I assume are humourous.in intention.

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compilation of singles and things by Turkish pop singer.
Has some really nice touches in guitar parts and stinging synth but may be a bit close to MOR.
Quite catchy though.
THis was one of a bunch of titles I've been meaning to pick up from Guerssen for a while. Finally ordered them when the shop could actually ship stuff after having been cut off for a while and they took forever to get across Europe. BUt I have them now.

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Heavyish contemporary psychedelic stuff put out by Cardinal fuzz. It's ok.

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Pharaway Sounds compilation of Iranian pop singer from the early 70s
Another title from the Guerssen batch. THink I need to listen to it a bit more.

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Jazz rock guitarist turn of the 70s live hard rock lp. Pretty good. ThinK i need to acquaint myself with a lot of stuff right now so didn't play this as much as I should have last week.Think it could grown on me.

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oho---xpost Famous Jug Band's Sunshine Possibilities gets appealing takes here, and five stars from Verified Purchasers: they say not only of Clive Palmer historical interest, actually sounds good (inc. Jill Johnson's vocals): https://www.amazon.com/Sunshine-Possibilities-Famous-Jug-Band/dp/B0000256FX

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total masterpiece

^ Whoa! Rad that Vinyl-on-demand reissued that.

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xposts: did mostly get the fjb lp for the clive palmer connection, but the trad arrs are good & berryman's tracks ain't bad either (think i may have heard some of his solo stuff on comps but have no memory of them). j johnson vox are excellent... seems she only ever appeared on this and the non-palmer follow-up.

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now on a dagmar kick <3

I have that somewhere. Haven't played it in ages so hope it's still ok.gor it in a sale in the early 90s.
Think she had a couple of tracks live on a Bbc2 arts programme around the time that came out. Think I saw it anyway. Songs from there.

haim

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Okay, you're going to have to spill the beans about that one---whatsitlikeman??

esp disk / chocolate monk lo fi hippie dada drone & klang. superbly half-assed. long stretches of nothing. feedback.

also the squeezing of rubber duckies (though that could come under the rubric of dada). still patiently awaiting the rediscovery of the perhaps mythical fahey/crayola studio recording from that period.

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Okay, wtf is that last one? Assume the image before is from same album?

Googled and found this

Flop - Regrets: One of Seattle's finest power pop acts never found success

Amazing how the name tells the whole story.

Ha! The one above it is Fastbacks - Zucker (on Sub Pop)

lol Deflatormouse

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Have seen them referred to as the French Fairport---what is this album like? Good gatefold!

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xpost: i'd be inclined to say a closer analogue would be steeleye span, rather that fairport convention. that's their 4th album & 3rd self-titled where they start embracing prog elements to a greater extent (earlier ones i've heard being more in the trad &/or folk-rock vein) though still retaining the folk base. yet to hear their later releases, but i believe they get even more proggy from there on out.

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that just looks so autechrey

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more african/swedish crossover with dyani sticking to keys/vocals throughout.
gets kind of poppy & proggish in places but will listen to anything with dudu pukawana on it!

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alternating between a huge playlist of recent UK jazz and a huge playlist of Aleksi Perälä.

Original US release of What We Did On Our Holidays as Fairport Convention (guess the originally s/t debut hadn't come out in America yet?)

This LP plays itself in my head everyday, all my life since first listen, without warning:

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Oho---what's your take on that??

love delbecq & eldh - burgwinkel was new for me but i'm digging his tight nick fraser / lillinger style. nice ebb & flow. one composition a little twee but on the whole grand

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i think this is the guitarist from deathspell omega

one guy who is currently in DSO and two who were in the early version I think

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before: kabelac/ohana & now: henze/zinovieff

birtwistle/zinovieff chronometer

6-29:
Alvin, Dave- Ashgrove
Alvin, Dave- Blue Blvd
Meters, the- The Meters

6-30:
Meters, the- Look Ka Py Py
Alvin, Dave- Blue Blvd
Alvin, Dave- Ashgrove
Afghan Whigs- Black Love
Afghan Whigs- Gentleman

I'm listening to the Byrds at the moment.

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^^^ just checked that out on bandcamp and it's lovely, going to have to give it more time later. thanks!

rn, back to the first Monkees album

Canada Day:
Fet.Nat - Le Mal
Owen Pallett - Island
Raphael Weinroth-Browne - Worlds Within
Adam Cichillitti and Steve Cowan - Focus

birtwistle's punch & judy followed by maxwell davies'
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