What Are You Listening to? 2020

Glenn Branca - The Third Ascension
Julian Bream - Spanish Guitar Recital
Kyle Gann - Hyperchromatica
Benjamin Dwyer - what is the word

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Wow, didn't know about that one---I like this too:

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Mr. Ra in a stmulating yet relatively normie situation, guest star for co-star duo set, just *this* piano and *these* vibes, that's enough.

ah nice.. haven't explored dickerson's later stuff much but i'm mad about his albums on new jazz/prestige

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not feeling it, too many nostalgia vibes, moving on

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i can't recommend this highly enough if you're into fake instrumental 80s r&b / proto-house

on a ~chill summer night~ tip

Venom-Welcome to Hell

its on the nose but it fits

didn't bbq today cuz of forest fire smoke.. yah pretty much

the pic i posted was the untitled album by Benedek on the Peoples Potential Unlimited label;

money morning - corporate karma

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almost definitely my desert island OPO ambient EP of the 10s

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Soul Jazz Records comp, many contributors from inter-related scenes, collectives, bands, albums, as the booklet describes: primarily jazz, often with what's often referred to here as "club" sounds, meaning dub, other Caribbean-associated elements (Theron Cross's tuba bobs up several times, so maybe should mention New Orleans influence), hip-hop, funk, weed--a number of tracks could go in a mix with Moses Boyd's Dark Matter, as I mentioned on that album's thread (also mentioned "cohesive variety"---several of these artists have recent music on bandcamp; Tenderlonious and Nubya Garcia albums coming out Fri. Don't know if it's streaming anywhere (I have the 2-CD), but more info and audio excerpts: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/kaleidoscope_2

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it's just ma suthern ayccent

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psychedelic guitar workk outs like a cleaner version of the ballroom sound by Dave Aklvin of the Blasters and friends from Camper Van Beethoven and places.
I think it's quite effective. NIce versions of Fred Neil's Dolphins the 13FE's Reverberation and Morning Dew which I think may owe quite a bit to the Dead, though haven't listened to their first lp in ages. certainly hasa couple of bits on it that sound like Garcia guitar phrasing.
Starts with a cover of Alice Coltrane's Journey in Sachidananda which is nice and my version has 3 takes on the Paul Butterfield band's East West which i think are about 17 minutes each.I think the lp version and the first bonus track sound a bit different so wonder if mix refers to the same take or not.
Also not really heard if this is a one off or a continual project, will be interesting to hear what this develops into if they stick with it.

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Sudanese guitar player playing music taht sounds like an earlier version of the Ethiopiques sound. A cross between indigenous traditional sounds and Western pop. ITs interesting to hear the way the curlicues of teh Sudanese sound seems to coincide with what sounds like Western twist so I haven't woirke dout which it is at any point.
Quit enjoyable but pretty short at about 36 minutes.
Great anyway

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latest edition of the Wire tapper . veers from some very abstract sounding stuff through various other genres.

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I liked the Marsette watts, though I got it because Sonny Sharrock's on it, but before he knew how to do as much as he did later---no slide, for one big thing. Still, he's a good team player in the land of the free jazz.
Didn't know about Third Mind bonus tracks! Stevo, you might like some of the other xpost2020 adds to his bandcamp, maybe especially Songs From An Old Guitar, which can be a lot more electric than the title suggests.

Another contributor to xpost Kaleidoscope creates another Rolling Jazz trip for meee:
Ill Considered's Ill Considered 9---East/West

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Correction! I should have magnified the Watts cover--what I've got, with Sharrock, is his first album, on ESP. As it says here:
Watts decided to focus on music in 1965 and, after a studying for awhile in Denmark, recorded Marzette Watts And Company for ESP-Disk' in December 1966. This first album came together under the supervision of Clifford Thornton and also featured Byard Lancaster and Sonny Sharrock. After more time in Europe, The Marzette Watts Ensemble was recorded in 1969. Produced by Bill Dixon for Savoy, it turned out to be the saxophonist’s final release. That's from a previously unpublished interview, lots of historical detail:
https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/interview-with-marzette-watts-cooper-square-1974

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The original Bolick Brothers?

unless there are some other bolick brothers i'm unaware of! that collection does a nice job of covering the 1936-50 years.

I was making a 'joke' about these chancers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollock_Brothers

somehow they have never crossed my path! now some other brothers:
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xp I absolutely love all those Bluebird 2LP reissues, I must have a dozen (all the Benny Goodmans, some of the Artie Shaw, Monroe Brothers, a couple more)

This is a good Delmore Bros collection---when they get tared of farming on Sand Mountain, which is hard by the looks of it; I've been there---they jump on that "Freight Train Boogie"---adapting to changing times, the country thing for always:

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titles indicate the range:

1. Blues Stay Away From Me 2:51
2 Freight Train Boogie 2:45
3 Trouble Ain't Nothin' But The Blues 2:34
4 Boogie Woogie Baby 2:48
5 Rounder's Blues 2:58
6 Mobile Boogie 2:44
7 Used Car Blues 2:45
8 Pan American Boogie 2:59
9 Field Hand Man 3:00
10 Brown's Ferry Blues 2:37
11 Peach Tree Street Boogie 2:43
12 Blues You Never Lose 2:30
13 Steamboat Bill Boogie 2:37
14 Muddy Water 2:49
15 Sand Mountain Blues 2:40
16 Hillbilly Boogie 2:47
17 You Can't Do Wrong And Get By 2:44
18 Kentucky Mountain 2:42
19 Weary Day 2:40
20 Take It To The Captain 3:00

thanks for the marzette W link, dow, and the ill considered recommendation (heh)

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bunch of electronic stuff w/vague industrial overtones (∆☄O∆∆, Birds, Job Sifre, Solitary Dancer), Ides of Gemini, Terry Callier and right now Sardine v (post-punk/new wave w/Ian Rilen of X).

Sleep - Jerusalem

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^^^music is awesome... pressing is baaaaaaaaaad!

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rota's soundtrack for fellini's satyricon +
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holger czukay “hollywood symphony” from this bootleg of tracks featured on DJ Harvey’s Sarcastic Study Masters mix

telemusik · mixtur

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do you have a real copy of that? the wikipedia entry is wild.

nah i wish

https://90stapes.bandcamp.com/album/beats-bangers-biscuits-at-535-e-55th-st

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https://kahn.bandcamp.com/releases

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J. Nunz Silente

Kinda weird mix of dark synthy wave stuff and a little noirish garage rock from the singer of Lorelle Meets the Obsolete. Listening in anticipation of DLing the new one, which is weirder and more synth heavy.

xpost thanks for the tip re: that Lomahongva album, massaman gai!

Was happy to see that the group also features Stian Westerhus, one of my fave contempo pedal-clicking guitarists...

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