What Are You Listening to? 2020

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https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/speciation

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damn sleeve, is that the on the corner boxset box?

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really enjoying this, Terje Rypdal , Jan garbarek and a rhythm section they seemed to use a bit at the time in the shape of Arild Andersen
bass and Jon Christensen drums.
Veers between free jazz and rock and roll. Does it pretty well.
THink I may need to pick up some more titles with these 4 .
THis was reissued on Flying Dutchman a couple of years after its initial release and got reissued in that sleeve a few years ago. Found it pretty cheap online.

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Finally, a live album representing a shortened complete set by this lot. I'm not sure how much it would show it bieng the notorious show it was if the legend didn't proceed it. Not sure how completely Dave Alexander throws things even on Loose and how much the audience would have picked up on onstage problems
Would be good to get a more functional more representative live set but soudns like the band had been having trouble with Alexander before this. I'm also remembering taht management had limited the amount of times the band played locally in the Michigan area to prevent teh audience becoming overfamiliar with teh band's material early on or something to that effect. So do wonder if there was such a thing a s a perfectly played gig anyway.
THis scorches in places. Asheton brothers are indeed on fire throughout.
I'm still intrigued as to what else was in the box of recordings from the festival and if any of that stuff is good enough for release.
Anyway, loving this.

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Liked this so much I kept it on the 3 changer for another week.
Sounds like an early version of the sound on the 70s Ethiopiques lps i assume Sudan and Ethiopia must have some overlap in musical tradition they are pretty close geographically. THis mixed with some early 60s r'n'r/etc influences.
I think this is really good. Would be interested in hearing garage etc picking up on this as an influence, much as I would have loved to hear some picking up on the garagier parts of Ethiopiques 14 years or whatever ago. Not really heard it emerge though. BUt might show a new direction for dealing with the influences .
Anyway great great set that I'd recommend deeply. Need more like this, or showing the same invention and reinvention at least.

damn sleeve, is that the on the corner boxset box?

― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone

why yes, yes it is. good shit.

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Heard the 50th Anniversary Edition yet? I still gotta.

not yet. am tempted to pick up a copy just for the live stuff.

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xp yeah the bonus live show is really good

sightings "end times"
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Tame Impala - "The Less I Know the Better", "Let It Happen", The Slow Rush
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
Sam Cave - "Refracted Meditations III"
Geordie Haley/Eugene Martynec - untitled Soundcloud track
Big Thief - Capacity
Oranssi Pazusu - Mestarin kynsi

Rajna Swaminathan - Of Agency and Abstraction

Buncha Nick Klein stuff, Perverted By Language, Void Rot and

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The two keyboard Allman Brothers which featured Chuck Levell on piano gave the group a different sound. The mix really is not all that great, but the version of Elizabeth Reed on this LP is pretty cool as the electric piano and lack of a second electric guitar gives the tune quite a bit more space. I dare say it but really has a vibe not unlike ILM favorite "In a Silent Way". Worth checking out if interested in any of said parties.

Rajna Swaminathan - Of Agency and Abstraction
wonderful

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always loved that cover

currently: Ex-Cult Negative Growth

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Heard the 50th Anniversary Edition yet? I still gotta.

― dow, Saturday, August 29, 2020 10:37 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

not yet. am tempted to pick up a copy just for the live stuff.

― no lime tangier, Saturday, August 29
I've been working my way through their 50th Anniversary series on YouTube, hope to get to WD by Labor Day.

listening to skot's deep end mix.

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Owen Pallett - Island
Genesis - Selling England By the Pound
Mozart - Sonatas nos. 5, 6, 7, 8 (K. 283, 284, 309, 310) (perf. Daniel Barenboim)
Steve Cowan - livestream concert (https://www.facebook.com/events/911678792654170/?active_tab=about)

a bunch of cajun & zydeco lps, now bluegrass
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Bellows - Undercurrent
(this and CS + Kreme's Snoopy are likely going to be the two contenders duking it out for my fave electronic/experimental album of 2020)

Revival of Tony Williams Lifetime thread got me back into this

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Young's Lawrence of Newark is a trip too: he doesn't need a synthesizer, and neither do cellist Diedre Johnson nor saxophonist Dennis Mourouse (okay, DM does plug in sometimes). Also got Blood Ulmer, Pharoah Sanders, a lot of percussion but never too much. May have some abrupt endings early on, but hold onto your horsehead nebula for the homestretch/final third (it's only about 33 minutes, but action packed). He was as prolific as the other original Lifetimers, but this set is especially thread-relevant, boldness-wise.

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Now what the hell is that, not seeing anything in English yet.

Jarry related Dead covers?

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MId 70s avant jazz stuff with a stream of semi melodic piano shifting in an dout of focus alongside a backing quintet.
Not quiite got my head wrapped around this yet.
Probably better if I wasn't listening to it on low volume as I was going to sleep or a little louder as wi Was waking up.
Maybe needs higher volume and concentrated immersion?
Anyway glad i finally got it.

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outtakes etc from around the time of Y , got several alternative takes from the original lp plus Kiss The Book which turned up on the We Are Time set.
I love this band around the time of this first lp, some of my favourite sounds. Would love some more of it.
I'm a bit less into For How Much Longer though it is still pretty decent.

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Actually the live set taht came with teh remaster of The Idiot which is also represented here. Hadn't listened to either of teh live sets that came with the lps.
THis si about good enough, sound isn't perfect. It's abouot half Stooges and half songs from the lps including things Like Turn Blue.
Quite enjoyabloe I guess, not sure how often I'd bung it on if i wasn't conscious of having bought it and not listened to it.
Couldn't see a listing of musicians for the set, like he guitar a lot in places and the band is pretty solid.
So quite good I guess will see how frequently I revisit it though

My listening year so far is in this thread, about half of the Wire's 100 Records that Set the world etc. list

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Since then lots of Krautrock: Can -- from Soundtracks to Ege Bamyasi -- Faust IV, Pyschedelic Underground is such a good set, Yeti manages that intensity with a couple of CHOONS!!, currently on the first three Neu! albs and off to Ash Ra Temple next (whom I've actually never heard).

xp not really sure what oxomaxoma is tbh, or what to make of it

Oh, the Grateful Dead album of that title---didn't recognize it broken up like that, and w Spanish---is mostly enjoyable, in a damn-thee-torpedoes-of-budget-and-all-other-limitations way---talking about the rediscovered, remastered 1969 original, though I didn't listen to the meant-to-be more normie, reportedly drastic early 70s overhaul; both are on or in the 50th Anniversary Edition.

That previously mentioned Workingman's Dead 50th Anniversary Edition turned out to be good too: no bonus studio tracks (though there are a set of rehearsals etc. on a sep., apparently digital-only release, The Angel's Share; intriguingly described by Stephen Thomas Erlewine in Pitchfork), but the remaster brings out a lot of detail I didn't recall at all, prob never heard on my old record player. And the bonus live show is real good (with Bill the only drummer, sounding refreshed and refreshing).

dead 69 lp is Aoxomoxoa, I thought the mention of Patamusica might be a reference to pataphysics or something, hence Jarry

Right: Jarry Mason's Children Garcia.

xp right, the title is a reference to jarry:

With respect and admiration to Alfred Jarry - who in the early nineteenth century invented the 'Pataphysics to solve various situations with “formidable imaginary solutions for all problems that do not exist but hurt and hurt and to challenge the holy traditions of easy operation”*-, Oxomaxoma has founded the Laboratory for the Sound Des-occultation of the ‘Patamusic (LDSP) to produce and generate all those imaginary sounds that are not intended to solve anything

not sure if the band name is a nod to the dead recordor not; it's a group out of mexico city operating at least since the '70s

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damp cardboard box under a bridge vibe, too

after having a fun time with the shadow boat 12" I though i'd give this a spin
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that was my go-to bedtime album for like 3 years, still love it

Yeah that’s the stuff

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