What Are You Listening to? 2020

"All The Way Down" is from Etta James(1973), the one before Come a Little Closer, with same producer. I really like that track too, and several others on there, especially "God's Song"---wish she'd done a whole album of Randy Newman, but here we also get "Sail Away" and "You Can Leave Your Hat On" ("Let's Burn Down The Cornfield" on Come A Little Closer). Haven't heard the s/t in a while---don't have a working turntable---but I used to play the hell out of it.

Those xpost Sun Ra singles of the 50s are pretty amazing, ditto whole collection.

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Surprised not to see any mention of this on ilm, but this is really great. John Dwyer, Kyp Malone and a bunch of others get together to make a '70s fusion ECM record with a little krautrock around the edges. Seems like this would be ilm catnip in previous years.

^Nice! To me it sounds way closer to other contempo stuff like what's coming out on International Anthem than actual '70s ECM, but I like the IA roster and like what I'm hearing from this! Violin esp sounding great on first flip-through.
Thanks for the heads-up! (Also, am a teeny bit bummed that Dwyer missed the opp to call this project Teo Sees amirite)

Yeah I don't think the IA comparisons are off either! I think I've just been spending a lot of time in ECM land this summer, so my mind kind of gravitated there.

Fair enough! TEO SEES

Ulcerate - Stare Into Death and Be Still
Can - Tago Mago
Okkyung Lee - Yeo-Neun
Thurston Moore - By the Fire

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Pegasus is a jam.

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Mingus at Antibes makes me levitate. Extraordinary.

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^ Ha, that Gottsching's is not too freaking shabby either
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Natalia Beylis - Love-In-A-Mist, Edible
https://fortevilfruit.bandcamp.com/album/love-in-a-mist-edible

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7jJoPNjUBuBeDl26MZiaIs?si=XIm6p5yPQ86ux9ozxzI1sA
Was pretty interesting. NOt sure if I've heard interviews with Gottsching before.
Whole of the series seemed pretty interesting from the episodes I heard.

https://juliareidy.bandcamp.com/album/vanish

12 string guitar, atmospheric reverb and fuzz, auto-tune vox. I'm probably making it sound bad but it isn't!

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Gillian Welch---Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs Vol. 2

Right off, seemed more intense overall than (also beguiling) subset Vol. 1 , more individual stand-outs/deep plunges, or could be just more easily accessible to this simple male mind, anyway talked about it quite a bit on her thread.

https://gillianwelch.bandcamp.com/album/boots-no-2-the-lost-songs-vol-2

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Wobbly - Monitress

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laurel halo - chance of rain

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Angkor Wat - When Obscenity Becomes the Norm... Awake!

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dead horse - Horsecore: An Unrelated Story That's Time Consuming

Another 80's Texas thrash classic.

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Hmm, imgur fail. Always works from my phone for some reason..

Bah. It's a lousy cover anyway.

the first goo goo dolls album. surprised I still remember most of the words to “don’t beat my ass with a baseball bat”

Speaking of lousy covers, the new Lydia Loveless, Daughter, is pretty amazing, though as I said on her thread, took me a couple of bandcamp streams to get it all, or just about all.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxpost Stevolende, you were asking about American bands w African influence, I think? 75 Dollar Bill guitarist has some of that, has studied African music.

Also, from my ancient Columbus OH show previews:

Toubab Krewe
3/17 @ Newport
North Carolina’s Toubab Krewe combine rock and African approaches. Nowadays they’re automatically associated with Vampire Weekend, but the Krewe evoke and extend the Allman Brothers Band’s early exploration of rhythmic and tonal sources. Their 21-string kora and 12-string kamel ngoni can be played as harps or lutes, while infiltrating guitars, bass and drums. ”Live At The Orange Peel” also attracts Umar Bin Hassan, of the proto-rap Last Poets, and Appalachian fiddler Rayna Gellert. Other shows are stashed at the band-approved archive.org, but be sure to check them out with 0 screens between.

The Dodos
Tuesday @ Café Bourbon Street
The Dodos’ two-man versatility seems inspired by Simon & Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson,” where an initially bland folkie-pop sound gets its foot in the door, then slips through a number of little twists and turns. And, especially on their new album, “Visiter” (sic), the Dodos add flecks of metal, blues, and African music studies, the last of which might remind you of Vampire Weekend, but with more straight-forward lyrics, about jobs and other relationships. Too many words sometimes, but the performers keep herding them through ripe tunefulness and dynamics.
Think the title comes from The Young Visiters, a child-written book, said to be classic attempt at/re-imagining Jane Austen "romance." Seems appropriate for a band reaching this far.

They came back to Cowtown!
The Dodos
Sunday @ Newport Music Hall
The Dodos combine refined and rude music into a world of local concerns, rolling and tumbling with their elusive namesake through dynamically extinct dimensions of good and bad vibrations. They have an actual vibraphone, with Keaton Snyder’s mallets and pedals testing Logan Kroeber’s rigorously non-standard percussion and Meric Long’s amplified acoustic guitars. Long’s got a railroad of pitches on his 24-string drum guitar, and some gracefully moody tunes. Bad vibes override when his lyrics get too much room, but live recordings often celebrate the Dodos’ beautifully cracked noise.
Later saw 'em closing a talk show w Neko Case playing guitar as well, seeming right at home.

Fool’s Gold
Friday @ The Summit
The sliding poise and eloquent chatter of guitars instantly open “Surprise Hotel”, where it wouldn’t be surprising to find Fool’s Gold partying with Extra Golden, Toubab Krewe and Tinariwen, who previously connected Columbus to electric crosscurrents of African and American music. Primed by “Hotel”, their self-titled debut album also spins Fool’s Gold through Middle Eastern, Indonesian and Latin refractions, polyrhythmically orbiting their name’s cautionary, anti-utopian irony. “Nadine, please don’t bear your soul to me,” is a heartfelt serenade, from the lush, sun-brushed depths of Los Angeles-based FG’s kaleidoscopic focus.

Oh yeah, Extra Golden!
Extra Golden
Friday @ Rumba
Extra Golden is comprised of two American rock guitarists and two Kenyan benga singer-percussionists. On EG’s third album, Thank You Very Quickly, bouncing, strutting beats and crowing, high-note licks meet down-tuned tones. Sometimes they energetically settle in together---right before shifting tectonic party plates of texture and rhythm dare players and listeners to adapt. But it all fits. “Fantasies of the Orient” satirically swings like an exotic golf pro. The title track and “Ukimwi” veer through true stories of political arrest and AIDS, respectively, continuously developing the album’s most compelling melodies.

And immigrants count, especially if they've been living in DC for quite a while:
K’naan
K’naan found his international audience in 1999, when the 21-year-old rapper appeared at a United Nations conference, deftly delivering a critique of UN relief programs in his birthplace, Somalia. Living in urban America also provides cogent commentary for performances with the Roots and Mos Def, while his pop appeal comes though with Lenny Kravitz and Nelly Furtado. K’naan’s own traveling band blends hip-hop, reggae, rock and African elements, in purpose-driven propulsion.
04/14 @ The Newport, 1722 N High St.
7 p.m.

Chris Thomas King with the Floorwalkers
Singer/songwriter/arranger/multi-instrumentalist Chris Thomas King not only plays the blues, he plays the bluesmen, in movies such as “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” and “Ray.” Rootsy success hasn’t inhibited King’s blues odyssey, which sometimes encounters hip-hop, chamber music, jazz, African sources and psych-rock. His afternoon Jazz Academy-sponsored workshop at the Lincoln traces the blues through ancient-to-contemporary connections. This concert includes CTK favorites and new songs. Columbus’s soulfully folk-rocking Floorwalkers open.
03/05 @ The Lincoln Theatre, 769 E. Long St.
Workshop: 2 p.m., Concert: 8 p.m.

Although it began as a spin-off of the 2002 movie Drumline, Drumline Live is not a conventional screen-to-stage adaptation. Don Roberts, the film’s musical director, now takes its script’s basis in college band development full circle and beyond. Nearly 40 performers play, dance and sing through African music, gospel, jazz, generations of r&b and hip-hop. Creative competition is also part of this tradition, while audience interaction adds sparks to each performance.
02/01 @ The Palace Theatre, 34 W. Broad St.
7:30 p.m.

Also, you could count these guys:
The Ragbirds
Saturday @ Rumba Café
The Ragbirds are great, but so what? Sure, Erin Zindle maintains vocal poise, while dancing and trading her electric violin for mandolin, melodica, banjo, accordion, and percussion. True, the rhythm section steams through well-timed, seamless dreams of Caribbean, East European, Middle Eastern, African, Irish and Appalachian themes. Yet they might just be another world-class world music band from Michigan, if not for Zindle’s everyday magic realism. She gossips about the moon, and gets unreasonably reasonable with the proper authorities, in between confiding, “Listen/Tell yourself the truth/Until you believe it.”

Oh yeah, Fool's Gold did at least one follow-up album, which I didn't play much, because of the vocals, should try again. Blanking on the title, don't want to hazard a guess and blame the wrong album.

Can't find 'em at the moment, but also wrote a show preview for the American band Princeton, whose album I liked a lot, and Either/Orchestra, Boston jazz band who ranged through many musics, especially (at least in the 2000s, when I previewed) Ethiopian
wiki sez:
The E/O began performing original arrangements of Ethiopian songs, inspired by a compilation called Ethiopian Groove: the Golden 70s. In 2000, after three of these songs appeared on the album More Beautiful than Death, Francis Falceto, the producer of Ethiopian Groove, contacted Gershon and eventually arranged an invitation for the E/O to play at the Ethiopian Music Festival in Addis Ababa in 2004. Along with Indo-British singer Susheela Raman the same year, the E/O was the first non-Ethiopian artist to appear in the festival, and was the first US big band to appear in Ethiopia since Duke Ellington's in 1973. Their concert at the festival was recorded and ultimately appeared in Falceto's Ethiopiques series on the French Buda Musique label. Five Ethiopian guests appear on the recording: Mulatu Astatke, Getatchew Mekurya, Tsedenia Markos, Bahta Hewet and Michael Belayneh. This tour and recording have led to an ongoing collaboration with Astatke, the primary founder of Ethiopian jazz, concerts with Ethiopian expatriates singer Hana Shenkute, krar player Minale Dagnew, masinko player Setegn Atanaw, and the great Ethiopian singer Mahmoud Ahmed with whom E/O released a DVD in 2007. Mahmoud Ahmed and fellow legendary Ethiopian singer Alemayehu Eshete played Lincoln Center Out of Doors in 2008 backed by E/O. The group debuted a collaboration with vocalist Teshome Mitiku in the summer of 2010, including a headlining appearance at the Chicago Jazz Festival.

Xs and Ps: wow Angkor Wat and Dead Horse, nice

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Xxp
thanks Dow. Will look into those.
I have an Extra Golden cd cos the non US half were the same tribe as my Dad I think.
Thank You Very Quickly
Quite enjoyed it at the time I think.think I even gave my brother a copy.

Went on a big Weather Report binge in last 30 hours or so...

Weather Report- 830 Live
Weather Report- Black Market
Weather Report- Heavy Weather
Weather Report- Mr. Gone
Weather Report- Night Passage
Weather Report- Weather Report (82)

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gd port chester feb 21 '71

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xps nice, haven't been keeping up with RLW, gotta investigate that

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Big Star's 1st 2 CD on Ryko

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Abbey Road

“oh that magic feeling, nowhere to go” and the vocal harmonies that follow... always gets me