Gato Barbieri Bolivia /Underfire
2fer cd of 2 early 70s lps by rather fondant saxophonist. Marrying freeish jazz, rock elements and Latin influences on some seriously tasteful material. Came across this in a Zavvi sale and quite possibly wouldn't have heard otherwise. Shame since great. Scorching in places, while still remaing somehow mellow. weird melange.
Blo Chapters & Phases rpm reissue of 1st 2 lps by band consisting 2 members of Ginger Baker's African project Salt. Really quite amazing, shows a lot of influence from Brit & US prog/rock while remaining rooted in West african sound. Bits of this are also reminiscent of Can and others. Very reccommended.
I was knocked out by the guitar on the track on Nigeria 70 and standard pretty much maintained throughout. Bits of Cymande might be something of a comparison too.
Dennis wilson Pacific Ocean Blue
put this on in response to the friday night bbc4 doc a couple weeks back. Bits of it are pretty great. Since I have it on my bedroom 3changer stereo i kept falling asleep to it. Not sure if that relates to other bits. Cos I'm not sure if I've ever fully connected with the lp.
Blurt Best of pt1.
slightly surprised by some of this cos I thought they were very avant and it seems like a lot of 80s indie bands coopted part of their sound. Like this, must listen to more. Bit lofi in places too.
Charalambides A Vintage Burden
again surprised, I thought what I'd heard before was rather formless avantish stuff and this is delicious folk with a large acoustic focus. Must dig out the cd I was given some time back and listen again.
The Gun Club Stockholm 87
At the time of the tour I was very turned off to Nick Sanderson's drumming, finding it too Wagnerian. Listening to other material years later I was more appreciative of him. Here I think I see what I was thinking at the time, drumming is stentorian, epic (monolithic?) I think possibly too stiff, but listening to him elsewhere I thought fatback as in rock 'n'roll/r'n'b , must relisten to the Mother Juno lp & focus on the drumming.
this set has Crab Dance in which i'm not sure I've heard live before. Nice song, one at least, of its 2 studio versions shows a pronounced soul influence that isn't much talked about in the rest of the Gun Club's work.
various Miles davis
somebody upped the whole Columbia box set to Demonoid & I grabbed it. So have to work my way through it.
Had Filles De Kilimanjaro on earlier which is pretty deeply atmospheric.
various Grateful Dead.
Nothing like a bit of Garcia to have you appreciating sheer bliss.
also a '71 Garcia/Merle Saunders live set which was veritably delicious
Affinity If You Live
alternative recordings etc from protoprog group. I put it on expecting hammond grooves and I think it focuses more on the guitar. Plus of course Linda Hoyle's wonderful voice.
Orchestra poly-Rhytmo de Cotinhou
awesome African funk band. I think they just toured, but nowhere near here unfortunately. & there was at least one live set upped to one of the torrent sites, which I habven't yet heard. This was the compi, think the 1st one.
Yes Tales From Topographic Oceans
Just had to check out how loudly the word NO had to be shouted. Seems to have quasi decent passages but for the most part keep noodling to find one good idea in 5 minutes.
Ya Ho wa various
just got the God & Hair box as a d/ld.
Some of this is deeply fine spacey psychedelic rock, others has too much of Father Yod's bad trip vocals.
several other bits & pieces which I might add later.
Stevo
orchestra poly-rhytmo mi si ba to
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