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Squid Tempest 8769 posts |
Jan 25, 2015, 21:31
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Stevo wrote: Squid Tempest wrote: Kate and Anna McGarrigle - Dancer With Bruised Knees Had this for years, but I didn't think it was as good as Pronto Monto which I love. Gave it another chance, and I really love it. There's something about their harmonies that plugs directly into the emotions. Why aren't their albums more readily available and properly remastered/packaged? Class. Funny you should ask that since i just got 'Tell My Sister' the 3cd compilation of their 1st 2 lps plus earlier demoes this week. Finally found it for a reasonably cheap price and had been meaning to buy it for ages. Really nice stuff anyway. So it is around for around €16 or the equivalent. Try Play.com I think that came out about 3 years ago, & has been remastered. each lp on its own disc plus a booklet with some linernotes, though not a great deal and the lyrics to the songs. I saw that, in fact I got it out the library on Friday and will be listening to it - but it has Dancer on it which I've already got. I'd love to see Pronto Monto get a proper release.
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IanB 6761 posts |
Edited Jan 26, 2015, 07:23
Jan 25, 2015, 22:21
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Spaceship - Kelvedon Hatch Sleaford Mods - Live at The Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg Stomu Yamashta's - Go, Go Live & Go Too Automatic Man- s/t Ulver - Childhood's end SUNN O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials Patti Smith - Easter Patti Smith - Radio Baghdad Journey - Look Into The Future Journey - s/t Tangerine Dream - Ricochet Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Bartók: Music For Strings, Percussion & Celesta Herbert Von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - Bartók: Music For Strings, Percussion & Celesta Alice Coote, Julius Drake - Schubert: Winterreisse Philharmonia Orchestra - Berg: Wozzeck (Sung In English)
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dave clarkson 2988 posts |
Edited Jan 25, 2015, 22:59
Jan 25, 2015, 22:42
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Various Artists - Rainy City Blues (Jungfrau records) ...rare and unreleased tracks from manchester, UK. beat groups of the 60s - features the Stylos, the Measles, the Harbour Lights and St Louis Union (featuring a young Dave Formula on keys).... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Ezwnlr6cU available here... http://vinylrevivalmcr.com/ Sue Lynch - These Lamps (Linear Obsessional recordings) ...Recommended improv EP release on 3 inch CD from improvising saxophonist Sue Lynch which features additional innovative musicians from the London scene. http://linearobsessional.bandcamp.com/album/these-lamps Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom ...returned to this classic after checking out the latest book and reading interview in the latest Q magazine. I always look forward to reading a Wyatt interview because there is always a pearl of wisdom within it..... "Wyatt is a passionate pop fan who watches The Voice and tried to book Hear'Say for his 2001 Meltdown festival......"I was very uncomfortable with having fans who said your music is so much better than all that banal pop music. It sounds like a socialist thing to say but pop music is the music of the people...it's the folk music of the industrial age...if you don't respect popular culture you don't respect people in which case your political opinion is of no great value" Keith Jarrett - The Survivors Suite (ECM) ...1977 featuring the late Charlie Haden, a worthy addition to any record collection. The Penguin Guide to Jazz by Richard Cook and Brian Morton regards the album as a "masterpiece, with the quartet pulling together on an ambitiously large-scale piece, each member contributing whole-heartedly and passionately." Go get! Stan Getz - Captain Marvel (Columbia) ... after Miles, Stan nicked the band ...1974 features performances by Getz with Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Airto Moreira and Tony Williams. Latin-drenched jazz of the finest quality. Have a good week all 8)
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Fatalist 1123 posts |
Edited Jan 25, 2015, 23:56
Jan 25, 2015, 23:42
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Ooops, this time with links... New stuff: Six Organs of Admittance – Hexadic. Never quite got the buzz around SOOA. He seems often to be on the verge of something good, but never quite nails it. His new album is just as frustrating on first listen, but may grow on me… Axis: Sova – Early Surf. Attractively ramshackle Chrome/Stooges/Suicide stuff which doesn’t really rise above its influences, but features a few cool tracks, such as: https://soundcloud.com/sovaloha/fractal-ancestry White Noise Sound – Like a Pyramid of Fire. Both name and title are so utterly generic, I thought this might be a novelty record. But no… This is the epitome of that ‘modern’ psych/kraut sound which seems to mindlessly channel Spacemen 3 and Neu! with a dash of ‘electronica’ thrown in to prove how 21st century they are. You could pipe this stuff into Tesco and nobody would notice. Etienne Jaumet – La Visite. One of the blokes from Zombie Zombie. Soundtracky retro techno, OK, but nothing to get too excited about. Disappears – Irreal. Definitely worth a listen if you fancy a bit of post-punk gloom. Unfiled pile: School of Language – Old Fears. Yeah, I am officially Really Quite Disappointed with this. Spindly art funk which just seems a bit directionless, certainly in comparison with most other Field Music related stuff. Motorpsycho – Behind The Sun. Excellent cosmic/prog rock with a distinct Neil Young influence this time round. That a band this old keeps producing such consistently great albums is really quite something: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8bQcfi-Dww Hedvig Mollestad Trio – All Them Witches. Wow, this sounded even better than I remembered. Basically, Jazz Sabbath. Seeing them live a few months ago has brought home to me just how good they are. If you’re into heavy, non-knuckle scraping stuff, I urge you to check ‘em out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Nwo4RqndA Elsewhere… Debris – Static Disposal. If you’re like me, you probably have quite a few albums on your hard drive downloaded years ago, but never actually played. This is one such album. Wasn’t expecting much (mostly unreleased demo recordings I think), but a lot of this was pretty great in an avant garage way. Starts off like Rocket From The Tombs (they may possibly be from that scene), but after a while start weirdly to sound like early Roxy Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpqRrbb8cBY Alice Cooper – Greatest Hits. Woke up one morning with a strong if slightly inexplicable desire to listen to this. It’s the only AC I’ve got, and it is largely fab. I really should check out the albums, starting with Billion Dollar Babies…? Pye Corner Audio/Not Waving – Intercepts Pye Corner Audio – ‘The Black Mist’ single Sinoia Caves – Beyond the Black Rainbow OST Paus – É Uma Água EP
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IanB 6761 posts |
Jan 26, 2015, 07:18
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Fatalist wrote: Alice Cooper – Greatest Hits. Woke up one morning with a strong if slightly inexplicable desire to listen to this. It’s the only AC I’ve got, and it is largely fab. I really should check out the albums, starting with Billion Dollar Babies…? I would say ending with BDB myself or maybe Welcome To My Nightmare at a pinch.
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flashbackcaruso 1059 posts |
Edited Jan 26, 2015, 10:23
Jan 26, 2015, 10:23
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ABBA - The Visitors David Bowie - Images 1966-1967 King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King V/A - The Perfumed Garden - Vol.3 Aphrodite's Child - It's Five O'Clock Aphrodite's Child - The Best Of Emerson Lake & Palmer - Tarkus Emerson Lake & Palmer - Pictures At An Exhibition Vangelis - Sex Power Vangelis - Hypothesis Vangelis - The Dragon The Moody Blues - In Search Of The Lost Chord Tortoise - A Digest Compendium Of The Tortoise's World V/A - The BYG Deal Frank Zappa/The Mothers Of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money The Beatles - Let It Be
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Robot Emperor 762 posts |
Edited Jan 26, 2015, 13:40
Jan 26, 2015, 11:07
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Hello. Dans Dans – 3. Instrumental trio from Belgium making tense, minimal and suspenseful little movies out of sound. Proper grown up stuff. Jazz reaching back out to the masses. Wonderful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bYP0gMUoxY Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band – Intensity Ghost. A credible return of the twin guitar attack. A credible return of an un-ironic rock sound. Old school-ish but sounds fresh to these ears. No vocalist to spoil things, plenty of surprisingly hypnotic moments. Gets better every time I listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aes9L04dRlc Paus – Clarao. Portuguese ex punks make music referencing Tropicália and Radiohead. Much, much better than I am making it sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX7pgkAfkN0 Taman Shud – Viper Smoke. Occult fuelled psychedelic punk. Comparisons to The Walking Seeds are fair. Really, really good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rie5nal20cM And loads of old Hawkwind (Quark and PXR5 being the current variety). Tangerine Dream and C.O.B. For obvious reasons (what were once annual reminders of my own mortality are creeping toward the daily. The selfish bastards. And there are so many of them! Think of all the people that make up your cultural identity and how many are in their seventies... Its going to get pretty monotonous and a little depressing. I vote for a deathwatch blackout.). And The Fall Peel Sessions (the last three disks) which really are an endless source of joy for me.
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jb lamptoast-morsley 2448 posts |
Jan 26, 2015, 13:45
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Enlighten this thicky - what is the view version? Yeah it was my way in too, and encouraged me to track down their first 3 albums. I used to find it reassuring that someone else felt and saw the bleaker side of life, but these days I think I find it a bit dark. Peel Sessions used to be my most played cassette, and I think has warped through over use. Not sure if I want to replace it though...
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Monganaut 2383 posts |
Jan 26, 2015, 17:42
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RE: Six Organs of Admittance Yeah, I know what your saying. I've a few records by him and whilst one or two tracks per record are amazing, the rest just seem to get nowhere. Mind you, Sunburned Hand of Man, Stone Breath and Jackie 'O' Motherfucker leave me feeling the same, both great to see in live show 9never seen Stone Breath live), but don't manage transfer that to record, even though, in the case of SHOM, most recordings are live transcriptions.
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Moon Cat 9577 posts |
Jan 26, 2015, 18:04
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Up the 'Vig! 8^)
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