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Maldoror 720 posts |
Mar 28, 2015, 13:56
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Fantasy Empire - Lightning Bolt Out to Lunch - Eric Dolphy Untitled - Barr / Shea / Dahl Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi, Soundtracks and Monster Movie - Can Gyatso - 16/17 Osmose - Annexus Quam |
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IanB 6761 posts |
Edited Mar 29, 2015, 09:50
Mar 29, 2015, 07:02
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Adams: Harmonium/Choruses from The Death Of Klinghoffer Anyone interested in the middle east, censorship and American politics could do worse than look into the fury generated by Adams opera "The Death Of Klinghoffer" and its resulting suppression (overt and tacit). These choral excerpts are pretty great too if your tastes run that way.* Nearly all these sounded great this week. The Crimson albums are just plain weird ... I Roy- Musical Shark Attack The The - Dusk & Infected The Clash - Sandinista & This Is England & Super Black Market Clash Joe Strummer - Streetcore Spirit - Spirit of '76 & Future Games Kronos Quartet - Early Music Feist - Metals Dexys - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Further Out King Crimson - In The Wake Of Poseidon & Islands & Lizard Bill Hicks - Shock and Awe & Salvation Claudio Abbado, LSO, Martha Argerich - Ravel Piano Concerto #2 Clinton's War On Terror (Media Roots Podcast) Moral Maze (BBC Podcast) Hard Talk (BBC Podcast) * The controversy itself is still running nearly 25 years after the first performance. With all that has happened over that period of time it is shaming that rock n roll has barely been able to raise an eyebrow in the mainstream political arena in the same period. Paid off and neutered by the rush to branding and the narcissism of social media. Lest we forget even Massive Attack changed their name to accommodate broadcasters' "difficulties" in saying their name on-air during the first gulf war. Still, apparently it is much more important these days to be seen arguing furiously about the small differences between different kinds of pop music than really saying anything important about what is going on outside its own shrinking world. Carbon neutral touring and declaring "war" on Ticketmaster isn't really cutting it. Can Brian May really be our most outspoken political thinker in rock right now? Almost as bizarre as finding we have a Socialist Pope and opera that tells truth to power. How did that happen? Bah. Humbug.
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Fitter Stoke 2611 posts |
Mar 29, 2015, 09:50
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Brian Eno 'The Shutov Assembly' Television 'Marquee Moon' David Bowie 'Diamond Dogs' Anouar Brahem 'Souvenance' Viv Albertine 'The Vermillion Border' Jokloba 'Outland' Back Street Crawler 'The Band Plays On' Mahler 9 (Halle/Mark Elder) Sibelius Voces intimate Quartet (Endellion Quartet)
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thesweetcheat 6213 posts |
Mar 29, 2015, 10:09
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Fitter Stoke wrote: Viv Albertine 'The Vermillion Border' Been meaning to get this for ages. How do you rate it?
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garerama 1111 posts |
Mar 29, 2015, 10:53
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Akron/Family - Love Is Simple Kevin Ayers - whatevershebringswesing / Bananamour Christophe F & Black Sheep - Heathen Frontiers In Sound Bow Street Runners - S/t Brainticket - Psychonaut Anne Briggs - The Time Has Come / Sing A Song For You Broadcast - Black Session John Coltrane - Kulu Se Mama / At Newport Julian Cope - Rite / Preaching Revolution EP / Rave-o-lution Coral - The Invisible Invasion (2 cd) Eternity's Children - S/t Lisa Gerard & Pieter Bourke - Duality Goat - Commune Gong - Magick Brother / Camembert Electrique / Angel's Egg / You / I See You / Various live recordings Herbcraft - Astral Body Electric Steve Hillage - Green The Insect Trust - S/t Mellow Candle - Swaddling Songs The Monkees - Instant Replay / Present Mountain Bas - Sundance Nature & Organisation - Beauty Reaps The Blood of Solitude / Death in a Snow Leopard Winter Pearls Before Swine - One Nation Underground / Balaklava John Renbourn - Bert & John (with Bert Jansch) / Sir John Alot ... / The Lady & The Unicorn Pharoah Sanders - Anthology Stereolab - Oscillous From The Anti-Sun (disc 1) Taj Mahal Travellers - August 1974 Traffic Sounds - S/t 23 Skidoo - Urban Gamelan Twink - Think Pink Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks - Orange Crate Art Window - S/t
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spencer 3070 posts |
Mar 29, 2015, 12:06
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Well said, Ian. I've asked here before who is currently producing music that you also think needs to be made - more so than ever - and didn't get a response. If anywhere I think it is in rap or 'agit-folk'...the barely intelligible machinegun-style delivery or the niche. There is, as far as I know, no modern equivalent of Out Demons Out, let alone anyone singing anything more lucid but at the same time easy to understand, while political, economic and overseas policies are rotten to the core. With regard to the latter, on RT yesterday it was stated that the arms market of the Gulf States would be worth $165bn+ over the next five years. With the US/UK economies dependent on arms sales - and dodgy finance (w h e n the next Big Crash happens the shit will REALLY hit the fan, the real reason for mass surveillance, the 'warontrrrrr' being the excuse for introducing the legal and electronic infrastructure of control and monitoring, imo) - what hope peace? I would be very happy if someone here said I was talking bollocks and pointed me in the right musical direction, but, as I've already said, last time I asked, nada. It is a strange paradox that while we are evermore socially connected via the internet, musical socio-political comment seems to be increasingly muted. A new Killing In The Name Of, anyone?
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ricky nadir 78 posts |
Mar 29, 2015, 12:20
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Albums Kevin Ayers - Joy of a Toy Tyrannosaurus Rex - A Beard of Stars James Gang - Rides Again Wolfgang Riechmann - Wunderbar Joe Walsh - But Seriously, Folks PIL - Metal Box Singles Sweet - Blockbuster Rock Follies - OK Jah Wobble - Dreadlock don't deal in Wedlock
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thesweetcheat 6213 posts |
Mar 29, 2015, 12:36
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Mark Stewart (and the reformed Pop Group) has consistently challenged and excited.
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flashbackcaruso 1056 posts |
Edited Mar 29, 2015, 13:39
Mar 29, 2015, 13:39
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The Pentangle - The Pentangle The Pentangle - Sweet Child (started the week with the 'Tangle, not expecting the sad news that was to come - R.I.P. John Renbourn) Flower Travellin' Band - Anywhere Kuni Kawachi & Flower Travelling Band - Kirikyogen Flower Travellin' Band - Satori Flower Travellin' Band - Made In Japan Neu! - Neu! Neu! - Neu! 2 Tim Hardin - Tim Hardin 2 Tim Hardin - Tim Hardin 3 (Live In Concert) Tim Hardin - Tim Hardin 4 Tim Hardin - Simple Songs Of Freedom Electric Light Orchestra - Electric Light Orchestra Electric Light Orchestra - ELO 2 Tom Lehrer - An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer Tom Lehrer - Revisited Tom Lehrer - That Was The Year That Was Vangelis - Voices Vangelis - Oceanic Hawkwind - Roadhawks Donovan - A Gift From A Flower To A Garden Karuna Khyal - Alomoni 1985 The High Llamas - Santa Barbara Far East Family Band - Parallel World
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jb lamptoast-morsley 2447 posts |
Edited Mar 29, 2015, 13:56
Mar 29, 2015, 13:55
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Honey - Weekend Millionaires. Grunge rockers hailing from Cornwall. Not bad really PJ Harvey - Let England Shake. I need to get more Polly Herbaliser - Something Wicked this way comes. A few really strong tracks including instrumentals interspersed with not very appealing rapping. A guy Called Gerald - Essence. Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain Nick Cave - Abbatoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus. Another artist I need to hear more of. This is ok, but not as good as Push the Sky Away which is my only source of comparison so far. Oh, and on my mp3 player: live sets from islet and Beta Band somewhere or other. (end of road and house of blues i think)
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