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Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 28 March 2015 CE
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 28 March 2015 CE
Mar 29, 2015, 23:01
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Goran Kajfes Subtropic Arkestra – The Reason Why Vol 2. This is very nice, muscular exotic jazz that veers between Budos Band-esque tough funk and library music prettiness: https://soundcloud.com/headspinrec/dokuz-seki-esmerim-by-goran-kajfes-subtropic-arkestra

Enablers – The Rightful Pivot. Also decent, spoken word plus melodic post/math rock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUj7FoetcrQ

Follakzoid – III. Ok, wacked the volume up on this, and it’s working a lot better now ;-)

Tender Prey – Organ Calzone

And elsewhere…

Hawkwind – s/t / Xin Search Of Space / Greasy Truckers Party. So, the ludicrously cheap This Is Your Captain Speaking… box set arrived, prompting me to go through the albums in order. If I’m honest, Hawkwind really starts for me at Space Ritual, so it was interesting to re-visit their initial releases. Particularly on the debut, you can hear them hinting at the classic sound, sometimes quite strongly, but the absence of factor X makes much of the material pretty forgettable, though ‘Mirror of Illusion’ is a great piece of cosmic folk rock. The version of ‘You Shouldn’t Do That’ on XSOS is much stronger than I remember too. GTP is a great recording, with ‘YSDT’ probably the best thing on it, but this still feels like a warm-up for the main act that is SR.

Six Organs of Admittance – Hexadic. Had another go with this. Some pretty cool stuff, but much of it is frankly bobbins.

Smoke Fairies – Ghosts

Melanie De Biasio – No Deal. Just magnificent. In no way a stretch to compare her to Mark Hollis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scrOGy5Xtpw

The Holy Mountain OST. Article in current Shindig by Jonny Trunk going on about this finally getting a vinyl release. Sounded amazing, but the reality didn’t match the hype for me (though I haven’t seen the film, which I’m sure makes a big difference). This is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWhWrJJisL8 , but totally unrepresentative of the rest of the soundtrack, which mostly consists of schmaltzy orchestral pieces and ethnographic forgeries.
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