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Maldoror 720 posts |
Jun 27, 2015, 04:15
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Filth, Cop, Young God, Greed and Holy Money - Swans Middle of Nowhere, Center of Everywhere - Acid King Erwartung - Arnold Schönberg Catalyse - Ame Son Untitled - Barr / Shea / Dahl Metatron - Praxis Arc of the Testimony - Arcana
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IanB 6761 posts |
Edited Jun 28, 2015, 11:05
Jun 28, 2015, 07:08
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Maldoror wrote: Erwartung - Arnold Schönberg That'll take the cobwebs away. Who's singing? I'm Just Like You: Sly's Stone Flower 1969-1970 Band Of Gypsys - s/t Sly & The Family Stone - Fresh (UK cd with "wrong" mixes) Trigger Hippy (yes, really) - s/t Zimerman / Cleveland / Boulez - Ravel: Piano Concertos Buckingham Nicks - s/t Rush - Farewell To Kings Fleetwood Mac - Tusk Cross / Fripp - Starless Starlight Anais Mitchell - Xoa Charlotte Church - 1,2,3 & 4 David Byrne - Catherine Wheel Richard Thompson - guitar, vocal Don Cherry - Art Deco Kronos Quartet - At the Grave of Richard Wagner Grace Jones - Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions HvK / Vienna - Bruckner #7 Spirogyra - Bells, Boots And Shambles Two books to recommend - Mick Houghton - I've Always Kept A Unicorn The most illuminating Fairports / Sandy book by a country mile. It's pretty raw in places but doesn't make the mistake of painting Sandy and her fairly commonplace problems (body image issues, thwarted ambition, addiction, marital strife, PTSD, post natal depression) as one of Rock's tragic heroines. He doesn't for a moment pretend that her talent and creativity were fueled by those issues or that her lack of commercial success was anyone else's fault. The impression you get is that everyone around her was just doing their best with the hand dealt and she fell through the cracks. As Lou Reed would have said "it's called bad luck". James Rhodes - Instrumental It's largely a memoir about living with abuse and mental illness but he writes about classical music with an unusual clarity but without even thinking about dumbing down. Worth reading for the playlist and his commentary alone. Disappointment of the week: THX1138 at the Barbican with live score from ADF. Dialogue and brilliant original sound design rendered all but inaudible by a poor sound mix that favoured the new score of guitar noodlings laid over occasional bursts of dub. Felt almost as sorry for the drummer and bass player as I did for the audience. Hopefully they will figure it out before they tour it as the movie deserves a lot better.
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jb lamptoast-morsley 2447 posts |
Jun 28, 2015, 12:11
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Psychedelic Furs - S/T, Talk Talk Talk, Forever Now. Was talking about Massive Attack's first 3 albums taking some beating a few soundtracks ago, but these are pretty formidable too. Public Service Broadcasting - Inform, educate, entertain Working my way through Jah Wobble's Redux 6 disc boxset. A bit patchy in places, but some real peaks there - not least reworks of visions of you and becoming more like god. On TV I really enjoyed The Waterboys set on the iplayer. Hoping George Clinton et al will be available too. Caught a little online with Sly and the family stone going on first
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Maldoror 720 posts |
Jun 28, 2015, 14:37
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IanB wrote: Maldoror wrote: Erwartung - Arnold Schönberg That'll take the cobwebs away. Who's singing? Magda László singing, with Hermann Scherchen conducting.
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IanB 6761 posts |
Jun 28, 2015, 15:56
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Maldoror wrote: IanB wrote: Maldoror wrote: Erwartung - Arnold Schönberg That'll take the cobwebs away. Who's singing? Magda László singing, with Hermann Scherchen conducting. Wow. Never heard that recording. What's the album?
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riverman 845 posts |
Jun 28, 2015, 20:07
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More stuff this week from the Ono-Tesla Islington Mill shop: Koryo Saito - Mirage. Multi-instrumentalist, Japanese folk. Didn't get on with it on first listens but it's grown on me during the week and is now on heavy rotation. Mountains is just a wonderful track. Shareholder - Jimmy Chan. Lo-fi (think Monoshock) post-punk from Edinburgh, with Mark E Fall vocal delivery. Ono-Tesla mention Neil Young too and I see where they're coming from especially on the longer tracks - in terms of structure and some chord progressions (at a push!). Absolutely love the third track Devours. You can download the whole thing from Bandcamp for free but they deserve to be paid proper money for this! AHRKH - Tone Mantra. Great drone from Gnod drummer. From the Little Crackd Rabbit label: Hypnodrone Ensemble - The Shape of Space. Excellent space rock from Nadja bloke and mates. PJ Philipson - Peaks. Solo ambient guitar noodlings inspired by the Peak District Urthona - Hearing Secret Harmonies. Possibly my favourite Urthona release. Still heavy rural but many textured layers...and secret harmonies. Fantastic. Lovely t-shirts available too! Blown Out - Jet Black Hallucinations. Mike Vest rocks Bong - We are, we were and we will have been. Drool. Mike Vest rocks And whilst we're in the northeast of England... Susan Stenger - Sound Strata of Coastal Northumberland. American sound artist inspired by an 1840 geological cross section of the coastal cliffs from Tyne to Tweed. CD of an art installation touring Northumberland. Drone and folk piece (much of the drone created from processed local folk musicians but also features Attila Cshir (SunnO))) death metal vocalist) at one point. Hoping to see the installation on Holy Island with a Stenger concert in a local church late summer... E-Gone - All the Suns of the Earth. Got this earlier in the year. Fantastic Swedish multi-instrumentalist mixing drone, folk, raga, everything... From the archives: Cluster - Sowieso The Goner - Behold a New Traveller. E-Gone's previous incarnation.
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garerama 1111 posts |
Jun 28, 2015, 20:53
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Akron/Family - Love Is Simple Amorphous Androgynous - The Isness Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind Kath Bloom - Finally Joe Byrd & The Field Hippies - The American Metaphysical Circus John Coltrane - Crescent / John Coltrane Quartet Plays / Offering: Live At Temple University Miles Davis - In A Silent Way / Bitches Brew Live / On The Corner Martin Denny - Exotica 1 Ford Theatre - Trilogy For The Masses Astrud Gilberto - Jazz Masters 9 Goat - World Music / Commune Gong - You Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers / Woodstock Experience The Kinks - Kinks (deluxe 2 cd) / Village Green Presevation Society / Percy Roland Kirk - Kirk In Copenhagen The KLF - Chill Out Led Zeppelin - II John Martyn - The Tumbler Mogwai - Government Commission / Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will (2 cd) Moody Blues - A Question of Balance Nirvana - The Story of Simon Simopath Pandamonium - No Presents For Me / The Unreleased Album Parson Sound - S/t Pink Floyd - Early Singles The Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard Siouxsie & The Banshees - Spellbound: The Collection The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight Soft Machine - Volume 1 & 2 St John Green - S/t Steeleye Span - The Lark In The Morning: The Early Years V/A Cloud Cuckooland El Psychedelic Piccadilly Sunshine Four Woodstock
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Maldoror 720 posts |
Jun 28, 2015, 21:13
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IanB wrote: Maldoror wrote: IanB wrote: Maldoror wrote: Erwartung - Arnold Schönberg That'll take the cobwebs away. Who's singing? Magda László singing, with Hermann Scherchen conducting. Wow. Never heard that recording. What's the album? That's it, Ian: http://ukstore.harmoniamundi.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/265x/a50b71c1c851b711c9ad6b1f00a442f1/i/m/image_15549.jpg
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flashbackcaruso 1056 posts |
Jun 28, 2015, 22:33
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The Incredible String Band - The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (Quad mix) Pink Floyd - Animals Pink Floyd - The Wall Pink Floyd - The Final Cut The Kinks - Face To Face The Kinks - Something Else Madness - The Rise & Fall Madness - Keep Moving Madness - Mad Not Mad Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings Tony Banks - A Curious Feeling Mike Rutherford - Smallcreep's Day (I've been trying out the solo albums by Genesis members, and Hackett is definitely the one who worked best away from the band. Banks' debut seems to be highly regarded by fans, but I found it rather nondescript compared to the melodic invention he brought to the band. Rutherford's debut sounds more like Genesis, but still suffers from a deficit of charisma, despite being on the label of that name). Heaven 17 - How Men Are The Dukes of Stratosphear - 25 O'Clock The Dukes of Stratosphear - Psonic Psunspot Al Jardine - A Postcard From California (I recommend this to any Beach Boys fan - Al is the member who still retains most of the old spirit, and this is a very warm and enjoyable concept album which he seems to have been working on a while, seeing as it features Carl Wilson on a couple of songs, plus Brian, Mike & Bruce, Crosby Stills & Young and Glen Campbell). Brian Wilson - No Pier Pressure (Sticking with my truncated version of this - and without the ill-advised 'duets' with contemporary artists it stands up well as a very strong solo album). The Apples In Stereo - Travellers In Space And Time Amon Düül II - Made In Germany Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees Flo & Eddie - Illegal, Immoral & Fattening
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IanB 6761 posts |
Jun 28, 2015, 22:36
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Thanks. Appreciated.
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