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Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 4 July 2015 CE
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Edited Jul 05, 2015, 22:26
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Jul 05, 2015, 20:19
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Field Music – Music for Drifters. Gently explorative English prog in the tradition of Penguin Café Orchestra. Some lovely stuff, though has the limitations of most soundtrack-type albums: https://soundcloud.com/memphisindustries/sets/music-for-drifters-excerpt

The Radiation Flowers – s/t. No nonsense shoegazey psych from (nearly) all-female band hailing from Canada’s Arctic hinterland. This is the earworm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWXEPwUk7iM

Electric Moon – Theory of Mind. Another fine Sulatron product, though they’d probably shift more of it if they didn’t insist on adorning their wares in the type of sleeves you might expect to find screen-printed on t-shirts at Glastonbury circa 1987... But anyway, you like Space Ritual, you’ll dig this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLzMmvLNcPE

Not new:

Fela Kuti – Music is the Weapon (Best Of). Mentioned a few weeks ago, and I thought, “yes, it really is time to get some Fela.” The groove is righteous, but it’s his use of repetition that makes tracks like this really quite hypnotic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlBUacExSJQ

Karin Krog – Don’t Just Sing (Best Of). New Light In The Attic comp from jazzy lady. KK is apparently a household name in her homeland of Norway, but has never had an official release over here until now. The best of the stuff here sounds like Annette Peacock in places, and is well worth a listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1vJa-t6ShM but there’s also quite a bit that sounds like it might have featured on Saturday Night at the Mill when Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen weren’t available.

Hawkwind – Church of Hawkwind. Ahh, hot weather, time for a cooling blast of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0mux2QASNk

King Crimson – Beat / The Power to Believe. After the excellent Discipline, Beat felt like they’d pushed the 80s button a little too hard. TPTB may be my favourite of the later albums, though need to listen to them all more. This really plays the industrial grunge metal complex at its own game (while viciously taking the piss): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkWMftAReKA

Live:

Tony Visconti and Woody Woodmansey with Glenn Gregory play The Man Who Sold The World – Shepherds Bush Empire, London. My favourite Bowie album by some way, so I couldn’t resist. GG was a bit of a pillock, but turned out to be a pretty good choice vocally. All a bit Stars In Their Eyes for old school ravers, but very enjoyable. When they did a greatest hits of the early 70s second half, you realise just how many sing-along, punch-the-air moments Bowie has penned.
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