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Squid Tempest 8769 posts |
Feb 07, 2016, 18:47
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IanB wrote: Nad Sylvan - Courting The Widow Any good? I've been tempted by this since the Steve Hackett gig.
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keith a 9573 posts |
Feb 07, 2016, 18:58
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Young Americans - David Bowie Heathen - David Bowie S/T - Cult Of Dom Kellor To Where The Wild Things Are - Death & Vanilla III - Follakzoid Tales Of Us - Goldfrapp Pylon - Killing Joke Shadow of the Sun - Moon Duo Maladjusted - Morrissey 75 - Neu Music Complete - New Order Sweetest Thing (CDS) - U2
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IanB 6761 posts |
Feb 07, 2016, 19:04
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Squid Tempest wrote: IanB wrote: Nad Sylvan - Courting The Widow Any good? I've been tempted by this since the Steve Hackett gig. The last track is absolutely stunning and I think worth it for that 7 minutes alone. The rest is pretty good too apart from the 22 minute epic which doesn't quite hang together. I absolutely love his voice (to me he is like a Prog Don Henley) and when me and Mooncat saw him at the Albert Hall he was clearly glad just to be there at all. Real kid in a sweet shop stuff. Was really endearing. For him to have waited until 53/54 to have a career breakthrough makes for a lovely story. The Unifaun record is pretty good too if you have not heard that one.
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Squid Tempest 8769 posts |
Feb 07, 2016, 19:13
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Man - Welsh Connection Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers, Bark, Long John Silver Steppenwolf - The Second Really enjoying this, need to explore more of their catalogue. The Bevis Frond - Example 22 Really good on the 1st couple of listens. Daevid Allen - Seven Drones Eloy - Floating David Bowie - Blackstar Earth Wind and Fire - I Am Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails Donovan - Sunshine Superman Sun Ra - Space is the Place Lou Reed - New York, Ecstasy Vinyl: Haikai No Ku - Temporary Infinity Oh yes. Very good. If you liked their last one, this is even better. Expo 70 - Where Does Your Mind Go? I'd forgotten how good this is. Teeth of the Sea - Highly Deadly Black Tarantula Various - Paper Leaves OK, so I'm on this, but the rest of it is dead good! John Coltrane - Blue Train Miles Davis - Kind of Blue These may be from that jazz collection thing, but both are bargains and sound fab on 180g vinyl.
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Squid Tempest 8769 posts |
Feb 07, 2016, 19:14
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IanB wrote: Squid Tempest wrote: IanB wrote: Nad Sylvan - Courting The Widow Any good? I've been tempted by this since the Steve Hackett gig. The last track is absolutely stunning and I think worth it for that 7 minutes alone. The rest is pretty good too apart from the 22 minute epic which doesn't quite hang together. I absolutely love his voice (to me he is like a Prog Don Henley) and when me and Mooncat saw him at the Albert Hall he was clearly glad just to be there at all. Real kid in a sweet shop stuff. Was really endearing. For him to have waited until 53/54 to have a career breakthrough makes for a lovely story. The Unifaun record is pretty good too if you have not heard that one. Thanks, I'll have to check them out.
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riverman 845 posts |
Feb 07, 2016, 21:30
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Max Richter - Sleep (8 cd version). A thing of great beauty on first listens. His manifesto for a slower existance. Been starting to get to grips with this (8 and a half hours worth) through my MP3 player on the ripped cds - on commute and travelling over the weekend, as well as sleeping (as intended). A small strings ensemble, some soprano vocals and richter on piano, organ and electronics. Melancholic, ambient lullabies. Urthona Plays Atlantis? Vesuvio Orthodox - Axis. This ended up on heavy rotation earlier in the week. It's a grower.
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Fatalist 1123 posts |
Feb 07, 2016, 22:25
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Now: Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band – The Rarity Of Experience. This is going to take some digesting (it’s pretty long), but it’s clearly a major treat for lovers of exploratory guitar rock Mondo Drag – The Occultation of Light. Superior stoner prog, gets the sound just right: http://mondodrag.bandcamp.com/track/initiation Gnod – Mirror. Hmm, I liked Infinity Machines, but this is just dreary angst punk, like any number of forgotten acts ploughing a similar furrow in the late 80s Damien Jurado – Visions Of Us On The Land David Bowie – Blackstar Taarkus – ‘Stones’/’At Midnight’. Nicely doomy, female-powered, flute-featuring, retro rock: https://taarkus.bandcamp.com/releases Then: Lee F Cullen – Wild Honey Arabesques. Bloke from The Duke St Workshop moonlighting as a psych pop troubadour from a few years ago. Some nice stuff, though slightly dodgy drum programming highlights its bedroom recording origin Boogarins – Manual Breathless – Blue Moon Neu! – s/t / 2. Limbering up for this week’s live excursion (below). Is ‘Negativland’ the first recorded appearance of flanged bass? Brilliant track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHrpxuXNY1U Harmonia – Musik von Harmonia. Ditto. Machine music that’s the inverse of what Kraftwerk were up to at the same time. Bert Jansch – Moonshine. Always nice to occasionally soothe the soul with Bert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2hYFsXbq5I&list=PL8a8cutYP7fouArs4TX_e15ywSWAx00K9 Sandy Bull – ‘Blend I & II’. Not sure how well this guy is known/regarded, but in the folk raga stakes, he deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Davy Graham and John Fahey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUgj94xGS3g Hawkwind – Space Ritual / Friends & Relations (live tracks). So, the big one. It never ceases to amaze, though any objectivity about SR went out of my window a long time ago. Really, what else even vaguely sounds like this? Many thoughts arose, the most basic of which being along the lines of ‘HW clearly weren’t going for the “let’s rock this municipal arts venue” vibe of, say. Deep Purple. But neither were they aspiring to the proggy uplands of, say, Yes. But there’s clearly a ‘serious’ intent here. What exactly were they up to in the context of 1972?’ Friends & Relations vol 1 is actually the first HW album I bought, and features both a cracking live take of ‘Who’s Gonna Win The War’ (much better than the more polished, Lloyd-Langdon featuring Levitation version) and a genuinely menacing take of ‘Robot’, which again gives the PXR5 version a run for its money. These tracks are now available on the Atomhenge box-set The Flicknife Years, but the latter is truncated for some reason. Here’s the glorious full version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5mcI9IPyLs Live: Michael Rother – Under The Bridge, London. The type of venue (attached to the urban development carbuncle of Stamford Bridge) that you want to walk out of as soon as you enter, doubly so when Rusty Egan is ‘DJing’ in your ear while you’re trying to negotiate the bar. Anyway… Mr Rother appears on stage without fanfare, accompanied by the drummer on Neu 75 that’s not Klaus Dinger and the guitarist from Camera. Pretty cool, and they create a decent facsimile of the Sound We’ve Come To Hear (though Rother’s guitar tone is actually pretty horrible for the first couple of numbers). I don’t mean to sound jaded, as I was genuinely lost in the moment a few times during their set (particularly in a hard and fast take on Harmonia’s ‘Veteranissimo’ (I think) and a nicely harsh ‘Negativland’ (very Loop-esque)), but the sense of veneration/ancestor worship at these type of gigs seems to interfere with my engagement and pleasure. I felt similar at last year’s King Crimson gig, though maybe less so. Ah well, it’s probably all in my head…
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IanB 6761 posts |
Edited Feb 07, 2016, 22:36
Feb 07, 2016, 22:34
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Fatalist wrote: Hawkwind – Space Ritual / Friends & Relations (live tracks). So, the big one. It never ceases to amaze, though any objectivity about SR went out of my window a long time ago. Really, what else even vaguely sounds like this? Many thoughts arose, the most basic of which being along the lines of ‘HW clearly weren’t going for the “let’s rock this municipal arts venue” vibe of, say. Deep Purple. But neither were they aspiring to the proggy uplands of, say, Yes. But there’s clearly a ‘serious’ intent here. What exactly were they up to in the context of 1972?’ I think perhaps they had a collective sense (though probably unspoken) that the hippie ideal was a crock long before anyone else. Even while they were still paying homage to it. I think the music reflects the idea that there is very little peace and no light "out there". They scared the shit out of me at the age of 13. In the way that the best dystopian sci-fi fiction scared the life out of me but did me a lot of good. Nothing Deep Purple sang range true to me, at least not with Gillan at the helm. Jon Anderson's words are a lot of wishful thinking but sounded lovely so I didn't waste much time worrying about their meaning.
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jb lamptoast-morsley 2448 posts |
Feb 07, 2016, 22:40
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Fatalist 1123 posts |
Feb 07, 2016, 22:47
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IanB wrote: Fatalist wrote: Hawkwind – Space Ritual / Friends & Relations (live tracks). So, the big one. It never ceases to amaze, though any objectivity about SR went out of my window a long time ago. Really, what else even vaguely sounds like this? Many thoughts arose, the most basic of which being along the lines of ‘HW clearly weren’t going for the “let’s rock this municipal arts venue” vibe of, say. Deep Purple. But neither were they aspiring to the proggy uplands of, say, Yes. But there’s clearly a ‘serious’ intent here. What exactly were they up to in the context of 1972?’ I think perhaps they had a collective sense (though probably unspoken) that the hippie ideal was a crock long before anyone else. Even while they were still paying homage to it. I think the music reflects the idea that there is very little peace and no light "out there". They scared the shit out of me at the age of 13. In the way that the best dystopian sci-fi fiction scared the life out of me but did me a lot of good. Nothing Deep Purple sang range true to me, at least not with Gillan at the helm. Jon Anderson's words are a lot of wishful thinking but sounded lovely so I didn't waste much time worrying about their meaning. Did you see them on this tour or around then? One of the things I'm interested in is how HW/SR actually sounded at the time, certainly compared to what else was out there. Bloody scary I imagine (and as you say) - SR seems to be about escaping a dying planet, then realising that the void isn't much better...
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