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Fatalist 1123 posts |
Jan 01, 2018, 18:58
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spencer wrote: first of 2018, np: Talk Talk - Laughing Stock......New Grass If nothing else, that is a beautiful way to see in the new year...
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spencer 3069 posts |
Jan 01, 2018, 20:25
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Yup. Took a fraction of second to decide what to kick things off with. Then more Lambchop n Alice..2018 away we go. Am also enjoying a comp of Alt J stuff my mates put together and sonically improved. Veery nice.
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garerama 1110 posts |
Jan 01, 2018, 20:31
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spencer wrote: Yup. Took a fraction of second to decide what to kick things off with. Then more Lambchop n Alice..2018 away we go. Am also enjoying a comp of Alt J stuff my mates put together and sonically improved. Veery nice. Cam never go wrong with more Alice!
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spencer 3069 posts |
Jan 01, 2018, 21:12
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Was trying to find the album of her meditational chants thats MOJO's reissue of the year (nope, meh) when I tripped up over the Huntington Ashram in the rack. Very fine indeed. Well chuffed.
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Fatalist 1123 posts |
Jan 01, 2018, 23:00
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Anna von Hausswolff – Dead Magic. Fourth album in, and AvH is more gloomy and grandiose than ever. Takes a while to get going, but by the epic central track, she’s progging out with the best of them. One of those few artists to have convincingly created a sound world all of their own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=werYFrzGiwU Bjorn Riis – Coming Home Can – Future Days / ‘Halleluhwah’. This turned out to be the perfect soundtrack to cooking Xmas dinner (with the kitchen door firmly shut). Gentle Giant – Octopus. Spurred on by their appearance on the front cover of this month’s Prog, thought I’d try to get to grips with these guys once again… but they’re as slippery as the cephalopod of this album’s title. Lots of interesting moments, but also lots of madrigal vocals, and overall a feeling of being scared to just let rip and go for it a la VDGG or King Crimson. VA – 2000 Light Years From Home. MOJO psych comp freebie. Possibly the way my brain is wired, but a lot of ‘classic’ psych just sounds like novelty music to me – perfectly pleasant, but difficult to get that excited about. However, this comp did reacquaint me with the beautiful ‘On A Meadow-Lea’ by Bobak, Jons, Malone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6N6_xlSVi0 Y is for… Susumu Yokota – Sakura. This guy was a big noise (if that’s not a contradiction in terms) in ambient electronica in the 90s and 00s, and I think this album is regarded as one of his best. Certainly The Wire seemed to think so, making it their ‘electronica album of the year’ in 2000, according to the sticker attached to the cover. I’m not sure I’d go that far, but it is very good in places, and covers a variety of styles rather than just following some sub-Eno-esque formula. Overall, it doesn’t sound that ground-breaking these days, but then context is often everything. Lovely use of vocal loops in this track (which I’ve just discovered are from Joni Mitchell's ‘Songs To Aging Children Come’): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46a-mCdmNjQ
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Fitter Stoke 2608 posts |
Jan 01, 2018, 23:18
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Bob Dylan 'Trouble No More' box set Samantha Fish 'Chills and Fever' Van Morrison 'Versatile' Sonic Youth 'Goo' Boz Scaggs 'My Time' Boz Scaggs 'Slow Dancer' Various 'Let The Electric Children Play' (Transatlantic label anthology) Gun Outfit 'Possession Sound' Rush 'All The World's A Stage' Rush 'Exit...Stage Left' The Jam '1977' Rare Bird 'Born Again' Lowell George 'Thanks I'll Eat It Here' Beethoven: Piano Sonata Op.101 (Richard Goode) Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no.4 (BPO/Herbert von Karajan) Beethoven: Triple Concerto (Mutter/Zeltser/Ma/BPO/Karajan)
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Stevo 6664 posts |
Jan 06, 2018, 11:20
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flashbackcaruso wrote: Shirley Collins - Lodestar Art - Supernatural Fairytales Picked up both of these over Xmas. Got a special edition f the Shirley Collins for £13 which seems extravagant in £ not €. But has linernotes by Stewart Lee and lyrics and I think comments from Shirley. Found out that FOPP has the Art set for £5 after paying a couple quid more for it and not getting Bobak, Jones Malone Motherlight in Sister ray. Now wishing that I had picked that up but maybe shortly. Nice lp that Motherlight. Have the Art & the first Spooky Tooth in an island remaster from a few years ago. Spooky Two is pretty great too but i already had that. Though the repertoire reissue from 10 years ago or something. Keep seeing Supernatural Fairy Tales mentioned in places over the years so thought it was about time i had a physical copy. Pretty dashed crunchy it is too. Stevo
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Stevo 6664 posts |
Jan 06, 2018, 11:33
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garerama wrote: Rolling Stones - Aftermath / Between The Buttons / Their Satanic Majestic Request current Mojo hasa feature on Stones around the time of Satanic Majesties garerama wrote: Pharoah Sanders - You've Got To Have Freedom: Anthology This is a handy overview especially if you're djing since it cuts down the long trance tracks to about 10 minutes a piece. THough having the full length versions is also handy. & now cds have those longer tracks edited together instead of spread over 2 sides of a vinyl disc or maintaining those edits as the first wave of cds did. I should have picked up Elevation the live set from Honest john's before Xmas still want to get all of that late 60s/early 70s era. & now Impulse is doing 2 fer cds of a lot of that stuff. Leon Thomas is also worth checking out on his own, hat's the vocalist you hear extreme scatting over the top of the Pharaoh grooves. Also Sonny Sharrock is on a couple of the Pharaoh titles from the early era and is worth checking out on his own garerama wrote: V/A - 2000 Light Years From Home (Mojo) yeah another somewhat decent compi from Mojo. They do do a nice psychedelic compi don't they? Or at least late 60s groove. This has a track from the Bobak, Jones Malone Motherlight lp i was talking about elsewhere. & wished I'd looked up on Spotify before so I knew what i was missing. I guess it's inclusion in Richard Morton jack's Psychedelia 101 should have been some indication of its worthiness. CD has some other good stuff too. Kind of overlaps with the Looking at The Signs in the Sky compilation i got for Xmas which is the 3cd compilaton from the Grapefruit label that covers 1968. Think it keeps up the label's past standard so is worth getting. Covers a lot of semi known psych stuff from the era including some unreleased stuff. Stevo
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garerama 1110 posts |
Jan 07, 2018, 00:58
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Stevo wrote: garerama wrote: Rolling Stones - Aftermath / Between The Buttons / Their Satanic Majestic Request current Mojo hasa feature on Stones around the time of Satanic Majesties Yep read that last week, nice overview of that period. The free cd is a pleasant listen. Stevo wrote: garerama wrote: Pharoah Sanders - You've Got To Have Freedom: Anthology This is a handy overview especially if you're djing since it cuts down the long trance tracks to about 10 minutes a piece. THough having the full length versions is also handy. & now cds have those longer tracks edited together instead of spread over 2 sides of a vinyl disc or maintaining those edits as the first wave of cds did. I should have picked up Elevation the live set from Honest john's before Xmas still want to get all of that late 60s/early 70s era. & now Impulse is doing 2 fer cds of a lot of that stuff. Leon Thomas is also worth checking out on his own, hat's the vocalist you hear extreme scatting over the top of the Pharaoh grooves. Also Sonny Sharrock is on a couple of the Pharaoh titles from the early era and is worth checking out on his own Yep got quite a few of the Impulse cds with the long edits but quite a lot of omissions as you say. Thanks for tip on Leon Thomas - need to check out some of his stuff - he really goes for it in Creator Has A Master Plan. Will check out some Sonny Sharrock. Stevo wrote: garerama wrote: V/A - 2000 Light Years From Home (Mojo) yeah another somewhat decent compi from Mojo. They do do a nice psychedelic compi don't they? Or at least late 60s groove. This has a track from the Bobak, Jones Malone Motherlight lp i was talking about elsewhere. & wished I'd looked up on Spotify before so I knew what i was missing. I guess it's inclusion in Richard Morton jack's Psychedelia 101 should have been some indication of its worthiness. CD has some other good stuff too. Kind of overlaps with the Looking at The Signs in the Sky compilation i got for Xmas which is the 3cd compilaton from the Grapefruit label that covers 1968. Think it keeps up the label's past standard so is worth getting. Covers a lot of semi known psych stuff from the era including some unreleased stuff. I OD'ed on psych comp cds a few years back. Was quite lucky that I did not get many duds though. This is a fine cd - quite a lot I hadn't heard (esp like Andromeda and Blonde On Blonde). Yep these Grapefruit comps can be good. I think this is the one I was looking for a few months back but abandoned when I got a turntable for my birthday and rediscovered vinyl and started to rebuild a collection from scratch... But 3 cds of 1968! For me it is probably one of the richest years musically - a splendid vintage(also my birth year). Cheers Stevo, Gare
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garerama 1110 posts |
Jan 07, 2018, 01:07
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Stevo wrote: flashbackcaruso wrote: Shirley Collins - Lodestar Art - Supernatural Fairytales Picked up both of these over Xmas. Got a special edition f the Shirley Collins for £13 which seems extravagant in £ not €. But has linernotes by Stewart Lee and lyrics and I think comments from Shirley. Found out that FOPP has the Art set for £5 after paying a couple quid more for it and not getting Bobak, Jones Malone Motherlight in Sister ray. Now wishing that I had picked that up but maybe shortly. Nice lp that Motherlight. Have the Art & the first Spooky Tooth in an island remaster from a few years ago. Spooky Two is pretty great too but i already had that. Though the repertoire reissue from 10 years ago or something. Keep seeing Supernatural Fairy Tales mentioned in places over the years so thought it was about time i had a physical copy. Pretty dashed crunchy it is too. Stevo That Lodestar is a fine album - what was it her first solo album in 38 years or something (beating Vashti by 3 years longer)? Picked up that Art cd and the first two Spooky's earlier last year. I think I prefer Art over Spooky Tooth - but excellent all round. Not ventured further beyond the first two Spooky's yet as I think these two are the core.
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