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1001realapes 2387 posts |
Edited Nov 26, 2012, 09:46
Nov 25, 2012, 03:37
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Arlo Guthrie - Gerde's Folk City 1966 Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant Arlo Guthrie - Running Down The Road Arlo Guthrie - Washington County Arlo Guthrie - Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys Scott Walker - Bish Bosch Miles Davis - E.S.P. Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro Miles Davis - Miles in the Sky Miles Davis - In a Silent Way Alien Comunity - I + II Brian Eno - Textures Brian Eno - Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace Brian Eno - Kite Stories Brian Eno - Small Craft on a Milk Sea (bonus disc) Sam Cooke - The Rhythm and the Blues The Residents - Night of the Hunters Cat Stevens - Matthew & Son Cat Stevens - Catch Bull at Four Frank Stokes - Creator of the Memphis Blues Vidna Obmana - Memories Compiled¹ (Monument Of Empty Colours / Gathering In Frozen Beauty) The Animals - A's & B's & EP's Steve Roach - Dynamic Stillness |
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zphage 3378 posts |
Nov 25, 2012, 04:09
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national head band: albert 1 classic, classic, great harmonies, soulful lead singing, tight playing cold chisel: East and Breakfast at sweethearts still torn on these: are there enough hooks, the guitar playing can be great but the production can sometimes steal the fire cochise: s/t;so far; swallow tales similiar organic gtr; bass, drms make up as national head band with bj coles on steel guitar, some rustic and hard rocking bends and curves mountain: climbing; flowers of evil; mountian some good and bad, maybe blame the cd, i don't know if they hold up as well as James Gang, Grand Funk or Cooper, they seemed to have run out of ideas sooner
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Chaosmonger 977 posts |
Nov 25, 2012, 07:21
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Lucifugum - On the Sortilage of Christianity Mayhem - Ordo ad Chao Can - The Lost Tapes The Kinks - Face to Face The Who - A Quick One (first time hearing this one, it's okay, not great) Captain Beyond - s/t (better than all Zep and Purp combined, fact)
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IanB 6761 posts |
Edited Nov 25, 2012, 12:49
Nov 25, 2012, 08:39
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Christos Fanaras - Impermanence Hami and I played a really nice improv gig in Winchester this week with Seb of this parish and a free improv guitar player called Mark Lamb. I hope there will be a Soundcloud stream of that set available at some point soon but the highlight for me was one of the other acts who performed this album in its entirety. On this evidence Christos Fanaras is a one man mid 70s Tangerine Dream but with a more detectable, but not especially overt or literal, classical influence. I can hear Popol Vuh, Arvo Part and the music of an older church in here. And the fuzz bass section from Tubular Bells! I have a lot of Klaus Schulze records and such like and I really cannot remember (m)any of those having such an immediate impact on me or being so instantly memorable. Every time I listen to it the arrangement seems to have a finely calibrated internal logic to it. Compositional electronic music rather than purely atmospheric. A proper record with a narrative arch, you wouldn't hear it in a lift. Or a cave. Bjork - Vespertine, Medulla, Volta Had another go at getting over my Bjork blind spot. To no avail. The whole thing left me feeling more than a bit pissed off. The best way I can think to put it is that Bjork's music reminds me of that place on the coast of Portugal where you can get a certificate saying you have been to the most westerly point in Europe. A non event unless you actually fall in the water. So in the end you are left feeling "Yes .... and .... so?" before getting back on the coach in search of something resembling a real experience rather than just a consumer of a product that says you have stood on the edge. I was interested to read in 'Listen To This' (which dedicates a chapter to her) that she dislikes minimalism. That certainly makes sense because her music is like a very bright, very talkative teenager endlessly engaged in letting you know how bright and engaged they are. Alex Ross loves the bones of her but it is worth noting that he barely listened to any pop music before the age of 20 so what he is looking for in rock and pop isn't rooted in the experience of someone who fell in love with Blockbuster or Telegram Sam at the age of 11. He is presumably looking for something with the same kind of complexity that he would have found in European Classical music. His chapters on Bjork and Radiohead certainly suggest as much in that he endlessly talks up the parts of these artists' lives that touch on the Classical realm both as consumers of music and composers. Don't think he would get the unalloyed pleasures of a Robyn record or Mott's 'Rock n Roll Queen' or Urian Heep 'Live' .... Coming back to Bjork I am not sure any of her music will stay the course except as an example of Art World hyperreality invading mainstream pop (mainstream in terms of audience size). Bjork's music represents a short-term victory of style, ironic mannerism and commerce over content, a series of empty gestures filling a space where the music should be. The polar opposite of records like '50 Words of Snow' or 'The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver....' in that it is not saying much more than "I Am A Modern Art Personality Making Modern Art Music". Just because the Tate Modern is one of our most popular tourist attractions doesn't mean the contemporary art within is always actually saying anything more than "You Are Now Standing On The Cutting Edge". Perhaps she should make one copy of each album, sell it for $5m and have it played in galleries rather than be selling half a milllion copies for $10 each. Cerys Matthews - Tir, Explorer and Don't Look Down Had the opposite experience in having a listen to three recentish Cerys Matthews albums. Along with the new Fiona Apple record this is the surprise singer songwriter discovery for me of the last few months. The music is wildly eclectic, the eclecticism serves the songs and the songs are really good. Can't ask more than that. Wales Welcomes Womex and am still playing this fantastic Songlines compilation. Has become a bit of a tube journey classic. Not sure why some music sounds so much better underground. Richter & Borodin Quartet - Schubert: Piano Quintet 'The Trout' Michael Moorcock's Deep Fix - New World's Fair Queen -s/t 10cc - Deceptive Bends Von Karajan BPO - Schubert: Unfinished Symphony Morton Feldman: For Samuel Beckett John Luther Adams - The Light That Fills the World Anne-Sophie Mutter LPO - Mozart: Sinfonia concertante for violin, viola & orchestra in E flat major, K. 364
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danny_9317 37 posts |
Nov 25, 2012, 09:57
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Hi Caravan- In the land of grey and pink Camel- moonmadness dexy's midnight runners- don't stand me down & searching for the young soul rebels popol vuh- nosferatu brian eno-thursday afternoon (brilliant) & music for airports & on land chopin- piano cocerto no. 1 peter gabriel- s/t 1 harold budd- abandoned cities rautavaara- cantus arcticus (picked this up after robot emperor's description in last week's thread and it didn't disappoint so many thanks for that) & symphony no.3 cocteau twins- heaven or las vegas have a good week
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Fitter Stoke 2611 posts |
Nov 25, 2012, 10:17
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Tangerine Dream 'Atem' - stunning new vinyl reissue on Reactive Sex Pistols 'Never Mind The Bollocks' Deluxe Edition (disc 2 with the demo versions - fab!) Miles Davis 'E.S.P.' Mahler 3 (Boult's pioneering 1947 BBC SO account with Kathleen Ferrier) Alan Rawsthorne: Symphonic Studies, Symphonies 1-3 and Piano Concertos 1&2 (Lyrita reissues)
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flashbackcaruso 1056 posts |
Nov 25, 2012, 10:30
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Mercury Rev - Boces The Beach Boys - Surf's Up Füxa - Very Well Organized Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch Bert Jansch - It Don't Bother Me of Arrowe Hill - Suddenly, At Home & Other Rumours Of Misadventure Scott Walker - The Moviegoer Scott Walker - Any Day Now Sunn O))) - Black One Bee Gees - Horizontal The Human League - Credo The Apples In Stereo - Science Faire Cardiacs - On Land And In The Sea Cardiacs - Heaven Born And Ever Bright Fuchsia - 4 Tracks EP
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mingtp 2270 posts |
Nov 25, 2012, 12:38
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Albums Oren Ambarchi - Sagittarian Domain Brian Eno - Lux Eternal Tapestry - A World Out of Time Prince Rama - Top 10 Hits of the End of the World Prince Rama - Shadow Temple Prince Rama - Trust Now Prince Rama - Utopia = No Person Mugstar - Axis Clinic - Free Reign Golden Void - Golden Void Oneida - A List of the Burning Mountains Public Service Broadcasting - Everest EP VA - Man Chest Hair (Finders Keepers) Mediaeval Baebes - The Huntress Aerosmith - Rocks Gemini - Mercury EP How To Destroy Angels - An Omen Kate Nash - Death Proof EP Suicide - Suicide The Koolaid Electric Company - Feel our Noise and Adore Us EP The Magnificent Brotherhood - Dope Idiots Wo Fat - The Black Code Farout - Nihonjin Bo Ningen - Line the Wall Tracks Wah! Heat - Seven Minutes to Midnight
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spencer 3071 posts |
Nov 25, 2012, 13:38
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Ian, I read STOL week on week hoping to find other's heads up for music that I am left in no doubt that I will find indispensible. This happens rarely, but your comments about Fanaras are a case in point. I haven't heard a note, but I am prepared to purchase and know that I will not be disappointed. Thank you. As for Bjork, well, as far as I'm concerned that's her described in a four paragraph nutshell. I don't know where her distinct music comes from, but it is not the heart.
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jb lamptoast-morsley 2447 posts |
Nov 25, 2012, 14:25
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Bjork's great... giz us a copy of that Francine Luce album would you? Seriously, if you could see your way to giving me a copy, i would be ever so grateful. I would even try and reciprocate, though i might be hard pressed to find things to match your intellectual palette...even if you do like Kiss (which i don't). Now of course you are perfectly within your statutory rights to dismiss Bjork. And the albums you chose to listen should have given you ample opportunity to get into her, if you will excuse my unfortunate turn of phrase. I respond to her music on a more emotional level perhaps. Analysis not needed
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