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Message 1.Ìý
Posted by jasonaparkes (U3653332) on Friday, 25th March 2011
(apart from the Freak/Freakier Zone, that is)? There was an old thread on this theme, but I can't find it so have started this new one
I'm currently digging:
*The Gathering by Arbouretum
*Asleep on the Floodplain by Six Organs of Admittance
*Angels....1 by Earth
*Gideon Gaye/Hawaii/Can Cladders by the High Llamas
*Rain Tree Crow by Rain Tree Crow
*Rite Time by Can
*the best of Ladytron
*QOTSA (1st LP reissued) by Queens of the Stone Age
*March to Fuzz by Mudhoney
*Alien Lanes/Bee Thousand/Human Amusements... by Guided by Voices
*Red Barked Tree by Wire
*Gone to Earth/Sleepwalkers by David Sylvian
*Laughing Stock by Talk Talk
*BitchesBrew Live by Miles Davis
*the Get Carter soundtrack just reissued
*Let England Shake by PJ Harvey
*Liar/Goat/Head/Bang by the Jesus Lizard
*Leader of the Starry Skies - a tribute to Tim Smith
*Muswell Hillbillies/Preservation Act 2 by The Kinks
*Last of the Country Gentlemen by Josh T Pierson
*The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads by Lift to Experience
*Rock Around the Bunker/The Man With a Cabbage for a Head by Serge Gainsbourg
*S/T II : The Cosmic Birth....by Akron/Family
*early/Absolute/Songs to Remember by Scritti Politti
*Some Best Friend You Turned Out to Be by Max Tundra
*Underwater Moonlight by The Soft Boys
*The Drill by Wire
*Cats and Dogs by Royal Trux
*The Pearl by Eno & Budd
*Oversteps/Move of Ten by Autechre
*pretty much most Beefheart
*Gold by Rush
*Movies by Holger Czukay
*Amplified: New Music Meets Rock, 1981 - 1986 (early Sonic Youth/SWANS/Arthur Russell etc)
*etc
I also wonder if all the different discussions where everyone suggests an LP of the week or tracks should all be fused together? -
Message 2
Posted by Filbert Foxtrot (U14153663) on Saturday, 26th March 2011
John Barleycorn Must Die - Traffic.
Just reissued - a terrific album. -
Message 3
Posted by MAY-DAY (U14316705) on Tuesday, 29th March 2011
For the last week or so I've been listening to one of the great "lost" bands - the beautiful, brilliant Beta Band.
I first fell in love with them when I heard the debut EP:
A band that wrote great songs and knew how to tread the fine line between endearing "amateurish" and a canny sense of being aware of exactly what they were doing.
The very name gives the game away:
The Beta Band!
Perfect!
Last week, in my library, I came across a "Best Of" that I wasn't aware of.
I took it out because CD2 is a live recording; and I never saw them live; so that, in itself, was a pleasure.
It goes without saying that the live set corresponds almost exactly with the studio songs they've compiled on CD1.
So it's an awkward sort of "Best Of" that missed the opportunity to showcase a wider range of their superb songs.
(They have especially "thrown away" lots of gems from the early EPs that should be on this collection.)
But then they've always been contrary wee so and so's, haven't they?
Sabotage your own career, why don't you!
Didn't they more or less disown an album on the eve of its release?
Which is probably why they never quite received (but deserved) the acclaim that's now lavished on Belle And Sebastian.
I'd guess most of the songs are written on an acoustic guitar (most of them have the same mid-tempo "shuffle" rhythm) but the strong melodies are enhanced by just the right awareness of what a studio can offer.
So they're much more sonically interesting than, say, Badly Drawn Boy but not quite as over-produced as "Giant Steps"-era Boo Radleys.
What I find especially endearing about them is that you can't quite spot their influences, or where they're coming from.
The slide guitar and bluesy feel of some of the early stuff isn't too far from the first Gomez album of the same period.
There's a wee bit of Beefheart at his most tender, and some Arthur Lee in there too.
When I listen to "Broke" I sing along to The Band's "King Harvest Has Surely Come".
"It's Not Too Beautiful" (beautiful song though it is) is within an inch of being Sting/The Police.
And "Assessment" is U2!
Ultimately, maybe what I like about them (apart from their sheer brilliance) is that I always support the underdog.
I'm old enough to have collected all the Postcard singles.
Orange Juice and Aztec Camera won the critical plaudits and record sales; I always preferred the darker, far more interesting Josef K.
So, it's in that spirit that I say...
Beta Band; they're the one for me. -
Message 4
Posted by jasonaparkes (U3653332) on Thursday, 31st March 2011
...Really must check out the 'John Barleycorn...' reissue...
LOVE the Beta Band. I remember some ecstasy-addled chappy at a festival in Leicester coming over to listen to some Can I was playing and saying that the Beta Band only had one song ('Dry the Rain'). Absolute nonsense....
That two-disc best of is great, some of the live versions of songs are even better live. There is a great DVD too that has an amusing charity shop play on the 'Dry the Rain' scene from 'High Fidelity.'
I only had the 'Three e.p's' and the best of for a number of years, but have picked up all the others since. Even the disowned debut has merit ; 'Hot Shots II' and 'Heroes...Zeroes' are great - I reckon 'Hot Shots II' would make an ideal LP of the week. It's even got a bit of a Krautrock vibe.
Not sure if the Beta Band have featured on the Freak Zone - if not, they really should (though there is a Lt. Pigeon box-set out soon that ought to be played). Thought the Aliens were briliant, especially the 2nd album and really loved Steve Mason's Black Affair disco/rave type LP. Actually preferred that to 'Boys Outside'.... -
Message 5
Posted by cilamc (U14830742) on Sunday, 3rd April 2011
Hello fellow Children of the Zone.
I am currently enjoying the following...
Loudest Whisper "Children Of Lir"
The Unthanks "Last"
Various Artists "1959 British Hit Parade Part 1" -
Message 6
Posted by jasonaparkes (U3653332) on Saturday, 16th April 2011
This week I be currently listening to:
*Tender Buttons by Broadcast
*C'Mon by Low
*the new High Llamas
*How to Destroy Angels by How to Destroy Angels
*69 Love Songs by the Magnetic Fields
*Gris Gris, Gumbo & The Sun, Moon & Herbs by Dr John
*Live at the Aragon by Mastodon
*Colossal Youth by Young Marble Giants
*Rite Time by Can
*The Best of the Monochrome Set
*Calling Out of Context by Arthur Russell
*Last of the Country Gentlemen by Josh T Pierson
*Flesh by Viv Albertine
*Hibernaculum by Earth
*Naked by Talking Heads
*God is Good by Om
*Queens of the Stone Age by Queens of the Stone Age
*Sings to God 1 & 2 by Cardiacs
*Collected Works by the Third Eye Foundation
*Tweez/Slint/Spiderland by Slint
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Message 7
Posted by MAY-DAY (U14316705) on Monday, 18th April 2011
I recently read David Sheppard's brilliant Eno biog, "On Some Faraway Beach", so I was playing a lot of Eno as my soundtrack.
My collection doesn't stretch very far from the early, obvious ones: "No Pussyfooting", "Taking Tiger Mountain", "Another Green World", "Before And After Science", "Music For Films".
(Or, as we call it in Dublin, "Music For Fillums")
The only new-to-me one I've playing is "Nerve Net" (from '92).
I confess I'd never heard of it; and it only merits one page in Sheppard's book, so I wasn't expecting much.
But it's surprisingly good.
A very nice slice of electro-funk; with the two great Roberts (Fripp and Quine) on hand to offer their signature off-kilter guitar.
Also playing at May-Cee Mansions these days -
PJ Harvey - "Let England Shake"
Her best?
Well, I always think that with every new one; so let me live with it a wee while.
Ursula Rucker - "Supa Sista"
What brought me back to this great debut was its use (rather oddly) in a current shampoo commercial.
It doesn't give my hair any more body or shine but it was nice to be reminded of Ursula.
It's hard to avoid the "female Gil Scott-Heron" label; which I would regard as high praise!
But I hear it as a sort of companion piece to the Max Roach/Abbie Lincoln classic, "We Insist! The Freedom Now Suite".
(Alas, no mention of Ursula in "33 Revolutions Per Minute"; another brilliant book I've just finished.)
Catherine Howe - "What A Beautiful Place"
I'm not a great "folkie"; and apparently even in folk circles this beautiful, hard-to-categorise album is considered a bit of a cult, one-off statement.
I only first heard it five years ago (it's from '71) but somehow it felt right to listen to alongside Ursula and Polly.
And the sleeve - the ciggie and the typewriter - is the story of my life.
(Two other "lost" extraordinary female voices:
Judee Sill and Karen Dalton)
Jason -
The Monochrome Set have always been one of my "pet" bands.
I have the early Rough Trade singles - "He's Frank" / "Alphaville" by far the best - and the two first DinDisc albums.
I heard one of their instrumentals on FZ a few years ago; they did wonderful instrumentals.
I started to lose interest when they started to get a wee bit too self-consciously "zany" and "quirky" for my taste.
Still a great little band though. -
Message 8
Posted by Itchythekipper (U7492227) on Wednesday, 20th April 2011
Recently I've been enjoying...
VDGG - A Grounding In Numbers (great)
Tim Hart and Maddy Prior - Summer Solstice (a classic)
Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising (Vikings, basically)
Bob Cann - West Country Melodeon
also various bits and pieces from:
Mike Keneally (ex-Zappa, a great guitarist and interesting composer in his own right)
Bobby Hutcherson (60s Blue Note tracks)
Mr Fox (interesting 70s folk)
Gojira (French metal) -
Message 9
Posted by MAY-DAY (U14316705) on Saturday, 23rd April 2011
Hiya Itchy!
Long time!
I see you're still grooving to stuff I've never heard of; but, hey, that's the point, innit?
I can meet you half-way with the great Bobby Hutcherson; after that, I'm lost!
Yesterday, being Good Friday, meant a Bank Holiday in Ireland; where we were allowed to stay at home and contemplate God.
In practice, it gave me the chance to finish and send off a piece about Beckett; that most un-Godly of writers who (for some reason) an Australian newspaper was offering me a few hundred Euros for a few hundred words.
He works in mysterious ways, God does.
To be fair to myself, my listening pleasure was a mixture of the religious and the sacrilegious; the saint and the sinner.
I've long been a lapsed Catholic ("Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine...") but Bach's "St Matthew Passion" hits us Catholics where it hurts.
I don't believe a word of it; but it's so stirring and sensuous... you're seduced.
One wee blast of "Erbarme dich" and it draws you in...
For some secular but topical beats I turned to the 12" vinyl version of the magnificent "Tell Me Easter's On Friday" - The Associates.
My fav track from a brilliant band; and the best (rock) bass-line this side of "Song From Under The Floorboards".
Later last night, for no particular reason, I found myself listening to The Peace Orchestra.
Into each life some beats must fall.
I took my beats from the two far-out albums - "Peace Orchestra" and "Reset".
They're the side project of Peter Kruder of the Kruder & Dorfmeister production crew.
In truth, they're not actually that different from K & D anyway; but who's complaining?
Of the brilliant K & D remixes (remake, remodel) I'll take a guess, from what I know of his taste in music, that Jason's favourite is their version of Depeche Mode's "Useless".
That one is gorgeous; says someone who can take or leave Depeche Mode!
In keeping with my theme (and as Mingus is one of my heroes) what I should have listened to yesterday was the amazing "The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady".
But, hey, the Easter weekend is young!
(And then there's Patti's "Easter"...) -
Message 10
Posted by jasonaparkes (U3653332) on Saturday, 23rd April 2011
Heard 'Tell Me Easter's on Friday' by Associates on Jarvis Cocker a few weeks ago and it sounded fantastic. What a band the Mackenzie/Rankine Associates were. 'Tell Me...' is certainly up there with my all time Associates' faves like 'White Car in Germany', 'Transport to Central', 'No', 'Nude Spoons', 'Paper House' etc etc....
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Message 11
Posted by MAY-DAY (U14316705) on Saturday, 23rd April 2011
Jason,
In the very early days of Channel Four, I wrote a short TV movie inspired by my first job after school - the Ford car plant in Belfast.
We used, over the opening titles, the great industrial instrumental "An Even Whiter Car".
If you think back to the opening of Schrader's "Blue Collar" - images of the assembly line, the bluesy Jack Nitzsche soundtrack...
It was very similar.
In truth, it was a complete rip-off.
But, hey, I only wrote it; I didn't direct! -
Message 12
Posted by Itchythekipper (U7492227) on Sunday, 24th April 2011
Hi May,
Good to know you're still about! I've missed our little chats since the R2 boards disappeared. In fact I only realised the other day that I could still log in here.
As you know I like Mingus too. And I always think of it as 'The Black Paint And The Dinner Lady' - maybe there's a story in that for you...
Currently just listening to the new album by Skindred, 'Union Black.' A 'ragga metal' band with dubstep influences...how's that for eclectic! Sounds very promising on first listen. -
Message 13
Posted by TuffLifeBoogie (U14831247) on Monday, 25th April 2011
tufflifeboogie are digging both recent albums by Sonny and The Sunsets - 'Tomorrow is Alright' and 'Hit by Hit', available on Fat Possum.
Go and see Sonny on tour in May including Preston on May 2nd with The Wave Pictures and Viv Albertine!
We also dig the new Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds record, 'Gorilla Rose' (60s garage kitsch, imagine some gogo dancers!) and 'It is The Rehearsal That Will Make This', the lovely new album from The Middle Ones, who are shaping up to be the new Marine Girls, bliss! -
Message 14
Posted by MAY-DAY (U14316705) on Tuesday, 21st June 2011
Not "new" but (mostly) new to me...
On the cusp of the Freak Zone; maybe more in common with the "Arkestral Zone" that Gilles Peterson used to do.
Anyways, I've been groovin' lately to -
* Leon Thomas - "Spirits Of The Known And Unknown"
* "The Blue Yusef Lateef"
* "David Axelrod"
* Eugene McDaniels - "Headless Heroes Of The Apocalypse"
* Freddie Hubbard - "Sing Me A Song Of Songmy"
* Charles Earland - "The Anthology"
* "Chicago Underground Quartet"
* "Philip Cohran & The Artistic Heritage Ensemble"
* Pharoah Sanders - "Karma"
* Roland Kirk - "The Case Of The 3-Sided Dream In Audio Colour"
(A Freak Zone title in itself!) -
Message 15
Posted by Pynchon (U14321728) on Tuesday, 28th June 2011
English Heretic - Tales from the New Isis Lodge
Current 93 - Honeysuckle/Aeon
Elle Osborne - So Slowly Slowly Got She Up
Zodiac Free Arts Club - Floating World
Trembling Bells - The Constant Pageant -
Message 16
Posted by KingLudd (U14703455) on Tuesday, 28th June 2011
I hadn't heard English Heretic before, so listened to "Typhonian Museum Piece" on youtube. Really enjoyed it.
Here's some things I've been listening to:
Chinaboise - Working Girl
Flaming Tunes - Golden Age
Eliane Radigue - Face A-4
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Message 17
Posted by Itchythekipper (U7492227) on Saturday, 16th July 2011
Enjoying the new Advisory Circle album 'As The Crow Flies.'
Also...
Chico Hamilton's tunes from the film Sweet Smell Of Success
'Glory of the Music Hall' - highlights include The Yodelling Goldfish by Beatrice Lillie.
Origin - 'Entity.' Tech Death stunner.
Willowglass - 'Book of Hours.' Lovely retro-prog with lots of mellotron. -
Message 18
Posted by KlausKemalKoenig (U14963486) on Wednesday, 17th August 2011
..and don´t forget: Klaus Kemal Koenig and friends: "cock on the run", "Barbie Cow Festival of Vegan Delights", "Atame", "Utopitek rmx", "Totally tired!", "Joy Defriction"...and so on! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH: "To the Brainhole!"
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Message 19
Posted by KlausKemalKoenig (U14963486) on Wednesday, 17th August 2011
I listened all week to www.earritation.net : a place of worldwide cooperation of musical partners for extraordinary sounds and songs and tunes: I got "earritated"!
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Message 20
Posted by Arebeca (U14964775) on Thursday, 18th August 2011
Check out the new demos from ex Babyshambles guitarist Patrick Walden and Rob Mannall. They have recently started a band with Ruth Goller on bass and Jamie Morrison on drums. 28 demos up on soundcloud (www.soundcloud.com/patrickgwalden) all available to download and enjoy.
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Message 21
Posted by MAY-DAY (U14316705) on Monday, 21st November 2011
Anyone familiar with The Necks; and have they ever featured on FZ?
Jez Nelson has played them a couple of times on "Jazz On 3" in recent years.
Horrible name but brilliant band.
(I first came across them in Richard Williams' "The Blue Moment"; a beautiful, brilliant book. It's ostensibly about "Kind Of Blue" - but it also deals with its influence on all other types of "avant-garde" and "out-there" music.)
The Necks are, to put it bluntly, an Australian avant-garde jazz trio.
There - I've said it!
But, in truth, their (gorgeous, mesmerizing) music defies categories.
"Townsville" - my current obsession - is a 50-min-plus work recorded live.
From a jazz angle, I can hear a Cecil Taylor influence in the early piano patterns.
And the whole piece puts me in mind of Keith Jarret's classic "Koln Concert".
(In fact, I'm surprised they're not also on ECM - The Greatest Label In The World - because they strike me as a quintessential ECM outfit.)
Others would probably pick up on the influence of Steve Reich-style "systems" music.
And I'll bet the Prog-heads, if they were in the right mood (and/or on the right drugs), would find them not too unlike Soft Machine and other bands of that ilk; who I'll confess I'm not too familiar with.
My old brother is an old Floyd / Yes / Genesis head.
When I played him "Townsville", his words were -
""Well that's headphones and spliff music."
(Which, from him, is a compliment.) -
Message 22
Posted by AvantGarth (U14154705) on Sunday, 26th February 2012
Thought I'd revive this old thread:
William Basinski - Disintegration Loops I - IV
Guided By Voices - Best of
Wire - Chairs Missing
Jah Lion - Colombia Colly
Blackouts - History In Reverse
Davy Graham - Folk, Blues & Beyond
Rodriguez - Coming From Reality
Spiritualized - Ladies & Gents...
Nina Hagen - Om Namah Shivay
Yo La Tengo - Painful
James Plotkin & Mark Spybey - A Peripheral Blur
Quadron - Quadron
Various - Sleepless In Seattle (Grunge compilation)
John Martyn - One World
My Drug Hell - This Is...
No Trend - When Death Won't Solve All Your Problems
Adrian Younge presents Venice Dawn: Something About April
Various - Instabul '70: Psych, Disco, Folk Classics -
Message 23
Posted by 24frames (U14105320) on Sunday, 4th March 2012
TT Ensemble - Padurea De Aur (CD)
A Winged Victory For The Sullen (CD)
Head Music - Fruits De Mer Records (Promo CDR x 2)
ASC - Nothing Is Certain (CD)
ASC - Space Cadets (Vinyl)
Tycho - Dive (CD)
Marconi Union - [Distance] (CD)
Marconi Union - Under Wires And Searchlights (CD)
Robert Henke - Atom/ Document (Vinyl)
Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters - Underrated Silence (CD)
Darkness Falls - Alive in Us (Vinyl & CD)
Scissors and Sellotape - For the Tired And Ill At Ease (Vinyl & Download)
Cranium Pie - The Geometry Of Thistles (Limited edition CDR)
Cranium Pie - Mechanisms 1 (Promo CDR and limited edition CDR)
Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation
Tangerine Dream - Sorcerer OST -
Message 24
Posted by jasonaparkes (U3653332) on Sunday, 11th March 2012
Currently listening to....
*Angels, Demons 2.... by Earth
*A Victim of Stars by David Sylvian
*Ambient 4: On Land by Eno
*Bubblegum Perfume by Felt
*X5 by Simple Minds
*The Something Rain by Tindersticks
*everything by Leonard Cohen
*Lost Blues by Palace
*Plumb by Field Music
*Animal Joy by Shearwater
*album # 1 of 2012 by Guided by Voices (another one coming already!!)
*Strange Mercy by St Vincent
*Blues Funeral by Mark Lanegan Band
*New Album by Boris
*Django Django
*Star Sailor by Tim Buckley
*Special Wishes by Harvey Milk
*a mass of Michael Chapman reissues/compilations
*Mazes by Moon Duo
*Acrobats by Peggy Sue
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Message 25
Posted by 24frames (U14105320) on Friday, 23rd March 2012
Burnt Friedman - Bokoboko 8/10
Felicia Atkinson - On Being Kind To Horses 5/10
Ensemble - Padurea De Aur 7/10
A Winged Victory For The Sullen 9/10
Head Music - Fruits De Mer Records (Promo CDR x 2)
ASC - Nothing Is Certain
ASC - Space Cadets (Vinyl)
Tycho - Dive
Marconi Union - [Distance]
Marconi Union - Under Wires And Searchlights
Robert Henke - Atom/ Document (Vinyl)
Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters - Underrated Silence 6/10
Darkness Falls - Alive in Us (Vinyl & CD) 9/10
Scissors and Sellotape - For the Tired And Ill At Ease (Vinyl & Download) 8/10
Cranium Pie - The Geometry Of Thistles (Limited edition CDR)
Cranium Pie - Mechanisms 1 (Promo CDR and limited edition CDR)
Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation 8/10
Tangerine Dream - Sorcerer OST 8/10
Loom - Scored 6/10 -
Message 26
Posted by jasonaparkes (U3653332) on Sunday, 15th April 2012
Am currently listening to:
*the new LP by The Monochrome Set and a compilation of their Indie singles
*Rip, Rig & Panic by Roland Kirk
*MMXII by Killing Joke
*Angels...II by Earth
*Join Us In Our Game by Mr Fox
*One Nation Under a Groove & Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
*Live Evil by Miles Davis
*The Ecstastic by Mos Def
*A Victim of Stars by David Sylvian
*Unicorn & A Beard of Stars by Tyrannosaurus Rex
*Didn't I? by The Delfonics
*Ambient 4: On Land by Eno
*the complete Palace/Will Oldham/Bonnie Prince Billy back-catalogue
*Asleep on the Floodplain by Six Organs of Admittance
*Blues Funeral by Mark Lanegan Band
*The Edgar Froese box-set that's just come out
*Crime & Dissonance by Ennio Morricone
*Delay 1968 by Can
*Dopesmoker by Sleep
*Sleep No More by The Comsat Angels
*Frying on This Rock by White Hills
*Growing Pains 3 by Michael Chapman
*Heritage by Opeth
*I Think of Demons by Roky& the Aliens
*Let's Go Eat the Factory by Guided by Voices
*Sonik Kicks by Paul Weller
*X5 by Simple Minds
*Special Wishes by Harvey Milk
*Tassili by Tiniarwen
*Unsung by Helmet
*Anthology by Chrome
*Vision Creation Newsun by The Boredoms
*Y by The Pop Group
*Miami by The Gun Club
*Victorialand by Cocteau Twins
*The Mona by Mick Farren
*Faro Annie by John Renbourn
*Odessa by The Bee Gees
*Format by The Pet Shop Boys
*Stand Up by Jethro Tull
*Strangers in the Night by UFO
*Watch the Closing Doors by V/A
*The Psychomodo by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
*Blackheart Man by Bunny Wailer
*Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk
*Bunny Gets Paid by Red Red Meat
*The Blues & the Abstract Truth by Oliver Nelson
*B-Magnet by B Magnet
*Murder the Mountains by Red Fang
*Ascension by John Coltrane
*The Blade Runner soundtrack by Vangelis
*Paralytic Stalks by Of Montreal
*Where It Hits You by Jim White
*Field Commander Cohen by Leonard Cohen
*Ekstasis by Julia Holter
*Maraqopa by Damien Jurado
*Open Your Heart by The Men
*Book a Trip: The Psych Pop sounds of Capitol by V/A
*Satisfied Mind by The Walkabouts
*Wilson Semiconductors by The Howling Hex
etc.... -
Message 27
Posted by MAY-DAY (U14316705) on Tuesday, 24th April 2012
The current Heaven 17 at May-Cee Mansions:
* The Necks - "Drive By" & "Chemist"
* Erik Truffaz - "Reviste"
* Ornette Coleman - "The Atlantic Years"
* "Matching Mole" & "Little Red Record"
* "23 Skidoo"
* Bang On A Can - "Music For Airports"
* Art Ensemble Of Chicago - "The Meeting" & "Tribute To Lester"
* Alice Coltrane - "Ptah, The El Daoud"
* Ptah - 4 Tracks / White Label
* John Zorn - "Interzone" & "Godard / Spillane"
* James Chance / White - "Buy The Contortions" & "Off White"
* Various Ze Artists - "Mutant Disco"
* Les Gammas - "Exercices De Styles"
* Dino Saluzzi - "Cite de la Musique"
* Serge Gainsbourg - "Histoire De Melody Nelson"
* John Cale - a nice double CD of the Island albums: "Fear", "Slow Dazzle", "Helen Of Troy". ("Fear", I think, is the best.)
* Christopher Young - Homemade compilation of the Best Bits of his Soundtracks: "Rounders", "The Rum Diary", "Shipping News", "Swordfish", and others. -
Message 28
Posted by jasonaparkes (U3653332) on Sunday, 29th April 2012
I have been revisiting the Will Oldham back-catalogue as I finally got to catch him last night in Cheltenham at a nice venue nailed on the back of a dodgy sports bar...
I picked up his latest, 'The Marble Downs' with Trembing Bells and it's fantastic. Seeing it played live made sense, the guitars felt very King Crimson most of the way through.
The back-catalogue stuff that sticks out for me is:
*Joya by Will Oldham
*Lost Blues and Other Songs by Palace Music
*Viva Last Blues by Palace Music
*Is It The Sea? by Bonnie Prince Billy & Harem Scarem
*The Letting Go by BPB
*Greatest Palace Music by BPB
*&
*Superwolf by BPB and Matt Sweeney -
Message 29
Posted by jellyantler (U15267748) on Sunday, 13th May 2012
The new MOHN album on the Kompakt label is fantastic. Mohn being Jörg Burger and Wolfgang Voigt.
In their words, 'MOHN is extremely decelerated, slow motion techno with and without bass drum, containing lots of plasticiser'.
It's very moving and beautiful stuff. -
Message 30
Posted by jasonaparkes (U3653332) on Sunday, 20th May 2012
This week I'm revisiting the back-catalogue of Harvey Milk in anticipation of their gig via those nice folk at Capsule at the Hare & Hounds in Kings Heath/Birmingham. I saw them for the first time at Supersonic 2008 and they were mind-blowing, though I think Joe Preston (Thrones and previously of Melvins, Earth/a guest of High on Fire and Sunn O)))) has departed.
Not sure which drummer HM have at the mo - it was quite surreal to see HM's drummer/manager/producer Kyle Spence loitering outside the Birmingham Academy a few years ago when he was filling in for Murph from Dinosaur Jr (who was ill) on their co-tour with the fine Built to Spill....
I know Stuart played 'Merlin is Magic' from the Harvey Milk reissue a few years ago, not sure if the Milk have been played much otherwise.
The Arch Drude himself, Lord Julian Cope rated their comback LP 'Special Wishes' :
& so this was why I checked them out at Supersonic, oblivious to their earlier stuff from the 90's where they went on hiatus...
'Death Goes to the Winner' would be a good introduction on the Freakier Zone as quite epic (8+ mins) and veers off into a riff around 'I'm Waiting for the Man' and then an ironic play on the end of 'A Day in the Life.'
But I think SPECIAL WISHES should be LP of the week sometime soon. The three tracks I'd pick, and really all of it is great, would be 'I've Got a Love' (a perfect opening track), 'Old Glory', and 'Crush Them All.' Or 'Mother's Day', 'War' and 'Instrumental', or....
Anyway, looking forward to Harvey Milk on tuesday.... -
Message 31
Posted by jasonaparkes (U3653332) on Sunday, 20th May 2012
Other listening the last week or so:
*Miami & The Las Vegas Story by The Gun Club
*the latest from Bonnie Prince Billy & Trembling Bells
*the MBV reissues
*Altamont Diary by Black Cab (surely another contender for LP of the week?)
*Silence is Sexy by Einsturzende Neubauten
*Revelations and the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sessions by Killing Joke
*A Beard of Stars by Ty-Rex
*Cyrk by Cate Le Bon
*the new one by the Brian Jonestown Massacre
*Dopesmoker by Sleep
*Faro Annie by John Renbourn
*The Faust Tapes by Faust
*Frying on this Rock by White Hills
*Bo Ningen's Lp from last year
*I Think of Demons by Roky & the Aliens
*Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
*the new one from Mark Stewart
*Mazes by Moon Duo
*Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors
*Music from "The Elder" by Kiss and Bob Ezrin
*Scion free download by The Melvins
*Selections from Europe 2005 by Dead Cab Dance
*Real to Real Cacophony by Simple Minds (well all of X5 really!)
*Smile by Ride
*Summer in the Southeast by Bonnie Prince Billy etc
*The 5 EP's by Disco Inferno
*The Promise by The Boss
*The Russian Wilds by Howlin' Rain
*Thirty-Second Annual Report by Throbbing Gristle
*Vision Creation Newsun by The Boredoms (another LP of the week?)
etc -
Message 32
Posted by MAY-DAY (U14316705) on Tuesday, 29th May 2012
A change of pace for a week in Galway.
(I don't listen much these days to folk or roots music. I stay in touch with "Late Junction" on R3 but I prefer the avant-garde jazz and weird electronica to the "world music".)
* "The Imagined Village"
* Van Morrison - "Veedon Fleece"
* Richard & Linda Thompson - "I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight"
* Tunng - "And Then We Saw Land"
* Ultramarine - "United Kingdoms"
* John Martyn - "Solid Air"
And I re-read "Listening To Van Morrison" by Greil Marcus; by far my favourite music writer / cultural critic.
It's not a biog or a conventional critical analysis; half a decade of albums is dismissed in a sentence.
In classic Marcus style, it's a more of a personal essay; a meditation that goes down all sorts of tangents and takes in all sorts of other things. -
Message 33
Posted by sarahwilliams (U15297281) on Tuesday, 5th June 2012
hiya! me and my friends are in a competiton and we have to get likes to win! its for a new band called Lawson to come and sing for us at our house and we're third at the moment, it would mean so much! www.lawsonofficial.com/winagig/fans/charley-2 if you could get your friends and followers to like it too, tweet it or anything, it would be amazing, thankyou!
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Message 34
Posted by sophski (U15311695) on Monday, 18th June 2012
I am loooooooving sykur, they are underground electro pop i guess, but I can tell they are gonna be huge and the music fan in me loves finding bands first lol although i did hear them on marc's show the other day.
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Message 35
Posted by RLMDL (U15180555) on Thursday, 28th June 2012
Hey
new to the board here, going to shamelessly plug my own recent musical endeavours and hope you give them a listen... for fans of dream pop, electronic type stuff....
Otherwise ,I've been currently digging Ssaliva, Other Lives and Bashment Loxx. -
Message 36
Posted by MAY-DAY (U14316705) on Wednesday, 4th July 2012
The baker's dozen that got me through Ireland's flat-as-a-pancake Euro performance:
* Miles Davis - "Panthalassa"
("Reconstruction & Mix Translation" by Bill Laswell)
* Herbie Hancock & Bill Laswell - "Technovoodu: Astral Black Simulations"
* Sun Ra - "The Heliocentric Worlds Of..."
* George Russell - "Ezz-thetics"
* Carla Bley - "Escalator Over The Hill"
* Paul Bley - "Ballads"
* Andrew Hill - "Point Of Departure"
* Lo Fidelity Allstars - "How To Operate With A Blown Mind"
* 13th Floor Elevators - "Easter Everywhere"
* "Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye: A Tribute To Roky Erickson"
(+ his great overlooked single: "The Interpreter" / "Bermuda" (Virgin '77)
* Wigwam - "Rumours On The Rebound"
* Tarwater - "Silur"
* Can - "Tago Mago"
(So that's where PIL's "Careering" comes from!) -
Message 37
Posted by ArthurMak (U15351913) on Sunday, 22nd July 2012
George Russell - "Ezz-thetics"
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Message 38
Posted by Mp3 Download (U15356219) on Wednesday, 25th July 2012
(apart from the Freak/Freakier Zone, that is)? There was an old thread on this theme, but I can't find it so have started this new one
I'm currently digging:
*The Gathering by Arbouretum
*Asleep on the Floodplain by Six Organs of Admittance
*Angels....1 by Earth
*Gideon Gaye/Hawaii/Can Cladders by the High Llamas
*Rain Tree Crow by Rain Tree Crow
*Rite Time by Can
*the best of Ladytron
*QOTSA (1st LP reissued) by Queens of the Stone Age
*March to Fuzz by Mudhoney
*Alien Lanes/Bee Thousand/Human Amusements... by Guided by Voices
*Red Barked Tree by Wire
*Gone to Earth/Sleepwalkers by David Sylvian
*Laughing Stock by Talk Talk
*BitchesBrew Live by Miles Davis
*the Get Carter soundtrack just reissued
*Let England Shake by PJ Harvey
*Liar/Goat/Head/Bang by the Jesus Lizard
*Leader of the Starry Skies - a tribute to Tim Smith
*Muswell Hillbillies/Preservation Act 2 by The Kinks
*Last of the Country Gentlemen by Josh T Pierson
*The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads by Lift to Experience
*Rock Around the Bunker/The Man With a Cabbage for a Head by Serge Gainsbourg
*S/T II : The Cosmic Birth....by Akron/Family
*early/Absolute/Songs to Remember by Scritti Politti
*Some Best Friend You Turned Out to Be by Max Tundra
*Underwater Moonlight by The Soft Boys
*The Drill by Wire
*Cats and Dogs by Royal Trux
*The Pearl by Eno & Budd
*Oversteps/Move of Ten by Autechre
*pretty much most Beefheart
*Gold by Rush
*Movies by Holger Czukay
*Amplified: New Music Meets Rock, 1981 - 1986 (early Sonic Youth/SWANS/Arthur Russell etc)
*etc
I also wonder if all the different discussions where everyone suggests an LP of the week or tracks should all be fused together?
Ìý Just checking out Feast of Feasts!
Mp3 Download here if you want it! -
Message 39
Posted by goingphishing (U15356850) on Wednesday, 25th July 2012
LCD Soundsystem is always high on my list. I guess I'm so mad at myself for missing their farewell performance in NYC last year that 'Home' or 'New York I Love You' is always spinning on my Spotify. Mix in Nina Simone and My Morning Jacket to get the moodiest and radest playlist of all time.
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Message 40
Posted by MAY-DAY (U14316705) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
I've been enjoying some ECM-style jazz (or is it?) recently; though only "Electra" is actually on the ECM label.
* Arild Anderson - "Electra"
* Arve Henriksen - "Sakuteki"
* Philip Clemo - "Ambiguous Dialogues"
* Great Spirit - "Epistrophy"
* Triosk - "The Headlight Serenade"
* Imiliekki Quartet - "Take It With Me"
* Jon Thorne's Oedipus Complex - "Manchester Road"
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