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Post by jk on Mar 5, 2023 8:53:22 GMT -5
Going through Paul Weller's splendid little list of 22 Favourite Albums, this one leapt out at me, although there is plenty of stuff in there that's right up my street. Journey in Satchidananda helped me through a difficult period following the death of my pen pal of eleven years' standing (2009–2020). Alice Coltrane's music in general was my go-to listen for a while... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_in_Satchidananda
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Post by jk on Mar 6, 2023 16:21:59 GMT -5
In 1992, the Scottish band Primal Scream followed their classic rave album Screamadelica of a year earlier with an EP. The most notable feature of Dixie-Narco for this forum is its inclusion of a psychedelicized cover version of Dennis's "Carry Me Home". The side-long largely instrumental blissfest "Screamadelica" (recorded during the album sessions) has special memories for me. When one of my little dogs has an infected foot, I used this track to gauge the length of time needed to bathe it. I couldn't listen to it for months after he died. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie-Narco_(EP)
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Post by Will/P.P. on Mar 11, 2023 19:44:17 GMT -5
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Post by Will/P.P. on Mar 11, 2023 19:50:43 GMT -5
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Post by radiokingdom on Mar 12, 2023 13:18:52 GMT -5
Something I was thrilled to find when I started listening to the BB again...
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Post by jk on Mar 16, 2023 5:01:30 GMT -5
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Post by boogieboarder on Mar 16, 2023 10:24:12 GMT -5
Doc Watson. I just discovered what a great flat picker and finger picker he was. How could I have missed that for the last 60 years?
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Post by jk on Mar 18, 2023 17:19:58 GMT -5
jasonaustin, many thanks for the heads up on this extraordinary track by the Incredible Bongo Band! I'd known about their existence for decades but had never bothered to investigate them. (Because of the name, perhaps?) In my opinion, the IBB's version of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" knocks spots off the original! -- ye gods!
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Post by jasonaustin on Mar 19, 2023 19:31:20 GMT -5
jasonaustin, many thanks for the heads up on this extraordinary track by the Incredible Bongo Band! I'd known about their existence for decades but had never bothered to investigate them. (Because of the name, perhaps?) In my opinion, the IBB's version of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" knocks spots off the original! -- ye gods! It's a great album, for sure. If only Iron Butterfly had the wherewithal to hire several Cuban percussionists during their L.A. club days!
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Post by jk on Mar 20, 2023 12:30:03 GMT -5
Yesterday, the American soprano Julia Bullock performed this song, "One By One", on a weekly Dutch "classical" TV show and described its composer as someone worth investigating. Elizabeth "Connie" Converse (born 1924) left her family home in 1974 in search of a new life and was not heard from again. Much of the recent interest in Ms Converse since the release of a CD of her music has focused on the possibility that she may be the earliest performer in the singer-songwriter genre. Some cite the feminine experience often explored in her lyrics, as well as the themes of sexuality and individualism found in her songs, as the reason Ms Converse's music was ahead of its time. "We go walking in the dark. We go walking out at night. "And it's not as lovers go, Two by two, to and fro; But it's one by one—one by one in the dark. We go walking out at night. "As we wander through the grass We can hear each other pass, But we're far apart—far apart in the dark. We go walking out at night. "With the grass so dark and tall We are lost past recall If the moon is down—and the moon is down. We are walking in the dark. "If I had your hand in mine I could shine, I could shine Like the morning sun—like the sun." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Converse
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Post by jk on Apr 9, 2023 14:55:23 GMT -5
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Post by jk on Apr 22, 2023 7:41:36 GMT -5
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Post by bluemarble on Jun 12, 2023 11:09:46 GMT -5
Jim O'Rourke's "Insignificance", above is the title track, which has a very strong Beach Boys/Brian Wilson vibe to it.
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Post by jk on Jun 12, 2023 12:31:25 GMT -5
Jim O'Rourke's "Insignificance", above is the title track, which has a very strong Beach Boys/Brian Wilson vibe to it.
Very tasty. It recalls Sean O'Hagan (a true Brian Wilson freak) and his work with the High Llamas and Stereolab. Nice vibe there, more BW than BB.
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Post by jk on Aug 5, 2023 5:37:27 GMT -5
I'm listening to Bach's Brandenburg Concertos in one of several renditions recommended to me by JH (for which many thanks). It's a work I had heard so often in my pre-Bach days and I wished to get reacquainted with it in a reputable and musically interesting version, and here it is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Concertos
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Post by jk on Aug 15, 2023 15:08:44 GMT -5
I bumped into Suns of Arqa while reading punk poet John Cooper Clarke's wiki and then played the following album twice in two days. This is most of the YouTube blurb: Released on 1 June 1992, Suns of Arqa – Jaggernaut Whirling Dub is the ultimate transcendental trip to 'turn off, tune in' and enter the cosmic void. This classic album from Suns Of Arqa presents four epic tracks with sublime mixes from phenomenal producer Youth and sonic genius Greg Hunter, setting the stage with the massive opening track 'Jagnath Bhairavi'. Astralasia add audio magic to their mighty mix of 'Jaggernnath'. Maximum respect is due to Suns Of Arqa founder and musical visionary Michael Wadada who has created in Jaggernaut Whirling Dub a hypno-trance, spaced out dub-dance experience of power, depth and beauty." "Musicians featured on the album [according to an unidentified NME review] include Shenai maestro Kadir Durvesh, renowned for his session work with George Harrison; E.L.O. flautist Tim Wheater, original Eurythmics member and session player with Roxy Music; Polish violinist Marek Miczyk; and Michael Wadada on dub bass." Jagnath Bhairavi (Youth & Greg Hunter Mix) 00:00:00 Jagannath Bhupali (Youth & Greg Hunter Mix) 00:16:32 Juggernaut Misra Pahvadi (Rick the Switch Mix) 00:34:55 Jaggernnath (Swordfish Mix) 00:48:11 [If you want to hear just one track, I would recommend this one] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suns_of_Arqa
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Post by catchascatchcan on Aug 15, 2023 23:38:13 GMT -5
Especially loved this:
[Jaggernnath (Swordfish Mix) 00:48:11 [If you want to hear just one track, I would recommend this one]
But the entire experience was an astonishing journey! Thank you for sharing this.
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Post by jk on Aug 16, 2023 16:08:15 GMT -5
Especially loved this: [Jaggernnath (Swordfish Mix) 00:48:11 [If you want to hear just one track, I would recommend this one] But the entire experience was an astonishing journey! Thank you for sharing this. You're welcome, CACC -- glad you enjoyed it. I've had these four tracks playing while working on a difficult jigsaw puzzle (difficult because I deliberately haven't looked at the picture on the box) and I may well turn to them again for inspiration. Actually, it's not often I come across anything new these days that excites me the way this album does.
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Post by jk on Aug 17, 2023 5:14:16 GMT -5
On a bit of a roll here (so what's new?)... Well. I was reminded of the work of astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell by a clip in the first of several evening-long summer interviews on Dutch television, this one featuring the Belgian cosmologist Thomas Hertog. I had read about her long before in an ancient book about radio astronomy, long since fallen apart and thrown away. Thanks be to Wikipedia for the following information: On 28 November 1967, while a postgraduate student at Cambridge, Jocelyn Bell (born 1943) detected a "bit of scruff" on her chart-recorder papers that tracked across the sky with the stars. It had been discovered using the newly commissioned radio telescope that she helped build. Initially dismissed as radio interference by her supervisor and developer of the telescope, Antony Hewish, the fact that the signals always appeared at the same declination and right ascension soon ruled out a terrestrial source.The signal had been visible in data taken in August, but as the papers had to be checked by hand, it took her three months to find it. Ms Bell established that the signal was pulsing with great regularity, being evenly spaced every 1.337 seconds. No astronomical object of this nature had ever been observed before. Temporarily dubbed "Little Green Man 1" (LGM-1), the source (now known as PSR B1919+21) was identified after several years as a rapidly rotating neutron star. It was The Daily Telegraph science reporter who shortened "pulsating radio source" to pulsar, the name by which this phenomenon is now known. On 21 December of that same year, Bell discovered a second pulsar, quashing speculation that these might be signals beamed at earth from an extraterrestrial intelligence. I looked up the #1 records on that auspicious November day and discovered that The Monkees' "Daydream Believer" topped the US charts that week. The fact that Ms Bell suffered indignity after indignity, both as a student and as a woman, before getting the official recognition she was long due (astonishingly, her supervisor was awarded the 1974 Nobel Prize for work she herself had done, work he had initially shrugged off), makes her belief in herself and what she had achieved more than just a daydream, certainly if the list of awards and honours on her wiki is anything to go by. She is well represented by videos on YouTube. The is a tenuous BB connection: the song's author, John Stewart, had once been a member of The Kingston Trio: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell
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Post by jk on Aug 25, 2023 12:52:33 GMT -5
I bumped into Suns of Arqa while reading punk poet John Cooper Clarke's wiki and then played the following album twice in two days. This is most of the YouTube blurb: Released on 1 June 1992, Suns of Arqa – Jaggernaut Whirling Dub is the ultimate transcendental trip to 'turn off, tune in' and enter the cosmic void. This classic album from Suns Of Arqa presents four epic tracks with sublime mixes from phenomenal producer Youth and sonic genius Greg Hunter, setting the stage with the massive opening track 'Jagnath Bhairavi'. Astralasia add audio magic to their mighty mix of 'Jaggernnath'. Maximum respect is due to Suns Of Arqa founder and musical visionary Michael Wadada who has created in Jaggernaut Whirling Dub a hypno-trance, spaced out dub-dance experience of power, depth and beauty." Gave this album another listen (in full) while preparing and eating an omelette, on a rare occasion home alone. I've also discovered why it's described as "Whirling Dub" -- the Turkish shenai player Kadir Durvesh comes from a family of dancers, musicians and whirling dervishes, which explains hi s surname. Some years back I was visiting a saxophonist colleague who's a jazz buff and a huge Zappa fan. I had to leave to catch my tram, but he had one more track to play -- okay, fair enough. Trouble is, that track lasted 29 minutes! I can't recall complaining... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakti_(Shakti_album)
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Post by Awesoman on Sept 20, 2023 7:27:25 GMT -5
Anyone heard Micky Dolenz's recent cover of REM's "Shiny Happy People"? It's kind of charming and poppy and has even secured the approval of Michael Stipe apparently. Would have made itself at home on any of the Beach Boys' late 60's albums.
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Post by Rick Bartlett on Oct 25, 2023 21:11:58 GMT -5
Hackney Diamonds - The Rolling Stones Their latest album and I'm really getting a kick out of this! I'll admit, I have not really followed the Stones much on their last 30 years or so of their recorded output. The things I heard were always pretty bland and generic, until their last 'Blues' album that was a return to their 'roots', which opened my ears once again. I wasn't expecting a whole lot here to be honest, but I've played this about 3 times now from top to bottom without skipping tracks, and I'm really loving this album from them in 2023! Lot's of energy, it doesn't feel 'stale' like their work from the 90's even when it was new. I think it's the 'back to basics' sound of the band that started in the 60's that I'm really into, even though there are other instrumental colors throughout, but the band is foremost upfront and driving this thing all the way. In true fashion, songs 'Rock!' there's some 'Country' influenced things there which appeals to me greatly. I usually want to hang my hang and walk out the door when the mentioning comes up of 'duets', not a big fan over the years of artists doing many of those, but here, bringing in those other great artists, really adds up well. When I heard the mention of McCartney playing bass and rockin' out, my mind goes to the hype of 'Brian Wilson and Paul McCartney' working on a song together, and what did we get, 'A Friend Like You'?..... Yikes! In this case, the great Muso in McCartney knocks it out of the park and with a solid backing band like the 'Stones', it's a 100 percent great collaboration to me. If your a 'so/so' fan like me, give this album a chance, it's great to see the classic 'Rolling Stones' back.
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Post by jk on Oct 26, 2023 4:57:20 GMT -5
Hackney Diamonds - The Rolling Stones Their latest album and I'm really getting a kick out of this! When I heard the mention of McCartney playing bass and rockin' out, my mind goes to the hype of 'Brian Wilson and Paul McCartney' working on a song together, and what did we get, 'A Friend Like You'?..... Yikes! In this case, the great Muso in McCartney knocks it out of the park and with a solid backing band like the 'Stones', it's a 100 percent great collaboration to me.Nice one, Rick. Here you go... "Bite My Head Off":
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Post by bluemarble on Nov 17, 2023 6:00:58 GMT -5
Have been really enjoying Dennis, Daryl and Doug Dragon's BFI, which was released on the Ninja Tune label in 2007.
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Post by barto2 on Nov 17, 2023 8:43:55 GMT -5
I made a fun little 3-track playlist ive been jamming out to -
1. Paul and Wings - Goodnight Tonight 2. Brian - I Do (Do you have any regrets?) 3. John and Elton - Whatever gets you through the night
It's an upbeat groovy playlist with some unusual percussion and great bass lines
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