Lester Young on Verve. I posted an image of this somewhere else on this thread, so no bother doing it again. Very much enjoying this as a passage album from early morning drone to afternoon bop.
I'm suprised about Bjork, BN - I'm sure you will enjoy it when you do hear the album. I've just played it a second time in my car coming home from work, and really enjoying it. Now on to
When the conversation between pianist Andrew McCormack and saxist/composer Jason Yarde began on CD two years ago, the pair showed they could read and expand each other's thoughts with an impulsive empathy. The My Duo album's followup finds Yarde concentrating on soprano sax a little less, now applying a wider tonal range to a similar repertoire of seductively hooky, Keith Jarrett-like piano vamps embroidered by adventurous sax lines, swoony lyricism and minimalist sax-pattern whirlings reminiscent of Portico Quartet. McCormack is opulently classical on the arialike Spanish Princess, and in the rhythmically hypnotic territory of Jarrett or Brad Mehldau on the grooving D-Town, Antibes and Epilogue. Yarde's explorations of eerie sax harmonies and multiphonics enrich the pair's dreamy dance through The Spaces Before, and the complex Flowers for Japan, which opens with teasing two-note swaps, finds the saxophonist exploring solosoprano reveries reminiscent of John Surman's, and McCormack unleashing a seamlessly beautiful piano improvisation. It might be a limited format, but these two keep uncovering jewels within it.
Mocking Bird by Heads on Sticks--really fun psych pop, with just a little Japan/glam, FREE.
From the Weed Temple review:
Despite the name suited more for a grindcore band than a psychedelic one (although Im sure there is, or was, a punk or a metal band under that name), the Raleigh, NC based unit Heads on Sticks play sunny, multi-styled psychedelic pop that is so positive in its sound one may not need any drugs to feel better and enjoy life just a teeny tiny bit more. Psychedelia for those tired with 20-minute overdriven, wah-wahed guitar solos or brain-frying shimmering, glacial drones and hungry for beat-driven (sometimes bordering on beat heavy), catchy music full of vocal harmonies and infectious hooks.
One of three new Monomono re-releases - all avail on eMu (and elsewhere). I won this one from @Soundway on Twitter...will likely be unable to resist getting the other two.
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Just downloaded from emusic -my first play. See http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/album/Bjork-Biophilia-MP3-Download/12841569.html
Free sampler from emusic - as usual with such albums, a bit variable, dependent upon your likes and dislikes.
Obviously a current emusers favourite!
- A current GP/BN favourite:
"recorded live by Danish National Radio, 1990"
Cool stuff from Resting Bell.
Nice to see those Galaxie 500 albums on bandcamp.
Craig
wake UP!
http://andrewliles.bandcamp.com/album/rc
Ensemble, et al - "When the Tape Runs Out"
http://ensembleetal.bandcamp.com/album/when-the-tape-runs-out-2
http://andrewliles.bandcamp.com/album/robot
Galaxie 500 - "Today"
-Good grief this takes me back. How did everything change like that? Like a dream.
I too am calm like a bomb, Zack.
Craig
Source Guardian
Mocking Bird by Heads on Sticks--really fun psych pop, with just a little Japan/glam, FREE.
From the Weed Temple review:
One of three new Monomono re-releases - all avail on eMu (and elsewhere). I won this one from @Soundway on Twitter...will likely be unable to resist getting the other two.