What are you listening to right now? (#10 - For everything, everything, everything)

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  • @amclark2... your musical tastes are all over the map.... glad to see the Sisters of Mercy make a blip on your auditory radar.
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    Joined Wolfgang's Vault - free concert downloads every week - this was the 2nd (Van Morrison and Frank Zappa have been available in 2 of the 3 other weeks).
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    Streaming La Java de Broadway by Michel Sardou. A rather schizophrenic album torn between Queen- and Elton John-like textures, the need to present Sardou as a crooner, and Sardou's own desire to be taken seriously as a lyricist.
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    Olan Mill - Home

    Home is the third album by Olan Mill.
    - "Olan Mill is the recording project of UK composer and producer Alex Smalley, who to date has received rapturous acclaim for his work that holds a sublime measure between the realms of modern neo-classical composition and ambience. On Home, Smalley has mined his most expansive territory yet to create a thrillingly evocative and deeply felt body of work.

    The tender clusters of sound that have defined Olan Mill’s tonal space take on a new soaring quality in using voice to propel Home with a new emotional surge. Alongside soprano Patricia Boynton featuring throughout, Smalley has assembled an ensemble of musicians playing woodwind, piano, pipe organ and violin to augment his guitar and field recordings. Together they combine for both moments of heart-rending intimacy and bursts of flowering, floating orchestral sound. Inspired by travels abroad, Home is a both an urban and exotic panorama, keening with waves of joyous energy and direct pulse, as well as the ultimate comedown from such pure euphoria. Recorded by Smalley in his home – a place lived in by his family in generations past – the album has an earthy air that magically weaves through its otherworldy radiance to portray the compelling dynamic at the heart of Olan Mill."

    - Preservation - Soundcloud

    - Gorgeous !
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    Streaming from Bandcamp, when I come off E Music hold this is on my list
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    Yes, Lowlife, certainly worth the download.
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    I've played this several times now, certainly not what one would imagine from a Big Band, but I can see why Jonah rates it so highly. Probably worth a play for listeners like GP, maybe BN and others
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    The finest African exile album of the year comes from two great Senegalese musicians now living in Belgium. Malick Path
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    Thanks Lowlife
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    A Noisetrade download
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    Fridge - Happiness.
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    An interesting selection this month.
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    Thanks Paul - I had forgotten it this month

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    Cidade do Salvador by Gilerto Gil: 2 hours of awesome music.
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    A Hell of a Day by Hell's Kitchen Project, a minimalist rock band from Brazil. Reminds me of Minxus and Blonde Redhead. Free at bandcamp.
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    Wovenhand - The Laughing Stalk

    -"In almost every documented encounter with the music of Wovenhand, what is described is an experience so visceral and so universally disorienting, that one has to take note. From the first measures of music, the taste of desert earth is on the lips; neck-hairs snap to attention as strange and unfamiliar sounds whisper just underneath the surge of guitar and the rumble of bass; clouds loom on the horizon promising either the balm of rain or the threat of judgment — it could be either. The smell of horses’ breath, like ash, carries with it messages from another place, a place that is at once very very far away and impossibly close... The music of Wovenhand is its own iconography, its own world, its own universe."
    - http://soundsfamilyre.com/ - - Bandcamp
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    (Soleilmoon 2007 - Free Music Archive 2010)
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    ECM reissue, on Guvera
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    Second play. Just been hearing on the news what is happening in New York/New England. I hope all are safe
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    I'm still figuring out this jazz thing. "Scrapple From The Apple" (going with the Guvera play order) I just find stressful, like somebody banging things frantically in the next room. "Moten Swing" is easier for me to access. On with the experiment.
    ETA: quite enjoyed most of the rest of it.
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