As a teenager we used to listen to a radio programme called Saturday Club. It was one of the very few pop music programmes broadcast in those days. This album always reminds me of that programme, as it was where I was introduced to the Rolling Stones
A repost from the N&N thread in 2011:
- Morr Music.
It feels like way too long since Weilheim scenesters Tied and Tickled Trio released their last nugget of white-hot jazz on the waiting world. Brothers Markus and Micha Acher might still be best known for their work in The Notwist, but for some of us their finest moments have been attached to their stunning catalogue under the Tied and Tickled moniker. La Place Demon might be their best record to date, and features 70-year-old drumming legend Billy Hart, the famed percussionist and band leader who was a long running member of the Herbie Hancock and Stan Getz bands. So at least you know youre in for some pretty serious breaks then, but thats not all the Tied & Tickled Trio offer up on this epic set. The smoky, cinematic instrumentals here go far beyond what you might expect from a jazz project; jazz is maybe the starting point, but these vignettes bear just as much in common with the sort of sepia tinted lounge and library music you might expect to find on a Finders Keepers or Trunk re-issue. Three Doors Pt.1 even begins with reverberating blips and squeaks straight out of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop welcome book, and when Harts drums criss-cross through the strange and beautiful patterns of Micha and Markus Achers compositions you sense that theyve heard more than their fair share of legendary movie/TV soundtrack pioneer Basil Kirchin. They might have seven albums to their name now, but I cant imagine a better way of getting introduced to the sound of Tied & Tickled Trio than on La Place Demon. Those of you who like your music with a jar of spiced liquor and the smoke thick in the air, youd better realize this is the one youre gonna need.
Huge recommendation.
- Boomkat.
Lee Anthony Norris & Porya Hatami - The Longing Daylight
Released tomorrow; three tracks already streamable. I hope emusic are on the ball with getting this one added promptly.
7" singles ripped to the Afro-Columbia blog. Great instrumental guitar music from Los Destellos (they appear several times on the Roots of Chicha comps).
Egisto Macchi (Grosseto, Italy, 4 August 1928 Montpellier, France, 8 August 1992) was an Italian composer.
Raised in Rome, where he studied literature, piano, violin, singing and composition, as well as courses in medicine and physics, Egisto Macchi is considered one of the masters of the so called library music.
Project 86 - Picket Fence Cartel.
One of my favorite metal bands, though this is not their strongest release.
Then
Inventions - Inventions
Nice new collaboration between Matthew Cooper of Eluvium, and Mark Smith of Explosions In The Sky.
Programmatic, ambitious jazz suite. Interesting and well composed, but seemingly lacking tension. 1 long, 36 minute track in six movements. Only 99 cents at Play.
ETA: Changing my mind as I listen: the suite begins in a ponderous manner that may lack some direction, but it comes together effectively.
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Various - A Winter's Gift
Not the right album really since spring has now well and truly arrive in MI. Oh well.
As a teenager we used to listen to a radio programme called Saturday Club. It was one of the very few pop music programmes broadcast in those days. This album always reminds me of that programme, as it was where I was introduced to the Rolling Stones
Balkan Beat Box - Nu Med
20 years old today. Such an underrated album due to Ms. Love's...ummm...issues.
Craig
Current 93 - I Am the Last Of All the Field That Fell
ETA: and Blackshaw alone:
Willamette - Always in Postscript
Second go-round - because Dave told me to...
Kevin Drumm - Shut In
for some reason I can't seem to make the picture smaller
I'm getting inspired to clean-up some dead wood in the yard today
So far, its Fred Ho day:
(Free on Soundcloud in 160 kbps)
Moss Garden - In the Silence of the Subconscious
(one for confused?)
http://images.emusic.com/music/images/album/146/791/14679193/600x600.jpg
to:
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or 155x155:
Np:
- Morr Music. - Soundcloud
Meanwhile, new funky soulful shouting from Chicago. I really liked Kahil's quartet album of last year, this one starts out the same way.
Bubble - OI
Dreamy.
Lee Anthony Norris & Porya Hatami - The Longing Daylight
Released tomorrow; three tracks already streamable. I hope emusic are on the ball with getting this one added promptly.
Rafael Anton Irisarri - The Unintentional Sea
A slow starter but growing on me enormously with every listen. So, so good.
Getting in the Easter spirit
The Amazing Snakeheads - Amphetamine Ballads
Dark, sludgy punk. I'm really liking this.
Craig
ETA: more Igor Wakh
7" singles ripped to the Afro-Columbia blog. Great instrumental guitar music from Los Destellos (they appear several times on the Roots of Chicha comps).
Egisto Macchi (Grosseto, Italy, 4 August 1928 Montpellier, France, 8 August 1992) was an Italian composer.
Raised in Rome, where he studied literature, piano, violin, singing and composition, as well as courses in medicine and physics, Egisto Macchi is considered one of the masters of the so called library music.
Brilliant stuff !
And:
Soporus - 2013
NYOP
Project 86 - Picket Fence Cartel.
One of my favorite metal bands, though this is not their strongest release.
Then
Inventions - Inventions
Nice new collaboration between Matthew Cooper of Eluvium, and Mark Smith of Explosions In The Sky.
Talvihorros - Some Ambulance
Programmatic, ambitious jazz suite. Interesting and well composed, but seemingly lacking tension. 1 long, 36 minute track in six movements. Only 99 cents at Play.
ETA: Changing my mind as I listen: the suite begins in a ponderous manner that may lack some direction, but it comes together effectively.