The eponymous debut from The Winery Dogs. They've gotten slightly lost in my guitar wankery playlist, but I have to say I like this album each time I listen to it. I am officially obsessed with the Lera Lynn song The Only Thing Worth Fighting For from the True Detective Season 2 soundtrack. Obsessed. Had it four days ,maybe 20 listens. Don't know about the show itself - first episode didn't grab me the way Season 1 did - will have to see.
Not sure when or where I got this; maybe from emu during the Soul Note dump? Did Amie St. get Soul Note?; but re-discovered and am really, really enjoying it.
- And here's my top 5 artists and albums for the past month according to Last.fm:
ETA:
- "One hour of sono-thaumaturgical experiments divided in 4 Chapters, seamlessly executed by Salford based paramusician Christopher Gladwin, also known for being half of the legendary electronic duo Team Doyobi: over 15 years of incredible tunes on labels like Skam, ∆Icasea, Tigerbeat6 and Fat Cat.
Once you have downloaded this album you can't go back: The Wyrding Modulewill trap you into his world where everything you know is now questioned. Modern and Classic, Eastern and Western, Spiritual and Heretic will be no opposites."
Got Acoustic Classics by Richard Thompson rolling, and the new album is loaded up behind it whatever the heck its name is, just ordered it this AM and got the AutoRip from Amazon. Release is on the Fantasy label which means eMu won't be seeing it.
- "Beaver & Krause were a musical duo made up of Paul Beaver and Bernie Krause. Their 1967 album The Nonesuch Guide to Electronic Music was a pioneering work in the electronic music genre.
In June 1967, Beaver and Krause set up a booth at the Monterey Pop Festival, demonstrating their newly purchased electronic synthesiser, one of the first constructed by Bob Moog. Beaver introduced Monkees singer-drummer Micky Dolenz to the Moog, which became a featured instrument on the fourth Monkees album, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd., and Beaver himself performed on one track, “Star Collector”. Thanks to their demonstrations of the Moog at Monterey, Beaver and Krause also introduced the instrument to a number of other leading American pop acts including The Doors, Simon & Garfunkel and The Byrds, helping to create the vogue for the Moog that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Both Michael Bloomfield and Ronnie Montrose played guitar on the Beaver & Krause song “Saga Of The Blue Beaver”. The duo ended on Beaver’s death in 1975."
Linear Obsessional presents the new album from English underground pop mainstays The Original Beekeepers, who have been releasing low-level works of sardonic pop genius for the best part of 30 years.
"How The River Runs Dry" is a collection of interconnected songs that piece together a story set in British suburbia. Featuring dryly humorous lyrics and the kind of intricate arrangements (including a brass section and guest vocalists) for which the band has become known, this album, several years in the making, has been described by the band as "probably our best / most consistent work since 2002".
The Original Beekeepers are Linear Obsessional's resident pop group, and this album, running from the exquisite pop of "Cats On Window Sills" to the Sun Ra skank of "Breaking Down" demands your attention.
From the graphically-challenged and information-starved Bela Records. (No artist info).
Gives me nostalgia for my years as a Russian student. And makes me wonder: does anyone have any recommendations for the best male Russian choir recordings of standards such as Polyushko-pole and the Volga Boatmen's Song and Kalinka? I have a soft spot for how some of those Russian standards manage to be at one and the same time dreadfully cheesy and quite emotionally powerful if they hit the sweet spot of that Russian knack for getting male choirs to sound like they are trying to achieve flight with the whole building they are singing in by sheer passion and power of emotive projection. Any suggestions?
I used to have this LP:
and still think fondly of its cover photo, and also another by them that I remember being good. Not the one below but I couldn't resist the picture, at once so similar and so different from American show pictures of the same era.:
(ETA, finally figured out that I needed to search on emusic for "The Red Army Choirs (Alexandrov)" - this might well be what I am after.
BTW, really did not see this musical twist to my weekend coming, and all from Plong42 posting an Ellington set!)
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Edward Ka-Spel - The Space Station Chapel
Mirmir - Mimir Revisited (1989-2015)
Kit Wilmans Fegradoe - Leaps
Just that kind of a day.
I am officially obsessed with the Lera Lynn song The Only Thing Worth Fighting For from the True Detective Season 2 soundtrack. Obsessed. Had it four days ,maybe 20 listens. Don't know about the show itself - first episode didn't grab me the way Season 1 did - will have to see.
An artist I've never heard of, but Domino dripped it randomly yesterday and it's really good mid 90s post rock.
Craig
Not sure when or where I got this; maybe from emu during the Soul Note dump? Did Amie St. get Soul Note?; but re-discovered and am really, really enjoying it.
Keeps growing on me, so thanks GP.
Once you have downloaded this album you can't go back: The Wyrding Modulewill trap you into his world where everything you know is now questioned.
Modern and Classic, Eastern and Western, Spiritual and Heretic will be no opposites."
Craig
In June 1967, Beaver and Krause set up a booth at the Monterey Pop Festival, demonstrating their newly purchased electronic synthesiser, one of the first constructed by Bob Moog. Beaver introduced Monkees singer-drummer Micky Dolenz to the Moog, which became a featured instrument on the fourth Monkees album, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd., and Beaver himself performed on one track, “Star Collector”. Thanks to their demonstrations of the Moog at Monterey, Beaver and Krause also introduced the instrument to a number of other leading American pop acts including The Doors, Simon & Garfunkel and The Byrds, helping to create the vogue for the Moog that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Both Michael Bloomfield and Ronnie Montrose played guitar on the Beaver & Krause song “Saga Of The Blue Beaver”. The duo ended on Beaver’s death in 1975."
Linear Obsessional presents the new album from English underground pop mainstays The Original Beekeepers, who have been releasing low-level works of sardonic pop genius for the best part of 30 years."How The River Runs Dry" is a collection of interconnected songs that piece together a story set in British suburbia. Featuring dryly humorous lyrics and the kind of intricate arrangements (including a brass section and guest vocalists) for which the band has become known, this album, several years in the making, has been described by the band as "probably our best / most consistent work since 2002".
The Original Beekeepers are Linear Obsessional's resident pop group, and this album, running from the exquisite pop of "Cats On Window Sills" to the Sun Ra skank of "Breaking Down" demands your attention.
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RIP Chris Squires. This was my favourite album of theirs way back when, still like it.
£1.99 at Google Play this week