I really like what I'm hearing but it appears to be Soundcloud / Apple Music / Amazon only. (Haven't looked at eMu for obvious reasons.) Anywhere I can buy Flacs? Doesn't seem to be on Bandcamp.
Just posting this playlist in attempt to avoid the very annoying ads Soundcloud have started with:
ETA: Hey ! it seems to work
Great thanks for that! I use Presto for some classical downloads but forget about the jazz side of their operation - probably because I've got the idea in my head that the selection will be too mainstream for me.
Just back from having to go out grocery shopping. Nice feature that they open early for seniors but a pox on all those assholes who bought a years supply of ass wipe. We had to go to 2 other stores to get some. Plus, who's hoarding all the yeast, we couldn't find any at the stores we went to. Port O'Brien 2009 Threadbare
When I first heard Paradise back in the 70's I was hooked on that voice immediately. If I was to dig through the boxes of cassettes that I recorded courtesy of my buddy's record collection back then, I'd find the missing years and if I ever get my broken hard-drive fixed I'd find the other The Missing Years. Thanks for the privilege to have listened to your music. Signed - Heartbroken John Prine 1971 John Prine 1973 Sweet Revenge 1986 German Afternoons 2008 Fair & Square EP
As to ECM, I actually kind of respect the pricing strategy...basically, "F*ck you, buy a CD"
Yes but their cds are also chronically over priced, always have been; and most of the downloads appear to be old material that they've recouped money on 10 x over. Sure they can do what they like but putting say 100 items from their back catalogue at around $8 might actually work in advertising terms to get a new generation interested. A pity seeing as it is their 50th birthday. Still there you go. I wonder how much this "stick-in-the-mud" attitude comes from Manfred himself? Just my 2 Cents.
And this song from From Strength To Strength pretty much sums up my Seismic Years. Working out of hotels/motels/inns/camps all across our province looking for oil. Some of the loneliest times of my life being away from home, listening to the boys grow up on the telephone. This song will always remind me how glad I am that those years are now long past.
"...and the coke machine down the hall sounds like thunder as the cans would fall"
Just wheeled this one out again while purchasing another three cds on the Ezzthetics sub-label from Hat Hut. Goodness knows when I'll actually receive them but doubtless I'll be here waiting.
Confused - I've got the yeast but can't find the flour to make bread!! I do not understand the toilet roll situation - our local supermarket did have some on Monday, after not having any for two or three weeks
^^ This is certainly going to be an interesting Easter brunch. We normally host it and my wife bakes a braided loaf of bread to serve with the ham. This year we'll be making up bento style boxes to deliver to family and friends who usually come over to hunt for eggs and share some company. Weird times indeed that can't be taken too lightly. I'll try again on Friday as that senior shopping was pretty slick. Lines taped out on the floor where to stand and arrows showing which way to go. Plus, there where only 2 other old farts, like me, shopping at our closest grocery store. Projections 2002 Between Here And Now
And the third album I bought in my initial tranche
It is a great show with a professional re-mastering job; but as ever Jimmy Garrison was woefully off mic which hurts when he contributed so much to this band. If only they'd had mics you could clip over the f-hole back in the day.
And finally. Bought this because I hooked up on FB with the Sho player I saw a few years ago in London.
Τhe depths above Ishikawa-Sidirokastritis-Varoutas-Lambrakis-Linardou 6 panel 2CD digipak Underflow Records
Contemporary, Experimental, Avant Garde
I was lying down across the stern, lulled by the gentle swaying of the vessel, inhaling the smoke of the torch and trying to discern the stars in the depths above. Al. Papadiamandis
This excerpt from Alexandros Papadiamantis's novel “The Rose-tinted Shores” sums up the aesthetic experience of the album “The Depths Above”. Ko Ishikawa, Nikos Sidirokastritis, Giorgos Varoutas, Harris Lambrakis and Anna Linardou interpret the ecstasy of nature, wandering between ancient memory and imagination. Ancient instruments, such as the Japanese shō and the Middle Eastern ney, a piece of acacia wood and a voice, combined with electroacoustic guitar, electronic sound and live sampling, reflect a poetic contemplation of the human condition between the sea and the depths of the sky. The album was recorded in Athens on January 17, 2019, at the Underflow Record Store and Art Gallery, which was arranged accordingly for the project's audio and video recording needs. The realease includes 2 CDs: the first is the recording of the quintet Ishikawa-Sidirokastritis-Varoutas-Lambrakis-Linardou, and the second the recording of the trio Ishikawa-Sidirokastritis-Varoutas. The interior of the 6 panel digipak is decorated with engravings by Dimitris Sidirokastritis.
The Sho is a vertical bamboo mouth organ. and has become a bit of a fixation with me over the last couple of years. The record company is a record store / art gallery / performance space near the Acropolis in Athens, annoyingly not I think the same shop I visited a few years back.
Working from home this last two weeks has given me a chance to listen to more music and have found random play a really good way to listen to stuff that's been sitting all unloved for ages, particularly tracks from compilation albums. Last few artists:
Pye Corner Audio
Fujiya & Miyagi
Front 242
Age of Chance
Doves
Edit - and also the opportunity to listen to the full Everywhere At The End Of Time release by The Caretaker, themed around the progress of dementia.
Spent the morning sniffing around neglected files on the hard drive in a folder intended to be transfered to my phone or maybe they made it but the phone died...
Giles Peterson's Impressed - a good starter comp if you haven't dug into the wealth of 60s British Jazz
Zodiac -The great French tenor player with a bonkers 1966 sleeve on Vogue. Coincidentally earlier this week I was playing albums from the 20 cd Vogue box set that came out a while back.
A change of pace with
Why I never bought this on cd at the time is a bit of a mystery, some say their best record; who am I to argue?
A bit of latter day jazz funk from the maestro. Someone is credited with 'synthesiser programming' which gets a wry smile these days.
London and the sun is out, we have done the garden up and looking good. Neighbours delivered some hot cross buns, food delivery is due today and tonight watching Jane Eyre on the National Theatre website. Hope all staying safe and Happy Easter
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Port O'Brien
2009 Threadbare
2006 Field Recordings of Terrified and Delusional Nose-Pickers and Nail-Biters
archive.org & Bandcamp
Timely rabble-rousing
As to ECM, I actually kind of respect the pricing strategy...basically, "F*ck you, buy a CD"
Signed - Heartbroken
John Prine
1971 John Prine 1973 Sweet Revenge
1986 German Afternoons 2008 Fair & Square EP
Here's some interesting Canadians from those early 90's.
Polka Dogs (Ambrose Pottie, Colin Couch, John Millard, Tiina Kiik, Tom Walsh)
1991 The Entertainers
1991 Moose - The Compilation
Grievous Angels, Bob Snider, Celtic Gales, Pretty Green,
Polka Dogs, Lazy Grace, Allen Baekeland, Cajun Ramblers,
Rheostatics, Big Smoke, The Bookmen, Donkey, Lost & Profound,
Anne Bourne, The Jack Family, Positively Stompin
The Psychedelic Furs
1981 Talk Talk Talk 1982 Forever Now
1984 Mirror Moves
Currently streaming a fun concert from home by Rodrigo and Gabriela, streamable at https://www.facebook.com/rodgab/videos/2383745941916593/
Sun is out in London, perfect music
Prefuse 73
2005 Prefuse 73 Reads The Books E.P. 2015 Rivington Não Rio + Forsyth Gardens
And Every Color Of Darkness
2015 Travels In Constants Volume Twenty-Five
artist whose early works were most impressive to me.
Peter Himmelman
1991 Only Innocent 1999 Love Thinketh No Evil
2007 Pigeons Couldn't Sleep
And this song from From Strength To Strength pretty much sums up my Seismic Years.
Working out of hotels/motels/inns/camps all across our province looking for oil. Some
of the loneliest times of my life being away from home, listening to the boys grow up on
the telephone.
This song will always remind me how glad I am that those years are now long past.
"...and the coke machine down the hall sounds like thunder as the cans would fall"
Confused - I've got the yeast but can't find the flour to make bread!! I do not understand the toilet roll situation - our local supermarket did have some on Monday, after not having any for two or three weeks
Projections
2002 Between Here And Now
Ishikawa-Sidirokastritis-Varoutas-Lambrakis-Linardou
6 panel 2CD digipak
Underflow Records
Contemporary, Experimental, Avant Garde
I was lying down across the stern, lulled by the gentle swaying of the vessel, inhaling the smoke of the torch and trying to discern the stars in the depths above.
Al. Papadiamandis
This excerpt from Alexandros Papadiamantis's novel “The Rose-tinted Shores” sums up the aesthetic experience of the album “The Depths Above”.
Ko Ishikawa, Nikos Sidirokastritis, Giorgos Varoutas, Harris Lambrakis and Anna Linardou interpret the ecstasy of nature, wandering between ancient memory and imagination.
Ancient instruments, such as the Japanese shō and the Middle Eastern ney, a piece of acacia wood and a voice, combined with electroacoustic guitar, electronic sound and live sampling, reflect a poetic contemplation of the human condition between the sea and the depths of the sky.
The album was recorded in Athens on January 17, 2019, at the Underflow Record Store and Art Gallery, which was arranged accordingly for the project's audio and video recording needs.
The realease includes 2 CDs: the first is the recording of the quintet Ishikawa-Sidirokastritis-Varoutas-Lambrakis-Linardou, and the second the recording of the trio Ishikawa-Sidirokastritis-Varoutas. The interior of the 6 panel digipak is decorated with engravings by Dimitris Sidirokastritis.
2007 Steingarten
2006 Aubade Free 2008 You Can Burn A Corpse
But You Can't Kill A Ghost Emusic
2017 highgrounding
Emusic Bandcamp nyp
Purl
2011 A Quiet Awakening 2011 Återfunnen Klarhet archive.org
2014 Behind Clouds 2019 Poems Emusic
Bandcamp
London and the sun is out, we have done the garden up and looking good. Neighbours delivered some hot cross buns, food delivery is due today and tonight watching Jane Eyre on the National Theatre website. Hope all staying safe and Happy Easter
New today. Rumback is the drummer...His previous album, "Cadillac Turns," was one of my favorites last year