Two of my dear friends from way back when I lived in Copenhagen is brewing with an album as TIN & ELISHA, Ole Hansen and Ann Westergaard and with assistance by Kenneth Agerholm (New Jungle Orchestra)
Here is a most brilliant taster:
I think I have convinced them to "go Bandcamp" with the album, so I'm sure there will be much more about this in the near future
- And here's the second taster from this very talented danish duo:
Yet another gorgeous track from these lovely people . . .
The Driving Stupid were formed on the East Coast by college students, three of them longtime friends from New Jersey. As more of a lark than a serious endeavor, in the summer of 1966 they drove from New Jersey to Hollywood in an effort to crack the big time, stopping off in Albuquerque, New Mexico to record some demos. They did manage to land a deal and record an album's worth of material in Hollywood, but the album didn't come out at the time, after the commercial death of the 45. This unreleased material, like the single, combined sloppy garage band rock with self-consciously silly lyrics, like a garage group providing the soundtrack for a Z-grade horror-science fiction film.
Zu93 is the effectively named collaboration between David Tibet of Current 93 and Italian group Zu. Their album, Mirror
Emperor, echoes
pivotal moments from the respective catalogues of its creators. Gentle
guitars, weeping cellos, the occasional rumbling bass and soft
percussion, are melted and gently poured into the sepulchral engine. The
sound of a magical chamber orchestra or Cæsar Legions?
The field recordings in this album (like the cover art) are taken from the Fens in England, very close to where I grew up; for me, the region is now the other side of the Atlantic ocean and currently entirely out of reach. The album is a meditation on the death of Scott's father to COVID. So this is poignant on multiple levels.
Chilly morning here at -32 C and the temperature is falling, so one more for thoughts of Spring and our friends the Bees. Brian McBride 2010 The Effective Disconnect Music composed for the documentary "Vanishing Of The Bees".
About time I played this subscriber disc, and the fact it helps me practice my cut'n'paste skilz is a bonus! Robert Black bassist with BOAC All-Stars of course.
One of seven actual six-inch silver discs that arrived from Another Timbre this last week. So at least the post from Yorkshire to London is still working. Having read an interview I am still puzzling if this is an elaborate prank about there being an 11th C. musician and composer by the name of Viols Torros; I guess that's part of the fun.
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1988 Humansville 1995 Polkas For A Gloomy World
1996 Mood Swing Music
1966 East-West 1971 Sometimes I Just Feel Like Smilin'
1973 Paul Butterfield's Better Days
- Better Days
(Paul Butterfield, Amos Garrett, Bill Rich, Chris Parker, Geoff Muldaur, Ronnie Barron
1968 This Is Buddy Guy! 1968 A Man And The Blues
1981 Stone Crazy
2007 Touches 2015 Live at Lincoln Hall, Chicago
Brian McBride
2010 The Effective Disconnect
Music composed for the documentary "Vanishing Of The Bees".
2010 Lignes 2018 Trainworld
2014 Sylphid Vitalizers
1957 The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 3 - Bud! 1958 The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 4 - Time Waits
Viola Torros
by Catherine Lamb & Johnny Chang
1994 When In Vanitas...
Buju Banton
1998 Quick (reissue of Stamina Daddy 1992)
1981 Red Mecca 1982 2X45
1983 The Crackdown 1984 Micro-Phonies
1993 International Language 1994 The Conversation
1986 Urban Beaches