1976 Live In San Francisco 1976 archive.org FM broadcast of Graham Parker & The Rumour from the Savoy in San Francisco on 11/07/76. This is a a great show from early in Graham Parker's career, with his legendary band, The Rumour. Recorded around the time Graham's 2nd album was released in 1976. Concert broadcast on KSAN 95 FM, San Francisco CA.
I bought the whole Phillip Wilkerson discography because it was $9 for 49 releases and I have liked one or two of his. A lot of it has not really been exciting me much - not bad at all, but a lot of fairly similar drifty-droney pieces in which I would like more texture (though it could be I will react differently on a different day or when not trying to absorb 30 hours or so of his material). Somehow this one is really hitting the mark. I don't know if it's just one of those times when the right sound matches the right mood, but this particular release has really enhanced my evening.
This traditional melody from the Maghreb is traditionally sung in either
Hebrew or Darija (Moroccan dialect of Arabic). The Hebrew version ( Eli
Shema Koli אֵלִי שְמַה קוֹלִי) is a liturgical poem where the
protagonist cries out to God in the hope of redemption. The Darija
version (Sidi Habibi سيدي حبيبي) is a secular love song about unrequited
love between the protagonist singer and the imagined lover. We call our
mash up of the two versions UNTIL WHEN named after the first line of
the first Hebrew stanza - עַד מַתָי אֲקַוֶה לִרְאוֹת גְאוּלָתְךָ –Until
when shall I wait to see your redemption?
In some Jazz forum recently, I saw someone ask whether there was ever a bad Black Saint/Soul Note record, which I assume was a hypothetical rhetorical question
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Graham Parker/And The Rumour
1976 Heat Treatment 1977 Howlin' Wind
1976 Live In San Francisco 1976
archive.org
FM broadcast of Graham Parker & The Rumour from the Savoy in San Francisco on 11/07/76. This is a a great show from early in Graham Parker's career, with his legendary band, The Rumour. Recorded around the time Graham's 2nd album was released in 1976. Concert broadcast on KSAN 95 FM, San Francisco CA.
Andrew Liles: Words and Sound
Michael J York: Bagpipes
Melon Liles: Whispers
descension (Out of Our Constrictions)
by Natural Information Society with Evan Parker
One Nation!
1977 Stick To Me 1979 Squeezing Out Sparks
1983 The Real Macaw 2007 Don't Tell Columbus
1977 Ghost Writer 1978 One-Eyed Jack
1979 American Boy & Girl 1980 Escape Artist
1982 Guts For Love
1969 The Gilded Palace Of Sin 1970 Burrito Deluxe
1973 GP 1974 Grievous Angel
Happy 90th Alvin!
Alvin Lucier - Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas (part II, numbers 5-8)