What are you listening to right now? (Twenty Million Things [We'd Like to Do when COVID is over])

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  • edited May 2021
    "Alive and in Full Bloom" by Mushroom

    1998 album which revisits early 70s progressive/psychedelic rock



  • I have enjoyed all of the Mahogany Frog releases. This one is characteristically eclectic and fun/stirring/weird/....

  • Grace Jones
       
    1977                         Portfolio                             1979                         Muse
       
    1981                    Nightclubbing                          1982                   Living My Life
     
    1985               Slave To The Rhythm
  • Southern Energy Ensemble - Open Your Mind

    Ready for re-release, officially next month, but is available now.
    Title track very Black Jazz label influenced.


    We are proud to present the first full international release for another lost classic from the Black Fire Records archives, ‘Southern Energy’, the only album recorded by R’n’B and jazz collective Southern Energy Ensemble in 1977.

    “As Southern Energy, we played the chitlin circuit and ended up gigging most weekends at clubs, universities and military bases in Virginia and North and South Carolina,” remembers leader Marvin Daniels. After meeting Plunky Branch and Jimmy Gray, they recorded some high energy sessions during 1977. “Southern Energy was tight,” continues Daniels.

    “The album was all about positive messages and celebrating real people." The band would break up soon after the members left college. Canned following the original recording, the album eventually surfaced on a limited CD and LP on Black Fire in 1993. ‘Southern Energy’ has been remastered from the original tapes by The Carvery, and features unseen photos and brand-new sleeve notes by co-bandleader Marvin Daniels.

  • @rostasi thanks very much for the intro to the outstanding "Black Jazz" label.

    A number of really interesting albums but I must say that I am particularly taken by JuJu and their album "Live at 131 Prince Street"


    https://black-fire.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-131-prince-street
  • Gary Burton
       
    1969                         Throb                                 1973          Gary Burton / Chick Corea
                                                                                                          Crystal Silence
  • Harold Budd
       
    1978             The Pavilion Of Dreams                   1984                Abandoned Cities
     
  • When I was young, the Black Jazz label was one of those must-haves for me and it just pre-dated the Black Fire one - which was a bit more difficult to obtain in the 70s. Black Jazz was West-Coast (Oakland) and Black Fire was East-Coast (DC). Black Jazz put out an astounding number of good-to-great quality albums in just a short 4 years that had a certain black social-conscious consistency that I really liked. Good to see both labels getting deserved attention these days!
  • "Grappling Hooks " by North Atlantic Oscillations

    On the same top Prog Rock label (Kscope) as Porcupine Tree and Steven Wilson.



    http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=5664
  • edited May 2021
    North Sea Radio Orchestra's 2011 album "I a moon"

    An amazing album, AMG says "drawing plaudits from specialist classical publications as well as indie music magazines, who compared the ensemble's sound to any number of musicians and composers, from Arvo Pärt and Ralph Vaughan Williams to contemporaries such as Godspeed You Black Emperor! and Brian Eno".

    Progarchives says "North Sea Radio Orchestra are an experimental chamber group whose sound draws heavily on elements of British folk, orchestral music (both classical and contemporary) and art rock....often cited influences include Benjamin Britten, Vaughn Williams, Tim Smith (of Cardiacs),,,,,they have also been compared to the likes of Frank Zappa, Henry Cow, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Kate Bush and Neu!".



    https://www.allmusic.com/artist/north-sea-radio-orchestra-mn0000470511/biography

    http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=6667
  • Henry Kaiser
       
    1980                  Outside Pleasure                        1991           Henry Kaiser / Jim O'Rourke 
                                                                                            - Tomorrow Knows Where You Live
     
    2016 Tania Chen\Henry Kaiser\Wadada Leo Smith\William Winant 
                                - Ocean Of Storms
  • St Vincent - Daddy's Home


  • Byard Lancaster ‎– My Pure Joy

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    Bass – Leonard Hubbard
    Congas – Keno Speller
    Congas, Bells – Henry Dixon
    Djembe, Berimbau – Eric Lewis
    Drums – Baba Crowder, Chuck Lee, Webb Thomas
    Drums [African] – Drummers From Ibadan, Tunde Kuboye
    Flute, Piccolo Flute, Alto Saxophone, Piano, Soprano Saxophone,
    Flute [Wooden], Flute [Plastic] – Byard Lancaster
    Guitar – Warren Wimberly
    Guitar, Bass – Jeff Lee Johnson*
    Keyboards – Alfie Pollitt
    Piano – Eddie Green (3)
    Vocals – Reverend Joe Craddock

  • A bit like a Finnish late-period Gong:




  • High Wolf
       
    2011                      Atlas Nation                           2011       Annapurna Illusion / High Wolf
    Bandcamp                                                            Emusic
       
    2013                  Kairos: Chronos                         2015                   Growing Wild
    Bandcamp                                                            BandcampEmusic
  • "American blues rock guitarist known for his innovative approach to electric guitar playing. 
    A professional at twenty, he played with Charlie Musselwhite, Canned Heat, The Rolling Stones, 
    and John Mayall before starting a solo career."

    Harvey Mandel
       
    1969                      Righteous                              1971                   Baby Batter
     
    1972                   The Snake 
  • These remind me to start looking for my disco shoes.
    Harvey Mason
       
    1976                    Earthmover                             1977              Funk In A Mason Jar
  • These I really don't remember.
    The Heavenly States
       
    2003               The Heavenly States                       2008                      Delayer
     
    2011                 Oui Camera Oui
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