What are you listening to (B)right(er)now? (22 Weight Lifting Lulus)

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  • Two vols reissued on this CD.

    There is a welcome if somewhat jarring transition from Cedar playing pretty on this lite pop hit...

    ...to Cliff showing up and things get real

  • Dhyana: Bhumisparsha

    Meditative Buddhist sludge and spiritual drone.


  • The Beatles - White Album

    followed by

    The Byrds - Greatest Hits

    Been that sort of day
  • edited April 2022
    Gal Costa album "Gal Costa (Cinema Olympia)"

    AMG says "After Caetano Veloso broke out with his solo debut, the self-titled 1968 release recognized as the building block for the now infamous Brazilian Tropicalia movement, his friends and musical peers released similar albums, always upping the ante in terms of outrageousness and inventiveness. This release, the second of two self-titled albums released by Gal Costa in 1969, set the high watermark in terms of overall insanity and complete experimental freedom for the entire lot; not Veloso nor Gilberto GilTom Zé, or even the rambunctious Os Mutantes stepped this far out into psychedelia, and even though Costa had hinted at the noisier aspects she was interested in exploring with her previous release, this album must have shocked listeners when it arrived on the shelves. In fact, 35 years of MPB -- or music from anywhere else in the world for that matter -- hasn't heard another sonic assault quite like this."

    Buy Gal Online at Low Prices in India  Amazon Music Store - Amazonin




  • Angel Bat Dawid, Jason Stein, Andrew Scott Young

    by HEAVY AIR HAPPY HOUR

  • Gal Costa album "Gal Costa (Cinema Olympia)"

    AMG says "After Caetano Veloso broke out with his solo debut, the self-titled 1968 release recognized as the building block for the now infamous Brazilian Tropicalia movement, his friends and musical peers released similar albums, always upping the ante in terms of outrageousness and inventiveness. This release, the second of two self-titled albums released by Gal Costa in 1969, set the high watermark in terms of overall insanity and complete experimental freedom for the entire lot; not Veloso nor Gilberto GilTom Zé, or even the rambunctious Os Mutantes stepped this far out into psychedelia, and even though Costa had hinted at the noisier aspects she was interested in exploring with her previous release, this album must have shocked listeners when it arrived on the shelves. In fact, 35 years of MPB -- or music from anywhere else in the world for that matter -- hasn't heard another sonic assault quite like this."

    Buy Gal Online at Low Prices in India  Amazon Music Store - Amazonin





    Good album, I had to check but it's one that features the track Tuareg, which get's comped quite a lot.
  • Saturno 2000 - La Rebajada de Los Sonideros 1962​-​1983

    So, you have a couple of brothers who traveled all over Latin America picking
    up some choice stacks of wax and selling them to sonideros interested in new
    sounds to play on their public sound systems at parties. One of the sonideros
    encounters a short-circuit that nearly electrocutes him and almost sets his
    turntable on fire. Any record he puts on it now, plays very slowly at something
    like half-speed and the kids at the party go crazy for the slowed-down cumbias
    and porro … and a new music form, “rebajada,” is born. Psicodélico en llamas!


  • edited April 2022
    "Suddenly One Summer" by J.K. & Co.

    Dreamy, psychedelic rock from 1969. Great for a gentle, early morning walk into the village for a coffee!

    The backing band, believe it or not, was called Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck! The best track is "Fly".

    AMG says "This sounds like the solo album that George Harrison might have made before he left the Beatles, as several songs have that solemn, spiritual, forlorn quality Harrison perfected ....although the lyrics are blatantly hippie-ish, the music itself sets a dignified, almost stately mood with its intimacy and tasteful restraint. "Fly" and "Nobody" are genuine lost treasures of low-key late-'60s late psychedelia, and alone make the album worth investigating. But it's inspired and pleasurable the whole way through...."

    J.K. stands for Jay Kaye who was 15 when he recorded the album! His mother was Mary Kaye (born Malia Ka'aihue), herself a well-known guitarist from the 1940s to 1960s, famous for featuring in a 1956 ad for Fender playing what became known as "The Mary Kaye Strat". 

    JK  Co  Spotify

  • Lesmentor - Sable et Soumise

    French Black Metal which seems to cover several bases including some aggressive violin playing, blast beats, choirs and I don't know what else.

  • Back to some vinyl with an old favourite. How about those '80s!
    Tears For Fears
       
    The Hurting                                                          Songs From The Big Chair
     
    The Seeds Of Love

  • Happy Easter


  • Some more '80s vinyl from another old favourite.
    Teena Marie
       
    Wild And Peaceful                                                 Irons In The Fire
       
    It Must Be Magic                                                   Starchild
  • Who recommended this, who knows? Still roll-your-own price
  • Don't know who recommended that,
    but I've been enjoying the whole series.
  • On what would've been Mingus' 100th birthday today:


  • In honor of the 100th birthday of Charles Mingus:




    Charles Mingus Workshop:
    Lonnie Hillyer, Hobart Dotson- trumpet
    Jimmy Owens- trumpet/flugelhorn
    Julius Watkins- French horn
    Howard Johnson- tuba
    Charles McPherson- alto saxophone
    Charles Mingus- bass (1-2), piano & narration (3)
    Dannie Richmond- drum set

    Cecil Taylor Unit:
    Jimmy Lyons- alto saxophone
    Cecil Taylor- piano
    Henry Grimes- bass
    Sunny Murray- drum set

    Village Gate, New York, September 10, 1965

    0:00- "The Arts of Tatum and Freddie Webster" [introductory fragment] (Mingus)
    3:33- Ralph Ellison commentary
    6:03- "Number One" (Taylor)
    8:29- Martin Williams commentary
    10:30- Cecil Taylor commentary
    12:03- "Octagonal Skirt and Fancy Pants" (Taylor)
    14:44- Williams
    16:55- "The Arts of Tatum and Freddie Webster" [continued] (Mingus)
    22:20- Ellison
    25:59- "Don't Let It Happen Here" (Mingus)
  • ^^^ I shall play something today in honour of that great troubled soul. ^^^
  • Terrance Simien / Terrance Simien And The Zydeco Experience
       
    There's Room For Us All                                       Across The Parish Line
       
    Live! Worldwide                                                    The Tribute Sessions
  • Terry Callier
       
    What Color Is Love                                                Just Can't Help Myself
       
    Lifetime                                                                Hidden Conversations

  • Solid third album from the long lived Krautrock / Jazz / fusion ensemble.



  • A tape of music that way played on American Airlines in 1966. There's a whole set of this sort of stuff here:




  • edited April 2022
    Thanks for pointing to that archive. Wow, some memories there of a time that wasn't all that interesting then, but is, starangely, compelling now. Listening to the Vol. 72 tape from Nov. 1970. Lots of Herb Alpert - as it was at that time. Reminds me of the time when my mother was a manager of a "supper club" in those days.

    WJST "Jet-Set Radio"


  • Bing and Ruth - Bing and Ruth (not on a label cd-r from 2006)




  • Terry Riley inspired morning with some favourites.
       
    In C                                                                Poppy Nogood And The Phantom Band "All Night Flight" Vol.1
       
    Persian Surgery Dervishes                                    Ictus With Blindman Kwartet - In C
       
    No Man's Land                                                      The Paul Dresher Ensemble - Banana Humberto 
        
    Africa Express Presents... Terry Riley - In C Mali
  • edited April 2022
    this album that you are going to listen to, is a single longform piece, and basically it can be briefly described as Japanese music played by an amateur orchestra of toy musicians. Sometimes these instrumentalists get the wrong note, get jammed, play notes that are too short or too long, and then resume their own way within the composition. Small and short events occur throughout the piece, sporadically and spontaneously. It takes a lot of patience, and perhaps a certain amount of distraction, to let this music flow in the air.
    Nice.

  • This is right up my street - small, gentle, hazily distressed sounds, gently melodic and quavering. Lovely.
  • Slow Meadow - Upstream Dream
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