Well, another terrific day in the garden. The corn's tassling out and the silk is showing. It's an Early Supersweet Hybrid (SH2) so it should be ready early Sept. and if it's as good as the (F2) hybrid then it'll be terrific. I couldn't resist going back to the vinyl as the only Wall Of Voodoo I had in iTunes was an old favourite "Mexican Radio" (my wife and my favourite karaoke duet) off this These People Are Nuts! compilation. I must say it was Stan's voice that sold me. Wall Of Voodoo Dark ContinentCall Of The West Seven Days In Sammystown
Well, another terrific day in the garden. The corn's tassling out and the silk is showing. It's an Early Supersweet Hybrid (SH2) so it should be ready early Sept. and if it's as good as the (F2) hybrid then it'll be terrific. I couldn't resist going back to the vinyl as the only Wall Of Voodoo I had in iTunes was an old favourite "Mexican Radio" (my wife and my favourite karaoke duet) off this These People Are Nuts! compilation. I must say it was Stan's voice that sold me. Wall Of Voodoo Dark ContinentCall Of The West Seven Days In Sammystown
Call of the West was my favourite new album one year I was at college, never delved into the others much, I should try again.
There was a span of years where I listened to this album every single morning. As is the way with things, other music eventually replaced its slot in my queue. Just now revisiting the album and it's like the joy of bumping into a best friend after a long separation. One of the most beautiful chamber jazz recordings I've ever heard.
This CD doesn't look like much, but it presents a good chunk of the output of 1950s Chicago labels Parrot and Blue Lake, including Coleman Hawkins, pre-Arkestra Sun Ra, and others. The labels' discography is lovingly detailed here
Yeah, good old Al Benson’s label. I was just talking about him last week when someone was wrongly crediting a modern rap artist with the phrase, ”Everything Is Everything” when it was good old Benson who came up with that in the 60s. Even Donny Hathaway was influenced by that phrase and wrote a song and titled an album with that decades ago.
Great stuff by a band receiving a lot of plaudits now they've decided to call it a day. Such is life.
Meanwhile a re-issue
"Originally released in 1977 on the legendary Cobra label, Paradia is the first solo album by Roland Bocquet, keyboard player for cult French band Catharsis. The (mostly) instrumental album is a wonderful oddball adventure blending cosy ambient, euro-folk, synth escapades, Latin fusion with a French touch, gentle bossa, a tiny bit of minimalist chanson, and a heavy dose of je-ne sais-quoi..."
Alan Freeman was somewhat surprisingly positive in his Audion 70 review, given his dislike of things vaguely funky.
@rostasi I never heard 'Everything Is Everything' attributed to Al Benson, but one thing I know for sure was we didn't have a lot of "modern rap artists" back in the early-mid 70s! Of course you can also hear it in the background chatter in Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On'. I learn that Diana Ross had an album of that title too...It was a phrase that took off among a pretty hip crowd
Well, it kinda depends on one’s definition of “modern rap artist.” The term “rap” was very heavily used in the early 70s and, musically, it was there in all kinds of musical poetry - recorded and otherwise - during that time as well. I remember having a large blackboard in my practice room where I would transcribe these from recordings because I thought they were so cool. Benson was quite a mover and shaker in Chicago. He’s been referred to as the “Godfather of Black Radio” because of his contributions from the 50s to the 70s.
AMG says "A mysterious and deeply fascinating figure, early folksinger/songwriter Connie Converse pursued her music in obscurity before vanishing completely from the face of the earth....while she may have had some contemporaries in the budding folk revival scene of the late '50s and early '60s, there's something alarmingly unique about these spare tunes. While there are similarities in the storytelling air of these songs to those of Peggy Seeger or Barbara Dane, Converse's lyrics are always playful, spacy, and even somewhat psychedelic"
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Spine River : The Guitar Music of Wall Matthews, 67-81 The Storm Lantern : The Guitar Music of Wall Matthews
(1988 -1990), Vol. 2
The Plum Women's Blues: The Guitar Music of Wall Matthews (1994-1996), Vol. 3
Early Supersweet Hybrid (SH2) so it should be ready early Sept. and if it's as good as the (F2) hybrid
then it'll be terrific. I couldn't resist going back to the vinyl as the only Wall Of Voodoo I had in iTunes was
an old favourite "Mexican Radio" (my wife and my favourite karaoke duet) off this These People Are Nuts!
compilation. I must say it was Stan's voice that sold me.
Wall Of Voodoo
Dark Continent Call Of The West
Seven Days In Sammystown
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I was just talking about him last week
when someone was wrongly crediting
a modern rap artist with the phrase,
”Everything Is Everything” when it was
good old Benson who came up with that
in the 60s. Even Donny Hathaway was
influenced by that phrase and wrote a song
and titled an album with that decades ago.
The term “rap” was very heavily used in the early 70s and, musically,
it was there in all kinds of musical poetry - recorded and otherwise -
during that time as well. I remember having a large blackboard in
my practice room where I would transcribe these from recordings
because I thought they were so cool. Benson was quite a mover
and shaker in Chicago. He’s been referred to as the
“Godfather of Black Radio” because of his contributions
from the 50s to the 70s.
AMG says "vital documents of early-'90s indie rock from a band that pioneered intensely slow and achingly sad music."
Day 56:
Alex Oriental Experience – Fairytales And Promises
I heard about her in a New York Times Magazine article (link below).
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/magazine/connie-converse-disappearance.html?campaign_id=53&emc=edit_ms_20220812&instance_id=69211&nl=louder®i_id=62557984&segment_id=101271&te=1&user_id=2a22257abf2e89f9bd7a81c96ef44f9c
AMG says "A mysterious and deeply fascinating figure, early folksinger/songwriter Connie Converse pursued her music in obscurity before vanishing completely from the face of the earth....while she may have had some contemporaries in the budding folk revival scene of the late '50s and early '60s, there's something alarmingly unique about these spare tunes. While there are similarities in the storytelling air of these songs to those of Peggy Seeger or Barbara Dane, Converse's lyrics are always playful, spacy, and even somewhat psychedelic"
Sachi Kobayashi _ Weathervane NYOP on Bandcamp
Lots of performers here.
Like usual, the details are in the link.
Day 57
Erna Schmidt – Live 69 – 71