@confused hasn't Danny Thompson got an eclectic mix of work.
Two really interesting and contrasting albums are "Live in London 1967" featuring a then largely unknown John McLaughlin and "Songhai" featuring Ketama (Spanish Gypsy Guitar group) and Toumani Diabate, the renowned Malian kora player.
@peterfrederics - I guess my first exposure was through Pentangle and I see he even makes a couple of appearances below. Thanks for pointing out the Ketama releases, certainly something to keep an ear out for.
I subscribe to multiple ambient labels and follow others, so it's a genre in which I have a lot of throughput. This one is really lodging with me for some reason - I keep finding myself wanting to return to it. Recommended.
My rediscovery of the music of Charles Mingus continues:
Charles Mingus - "A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry"
I was moving piles of cds yesterday and uncovered this one
I looked up the Wikki page and it says in part
The album, although not generally regarded as one of Mingus's best, does feature three remarkable compositions
It's a darn fine album, from 1973, and why someone felt the need to damn it with faint praise I don't know. There's one vocal number which might divide opinion, but all in all its part of the continuum of great late Mingus. A good mix of experience and new players in the band including a returning Dannie Richmond, always an important foil for Mingus.
@jonahpwll thanks for the intro to the The Smile and how come I have never come across this album before!? Absolutely excellent!
Tom Skinner being in the The Smile with Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood led me to check out Sons of Kemet and their album "Your Queen Is A Reptile". Very different from The Smile but I really like it.
As AMG says "Their sound combines modal and free jazz, African rhythms and modes, and Caribbean dub and Middle Eastern timbres"
Currently playing the Very Best of Stan Getz, a double CD I inherited from my father, who used to play sax for most of his adult life. I may even have bought him the CD!
I've had a poor quality eMusic download of this for a number of years, but I bought I remastered by Rudy Van Gelder CD yesterday, so much betr quality, and it only cost £3.29.
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Dariush Dolat-Shahi
Electronic Music, Tar And Sehtar UbuWeb Otashgah: Place Of Fire UbuWeb
When the Moon Whispers The Third Eye
Two really interesting and contrasting albums are "Live in London 1967" featuring a then largely unknown John McLaughlin and "Songhai" featuring Ketama (Spanish Gypsy Guitar group) and Toumani Diabate, the renowned Malian kora player.
couple of appearances below. Thanks for pointing out the Ketama releases, certainly something to
keep an ear out for.
As I'm about to get to some of the Davids in my library, I'll start with 4 old favourites.
I first heard him with another favourite - Japan. What a great way to make it out of the '70s
and take me through the '80s.
Looking back now I'm stilled wowed by all the great folks you see in the credits*
David Sylvian
Brilliant Trees Alchemy - An Index Of Possibilities
Gone To Earth Secrets Of The Beehive
* has included -Steve Nye, Holger Czukay, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kenny Wheeler, Masami Tsuchiya,
Robert Fripp, Jon Hassell, Bill Nelson, Danny Thompson, David Torn, Mark Isham,
Mick Karn, Richard Barbieri, Rob Dean, Steve Jansen
I was listening tho this last night also on the Home Normal label
Bvdub - Tribes at the Temple of Silence, still think this is NYOP at present
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/tribes-at-the-temple-of-silence
David Baerwald (David + David)
Boomtown Bedtime Stories
Triage Here Comes The New Folk Underground
It's a darn fine album, from 1973, and why someone felt the need to damn it with faint praise I don't know. There's one vocal number which might divide opinion, but all in all its part of the continuum of great late Mingus. A good mix of experience and new players in the band including a returning Dannie Richmond, always an important foil for Mingus.
Eucalyptus Spectrum
Door X Tripping ꞉ Over ꞉ God
What Means Solid, Traveller? Drew Schlesinger & David Torn -
Summer Synthesis 1978 Bandcamp NYOP
M83 - Fantasy
Full of shoegaze goodness
Manu Dibango, Olu Dara, Paul Butterfield, Phillip Wilson, Rob Stevens, Steve Turre)
Down By Law
Deadline Paranoia (Hugo Vlugt, Marcel Witte, Paul Hettema, Paul Soto)
1 / 3 2 / 3
3 / 3
Bandcamp
Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun
Aion Into The Labyrinth
Ps - I forgot to include the links to the archives.
https://archive.org/details/hifidelity?query=dead+can+dance
Tom Skinner being in the The Smile with Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood led me to check out Sons of Kemet and their album "Your Queen Is A Reptile". Very different from The Smile but I really like it.
As AMG says "Their sound combines modal and free jazz, African rhythms and modes, and Caribbean dub and Middle Eastern timbres"
Neon City Pale Ravine
Owl Splinters Recount
Low Distance
A little different direction this morning...
DBUK - Denver Broncos UK (Dwight Pentacost, Jay Munly, Rebecca Vera, Slim Cessna)
Songs One Through Eight Songs Nine Through Sixteen
ps - Most enjoyable! I believe I'll spend the rest of this morning with a random mix of these
Jay Munly, Munly & The Lee Lewis Harlots, Munly & The Lupercalians & Slim Cessna's Auto Club
and toss in a few from David Eugene Edwards and Tindersticks for good measure.
He kept that quiet!
La Alianza Profana Serpiente Dorada
Siete Raíces Zenit & Nadir
Fiebre
I've had a poor quality eMusic download of this for a number of years, but I bought I remastered by Rudy Van Gelder CD yesterday, so much betr quality, and it only cost £3.29.
Released 50 years ago today!