You had me sold by the terrific album cover. Made a great soundtrack to start off this mornings watch. Can't wait for the snow to melt and get back digging.
I'm including some of it on the March 27 show. It's quite nice (but short).
confused said: You had me sold by the terrific album cover. Made a great soundtrack to start off this mornings watch. Can't wait for the snow to melt and get back digging.
@confused it's totally the opposite to your snow, here in Melbourne! Three days in a row with temperatures in the high 30s deg C, a record for March!
So I am listening to albums that remind me most of these hot summer days (well, autumn really). First off, "Blues for the Red Sun", to my mind the best ever album by Stoner Metal pioneers Kyuss.
AMG says about Kyuss "Kyuss...has become something like a heavy metal equivalent to the Velvet Underground. Although they are widely acknowledged as pioneers of the booming stoner rock scene of the 1990s, the band enjoyed little commercial success during their brief existence, but their combination of sludgy, down-tuned guitars (often played through a bass amp for maximum, earth-shaking intensity), spacey jams, galloping thrash metal rhythms, and organic drums became a blueprint, often copied, but never quite replicated by countless underground metal bands."
and about the album "1992's stunning Blues for the Red Sun. Soon hailed as a landmark by critics and fans alike, the album took the underground metal world by storm and established the signature Kyuss sound once and for all: the doom heaviness of Black Sabbath, the feedback fuzz of Blue Cheer, and the space rock of Hawkwind, infused with psychedelic flashes, massive grooves, and a surprising sensibility for punk rock, metal, and thrash."
And now to a totally different kind of music. When I think of summer, still after all these years, it is always The Beach Boys that immediately come to mind!
So, I'm listening to my favourite Beach Boys compilation, short but succinct with all their best songs and that great title - 1974's "Endless Summer".
I couldn't say it any better than AMG "This was the album by which millions of sons of late baby boomers (and sons and daughters of the early ones) first really discovered the Beach Boys.....It was the summer of 1974 when this double LP of their 1963-1966 material...came along and did the job. Endless Summer....soared to number one and charted high over two subsequent summers (spending three years on the charts, the longest of any of the group's albums), and attracted the enthusiastic attention of millions of listeners too young to have bought their singles back when......a simple, celebratory sun-lit graphic....spoke volumes about the music."
And finally, as I walk down by the beach at 6.00 pm with the temperature still at 37 deg C (!!!), listening to the 2008 album "Summer Sessions Vol. 1" by one of my favourite Psychedelic/Space Rock bands, Causa Sui.
And finally, as I walk down by the beach at 6.00 pm with the temperature still at 37 deg C (!!!), listening to the 2008 album "Summer Sessions Vol. 1" by one of my favourite Psychedelic/Space Rock bands, Causa Sui.
I just can't imagine living in that heat for a stretch. The hottest it got here last summer was 32C one day and 15C the next in June where the average is usually around 20C, near the start of our fire season. Smokiest if I remember correctly. Hopefully it's getting close to the end of your fire season as you prepare for your autumn and our spring. We've seen the news reports of the evacuations in Victoria and hope your autumn brings cooler temps and more rain. Hot summers always make me think of The Lovin' Spoonful. PauseEverything Ecstatic
(A really nice ambient-leaning mix by Peter Van Cooten that includes music by David Lang, David Toop, Giya Kancheli, Kreng, Alva Noto, Arve Henriksen, and many others.)
Because of the drones, atmospheric field recordings and insect sounds, this mix will be labeled as an 'ambient' mix by most listeners. And of course it is.... but at the same time it isn't. It simply isn't 'unobtrusive' enough to be 'ambient'. An hour-long journey of scene changes, meandering between Kitsch and Kult - a bit more 'psychedelic' than 'ambient', in fact.
You familiar with these people? I met them at Victo once.
No, never heard of them. I looked up the Czech bands and Czech artists pages on Wikipedia and was struck that I know almost none of the names. It's Emil Viklický (whose name I finally know how to pronounce thanks to some Czech lessons) or bust, lol. And of course Dvořák (whose name is still hard to pronounce properly despite some Czech lessons).
In the mid-80s, for a number of months, I was in a deep depressive funk due to various weird things happening in my life at that time - we're talking about 20+ hour sleep days. One day, I reached into a collection of LPs that I had sitting out in a specially made box that I'd use for on-air DJing and pulled out that album to listen to, but before I did, I started reading the booklet - actually, a good sized book! - that came with the record and suddenly, I was completely out of my depression. It was pretty incredible. It hit a nerve somehow ... so, I owe a lot to the Plastic People of the Universe.
According to AMG "Unwound's new melodicism exudes the mood of a late summer afternoon, floating through the shimmer and haze of an indeterminate duration that asks you not to speculate on the length of the season, but allows you to bask in a kind of resigned confidence in the present. Ultimately, "Leaves Turn Inside You" is a unique, epic effort from one of the most inventive and dynamic rock bands in recent memory."
It's turned into a ritual that's lasted for 44 years, but it's an enjoyable thing to play this work (with interview) every St. Patrick's Day (and sometimes even broadcasting it on this day).
Kim Cascone Kim Cascone studied electronic music at Berklee College of Music, Boston and worked since the late 70's in electronics. In the late 80's Cascone was assistant music editor for David Lynch's films 'Twin Peaks' and 'Wild At Heart'. In 1986 Cascone founded the record label Silent, where he released first results of his project PGR. Cascone now releases music on Sub Rosa, Mille Plateaux and runs a small vanity label called Anechoic. (Astralfish, Hydrosphere, KGB (24), Patternclear (2), PGR, Satellite IV, Spice Barons, Thessalonians, Power Of Seven)
"En Avant Doute" 2007 album by French Progressive Rock group Lazuli
AMG says "Lazuli's music is strikingly original yet surprisingly accessible. Its originality comes from the group's unusual instrumentation, which includes a lot of mallet percussion, touch guitars (both Warr guitar and Chapman stick), and the Léode, a one-of-a-kind instrument"
Hmm I appear to have been gone a while, sorry about that. Here's an interesting percussion / sax duo album that I found lurking on one of my drives. It's far more interesting that the somewhat duff cover would suggest. I know nothing about the artists and can't even find a Discogs entry.
@djh -It's always interesting to me what you find on the hard drives so I'll continue to look forward to what you find and are listening to, just like the rest of the folks who pop in and out here. Haven't heard from @greg for a while so I hope he's just taking a break.
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So I am listening to albums that remind me most of these hot summer days (well, autumn really). First off, "Blues for the Red Sun", to my mind the best ever album by Stoner Metal pioneers Kyuss.
AMG says about Kyuss "Kyuss...has become something like a heavy metal equivalent to the Velvet Underground. Although they are widely acknowledged as pioneers of the booming stoner rock scene of the 1990s, the band enjoyed little commercial success during their brief existence, but their combination of sludgy, down-tuned guitars (often played through a bass amp for maximum, earth-shaking intensity), spacey jams, galloping thrash metal rhythms, and organic drums became a blueprint, often copied, but never quite replicated by countless underground metal bands."
and about the album "1992's stunning Blues for the Red Sun. Soon hailed as a landmark by critics and fans alike, the album took the underground metal world by storm and established the signature Kyuss sound once and for all: the doom heaviness of Black Sabbath, the feedback fuzz of Blue Cheer, and the space rock of Hawkwind, infused with psychedelic flashes, massive grooves, and a surprising sensibility for punk rock, metal, and thrash."
So, I'm listening to my favourite Beach Boys compilation, short but succinct with all their best songs and that great title - 1974's "Endless Summer".
I couldn't say it any better than AMG "This was the album by which millions of sons of late baby boomers (and sons and daughters of the early ones) first really discovered the Beach Boys.....It was the summer of 1974 when this double LP of their 1963-1966 material...came along and did the job. Endless Summer....soared to number one and charted high over two subsequent summers (spending three years on the charts, the longest of any of the group's albums), and attracted the enthusiastic attention of millions of listeners too young to have bought their singles back when......a simple, celebratory sun-lit graphic....spoke volumes about the music."
I just can't imagine living in that heat for a stretch. The hottest it got here last summer was 32C one day and 15C the next in June where the average is usually around 20C, near the start of our fire season. Smokiest if I remember correctly. Hopefully it's getting close to the end of your fire season as you prepare for your autumn and our spring. We've seen the news reports of the evacuations in Victoria and hope your autumn brings cooler temps and more rain. Hot summers always make me think of The Lovin' Spoonful.
Pause Everything Ecstatic
Steve Reid Ensemble
Spirit Walk Daxaar (Recorded In Africa)
Kieran Hebden And Steve Reid Kieran Hebden And Steve Reid
– The Exchange Session Vol. 1 – The Exchange Session Vol. 2
Fridge - The Sun Kieran Hebden And Steve Reid – Tongues
A Pagan Place This Is The Sea
Private Revolution Goodbye Jumbo
Thank You World Give It All Away CD1, CD2
Bang! Egyptology
Dumbing Up Live!
Gone too young and will be sadly missed. Always!
According to AMG "Unwound's new melodicism exudes the mood of a late summer afternoon, floating through the shimmer and haze of an indeterminate duration that asks you not to speculate on the length of the season, but allows you to bask in a kind of resigned confidence in the present. Ultimately, "Leaves Turn Inside You" is a unique, epic effort from one of the most inventive and dynamic rock bands in recent memory."
Pink 0181
Beautiful Rewind Morning / Evening
Randoms
New Energy Sixteen Oceans
Parallel Kieran Hebden & William Tyler
– Darkness, Darkness / No Services
but it's an enjoyable thing to play this work (with interview)
every St. Patrick's Day (and sometimes even broadcasting it on this day).
Kim Cascone studied electronic music at Berklee College of Music, Boston and worked since the late 70's in electronics. In the late 80's Cascone was assistant music editor for David Lynch's films 'Twin Peaks' and 'Wild At Heart'. In 1986 Cascone founded the record label Silent, where he released first results of his project PGR.
Cascone now releases music on Sub Rosa, Mille Plateaux and runs a small vanity label called Anechoic.
(Astralfish, Hydrosphere, KGB (24), Patternclear (2), PGR, Satellite IV, Spice Barons, Thessalonians, Power Of Seven)
PGR / Thessalonians archive.org Arcane Device / PGR – Fetish archive.org
– The Concentration Of Light Prior To Combustion
The Chemical Bride archive.org A Hole Of Unknown Depth
Future Perfect State
Kim Cascone
Cathodeflower archive.org Kim Cascone / Andrey Kiritchenko archive.org
/ Andreas Berthling/ Kotra – Fourfold Symmetry
Gravity Handler archive.org Kim Cascone + Jason Kahn+ Steinbrüchel – Untitled
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Anti-Musical Celestial Forces archive.org Domenico Sciajno / Kim Cascone – Hyaline
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Tony Conrad & Kim Cascone – The Celestial Monochord
The New Scene Of King Curtis Soul Meeting
Country Soul archive.org (vinyl) King Curtis & The Kingpins - King Size Soul
Live At Fillmore West King Curtis & Champion Jack Dupree
– Blues At Montreux
King Tubby And The Aggrovators Dub From The Roots
- Shalom Dub
Augustus Pablo King Tubby Meets Roots Radics – Dangerous Dub
- Rockers Meets King Tubbys In A Fire House
Upset The Upsetter From The Palace Of Dub
AMG says "Lazuli's music is strikingly original yet surprisingly accessible. Its originality comes from the group's unusual instrumentation, which includes a lot of mallet percussion, touch guitars (both Warr guitar and Chapman stick), and the Léode, a one-of-a-kind instrument"
https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=17363
K.K. Null & others
Kazuyuki K. Null / James Plotkin – Aurora Invisible Disaster
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Atomik Disorder nyop KK. Null Chris Watson Z'EV – Number One
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KK.Null / Z'EV – Artificial Life archive.org Fertile archive.org