@rostasi apologies, that was me running into problems with my new iPad! What I was trying to say was that I haven't come across the album "Blowing Free" before and what a great list of top prog music it includes. So, thanks for the intro!
"Put Your Gloves On And Wave", a 2001 dreamy, post rock album by Halifax Pier. Great listening for a cold, sunny winter's morning in Melbourne.
AMG says "Gorgeously unfolding in layers of subdued cello, violin, twisting acoustic guitars, velvety electric guitars, and snaking basses, the loping arrangements bend and weave around vocalist Nathan Salsburg's overcast verse."
Pretty sure this was one of my BC picks a few years ago. The album came up on my iTunes and I was locked in. Some of that chamber jazz minimalism a la Nik Bartch's Ronin, with some nice use of strings to boot.
Nice upload from an old school sharity blog I follow. Why Othello I don't know but the title track is very Mingus doing a NYC on a saturday night vibe. Bit more abstract mind you.
I think I scooped up the J Mascis solo recording "Elastic Days" right around the start of the pandemic, and maybe I listened to it once, but I don't recall. I put it on a month ago and I am totally enchanted by it. I picked up "Tied to a Star" a couple days ago, and it got its hooks in me, too. I'll be picking up "Several Shades of Why" when my local music store gets it back in stock.
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AMG says "Gorgeously unfolding in layers of subdued cello, violin, twisting acoustic guitars, velvety electric guitars, and snaking basses, the loping arrangements bend and weave around vocalist Nathan Salsburg's overcast verse."
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