This months freebie with the Naxos Newsletter subscription. What with the cover proudly displaying the length of the recording and the DDD description - it really does feel like a time warp. A mere 37 years ago.
New album just released by Cameron Blake. It's kind of a singer-songwriter/free jazz mashup album with a little dash of dixieland and opera, all improvised in a two-day session. There's a making-of-the-album film at the above link. Cameron is local to me and we just started getting to know him and his wife - had them round for lunch a couple of weeks ago. The album's really interesting - give it a listen, and maybe check out the video for Athena (a part of the first track), which was made by a really young local filmmaker:
Had a reply from Christopher Conway, when I bought this during Bandcamp Friday "I honestly can’t remember the last time we sold one." I find that sad.
I've only recently bought some other Chris Conway music so I shall have to take a look here and maybe add to his medical woes. [All of five minutes later - I've joined the club!]
Had a reply from Christopher Conway, when I bought this during Bandcamp Friday "I honestly can’t remember the last time we sold one." I find that sad.
I also got an email from Chris Conway and like a complete felon also asked for other crimes to be taken into consideration, that is buying five other albums from the Planet Scanners and Scanner Game groups. I also explained my connection here and via Audion / Ultima Thule / Auricle.
"Live in London" by Christone "Kingfish" Ingram. I saw him live at the Byron Bay Bluesfest this April and believe that he is amongst the very best current Blues artists.
The album received a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Blues Album at the 66th Annual GRAMMY Awards and won Album of the Year at the 2024 Blues Music Awards.
All Music says "It's a beautifully recorded, incendiary gig captured in the moment..........Live in London provides more evidence that Ingram is a force to be reckoned with: Not only can he play like the legends, but he's an original vocalist, a solid songwriter, and a disciplined bandleader."
Here is one of the best tracks "Midnight Heat" but if you're into the Blues, I would strongly recommend listening to the whole album.
Proving once again there is no predicting what my memory will recall, I thought the name Chris Conway rang familiar as one of my first "discoveries" when I began checking out the Jazz section in Bandcamp back in 2011(!). And I was right. His album "4am" gets mentioned in one of the very first posts on the Throwing Punches at the Hurricane thread.
It genuinely makes me laugh at the changes since then. Back then, it was such a dearth of options for jazz at BC that I was willing to include new age-y instrumental music on my list just because it kind of faintly resembled something you'd hear on ECM perhaps AND the volume was so little I could actually try to document it all on a forum post, to today, with a deluge of jazz on BC to where it would be easier to list the jazz NOT retailing on the site, and also, holy shit, I've gone from posting about jazz on BC on random forums to actually posting about jazz on Bandcamp at Bandcamp Daily lol.
RIYL Lounge Lizards, Kamikaze Ground Crew, Robert Wyatt, recent releases on Yolk Records or Otherly Love. Chris Lightcap's Clean Feed release "Epicenter" seems like a decent comparison, as does the earlier music of Klabbes Bank ("Je Suis La Mer" and "Kalsater") but that may be an obscure reference.
RIYL Lounge Lizards, Kamikaze Ground Crew, Robert Wyatt, recent releases on Yolk Records or Otherly Love. Chris Lightcap's Clean Feed release "Epicenter" seems like a decent comparison, as does the earlier music of Klabbes Bank ("Je Suis La Mer" and "Kalsater") but that may be an obscure reference.
"Construção", the 1971 album by Chico Buarque, Brazilian singer, songwriter, poet, novelist and playwright who emerged during the tropicalia era and is credited with innovations in samba.
All Music says "Chico Buarque's fifth album......is a classic, where nearly all the songs became hits........immortal songs in which the genius of the composer meets sensitively and reverently the heart of the Brazilian feel."
Apropos recent discussion this album has just been released, the latest from the improv jam series by Leicester Space Cadets including the Freeman Brothers of Audion / Ultima Thule and Chris Conway amongst others. I got the last three releases all NYOP. (And worth every penny!)
@Plong42 thanks for the reminder re Spooky Tooth. Back in the day, they were one of my favourite bands, particularly the track "Sunshine Help Me" which was featured on your album above and I first heard it on the Island Records compilation album "You Can All Join In".
Other favourites were from their second album, "Spooky Two", including "Evil Woman" and "Better By You, Better Than Me".
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This months freebie with the Naxos Newsletter subscription. What with the cover proudly displaying the length of the recording and the DDD description - it really does feel like a time warp. A mere 37 years ago.
https://12kmusic.bandcamp.com/album/can-you-prove-i-was-born
Shuttle358 - Can You Prove I Was Born
Awakenings by MANJA RISTIĆ
@amclark2 your post sent me back to this.
A bit of Ghana Highlife for a wet and miserable Monday.
https://eveadams.bandcamp.com/album/american-dust
I got all 4 of the releases.
He might be having a heart attack now.
Considering adding a seizure to the heart attack.
P.S. This has to be a first. All three of the paying supporters on bandcamp for this album are emusers.
Really enjoying this one
The album received a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Blues Album at the 66th Annual GRAMMY Awards and won Album of the Year at the 2024 Blues Music Awards.
All Music says "It's a beautifully recorded, incendiary gig captured in the moment..........Live in London provides more evidence that Ingram is a force to be reckoned with: Not only can he play like the legends, but he's an original vocalist, a solid songwriter, and a disciplined bandleader."
Here is one of the best tracks "Midnight Heat" but if you're into the Blues, I would strongly recommend listening to the whole album.
Seems like I haven't played this in a long time
All Music says "Chico Buarque's fifth album......is a classic, where nearly all the songs became hits........immortal songs in which the genius of the composer meets sensitively and reverently the heart of the Brazilian feel."
https://quadelectronicdocuments.bandcamp.com/album/qe177
Other favourites were from their second album, "Spooky Two", including "Evil Woman" and "Better By You, Better Than Me".