Not normally my type of music but I really enjoyed this Gothic/Hard Rock album "Floodland" by The Sisters of Mercy.
All Music says the band "combined brooding industrial metal and art rock with opulent dance-pop and darkwave-influenced post-punk." To me, to place it in a more simple context (!!!), it is a very successful, highly eclectic mix of different music styles which really draws you in.
I never knew about this Frank Zappa-produced album until a few days ago. I heard a cover of Dead Girls Of London and wonder what album the song came from...Shankar's 1979 album, Touch Me There.
As released on Zappa Records and then Barking Pumpkin. Dead Girls of London I had on a 1979 Zappa boot years ago (early 80s) and wondered where it was from. Song features vocals from FZ and the recently departed Ike Willis. One of several great violin players to work with Frank.
Moebius was a right one for collaborating and here he is with this stab at the pop charts with the great Asmus Tietchens. I'm joking about the pop chart thing, well sort of.
I never knew about this Frank Zappa-produced album until a few days ago. I heard a cover of Dead Girls Of London and wonder what album the song came from...Shankar's 1979 album, Touch Me There.
As released on Zappa Records and then Barking Pumpkin. Dead Girls of London I had on a 1979 Zappa boot years ago (early 80s) and wondered where it was from. Song features vocals from FZ and the recently departed Ike Willis. One of several great violin players to work with Frank.
And I had NO idea that FZ had recorded this with grumpy old Van the Man. Some pretty great plank spanking from Unca Frank too. Dead Girls of London. Of course Warner wouldn't let FZ use the Van vocal - I'm sure it helped sour his relationship with the label...
OK, this is a mystery. I am listening to an album by Umberto Ceccon called Fly Away that I rediscovered in the bowels of my hard drive while transferring to a new computer. It's enjoyable (but not elite) solo jazz guitar, the file tags say release year was 1999 (specifically 1999-11-30), and the album art (going by the font) looks like it was home made with basic design software and says 2010 in the small print, so who knows what year it is really from - maybe he updated the art and re-released? I tried to find online it to post it here and cannot find any trace of it. Ceccon seems to have a website but the discography section only has one album, and it's a different one from 2016. Discogs only lists one album - another different one with no release year. No hits at archive.org. I have no idea when or where I acquired it.
This was your periodic reminder that the internet does not remember everything.
I could be a mock-up cover for a potential album that may have changed it's title (maybe to "Jogu"?). Sometimes the track names stay and end up on another album entirely, so that could be a clue, but, yes, I've even been shown Bandcamp items that have recently been bought and when I look for them later, they've disappeared as if the artist changed their mind.
I could be a mock-up cover for a potential album that may have changed it's title (maybe to "Jogu"?). Sometimes the track names stay and end up on another album entirely, so that could be a clue, but, yes, I've even been shown Bandcamp items that have recently been bought and when I look for them later, they've disappeared as if the artist changed their mind.
None of the track names match either of the other existing albums. The whole discography strikes me as a bit home made, so maybe "release" meant he just posted it on some site that now no longer exists.
@Germanprof That Umberto Ceccon looks like something we would've scooped up for free on Amie St. back in the day. Any album in my music library that triggers no kind of memory of the music or the musician or anything associated with the album, I immediatley assume I purchased it on Amie St.
@Germanprof That Umberto Ceccon looks like something we would've scooped up for free on Amie St. back in the day. Any album in my music library that triggers no kind of memory of the music or the musician or anything associated with the album, I immediatley assume I purchased it on Amie St.
I did wonder that - it’s quite possible, though I hale also found a bunch of other tracks that have Amie Street in the tags in the comment field; I don’t know how universal that was. Another possibility that occurred to me was another site the name of which I can’t even remember that I think maybe Brighternow put me onto that had a bunch of free music….that’s going to annoy me now until I remember what it’s called!
Need to start revisiting Kent's work, plus check out the new stuff I never got around to. There was a time when Kent's cello was frequently pouring out of my speakers.
Need to start revisiting Kent's work, plus check out the new stuff I never got around to. There was a time when Kent's cello was frequently pouring out of my speakers.
Thanks for the heads up. I have three of her releases but she kinda got lost in the flood so happy to get my ears around this one. More cello is good cello.
Revisiting some early PJCE recordings. They opened up shop around 2012, and there was a stretch of recordings from 2013-2014 that was just outstanding. Excellent albums interspersed by solid releases. I recall "Indian Summer" being a favorite from that time period.
This was my Best of 2011 album of the year on Bird is the Worm back in the day. I had to try to put together some sort of year-end content even though I only created that blog in December of that year. The eMUSIC gig preceded it by just a few months.
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All Music says the band "combined brooding industrial metal and art rock with opulent dance-pop and darkwave-influenced post-punk." To me, to place it in a more simple context (!!!), it is a very successful, highly eclectic mix of different music styles which really draws you in.
Moebius was a right one for collaborating and here he is with this stab at the pop charts with the great Asmus Tietchens. I'm joking about the pop chart thing, well sort of.
Sometimes the track names stay and end up on another album entirely, so that could be a clue, but, yes, I've even been shown Bandcamp items that have recently been bought and when I look for them later, they've disappeared as if the artist changed their mind.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulano_(band)
Sunday morning with Sonny, almost perfect
ETA it was the FMA I was thinking of https://freemusicarchive.org/home. Can’t see him there now though.