Cerberus Shoal s/t first album issued in 1995. Post Rock trending towards elements of Progressive Rock.
ProgArchives says "Cerberus Shoal sound is something very hard to pigeon hole into one genre. Ranging form Post-rock, improvised experimental and avant-garde. Always possessing an uncanny darkness; playing perfectly through sadistic humour. Cerberus Shoal show an impressive innovation taking the art is life mentality to its fullest; creating a fulfilling experience for listeners interested in the more challenging and emotional side of musical compositions"
"A Speedway On Saturn's Rings" by The Fusion Syndicate.
This is a really good album featuring a who's who of Jazz Fusion and Progressive Rock including Rick Wakeman, Al Di Meola, Jah Wobble, Carmine Appice, Jan Akkerman, Chester Thompson, Chris Poland, Fernando Perdomo, Angelo Moore, Bootsy Collins, Brian Jackson, Didier Malherbe, Steve Stevens, Alphonso Johnson, Nik Turner, Jimmy Haslip, Jordan Rudess, Mel Collins, Colin Edwin, Jay Beckenstein, Billy Sheehan, Gavin Harrison, David Sancious, Derek Sherinian and Eric Marienthal.
Really confounded how this one didn't hit my radar all this time. Found this CD in a bargain bin the other day and my eyes lit up. It's really enjoyable.
New from Cantelope Records, Righteous Rage by Rebekah Fawn Heller. "Steve Reich's original 'Cello Counterpoint' is reworked into 'Grand Street Counterpoint' — again, for ten bassoons, with bassoon soloist — with Reich himself collaborating as co-producer."
I tend to think remixing this kind of material is most often a mistake - and there are tracks here I feel that way about. But some of them work quite well.
God I love this album. It was one of the first modern jazz recordings I ever listened to. And while I liked it plenty at the time, I wasn't super-crazy about it either. Over the years, though, my admiration of this album has continued to grow. There isn't a piece on this recording that doesn't run through my system like love.
@Plong42 I picked up Righteous Rage as part of my Cantaloupe sub. Good stuff and the second recording of the Reich piece that I've got from Rebekah Heller.
@jonahpwll I shame myself to say that I forgot I bought that Bobby Previte album not all that long ago. Now to dig it out for a listen. [EDIT - LATERZ - Damn that was good thanks again for the poke!]
I hope all had a good Bandcamp Friday, this was one of my purchases from Drummer / artist Walt Shaw, The Secret Life of Stones.
"Red Earth", an album by outstanding jazz vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater. It was nominated for a Grammy award in 2007 for Best Jazz Vocal Album.
All Music says "Multiple award-winning vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater delivers an astounding masterwork complete with an entrancing set of original compositions and four reworked jazz classics on Red Earth. It is her ode to Mali and Africa....."
I'm bringing the tone down completely here! I'm revisiting some of my favourites from 50 plus years ago. Retrospectively it is easy to pick out who is responsible for which tracks.
"A Vintage Burden" by Charalambides, a 2006 album which is an unusual combination of Neo Psychedelia and Post Rock. A lovely, dreamy set of songs.
All Music says "Vintage Burden is a collection of quietly psychedelic minimal guitar and vocal songs. It is among the most tender, fragile, and spiritually savvy records out there, and coming as it does from the undisputed parents of the acid folk subculture..........among the most beautiful, subtle, and moving records this band has ever made."
Purple Pyramid have just added "Space Rock: An Interstellar Traveler's Guide" 6 CD Box Set to Bandcamp, priced at $30. Funnily enough, I bought this most enjoyable and varied album for $6 from eMusic 9 years ago!
It features an exhaustive range of the top plus the not so well known exemplars of Space Rock including Can, Popul Vuh, Ozric Tentacles, Oresund Space Collective, Gong, Faust, Tangerine Dream, Guru Guru, Hawkwind, Amon Duul II, Nectar and Alice Cooper (really!).
I remember getting this quite a long time ago (as three sets of two? or maybe one of 6CDs? - it's around here somewhere), but I wouldn't really call it "space rock" ... but that doesn't mean there aren't some fun things in that collection.
As an aside, I've noticed a lot less activity here - sometimes a week going by without any posts from anybody. I'm guilty as charged ... but I'm really busy these days and it's a kind of a fun busy with three shows on the radio that I'm currently responsible for - one of which I created a theme song - and I'm also spending evenings putting together what will be either a really big single book or two medium-sized ones. It's not really meant for the public - just something that compiles nearly 60 years of thought about compositional working methods that I need to have in a set place - and text that seems to be added to on a nearly daily basis of new extrapolations.
Hope all of you are doing as well as possible considering world difficulties these days.
Purple Pyramid have just added "Space Rock: An Interstellar Traveler's Guide" 6 CD Box Set to Bandcamp, priced at $30. Funnily enough, I bought this most enjoyable and varied album for $6 from eMusic 9 years ago!
It features an exhaustive range of the top plus the not so well known exemplars of Space Rock including Can, Popul Vuh, Ozric Tentacles, Oresund Space Collective, Gong, Faust, Tangerine Dream, Guru Guru, Hawkwind, Amon Duul II, Nectar and Alice Cooper (really!).
Ha! I'm sure Dave Brock (or Barny Bubbles) and Alan Parsons would like to know about that cover. If this was put out today I'd expect poor AI rather than a poor drawing.
Without sounding like I'm giving them free advertising yet again but the last two issues of the Freeman Brothers Audion magazine include articles on the history of Space Rock covering the well known and more obscure items. Worth a look if only so you can argue over definitions.
In other news regarding frequency of posts. I guess it's obvious that a high volume of traffic generates more traffic and the reverse is true when things get quiet. Personally I don't post as much as I might because I don't want to disproportionally swamp the board. It would be nice to have some new blood around here for sure, and hear from semi-retired board types.
Sorry not been around but work and home takes me away sometimes, although lots of music still in the background. Love this bit of classic space rock, helps with the housework!!
I remember getting this quite a long time ago (as three sets of two? or maybe one of 6CDs? - it's around here somewhere), but I wouldn't really call it "space rock" ... but that doesn't mean there aren't some fun things in that collection.
As an aside, I've noticed a lot less activity here - sometimes a week going by without any posts from anybody. I'm guilty as charged ... but I'm really busy these days and it's a kind of a fun busy with three shows on the radio that I'm currently responsible for - one of which I created a theme song - and I'm also spending evenings putting together what will be either a really big single book or two medium-sized ones. It's not really meant for the public - just something that compiles nearly 60 years of thought about compositional working methods that I need to have in a set place - and text that seems to be added to on a nearly daily basis of new extrapolations.
Hope all of you are doing as well as possible considering world difficulties these days.
I’ve been struggling to check in too, compounded by struggling even to give as much attention and energy to music as I generally do. Also because of a lot going on - multiple large projects that are taking up all of my bandwidth. It’s still good to see things pick back up here from time to time though.
I actually wrote about this one for BC in a special feature. Bowie might've been the most influential musician to this alienated, hyperactive, lost teenager, so it was especially dear to my heart to be able to write about this album. I didn't actually pitch the album feature; I just emailed my editor to hip him to the way cool Jeff Parker rendition of "Soul Love." He was already geeking out on the album, and basically just dropped the feature in my lap. One of the top five most fun times I've had writing about music.
I think that I have mentioned before that I have a fascination for AI with tool of choice being ChatGPT.
I therefore invited The Doors to come and visit me at my house at Lorne along the Great Ocean Road in Australia. As you can see, they haven't aged a day over all those years!
The Doors even wrote a song for me!!!
Amazing if not somewhat scary!
Light My Fire at Lorne
Verse 1
Evening settles on the Great Ocean Road,
Four travellers arrive with a musical load.
The sea turns silver, the daylight grows thin,
Peter opens the door and welcomes them in.
Jim watches shadows move over the bay,
Ray finds the keys and begins softly to play.
Robby bends a note till it hangs in the air,
John starts a heartbeat—and the night begins there.
Chorus
Light my fire at Lorne tonight,
Fill this ocean house with sound and light.
Let the flames rise high while the wild waves roll,
Let the music warm every wandering soul.
Light my fire, let the dark take flight—
The Doors are here at Lorne tonight.
Verse 2
Two on the couch and one in each chair,
Old stories, laughter and smoke in the air.
The fire throws gold on the timber and stone,
While the Southern Ocean keeps calling them home.
Jim raises his glass to the moonlit sea:
“To the road, to the night, and to being free.”
Then Ray plays a passage both strange and sublime,
And the waves below fall perfectly in time.
Chorus
Light my fire at Lorne tonight,
Fill this ocean house with sound and light.
Let the flames rise high while the wild waves roll,
Let the music warm every wandering soul.
Light my fire, let the dark take flight—
The Doors are here at Lorne tonight.
Bridge
The lighthouse is turning far down the coast,
Calling the living, awakening ghosts.
The stars lean closer, the forest stands still,
And music drifts over each darkened hill.
No need for daylight, no reason to leave,
Tonight is a moment the heart can believe.
Between sea and mountain, between flame and sky,
Some songs live forever and never quite die.
Verse 3
Morning comes gently in rose-coloured streams,
Four figures remain like the end of a dream.
The instruments rest and the fire has grown low,
But something still burns in the room’s golden glow.
When the wind from the ocean comes under the door,
You’ll hear distant music across the floor.
And whenever the night needs a little more light,
The Doors will return to Lorne for the night.
Final Chorus
Light my fire at Lorne tonight,
Set the cliffs and the restless ocean alight.
Let Robby play and let Ray’s keys roll,
Let John bring the thunder and Jim bring the soul.
Light my fire beneath the Southern sky—
Where the road meets the sea
And the music never dies.
And here is the Album cover.
Sad to say that in real life, they never actually came to play in Australia.
On a more serious note, the excellent Math Rock s/t album by San Francisco band Rumah Sakit.
Released in 2000, it is a combination of Math Rock and Post Rock and as ProgArchives says "Rumah Sakit's music ........ floats in and out of everything from 'Bitches Brew'-era Miles Davis to King Crimson."
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ProgArchives says "Cerberus Shoal sound is something very hard to pigeon hole into one genre. Ranging form Post-rock, improvised experimental and avant-garde. Always possessing an uncanny darkness; playing perfectly through sadistic humour. Cerberus Shoal show an impressive innovation taking the art is life mentality to its fullest; creating a fulfilling experience for listeners interested in the more challenging and emotional side of musical compositions"
https://cerberusshoal.bandcamp.com/album/cerberus-shoal-deluxe-expanded-edition
This is a really good album featuring a who's who of Jazz Fusion and Progressive Rock including Rick Wakeman, Al Di Meola, Jah Wobble, Carmine Appice, Jan Akkerman, Chester Thompson, Chris Poland, Fernando Perdomo, Angelo Moore, Bootsy Collins, Brian Jackson, Didier Malherbe, Steve Stevens, Alphonso Johnson, Nik Turner, Jimmy Haslip, Jordan Rudess, Mel Collins, Colin Edwin, Jay Beckenstein, Billy Sheehan, Gavin Harrison, David Sancious, Derek Sherinian and Eric Marienthal.
Soundsystem, Breathe! By Turquoisedeath
by H. Takahashi
@jonahpwll I shame myself to say that I forgot I bought that Bobby Previte album not all that long ago. Now to dig it out for a listen. [EDIT - LATERZ - Damn that was good thanks again for the poke!]
I hope all had a good Bandcamp Friday, this was one of my purchases from Drummer / artist Walt Shaw, The Secret Life of Stones.
https://discusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-secret-life-of-stones-9018dl-2026
All Music says "Multiple award-winning vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater delivers an astounding masterwork complete with an entrancing set of original compositions and four reworked jazz classics on Red Earth. It is her ode to Mali and Africa....."
I'm bringing the tone down completely here! I'm revisiting some of my favourites from 50 plus years ago. Retrospectively it is easy to pick out who is responsible for which tracks.
All Music says "Vintage Burden is a collection of quietly psychedelic minimal guitar and vocal songs. It is among the most tender, fragile, and spiritually savvy records out there, and coming as it does from the undisputed parents of the acid folk subculture..........among the most beautiful, subtle, and moving records this band has ever made."
It features an exhaustive range of the top plus the not so well known exemplars of Space Rock including Can, Popul Vuh, Ozric Tentacles, Oresund Space Collective, Gong, Faust, Tangerine Dream, Guru Guru, Hawkwind, Amon Duul II, Nectar and Alice Cooper (really!).
https://purplepyramid.bandcamp.com/album/space-rock-an-interstellar-travelers-guide?utm_source=merch_release&utm_medium=email&utm_content=fanpub_fnb_merch&utm_campaign=purplepyramid%2Balbum%2Bspace-rock-an-interstellar-travelers-guide
As an aside, I've noticed a lot less activity here - sometimes a week going by without any posts from anybody. I'm guilty as charged ... but I'm really busy these days and it's a kind of a fun busy with three shows on the radio that I'm currently responsible for - one of which I created a theme song - and I'm also spending evenings putting together what will be either a really big single book or two medium-sized ones. It's not really meant for the public - just something that compiles nearly 60 years of thought about compositional working methods that I need to have in a set place - and text that seems to be added to on a nearly daily basis of new extrapolations.
Hope all of you are doing as well as possible considering world difficulties these days.
Without sounding like I'm giving them free advertising yet again but the last two issues of the Freeman Brothers Audion magazine include articles on the history of Space Rock covering the well known and more obscure items. Worth a look if only so you can argue over definitions.
In other news regarding frequency of posts. I guess it's obvious that a high volume of traffic generates more traffic and the reverse is true when things get quiet. Personally I don't post as much as I might because I don't want to disproportionally swamp the board. It would be nice to have some new blood around here for sure, and hear from semi-retired board types.
Sorry not been around but work and home takes me away sometimes, although lots of music still in the background. Love this bit of classic space rock, helps with the housework!!
I therefore invited The Doors to come and visit me at my house at Lorne along the Great Ocean Road in Australia. As you can see, they haven't aged a day over all those years!
The Doors even wrote a song for me!!!
Amazing if not somewhat scary!
Light My Fire at Lorne
Verse 1
Evening settles on the Great Ocean Road,
Four travellers arrive with a musical load.
The sea turns silver, the daylight grows thin,
Peter opens the door and welcomes them in.
Jim watches shadows move over the bay,
Ray finds the keys and begins softly to play.
Robby bends a note till it hangs in the air,
John starts a heartbeat—and the night begins there.
Chorus
Light my fire at Lorne tonight,
Fill this ocean house with sound and light.
Let the flames rise high while the wild waves roll,
Let the music warm every wandering soul.
Light my fire, let the dark take flight—
The Doors are here at Lorne tonight.
Verse 2
Two on the couch and one in each chair,
Old stories, laughter and smoke in the air.
The fire throws gold on the timber and stone,
While the Southern Ocean keeps calling them home.
Jim raises his glass to the moonlit sea:
“To the road, to the night, and to being free.”
Then Ray plays a passage both strange and sublime,
And the waves below fall perfectly in time.
Chorus
Light my fire at Lorne tonight,
Fill this ocean house with sound and light.
Let the flames rise high while the wild waves roll,
Let the music warm every wandering soul.
Light my fire, let the dark take flight—
The Doors are here at Lorne tonight.
Bridge
The lighthouse is turning far down the coast,
Calling the living, awakening ghosts.
The stars lean closer, the forest stands still,
And music drifts over each darkened hill.
No need for daylight, no reason to leave,
Tonight is a moment the heart can believe.
Between sea and mountain, between flame and sky,
Some songs live forever and never quite die.
Verse 3
Morning comes gently in rose-coloured streams,
Four figures remain like the end of a dream.
The instruments rest and the fire has grown low,
But something still burns in the room’s golden glow.
When the wind from the ocean comes under the door,
You’ll hear distant music across the floor.
And whenever the night needs a little more light,
The Doors will return to Lorne for the night.
Final Chorus
Light my fire at Lorne tonight,
Set the cliffs and the restless ocean alight.
Let Robby play and let Ray’s keys roll,
Let John bring the thunder and Jim bring the soul.
Light my fire beneath the Southern sky—
Where the road meets the sea
And the music never dies.
And here is the Album cover.
Sad to say that in real life, they never actually came to play in Australia.
Released in 2000, it is a combination of Math Rock and Post Rock and as ProgArchives says "Rumah Sakit's music ........ floats in and out of everything from 'Bitches Brew'-era Miles Davis to King Crimson."
by Kham Meslien