What Are You Listening to 2024

Thunk I'd ask like

First thing I listened to on waking up this morning was this
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which elsewhere looks like this
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and sounds like a bunch of middle class youth discovering how heavy one could set its distortion at the turn of the 70s. It does rock but I don't think I would ideally pick that vocalist cos I think he reflects his background but this is decent garagey heavy rock with corrosive distortion.
I think I picked it up in Minus Zero in the mid 90s and hadn't played it in ages. But it is pretty great.

sorted through a pile of cds I hadn't looked through for a while andd found several essential titles including this
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which I have in a bootleg version from before the band themselves released a remastered version.
Heavy rock that sounds like a heavier take on The Doors with a street preacher/street person expanding on Morrison. The guitarist is heavier than Kreiger and there is an u8nderkying Xian message though I think it can be overlooked. The singer's manic vocal is pretty great though.
I have thought about picking up the remaster but never got around to it.

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Finnish heavy prog/psych. Quite heavy. I just got this after spending some time perusing a couple of lists of heavy psych/hard rock that had been written on headheritage a couple of decades vback and one I'd been sent elsewhere
https://www.headheritage.co.uk/headtohead/unsung/topic/30590/threaded/381991
and
https://www.headheritage.co.uk/headtohead/unsung/topic/5500/threaded/45556
which both have some seriously great stuff on.
I was able to find tracks from a load of the lps I still didn't have up on Spotify.
This sounded very interesting so I grabbed a copy. It arrived on Friday.
Great guitar and band interplay. May take a while for the singer to grow on me. Reminds me of Brian Blesse4

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ery heavy, pretty late heavy psych lp dating from 1976. I thought this was considered a Stoner Rock classic which contributed to me buying it fromn Rockadrome when they reissued it in the late 00ies.
It's been sitting in a piule neglected for an age.I started spinning it again recently and its really growing on me.

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Manchester band signed to John Peel's Dandelion label. Brutal thuggish reworkings of a number of blues asnd psych rock numbers and some original material which always stood out to me. I picked this up in a Dublin HMV sale in the early 90s and played bits of it regularly on my radio show, think I'd seen a review in Forcedexposure or something.Have meant to get the cd box set of all of their work.

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very funky free jazz lp which I'd meant to pick up for a while. I picked up a copy in Honest John's late last year then put it back in the racks for some reason. Picked up a Sun |Ra compilation thing instead got back here and wondered why I had missed getting it. So wound up listening through it on spotify and going duh what'd you do. So got it through Spotify and may have wound up with a better version the Corbett vs. Dempsey one. Not sure if that was the one I'd initially rejected, sleeve doesn't seem to mention bonus tracks but this about doubles its length in cover versions.
Pretty essential.

also been lkistening to a load of jazz I picked up from charity shops and seems to have a leaning to early eras 30s & 40s and a few artists from then's later work. So much great stuff here. I'm now reading Ted Giotta's history of Jazz which is helping place some of this, though I do have some understanding.
also a load of classical stuff I'm picking up from the same charity shops. Classical is an area I really haven't spent a great deal of time listening to. Though have intermittently tuned into classical radio at different points.

mot sure what else extremely left field has turned up . Bound to be some stuff, various folk and stuff.
Mainly listening to podcasts on spotify and therefore the phone as walkman interspersed with tracks a lot of which come from the lists I mentioned.

epic vapor version of McDonald / labelle “on my own”

https://jpro.bandcamp.com/track/--81

the Unpopular 1/24 mix, very old-school UK indie heavy, simply a wonderful way to welcome the new year for me

https://www.mixcloud.com/unpopularuk/unpop-238-january-2024/

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https://erstetheketontraeger.bandcamp.com/album/ett-028-the-coneheads-l-p-1-aka-14-year-old-high-school-pc-fascist-hype-lords-rip-off-devo-for-the-sake-of-extorting-from-helpless-impressionable-midwestern-internet-peoplepunks-l-p

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Gospel funk from the 70's!

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I've been on a pretty heavy hippie album rock binge lately.

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Post-Roxy new wave not available via streaming that sounds exactly 1982. Pleasant enough.

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German teen heavies 1st lp.
I'm listening to a lot of early 70s heavy material at the moment. This arrived yesterday and is pretty great. I think I need a better music player to hear things properly though. This is the Lumpy Gravy version, not sure how it compares to the previous cd.
But been meaning to pick this up for ages so glad I finally did get a copy.

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1st lp by international heavy quartet. The rhythm section had been used by Brainticket on their lp Cottonwoodhill which is also the title of a track here.
Great very heavy psychedelic rock. Again been meaning to get this for years. Now need Tomorrow Blue

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I think my fav of the Eno era, dark psychedelic otherness. Eno treating the rest of the band's instruments and creating dubbed out epics.
Manzanera getting quite heavy in places.

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superheavy German trio. Get very abstract in places. Refound my copy this week. Should be much more familiar with it.

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German psych which I guess is krautrock. It gets very noisy in places. 1st track seems a bit corny lyrically, maybe overtly English as 2nd language. But music on that gets really out too.

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1976 set which gets pretty out.
Couldn't find this recently so glad I finally have done. Found a load of titles while looking for Silberbart.
I think this was one of the first sets I heard by the band cos my brother had a copy of the vinyl. I remembered it as being heavily drum dominated which seems less true on the cd I listened to.

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The Grapefruit label set devoted to the Ladbroke Grove/Portobello scene. Wish I'd been more aware of the music being made around me when I was there, which was at the start but also my start.
Got some great stuff on as always. I'm also reading Andrew Lauder's book Happy Trails which overlaps.

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soooo much new punk

starter packs:
https://geeteeband.bandcamp.com/album/g-t-r-r-c-iii
https://geeteeband.bandcamp.com/album/g-t-r-r-c-iii

oops 2nd one is https://palestinesolidaritycompilation.bandcamp.com/album/palestine-solidarity-compilation

unnerving and beautiful

https://byqow.bandcamp.com/album/elmosameh-sherine

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https://i.discogs.com/ecIT7o4EO2_5d2vJqum3cABg0zkAPxfJVTocm4UKHPM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTgxOTA5/NTUtMTQ1Njg0MTc4/NS04MTkyLmpwZWc.jpeg just picked this up from the DHL Paket shop that exists inside the posh health food store run by tired looking hippies who seem you've ruined their day - an old friend had sent it totally unbidden just by way of "Hi" Sugai Ken's "鯰上 - On The Quakefish" never heard of him before but super gloopy ambient / concrete. what a pleasant surprise!

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https://i.discogs.com/tmrFq7MoC1aSso3jWRVVvG7t0eW7YY-4goCSMOMfToM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTUyODEz/OS0xMTk0MDY4OTA2/LmpwZWc.jpeg The B-52's - Wild Planet - always awesome. love love love

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Really lovely EP of saxophone/bass clarinet + electronics
https://bossada.bandcamp.com/album/cantina-days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW3SPgx2CPk

Deeply excellent six-hour long live set from Donna Leake

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Heavy prog from Germany. Got some scorching leads and keyboard. Pretty psychedelic. Have been aware of the existence of this since the early 00ies when it cropped up on mp3 blogs but only just got hold of a physical copy.
So only heard it through a couple of times so far. But will be listening to it a lot more. Going through a heavy stoner hard rock phase so picking up a bunch of stuff I've been aware of for a while but not got around to getting.

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Turkish heavy Anadolu rock trio combining trad influences with electric rock in a heavy psychedelic way. Some great snaking lead lines.
I was trying to work out earlier if the theme to their s/t track was borrowed from somewhere else, sounds familiar.
Have had this for a few years but neglected it for a while so getting back into it.
Maybe not quite as heavy as it could be but think it's pretty good.

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2cd compilation of 20s blues chanteuse cheap but with pretty decent sound.
I grabbed this last week after it wasn't around locally for several months. I got a different compi of her last year, I think while I was reading her biography and had wanted to get this so did next time I saw it.
Janis Joplin bought her grave a headstone at the turn of the 70s and I think she was popular with the current hippy underground as a number of other reissues from the time were. This shares a cover image with a compilation that was released in 1970 and I think sold pretty well.
Her blues is played with a jazz combo so is a bit different to the delta blues that I think a lot of people associate prewar blues with. In Delta blues you normally have a solo performer accompanying themselves with a portable instrument like a guitar. It has been interesting to note that this music which has partially been portrayed more recently in terms of legacy going back to time immemorial actually seemed to be pretty new when it was being introduced in the early 20th century. The guitar as popular instrument ties in with the popularisation of the Sears catalogue, mail order and instalment payments. Which does also tie in with older traditions but new technology morphs the way that music is performed and also how it is heard. Like the fact that it is recorded for posterity was only a couple of decades old at the time. Commercial criteria narrowed what was being recorded all too soon and introduced formulae as well as excluded things it deemed outside of what was wanted to sell or represent the type of music to be recorded.
Sonow you have a load of older music coming out of copyright and some firms are doing their best to make it sound listenable on current technology. This is Not Now who do seem to be coming out with good audio. I'm enjoying this.

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Country music guitarist who was heavily influential in the creation of countrypolitan and a few other not so great innovations. His own playing is pretty interesting so I've wanted to get some for a while. This does seem to avoid overt schmaltz in what I've heard so far.
It's certainly way more MOR than avant but this is a handy 3cd to have I think.

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First 2 lps by the band that morphed out of Timebox and took its name from the lead singer. Featuring the very dextrous guitar of Ollie Halsall who had only been playing guitar for a couple of years by this point. He had played vibraphone beforehand which he does in some places here. Wondering if his conception coming from another instrument impacted his playing on guitar, it's quite great anyway.
Pretty blues based with a heavy jazz influence. So maybe like a more jazzed out Zep anyway recommended bband.

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RIP Wayne Kramer but I think I wuld havev been listening to these anyway. I think I only found 66 Breakout last week while going through piles of things. The Total Energy label was run by John Sinclair I think or at least heavily involved him. So they released a load of previously unreleased material some of which has been reissued since and some hasn't.
These 2 are great anyway.

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Heavy folk rock from Chicago with female vocals.
Production has a lot of space in it. Guitar is very heavy and distorted in places.
Lengthy version of Train Kept A Rollin is sung by someone with no knowledge of the lyrics. So has complete mumbled nonsense being sung
, not sure what to think of that, positive or negative? Garage innit?

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2nd lp from early 70s twin guitar band.I rediscovered the band recently. Love the first couple of lps and the live in Memphis mini lp which takes its tracks from this lp and extends them. I don't love the vocals on Argus so not listened to that in an age. They had a lot of promise early on. 1st s/t lp has them taking off in an impactful hard rock direction, this takes off in a more folky jazzier direction with some psychedelic influences. Argus has some guitar interplay that sounds like a more mature take on the ballroom sound but I find the vocals really bland.
Not sure what the best releases of this set are. Have heard it was remastered and overcompressed a few years ago. Think it's a great lp anyway.

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i've been listening to this Rie Nakajima release a bunch:
https://rienakajima.bandcamp.com/album/four-forms

it's very well mixed and sounds amazing in headphones, quite ASMR-ish. she's maybe the most compelling voice doing this kind of found objects/ kinetics sound stuff rn... anne-f jacques is also really great.

also i haven't heard any other jazz that prominently features the celesta, which is a terrible shame because it sounds like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyk4GtvBhZo

diiv - is the is are

^ i played that a few weeks ago, holds up really well

for sure! the guitar/bass interplay, the textures, the feeling at times of being carried along by a dreamy motorik cloud… classic

That Jonas Burgwinkel record is great, thanks. I've heard on him a few other things, he's a pretty astonishing drummer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SOvuvl9C4I

- this is amazing stuff. so much fun to listen to. originally a 4xCassette box set from 2018. i'm listening on Youtube Music but i'm sure its on Bandcamp or Spotify and all the rest. almost 4 hours of sound. highly recommended!

Girih: Iranian Sound Artists

https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b27337d15eb0e136af5d4cbb5a16

https://open.spotify.com/album/7aY3NmdY0qrV0Wj5kIBBiA

Allaudin William Mathieu- Streaming Wisdom


just anticipating spring over here

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Shabason/Gunning - Ample Habitat (forthcoming on Seance Centre)

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Mija Milovic - Still Life (new on Escho)

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Fields Of Mist - sketches 21-22 (a relatively older but still contempo release by someone who got on my radar yesterday via an intriguing new 12" EP on Ilian Tape)

thanks for the headsup on the Shabason/Gunning

Cheers!
It's so far my fave album of this year
(I've pre-ordered the files on BC, but was also kindly privy to an advance of it late last year to 'premiere' (ha) on my hobbyist internet radio show last fall, since am IRL friendly with them here in Toronto and we've nerded out about music in person in recent yrs)

Back to regular sched prog, I keep coming back to this IMO modern rap classic album by MIKE - Weight Of The World
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(Return thx for that Donna Leake DJ set SoundCloud link above, table!
She is great, and I missed her playing a set here in T.O. recently)

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this soundtrack has a pretty dark & menacing vibe for what i understand was a sex farce!

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This Morricone soundtrack is fire!

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https://i.discogs.com/txZc8Up9zrBMFFlkHr7AQY0sCepD5j1qQfVgnciZqzs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI4MDEw/OTM3LTE2OTQyMjI2/MTAtNTgwMy5qcGVn.jpeg luc ferrari - presque rien #1 / société II

https://i.discogs.com/zMC3htWjHsGvWLHHZDUr0W4L9dOisIbJGJ4xmFRuddk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:336/w:337/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ5MTc2/NjEtMTM3OTM2NTQ0/MS0zNzA3LmpwZWc.jpeg astral social club #23 - proper abstract wonky dayglo techno double thumbs up

https://i.discogs.com/3WvxOV9huuyc384QvW5If0i26yh73OKc4KEYwBrf1Vo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:281/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM5MTMz/NTQtMTQ0OTE2NDEx/Ny02NzI3LmpwZWc.jpegtook me until my 53rd year to get round to hearing this. blowing the cobwebs out quite pleasurably after a looooong morning of proctoring exams. i shall have to cut it short cos there's a young lad who needs collecting from lazer tag, tho

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one day i'll get around to pasting Hikari Yami Uchitokeaishi Konohibiki over one of kev's spoombung things, tho

and as is always the case, i've got that paranoid elastic section from the middle of "tupperware stripper" on loop now

https://i.discogs.com/7Hz2nNxzVdyPr3JpxHHnuJCxEzMcJj5YlpXlCxRTaP0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE5Mjgw/NTItMTY3OTQxNjYz/My05MzQ2LmpwZWc.jpegmedusa cyclone's "mr devil". hit & miss 1998 grab-bag of sonic-youth-u-like, guitar pedal MRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR, shrimper type indie murmur, and idiosyncratic weirdness

I seem to have gone back to my early 20s. Nothing makes sense to me this week other than extreme metal, hard techno and the beach boys

https://i.discogs.com/8Hiqu6AdQENFa0WHVtPg0rJiB2gIRpygJ3Yh-PrmMkA/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:540/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1NTYy/MzYtMTIyODEzNTM2/Ny5qcGVn.jpegalessandro bosetti's "exposé". love bosetti's speech/music thing. this is pretty much in keeping with his trophies stuff. tickles an area adjacent to gastr del sol synapses for me

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oh hey I was listening to a different bosetti (zwolfzungen) very recently
the full title "twelve portraits of languages I don't understand" is helpfully descriptive, I love this stuff and could listen to it all day

yoshio machida - hypernatural#2 - dictaphone concrete with steel pan & tetsu inoue world receiver elements - really good

― massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, August 15, 2024 12:34 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

also this guy is my current musical obsession, been meaning to start a thread
not one of his stronger releases imo
assume "dictaphone concrete" refers to the track afterimage which is the highlight

hypernatural 3 is also good but not one of his stronger releases with one clear standout track (ocean of memory)

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1976 electric blues set by guitarist who I recently discovered. I hadn't consciously known the name prior to the collection that included this and a few other titles by him appeared in my local 2nd had book/music shop. I now have 4 titles by him.
His guitar playing is pretty stinging and verging on the psychedelic. The band are pretty cooking. Great sense of groove.

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3rd lp by Scottish hard rock band. Their first committed to hard rock after 2 where they tried to show off their diversity. Lp is produced by Deep Purple's Roger Glover.
Some great riffing though some may be a bit too close to cultural appropriation. Some somewhat dated semi rapey lyricism but it is of its time.I've seen this described as a classic album and it is early enough not to be overly formulaic.
Kinda rocks though.

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2nd disc of the 2cd expanded set. Most of a live set from the Latin Casino a similar, contemporary set from an upmarket club in NYC in 1967.
This has some of the songs that are present on the original lp in edited form in fuller length versions. a 9 minute Papa's Got A Brand New Bag instead of a 5 minute Hip Bag '67
So basically the early stages of the development of funk in a liove setting. Development gets more fleshed out over the next couple of years.
Pretty dynamic live set if not quite as classic as '68-70 recordings

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The only lp I picked up by Seattle grunge band and it took me 30 years to do so.Quite enjoyable though I think I prefer the source material more.It picks up on the late 60s/early 70s hard rock I love but tries to add a contemporary sheen.
Not sure why I never got anything by them until this year, at least physically. I did get some soundfiles of live stuff and radio sessions over the years.But local record shop had a few titles in for pretty cheap so I finally bought this a few months back.

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1972 live demo recorded by a band that were in competition to be 'America's Answer To Black Sabbath'. I think they are a bit more original than that. Great stoner hardrock that finally got a release by Rockadelic in 1995 and has now been reissued on vinyl by Ancient Grease
I just got the cd boot on Southside which has great sound. Not sure how lucky I got since there appear to have only been 300 copies and it was reissued in 2021. Or if that was true, my cd sounds pretty good anyway.
The band have now been found and interviewed but I mainly listen to material on cd and Ancient Grease appear to be vinyl only.

forgot to mention a stack of individual tracks between podcasts as I try to check out bands I'm reading about. a load of late 60s/early 70s stoner hard psyche4delic rock, soul/funk, jazz and various ethnicities of indigenous etc folk/roots stuff.

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interesting, i'm not that into his electronic stuff which is mostly middling imo, patchy for sure if occasionally great
his steelpan playing, on the other hand... :D

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Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Benzaiten

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*farmers

Sun City Girls - listening to them all week, about six albums.

Then there's Box of Chameleons, simply one of the best records ever made..

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geese - 3D country

discovered this band via college radio today, hooked now on this 2023 album, which i can see is on ilm's radar as they placed in last year's tracks poll. at first i thought it was prog rock, but the album really is like a kaleidoscope of things, it's definitely fascinating even if i don't like everything i hear, and every song at least has something to offer

https://i.discogs.com/zvW_LS8JNC_YFCnQosbfHJJHs-zsfcUeUxhR05J18l8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:531/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzMzky/NTM4LTE2MDMzNTg5/ODktODQyNy5qcGVn.jpeg peter brötzmann's die like a dog quartet - aoyama crows.

https://i.discogs.com/l_onNPqfRhzmfLyVkV89Gvu6BJvg2382AX1JBK1eQAs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:584/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTYzNDE0/NC0xNzI0NzcxMDg5/LTY1MzcuanBlZw.jpegimpractical cockpit's "to be treated" tful282 trumans water adjacent wonk-rock improv scrabble sounding much better than i remember (maybe because it lacks the ZANY aspect of tful282 / trumans water which often rubs me the wrong way in my twilight years, although somehow i'm loving fat day more than ever. go figure)

https://i.discogs.com/nzfIvph279MMqWxBBqnerdgyq8UVxOqJU5PZ0zsziwg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:595/w:598/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTc2NDUw/Mi0xMTg4NjQ4MjI4/LmpwZWc.jpeg the child readers - memory & fantasy. drones and field recordings from loren chasse while jason honea sings sweetly over the top. 2004

flipin masterpiece

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For the last few weeks I've been obsessed with this internet radio station which attempts to replicate the AM station of my youth, CKLW (in the motor city). Playlist is taken indiscriminately from the station's own Top 30 charts from the 1950s-70s - I heard both Funkadelic and Perry Como the same day - and the vintage air breaks and commercials are fascinating

http://www.big8radio.com/

this song boggles my mind, somehow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iU7YoAYq3w

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Really gorgeous 2 tracker of intimate voice & guitar x hypnotic minimalism

https://openswimmer.bandcamp.com/album/two-songs

7 inches... thousands of 7 inches. right now a bunch of hazlewood & related things

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nz copy of that hazlewood single huh?

ex 4xd, even

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