What are you listening to? 2025

on the right board this time!
here we find our "What are you listening to? 2025" thread, wherein we enthuse our muse, open a window to our listening routines & contexts, celebrate cover art through the ages, etc

so, yesterday i gave lee rockey's "music" LP a spin: https://i.discogs.com/1nynurbzgPNrGAkWVhYmXw7ttPH6Z-Z2sR3E-Z6EEY4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:398/w:398/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTkxOTY5/NC0xMTcyODU2MjU5/LmpwZWc.jpeg which is luminous gloopy free improv, like a less droney, more effervescent taj mahal travellers, or a bucolic corsano/yeh thing.
this morning i am jamming TOAH DYNAMIC's "movement" LP cos i need more half-assed shambling DIY folk hip-hop in my life https://i.discogs.com/kWmezfS1KGKCZdyTwq4nR0Xv8wVEnF4tWoweYAhgsAo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:550/w:550/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIzNTM1/My0xMjg4MDE3NzQ5/LmpwZWc.jpeg

I was wondering if I needed to start this thread since i had for the last couple of years i think. So glad somebody did.

So, stacks of that hard rock stoner stuff from the turn of the 70s. A bit of reggae including Dadamah , Dennis Bovell's 4th Street Orchestra, some electric blues. Santana. Hendrix etc.
Some titles I got from a rermegacorp £5 sale.
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Might be more specific when i get up.

Dadawah is the reggae guy, Dadamah were a post-punk experimental band. I have cos by both within a couple of feet of here.

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Angular avant-prog from the Rermegacorp buy.sounded interesting in their description. I think I may have previous lp Hen's Teeth somewhere too.

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fusion era Latin jazz stuff live in Japan. Very electric

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1st lp by California desert rock band. I read that one of the first lps that guitarist Josh Homme bought was Iggy & The Stooges' Raw Power which confirms, or slightly alters what I'd taken to be an audible influence. I think I would have plunked for the earlier lp Fun House being in there though but Raw Power remains one of Homme's fav lps.

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fvrom 1972 by inflouential electric blues guitarist. I'm hearing a lot more organ than the horns listed on the sleeve. Pretty good set though.

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recent Dr Bird reissue of this set which has the version of the Peace and Love image shown here as the sole cover era. This image is based on a photo that was the cover of the original lp release.
Have mainly listened to that set which is loose music heavily based in the Nyabinghi drumming.

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2020 pairing of the heavy folk influenced studio lp and the legal bootleg lp taken from recordings from the tour supporting it.
Hadn't listened to the studio lp in an age and it is deeply intense. I was at some of the Uk dates that Feel Good Now the live lp was recorded at. I think it still stands up.

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Detroit heavy stoner rock stuff. One of the archetypal reductio ad absurdum heavy rock lps of the time. Their live lp may be even more mindnumbing dunt in a good way but the first 2 studio lps are very recommended for this.
The 90s band Gorilla recreated the cover for one of their own releases. Showing conscious influence being picked up.

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Boston based young psychedelic band from the late 60s. I refound this recently and am not sure why I've left such an interval since previous listening.

I may add some more later.

https://i.discogs.com/Z3_lavmR35twhX9oFkvxD1sOhVGZRbM-AK2u22f_bxs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:580/w:584/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMxMDUz/Ny0xNDY2MzI2MDM5/LTI5ODguanBlZw.jpegdon't dolby's "05" LP - 1998 pre-sonig hiss/drone/hum//clunk lo-fi DIY ambient v compelling

I love that the actual 'break' comes 8 minutes into this drum madness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTAdzPG4iNQ

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0804986165_10.jpg

Self-titled debut and only album from Illinois jammy, bluesy rockers Farm. One of those private press records that actually lives up to the hype, imo.

Totally 80s up in here today, barring the first selection:

Roxy Music- Manifesto
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream 81-82-83-84
Duran Duran - Rio
New Order - Low-Life
Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again

hi guys a deep wormhole led me here for the first time today
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amazing by kanye, really somber and beautiful track, probably not the first to express annoyance with what jeezy did on this though. still a solid verse

https://i.discogs.com/M5eEhs07MnJiZrnwSeGLj30taJsByHFHBRgRhKsjKEo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM3MzIz/NDYtMTM0MjE1OTAz/MC02Njc5LmpwZWc.jpegshed - "the killer" not the most inspiring artwork but the music is kinda about the speaker, so...

a very short album, though! now spinning sam rivers' "crystals".
forgot just how much i love sam rivers.
https://i.discogs.com/ojgaTwrJJNbK1ZiiipOaNU2TUcGB7JXyvr72D0QFZGI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:284/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE4MTEw/NDQtMTQwMjAwODg1/OS00NzAwLmpwZWc.jpeg

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https://i.discogs.com/vh57e7rqS1nEd_F9oGmlCwq3BXxNMx5O-hN6tyTMpX8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:615/w:598/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMyODIw/MzEtMTMyMzgwNDg0/MC5qcGVn.jpegtime berne, michael formanek, jeff hirshfield "loose cannon" 1993. swings. aches. gnarly. i remember 35 years back when berne to me was "the other guy" in the spy vs spy" ornette tribute. he's kinda my#1 now. love the dude

https://i.discogs.com/ADvigIonPgPNZDbGv3NvvqsUYj2TJQQ17uEcT36wPwk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:346/w:350/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE2NTYz/NzE0LTE2MDg1MDI5/NjEtNTk0Mi5qcGVn.jpeg blankdisc trio - "im komikerland" german / serbian incus improv scrabble group 2006. highly satisfactory

already finished, tho so now i'm jamming this gem from kaja draksler, petter eldh & christian lillinger:
https://i.discogs.com/58cIh94P1j-eRMceS7B4PRJmMAZrZPg5jdYQrqV8cGM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEyNzQ3/NzE1LTE1NDExODgy/NTEtMTA5My5qcGVn.jpeg muscular, agile composed/improvised post braxton pno bs dr. flipin grand

https://i.discogs.com/MUrvyZWfKJCtb2HVJqUNFwUXduU3b8byz_xFCb4Qzkk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:592/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM4MTE5/Mi0xNDM2MjkwMDUy/LTU5NTEuanBlZw.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/N0TK-w1A6eHkEEvbfc2lcd71gO4aoiCtwSoW1P52OnE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:180/w:180/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI2MjU2/OC0xMjYwNDg4OTM0/LmpwZWc.jpegkent sparling - route canal diary. 1997. low-key ambient. touch of paul schütze, eno some chocolate monk murk. good for reading to

Has something odd happened with the html on this thread. I keep seeing text emerging from the side of the image.

Love the Kent Sparling

xp html looks ok to me - tried it in a couple of browsers to check
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it seems to be doing it on your post.
Thought it normally went down to next line or something

yeh i don't think that's wrong so much as i probably haven't done a carriage return

I just seemed to be seeing it far more than I'd noticed before. Seemed to be on almost every post with an image. Including appearing to swallow the first letter of my first post on here.

well let me try this:
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neil campbell - lost predelic moonshine music. casio & tape murk terryrileyisms from 2004

i made certain to do a carriage return after the closing brackets of the img html.
it does look much better, but i am very lazy and super forgetful

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Still sounds amazing. I will always love them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYAv8Zl_uuA

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conrad schnitzler - constellations. 1989
bleep bloop blorp alternately drifty / urgent

there's a piano bit half way through track 2 which is a dead ringer for the piano bit in track 2 on Autechre's Exai.
i assume it's just happy coincidence

https://ecm-server.de/audio/06025674/0602567434795/Cover_1000.webp

Don't think I've ever listened to this one before - quite an unusual line -up - alto sax, bass, drums and two guitars. veers into slightly vaporous Garbarek territory at times, but funky Charlie Haden (beautifully present in the mix) keeps things kicking.

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tobita medina - aguinaldos con sinfonia

right now - vijay iyer's "panoptic modes" from 2001
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next up, jan st werner & kid millions' "imperium droop"
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doing OK with the formatting so far!

you're doing great

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finally scored a hard copy of harry merry's "well... here's another nice mess..." super good fun riyl rancid hellspawn, cardiacs, gerty farish, macula dog etc

Sevara Nazarkhan

Nervous Norvus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09Zs182BBOE

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Lambchop's "This (is what I wanted to tell you)" & "Showtunes" ambient C&W Robert Ashley isms suitable for reading / writing to

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skeleton crew twofer comp cd. frith cora parkins. herky jerky folksy prog no-wave

https://open.spotify.com/track/2nwx6BHbyEYztG2RJOoM7I?si=D4plWVo3Q5eLwkgsWB23TQ

DJ Sabrina the teenage DJ!

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agyou's S/T cd: puzzle punks adjacent sloppy falling-apart exotica-dub sugar-overdose stuff from shabushabu & friend

I’m listening to this German band Strait Shooter, seems like sort of like a hard rock Alan Parsons?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5XXnigvvTg

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Been on a Peter Green run thorough the last week or so listening to Mayall’s ‘A Hard Road’ and the early Fleetwood Mac albums.

kanot “vind”

https://www.normanrecords.com/artwork/medium/110/206360-hawkwind-live-at-the-royal-albert.jpg

Shockingly good recent live record. I'm a big fan of this current Thighpaulsandra era.

Vulgar Boatmen "Wide Awake"
Francis Bebey "Psychedelic Sanza"
Steven R. Smith "Anacapa"
Prison Affair "Audiotree Live"
Mike Gangloff 'April is Passing"

excited for forthcoming Throwing Muses and Daniel Bachman records

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the roland kirk quartet's "rip, rig & panic"

YESSONGS

this rec kinda sounds like garbage but I love it

def worth hearing White's takes on the Bruford tracks

today:

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2738836065_10.jpg
https://andregoncalves.bandcamp.com/album/currents-riptides

https://www.rarenoiserecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/RNR058.jpg
https://www.rarenoiserecords.com/releases/flam-blam-pan-asian-microjam/

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and there’s **this**, which is its own, uh... problem

YESSONGS

― sleeve, Sunday, August 3, 2025 12:00 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

this rec kinda sounds like garbage but I love it

― sleeve, Sunday, August 3, 2025 12:01 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

def worth hearing White's takes on the Bruford tracks

― sleeve, Sunday, August 3, 2025 12:01 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

too early

lol

ok the fiuczynski was the most ‘not for me’ thing i’ve listened to in a while

initially i thought i liked the cover but now i think i hate it

https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/the-eternal-dream-system

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cabaret voltaire 1974-1976 top smegma / chocolate monk action

Listening to Spacemen 3's Dreamweapon at a decently loud volume. Healing waves.

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fish & roses "dear john"

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/d6wAAeSwKj1obGvW/s-l1200.jpg

Moose Loose - Live at Kongsberg Jazzfestival 1973

Some pretty fantastic funky jazz fusion with lots of organ and electric piano.

https://i.discogs.com/MxL0-7t5qD_YkDOILeR_GCEdoDMfNE4OLNKrEDSr_0M/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwNjQ2/Mjk5LTE1MDE2MDAw/NTItMzk4OS5qcGVn.jpeg
jeremy udden's plainville "if the past seems so bright" jazz dudes play bittersweet breezy slowcore instrumentals with a folksy touch. eivind opsvik and brandon seabrook are on board, r.j. miller does a fantastic britt walford impersonation throughout

https://i.discogs.com/caBxcuYrjoA62rjmvWCBQvEmXYW1YSCbKyzgTPBAKHQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:351/w:380/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTUzODM0/OC0xMjgyNzQ1OTIz/LnBuZw.jpeg
steve lacy & subroto roy chowdhury "explorations". this is flipping fascinating. lacy is one of my all time faves but he persistently can't figure out how to play sympathetically with an indian raga

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chris cohen's "as if apart" flipin lovely bacharach-with-weird-time-sigs & tinny echoplexy guitars

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actress's "lxxxviii" i'm always late to the party with actress releases but this is, as expected, awesome - bizarrely clear & undistorted dream logic weirdo actress music cunningham is a flipin genius

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tim berne's bloodcount "unwound" 3cd again. so good

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monja mahafay on the marovany

(total sunshine orcutt vibe)

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vijay iyer's "blood sutra". magmatic, somehow

geese - getting killed aoty already

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peter zummo's "lateral pass"

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cluster "grosses wasser". 1979. gets short shrift for being p baumann produced and sounding "too much" like tangerine dream? sounds like cluster to me. goofy fumble fingered ambient as you might expect

gotta say that p zummo from yesterday is flipin perfect - had that on loop for hours

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vijay iyer trio's "historicity". took me three days to find this cd - it had fallen down behind a fold up mattress. iyer's really doing it for me right now

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music reveltion ensemble's "elec jazz". like a summertime fushitsusha?

*revelation (you knew that)

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eno's another day on earth - was prepared to be enraged by the incredibly POSH sound of fancy reverbs, inoffensive ambient and plummy accents, but it's... alright

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jarrett / haden / motian: hamburg 72: i picked this up for pennies and was wary of giving it a spin for months due to possible jarrett sterility & preciousness but it flipin rocks
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miles/fillmore march 7, 1970. the lads go hard on this
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alessandro bosetti's "royals". AB does his speech / music thing again. sometimes i wish he did more GRIT, but he's so good at this i don't care. RIYL gastr del sol, robert ashley

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the necks - open

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Family A Song For Me
3ed lp by British prog group, sees a shake up in the line-up as Rick Grech leaves for Blind Faith and Jim King undergoes personal problems.Poli Palmer joins on various instruments.
So you get a pretty sublime prog lp with plenty of flute and vibes replacing sax and Roger Chapman warbling over the top.
Been meaning pick up some more of their stuff for ages. I have Music In A Doll's House which is a bit different. May need a copy of the 2ferb of the first 2. Plus at least the next 2lps.

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The Replacements Let It Be
3rd lp by Minneapolis r'n'r band has them rocking , touching on hardcore, covering Kiss and generally being a good time.
I just picked up their Original Album Series including this so am hearing a few of their lps for the first time.
Not sure why I never picked up on them. Did get an expanded Sorry Ma Forgot To Take Out The Trash a while back which is pretty good. earlier, trashier r'n'r/punk.

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VA Electric Junk
Wide ranging compilation of various musics from the German early 70s Underground covers both Kosmische and more general heavy rock etc etc.
Has some great lengthy heavy tracks but is not any one thing.
Have only partially heard it so not sure how well it hangs together, does have some pretty good stuff on it.
I picked it up to check that they hadn't already put together one disc that would act as a German version of I'm A Freak, Baby/We're An American Band. I don't think they have here so would love to get one that picked up on more of the German heavy stoner rock like Ainigma, Armaggedon, Toad, Gift etc etc that doesn't quite meet my idea of krautrock but does rock. Heavy Kraut tiel 1 on Bear Family does go some way to covering some of that but would love one compiled by the same people who did IAFB/WAAB.

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King Kong
South African musical from the late 50s which brought Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela to recognition.
I've been reading a book by Pat Williams on the production called King Kong - Our Knot of Time & Music which I picked up on a trip to Dublin. So wanted to hear what it sounded like. Pretty good 50s showtunes with influence from jazz and some local music. I'm particularly taken by the track Kwela Kong.

https://i.discogs.com/XW0CxLQhtkw7IFS2tWmgFuR2ta4Z9hotJ50vf1v-_jg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTUwNzMz/NS0xMjYwNzc1Nzg1/LmpwZWc.jpeg
helge schneider - es rappelt im karton. german language jazz vic reeves slapstick idiocy.

kinda les dawson/ misha mengelberg thing going on too. it's his voice that kills me, though

Autumn has me feeling more like my autumnal self and that means I am back to picking through singer records.

Anne Murray had a 60s moody soft pop LP that's pretty listenable. Who knew?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2b/AnneMurray1968.jpg

Also can't get enough of 60s / 70s Peruvian pop / rock label MAG records.

Thankfully, Bandcamp has some background.

https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/discos-mag-label-profile

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guy klucevsek - scenes from a mirage. klucevsek passed earlier this year. i was sad. this, of course, is grand (and understated) stuff. the man was a master.

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matthew shipp trio's "prism" - i always thought shipp was too polite, but him dickey & parker really go some on this from 1993. very cecilese without being outright homage/coattails

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brian eno's "nerve net" sounds superbly janky in 2025. very stoned afrobeat cocktail bar, eno's clumsy robot tries middle eastern scales, wailing guitar

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taz arnold's "rad america" - verging on a TLASILA level of cut-up info overload - sounds like some kinda pirate radio FFWDing through funkadelic & thundercat

ok after that i did carla bley & paul haines "escalator over the hill", having scored a copy of the german gold vinyl 3LP box for peanuts and it's flipin aces:
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now i'm spinning a peder mannerfelt thing which is more mark fell-like than his usual hiss buzz click house
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Deepchord/Echospace binge

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emile parisien quartet's "spezial snack". parisien has the most pinched of tones and worries at themes atop one-note stammer grooves

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the fire engines' "codex teenage premonition" somehow i bypassed the fire engines despite loving bogshed and five go down to the sea? and all that for decades. scored this for €3.50 & enjoying it immensely

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yoshimio / susie ibarra / robert aiki aubrey lowe - flower of sulphur. sounds like one of those takehisa kosugi / michael ranta / toshi ichyanagi things. ie amorphous floaty. grand

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fred frith & núria andorrà - free rumble & twang, highly substantial. cover is ugly as sin

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bernard fèvre's "suspense". 1975 library music. club footed EU "funkiness" with lots of clavinet, bass guitar, rudimentary drum machines and flat sounding synths. not so far removed from his black devil disco club stuff

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fred frith & hardy fox "a day hanging dead between heaven and earth" could've been corny af danny elfman with comedy voices, thankfully is low key laurie anderson/ robert ashley type fare

This is my closing song of 2025. Ridiculously beautiful stuff

https://open.spotify.com/track/5ECuF4LeGfQGAPDPdVxuYX?si=yfITGDiNQ5qbvY3bt42K5Q

Spotify has his name wrong. It’s Hass Salan. Not much is known about him but he wrote, arranged and played violin on a lot of Sinn Sisamouth’s big Cambodian hits. He disappeared with the rest of the scene when pol pot took over.

It’s been 50 years since that whole golden era of Cambodian music was wiped out. I went to the killing fields today and the S-21 prison where people were murdered. I found a tooth on the ground at the killing fields. Things keep appearing as the soil erodes. You can still see the bloodstains on the floors and ceilings of the former classrooms that became cells at S-21. It was tough.

Peace to all these wonderful musicians who went out in so much pain.