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

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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.
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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

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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

ty!

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xxxxp there is no bad hermeto it's all divine

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(Satoru Wono – Sonata For Sine Wave And White Noise)
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(Toshiyuki Yasuda / Robo*Brazileira – Toshiyuki Yasuda With Robo*Brazileira)

these two forgotten 2000s japanese albums are pretty cool!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travels_in_Constants,_Vol._12?wprov=sfti1

https://i.discogs.com/XR69isRGAzDVvAFnFH_83ecpLnwaeIXhuG3AZfYm8QU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:530/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTkxNTk3/MDItMTQ3ODgxMjIx/Ny00NDIzLmpwZWc.jpeg christian wallumrød ensemble - kurzsam & fulger. christian wallumrød's hubro discs really tickle my gastr del sol itch - droney high-lonesome vince guaraldi minimalism

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archie shepp - "the way ahead" motoring skronk, lush tunes & cavernous reverb

wow never seen that cover, I'm still a Shepp novice and only have 3-4

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cabaret voltaire's "mix-up"

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mccoy tyner "the real mccoy"

ornette coleman "ornette on tenor"

wood pigeons, laptop fan, woodpeckers, stomach

doo rag, i may well join you in ornette on tenor, it's that type of morning, good call

yeah can't go wrong

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gilbert / lewis "8 time" sorta comp including their "cupol" stuff. little smidgen of stentorian singing from lewis aside, in the main sounds like supremely zonked zoviet france with distant nervy guitars

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the lesser mp3 cd. grand stuff

kraftwerk "the man machine"

nobukazu takemura remix of roni size's "brown paper bag" just popped up on shuffle. goddamn 28 years down the line and it still sounds beamed in from the future steve reich, miles davis, double bass improv scrabble, pygmy ocarina, the stutteriest amen breaks

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recent Cherry Red release of first 2 lps by dream pop artist. I've wanted a physical copy of the pair of these for a while. I did have the old cd of the 2nd lp and used to have the 1st on vinyl after getting it for Xmas the year it came out.
So breathy vocals over 50s pop derived backing. I think it still stands up quite well

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8 disc box set by archetypal stoner hard rock band put together by the ex-rhythm section of Vanilla Fudge.
They had initially hoped to link up with the front section of the Jeff Beck Band i.e. Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart. I'm not sure if Stewart had ever been on board with this idea, he wound up joining the then frontman-less Small Faces alongside the JBG bassist who switched back to guitar which he'd played with The Birds and The Creation earlier. That was one Ronnie Wood as I'm sure you know. Jeff Beck wound up in a nasty car crash which took him a year to get over. He would later pair up with the Vanilla Fudge rhythm section Tim Bogert and Carmine Appice a couple of years later.
So this pair of New York musician who were looking to get into a heavier, bluesier sound though they had no real grounding in the blues and often didn't recognise blues standards being sung in their dressing room as such. They recruited 2 performers who had been involved in the Detroit scene, Jim McCarty who had played with the Detroit Wheels, Mitch Ryder's backing band. His guitar becomes more prominent on the 2nd Mitch Ryder lp Breakout and smoulders and burns across Cactus' material. Frontman chosen was Rusty Day who had been in Amboy Dukes the Ted Nugent featuring band.He seems to have been much more of a blues enthusiast than the rhythm section.
So there's 3 studio lps by this lineup plus most of 2 2cd live sets that had been released by Rhino Handmade in the 00ioes. These are pretty great and feature the band stretching out pretty effectively.
There is also a 4th mainly studio lp and 4 live tracks by a band that reshuffled after Jim McCarty walked out and the label got rid of Rusty Day. This material features the vocals of Peter French who some of you know as the frontman of Leafhound. Guitar gets taken over by Werner Fritzschings who I don't think was well known beforehand and his brother Duane Hitchings came in on keyboards.
What I've heard so far has been pretty archetypal for this type of sound. Heavy guitar driven rock of this era.

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compilation of mid 70s dub singles by one of the better known Jamaican producers.
Looks like the members of Culture found him a bit controlling but sounds like the production of protegee Errol Thompson works really well. So is that Joe Gibbs ego getting better recognition again.
Anywa, another pretty good set on Dr Bird.

https://i.discogs.com/NaSnRdnc9zwGAGMD1lKiNHKnCq1YAZPgVDq40wvc5Lw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:533/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTY5MzIy/ODMtMTQyOTgwODYz/Ny0xMDcxLmpwZWc.jpeg dejohnette's 2015 live at the chicago festival. all star jam aacm style.

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art ensemble of chicago "3rd decade"

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Anton Eger's "Æ" - super twitchy fusion with petter eldh onboard, george duke via hella, flying lotus, aphexy tony williams, krautrocky bits, lots of wrongfooting, riyl mats & morgan, max tundra. absolute joy to listen to

https://i.discogs.com/PVWNxA3BzQ2mFc7lH5R0XBon0QSwnabL3OMFsCZi8uo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:526/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI5NzU1/ODkxLTE3MDc5Mzc1/NTYtNzc2NS5qcGVn.jpeg
kaze - "unwritten"

https://i.discogs.com/6PFqlqrGL6vGTWKnJ6FmHqaAG-jOTc8oFGNHg2Cb5rw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:303/w:303/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU1MTIz/MDgtMTM5NTI4MDIx/OC0zNDIxLmpwZWc.jpeg
johnny noise "the day is coming" spooky lo-fi mexican swamp bedroom garage psych

binging on Yan Jun over the last few days.
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/0013384022_10.jpg

This release by Tea Rockers is a clear favorite. They are/were an improvisational group who drink tea to influence the outcome of the music they play. On this album they were a quartet of cello, electronics and traditional Chinese instruments.
The packaging looks very lavish and his notes are characteristically witty, for example:

Special thanks to our friend Lasse Marhaug in Oslo who helped us with mixing and mastering. He is perhaps one the most serious tea drinkers in the entire European Noise scene.

also great:
https://yanjun.bandcamp.com/album/micro-feedback-trigger

Micro Feedback is my project with this pocket set up: Edirol R09 digital recorder, cheap imitation Apple earphones, 2-to-1 Y-adapters (aka headphones splitter).

catch up post:
currently this has been enjoying repeat spins and is doing its business as i type:
https://i.discogs.com/Vk96rW-wEkTckpbS7L0LCHuSvlq88q_9CbSzUs5FVG8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:539/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExMzAx/MzYtMTQ5ODU2MDYw/MS04MzUyLmpwZWc.jpeg
accordion tribe's "lunghorn twist" klucevsek/hollmer & co. absolutely rules.
also been enjoying ed schader's music beat's "jazz mind" which is an odd little curio alternating between noise-rock vignettes & poetry slam basement harry nilsson
https://i.discogs.com/MNfxkvnI_RM5ciOpDT8P6GMvtydiDIYTBbON4U6Wkcs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTUxNzIw/NzMtMTM4NjQ2NDA4/OC05MDM2LmpwZWc.jpeg
then we have "This is Frafra Power" - lovely little comp of Ghanaian electro-folk
https://i.discogs.com/PeP0C3nysC2rthmzEENYifP9raz3OhQ4BGN-L8L5fkw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzMjg4/MTUwLTE1NTE0NDY2/MTgtNzM3NS5qcGVn.jpeg
and john scofield's "quiet" which has a gentle muscularity and some lovely plangent tone-cluster shit going on in the horn section
https://i.discogs.com/C0sMnpYGFbg13RDOX0oqrI7Xl-dZQanuUEq2wi9IoMU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExMDQ4/NDgtMTE5MjM2NjY0/Mi5qcGVn.jpeg
(ex-pigfuck dude uses "lovely" as adjective without sarcasm, considers whether his back pain will preclude him from hobbling around the forest with his sticks this morning)

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mats/morgan - schack tati. my favourite scandi fusioneers. the goofiest

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Pharoah Sanders Izipho Zam
1969 recording by large group including Sonny Sharrock being pretty tuneful on a couple of tracks and Howard Johnson on tuba.
Prince of Peace is pretty good but may be better in its later reworking as Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah-Hum Allah but the other 2 tracks are otherworldly.Do you need special insurance if you suspect the band in your studio may be about to levitate the studio?
Must be bad for the wiring like. But yet Sanders managed to record severalclassic spiritual jazz lps throughout the early 70s where he does just that.
& this is a great example, recently reissued. I saw that the disc was reviewed in one of this month's monthly music magazines.
LP was released 4 years after recording. But glad it did see the light of day.
I could do with getting a list of communal jam records with a somewhat similar feeling. I thiunk a number came out around the same time in various sub genres.
Also need to make further note of Sonny Sharrock here who seems to chime more than skronk. Which surprised me for him at this time, I thought distortion was like his middle name. But here he does seem to be a tuneful but intense part of a group improvisation where the rest of the group seems to be skronking.

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Los Jaivas [La ventana]
1972 2nd lp by Chilean folk/impro band who I somehow hadn't been fully aware of until I read the review of their RSD reissue of Alturas de Machu Pichu their more proggy 1981 lp in Uncut last month. They apparently started out as more of a garagey beat band incorporated some jamming then started exploring indigenous folk influences which you can hear on their 1st 2 s/t lps before becoming gradually more proggy.while still exploring that folk influence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzdc0C9p9h4
is one of the tracks from this lp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTKpf7YR3Mo
is a short film from around the same time that has therm sounding a lot more electric on the soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy7l3GnzxK8
is some tv footage in pretty rough state that catches them jamming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AO8pY09h_Y
is a 10 minute clip from the longer film of them live in Machu Picchu in 1981.

They can sound like a more acoustic Can in places but generally seem pretty interesting, not jive-ass at all.

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Can Live in Paris 1973
Intensely psychedelic group improvisation by 5 piece band with Damo Suzuki still on vocals. The earliest hopefully yet of the live series , still hoping though I think I have heard they're not going earlier which is a major shame. Would have loved an official release of the Wahldbuhne 1972 set which I love. & sets from the previous couple of years would be as welcome.
This is intensely vital.

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ZZ Top Tres Hombres
I think this is their best lp and about their heaviest though they keep the track lengths jukebox pop short though they stretched things out live . Billy Gibbons shows why he was one of Jimi Hendrix's most promising guitarists in several places.
I think this era is much better than the later, more popular stuff.But I do love the hard rock from the era anyway. & this should be seen as archetypal, though could do with the songs being a little longer.

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Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou Echos Hypnotiques: From the Vaults of Albarika Store 1969-1979
the 2nd compilation Analog Africa put out of Benin Afro-funk band's material. I thought it was long gone and I'd missed it then saw it in a Dublin record shop last weekend.
Intense hypnotic funk workouts I think they're a pretty essential band.

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Steely Dan Pretzel Logic
1974v 3rd lp by LA cynics I think still recorded when they were a band and not just 2 vocalists/songwriters plus session men.
I had this years ago, probably closer to the 1999 reissue but haven't seen it around in ages and I'm only finding an empty case at home.
This still works well as jazz-tinged rock with great bluesy guitar. It reminded me heavily of a local band I really enjoy the Leon Stax Equation a psychedelic soul/funk 7 piece who seem to be trying to sonically recreate a mythical 1974 whose sound I've tried to dissect.
Anyway, this is a great lp that I should have kept a copy of around. Jazzy ironic songs with great guitar and a Duke Ellington cover . I'd love to hear more rock bands cover Ellington he had some great riffs.

https://i.discogs.com/XTVfmhJDtMcWHe3jOhSXD4j8W6pqUz7YqinD8sQxQRY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:597/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMzNDg0/NDg0LTE3NDI2NzI3/OTctNTAwNS5qcGVn.jpeg
The Leon Stax Equation – Coloured In Full
the local band I just mentioned. Quite a good lp though they may be even better live. Bright somewhat psychedelic mix of rock, soul, funk etc and to my ears quite good recreation of a mythic 1974.
I just saw them last night in a bar where their stage area seemed too small for the 6 players who performed last night. ?That and several people dancing in very limited space.
Anyway I'd recommend seeing them if you get the chance.

this morning: new Stereolab

this afternoon: Firesign Theater marathon, I am on album #4 now

https://i.discogs.com/PqXJ2X13ABQP5RJrfK0OwX9hy5T5HaoB2ofuHoNPa1c/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMxNTA1/NTM3LTE3MjM5Mzkx/NDQtNjI0OS5qcGVn.jpeg stemeseder / lillinger quartet - UMBRA II. fractal post brax-ers eschew the customary musique-concrete / autechre aspect of what they do & go full jazz. so good

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roil - "raft of the meadows" chris abrahams, james waples & mike majkowski sounding like mccoy tyner trapped in a subdued keiji haino fever dream

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3480426169_10.jpg

S.Y.P.H. - Pst New to me, Holger Czukay produced album from this German post-punk group.

just listened to little feat's 1st alb & now listening to dory previn, "mythical kings & iguanas"

the complete "20' to 2000" set

https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/3521727950

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vapor stuff

https://commercialdreamsltd.bandcamp.com/album/memory

ashra "new age of earth"

https://i.discogs.com/dUq1Zx47QilYESGAVsxm0Bn_3uUgOM4v52GzqETu53U/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9MLTk5MDMw/Ni0xNTA5NjI0OTM0/LTIzMjMuanBlZw.jpeg
revisting all of my proboscide 12"s. don't know who was responsible for these, but they are the oddest stripe of lugubrious halloween UFO tech house. drones & murmurings over lumbering minimalist caveman chicken_dance grooves

https://i.discogs.com/qcnGUfiWcryBP1Bk8HUBq8xcKK4oKATHQs94xvfkYV4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:530/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0ODgx/OC0xMzIxODYyNzM3/LmpwZWc.jpeg
nobukazu takemura's "animate"

curtis mayfield "curtis live"

metro riders - Europe by night

https://possiblemotive.bandcamp.com/album/europe-by-night

maybe like John carpenter, blade runner, and mad max all melting in the rain

listening to the og of this murky loopy ambient classic, nice to see it’s getting reissued on whatever

https://novisadmusic.bandcamp.com/album/seleya-2025-edition

https://smilingc.bandcamp.com/album/journey-within

this david horridge thing is beautiful semi-durutti solo electric dreamy bliss

https://www.discogs.com/release/33782295-To-Live-And-Shave-In-LA-Surplus-Wigs

sounds like Tom Jones being tortured in hell

first instinct: jealous! then I realize I've probably got a couple of gigabytes of tom &co i've never gotten around to unzipping.
wigmaker has the better origin story, but i actually do prefer 30min, tricoteuses & noon&eternity
miss that guy

thanks, I have two others besides Wigmaker but not those!

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ken ishii's innerlements comp - precursor to laurel halo's chance of rain still sounding grand

masayoshi Fujita & jan Jelinek's bird lake objects
not the first time I've heard this or the first time I've enjoyed it but currently on track 3 and drink 2 suddenly it sounds like Robert turman's flux at a tiki bar

!!