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
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51-HCBAsFRL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg
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
https://i.discogs.com/3uqpk5Hu8tqZVX7PloKD2PTE6OlibkKu9e7ncRgMItw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:595/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMzMTU1/MC0xMjIyMzc3MjI1/LmpwZWc.jpeg radiophonic type bloop from herr schnitzler, early '80s

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

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/68/Ancora_da_Capo.jpg

Still sounds amazing. I will always love them.

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

https://i.discogs.com/Ev6TdVU9sYft91k1RKFxdH-XLi3hzPa7gTroowLAHwc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:598/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMzMTMx/MC0xMzE2MDY4MTc4/LmpwZWc.jpeg
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.