and downloading a whole bunch of records! ...and I want to talk about them/it. I never read Krautrocksampler, so this is really quite a treat for me. I'm just getting to the Flower Travellin' Band bits, who I've revisited with slightly different ears, though I'd pretty much still rather just listen to Sabbath. I was also motivated to DL some Rallizes stuff I hadn't heard, which was a great fucking idea, because it's impossible to have too much of them. The best, though, was hearing Love Live Life +1's Love Will Make a Better You, which is everything Cope says it is -- a wild combination of the best bits (as a few Japanese weirdos would have it) of soul, noise rock and free jazz, all with great playing. I can't recommend this enough, and I'm amped about hearing the rest of the "Super Sessions" stuff that cope recommends.
One figure I'm very interested in hearing, of whom I had no previous notion, is Toshi Ichiyanagi. His Cage inspired stuff seems interesting, but the stories about his coming into psychedelia are amazing, and I would love to hear others' opinions of his work + recommendations. It's funny how Yoko Ono even comes off as kind of a joke from a less Beatles-centric perspective, as in the anecdote about Ichiyanagi, Cage and her touring Japan.
― people explosion, Saturday, 22 December 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)