What are you listening to? August 2017

[Unsomnambulist]

Area - Arbeit Macht Frei (1973)

 

[Pops]

PiL - ALife 2009 Part 2

 

[axolotl]

Dimitri from Paris ~ Sacre Bleu (2001)

 

[Pops]

Jefferson Airplane - Thirty Seconds Over Winterland

 

[Pops]

The Body - Anthology

 

[axolotl]

Oleg Kireyev & Keith Javors ~ Rhyme & Reason (2010) [w/ Boris Kozlov and E . J. Strickland]



Don't ever believe Ojai Sam's clever lies that he does not send worthwhile extras, gifts, or pie. He sent me this one with Okkervil River's Black Sheep Boy.

There are no reviews, so I give a youtube of the title track.

 

[Ojai Sam]

^
I thought you might like this one.

 

[Pops]

Chris Youlden - Citychild

 

[axolotl]

Roberto Fonseca ~ Abuc (2016)



https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/mar/09/roberto-fonseca-abuc-review-cuban-impulse

 

[Nickyboy]

Like a demon gargling razor blades.

Sounds like me.

 

[axolotl]

Sounds like me.

That would be your only use for conventional razor blades.

 

[Pops]

Lascar - Absence

 

[Ojai Sam]

Red Rooster - Dose (2004)

 

[axolotl]

Red Rooster - Dose (2004)

I have that. It's a double-CD set.

http://www.redroostermusic.com/dose.php

From the liner notes:

When we began to think about what direction we wanted to take this album, one of the ideas that emerged was to record two versions of each song. Though doubling the workload seemed daunting, we began to lay down some guidelines. On the first disc, we took advantage of every modern tool at our disposal, from amplifiers and distortion pedals to samples and computers. For the second disc, we stripped down to our acoustic instruments and natural sounds that could be captured only with a microphone. We also explored alternate melodies, lyrics, chord structures, tempos, and time signatures and started wondering: What makes a song a song? How far can you stretch a song while still keeping its essence -the thread of the song- intact? How do the differences change meaning? We're not sure we answered any of these questions, but we had a great time asking them.

While the above might sound either a little music-geeky, ridiculous, or just plain geeky; you will not be disappointed by the album. Above all, we focused on the music being plain kick-ass and made sure each disk and each song would stand on its own.

 

[axolotl]

MinMae ~ I'd Be Scared, Were You Still Burning (2005)

 

[Ojai Sam]

^^
Thanks, Axo. I was wondering why there were 2 versions of every song but don't have the liner notes.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

R.E.M. - Fables Of The Reconstruction (1985)

 

[Pops]

Colour Haze - Periscope

 

[axolotl]

^^
Thanks, Axo. I was wondering why there were 2 versions of every song but don't have the liner notes.

If you read the reviews contained within the hyperlink, it seems that critics accept the concept and like the results.

I do too, but I feel lazy, today.


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Michael Tiernan ~ Spaces (2007)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Kenny Dorham - Trompeta Toccata _1965_