Unsomnambulist
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Slift - Ummon (2020)
What are you listening to? August 2020
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Weather Report - Sweetnighter (1973)
Weather Report - Mysterious Traveler (1974)
Guru - Jazzmatazz Volume II: The New Reality (1995)
Truly, one of the most underrated/overlooked/misunderstood/slept on albums of the 90s.
In addition to his own formidable skills as a lyricist, Guru assembled some great guest singers, some inspired choices in guest DJs and guest producers, and the cherry on top is the Jazz presence on this effort. Among the incredible musicians who take a turn here are Branford Marsalis, Kenny Garrett, Freddie Hubbard, Courtney Pine, Ronny Jordan, Donald Byrd, Ramsey Lewis and others. Much of this is organically produced.
EDIT: Each of the Jazzmatazz albums has its own sound. The first one seems more Hip Hop. This one seems more Jazzy and the most musically inclined. The third is like a perfect Soulful Hip Hop hybrid. Though all three are worthy, this is the best.
Truly, one of the most underrated/overlooked/misunderstood/slept on albums of the 90s.
In addition to his own formidable skills as a lyricist, Guru assembled some great guest singers, some inspired choices in guest DJs and guest producers, and the cherry on top is the Jazz presence on this effort. Among the incredible musicians who take a turn here are Branford Marsalis, Kenny Garrett, Freddie Hubbard, Courtney Pine, Ronny Jordan, Donald Byrd, Ramsey Lewis and others. Much of this is organically produced.
EDIT: Each of the Jazzmatazz albums has its own sound. The first one seems more Hip Hop. This one seems more Jazzy and the most musically inclined. The third is like a perfect Soulful Hip Hop hybrid. Though all three are worthy, this is the best.
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The Internet - Ego Death (2015)
axolotl
Nunquam non paratus
David Wilcox ~ How Did You Find Me Here (1989)
Last evening (afternoon for us, here), DW played a virtual (Covid-era) concert of this entire album from his studio upstairs in his Asheville home.
He played the songs in the sequence that they appear on the album. He performed on acoustic (regular and graphite) and electric (Calm down, it was slightly amplified, with a touch of tremolo) guitar.
I have seen him in concert about twenty times, although I have fallen off attending over the last seven years or so. His lyrics are replete with meaning. The stories he tells are great, and his laughs and giggles between songs are worth the price of admission. I could never tell when he was on stage whether the sad songs affected him so deeply, but up close I could see they do.
About midway into the show, the rain started coming down and beating on his skylight. An occasional burst of thunder can be heard in the background.
I am rewatching the concert, now. It can be found at: www.davidwilcox.com .
P. S. Thank you for putting up with my nonsense.
Last evening (afternoon for us, here), DW played a virtual (Covid-era) concert of this entire album from his studio upstairs in his Asheville home.
He played the songs in the sequence that they appear on the album. He performed on acoustic (regular and graphite) and electric (Calm down, it was slightly amplified, with a touch of tremolo) guitar.
I have seen him in concert about twenty times, although I have fallen off attending over the last seven years or so. His lyrics are replete with meaning. The stories he tells are great, and his laughs and giggles between songs are worth the price of admission. I could never tell when he was on stage whether the sad songs affected him so deeply, but up close I could see they do.
About midway into the show, the rain started coming down and beating on his skylight. An occasional burst of thunder can be heard in the background.
I am rewatching the concert, now. It can be found at: www.davidwilcox.com .
P. S. Thank you for putting up with my nonsense.
Ojai Sam
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Various Artists - Lullaby Of Broadway: The Best of Busby Berkeley At Warner Brothers (soundtracks, rec. 1933-7, Rhino/TCM comp. 1995)
There aren't enough superlatives to describe this 2 CD set, a happy byproduct of the union of Rhino and Turner Entertainment. It holds the original soundtrack recordings, beautifully mastered and carefully edited to remove dialog and stray sound effects, for ten of the most important musical films of all time. Instead of the common commercial releases, we get the full sequences running as long as 13 minutes.
There are simply too many highlights to enumerate. Ruby Keeler warbles the complete provocative pre-Production Code lyrics of "Shuffle Off To Buffalo", including:
I’ll bet that she’s the farmer’s daughter
And he’s that well-known traveling man
He won’t stop now at the farm house
That’s how the whole affair began
He did right by little Nellie
With a shotgun in his belly
How could he say No
He just had to Shuffle
Shuffle off to Buffalo.
Her best known beau, Dick Powell, spends 8 minutes checking in to "Honeymoon Hotel" with kibitzing by most of the huge cast. Among the outtakes we even get the full performance of "Hooray For Hollywood" featuring the never released vocal by Benny Goodman.
Detached from Berkeley's stunning visuals of dancing legs captured by swooping cameras, the music itself takes on added stature. The extended arrangements never grow tiresome, illustrating the subtle ways Berkeley used music to enhance his fantasies. The set plainly deserved a full long box with color book, but I'll gladly settle for the fat 44 page black and white version.
For licensing reasons, we will probably never see this 25 year old package available on Spotify or download. If the films it captures are part of a bygone era, so is the collection itself a reminder of the Golden Age of the Compact Disc.
on the Sam-O-Meter. Grab it while you can.
There aren't enough superlatives to describe this 2 CD set, a happy byproduct of the union of Rhino and Turner Entertainment. It holds the original soundtrack recordings, beautifully mastered and carefully edited to remove dialog and stray sound effects, for ten of the most important musical films of all time. Instead of the common commercial releases, we get the full sequences running as long as 13 minutes.
There are simply too many highlights to enumerate. Ruby Keeler warbles the complete provocative pre-Production Code lyrics of "Shuffle Off To Buffalo", including:
I’ll bet that she’s the farmer’s daughter
And he’s that well-known traveling man
He won’t stop now at the farm house
That’s how the whole affair began
He did right by little Nellie
With a shotgun in his belly
How could he say No
He just had to Shuffle
Shuffle off to Buffalo.
Her best known beau, Dick Powell, spends 8 minutes checking in to "Honeymoon Hotel" with kibitzing by most of the huge cast. Among the outtakes we even get the full performance of "Hooray For Hollywood" featuring the never released vocal by Benny Goodman.
Detached from Berkeley's stunning visuals of dancing legs captured by swooping cameras, the music itself takes on added stature. The extended arrangements never grow tiresome, illustrating the subtle ways Berkeley used music to enhance his fantasies. The set plainly deserved a full long box with color book, but I'll gladly settle for the fat 44 page black and white version.
For licensing reasons, we will probably never see this 25 year old package available on Spotify or download. If the films it captures are part of a bygone era, so is the collection itself a reminder of the Golden Age of the Compact Disc.
on the Sam-O-Meter. Grab it while you can.
Sheryl Crow - 100 Miles From Memphis (2010)
That review was all the convincing I needed in my c19 up-the-ante listening craze to order something from a NC resident.David Wilcox ~ How Did You Find Me Here (1989)
Last evening (afternoon for us, here), DW played a virtual (Covid-era) concert of this entire album from his studio upstairs in his Asheville home.
He played the songs in the sequence that they appear on the album. He performed on acoustic (regular and graphite) and electric (Calm down, it was slightly amplified, with a touch of tremolo) guitar.
I have seen him in concert about twenty times, although I have fallen off attending over the last seven years or so. His lyrics are replete with meaning. The stories he tells are great, and his laughs and giggles between songs are worth the price of admission. I could never tell when he was on stage whether the sad songs affected him so deeply, but up close I could see they do.
About midway into the show, the rain started coming down and beating on his skylight. An occasional burst of thunder can be heard in the background.
I am rewatching the concert, now. It can be found at: www.davidwilcox.com .
P. S. Thank you for putting up with my nonsense.
Nickyboy
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That's my family's original name in Greek, before it was changed.
David Binney & Edward Simon - Océanos (2007)
Raphael Saadiq - Ray Ray (2004)
Unsomnambulist
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Ibis - Sun Supreme (1974)
axolotl
Nunquam non paratus
That's very cool.
I hope, were you ever to make an album, that you would not put a man-flesh photo on the back cover. It's disconcerting.
The Meters - The Very Best Of The Meters
Unsomnambulist
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Incognito - No Time Like The Future (1999)
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