What are you listening to? August 2020

[axolotl]

Clue to Kalo ~ Come Here When You Sleepwalk (2003)



Indietronica, Folktronica, Glitch Pop

 

[axolotl]

Kimbal Dykes ~ The Avenue (1988)

 

[axolotl]

Marc Jocis ~ State of the Heart (1995)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Various Artists - The JVC Jazz Festival '85 (1985)

Nice anthology of smooth jazz collected from various GRP albums of the day.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Marian McPartland - Just Friends (1998)

 

[axolotl]

Jon Dahlander ~ Songs for Smiler McGee (2017)

In a nutshell, Songs for Smiler McGee is a collection of thirteen original piano solos inspired by the not quite 14-year life of Jared Dahlander, the first child of Jon and Heidi Dahlander. It also includes Jon’s arrangement of the classic hymn, “Be Thou My Vision,” which was played at Jared’s funeral. Born with a genetic syndrome that medical experts were never able to identify, Jared wasn’t ever able to walk or speak. Instead, he expressed himself with big smiles and cooing, touching the lives and hearts of everyone he came in contact with. “Smiler McGee” was one of his many nicknames and he loved it when his father played the piano for him. The fourteen tracks on the album overflow with emotion and a tenderness that is expressed in every note. A few of the pieces are on the sad side, but mostly they express love. Warm, gentle and very soothing, there are no dark, mournful or angry pieces – they are all reflective and full of grace.

Jon Dahlander – Solo Piano

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Runaways - Queens Of Noise (1977)



It feels like August has lasted 30 days already.

 

[Nickyboy]

Donell Jones- Where I Wanna Be (1999)



Somebody listened to Curtis Mayfield's "Pusherman" an awful lot, I think.

 

[axolotl]

^ He listened to "Freddie's Dead" a fair bit, too.

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O. Lamm ~ My Favorite Things (2002)




If you don't like Glitch, stay away from this bitch (i.e., the album).

Odot Lamm's a dude.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Eddie Albert - The Eddie Albert Album (1966)

Every track on this collection is a strong candidate for a "Golden Throats" collection. Best known is his bombastic reading of "Blowin' In The Wind" but Donovan, Simon & Garfunkel and Gordon Lightfoot sustain major damage here too. A solo reading of the "Green Acres" theme left me searching around for Eva Gabor, who obviously had enough sense to avoid this trainwreck. Eddie's glamorous wife, Margo (nee María Marguerita Guadalupe Teresa Estela Bolado Castilla y O'Donnell), is also missing from the album cover, another good call.

 

[JazzyRandy]

Some of the listening during the Dayton trip. On the way up, I mostly left the music direction to JazzySon. Though, I cheated because I chose the CDs that made the trip - not that he couldn't have chosen some to take, but he didn't think to do so. However, he cheated the cheater, but bluetoothing a couple of albums from his phone.

Kanye West - Graduation (2007)

J Cole - Born Sinner (2013)

Kool & the Gang - Something Special (1981)

Foreign Exchange - Tales From The Land Of Milk & Honey (2015)

Kendrick Lamar - Untitled.Unmastered (2016)


On the way back, I made the kids listen to podcasts for the first 5-6 hours. After a fantasy football cast to warm me up, I started with the first three episodes of this while the slept on the early part.
Chana Joffe-Walt - Nice White Parents (2020)

After a few other podcasts, we closed with this which was still playing as we drove into our driveway

 

[Ojai Sam]

Tom Waits - Tales For The Audience 2 (rec. 1999, ROIO 2001)

Tom's legendary "VH-1 Storytellers" show from Hollywood-Burbank Airport has received many gray market releases over the years. The most authoritative version can be found here:

#126 TOM WAITS - Complete VH1 Storytellers (1999) (Flac)

a blog about the greatest bootlegs available on the internet

100greatestbootlegs.blogspot.com

But I have a soft spot in my heart for the Tales For The Audience release on PmS Records. It has lots of Tom's deadpan banter that wound up on the cutting room floor, plus some rarely performed bonus songs from three other shows of the same period.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Stooges - Live At Goose Lake: August 8th 1970 (2020)

 

[axolotl]

Gold Lake ~ Years (2014)

NOISEY: "Their breezy dream-pop, with its bright guitar riffs and gauzy harmonies—mixed by Phil Ek, who's helped Father John Misty and Fleet Foxes achieve a similar sound—has the feel of a place where the sun shines almost 365 days a year"

Years, by Gold Lake

9 track album

gold-lake.bandcamp.com

P. S. I just came back to add that this girl's voice is gorgeous.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Boris - 1985 (2019)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Cheer-Accident - Variations On A Goddamn Old Man (2002)

 

[axolotl]

Cheer-Accident - Variations On A Goddamn Old Man (2002)

Is this a referral?

You rang, but I don't have my reading glasses on.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Is this a referral?

You rang, but I don't have my reading glasses on.

Yes. It involved time traveling.

 

[axolotl]

Yes. It involved time traveling.

I see you have cracked my George persona.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Ellis/Munk Ensemble - San Diego Sessions (2020)



Jazzedelic Rock.

There's really no other place like San Diego. The weather's balmy all year, there's 70 miles of the finest coastline California has to offer, it has one of the most ethnically diverse populations in the US and - most importantly - it's currently THE epicenter for heavy psychedelic rock. Bands such as Earthless, Astra and Radio Moscow have paved the way for an astounding number of bands, creating a tight knit community of musicians. On this session Denmark's Jonas Munk (Causa Sui) joins forces with San Diego native Brian Ellis (who's not only a prime mover in the psychedelic scene, but has also been active in California's jazz and funk circuits for several years), and an assemblage of prime musicians from the area, including members of Astra, Psicomagia, Monarch, Radio Moscow and Sacri Monti.

The result is an intoxicating brew that's hard to put a label on. Fueled by the furious drumming of Paul Marrone, and led by Jonas Munk's fuzzy lead guitar and the multicolored keys of Brian Ellis, there's an unmoored, floating quality to the music the large ensemble was creating at these sessions. It's the kind of record you can put on and just let it wash over you. The closest references would be Miles Davis circa Bitches Brew, Hendrix at Woodstock, or perhaps Can at their most blazing and levitational. The music flows like an electric river of vintage keys, percussion and fuzz guitars. And it's glowing with life. Vinyl comes in gatefold sleeve with art by Alan Forbes and liner notes by Jonas Munk. For fans of Causa Sui, Earthless and Psicomagia this set is not to be missed!