What Are You Listening To? December 2017

[captwhiffle]

PVT - New Spirit (2017)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Bardo Pond - Record Store Day Trilogy - CD1 Rise Above It All (2015)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Beck - Sea Change (2002)

 

[lpfreak1170]

June Christy - This Time Of Year


So wonderful.

 

[Ojai Sam]

The Lovin' Spoonful - You're A Big Boy Now (soundtrack 1967)

The Spoonful's second soundtrack finds them trying in vain to add meaning to an early Francis Ford Coppola effort. The IMDb plot summary tells you all you need to know: post-teen virgin moves to New York City, falls for a cold-hearted beauty, then finds true love with a loyal lass. The title song is pretty good and "Darling Be Home Soon" is one of John Sebastian's finest songs.

Gotta watch those "young youths".

 

[captwhiffle]

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1992)

 

[Nickyboy]

"Darling Be Home Soon" is one of John Sebastian's finest songs.

I love that song. Didn't know it was from a soundtrack.

 

[Pops]

Dweezil Zappa - Zappa Plays Zappa

 

[Ojai Sam]

Lynn Anderson - The Best Of (1968)

Vinyl Rip Of The Day.

This ends my long-delayed project of ripping all of Lynn's albums and singles on Chart Records. "Rose Garden" would come later as the massive pop hit that changed her career. But for my money, these early sides are far superior with their youthful country honesty.

 

[axolotl]

Cynann & Ben ~ Sweet Beliefs (2006)

 

[captwhiffle]

Auntie Flo - The Soniferous Garden (2017)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Druids - Spirit Compass (2017)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Joe Jackson - Night and Day (1982)

 

[axolotl]

Kenny Garrett ~ Pursuance: The Music of John Coltrane (1996)



Psst... @JazzyRandy... Kenny Garrett, Brian Blade, Pat Metheny....

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Tom Rogerson & Brian Eno - Finding Shore (2017)



Tom Rogerson is in the band Three Trapped Tigers.

Like every child, Tom Rogerson loved to make a noise. Life as an improviser began at a tender age when he would copy his older sister after she'd done her piano practice. "I was three or four, my legs couldn't touch the ground," he remembers. "I enjoyed smashing the keys but I then rationalised it into what I do now."

Rogerson's new solo album 'Finding Shore' isn't a discordant, jarring piece however, but 13 elegant and evocative tracks assembled in collaboration with Brian Eno, who he met outside the toilets after a gig. At first the pair didn't speak about music at all, but bonded over their roots in the Suffolk town of Woodbridge, located on the strange flat landscape of Eastern England, all heathland, military testing sites, estuary mud and the site of the ancient Sutton Hoo ship burial.

'Finding Shore' is the sound of Rogerson distilling the essence of what he does after a protracted musical journey from childhood up until now. He took the traditional route of music lessons and learning notation before starting composing "properly". As a 17-year-old he had the odd contrast of being taught by the composer Harrison Birtwistle but also working a job playing lounge piano in a dilapidated hotel in Peterborough: "It was classic faded grandeur, hilarious, Fawlty Towers, English culture at its best," Rogerson says. Within that oddly formative experience, his practice as an improvisor developed: "I'd come in and mess around, it was my way of not thinking," as he puts it. Rogerson never felt comfortable in what might have been the accepted route of becoming a classical composer. He spent some time in New York playing jazz, recording with Reid Anderson of The Bad Plus, and had a successful career with post rock group Three Trapped Tigers, yet however enjoyable that experience was, he admits it was "definitely a diversionary tactic". Everything seemed to be an escape from the classical world or, as Rogerson himself puts it, "falling out of my ivory tower very slowly".

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Ten Years After - A Sting In The Tail (2017)

 

[axolotl]

Ten Years After - A Sting In The Tail (2017)

Odd that they would keep the name after Alvin Lee is long gone. But, money talks, and something else walks.

I probably need to hear it.

 

[axolotl]

Namo ~ Untold Days (2017)

http://ihadanaccidentrecords.com/album/untold-days



Ambient (non-danceable) [on I Had an Accident Records and Tapes]

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Gypsy Sun Revival - Journey Outside Of Time (2017)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday (2005)