What Are You Listening To? December 2019

[JazzyRandy]

Brainstorm - Journey To The Light (1978)


TABU put out an excellent re-release series in 2013. Each CD released in packaging that resembles a cd-sized hardback book, with glossy pages and a slot in the back for the CD itself. It makes pulling out a CD from the re-release series a special event. Bonus points that the packaging fits perfectly on CD shelves.

 

[JazzyRandy]

Prince & the Revolution - Around The World In A Day (1985)

For some reason, this was on my mind when I woke up this morning ... :nunja:

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Calla - Televise (2003)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Ice Cube - The Predator (1992)

When the mood strikes, I like arranging my listening around a loose theme each day/morning. After the first two albums this morning, I decided to keep moving forward in 7-year intervals. An aimless theme, yeah, but it keeps a simple mind busy and it leads me through an interesting combination of albums.

 

[JazzyRandy]

No Knife - Fire In The City Of Automatons (1999)

No Knife reminds me of Fountains Of Wayne. I don't listen to either enough to really have an informed opinion. But I like both when I listen to them because of a sweet melodism I hear in both. Now I want to listen to a FoW album ... but I can't. Gotta maintain the theme of the morning.
ETA: Also, I can't listen because after checking, I own only one FoW album and when I pulled it off the shelf, neither of the CDs were in the 2-CD package.

 

[JazzyRandy]

Bobby Previte - The Coalition of the Willing (2006)

It was a tight race between this and Roy Hargrove's "Nothing Serious". In the end, I decided to go with the artist less traveled through my ears recently.

This is militant music made by a militant composer. It's rock music for a different age -- one that is scarier, angrier, and more put-upon to just surrender than any in memory. The set opens with a hard-driven organ and guitar duel ... space-age surf music. ... The spaced-out jazz-rock ... the funky roots rock ... simply über acid rock & roll that becomes undone when the jangly 12-string-driven ... drops deep into Middle Eastern dub reggae abut halfway through. Then there are the noir-ish country soundtrack atmospherics ... get stranger and more atmospheric ... a bona fide instrumental rock anthem worth every bit of the Pete Townshend dynamics it wears on its sleeve, with Skerik's saxophone solo juxtaposed against Saft's keyboards and Bernstein's beautifully repetitive solo. ... ...

 

[JazzyRandy]

The Foreign Exchange - Love In Flying Colors (2013)


Well, this is the end of another morning theme. Seven years after 2013 is 2020, so no more for this one.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Foreign Exchange - Love In Flying Colors (2013)


Well, this is the end of another morning theme. Seven years after 2013 is 2020, so no more for this one.

There may be nothing more after 2020, anyway, so good call.

 

[JazzyRandy]

Roy Hargrove - Nothing Serious (2006)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Hecks - My Star (2019)

 

[axolotl]

Prince & the Revolution - Around The World In A Day (1985)
For some reason, this was on my mind when I woke up this morning ... :nunja:

It was probably the paisley necktie that you wore and the raspberry sorbet you ate last night. :nunja:

P. S. With all the music posting you have done since this early this morning, we'll put this in the ancient history category.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Ty Segall - First Taste (2019)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Tropical Fuck Storm - Braindrops (2019)

 

[axolotl]

Mingus ~ The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1995, 1963)

 

[axolotl]

^ To all, I am offering a full art copy of this CD to the first person who requests it.

Only rules for receiving are as follows:

(1) You do not already own it on elpee or ceedee, and
(2) you do not plan to give it away, or trade it, at least for 12 months.

Please PM me with your request.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Peepshow (1988)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Catching up on the week of listening you guys have had. Great stuff!
Feel like I’ve missed a lot year during my annual Thanksgiving pilgrimage to Pensacola Beach (man was it wonderful). I’m back now - posting more tomorrow

 

[axolotl]

Pierce Pettis ~ Father's Son (2019)

 

[axolotl]

Markus James ~ Nightbird (2002)



It's all good, but "Pharaoh's Daughter" and "River Risin" take it over the top.

Nightbird could be described as Mick Jagger meets John Lee Hooker meets Habib Koite (who is one of Mali's top pop singers and is best known for his early-'90s hit "Cigarette a Bana"). Obviously, James sees the parallels between Hooker's blues and Malian pop: both can be very moody, not to mention soulful. And the word soulful certainly describes this excellent CD, which blues, rock, and Afro-pop enthusiasts should all be aware of.

~ Allmusic Review

Nightbird - Markus James | Album | AllMusic

Nightbird by Markus James released in 2001. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

www.allmusic.com

 

[JazzyRandy]

Andrew Hill - Point Of Departure (1965)