What are you listening to? - February 2019

[Unsomnambulist]

Panda Bear - Buoys (2019)



I don't know, maybe I could like this. I doubt it though.

Edit: Nah, I bailed during the second track.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Backwoods Payback - Fire Not Reason (2016)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Parliament - Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome (1977)

Friday trivia fun fact: the group Urge Overkill took its name from a lyric in the song "Funkentelechy"

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Boy Harsher - Careful (2019)

 

[axolotl]

Clark Terry ~ With Pee Wee Claybrook & Swing Fever (1995)



https://www.allmusic.com/album/with-pee-wee-claybrook-swing-fever-mw0000954279

 

[axolotl]

Ramses Calderon (Guitar) ~ Cuerdas de la Historia: Salvadoran Composers I

No pic available

 

[axolotl]

Windsor for the Derby ~ How We Lost (2008)



What do you get when you mix Dream Pop with vocal harmony and Indie Rock with Ambient or even Post Rock?

I don't know, either ....but one iteration might sound something like this.

 

[Nickyboy]

The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Are You Experienced? (1967)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Jo Stafford - 1949 (Cracked comp. 2018)

 

[axolotl]

Blue Rodeo ~ Five Days in July (1993)

 

[axolotl]

Uncle Tupelo ~ Anodyne (1993)

 

[axolotl]

The Walkabouts ~ Satisfied Mind (1993)

 

[axolotl]

Keith Jarrett Trio ~ Bye Bye Blackbird (1993)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Astronoid - Air (2016)

 

[axolotl]

Astronoid - Air (2016)

Be that how?

 

[axolotl]

Ernest Ale ~ As Dreamers Do (1995)



Be vewy quiet... I'm on hiatus from my appointed task, for the moment.

This release is mislabeled. The cover art depicts a troubadour, and the subtitle proclaims Lullabies and Love Songs for classical guitar by Ernest Ale. It is in fact a serious classical offering on classical guitar, with no vocals or other instrumentation. These are lullabies only in the sense that you would not necessarily play them for infants and toddlers to fall asleep. "Bouree" by J. S. Bach almost makes me want to stand on one leg and play the flute.

From CDBaby:

Ernesto Ale is an accomplished classical guitarist and arranger with a uniquely expressive style. While his precision heightens and clarifies each piece, his sensitive, emotionally-charged portrayal enchants and then captivates his listeners.
His love of beautiful music is reflected in his repertoire, which includes baroque, renaissance and classical compositions by Bach, Scarlatti, Villa Lobos, Robert Johnson, Ponce, Tarrega and Brower as well as ragtime, traditional and original compositions.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Be that how?

It's Post-Metal. I didn't care for the vocals. Not growl, just high-pitched male singing. Some speed-metal touches that seem dated to me.

 

[axolotl]

Still out to lunch on odds-and-ends:

Petracovich ~ Blue Cotton Skin (2003)


Folktronica, Dream Pop

 

[Ojai Sam]

Zara McFarlane - Arise (2017)

All About Jazz sez:

Zara McFarlane is a London-based singer and composer with a voice like an angel and a style that reflects her cultural roots in the Caribbean and in the mash-up that is modern metropolitan Britain, where jazz, grime, hip hop, reggae and other musics of black origin are hybridising and shape-shifting with joyful abandon. She is an alumnus of Tomorrow's Warriors, the band and outreach organisation co-founded by bassist Gary Crosby in 1991 with a special focus on young jazz musicians from the Caribbean and African diasporas. McFarlane also took a master's degree in jazz studies at London's Guildhall School of Music.

Arise is McFarlane's third album, following Until Tomorrow (2011) and If You Knew Her (2014), which were also released on Brownswood. The new disc is a collaboration with the much feted drummer and producer Moses Boyd, another graduate of Tomorrow's Warriors, and the band includes some of the brightest stars on London's young jazz-scene—bass clarinetist Shabaka Hutchings, tenor saxophonist Binker Golding, trombonist Nathaniel Cross, bassist Max Luthert, keyboard player Peter Edwards and guitarist Shirley Tetteh.

Arise explores the intersections between jazz and rhythms from Jamaica, in particular reggae, kumina and nyabinghi. But the music eschews simply sticking jazz vocals and instrumental solos on top of Caribbean rhythms. It goes much deeper than that. The result is spellbinding. Special mentions go to "Silhouette," a Shabaka Hutchings feature, and "Allies Or Enemies," on which McFarlane overdubs a layered vocal-arrangement of exquisite beauty, accompanied by acoustic guitar and percussion. "Fisherman," a cover of the opening track on Jamaican vocal group the Congos's Lee Perry-produced treasure, Heart Of The Congos (Black Ark, 1977), and the only non-original on the album, also deserves a salute for its arrangement, this time featuring violinist and violist Ruth Elder and cellist Carola Krebs.

on the Sam-O-Meter. Gotta dig deeper into the current London jazz scene.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Extra Golden - Ok-Oyot System (2006)