What are you listening to? - January 2019

[Unsomnambulist]

The Kinks - Word Of Mouth (1984)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Seven Mile Journey - Templates For Mimesis (2016)



I like this. The rating on RYM is too low.

 

[axolotl]

The Seven Mile Journey - Templates For Mimesis (2016)



I like this. The rating on RYM is too low.

You could add to RYM your rating of it. A might push it up to , overall.

If it is on Spotify or Bandcamp, I will listen to it. Two ratings of might have the same effect.

 

[axolotl]

Logh ~ A Sunset Panorama (2005)




Lower Dens ~ Twin Hand Movement (2010)




Julia Kent ~ Green and Grey (2011)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Ambrose Akinmusire - Origami Harvest (2018)

Mish mash of somewhat traditional contemporary Jazz and Hip Hop lyricism, but that description doesn't begin to adequately describe this sound. Here are others' descriptions.

Likely among the most formidable nervous breakdown music of the year.

a diverse range of guest vocalists, plus a string quartet, to an instrumental core familiar to fans of post-bop jazz. ... suite-like compositions.
...
This grouping is extravagantly strange, even for Akinmusire. The onetime Das Racist emcee’s blunted-out free verse and screwball non sequiturs aren’t an obvious match for the contemplative style of a composer who gives his albums titles like When the Heart Emerges Glistening. Sometimes the collision doesn't pay off. ... The air of poetic abstraction on the album doesn’t clear anything up.

a collaboration with the forward-thinking Mivos string quartet and mischievous rapper Kool AD that makes a nonsense of musical categories. Sometimes the self-conscious collisions of free improv and composition, of high and low art, are so discordant that they are almost unlistenable
...
On Particle/Spectra, a complex, unresolved fugal arrangement for string quartet and trumpet suddenly bursts into life after five minutes as it mutates into a woozy slice of space-age R&B, featuring Oklahoma singer LmbrJck_T. The result is a voyage through America that is both dreamlike and dystopian, exhausting but oddly compelling.

My take is, some of this is beautiful and perfect. Some of it is indulgent malarkey.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Ambrose Akinmusire - Origami Harvest (2018)

Mish mash of somewhat traditional contemporary Jazz and Hip Hop lyricism, but that description doesn't begin to adequately describe this sound. Here are others' descriptions.




My take is, some of this is beautiful and perfect. Some of it is indulgent malarkey.

Curiosity piqued, now listening.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood - Nancy & Lee (1968)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood - Nancy & Lee (1968)

They look surprised to be photographed.

 

[JazzyRandy]

Curiosity piqued, now listening.

I'm curious to see what your curiosity uncovered...

 

[Unsomnambulist]

I'm curious to see what your curiosity uncovered...

I think the parts others consider unlistenable I find perfectly listenable. But then, I listen to noise rock all the time.

This merits more plays.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Pink Floyd - Fat Old Gigs (2002)

(CD1)

 

[JazzyRandy]

I think the parts others consider unlistenable I find perfectly listenable. But then, I listen to noise rock all the time.

This merits more plays.

 

[JazzyRandy]

Dave Douglas & Keystone - Moonshine (2007)

Douglas makes clear in the liner notes that Moonshine is more a reflection on the "great forgotten absurdities" of the work of Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton than a soundtrack in the traditional sense. The trumpeter and Keystone draw on a wide array of material throughout Moonshine's eight tracks—from snippets of Charlie Parker's "Ko Ko" in the free- associative "Married Life" to a stuttering sample of George W. Bush on the expansive "Flood Plane" that is a surprising, but perfect counterpoint to Douglas' gorgeous trumpet lines
...
DJ Olive is the catalyst behind many of the album's seamless transitions and a force of cohesion throughout. Whether supplying a refracted drum beat...sampling vocals... or adding a new dimension to the fray...

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Muddy Waters - Hard Again (1977)

 

[axolotl]

Marjorie Fair ~ Self Help Serenade (2004)

 

[Old Uncle Toe]

Jackson Browne & David Lindley - Love Is Strange En Vivo Con Tino

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Muddy Waters - I'm Ready (1978)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

After some morning Oasis glory, figured I'd try this one out:

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

Sure hope it's good

 

[Nickyboy]

Bob Dylan- Highway 61 Revisted (1965)

 

[Old Uncle Toe]

Los Texmaniacs - Cruzando Borders