What are you listening to? - January 2019

[Unsomnambulist]

This.

Ima gunna go out on the limb with you and say Nick would probably like this.

At least, now we can both be wrong.

You know what they say, two wrongs make a left turn or something.

 

[axolotl]

You know what they say, two wrongs make a left turn or something.

Could be. Maybe it's this:

 

[Nickyboy]

Young Marble Giants- Colossal Youth (1980)



Post-Punk, minimalist goodness. I recommend this.

 

[Nickyboy]

Lo! Peninsula - AKA Lo Peninsula (2018)



Psych Pop/Shoegaze band from India.

Edit: I'd recommend this to @axolotl, but he's tired of me recommending music to him. Might also be of interest to @Nickyboy.

See that alley over there? That's mine. This album is right up it.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Young Marble Giants- Colossal Youth (1980)



Post-Punk, minimalist goodness. I recommend this.

Listening to this now.

 

[axolotl]

Listening to this now.

I am practically bound to follow suit, in a moment.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

I am practically bound to follow suit, in a moment.

The Spotify version of this has so many bonus tracks it's 1H39M long.

 

[axolotl]

The Spotify version of this has so many bonus tracks it's 1H39M long.

Life is too short, already.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Kindling - Hush (2017)



Shoegaze that rocks-- so far.

 

[axolotl]

Young Marble Giants- Colossal Youth (1980)



Post-Punk, minimalist goodness. I recommend this.

Lordy! It's the freaking missing link between post-punk and minimalism.

P.S. I mean "missing" in the sense that I missed it the first time around.

P. P. S. Ordered via Amazon.

 

[axolotl]

Pinback ~ Autumn of the Seraphs (2007)

 

[Nickyboy]

Lordy! It's the freaking missing link between post-punk and minimalism.

P.S. I mean "missing" in the sense that I missed it the first time around.

P. P. S. Ordered via Amazon.

I saw them in concert as a late teen at the college where my father taught. Maybe 50 people in the room. 50 at most. It was really great. I don't understand why they put out one LP and said "meh.....enough".

 

[axolotl]

The Mysteries of Life ~ Distant Relative (2001)



http://nodepression.com/album-review/mysteries-life-distant-relative

 

[axolotl]

Papadosio ~ Extras in a Movie (2015)



https://music.papadosio.com/album/extras-in-a-movie

From the lush Four Freshmen harmonies 
of “The Last Leaf,” Papadosio reveals a
multi-hued tapestry of sonic invention. Often 
lumped into the jam band category, here
the quintet draws from prog-rock forefathers
 with vocals, guitars and a pronounced 
backbeat prominent in the orchestral mix.
“The Wrong Nostalgia,” and its swipe at the
 market-share programming of modern radio, contrasts with the hallucinatory expression of “Ritual.” The closer, “Moon Entendre,” offers reassurance with the line, “There’s magic in every ride.” Indeed: Papadosio’s cinematic palette and compositional alchemy defines a band both earthy and cerebral. – Dan Kimpel

https://www.musicconnection.com/album-papadosio-extras-movie/

 

[axolotl]

Pan/Scan ~ Cinematic Lies (2016)



https://pan-scan.bandcamp.com/album/cinematic-lies

 

[axolotl]

Paper Beat Scissors ~ Paper Beat Scissors (2012)



https://paperbeatscissors.bandcamp.com/album/paper-beat-scissors

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Swallow - Blow (1992)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Ben Wendel - The Seasons (2018)
fliSTen
This band features some of my favorite modern Jazz musicians, from Gilad Hekselman on guitar, to Aaron Parks on piano, to Eric Harland on drums. And Matt Brewer has had three of the most underrated bassist-led albums of the past decade in his first three leader releases. Wendel isn't so bad either. I love when he trades his sax for the bassoon. It's always nice to hear some 'soon in a tune.

The music is typical for a quality Modern Jazz album, meaning it is today's version of traditional 60's Jazz. Except, instead of being influenced by the popular music of the 50s and 60s, this is influenced by the popular music of the 80s, 90s and 00s. It's a little hard to briefly and adequately describe the difference, but it's very easy to hear the difference. Both are great, and easy to enjoy ... but they are different sounds.

Threre are 12 songs here, each named for a month on the calendar. With themed albums like this, I have to admit I don't usually make the connections between the theme and the individual songs. For instance, never in a million years would I hear song 9 for the first time and remark, "that songs sounds very much like the month of September." So, I can't say how successful Wendel is in pulling together his theme. However, I can say this all sounds very good, from beginning to end.

In 1876, Tchaikovsky wrote a piano piece for each month of the year and called the collection The Seasons. In homage, saxophonist/composer Ben Wendel unfurled one of his own dozen songs every month in 2015, each dedicated to a musician he admired who was then called upon to join him for a duet rendition. The resulting monthly video series amounted to an intimate, thrilling compendium of music. In March 2018, Wendel used an upcoming gig at the Village Vanguard to recruit four of those duet partners—drummer Eric Harland, bassist Matt Brewer, pianist Aaron Parks, and guitarist Gilad Hekselman—for three days of workshopping and recording to create this quintet version of The Seasons. It deserves to be taken on its own terms, mostly because it suffers only by comparison to those video duets.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Bevis Frond - We're Your Friends, Man (2018)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Lush - Spooky (1992)