What are you listening to? July 2017

[Pops]

Livid - Beneath This Shroud, The Earth Erodes

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Boris - Dear (2017)

 

[Pops]

Michael Hurley - Hi Fi Snock Uptown

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Peter Bjorn And John - Writer's Block (2006)

 

[Pops]

Utzalu - Drowning in Sanguine Screams

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Andy Summers - Triboluminescence (2017)

 

[Pops]

Pete Ham - 7 Park Avenue

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Peaking Lights - The Fifth State Of Consciousness (2017)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Post War Glamour Girls - Swan Songs (2017)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power & The Amorphous Strums - Dark Developments (2008)

 

[Pops]

Oranssi Pazuzu ‎– Muukalainen Puhuu

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Various Artists - Rock Instrumental Classics Volume 5: Surf

 

[Pops]

Grouper - Way Their Crept

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Animals As Leaders - The Madness Of Many (2016)

 

[Pops]

Curbeaters - Time is Unforgiving

 

[lpfreak1170]

Nicole Atkins - Goodnight Rhonda Lee


Only 1 song in and not really what I was expecting.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Ranarim - Morgonstjärna (2006)

Swedish folk rock, featuring both original and traditional songs. The nyckelharpa (a Swedish fiddle) features prominently but the real highlight is the vocal harmony of Sofia Sandén and Ulrika Bodén. Ranarim is to ABBA as The Byrds are to Sonny & Cher. I'm sure @Thelonious Funk knows them.

Not on Spotify.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Cosmic Letdown - In The Caves (2016)



Heavy psych, with an otherworldly sound.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Yazz Ahmed - La Saboteuse (2017)

Bahraini-British performer, Yazz Ahmed, is transforming what jazz means in 2017. This trumpet and flugelhorn-playing artist has worked with Radiohead and These New Puritans, experiments with electronic effects, and combines sounds from her shared heritage to author a new narrative for the genre. Part of the new wave of artists credited with stirring up the sound, including Kamasi Washington, Yussef Kamaal, Sons of Kemet and The Comet is Coming, Yazz Ahmed is thrilled by the possibilities of making something new. “I feel like I’m a part of modernising jazz and connecting it with audiences today,” Yazz says. “It’s exciting.”

Her new album ‘La Saboteuse’ is a deep exploration of both her British and Bahraini roots. Ably assisted by musicians including Lewis Wright on vibraphone, MOBO-winning new jazz kingpin Shabaka Hutchings on bass clarinet and Naadia Sherriff on Fender Rhodes keyboard, it’s composed of undulating rhythms, Middle Eastern melody and Yazz’s sonorous trumpet lines. The record sounds like the passage of a desert caravan, bathed in moonlight. The theme of ‘La Saboteuse’ is the sense of self-doubt that Yazz feels when she is creating, personified in a female saboteur, an anti-muse that spurs her into action. “Giving ‘her’ a name has really helped me to identify those negative voices we all get,” she says. “I know what it is and I know how to combat it.”

This is beautiful, trippy music.

 

[Nickyboy]

^ Nice! Gotta check that out! Thanks for posting it.