What Are You Listening To? July 2019

[Nickyboy]

Bangkok Blue ~ Siamese Twins (1995)

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Mostly New Age. Some nice Gamelan work on the Jazzy bits.

Spoiler

Jazzy, these are not the vibes you're looking for.

Soft gamelan or hard gamelan? Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[JazzyRandy]

John Hollenbeck's Large Ensemble - All Can Work (2018)

More mood than music. I appreciated it more than like it.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Green Day - American Idiot (2004)

 

[JazzyRandy]

The Jazz Tribe - The Next Step (1999)

It's a record that could drive a party, or just get you through a quiet evening at home. But it will move you.

Hi Latin Jazz element included at no extra charge.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Freddie Gibbs/Madlib - Bandana (2019)

 

[axolotl]

Roy Hargrove Presents the RH Factor ~ Hard Groove (2003)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Christian Sands - Facing Dragons (2018)

Piano Jazz. About half the songs are trio format, and the rest include 1 or more other instruments. He's a child prodigy who was composing at 5, recorded his first album at 12, played at the Kennedy Center as a teenager, and is now hailed in some quarters as THE next great Jazz pianist.

I'm a klutz when it comes to piano Jazz, so I have no idea who he sounds like. But I like this, anew again every time I listen to it.

 

[axolotl]

Tom Harrell ~ Live at the Village Vanguard (2002)

 

[axolotl]

Micropixie ~ Alice in Stevie Wonderland (2005)

 

[lpfreak1170]

XTC - Black Sea (1980)

 

[axolotl]

Arco ~ Restraint (2004)

 

[axolotl]

Dave Alvin ~ Public Domain: Songs from the Wild Land (2000)



Of course, this is a Dave Alvin and the Guilty Men album, with a number of performers merely implicated as Guilty by Association.

But, really, who's going to round up the posse to go after him? After all, he's done such a bang-up job around these parts (that is, standards of the American repertoire).

 

[JazzyRandy]

John Scofield - Country For Old Men (2016)

Scofield mines the music of Country music legends (George Jones, Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton and Bob Wills) to create a neat Jazz album with real Country flair.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Eat Lights Become Lights - Modular Living (2013)

 

[axolotl]

Watoto Children's Choir ~ Mambo Sawa - Life is Good! (2007)




Cake on Cake ~ I Guess I was Daydreaming (2007)



Electronica, Indie Pop (Lappop), Swedish Dream Pop (Laplandpop?), I'll stop...

 

[Unsomnambulist]

black midi - Schlagenheim (2019)



This is the best new music I've heard recently. Math rock, but with a nod to Can and Beefheart.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Wytches - Annabel Dream Reader (2014)

 

[axolotl]

Agent 22 ~ Agent 22 (1999)

 

[axolotl]

Giovanni Moltoni ~ Openground (2003)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

75 Dollar Bill - I Was Real (2019)



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