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Dengue Fever - Cannibal Courtship (2011)
What are you listening to? July 2020
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Joshua Redman - RoundAgain (2020)
Despite the fellows going all egalitarian on us with the names on the album, I'm referring to this as a Joshua Redman album just like it was when they first/last got together 25 years ago.
They'd had a tour lined up with this release, but that's been delayed. Which probably means canceled because next year they'll each be touring to support whatever albums they are playing on which will not be together, so we won't get to seem them all on the same stage as planned.
Fuck Corona, you win again.
Despite the fellows going all egalitarian on us with the names on the album, I'm referring to this as a Joshua Redman album just like it was when they first/last got together 25 years ago.
They'd had a tour lined up with this release, but that's been delayed. Which probably means canceled because next year they'll each be touring to support whatever albums they are playing on which will not be together, so we won't get to seem them all on the same stage as planned.
Fuck Corona, you win again.
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The Sonics - Boom (1966)
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Night Beats - Perform "The Sonics" Boom (2019)
Nas - Life Is Good (2012)
I was reminded online that this is the 8th anniversary of the release of this album. Some compare this to Marvin Gaye's "Here My Dear", his divorce album. Though Nas is holding a piece of his ex-wife's wedding dress on the album cover, the co-topic of this album are the general uncomfortable periods of his life, of which his divorce is but one, albeit the largest one at that time.
I was reminded online that this is the 8th anniversary of the release of this album. Some compare this to Marvin Gaye's "Here My Dear", his divorce album. Though Nas is holding a piece of his ex-wife's wedding dress on the album cover, the co-topic of this album are the general uncomfortable periods of his life, of which his divorce is but one, albeit the largest one at that time.
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Neil Young & Promise Of The Real - The Visitor (2017)
Neil's musical response to the election of Donald Trump suggests that the new president really knocked him for a loop. Although unified by the theme of protest, the songs individually seem unfocused, even unfinished, as they wander through a widely varied but ultimately scattered musical landscape. I've heard other work by Lukas Nelson that I enjoyed a lot more. Like Neil's album with Pearl Jam, it seems that pairing him with a free standing artist (as opposed to a backing band; sorry, Crazy Horse) caused Mr. Young to try way too hard.
on the Sam-O-Meter.
Neil's musical response to the election of Donald Trump suggests that the new president really knocked him for a loop. Although unified by the theme of protest, the songs individually seem unfocused, even unfinished, as they wander through a widely varied but ultimately scattered musical landscape. I've heard other work by Lukas Nelson that I enjoyed a lot more. Like Neil's album with Pearl Jam, it seems that pairing him with a free standing artist (as opposed to a backing band; sorry, Crazy Horse) caused Mr. Young to try way too hard.
on the Sam-O-Meter.
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Rick Wakeman - The Red Planet (2020)
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The Residents - It's Metal, Meat & Bone: The Songs of Dyin' Dog (2020)
Speaking of "I see dead people," my god, this is incredibly dark, even for The Residents.
Speaking of "I see dead people," my god, this is incredibly dark, even for The Residents.
Kendrick Scott - Conviction (2013)
Don Braden - Earth Wind & Wonder (2018)
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Emily Remler - East To Wes (1988)
Still working on my Emily Remler listening project. I first posted Emily's sad story here:
musicgourmets.org
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This is her second-to-last album. A better example of jazz guitar you won't find. Album covers tell a lot, and the woman staring out at us obviously went through a lot in the seven years after her debut:
Her always deft technique has been immeasurably enriched by an emotional depth achieved at great personal cost.
Still working on my Emily Remler listening project. I first posted Emily's sad story here:
What Are You Listening To? OCTOBER, 2018
Gogol Bordello - Multi Kontra Culti Vs. Irony (2002)
musicgourmets.org
[Hey! Dig that furled link!
]This is her second-to-last album. A better example of jazz guitar you won't find. Album covers tell a lot, and the woman staring out at us obviously went through a lot in the seven years after her debut:
Her always deft technique has been immeasurably enriched by an emotional depth achieved at great personal cost.
Joe Henderson - Tetragon (1969)
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Odd that he would dedicate an album to a missing fish. Here is the proposed cover for his little known follow up album, Polygon:Joe Henderson - Tetragon (1969)
Miles Davis - Nefertiti (1968)
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The Residents - It's Metal, Meat & Bone: The Songs of Dyin' Dog (2020)
Speaking of "I see dead people," my god, this is incredibly dark, even for The Residents.
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Yeah, I'm not buying it. The original demos from 1976 have way too good sound quality for that time, and Alvin "Dyin' Dog" Snow sounds suspiciously like one of the members of The Residents.
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Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People (2003)
Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue (1965)
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Steve Roach - A Soul Ascends (2020)
Drone, ambient.
Drone, ambient.
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