What are you listening to? June 2023

[axolotl]

2 hours 2 minutes. There is one track that is 43m51s.

Pink Floyd were amateurs! /s

Hmmm....

One RYM commenter sed:
"loving the shoutout to "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict" halfway through The Beggar Lover"

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Motorbike - s/t (2023)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Buck Owens' Bakersfield Brass - s/t (1970)

Vinyl Rip of the Day.

Remember Danny Davis & The Nashville Brass, whose after-the-fact faux duet album with Willie Nelson was rated as the worst of his 147 albums? Danny took the Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass playbook and applied it to Nashville Sound country music. Buck Owens decided to try the same thing with California Country, mostly his own songs and a few of Merle Haggard's. Buck, usually a smart guy, misfired here. I can't seem to find anything about Dave Gates (presumably not the guy who led Bread), whom the liner notes describe mysteriously as "a son of Hollywood [who] figures among today’s most talented arrangers." You couldn't prove that here.

on the Sam-O-Meter. A bad idea executed in mediocre fashion.

 

[axolotl]

^ An album called BOBB. How could it be bad?

I can't seem to find anything about Dave Gates (presumably not the guy who led Bread), whom the liner notes describe mysteriously as "a son of Hollywood [who] figures among today’s most talented arrangers."

You have to learn to take the phrase "today's most talented" quite literally.

As lawyers, we know the value of puffing.

For others, "puffing is a term in commercial law which means to convey an overstated belief about some good or service to a prospective buyer with the goal of making a sale of that good or service."

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

^ An album called BOBB. How could it be bad?

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Cal Tjader - Soul Sauce (1965)

 

[Nickyboy]

Altered State- Dos (1993)
This a California, 90s, speed metal. Normally something I wouldn't like. But something about this album grabs me. It's harsh and melodic in balance. And the last, 23 minute song, is the soundtrack to a movie. I love every minute of this album.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Berlin Philharmonic (Wilhelm Furtwangler, cond.) -
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 "The Great"/Haydn: Symphony No. 88 "The Pretty Damn Good" (1952)

 

[Nickyboy]

^ I get "Franz" above, but there is no way in hell that second name is "Schubert".

 

[Ojai Sam]

^ I get "Franz" above, but there is no way in hell that second name is "Schubert".

Gotta agree, Nick. Here's another example. I can see "-ubert" and the furbelows he added at the end but can't fathom how he worked out the "Sch-".

 

[Nickyboy]

"Pfuburlff", my favorite!

 

[axolotl]

Here it is spelled more legibly.


I wonder whether he was adding his middle initial "P" for "Peter" in the more flamboyant versions.

Or, maybe it was simply too much carousing with Viennese prostitutes, as he apparently died at age 31 from syphilis.

ETA: That reminds me, Nick, how's that pasta puttanesca coming along?

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Francis Poulenc - La voix humaine (Felicity Lott/Orchestra de la Suisse Romande)




Earlier, Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem (Klemperer/Philharmonia Orchestra)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Alban Berg Quartett - Dvorak String Quartet Op. 96 "American" / Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 "From My Life" (1991)

 

[axolotl]

The Lightning Seeds ~ Sense (1992)



When I listened to this CD this afternoon, I could not have guessed when it came out.

I could tell it was a volunteer or victim of the loudness wars, tho'.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped (2006)

 

[axolotl]

Look what I found while Dunster Diving!

Chinmaya Dunster ~ Gaia's Garden (2011)

 

[axolotl]

Ned Milligan ~ Considerable (2023)



Ambient, Found Sounds

Considerable, by Ned Milligan

8 track album

laaps-records.com

Ned Milligan is a New York based elementary school teacher and occasional musician.
He’s behind the great small-run label Florabelle since 2015.
This is his sixth solo album.
__________________________

"My work in the past five years has been grounded in recording and playing outdoors, trying to communicate the meaning of being in a particular location and finding meaning in interacting with whatever sounds or elements are equally present. I'm still excited by all of it! This sense of purpose continues with Considerable and the most I could wish for is that the specificity of what I am doing and where I'm doing it manages to evoke something in anyone listening--a connection to their own environments and spaces. None of these pieces is strictly documentary or one-take in approach or composition, but I hope that the combination of processed and "factual" sounds achieve integrity."

Ned Milligan

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Ned Milligan ~ Considerable (2023)



Ambient, Found Sounds

Considerable, by Ned Milligan

8 track album

laaps-records.com

Not him again. Whatever happened to his atomic dustbin?

 

[axolotl]

Not him again. Whatever happened to his atomic dustbin?

I for one am Happy you brought this up.

I guess you'll have to see him at the next Ned-Fest, or not. He might be out finding sounds.