What Are You Listening To? March 2020

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Charles Brown - 1947-1948 (Classics comp 2000)

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It's just not possible that this collection is 20 years old. :(

This was one of the later volumes on the French Classics label. I recall chasing all over SoCal to track down these imports, which became more elusive as time went on.

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Electropolis ~ Electropolis (2006)


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It's funky and soulful, while still riding a quirky jagged edge. Think James Chance-type energy but smoothed-out, Bill Laswell-style. Or maybe Parliament meets Naked City in a back-alley rumble refereed by MMW. This is music that gets stuck in the land of dreams and toys with your resless leg syndrome. Unconventional though it may be, there are no overdubs or guitars on this record. Some of the tunes were composed right there on the spot, first take, no looking back, but they still retain a tight pop aesthetic. Remixed by NEVERWAS (Chris Cunningham) known for his work with James Chance, Gavin Friday, Hal Willner, Anton Fier to name of few. Cover art done by Winston Smith (Deady Kennedys, Green Day etc).
 
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The Residents - Eskimo (1979)

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Wiki enlightens us:

The pieces on Eskimo feature home-made instruments and chanting against backdrops of wind-like synthesizer noise and miscellaneous sound effects. The work is programmatic, each piece pairing music with text detailing a corresponding pseudo-ethnographic narrative. While Eskimo is officially maintained to be a true historical document of life in the Arctic, the stories are deliberately absurd fictions only loosely based in actual Inuit culture, and the chanting is a combination of gibberish and commercial slogans. The album satirizes ignorance toward and mistreatment of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

With tracks like "The Walrus Hunt" and "Arctic Hysteria" done up ambient style, this certainly qualifies as the oddest album I've played in a while. But somehow it all seems to work.
 
The Residents - Eskimo (1979)

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Wiki enlightens us:

The pieces on Eskimo feature home-made instruments and chanting against backdrops of wind-like synthesizer noise and miscellaneous sound effects. The work is programmatic, each piece pairing music with text detailing a corresponding pseudo-ethnographic narrative. While Eskimo is officially maintained to be a true historical document of life in the Arctic, the stories are deliberately absurd fictions only loosely based in actual Inuit culture, and the chanting is a combination of gibberish and commercial slogans. The album satirizes ignorance toward and mistreatment of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

With tracks like "The Walrus Hunt" and "Arctic Hysteria" done up ambient style, this certainly qualifies as the oddest album I've played in a while. But somehow it all seems to work.

Classic. :thumbsup:

I suggest you check out The Residents & Renaldo and The Loaf - Title In Limbo. I like it the best out of all their output, and I have heard a lot of it.

 
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