What Are You Listening To? March 2020

[Unsomnambulist]

Cold Sun - Dark Shadows (1989, recorded 1970)

 

[axolotl]

Kareem Roustom & El-Zafeer Ensemble ~ Almitra's Question (2004)

A fusion of jazz and Arabic styles featuring original compositions by Kareem Roustom and covers of John Coltrane’s “Naima” and Olivier Messaien’s “O’ Sacrum Convivium.”

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Former Utopia - Magnetar (2020)

 

[axolotl]

Electropolis ~ Electropolis (2006)

This, again.

Then this:

Duke Robillard ~ Temptation (1994)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts V: Together (2020)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts V: Together (2020)

I think you would like this, @axolotl.

 

[JazzyRandy]

Ben Wendel - The Seasons (2018)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Chris Potter - Circuits (2019)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Herbie Hancock - Speak Like A Child (1968)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts VI: Locusts (2020)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Sista Maj - The Extreme Limit (2019)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Zoahr - Off Axis (2019)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Bukka White - Parchman Farm (1969)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Spotlights - We Are All Atomic (2020)

 

[axolotl]

Calliope ~ I Can See You with My Eyes Closed (1996)

 

[axolotl]

Leo Kottke ~ Try and Stop Me (2004)



American Primitivism, Acoustic Guitar (natch!)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Mike+Ruthy - Bright As You Can (2015)

Here's another winner from No Depression. Their eponymous website schools us:

Mike + Ruthy are Hudson Valley based songwriters who have made waves in the Americana world and beyond. In 2018 they reformed their seminal stringband The Mammals and released the self-produced, Sunshiner, which Tape-Op magazine called "some of the best folk-rock music you will ever hear." These two believe in the transformative power of a great live performance. Touring upwards of a 100 shows a year (with their two kids in tow), Mike + Ruthy also produce a bi-annual folk festival called The Hoot of which the late Pete Seeger called "one of the best song gatherings I've seen in all my 94 years." The Mammals forthcoming record, Nonet, will be available on May 22, 2020.

Bright As You Can presents folk music with fiddle, banjo and steel. If Ian and Sylvia had made Heart of Gold instead of Neil Young, it might have sounded like this. Ruthie Ungar's voice is the star here, moving smoothly from hushed intimacy to bold protest. [Note to self: check out The Mammals soon.]

on the Sam-O-Meter.

 

[axolotl]

Bunky ~ Born to Be a Motorcycle (2005)


Indie Pop, Indie Rock

Not as Twee as you might imagine

 

[axolotl]

Beachwood Sparks ~ Beachwood Sparks (2000)



Alt-Country, Indie Pop, neo-psych-country-rock-folk

 

[JazzyRandy]

Incognito - Last Night In Tokyo (1996)