Unsomnambulist
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L' Épée - Diabolique (2019)
What are you listening to? October 2024
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Zeeba Neighba
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My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991)
Unsomnambulist
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Fu Manchu - The Action Is Go (1997)
axolotl
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We™ ~ As Is (2017)
We™ is: dj olive & once11
We™ is: dj olive & once11
Unsomnambulist
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor - NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD (2024)
Unsomnambulist
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R.E.M. - Green (1988)
Ojai Sam
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Barbara Carroll - Barbara (1958)
Vinyl Spin of the Day.
What does this dramatic album cover photo by Maynard Frank Wolfe tell us about the artist? Intelligent, creative, fearless, sensitive...all of these adjectives apply with equal force to the music on this album. Barbara selected eight mostly familiar songs with a strong Broadway influence but succeeded in capturing their melodic essence in a rather deconstructed way. Her analytical approach is a bit like Thelonious Monk but with the harmonic beauty of Errol Garner in the place of Monk's contrary angularity. Her regular musical partners Joe Shulman on bass and drummer Bill Faite share her sense of adventure without competing with Carroll for the spotlight.
I've been spinning a lot of Barbara Carroll here as part of a project I'm working on and have come to treasure her work more with every album. As Dave Garroway's liner notes observe, "Barbara's music is so enriching, so pregnant with accomplishment, so full of variant things for variant people." Count me in as one of those variant people.
on the Sam-O-Meter.
Buying tip: this album has been included with other Verve material on this essential Fresh Sound Records' release which even sports the same portrait.
Vinyl Spin of the Day.
What does this dramatic album cover photo by Maynard Frank Wolfe tell us about the artist? Intelligent, creative, fearless, sensitive...all of these adjectives apply with equal force to the music on this album. Barbara selected eight mostly familiar songs with a strong Broadway influence but succeeded in capturing their melodic essence in a rather deconstructed way. Her analytical approach is a bit like Thelonious Monk but with the harmonic beauty of Errol Garner in the place of Monk's contrary angularity. Her regular musical partners Joe Shulman on bass and drummer Bill Faite share her sense of adventure without competing with Carroll for the spotlight.
I've been spinning a lot of Barbara Carroll here as part of a project I'm working on and have come to treasure her work more with every album. As Dave Garroway's liner notes observe, "Barbara's music is so enriching, so pregnant with accomplishment, so full of variant things for variant people." Count me in as one of those variant people.
on the Sam-O-Meter. Buying tip: this album has been included with other Verve material on this essential Fresh Sound Records' release which even sports the same portrait.
axolotl
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Your description of this intrigues me. Is there any place I can hear this, short of coming over for dinner?
I can't count that high.
Okay, even I can count to eight. Incidentally, that's the number of Count von Count's fingers.
I can't count that high.
Okay, even I can count to eight. Incidentally, that's the number of Count von Count's fingers.
Ojai Sam
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Unsomnambulist
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Geordie Greep - The New Sound (2024)
This is excellent and recommended to one and all.
This is excellent and recommended to one and all.
Unsomnambulist
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Pernice Brothers - Who Will You Believe (2024)
Unsomnambulist
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The Smile - Cutouts (2024)
Zeeba Neighba
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Joy Division - Closer (1980)
Ojai Sam
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John Coltrane - First Meditations (For Quartet) (rec. 1965, rel. 1977)
As Coltrane's sound became more complex, he began reaching outside the quartet for additional musicians. This transition took a while, leaving behind two (pardon the expression) lame duck quartet albums that stayed in the vault for many years: this one and Sunship.
First Meditations finds Tyner, Garrison and Jones bravely taking on their leader's "suite" which then consisted of the following parts:
Love 8:00
Compassion 9:30
Joy 8:53
Consequences 7:15
Serenity 5:12
The results are certainly worthwhile, but I can see how Coltrane may have felt that his old group was holding him back. For their part, I'm sure Tyner and Jones must have said "WTF?" on more than one occasion before they departed for jazzier pastures.
Later, after reworking the piece, Coltrane recorded it again with the addition of Pharaoh Sanders and Rashied Ali, resulting in the following revised track list:
Side One 18:06
A1 The Father And The Son And The Holy Ghost
A2 Compassion
Side Two 19:02
B1 Love
B2 Consequences
B3 Serenity
This version was released on the now familiar album in 1966.
Buying Tip: Look for the CD reissue of First Meditations (For Quartet) which has a second, longer version of "Joy" recorded less than a month after the first try. As it turned out, the final version of Meditations ended up to be "Joy"-less.
As Coltrane's sound became more complex, he began reaching outside the quartet for additional musicians. This transition took a while, leaving behind two (pardon the expression) lame duck quartet albums that stayed in the vault for many years: this one and Sunship.
First Meditations finds Tyner, Garrison and Jones bravely taking on their leader's "suite" which then consisted of the following parts:
Love 8:00
Compassion 9:30
Joy 8:53
Consequences 7:15
Serenity 5:12
The results are certainly worthwhile, but I can see how Coltrane may have felt that his old group was holding him back. For their part, I'm sure Tyner and Jones must have said "WTF?" on more than one occasion before they departed for jazzier pastures.
Later, after reworking the piece, Coltrane recorded it again with the addition of Pharaoh Sanders and Rashied Ali, resulting in the following revised track list:
Side One 18:06
A1 The Father And The Son And The Holy Ghost
A2 Compassion
Side Two 19:02
B1 Love
B2 Consequences
B3 Serenity
This version was released on the now familiar album in 1966.
Buying Tip: Look for the CD reissue of First Meditations (For Quartet) which has a second, longer version of "Joy" recorded less than a month after the first try. As it turned out, the final version of Meditations ended up to be "Joy"-less.
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