What are you listening to? September 2018

[Unsomnambulist]

Digital Underground - Sex Packets (1990)


The cassette version (with about 20 more minutes of music than the CD or vinyl) that I transferred to digital a few years ago.

"May contain explicit language"? So they're not sure?

 

[lpfreak1170]

"May contain explicit language"? So they're not sure?

1990 was a confusing time.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

1990 was a confusing time.

Oh, the 90s were awesome compared to now. We just didn't realize it at the time.

 

[axolotl]

Fields ~ Fields [s/t] (1971)

I had intended to write some backstory, but my 'puter was determined to freeze me out of doing so.

This might look like a semi-apparent attempt to influence lpfreak,, but 'taint necessarily so. I picked up this sealed CD at Poobah Records in Pasadena last week. The LP first-run release would go for a cool hunnerd bucks whenever I would see it, and I'm simply not that crazy.

As soon as I heard it, I knew that I remembered hearing it before. Some of the songs were immediately memorable, and the lyrics seemed to pop into my head. [By the way, I'm okay now; thanks for asking.]

The band was fronted by its creator Graham Field, who was one of the driving forces behind Rare Bird. By fronted, I mean his Hammond organ, electric piano, and piano, are front-and-center, and not that he sang. It imparts a sense of classic English prog, if you are into that sort of thing.

 

[axolotl]

Oh, the 90s were awesome compared to now. We just didn't realize it at the time.

Do we ever? Is it not the human condition to fail to realize how good we have it, until we don't?

You can see that recent unemployment and my utter failure at marriage and remarriage have tempered me.

That's a good thing.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Newton Faulkner - Hand Built By Robots (2007)

I guess you would call this indie folk. It came as a bonus in a recent MusicBoomerang trade. Far more enjoyable than I expected. The guy can sing, write and play. This one definitely deserves further study.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Antena - Camino del Sol (1982)

This one flew in my window and landed on my computer, so naturally I gave it a spin. French-Belgian electropop, eh? Very enjoyable. @Nickyboy probably already knows about it.

From the Numero Group website:

1982, Brussels: The former au pair for Rick Wakeman of Yes and two of her teenage friends are at the doorstep of Les Disques Du Crepuscule, ready to cut an album with Gilles Martin. Living on busking wages and next door to Tuxedomoon, their work results in a contemporary bossanova record that would provide a missing link between Antonio Carlos Jobim and Kraftwerk. Camino Del Sol was issued and promptly forgotten, with Isabelle Antena moving toward jazz in Asia and the others returning to France.

What genius would even think to look for a missing link between Jobim and Kraftwerk, much less find one?

on the Sam-O-Meter. Coming next week: the missing link between Mozart and Otis Redding.

 

[axolotl]

Newton Faulkner - Hand Built By Robots (2007)

I guess you would call this indie folk. It came as a bonus in a recent MusicBoomerang trade. Far more enjoyable than I expected. The guy can sing, write and play. This one definitely deserves further study.

This. Now. Thanks.

 

[Nickyboy]

Antena - Camino del Sol (1982)

@Nickyboy probably already knows about it.

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I didn't. But I do now! Thanks, Sam!

 

[axolotl]

Antena - Camino del Sol (1982)

This one flew in my window and landed on my computer, so naturally I gave it a spin. French-Belgian electropop, eh? Very enjoyable. @Nickyboy probably already knows about it.

From the Numero Group website:

1982, Brussels: The former au pair for Rick Wakeman of Yes and two of her teenage friends are at the doorstep of Les Disques Du Crepuscule, ready to cut an album with Gilles Martin. Living on busking wages and next door to Tuxedomoon, their work results in a contemporary bossanova record that would provide a missing link between Antonio Carlos Jobim and Kraftwerk. Camino Del Sol was issued and promptly forgotten, with Isabelle Antena moving toward jazz in Asia and the others returning to France.

What genius would even think to look for a missing link between Jobim and Kraftwerk, much less find one?

on the Sam-O-Meter.

This is stunning. Wonderful find.

Coming next week: the missing link between Mozart and Otis Redding.

Here's to your finding one.

Didn't they both die in the same plane crash outside of Madison, Wisconsin?

 

[axolotl]

Leo Kottke ~ My Father's Face (1998)



"...everyday in the morning when you get up, and you crawl out of bed, you crawl out of bed, and you crawl out of bed."

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Yo La Tengo - The Sounds Of The Sounds Of Science (2002)

 

[axolotl]

Yo La Tengo - The Sounds Of The Sounds Of Science (2002)

This, this afternoon.

 

[axolotl]

Matt Holman ~ The Tenth Muse (2017)

 

[Old Uncle Toe]

Danny Gatton - 88 Elmira Street


Very capable rockabilly/jazz/blues guitarist does an instrumental album.

 

[Nickyboy]

Rachid Taha- Tekitoi?



He was a powerhouse in Rai music of Algeria. Highly recommended by me to anyone who is interested in World music.

 

[Old Uncle Toe]

Rachid Taha- Tekitoi?



He was a powerhouse in Rai music of Algeria. Highly recommended by me to anyone who is interested in World music.

I was dubious but I enjoyed the clip you provided. There's something infectious about it that reeled me in before the song was over. I'm not sure what mood I'd have to be in to break out a Rashid Taha album and play it end to end, but this sure is an interesting listen.

 

[axolotl]

I was dubious but I enjoyed the clip you provided. There's something infectious about it that reeled me in before the song was over. I'm not sure what mood I'd have to be in to break out a Rashid Taha album and play it end to end, but this sure is an interesting listen.

A wry mood?

 

[Nickyboy]

I was dubious but I enjoyed the clip you provided. There's something infectious about it that reeled me in before the song was over. I'm not sure what mood I'd have to be in to break out a Rashid Taha album and play it end to end, but this sure is an interesting listen.

You should check it out. That first song is the only one that has "rapping" on it, but all have the Algerian orchestration in them. The last two tracks of the album will really pull you in, then it's over.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Crippled Black Phoenix - Great Escape (2018)