Wyatters delights (what are you listening to?)

[Max_Gate]

After a month on the road it's good to get back to my sea view - and you....While away I was listening to:

The Clash: London Calling - This was the first song I played after the birth of my son some nineteen years ago so it has history for me beyond the ferocity of its delivery; somehow I hear it as caring (which, of course, Strummer was).

Aspen: Are You That Retail Snob? - One of my hosts was an electronica junkie. It's not a genre I've a lot of time for, although this outfit (one Brendan Smith twiddling knobs) is ideal if you feel like drinking a shiraz as the tide ebbs.

Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - Okay, so I'm late with this: I like it less than Aspen but suspect that they needed Aphex Twin as a model. Listening to this is like watching a brilliant preschooler construct a cathedral in his sandpit.

Max Gate

[TheIdeaofWyatt]

Frank Zappa & The Mother's Uncle Meat. I am on the track Sleeping In A Jar.

[theallgolden]

ah, everyone is listening to fine things.

i've heard a lot of my old krautrock albums in the last week (due to illness) e.g. things like

popol vuh - affenstunde

weird stuff.  on the one hand a kind of boring, but on the other totally fascinating. like  call and response between planets far away.   maybe a blueprint for  

tangerine dream -  zeit  

same thing. cosmic.

and klaus schulze's early works.

amon düül II - phallus dei

i am not the youngest, but too young to be around when that music was born. what have the people thought as this album has been released?  

all my la düsseldorf and neu! longplayers

music to drift away.


but back from cosmos i listened to:

savoy grand -the lost horizons ep

fantastic. slow as it ever was.

and over and over again to
paddy mcaloon -i trawl the megahertz

still a favourite.

[Jaakko]

- Dagmar Krause & Marie Goyette: A Scientific Dream &
French Kiss

- The Commuters

- Tipographica: The Man Who DoesnNot Nod

- Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath: 1. & Travelling Somewhere

- Gong: Acid Motherhood

And anything from Magma 'cause they're going be here in Helsinki 26.4. Kobaia Forever!

Jaakko
   

[theallgolden]

last night i watched to 'the last waltz'-dvd.

what a film.  wha a delight. the last 25 years (or so) i forgot what a great film this was and still is.    

highlight to me: muddy waters with his 'mannish boy'.
fantastic. you notice i'm still enthusiastic.

[Bel Air]

Frank Zappa & The Mother's Uncle Meat. I am on the track Sleeping In A Jar.

That is a truly wondrful album  8)

I've been listening to a lot of Bartok at the moment, particularly the Music For Strings, Percussion and Celesta and the String Quartets.

A lot of Zappa too and some Squarepusher (Budhakan Mindfone) and Autechre (EP7). And Radiohead, as always.

Fela Kuti is my new discovery. I absolutely love everything I've heard at the moment and his 'Roforofo Fight' is spinning consistently in my system.

[Chairman_Mao]

Bob Dylan - Live 1964.  The latest in the bootleg series, good stuff.

[theallgolden]

i listened to the first two slapp happy lp's - sort of and acnalbasac moon (also known as casablanca moon).  espescially the second one is fantastic. in the eighties -at the time i bought these two albums- i loved that voice of dagmar krause. i think i still do. just have forgotten it over the years. shame on me.

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scrolling downwards -as i wrote this- i recognized that jaako also likes these kind of music.

[Jaakko]

Cassiber

Art Bears live (unknown bootlegged concert)

This Heat

Daevid Allen - Live In New York (bootleg)
                   - Je Ne Fume Des Bananes (another fine
example of a extremely rare album, which was available through Soulseek)

Jaakko

[A Wyatter in Far East]

Has anyone ever asked about the CD, Slapp Happy Live in Japan? You may be able to find a copy on Amazon.com (not on Amazon.co.jp, unfortunately).

Then, for those who might be interested in what sort of music a Japanese is listening to, my list (in the recent week):
Chicago; a bootleg live, maybe captured in '69, very early days.
Phish; a bootleg live at Lemonwheel Festival in 1998.
Miles Davis; Complete Jack Johnson Sessions.
George Harrison; All Things Must Pass and Cloud Nine
Robert Johnson; Complete Recordings.
King Crimson; Earthbound and USA

I ordered just now to Wayside Music a copy of Gary Windo's recent CD which is said to include some tunes with RW. Check www.waysidemusic.com

For a prog rock lover in west, I'd like to recommend "Yonin Bayashi," the best Japanese prog band in '70s, which name is "four-man band" in Japanese. If interested, why not try to access Amazon.co.jp for a copy, which HP also provides English pages.

Good luck,

[zeebras]

butterfield blues band - east/west
the electric flag - a long time coming
kooper/bloomfield/stills - super session
kooper/ bloomfield - live adventures
 i've been on one of my frequent mike bloomfield kicks. bloomfield was the one who turned me on to electric blues as a young kid, and has remained a hero of mine ever since. he put out an awful lot of crap in his day, but the above mentioned titles certainly justify his reputation.
charles hayward/nick doyne-ditmas - my secret alphabet
spring heel jack - amassed
w c clark - from austin with soul
fred frith - allies
frank zappa - lumpy gravy
 another favorite first heard as a young kid. zappa, along with mike bloomfield and al kooper, opened my ears to much, if not all, of what i love in music. the look of dismay on my friends faces when i first played lumpy gravy for them is a cherished memory.
xtc - english settlement
archie shepp - live in san francisco
 keep your ears open and your nose out of trouble.

[Max_Gate]

Zeebras, I remember the intensity of MB's playing. The way each note hangs like a skyrocket at the end of its climb, then descends into (his) darkness. I get something of this in the playing of someone who is light years removed from the blues: Tristan Dingemans of High Depencency Unit, whose recordings have been described as 'a river of fire'.  

Tristan also performs solo (with effects pedals, loops etc) as Kahu. He puts up sheets of sound that wrap around your body. HDU and Kahu are constantly on my stereo as I try, ridiculously, to feel young.

Max Gate

[zeebras]

max, you're never too old to rock out.

[Max_Gate]

Zeebras, you're generous when you suggest that you're never too old to rock'n'roll. Clearly Mick Jagger is, although I'm prevented from embarrassing myself because I write this from Glenorchy Hotel, near Queenstown, in New Zealand. My portly friend and I, midway through a geriatric tramp, are stranded by heavy snowfalls. The other day was a torment: a commercial coach with the Greatest Hits of Chicago and Abba on endless repeat. Do they choose drivers on the basis of bad taste? Whatever I did in a past life I don't deserve 'Fernando'.

Before I left the comfort of my stereo I was listening to Fairport Convention's 'What We Did On Our Holidays'. This album has been with me (in numerous copies) since I was fifteen. It delivers as surely as an old lover who understands your body. It is delicious, and I continue to love it unreservedly.

Also on the turntable were Dylan's spare yet endearing 'John Wesley Harding', various absurd but memorable works by The Fall, and Roy Harper's granite-like 'Lifemask'.

I appear to be revisiting my youth. And you?

Max Gate

[zeebras]

a lot of vinyl on the turntable these days, concentrating, it seems, on obscure and not so obscure american west coast psychedelic folk/rock/blues:
lowell george & the factory- lightning rod man
a nice mix of folk/rock and weirdness, like buffalo springfield crossed with "freak out" by the mothers.
fraternity of man - fraternity of man
fraternity of man - get it on
essentially the factory without lowell, but replaced by elliot ingber. more psychedelic blues/rock weirdness, with a heavy nod to early zappa.
little feat - little feat
little feat - sailin shoes
little feat - dixie chicken
lowell george, post mothers of invention. these three albums are the equal to "music from big pink" "the band" and "stage fright". the first two, with roy estrada in the band, are absolutely essential. dixie chicken is just simply fantastic. it was downhill from here.
the asylum choir - look inside the asylum choir
l.a. pop weirdness from leon russell and marc benno.
daughters of albion- daughters of albion
the duo of greg dempsey and kathy yesse doing,
that's right, you guessed it, psychedelic folk/rock. produced and arranged by leon russell, and not unlike the asylum choir record. kathy yesse would go on to record an album for zappa's discreet label, as kathy dalton, with little feat backing her up.
the holy modal rounders - eat the moray eels
possibly the strangest record in my collection
tim buckley - dream letter - live in london 1968
a stunner.