Wyatters delights (what are you listening to?)

[iBee]

Currently...?

Me: Colin Blunstone - One Year

[Max_Gate]

Either on the turntable (my favoured source) or the CD player:
David Bowie: Heathen - a newish release on vinyl: a shining capsule which slow-releases delight  through the body;
Dead Can Dance: Serpent's Egg - a twentieth century album from medieval minds;
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Piano Music (Elisabeth Klein) - if sound is architecture then  these pieces are pavilions in a formal garden;
Chris Whitley: Hotel Vast Horizon - imagine the wind working over icicles;
Soft Machine: Bundles - because I like waving at trains;
Camel: Mirage - which hasn't worn that well but has the attraction of a period play by an amateur dramatic society.

Max Gate

[Jaakko]

Kratfwerk - Tour de France soundtracks
Penderecki conducts Penderecki
Peter Hammill - Over (one of those "best album ever"
candidates)
Fred Frith - Maybe Monday
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 2003 (don't laugh! It's ok)
Dave Swarbrick - The Swarb!
Daevid Allen's University Of Errors - Ugly Music For Monica
Soft Machine - Noisette

Jaakko

[iBee]

You're the second person who said so about Tubular Bells 2003... it's hard to believe, but now i'm curious to listen to it...

Others current favorites:
Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms
Shirley & Dolly Collins - Love, Death & the Lady
Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
Odessey & Oracle - The Zombies
Steve Burns - Songs for Dustmites

[strongcomet]

The Blue Nile - A Walk Across The Rooftops: Scottish delight from mid 80's.

Elbow - Cast Of Thousands: A dark epic from Liverpool I think...

Peter Hammill - BBC Sessions: well, this is one of Hammill's (the lord of gloom) best performances, with songs from various stages of his creative life. Haunting, mesmerising, an album that will make you ache with pleasure.

This Mortal Coil - The Original Versions: This is a real gem that was once released as the fourth CD of the This Mortal Coil box set (which I don't own, and it makes me weep everytime I remember the first and only time I actually held this box, and said to myself, "aah...too expensive... maybe next time". Well, next time never arrived, but still managed to get a hold of a copy of the 4th album.
Roy Harper, Big Star, Tim Buckley, The Byrds, Chris Bell, Spirit, Gene Clark and other American & British classics. Excellent!
 

[singingbear]

Current regular grooves:
'The Decline of British Sea Power' British Sea Power
'Invitation To Openness' Les McCann
'In Between' Pondman
'Lifted' Bright Eyes
'Headless Heroes of The Apocolypse' Eugene McDaniels
'Mono' Lambchop

[Bel Air]

This week...

BBC Sessions (67-71) - Soft Machine
In A Silent Way - Miles Davis
Casablanca Moon - Slapp Happy
Hail To The Thief - Radiohead
Oh Yeah - Charles Mingus
Weasles Ripped My Flesh - The Mothers of Invention

[strongcomet]

Elvis Costello - Get Happy re-release
Elvis Costello - Trust re-release
Elvis Costello - Punch The Clock re-release
Neil Young - Harvest
Terry Hall & Mushtaq - The Hour of Two Lights
Tom Waits - Small Change

[Max_Gate]

Here in New Zealand it's Sunday night, a time to take stock of the week that's gone, with the sun, west. What has occupied the turntable?

Roy Harper: Born in Captivity - originally the demo for 'Work of Heart' it has an endearing spareness that is almost Protestant;
The Church: Starfish - apart from Dead Can Dance, my favourite Australian band, with a driving refinement: nothing rough, nothing unconsidered, but still bloody - just bloody;
Richard Clapton: Goodbye Tiger - another Australian with a colonial nostalgia for better days: Southern Comfort without the comfort;
Roger Quilter: Songs (Benjamin Luxon, baritone/David Willison, piano) - delightfully minor yet impeccable settings of poems by Herrick, Waller, Shelley, Blake and Tennyson: enticing as a sepia portrait of an unknown woman;
The Comsat Angels: Sleep No More - because we all need to pretend to be young, brash, yet sorry for ourselves once more, just once more, just once....

Max Gate

[zeebras]

being a fan of top ten lists, desert island picks etc., i'm happy to throw in my week's listening.
insect trust - hoboken saturday night
mothers of invention - burnt weeny sandwich
if i could only have two discs on a desert island, these
are the two.
jack bruce -  BBC 1972
frank strozier - long night/march of the siamese twins
robert randolph - live at wetlands
sugarcane harris - sugarcane
and of course something with robert wyatt
hatfield and the north - 1st

[Fabrizio262]

not the desert island discs, but the cd's and lp's that turns longer here.
Pascal Comelade - L'argot du bruit
Daniele Sepe - Spiritus mundi (italian saxophonist who likes to mix world music and jazz-rock, this record contains a good version of "Te recuerdo Amanda"
Tori Amos - Strange little girls
Peter Blegvad - Choices under pressure (do I have to say a word on this great great artist?)
Frank Zappa - Zoot allures
Neil Young - Greendale
AA.VV. - That's the way I feel now (Monk tribute)

[iBee]

Last update:

Casablanca Moon - Slapp Happy (Charlie 'N Charlie!! ...what a groovy tune! )
Under the Western Freeway - Grandaddy
Vic Chesnutt (a compilation i've made)
The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse - Bonzo Dog Band
One Year      /Ennismore - Colin Blunstone (as ever...)

[Jaakko]

"Charlie ´n Charlie are twins,
you can never tell, where
Charlie ends and Charlie begins,
the search is on and
now Charlie looks for Charlie in vain,
no blame
'cause Charlie 'n Charlie are the same."

>Peter Blegvad<

The early version of this groovy tune is on "Sort Of"
called "Sort Of" and it's instrumental, highly
recommendable.

Jaakko

[iBee]

Jaakko: you seem very knowledgeable about Slapp Happy... do yo know if their albums are still available? And which one should i purchase next after Casablanca Moon?
I'm in love with Dagmar Krause's voice!

[Jaakko]

Well, every one of their albums are delightful,
and I was a bit puzzled that "Ca Va" comeback -album
never made into charts, it's a masterpiece.

I know about Dagmar's voice, you love it (or don't) and
I just adore her.

Slapp Happy's cds are hard to get, but on Virgin label
Casablanca Moon (1st or just "Slapp Happy)/Desperate
Straights (with Henry Cow) 2cds on 1 might still be
available, CaVa came out on Branson V2 label and I have seen it often, Sort Of is pretty rare (I have LP) on obscure label (1 bonustrack), Acnalbasac Noom was reissued by Cutler's Recommended Records (couple of bonustrracks) and secondhandLPs have ridiculous prices.
I e-mailed to Japan about the Live in Japan CD and the guy wrote that he's trying to find a distributor in Europe.

Dagmar is on Art Bears CDs too, great stuff.

Jaakko