Mark Fry Dreaming With Alice
HAzy slightly out of focus production on early 70s folk meets rock lp. Record was recorded in Italy by fry, still a teenager with artistic ambitions and a Scottish rock band. Not sure if they'd had much contact before the recording but it does come out pretty well. HAs some nice long instrumental textures that sound like sitar, also remind me of the velvets in places. weight of the raga or something.
Peter Hammill In Camera
Dark Solo lp by HAmmill joined by some of his VDGG fellows at times. I think the solo stuff works pretty well, that is the couple of tracks where he is just accommanied by his own acoustic guitar playing and the 3 Peel session tracks with him alone at piano. Had wondered if I wanted to get the other nearly completely solo lps & on this basis most probably.
Anyway the furrow that Hamill was working in the mid 70s does seem to have been a very productive one whichever instrumental combination he was working in.
Do think I just prefer the fuller band stuff though.
So got Silent Corner on my wants list, also Chameleon, wondering about the later stuff, already having Nadir & all the 70s VDG(G).
Ornette Coleman Complete Science Fiction sessions disc1
Great avanty jazz stuff from the early 70s by Ornette with various accompanists including the reunited Atlantic era group. Gets quite psychedelic in places. Think i'm particularly taken with Rock The Clock
because of the electric sounding bass, plus its the one where Ornette himself is getting very out there with trumpet and violin.
This being the complete sessions the last 2 tracks on the cd are the first 2 from broken Shadows which wasn't released until a decade later but comes from the same sessions.
Disc also starts with a pretty cosmic number with female vocals.
The only track i'd been familiar with prior to getting this was the title one which turned up on a Kevin Martin complied 2cd in the mid 90s.
This seems to be a lot easier to get hold of from the States than this side of the atlantic.
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats Blood lust
Stoner rock concept lp about a Psycho. really enjoyable lp. Very surprised it hasn't appeared on other people's SOOLs, or at least the search engine hasn't returned any other mention.
Thought there would be people on here all over this and I'd be the last person to hear about things like this. This was another thing iI heard about through Optical Sound. I think their own website is still selling copies of this on cd
http://www.svartrecords.com/shoppe/cds-free-shipping-worldwide/725-uncle-acid-and-the-deadbeats-blood-lust-cd.html
while Rise Above have sold out of a couple of vinyl pressings
Bebop Spoken Here
one of the 4 discs from the Proper box, not sure which number but it has a green cover. So is a mix of instrumental and vocal tracks from the height of the bebop craze in the 40s. has bits of Dizzy Gillespie scatting which is always fun.
Jane's Addiction Ritual de lo Habitual
Their 3rd lp, upbeat offbeat rock from LA in the late 80s. I somehow didn't get into their material until years after the fact despite having been at the ICA show where their dry ice set off the fire alarms and the audience had to traipse out into the winter cold of the Mall. Think the show itself was pretty enjoyable.
Is there a deluxe remaster of this around? Might indulge if so.
Tully Sea of Joy
australian hippy folk band from turn of the 70s. I think this might be the soundtrack for a film, it's interspersed with pretty atmospheric instrumentals.
as per usual, not remembering everything I've listened to over this week. Other bits may come back to me later.
Plus hours of things cropping up at random through my walkman. SO loads of Italian prog, zeuhl, jazz, country, rockabilly, blues, r'n'r, Gun Club, Cramps, psychedelia, Sonic youth, folk etc etc.
Reading
Everybody Loves Our Town by Mark Yarm
oral history of Seattle and grunge. very interesting. Has made me want to check out some stuff like U-Men, Cat Butt, SOundgarden and possibly Alice iN Chains & relisten to Mudhoney, Screaming Trees and Tad.
Also wonder why there was so much space given to Candlebox and Courtney Love.
Retromania Simon reynolds
sort of enjoyiing this but have noticed a couple of places where I think he has his facts wrong. Might make a marked effort to read a lot more of it today, feeling a bit under the weather.
watching
bits and pieces of various things
Not Going Out
finding this pretty funny, not really been acquainted with it before. But one of the cable channels is running a lot of it recently.
Man vs Food
again something I've not been acquainted with though I've heard the name. Kind of fun.
Has me wondering about a few things like the timespace an episode is filmed over. Continuity has it suggesting that things are happening on the same day per episode but i can't see that Adam guy being able to undergo challenges without at least a couple of days between, unless he has a rock iron gut, Eve undergoing a heat challenge onits own would tend to require a day of resting your gut afterwards surely, On the couple I've seen he's doing a heat challenge then later a sizeof portion to consume one.
Geronimo
Drag with this was a lack of subtitles for when they were speaking apache. Might have something to do with it being shown on the Gaelic channel so they didn't want to use english subtitles?
Seems an ok film otherwise.
Mallrats
was puzzled by the presence of Stan Lee in a film not based on a Marvel comic. Otherwise,glad I've finally seen this & hoping I get to see Clerks next week.
Stevo
