Albums

Smoke Fairies - Blood Speaks
Julian Cope - Interpreter
Andy Votel - Plight of the Hunter Mix
Woven Hand - Live at Roepan
Comus - Out of the Coma
Sleepy Sun - Spine Hits
Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound - Manzanita
WITCH - We Intend to Cause Havoc!
Pepe Deluxe - Queen of the Wave
Gossip - A Joyful Noise
Follakzoid - Foellakzoid EP
Demis CousCous - Cover Yourself In CousCous
Datashock - Pyramiden von Gießen
Eternal Tapestry - Dawn in 2 Dimensions
Long Distance Poison - Ideological State Appartus
Mr. Atavist - A Hole Opens Up In The Sky podcast
Arcadium - Breathe Awhile
Bo Hansson - Mellanväsen (Attic Thoughts)
Chris Robinson Brotherhood - Big Moon Ritual
Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - Motion Sickness Of Time Travel
Nordic Nomadic - Worldwide Skyline
Sleater-Kinney - Call the Doctor
Tree - Tree
Can - Tago Mago (40th Anniversary Edition)
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
EDIT: Föllakzoid - Föllakzoid

Tracks

Assorted tracks from Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman's Hidden People

hi

Witch- we intend to cause havoc
tom waits-heartattack and vine, small change
brian eno- music for films
velvet underground- white light white heat, loaded
Dvorak-new world symphony
shostakovic-symphony no. 1
john field- piano concerto no. 1

thanks to the people who gave the glowing reviews of the witch box set for inspiring me to buy it. i've been enjoying it all week, marvellous stuff.

ta

daniel

Thomas Köner - Novaya Zemlya. New one from TK. Another solitary trek across the permafrost.

Wadada Leo Smith - Ten Freedom Summers - Epic.

WITCH - We Intend to Cause Havoc. - Continues to delight.

Dean Allen Foyd - The Sounds Can be So Cruel - Another Shindig Rec.
Swedish psych well worth a spin although influences clearly exploited (Hendrix/Cream/Hawkwindish.

Rolf Julius - Raining. A bit bizarre to listen to this when so much of the real stuff is happening all around.

Bern Nix Trio - Alarms & Excursions - one of Ornette's Prime Time guitarists - marvellous.

Steve Lacy/Mal Waldron - Live in Berlin. Two great improvisors.

Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms. Had read a lot about this but only got it last week. What a stunning record.

Hallock Hill - The Union. Increasingly of the opinion that this is one of the best solo(ish) acoustic guitar record of recent years.

Jan Akkerman - Live. Charity shop purchase. Very mediocre.

Neneh Cherry/The Thing - The Cherry Thing. Woah!

Harmonia - Deluxe.

Hans-Joachim Roedelius - momenti-felici.

The Fall - The Marshall Suite.

The Roches - s/t.

(As an aside writing this listening to Freak Zone. Reminds me why I've never bought a Neutral Milk Hotel record).

Have a great week all.

Album of the week -
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Blood Lust
Man, this is flipping great! It rocks, it rolls, it steals your very soul. And it is on purple speckled vinyl :-)

Nope - Revision
This is very highly recommended. Love the drum sound.

Carlton Melton - Smoke Drip
Lovely cover! Wonderful drifty guitars. Love this band to bits.

Kandodo - s/t
Brilliant ambient sounds.

Black Bombain - Titans
Rock of the heavy variety from Portugal. This is a brilliant double album package with gatefold sleeve. Get hold of one if you can. Top stuff.

Teeth of the Sea - Your Mercury
This is still getting regular plays at Tempest Towers, such a brilliant album.

CD of the week:
Ty Segall - Slaughterhouse
Sleazoid fuzz rock that buzzes and flames your brain. The energy of this is enough to peel the paint off your walls. Smashing!

Jon Porras - Black Mesa
Sloooow and twanging. Bit like recent Earth stuff. Very nice.

Kevin Ayers - The Harvest Years
A really great box. Been listening to this a lot.

White Manna - s/t
Old-style rock, but don't let that put you off.

Motorpsycho & Stale Storlokken - The Death Defying Unicorn
This is just amazing. Mad jazz, heavy rock, Beach Boys sounds, all kinds of stuff, all telling a sea-going tale over two CDs. Incredible!

Cave - Neverendless
Went back to this this week and really enjoyed it all over again. Krauty splendidness.

Rush - Clockwork Angels
Wow! This is really very bloody good. Need to listen to it more to take in the words, but loving it to bits so far.

Parson Sound - S/T 2CD set
New to me, and so far I'm pretty astonished. So far ahead of its time I reckon Dr Who might have something to do with it.

Quicksilver Messenger Service - S/T
Finally got around to getting this. I'd had Anthology on album years back, but never investigated the individual albums. Just as good as I'd hoped.

Phew! So much good music to listen to lately! What a great year so far.

Beak- >>

Neu! -2

Sonic Youth- Evol

The Telescopes- Taste

Go-Kart Mozart- On the Hot Dog Streets

Kim Wilde- S/T

Kim Wilde- Select

Bob Dylan- Blood on the Tracks

The Rolling Stones- Exile on Main Street

Horace Andy- The Prime of...

Camera- Radiate

This Mortal Coil- It'll End in Tears

Party Day- Glasshouse

Now I've finally got time to post... 1) Lead Us Not Into Temptation - David Byrne ..... Sometimes you can get tripped up by other records and put good albums to one side, meaning to return .. and then forget them. Happened with this. It's the soundtrack for the film Young Adam, where Byrne is joined by various Scottish luminaries from the Delgados, Belle and Sebastian and Mogwai. The film is nihilistic and amoral and David captured and complimented it beautifully; it's predominantly instrumental and strings based, with discrete guitar fx and keyboards, and drifts along without a single duff moment. The best soundtrack album I own, and is worth buying just for the track titles, eg. Body in the River, Seaside Smokes, Sex on the Docks, Warm Sheets, Dirty Hair and Bastard. Cant recommend it highly enough; and I didn't play it for four years. 2) Rasta Communication - deluxe edition .... Keith Hudson. Got last Saturday, still absorbing this. While Keith couldn't be described as a vocalist of the highest order the beats can. It has extra tracks and a bonus disc of dub versions.. and I like it a lot. As a personal plus, the notes in the cd mentioned another Hudson record, From One Extreme to Another. About thirty years ago a record shop owner I knew raved about it and played it to me; I thought it was great but walked out without buying as it was a US import and expensive and I was skint. A week later when I felt a bit more flush I went back but it had gone. I never found another copy. I've never forgotten it; one of those holy grails. Anyway, the sleeve notes mentioned a dub version of it called Nah Skin Up. The title tracks on RC and it's a cracker. On checking Amazon they had it at a very good price. Ordered. Happy bunny. 3) Unearthed - Johnny Cash .... Box set of the American Recordings 'rejects'. Indispensible. Always wanted this, but was expensive new, now deleted and very, very pricey, The other month I asked the owner of my local indie emporium if he could look for a 'cheap' crappy nick second hand copy at a price that I might be able to afford with a lot of pip squeaking. When I next saw him he pressed a promo copy into my hand. Free. I was ... choked. Barry is a Very Nice Man. 4) Bitches Brew Live - Miles Davis .... Came out two years ago and completely passed me by until I saw it in the second hand section of the aforementioned emporium when I was buying the Hudson. A quick Amazon review squint revealed lots of 5*s. Four quid. Bought. It's three tracks from Newport Jazz Festival plus the complete set from Isle of Wight '70 in far better quality than ever before. Fierce, wild and in parts very funky. Rather good. 5) Hanging Gardens - The Necks .... Seems to be attracted to my player as much as Kate Bushes efforts last year. That's meant as a compliment. Another music, but just as absorbing, patience-rewarding and vital. Ttfn