Jane Weaver – The Silver Globe. Still digging this muchly. ‘Electric Mountain’, which is based on a loop of Hawkwind’s ‘Star Cannibal’, inevitably led me to…
Hawkwind – Church Of Hawkwind. Ok, it’s not one of the classic 70s albums, but I’ve always had a major soft spot for this record. A lot of the synth work on it still sounds fresh today.
Camera – Remember I was Carbon Dioxide. As noted elsewhere, highly likeable if often derivative album, though as a German guerrilla rock act, they probably have more ‘right’ to be doing this stuff than a thousand other krautrock/motorik imitators.
IQ – Living Proof. Had an unaccountable desire to listen to some neo-prog. I still love The Wake, but I only made it halfway through this live set.
Circle – Hissi. Here’s another of those bands I know next to nothing about, but feel I need to gen up on. Got lucky with this pick from Spotify. Only their third album I think from the mid-90s, but it sounds hugely anticipatory of what a lot of post-prog/out-rock bands have been doing these past few years, married with an interesting primitive techno undertow. What should I listen to next, Circle fans?
Bohren & Der Club of Gore – Piano Nights. Hadn’t heard this particular Bohren album before. They’re a great band, but their albums really are starting to sound all the same now, no?
Talk Talk – Laughing Stock. An untouchable masterpiece.
Stealing Sheep – Into The Diamond Sun. Still really enjoying this slice of indie/folk/psych from last year, like the Smoke Fairies’ mischievous younger sisters.
Seven That Spells – The Death and Resurrection of Krautrock: AUM. Honestly, this band, and this album in particular, shits from a great height on the vast majority of more-lauded space/psych/stoner rock bands. I know music’s not a competition, but sometimes I feel like the balance of power within the scene needs to be seriously redressed.
Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band – ‘Lam Phu Thai # 1’. Robot Emperor has already flagged this up, but suffice to say it is bloody fab. Goat fans take note ;-) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYGl-l0Toig
Sandy Bull – ‘Blend’. What, this was released in 1963??? Spellbinding acoustic folk/jazz/raga randomly stumbled across on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUgj94xGS3g
Jordan de la Sierra – ‘Temple Of Aesthetic Action’. Minimalist but rhapsodic piano niceness.
Listen With Father:
Grandaddy – ‘Jed The Humanoid’. A random selection in among the usual Bowie, Blondie and Abba. I’d forgotten/probably never realised just how sad this song is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBR1G550m64
