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Earth , Wind & Fire - Last Days and Time

Earth , Wind & Fire - Head to the Sky

Glenn Miller - The Complete Vol. 1 1938-1939

Steppenwolf - Slow Flux

Nat King Cole & the King Cole Trio - Golden Years 1943-1946

Patsy Cline - Stop , Look & Listen

V.A. - The Jazz Hits

Deuter - Land of Enchantment

Miles Davis - Aura

Miles Davis - Amandla

Miles Davis - Tutu

Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits (1971)

Dionne Warwick - Presenting

Vir Unis - Aeonian Glow

The Impressions - The Impressions / The Never Ending Impressions

The Mothers - Freak Out!

Robert Rich - What We Left Behind

Erik Wøllo & Byron Metcalf: Earth Luminous

The Moody Blues - A Question of Balance

The Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

The Moody Blues - To Our Children’s Children’s Children

The Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn

The Fraternity of Man - st

The Fraternity of Man - Get It On!

Santana - st (Deluxe Edition)

There have been some great new releases from members of this forum of late. Really enjoyed listening to these three cds in the early summer sun yesterday.

Bogquake - The Bogquake Tapes
Null - Null
Black Tempest - Enfolding Light (Santana's "Oneness" meets "Rubycon" and mid period Kraftwerk. Kind of)

All these got a play during the week but it's the Laura Nyro tribute record and the new Jane Siberry that really stuck out. Both those records recommended particularly to anyone who liked "50 Words For Snow".

Billy Childs & Various - Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro
Jane Siberry - Ulysses' Purse
Moulettes _ Prenatural (thanks Moonie)
Louis Prima - The Wildest
Brian Eno - The Ship
Little Feat - Time Loves A Hero
Santana - Moonflower
Santana - Amigos
John Morales Presents Club Motown
Prince - Graffiti Bridge
Prince - Art Official Age
Prince - The Truth
Prince - Prince
Prince - Indigo Nights
Prince & 3RDEYEGIRL - PLECTRUMELECTRUM
Doobie Bros - Livin' On The Fault Line
Laura Nyro - Loom's Desire
Laura Nyro - Angel In The Dark
Teena Marie - Ivory
Gwen Guthrie - Peanut Butter
Johnny Guitar Watson - Listen
Judith Hill - Back In Time

Barbara Hannigan & Reinbert De Leeuw - Satie: Socrate

Michael Tilson Thomas, London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra - Debussy: Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien

Streetwalkers 'Chapman Whitney Streetwalkers' and 'Vicious But Fair'
Radiohead 'Burn The Witch' DL
Brian Eno 'The Ship'
Nazareth 'Nazareth'
Lush 'Blind Spot' EP
The Dolphin Brothers 'Catch The Fall'
Sparks 'Indiscreet'
Haydn: String Quartets Op.50 (Tatrai Quartet)
Various 'Bamberg Symphony 70 Years'

Henry Blacker - Summer Tombs

The Fall - Sub-Lingual Tablet

John McBain / Blown Out Split 7"

Pink Floyd - The Wall

Witch - We Intend to Cause Havoc!

Earth - HEX: Or Printing In The Infernal Method

Popol Vuh - Nosferatu the Vampyre (O.S.T.)

Aidan Moffat - Where You're Meant To Be

The Cosmic Dead - Rainbowhead / Eccie Bam. Yas, E? (bonus disk)

White Hills - Oddity VII: Origins

Grateful Dead - Live/Dead

Sunn O)) - Monoliths & Dimensions

Xhol Caravan - Hau-RUK

13th Floor Elevators: Easter Everywhere

Durutti Column: LC two-disc reissue (in the car...)

Swans: To Be Kind

The Body/Kreig: Death Night -- Apparently the latter needed to think outside the box so they teamed up with noise-ters the Body. Nice to hear a Black Metal band go for drier textures instead of the usual reverb-soaked route...

Sukora: oeo -- A 90s Jap-noise oddity this one. Very lo-fi series of clicks and rumbles on vinyl that makes for a tense listening experience (only because you think it's the turntable and not the record itself...)

Konstructivists: Flowmotion Years 1980-82 -- Too much like my own stuff, from before I even started my own electronic music...

Pentangle - Basket Of Light

V/A - Willow's Songs

Comus - First Utterance
Comus - Out Of The Coma

Genesis - Nursery Cryme

Amon Düül II - Phallus Dei

Elgar - On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring etc.

Spriguns - Revel, Weird & Wild
Spriguns - Time Will Tell

Stomu Yamash'ta - Floating Music

Ash Ra Tempel - New Age Of Earth
Ash Ra Tempel - Blackouts

Klaus Dinger - Neondian

Can - Saw Delight
Can - Out Of Reach

Ravi Shankar - Alice In Wonderland

Trad Gras och Stenar - S/T
Birthday present from our Will - thanks Will!

Harvester - Hemat
The Myrrors - Arena Negra
The Saints - (I'm) Stranded
Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again...
Bert Jansch - Rosemary Lane
Mugstar - Magnetic Seasons
Guru Guru - UFO
Yuri Gagarin - At The Centre of all Infinity

Vinyl:

Sula Bassana - Live at Roadburn 2014

Our Solar System - In Time
This is great, kind of psych with a bit of sax skronk thrown in. Two side long jams both of which are pretty ace.

Myrrors - Burning Circles in the Sky
The Heads - Burning Up With...

Trad Gras och Stenar - box set
Still totally ace. Best thing ever.

Sundays and Cybele - Heaven
One of a kind a really enjoyable.

The Cosmic Dead - Rainbowhead
Spids Nogenhat - Kommer Med Fred

UnicaZürn – Omegapavilion. Lovely dark droney kosmische from ex-Coil and Shock Headed Peters people. You will, however, need a cassette deck to play it… http://www.tapeworm.org.uk/ttw84.html

Rhyton – Redshift. These guys’ last album had an interesting Greco-Turkish spin on psych. This time round, they appear to have discovered the Eagles. Results not so good.

Melanie de Biasio – Blackened Cities. 25 minutes of jazzy noir, pretty much all build and no release, err, niiiccceee!

Radiohead – ‘Burn The Witch’ / ‘Daydreaming’. You may have heard that Radiohead are BACK! And you know, both songs and videos are pretty great. The Wicker Man rip is a little pat, non? (I say this as I stroke my waxed beard): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI2oS2hoL0k and T Yorke looks like he’s walked into the world’s longest insurance ad here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTAU7lLDZYU

JuJu – s/t. Marvellous slab of gothy glam prog, definitely one of the albums of the year.

The Comet Is Coming – Channel The Spirits

Klaus Schulze - Moondawn

Hawkwind – Doremi Fasol Latido

Finders Keepers have just done a Space Rock radio show which you can listen to here: https://soundcloud.com/finderskeepersrecords Includes one of my fave weird/brilliant tracks, this Bollywood disco ‘homage’ to Jeff Wayne’s War Of The Worlds… https://youtu.be/0WBorOBwRrs The original film scene it’s from is even stranger, like a cross between an Indian Top Of The Pops and Logan’s Run: https://youtu.be/SkHqzLuPxK8

The Image Has Cracked – Alternative TV

The Spotlight Kid – Captain Beefheart

Hunky Dory – David Bowie
Blackstar – David Bowie

My Kingdom (CDS) – Future Sound Of London

Ancient Blue – Golden Fable

Sound Effects – The Jam

Box – The Neon Judgement

Definitely Maybe – Oasis

Original Rockers – Augustus Pablo

Super – Pet Shop Boys

For Your Pleasure – Roxy Music

Anomie & Bonhomie – Scritti Politti

Mantaray - Siouxsie

Wire - Wire
Nocturnal Koreans - Wire

Andrew Weatherall - Convenanza - Actually sounding a lot better after leaving it alone for a few weeks.

Ian Dury - New Boots And Panties - 'Blackmail Man' still takes me by surprise. Fucking great.

Various - Pied Piper: Follow Your Soul.

The Real Thing: The Very Best Of.

Heatwave - Always And Forever (Best Of).

Various - Disco Discharge - Classic Disco - Thanks To Zphage for the heads up!

John Morales Presents Club Motown - Thanks To IanB for the heads up!

Faithless @ Berlin '98. One of the better live dance acts I have seen actually. Wasn't there for this gig, but they were on top form at Glastonbury '02 when I was.

Faust - V. C66, 0y c60*4ter has g6t 0ad dr65ds d5sease... ah the number lock was on. I'm guessing it is some kind of compilation that someone posted a link to a while back. Sounds very much like Faust... which is nice.

Julian Cope - Jehovah Coat Demo's, Jehovahkill, Skellington

Gnod - Mirror Mirror. Not bad - heard better! By them too. The album before for one.

Tesseract - Polaris. More melodic and trad prog than previous tech metal workouts. My mate hates it but I've come to like it a lot. A grower for sure

Melt Yourself Down - Last Evenings on Earth. I was a bit 'meh' about this at first considering how much I liked the debut album - the wacky vocals got a bit wearing. However, it's grown on me a lot now. Sounds like they've been listening to Goat in some places

King Tubby - Crucial Dub . Sun was out..n ting

Prince - 1999/Diamonds & Pearls/Chaos & Disorder/Parade/"symbol"
Madhouse - Thanks Ian. Superb collection of Prince in his jazz funk instrumental identity
Jill Jones - st Prince Protege from the 80s. Basically a Prince album with Jill Jones singing and very good it is too!

Baroness - Purple


Thomas Tallis - (Oxford Camerata) Mass for Four Voices/Motets

Have a nice week x

Last week:

Monster Magnet - Superjudge

Tony Conrad - Outside The Dream Syndicate (first time in an age, I had forgotten how much I like it)

Grateful Dead - Blues For Allah

Earthling Society - Sweet Chariot (Utter brilliance)

Carlton Melton - Out To Sea
Carlton Melton - Aground (Didn't do much for me on first listen as it sounded a little bit like Post Rock, oh how wrong I was! This is great, definitely one of my favourite bands around at the moment)

Steely Dan - Aja
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan - Countdown To Ecstacy

Heron Oblivion - Heron Oblivion (Mmmm I like!)

Gentle Giant - Octopus
Spooky Tooth - Spooky Two
The Byrds - The Byrds
Manassas - Manassas
Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards

OK well there was some stuff I played the last couple of days I'm sure to forget by the next weekend, so...

Peter Gabriel: Second -- On the strength of finding out that all the solo stuff has been reissued in remastered 45-speed two vinyl disc formats. Someone tell me if they're any good?

Fripp and Eno: Evening Star -- Still need to find No Pussyfooting on vinyl...

The Fugs: the Fugs First Album -- Just one of those hippy beatnik moods...

Freedom: s/t -- Rare blues-rock cack I only picked up 'cos the cover looked radical. Nothing like MC5. Which led to the album I wished it was...

Stooges: Funhouse -- and then the next day...

The Fugs (again): No More Slavery -- An 80s comeback that wasn't all that bad but something seemed to be missing... which led to...

Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Welcome to the Pleasure Dome -- I don't care what people think really, it still sounds amazing as far as production, music-wise. I mean it's more of a Trevor Horn album and he knew what he was doing, just as he did in the Buggles.

Acid Mother Temple & Cosmic Inferno - Iao Chant From The Cosmic Inferno

Syd Barrett - An Introduction To ...

David Bowie - Blackstar

Broadcast - Work & Non Work

Julian Cope - Rite (with Donald Ross Skinner) / Discovering Odin / Rite Now

Cream - Fresh Cream / Disraeli Gears / Wheels Of Fire (studio)

Miles Davis - In A Silent Way / On The Corner

Bob Dylan - 1965-66: The Best Of The Cutting Edge

Gnod - Chandelande

P J Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea / White Chalk / A Woman A Man Walked By (with John Parish)

Robyn Hitchcock - S/t

I, Monster - Neitheroddoreven

Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn / 1967: The First 3 Singles

The Smiths - Meat Is Murder

Spacemen 3 - Sound Of Confusion / Performance

Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Third Ear Band - Elements

Vivaldi - The Four Seasons

The Waterboys - Dream Harder / Universal Hall

Paul Weller - Wild Wood / Stanley Road (DE 2cd) / Heliocentric / As Is Now

Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending

Brian Wilson - Smile

The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle (mono)

V/A - Mojo Presents The Next Projected Sound Of 2016

Not a lot this week, just played these few loads.

Mojo psych comp - various
Best freebie CD in quite a while (think it was another Mojo comp 'Brain Damaged' from a while ago that I enjoyed as much).

Minimal Detroit - Minimal Detroit Vol:1
Possibly one to flag up for Toni Torino.
Some great old style Detroit techno by Terence Dixon. Not a duffer on it. Think this is a new recording, but the vibes and sounds take me right back to those heady/carfree days of my early twenties. Brings to mind those great labels like transmat, metoplex and tresor, and stuff by Model 500/Juan Atkins etc Lovin' It!
http://minimaldetroit.bandcamp.com/album/minimal-detroit-album-vol-1

Pink Floyd - Live in St. Tropez
This plinked up on youtube when I was curiously searching for a a listen to a PF track I'd not heard 'Reaction In G'. Stunning gig from 1970. Think Hawkwind may have been taking notes, as in more than a few areas, I hear bits and bobs from later Hawkwind albums, esp the bass 'break downs' and the airy/spacey vibes to some songs. Was hoping to fnd a bootleg of it ont' web, but had to settle for ripping the sound from the vid, great stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU0aSJ7Y3Kg

Have a good week.