Currently Spinning

COOL

Currently listening to:

Po Girl - Xero (bleeding great if you like female blues)

Mary Margaret O'Hara - Apartment Hunting

 

Not heard this. I've got Frequencies and Advance. Both of which I like, but haven't played much recently. I'll pop them on in a min

Merlin.

I chucked Kaya on when I was painting some fences in the garden. Didn't mean to, but must have pressed repeat. Heard the whole album through 3 and a half times before coming up and changing it

Also had burning and catch a fire on today too

Currently have the Beta Bands new album playing again. Wasn't overly impressed at first. But it's growing. Seems a little less quirky and entertaining than the previous ones. But it's one which I think will grow and i'm giving it the chance! Would say it's sounding better with every listen. But it's a crap mp3 version with lots of clicks and blips

I intended on getting it on original anyway, just need to shove it closer to the top of the "to buy" list.

 

for today:

Dr Octagon
Linton Kwesi Johnson/Bass Culture
Bobby Hutcherson/Dialogue
Cinematic Orchestra/Everyday
Thelonius Monk/Genius in Modern Music vol.2
Free Association
VA/Batucada Por Favor
VA/The Lost Highway

 

Aqualung "Still Life" - My brother got this yesterday and I wasn't expecting much. Pretty impressed though! OPen and honest.

Delakota "One Love" - A fav of mine. Not heard anyhting from these since this 97 release! Where are the now? Quality from start till finish!

Zutons "Who killed the Zutons" - Been looking forward to this for a while! Had heard quite a bit of it already and it seemed to fly by when played it.

 

Since We Last Spoke - RJD2
Blues - Jimi Hendrix
Prayer Meetin' (RVG Edition) - Jimmy Smith

 

It arrived yesterday and gave it a spin last night - I like it! I understand your description now, Ian, and thank you for making the attempt you did. I definitely hear the Velvet Underground/Captain Beefheart/Fall comparison - I only heard it once so am still looking for the others, although I would add a couple of my own in the meantime as well: Fugazi and Carnival Art. Both of which I love.

Top recommendation, thank you - I'll keep listening and will look out for other albums as well.

Thank you...

Chris.

PS - on topic, I'm currently spinning right round, baby, right round, like a record, baby, round round round round round....

 

A couple from Euroland for the weekend:
Vincent Dumestre Le Poeme Harmonique - Le consort des Consorts / Pierre Guedron (now playing)
Aicha Redouane - Vocales Arabesques
Ensemble Al-Umayri - Le sawt de Koweit
Ensemble El-Moukhadrani - Chants des griots
Ensemble Muhammed bin Faris - Le sawt de Bahrein
Chantres Yemenites - Chants sacres de San'a
Ensemble Gilles Binchois et Dominique Veillard - 1160-1245 Perotin & l'ecole de Notre Dame
Ahallil de Gourara - Chants sacres du Sahara
Ensemble Amezou - Le Malhoun a Marrakech
Yousra Dhalbi - Rhapsodie pour luth
Al-Nubatiyya - Chants et tambours de Nubie
Nassima - Musique Andalouse d'Alger
El Hadj Houcine Toulali - Le malhun de Meknes
Amar El Achab - Le chaabi des grands maitres
Jeanne Balibar - paramour (good to see so much new and interesting chanson available)
Couperin - Lecon de tenebres (Deller)
Raiz di Djarfogo - Traditions de l'isle de Fogo Cap-Vert
Rameau - Castor & pollox (Christie)
Akan musicians of Ghana - Rhythms of life, songs of wisdom
Compagnies musicales du Tafilalet - L'appel des oasis
Atrium Musicae de Madrid Gregorio Paniagua - Tarentule - Tarentelle
Concerto vocale Rene Jacobs - Membra Jesu nostri / Buxtehede
VA - Tresors de la musique Algerienne
Abdelkrim Rais - Musique Andalouse de Fes
Henri Agnel - Istanpitta Danses florentines du trecento
Mohammed al-harithi - L'heure du Solomon (from the Yemen, naturally)
I can also recommend "Wally Le Saharian" at 36, rue Rodier for his excellent (and rather expensive it has to be said) Southern Algerian "Couscous saharien" with no sauce or veggie and a cut of lamb straight out of the old testament

 

Eric Clapton, "Me and Mr Johnson". If you like Clapton and you like Johnson, go buy it.

 

PJ Harvey "Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea"
Eric Bibb "me to you" and "painting signs"
Bob Dylan "Time out of mind"
James "Gold MOther"

MOre guitars than usual in the house of MO :guitar:

 

Prose Combat - MC Solaar
Match 6 - MC Solaar
Simple Things - Zero 7

 

Slide guitar greats mojo working
The new G3 live double CD, need to spin this a few more times
Ozric's Erpsongs

 

Excellent, glad to hear the Nectarines have a new fan.

Currently spinning Ellery Eskelin/Andrea Parkin/Jim Black, One Great Day. Top version of Roland Kirk's "The Inflated Tear" on this.

-- Ian

 

I've just got in from a night on the piss.

Been listening to everything from judas preist to killa kella!

All in good fun though.

 

beta band - heros to zeros(sic)
peter gabriel - up
war of the worlds! - the nathaniel bit with lynott and julie covington. it rips!

also i am scanning the mtv stations to catch mozzers new tune which is a belter and the new faithless number - WMD i think - is really tops

 

Prince : "Musicology" .

 

'musicology'

lp or single?

 

Errr...... NOTHING. ......as we've just moved house and I haven't set up the hifi yet

 

Prince - Musicology (mixed as ever)
Alabama 3 - last Train To Mashville Pt2
On U Sound - Classics Vol 1&2
Dub Syndicate - Stoned Immaculate

 

LP. It's a grower but as Merlin mentioned; a fairly mixed bag.

 

The Roots of Hip Hop - MOJO
Midwest Funk - Various
Discern/Define - The Poets of Rhythm