Posted by nostalghia Friday, November 27, 2009 0

The Durutti Column - LC (1981) [256]

Beautiful guitar-scapes (I'm posting it, I can use bullshit terms if I can't think of better ones). Melancholy but uplifting, shoegaze/dream-pop long but before shoegaze/dream-pop, like that Roy Montgomery album but more structured. Pleasant but pleasant seems disposable, like it's nice, I'll listen to it, and then forget about, but it's not like that at all

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Gavin Bryars - Sinking of the Titanic / Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (320)

The cover isn't from the version I'm posting. This version is just Sinking of the Titanic (24:40) and Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (25:57)


I think the story behind the piece is: when the 'unsinkable' was sinking, the orchestra played the same part of a piece over and over again until they died. The 24 minute song here is that same short piece being played over and over. Even though it doesn't move anywhere it gets gradually heavier with repetition (maybe the story behind it helps). For some reason it doesn't get boring either. I have no idea about Jesus' Blood.., I've only listened to the Titanic part properly. From what I can tell it's a homeless guy singing about Jesus. Good stuff. You'll probably either find that gimmicky or moving, either way it's worth hearing. I still can't tell what I think, figured I might as well post it.

Posted by nostalghia Wednesday, November 25, 2009 1

Roy Montgomery - Temple IV (1996) [VBR]

Pleasant guitar loops and layers kinda reminiscent of the Durutti Column but more on the shoegaze side I suppose. He's also a New Zealander so support it!


Posted by nostalghia Monday, November 23, 2009 0

Magical Power Mako - Super Record & Magical Power

Discovered this guy through last.fm recommendations.. Anybody recommended to me based on listens to Les Rallizes Denudes, Keiji Haino and Faust, Cluster and Popol Vuh deserved to be heard


Psychedelic, folk, Krautrock, prog, art-rock, all that

I'm feeling sleepy, here's a better description

Super Record

RYM


Magical Power

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The Antlers - Hospice (2009)

Love story, woman dies of cancer


Sentimental indie garbage, or 2009's masterpiece? You decide

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Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind


Posted by Adya-Yoni Saturday, November 21, 2009 0

Converge - Axe To Fall (2009)


I gotta say, nothing is more depressing than sifting through xhardxcorexblogsx looking for an active link for this album, (thanx xmoshkidx!). All of them give nothing more liberally than their stupid opinions. Group think tanks; dress code, straightedge tattoos, generic music blahblah..... for so called individuals, how it is so Dionysian? Listening to converge makes me feel that the ratio of good/bad in hardcore is something like 'Converge:everything-else'. Musically, aesthetically even ethically they are the best at what they do.


But yeah, anywho. I've been looking forward to this album for ages and now it's finally out. It exceeds expectations (for myself). The energy is through the roof. The drums and guitars are way technical, heavy, tight in the best way possible (it's not showy or anything). There are heaps of guest musicians including Steve No Till from Neurosis. Blahblahblah you'll love it.

Gettem.


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Masayuki Takayanag - Angry Waves (2000)

  1. 850113 1 (15:20)
  2. 850113 2 (17:51)
  3. 850113 3 (15:22)
  4. 850113 4 (17:13)
Avant-garde improvised Japanese Jazz.

Pretty much as it sounds: Awesome, if you like that sort of thing

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Posted by Adya-Yoni Friday, November 20, 2009 0

Slayer - Reign In Blood (1986) FLAC


I used to get slack for liking slayer. At 14, this record (in 30 mins) summed up everything I loved about music. Nothing's really changed. While uploading Chopin I realized that both have the same reference point (for me). Hard to skate to Chopin though.

Posted by nostalghia Thursday, November 19, 2009 0

Mark Fry - Dreaming With Alice (1972) [320]

1. Dreaming With Alice
2. The Witch
3. Dreaming With Alice 2
4. Song For Wilde
5. Dreaming With Alice 3
6. Roses For Columbus
7. A Norman Soldier
8. Dreaming With Alice 4-5
9. Dreaming With Alice 6
10. Lute and Flute
11. Dreaming With Alice 7
12. Down Narrow Streets
13. Dreaming With Alice 8
14. Mandolin Man
15. Dreaming With Alice 9-10
16. Rethorb Ym No Hcram

Fuzzed out psychedelic/acid folk that I can't really write about because I'm so unfamiliar with the genre(s). Another album perfect for summer! Mark Fry is very pretty and you'll want to sit under the trees with him and take drugs because of how pretty his is. This might be the start of a folk-binge, I really can't get enough of the Big Blood album I posted and I've put 10-15 folk/prog/psychedelic/etc albums on my RYM wishlist which I'll no doubt be downloading and posting the moment my computer comes back (hopefully I haven't lost my 200 something gig of music (saddest face)).. Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished, LSD March (who I was going to post today) and Slowdive will probably be the only things keeping me from annoying Grace with constant psych-folk
ANY WAY, get this if you like Donovan (it's kinda similar to stuff like the Incredible String Band, but it's much softer), Grouper, Natural Snow Buildings and all that. There are some beautiful moments (Mandolin Man, Roses For Columbus, Song For Wilde, in particular) all separated by the lullaby-like Dreaming With Alice interludes.

Highly recommended.

Posted by Xenophon Wednesday, November 18, 2009 4

The Blues

Furry Lewis

Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order (1927-1929)

1 Everybody's Blues
2 Mr. Furry's Blues
3 Sweet Papa Moan
4 Rock Island Blues
5 Jelly Roll
6 Billy Lyons And Stock O'Lee
7 Good Looking Girl Blues
8 Why Don't You Come Home Blues
9 Falling Down Blues
10 Big Chief Blues
11 Mean Old Bedbug Blues
12 Furry's Blues
13 I Will Turn Your Money Green (take 1)
14 I Will Turn Your Money Green (take 2)
15 Mistreatin' Mama
16 Dry Land Blues
17 Cannon Ball Blues
18 Kassie Jones - Part 1
19 Kassie Jones - Part 2
20 Judge Harsh Blues (take 1)
21 Judge Harsh Blues (take 2)
22 John Henry (The Steel Driving Man) - 1
23 John Henry (The Steel Driving Man) - 2
24 Black Gypsy Blues
25 Creeper's Blues

This is essential. Probably one of the best pre war bluesman and this is better than the folk revival stuff I posted earlier. Great meandering lyrics and consummate guitar playing. Contains the definitive version of 'Casey Jones'


Mississippi John Hurt

[1963.12.13] - "Friends of Old Time Music Concert" NYU School of Medicine Alumni Hall,New York, N.Y.

1. Do Lord Intro
2. Do Lord Remember Me
3. Since I've Laid My Burden Down
4. C.C. Rider (See See Rider)
5. Casey Jones
6. Nobody's Dirty Buisness
7. Richmond Woman Blues Intro
8. Richmond Woman Blues
9. Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me
10. Spike Driver's Blues
11. Stack O'Lee Blues (Stagolee)
12. Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor
13. Coffee Blues Intro
14. Coffee Blues
15. My Creole Blues
16. Frankie and Al (S/A Frankie & Johnny)
17. Talking Casey *Fade...*
18. Monday Morning Blues
19. Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor


Amazing live performance. Funny banter in between songs and Hurt really gets into his stride with pulsating rhythms fleshed out with his pitch perfect vocal delivery. Again, an essential album.

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Lonnie Johnson

Steppin' On the Blues / Blues Guitar

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Blind Boy Fuller

East Coast Piedmont Style

1. Rag, Mama, Rag
2. Baby You Gotta Change Your Mind
3. My Brownskin Sugar Plum
4. I'm A Rattlesnakin' Daddy
5. I'm Climbin' On Top Of The Hill
6. Baby, I Don't Have To Worry ('Cause That Stuff Is Here)
7. Looking For My Woman
8. Ain't It A Cryin' Shame?
9. Walking My Troubles Away
10. Sweet Honey Hole
11. Somebody's Been Playing With That Thing
12. Log Cabin Blues
13. Keep Away From My Woman
14. Cat Man Blues
15. Untrue Blues
16. Black And Tan
17. Big Leg Woman Gets My Pay
18. You've Got Something There
19. I'm A Stranger Here
20. Evil Hearted Woman

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Tommy McClennan

1939-1940

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Big Bill Broonzy

The Young Big Bill Broonzy / Do that Guitar Rag

Sorry about the tagging on this one

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Willie Hutch - The Mack OST (1973) [320]


1. Vampin'
2. Theme of The Mack
3. I Choose You
4. Mack's Stroll/The Getaway
5. Slick
6. Mack Man
7. Mother's Theme
8. Now That It's All Over
9. Brother's Gonna Work It Out


This is a really good exemplar blaxploitation soundtrack, and every track on it is amazing. I like the soulful songs better than the funky songs: my favourite tracks are I Choose You, Mother's Theme and Now That It's All Over. Brother's Gonna Work It Out as well, because it is exciting and it ends the album well. I don't actually have a lot to say today, but honestly this is amazing so maybe you should just download it.

Posted by Adya-Yoni 7

Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill


Download (MP3)

I was listening to this album last night. When track two clocked in, me and my room seemed slow and cinematic.

Download (FLAC)

Posted by naguine Tuesday, November 17, 2009 1

The New Birth - It's Been a Long Time (1973) and Blind Baby (1975)


1. It's Been a Long Time
2. Keep on Doin' It
3. Wild Flower
4. Ain't No Change
5. I'd Spend My Whole Life Loving You
6. Pains of Love
7. Heaven Says
8. Come On and Dream Some Paradise

I first discovered The New Birth through a ?uestlove compilation, Babies Makin' Babies, which included It's Been a Long Time. That compilation is amazing, and I have quite a few albums from many of those artists which I will post in times to come. Favourite tracks (two of the greatest soul tracks ever imo) are It's Been a Long Time and Wild Flower.




1. Blind Baby
2. Dream Merchant
3. Forever
4. Grandaddy
5. I Remember Well
6. Blind Man
7. Why Did I


This is The New Birth's seventh album. This one works a lot better as an album I think, but it is missing the absolutely amaaaazing-couple-of-songs that It's Been a Long Time has. Well, there are amazing songs, but they just don't compare. Favourite tracks are Dream Merchant (which is a cover), Blind Baby and Why Did I.

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The 5th Dimension - Love's Lines, Angles & Rhymes (1971) and Earthbound (1975) at [320]


Love's Lines, Angles & Rhymes (1971)

1. Time & Love
2. Love's Lines, Angles & Rhymes
3. What Does it Take
4. Guess Who
5. Viva Tirado
6. Light Sings
7. The Rainmaker
8. He's a Runner
9. The Singer
10. Every Night


I think this album is better than Earthbound. I also dig the stripey suits. Favourite tracks are Time & Love, Love's Lines, Angles & Rhymes (I'd like to hear the Diana Ross cover) and He's A Runner.


Earthbound (1975)

1. Prologue
2. Don't Stop For Nothing
3. I've Got a Feeling
4. Magic in my Life
5. Walk Your Feet in the Sunshine
6. When Did I Lose Your Love
7. Lean On Me Always
8. Speaking With My Heart
9. Moonlight Mile
10. Epilogue


This album is crazy, very cheerful, perfect music to finish exams with!! I like that there are lots of different vocalists, but I think my favourites are the women (Wiki page: Florence LaRue and Marilyn McCoo). The prologue and epilogue make this a very epic album. Great cover for the album. Favourite tracks are Prologue, Moonlight Mile (yes, a cover of The Rolling Stones) and Lean On Me Always.

Posted by Adya-Yoni 1

Pépé Bradock - Confiote De Bits / A Remix Collection


01. Iz & Diz - Mouth (Brad Peep's remix For Friends)
02. Presence - Sense Of Danger (feat Shara Nelson - Pepe's Risky cut)
03. Cheek - Venus (Pepe Bradock's Saucy Precog remix)
04. Block 16 - Morning Sun (Pepe Bradock's Brad deep remix)
05. Alex Gopher - You, My Baby & I (Pepe Bradock's Finger Drumming remix)
06. Chateau Flight - Discobole (Pepe Bradock's 75cl remix)
07. Roy Ayers - I Am Your Mind (Pepe Bradock's Asynchronous Adventures)
08. Kemetic Just - Do You Remember (Pepe Bradock's Lonely Daddy remix)
09. Iz & Diz - Love Vibe (Pepe Bradock's Confiote De Bits remix)
10. Kemetic Just - For Your Love (Pepe Bradock's Tendre Piperade)
11. Panash' - Cheval (Przewalski's Eastern Bounce)
12. Charles Webster - I Am Falling (Pepe Bradock's Paris-Bordeaux remix)
13. Greenskeepers - Man In The House (Pepe Bradock's Underwater Playground mix)


(note. People from Auckland should totally add me on last.fm. It's concert season and I need to make friends this holidays!.... I don't like being that dedicated music fan who gets drunk at 'No Age' by himself. http://www.last.fm/user/LevonBleh) :)!

Posted by Adya-Yoni 0

The Dickies - The Incredible Shrinking Dickies



Last year, I had thing with this girl. She was a huge bitch in the hottest way possible. Ugly (well maybe a social and explicit ugly type), almost like the-sexy-big-girl token taboo everyones mad keen on (only confirmed privately by their friends.... usually drunk). You know what I'm talking about. So! whenever I listen to track 2, I always think of her.

Posted by Adya-Yoni Monday, November 16, 2009 2

Crass - The Feeding of 5000


Left wing! Right wing! You can stuff the lot!!


Posted by Adya-Yoni Sunday, November 15, 2009 2

Demdike Stare - Symbiosis (2009)


This record sounds like the best parts out of the Skull Disco label (Dark, Dub, Sound Scape). Should Be played at full volume, preferably in a residential area.

Posted by Adya-Yoni 2

Frédéric Chopin - Complete Piano Music


You have no idea how long this took to upload.



(note. It is possible that I may have stuffed up with one of the uploads. So please comment if anything is wrong. Thanx.)

Posted by nostalghia 0

Big Blood & the Bleedin' Hearts - Big Blood & the Bleedin' Hearts (2008)

1. Bah-mum
2. Baron In The Trees
3. New Dish Rag
4. Graceless Lady
5. Blood Mumble
6. Curee
7. Oh Country (Skin & Bones)
8. The Birds & The Herds
9. Tease It Like A Cop
10. Night Laser
11. Terrapin (Oh Syd!) (Yeah, Syd Barrett cover)

Today I woke up and downloaded some music, then uploaded some music (check the comments of the Grouper post) to post and played the Sims because I can't browse and upload at the same time. I was signing on to blogger to post it all when I heard track 7, Oh Country (Skin & Bones) and realised that I should upload this and then post it instead of all the other stuff because it's an amazing album and that track is godly.

Posted by Xenophon Saturday, November 14, 2009 0

Henry Flynt - You are my Everlovin / Celestial Power (1986)


Side A - You Are My Everlovin' (42:38)
Side B - Celestial Powers (45:12)

These live recordings contain an intense energy made possible by Henry Flynt's enormous talent on the violin. Audible too is his love of hillbilly music and the blues. On the first track Flynt's carefully considered discord is fleshed out by an extended drone which I presume is heavily influenced by the Indian raga. The second, abandoning the lulling vedic tones, is a livelier effort with a gentle rhythm. This is avant-garde/drone at its finest. It is a pity he diverted much of his time into philosophy (like continental philosophy, it is just not very good).

Download from Mediafire

Posted by nostalghia 0

Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible (1994) [FLAC]

If you know Manic Street Preachers, chances are you know them through the antics of guitarist/lyricist Richey Edwards, hacking his arm to shreds in interviews and disappearing shortly after the release of the Holy Bible. His sad life is pretty much responsible for everything that makes this album great. The sound is catchy 90s alternative rock inspired by new-wave and post-punk, which is all very nice, but the reason its up there with the best albums in history, and most disturbing albums in history is the lyrical content, half of which goes to Edwards. The other half goes to Nicky Wire, and this half is probably the most annoying part of the album, the preachy left-wing politics. Edwards' half is disturbing as fuck. See for example the song 4st 7lb, which sounds (along with the other songs whose lyrics are attributed to him) like its lifted directly from the diary of the severely depressed guitarist. As such, the listener has the occasional laugh listening to vocalist James Dean Bradfield trying to match the pre-written lyrics with the pre-written songs. You get lines where hehastosqueezeeverysyllableintothesimplemelody and then others when he only has a few words to fit. The same thing put me off some of the stuff by the Afghan Whigs, the lyrics just sound awkward with the vocal melodies and music.

Any way, a lot of this stuff is deceptively sing-along, you'll have a great time singing about everything from PCP to trying to kill yourself in the sun, because the music is really really good too.
I also owe the guy for sparking my interest in Mishima and Dostoevsky. I'm still meaning to buy the Torture Garden by Octave Mirbeau, which I search for every time I go to the book store.

Download

Faster (thanks thestarry)

Posted by Xenophon 0

Johann Sebastian Bach - Early Cantatas

This is so nice. I could listen to this every day. I am too lazy to post the track list right now because it is too long but that is cool.

Download from Mediafire

Posted by naguine Thursday, November 12, 2009 0

Minnie Riperton - Come To My Garden (1970) [320]


1. Les Fleur
2. Completeness
3. Come To My Garden
4. Memory Band
5. Rainy Day in Centerville
6. Close Your Eyes and Remember
7. Oh, By the Way
8. Expecting
9. Only When I'm Dreaming
10. Whenever, Wherever


This is my favourite Minnie Riperton album, her debut. People know Minnie Riperton because she had a five-octave vocal range and died of cancer at 31 years of age. Favourite tracks are Les Fleurs, Whenever, Wherever and Close Your Eyes and Remember. If you haven't heard Minnie Riperton, the best album to start with is Adventures in Paradise (in my opinion), but if you know and like her then give this a go!!

Posted by Adya-Yoni Tuesday, November 10, 2009 0

Bee Gees - Odessa (1969) [Deluxe edition]


My father's favorite album ever. I think it's than Pet Sounds.

(3-CD set of Odessa, complete with remastered stereo and mono version of all 17 tracks, plus a bonus third disc with demos, alternate version, and three unreleased tracks.)

Posted by Adya-Yoni Monday, November 9, 2009 0

ELM - Nemcatacoa



'''Achingly beautiful album fusing elements of everything from Earth to Windy & Carl, Stephen O'Malley, My Bloody Valentine, Fennesz, Keith Fullerton Whitman and Emeralds - miss out at your peril!!!''

Sold! If you're anything like me, music like this is like a fix.

Posted by naguine Sunday, November 8, 2009 0

Camp Lo - Uptown Saturday Night (1997) [320]


1. Krystal Karrington
2. Luchini aka This Is It
3. Park Joint
4. B-Side to Hollywood
5. Killin' Em Softly
6. Sparkle
7. Black Connection
8. Swing
9. Rockin' It aka Spanish Harlem
10. Say Word
11. Negro League
12. Nicky Barnes aka It's Alright
13. Black Nostaljack aka Come On
14. Coolie High
15. Sparkle (Mr. Midnight Mix)

Download (Mediafire)

This is it (What?)
Luchini pourin' from the sky
Let's get rich (What?)
The cheeky vines
The sugar dimes
Can't quit (What)
Now pop the cork and steam the vega
And get lit (What? What? What?)

Blax rap from the Bronx, to celebrate the release of the new album Another Heist!!!!! Favourite tracks are Rockin' It, Luchini and Sparkle. Great cover, too. One of the best albums for the summer, since everyone knows (I hope) that hip-hop is the best summer music. Try driving to Luchini at night. I don't drive, but I bet it feels good.

Posted by Adya-Yoni 5

Animal Collective (2000-2003era)

Isn't really the 'Animal Collective' most people now think of.




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Autolux - Future Perfect (2004) [320]


Autolux are a kind of noise pop band I suppose (knowing fuck all about this kind of stuff) that remind me of early My Bloody Valentine or Sonic Youth. Their songs alternate between ethereal pop ditties and noisy chainsaw guitar/pounding drums. I'm pretty bad at describing this sort of thing so I'll just say that they're catchy and plenty of fun.

....!

Which one of the holy trinity would you choose?

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