What albums did you listen to today?...continued

Courtney Green - "retail superstar!"
Stef & Anna - "Split"
Courtney Green - "retail superstar!"
Bad Kids to the Front - "You Are Alone"
Hoodoo Gurus - "Stoneage Romeos"
Stef & Anna - "Split"

Marianne Faithfull - Broken English.

Monday...

Damn good listening day. Unfortunately I'll be too busy to keep up this heavy amount of listening I've maintained lately.

Yesterday:

Area - Caution Radiation Area What is it that people don't dig about this album? I absolutely love it - I think it's right up there with Arbeit Macht Frei (haven't listened to Crac! yet, so can't tell about that one). I think it's a really creative take on avant-jazz-prog-fusion Italiano. So well composed, played, and recorded!

Continuum - Autumn Grass One of the thousands of English bands that put out their few albums around 1971. This one is really good, though, and it has a very interesting sound. It's jazz, but with very interesting twists - sometimes very English, liturgical, sometimes folky, sometimes avant. Nice!

Metamorfossi - Inferno I like this album, I really do. It's not a complete stand-out, but it has a great sound of its own and as I've said a few weeks ago - it's really all in the keyboards and vocals here! The pieces are also good, a great example of a motif and variation.

Art Zoyd - Symphonie Pour Le Jour Ou Bruleront Les Cites Loooooooooove this album so much! This one was the original 1976 one - much rawer in production, less pleasant to listen to, but the composition remains the same - out of this world. Man, I will review this album soon, when I find some time.

Today:

Raccomandata con Ricevuta di Ritorno - Per... Un Mondo Di Cristallo I've caught that flame!!! This is amazing music! On its own, it stands very well. Among other RPI classics - it still holds pretty strong. The RRR guys have a really polished sound here. Somewhere between Van Der Graaf Generator, Balletto, King Crimson, Osanna, and Genesis, yet sounding nothing like the mentioned!

Samla Mammas Manna - Samla Mammas Manna This is an old-time favorite of mine. Being on a double kick recently (RPI and RIO), I needed to recall this album. The feel is really so great! It has a bit of the Canterbury styling, but the sense of humor is much different - a bit childish (in a good way), a bit drunk, exaggurated. Loads of great keyboards here!

Pekka Airaksinen - One Point Music Pekka Airaksinen is a very obscure musician from Finland, mainly connected with the band Sperm, a bit better known. His music is ambient, very ambient, in fact, but very fulfilling and satisfying. And the cover makes the whole trip so much evocative!

Nice listening, in my opinion.

The Bearded Bard wrote: Thanks! An all new and shiny thread, not yet dented in the corners. Nice! Yeah, I'm fine, thanks for asking, just been busy with stuff. How are you, Sam? Yeah, regarding Huntsville, I noticed you guys haven't voted on them yet. Just as well perhaps, I've been thinking we should perhaps have a crack at them in post rock first, as we've just cleared a band not too dissimilar sounding.

Good to know. I've been very busy as well lately, although I always find time for music somehow

See what you think about them, then. We have just so many artists in our charts, we didn't look into them


Friday:
Birth Control - Backdoor Possibilities
Red Bazar - Tales From the Bookcase
Cult of Dom Keller - Goodbye to the Light

Saturday:
Mike Oldfield - Incantations

Sunday:
Mike Oldfield - Platinum
Finch - Beyond Expression
David Gilmour - On an Island

Today so far:
David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock

Rush - "Snakes & Arrows"
Rush - "Moving Pictures"

Tori Amos - Unrepentant Geraldines

Smashing Pumps - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, disc 1

Black Sabbath - Technical E

Heldon - Electronique Guerilla

Saturday...