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

Weidorje - Weidorje. It's not as great as I thought it was during my first listen, when I fell in love with zeuhl for the very first time.  However, don't be tricked by my first sentence. It's darn fine music. Phenomenal melodies, great, unorthodox arrangements, crispy, throbbing bass, and my favorite sound of all - Fender Rhodes.
Tim Blake - Blake's New Jerusalem. I didn't know a fusion like this was actually possible. The fantastic mixture of excellent electronica from Blake's first album and carefully-crafted post-hippie space-folk-pop gives really good, original results. The instrumental synth parts are what you come for, however. Blake knew how to dial in perfect sounds!
Popol Vuh - In Den Garten Pharaos. A great continuation of what Mr. Fricke and company presented on their debut. A bit more of that classic "Popol Vuh" sound with ethnic influences - more percussion anyway as well as a wider variety of keyboards. It's overall more focused than their debut. Which is equally good!
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things. Well, this is my second favorite thing from Coltrane, after Love Supreme. His playing is so tasty here. Only one musician so good could make a jazz-pop standard that "Summertime" is seem so cool, laidback. The title track is obviously a favorite and (fun fact) The Door's instrumental section on "Light My Fire" is based on the main progression from that.
Gila - Free Electric Sound. I'm starting to like that one! At first listen, I thought it was quite boring and unoriginal, but I guess I just wasn't in the mood. This time I started appreciating how this puts distinctive jamming themes to the table with great variation in between them. Great organ and guitar solos!
Klaus Schulze - Body Love. Thanks, Nico! Your review really made me want to check this one out. It was great! I really liked the overall stylistic o the album. It was very melodic (and had amazing synth timbres from Klaus), but also kept that very Schulzy integrity of slowly evolving soundscapes! Great, hope vol. 2 is nearly good!
This was my day.

Vangelis - L'Apocalypse Des Animaux.

Meltdowner wrote: ^ It's very different from "D", basically a set of short meditative/psychedelic ideas with acoustic guitar, sitar and lots of percussion linked by sea and bird sounds. It's quite good if you're in the right mood.

^ It's very different from "D", basically a set of short meditative/psychedelic ideas with acoustic guitar, sitar and lots of percussion linked by sea and bird sounds. It's quite good if you're in the right mood.

ALotOfBottle wrote: Zanov - Green Ray. It's the first time I've ever listened to Zanov. First thing that came to mind was Klaus Schulze, obviously, but there is something very distinctive about his music. I feel it's much lighter and not as... massive, overwhelming (which does often work well for Klaus, but makes Zanov's work equally good). Not all that memorable, but good enough to make me want to explore the rest of his discography.  Tim Blake - Crystal Machine. THE KINGDOM OF THE ANALOG MODULAR. I really like Tim Blake's style. I think it's much different than that of his German and French contemporaries. His tones are so beautiful, mellow. I'm smelling a VCS3, right? And a Minimoog. Anyway, I'm looking forward to hearing Blake's New Jerusalem, as I enjoyed this one immensly.

Green Ray is really great. His next album is even more accessible but still good, the one after that is better though. The two recent ones sound very different, he mostly used VST's, but his compositional style is the same.

Elvis Costello and the Attractions - "Get Happy!"

Henry Cow - Legend

Today's choices, just a few Krautrock-related discs:

Xhol Caravan - Mother f**kers GMBH (2 Years On) - awesome disc, a cross between droning Krautrock jamming, noisy Soft Machine-sounding jazz eruptions, drifting acid-folk Deuter-like reflections and organ-drenched Birth Control-like proto prog and hard Sixties R&B.

Heldon - Electronique Guerilla - interesting mix of Kraut droning and electronic experiments, spoken word passages, etc.

Siddhartha - s/t - a loopy and eclectic German band that had both male and female vocals, English and German lyrics, and a range of different styles and sounds.



Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - August 02 2016 at 04:09

^ I agree, it's fantastic  That makes sense, if you consider the venue they played at. Now that I think about it, it's probably why all their concerts are so unique.

ALotOfBottle wrote: Tangerine Dream - Ricochet. I am really glad I revisited Tangerines yestarday and rediscovered their genius once again. Ricochet  is such a great album. BTW, I believe the main motiff of Part 1 is the same thing they played at the Coventry Cathedral concert, right? Anyway, I love their melodic, classical electronic stuff!

If you're talking about the video of the Coventry concert on Youtube, they used the album recording over the image. If you listen to the bootleg, it's completely different.