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

Explosion in the Sky.....Wilderness (2016)

Edited by noni - September 29 2016 at 03:23

Darn, I can't walk (see my previous post for what happened). Spent the whole day in my house, in between kitchen, my room, and the turntable upstairs. It's an interesting experience, though.

Museo Rosenbach - Zarathustra This new record I bought sounds excellent! Man, how much I love this album! It's a bit like Henry Cow's LegEnd - each listen reveals so many new elements!

George Russell - Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature A-MA-ZING! This album is magnificent! It's probably as creative and interesting as avant-jazz gets. Electronic samples and ambiences interplay around delicious, hypnotic jazz improvisation, giving truly addicting results. Interestingly, Terje Rypdal and Jan Garbarek play here.

Popol Vuh - In Der Garten Pharaos One of my krautrock favorites. Rarely does kosmische musik suck you in like this album. It serves both as amazing background music as well as something to devote your full attention to.

Supersister - Present for Nancy I've recently focused on revisiting the terrific band that Supersister is. This album is very much in the vein of Soft Machine's Volume Two, now that I'm thinking, but it has more variety, some great ambeint passages.

The Long Hello - The Long Hello It is definitely interesting, well composed, well performed, but lacking a bit of that spark that distinguishes good from great. Still, I'm glad, I investigated it and will definitely come back.

Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Darwin!

We REALLY know the reason PFM win those polls, Jim!

Hey, mate, yes, that was a nice surprise about the Glass Hammer preview! They initially asked would I like to contribute a quote, which I was happy to do, but I figured it was for a Facebook post or something, and then when it showed up on a promo video I nearly fell over!

Finnforest wrote: I'm sure it won't be the last Michael with all the great reviews you've done.  If you're like me you occasionally find yourself quoted in CD books or websites that you weren't even aware of.  My proudest moment I think is getting a "thank you" in a Tea Club CD.

That's sensational, what an honour! That's also really nice of you to say, mate. Honestly, I'm just a passionate music dork with too much time on my hands , just happy to rabbit on in reviews about albums whether one or even zero people want to read it...but occassionally some nice suprise like this happens that is a real pleasure to discover!

Actually, funny you mention `you occasionally find yourself quoted in CD books or websites that you weren't even aware of'....about a year or so back I accidently discovered that a large number of my reviews are spread across dozens of dodgy download/blog sites In many instances they were for reviews of very obscure albums, so in some cases mine might have been one of the only reviews of it on the net, so whoever was putting up the album just copy and pasted my words on their page! It's a very dubious `honour'....I hope no-one ever thinks it's me putting up those illegal downloads! Ha, I wouldn't have a clue how to do anything like that...if anyone comes knocking, I think they'd pick my fairly rudimentary computer skills very quickly!

Yeah I think much of the content here has been spread in various places, I remember seeing some of that too.  I don't think PA can do much about it. 
 

That's awesome mate

ALotOfBottle wrote: Great list, David! When I was on my really intense kraut kick, I could listen to krautrock all day long, even without eating. Oh wow. I hit my toe on the stairs and somehow managed to break my little artery that is there, so loads of blood. Went to the hospital and got 6 surgical sutures. So, I'm grounded at home, listening to music and catching up on books. Yesterday (before the "stuff" happened): Magma - Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh Miles Davis - In a Silent Way

ALotOfBottle wrote: Supersister - Present for Nancy I've recently focused on revisiting the terrific band that Supersister is. This album is very much in the vein of Soft Machine's Volume Two, now that I'm thinking, but it has more variety, some great ambeint passages.

Hope you pull together alright, mate! Hmmm, you might just have to stay home for a while doing nothing but listening to music - oh the horror!!

That Supersister one is a ripper! I sadly don't have it (I've lost count of how many times I've spun it on YouTube though), although I've noticed there's quite a few budget-priced sets that cram two of their albums onto the one CD. The only thing is, it seems to play havoc with my OCD, it's like a mix of their first and fourth album, etc. I'm like `Dammit, I need continuity, not re-arranging the order of their discography!' But I'll be getting onto them shortly. I do have the CD of their fifth and final album `Spiral Staircase', but I don't recall it being too special. Might have to give it a fresh spin. Their fourth album `Iskander' is in a different style as well, but still a fine album on its own.