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

ACDC - High Voltage
Accept - Balls to the Wall
Floyd - Animals
Joni - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter

Wednesday...

Alphabetical Italian day 
Calibro 35 - Traditori di Tutti

National Health - Of Queues and Cures Love this album by bits. When I didn't have a broader perspective of having closely investigated jazz-fusion, I thought of this as representative of the style, with a few whimsicalities. Now, however, I really start appreciating how different the Canterburian jazz-fusion was. How melodic, tongue-in-cheek, how twisted it alll is. A one-of-a-kind album.

Amon Duul II - Yeti I watched the documentary Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany yesterday together with my uncle. I had already seen it, but I was reminded what a phenomenon the movement was. And so, I decided to listen to this album. I love the atmosphere of Yeti, this is acid doing one good thing for humans. Liquid, typically European psychedelia.

Keith Jarrett - Arbour Zena Liked it the first few minutes I've been listening to it, being impressed by the careful instrumentation of Jarrett's. The flirt with classical music is proficient and successful, but the end result is boring, at least at first listen. Maybe I need time and I'm not saying it's bad, I just did not like it at that point in time, but am able to appreciate it for what it is about.

Steve Miller & Lol Coxhill - Miller/Coxhill, Coxhill/Miller I like how these gentelmen work together. The opener, "Chocolate Field", which also appears on their second collaborative album is particularly interesting. In fact, if you are reading, go check it out, it represents the music of the whole album very well. It's just sax playing a melody on top of an un-dynamic grand piano, that's all, but the result is far from dull, it's pretty pleasant. Nice!

Blameful Isles - Strange But Not Entirely Unattractive Love this band. Their music is a very pleasant mixture of Soft Machine, Nucleus, Isotope -like jazz-rock, with Canterburian flavors, with meditative, cosmic bits of krautrock, giving nice breaks from the already excellent improvisation. Sadly, they got rejected for PA (which I disagree with, but oh well), but they are worth your attention nonetheless!

Scarlet Thread - Psykedeelisiä joutsenlauluja
Skryvania
Shelleyan Orphan - mix

Thursday...

Meltdowner wrote: Ingranaggi della Valle - Warm Space Blue (Totally different from their debut, not really vintage... or RPI)

Oh no, dude, don't tell me that! There's enough runaround going on at the moment getting the Mad Fellaz changed from RPI!

Tonight's choices:
Anathema – We’re Here Because We’re Here (definitely better than the wet-blanket `Weather Systems’ at least)
Sound of Contact – Dimensionaut
Porcupine Tree – Fear of a Blank Planet
Riverside – Love, Fear and the Time Machine
Karnataka – Secrets of Angels
La Coscienza di Zeno – La Notte Anche di Giorno
Progenesi – Ulisse L’alfiere Nero

Syndone – Eros & Thanatos – Thanks for the reminder of this, Sam. First listen, and it was at my desk at work with way too much to do, so not an ideal first attempt, but it sounded like another knockout to me. That short `Area 51’ instrumental track at the start was especially a ripper though, and I’m still stunned out how much the singer sounds like Freddie Mercury on the early Queen albums, it’s freaking uncanny. Sounds like Le Orme, Area, Osanna, etc with real fire in their playing. This band have really stepped up into the ranks of the premier modern Italian bands.

Yes, it diefinitely deserves much more discussion and attention! Well, I'll find out when I get home in two hours if that damn new Marillion album arrived in the mail today while I've been at work, if it hasn't I'll take that Syndone one for the drive tomorrow to see my folks. Either way, I'd better get on to listening to it properly, there's been several instances where we have to start putting together our end of year lists and I've left certain albums aside and discovered them six months later when they deserved a slot in the end of year top 20!

The Mothers of Invention - Weasels Ripped My Flesh

Badfinger - Ass
Rainbow - Rising