Yesesis´s & Mortte`s Album Thread

Got off to a really slow start. Then it eventually hit a stretch that did remind me a lot of MDK(was really good obviously). Then it hit a stretch that sounded pretty dark, was good though. 

Still their first 3 studio albums are my favorites. I also really enjoy Udu Wudu and Attahk.. but somehow they lack the POWER of those first 3 albums(for me). Also I like Felicite Thosz.

the Red Krayola: God Bless the Red Krayola And All Who Sail With It

Have to mention again that one B-guy with this album. Haven´t read anywhere, does he listened this album before making his Trout-masterpiece, but I really wouldn´t wonder, if he had. There are lots in common with many pieces musically in this and specially sounds are same kind of very dry and clean. Thompson vocals are of course totally different. All the way this album is really different as their first psych-classic and comparing to that Trout-album this is much more minimalistic. And when it sounds so totally different than anything else in 1968, I just don´t wonder at all it was post-punkers of the seventies that found the greatness of this album.

Liekki: Magio

This is one of the most beautiful albums of 2000`s! Really sounding so much just seventies! There was some kind of prog boom in Finland in the begin of 2000`s, prog was a short time even more popular here than in the seventies. This progrelated band started then and made this very great first album. In their later albums the leader and songmaker Janne Kuusela changed his acoustic guitar to 12-string electric guitar. In this album with it´s acoustic sounds has also really great keyboard playing! There really are many seventies prog influences here, but still band sounds of it´s own. For example "Francesca Maalaa" got really much Gabriel-era Genesis sounds and melodies. The most prog pieces are last two instrumentals, in this vinyl version is also bonus piece "Saunapiru" that I think owns a lot to Oldfield "Tubular Bells". So sad this band seems today quite forgotten, although was really popular at it´s time!

J J Cale & Eric Clapton: the Road To Escondido

I think this collaboration album is weaker than Cale´s solo albums, on the other hand much better than any Clapton´s solos after seventies that I have heard. Mostly it´s really sounding Clapton´s seventies albums, but really lacks the personality of Cale´s solos. Although Cale has mostly composed the tracks, I believe it has been Clapton who has been in the lead in the production and arrangements. There has also been Alan Douglas, a man who made those horrible Hendrix albums in the middle of seventies, so it´s possible he has also influenced to how album sounds. Best track is the last most Cale-sounding "Ride the River".

Pekka Airaksinen: Inner Galaxies

This reminds a little my yesterday Pekka album, but this is much versatile and reminds more his great albums. Specially best tracks "The Ship Which Travels On the Bottom Of the Sea" & "Sounds In the Mirror" has lots in common with his great album "Afrodipankara". Also in this album most pieces has at least simple rhythm in back, when there was no rhythm in "Milk Sea". Surprise Surprise two last pieces are electric versions of Bach compositions, really don´t know which ones, their names are "JSSX" & "JSFF".

Traffic: John Barleycorn Must Die

Although I think their first album the best and their three first albums their greatest albums, I really understand why many say this their best! After their wild adolescent years the band mature into adult and made this very balanced album. From the very jammy & groovy "Glad" to the sunny "Every Mother´s Son" feeling in this album is very positive and there are no weak tracks. Have to mention really great title song, it is really old English trad song where Winwood & Capaldi sing very beautiful together. Also have to mention Winwood`s musicianship in this album, he plays all the other instruments except drums & woodwinds & horns, really this still is very band sounding album!

Yeah Bach's the man, no doubt. I'd put him even ahead of Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Haydn... whoever you can name. 

Ok, too many great tracks to name them all. I don't like the ones as much that are mainly organ/piano although a couple of them are really good like III. Presto from Italian Concerto in F Major, BWV 971 and especially Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29: I. Sinfonia.  Overall my favorite tracks are Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: II. Air, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 "Sleepers Awake": I. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, I. Allegro from Concerto for Two Violins, Strings and Basso Continuo in D minor, and BWV 1043, Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048: III. Allegro. 

I like classical music that is mostly strings(violins, cellos) the best. Not really any other kind of music that beat that for me.