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

Cheers Tymon - that is currently my go-to Faust album right there. Gotta love the banana! Have you by any chance checked out their collaboration with experimental hip hop artist Dälek? I think I reviewed it once actually, but yeah a very interesting record - especially if you aren't into all that yo yo mumbo jumbo.

Me today:
Grachan Moncur lll - Evolution
The Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms
The Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea
Material - Hallucination Engine
Suicide - s/t
Arbete & Fritid - Andra
PFM - L'Isola di Niente
Weather Report - I Sing The Body Electric (one of the finest fusion albums ever produced! Who cares about Jaco Pastorius?)
Klaus Schulze - Privée (don't miss this one Schulze fans! Best Berliner schule release of 2016 hands down)


Edited by Guldbamsen - December 27 2016 at 14:37

Cheers mate
I thought you'd like it. I really love when Klaus incorporates a bit of an IDM touch to his music. That's what made Moonlake so brilliant. On here it is rather beautifully enhanced by those velvety guitar lines. Top stuff really.

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Today's choices: Good God – s/t Abraxis – s/t Zzebra – Panic Patrick Vian – Bruits et Temps Analogues Gianni D’Errico – Antico Teatro da Camera Mirror – Daybreak Return to Forever – Where Have I Known You Before? Perigeo - Genealogia Arti e Mestieri – Tilt Arti e Mestieri – Giro di Valzer per Domani Santana – Borboletta Peter Bardens – Seen One Earth - Saw the review on the front page, dug out my LP. I forgot how much this sounds like 80’s/`Underwater Sunlight’-era Tangerine Dream) Sintesis – s/t - Anybody else heard this instrumental ripper from 1976? A litte bit fusion, a little bit Dzyan...It was a recent blind-buy, and I'm so happy with it. Unusually short and sweet at barely 27 minutes too, but every secondof it is cool and fiery! (heh, there's a bonus track that pads the album out to 32 minutes!

Gianni D'Errico - Antico Teatro da Camera

Guldbamsen wrote: Cheers Tymon - that is currently my go-to Faust album right there. Gotta love the banana! Have you by any chance checked out their collaboration with experimental hip hop artist Dälek? I think I reviewed it once actually, but yeah a very interesting record - especially if you aren't into all that yo yo mumbo jumbo.

I've heard bits of their album with Dälek when they popped up at a thread called asking if there is such thing as progressive rap or something. Will have to read your review and, obviously, listen to the album, it seems very promising. I like these kinds of things that go out of the box. Experimental/Krautrock + Hip Hop - some would call it madness, I always like creative, innovative, and original music. Again, thanks for that recommendation, David.

Sun Ra - The Solar Myth Approach, Vols. 1 Sun Ra's more experimental material, for me at least, recquires a special mood to be fully enjoyed and this one is no exception. And this is great. I could listen to Sun Ra hitting the keys of his clavinet all day with that gentle, but suggestive accompaniament the upright bass gives. If I'm not mistaken, i can also hear some electronic experimentation here. Very nice!

Weather Report - I Sing the Body Electric Ineed, David, this is top-notch fusion. Very uncompromising and, as far as I'm informed, like nothing else before. Different sounds blend in such unearthly manners to create this beautiful music. The first Weather Report album, though, I prefer just slightly over this one - highly likely because of the sentimental value it has. However, that might change. Excellent music.

Wednesday...

First time listening to `The Visitor', Sam?

Ott - Fairchildren (psydub, psychill, psybient, glitch)

Meltdowner wrote: ^ I think it was my third listen, and I saw them play some of these songs. I remember the (very small) crowd went wild with "A Crack in the Ice"   I got into Neo Prog around this time, two years ago, I thought I should listen to some of it

When I used to work at a supermarket/shopping centre a lifetime ago, there was a music chain store upstairs called Sanity, and all it ever catered for was the most tedious of commercial dance music and pop top 40 singles. I remember one lunch-time I was trying to kill some minutes, so I just randomly started flicking through their shelves...I was a right prog-snob back then, so cue me scoffing and grunting in mocking disgust at most of what I flicked past, and then all of a sudden - Arena's `The Visitor' was there!! TO this day, I have no idea how it ended up there...I mean, it wasn't like those sort of albums were given a local Aussie release, so it means it would have been imported, but I remember snapping it up in an instant. I didn't know anything about the band but completely recognised the album cover from seeing it in a music magazine (this was also pretty early into internet days, so I certainly hadn't seen it online anywhere), all I knew is that it was `proggy'. Over my remaining years there I occasionally went through the entire store again, but I never came close to finding anything like it.

I don't mind the album, but it's got my least favourite Arena vocalist on it (mental blank on his name), and I seem to lose interest by about the half-way mark. I can't even think off the top of my head anything in the second half of the disc. It still seems to be considered their `classic' by many of the fans.

*****

Tonight's choices, mostly RPI stuff:

Ivan Grazioni – Ballata per Quattro Stagioni
Festa Mobile – Diario di Viaggaio della Festa
Gruppo 2001 – L’Alba di Domani
Osanna – L’Uomo
Nuovo Idea – Clowns
Celeste – Principe di un Giorno
King Crimson – In the Wake of Poseidon
Yes – Close to the Edge
Baumann/Koek - s/t

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - December 29 2016 at 06:51

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Edited by Larkstongue41 - December 29 2016 at 10:22