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

Meltdowner wrote: Spacecraft - Paradoxe (Tymon, I bet you'd dig this )

Oh cool! Thanks for the recommendation! I'll listen to it in very close future (yup, that's right, Christmas break starts tomorrow!).
Today:
Sun Araw - Major Grotto

Chicano Batman (gotta love that name!) - Freedom is Free (maybe not the album title though...) (Yes! This is funky, psychedelic and reminds me of Funkadelic teaming up with early Santana.)
James Holden & The Animal Spirits - s/t (best new krautrock I've heard all year)
Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds (Start with this one Samuel. It is a classic and his unequivocal masterpiece for a reason. First track is my favourite. Just a soft breathy clay flute and some almost raga like rhythms yet it is absolutely spellbinding.)
Tangerine Dream - The Official Bootleg Series vol 1 (Oh boy! I forgot all about this little gem. Up there with my favourite TD releases and that is saying something. Hell today I would say it is THE finest TD record in my possesion. The 1976 material is just so much better than Stratosfear imo. It's the same sound palette but man do they experiment with colours. Not experimental like playing the garlic presser but rather in true TD fashion they merely gel along in this huge interstellar freeform spaceslug - creating melodies left and right with aptly placed bleeps and wrhhhhhaaaaaaaaaarhsss whuuuusshh dangdingalingiiuyy whyuaaaaarrrrm whyooooummm. Also the sound quality is stellar. Not your everyday bootleg hack job.)
Dungen - Häxan
Art Zoyd - Häxan
Faust - Häxan
(Art Zoyd won)
Lucio Battisti - Anima Latina (One of my favourite albums. I challenge anyone to put this on and not feel some form of feelgood vibes in their bellies. Resistance is futile!)
Com Truise - Iteration

Edited by Guldbamsen - December 20 2017 at 14:28

Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien

Magnum Vaeltaja wrote: ^  I'm also a huge fan of those first two Pohjola albums. I haven't heard Keesojen Lehto, but I have heard Visitation and found it alright, but not quite up to the same standard as the first two.

How about Wigwam´s four first albums? I think you know Pekka plaeyd bass in Wigwam before his solo career, and in "Fairyport" there are three first really great Pohjola compositions, that reminds a lot his two first solo albums. BTW he took influences from Zappa´s Hot Rats album to his "Hot Mice"-composition.

Yesterday, actually (I'm still sipping my morning coffee). Some new downloads for me:

Tal Wilkenfeld - Transformation
Excellent! Very accomplished electric jazz album from the then 21 year old bass virtuoso. I especially enjoyed the first and last tracks.

Pete Townshend - Truancy
Great, of course. Some fine tracks an earlier compilation didn't have.

Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow
New for me. Many here express love for it. Seems pleasant but understated.

Bill Bruford - Random Acts of Happiness
A live Earthworks outing. Solid, straight-ahead jazz from my favourite drummer. Brass, bass clarinet, or flute instead of guitar, with an interesting version of One of a Kind Pt. 1 & 2. Won't likely blow away a committed fusion fan, but worthwhile. There's that snare sound again!

Listening again now: opening track is frenetic. The piano player is busily earning his keep--must get paid by the note! Good stuff. I detect random planned happiness. It would have been cool to be there.


Edited by Peter - December 21 2017 at 06:58

^ I'm feeling contemplative right now ;) I'll listen to that other one later. Thanks!

Peter Hammill - ...all that might have been ...
Himmellegeme - Myth of Earth
Gentle Giant - Three Piece Suite
Cosmograf - The Unreasonable Silence
Ian Jennings - The House
Cosmograf - When Age Has Done It's Duty
PFM - Photos of Ghosts

Yesterday:
Association P.C. - Sun Rotation
Ash Ra Tempel with Timothy Leary - Seven Up
The Pop Group - Y

mechanicalflattery wrote: Guldbamsen wrote: Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds (Start with this one Samuel. It is a classic and his unequivocal masterpiece for a reason. First track is my favourite. Just a soft breathy clay flute and some almost raga like rhythms yet it is absolutely spellbinding.) Eastern Sounds is deservedly a classic, but I'd argue for The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef as the unequivocal masterpiece. Blisteringly fast piano lines, piercing oboe melodies, guitar-like solos picked out on a cello, an excruciatingly beautiful celeste and bass duo, all delivered with egalitarian group dynamics. Eastern Sounds is his most relaxed and contemplative work, but Three Faces is his most vibrant, creative, and joyous.

Never heard Three Faces but I believe I will now. Thanks man.

Although I am keeping to the funky groove of yesterday and today, which effectively means more Chicano Batman for this dane. Oh Chicano Batman!!! I love your music just as much as I dig your name. Yes I am well and truly feeling the Batman (I know I know that is Robin's line).

Btw have you ever checked out Fire! Orchestra? With your affinity for the old school mad-jazzers and Sun Ra it'd surprise me if you didn't fall head over heels for Sweden's most pioneering bird convention. The debut Exit! is a fine start methinks.

Edited by Guldbamsen - December 22 2017 at 05:26

Guldbamsen wrote: I love that Association PC album Tymon. Kudos my good man! Do you also feel it sounds like it was made by two very different sounding bands or that the band somewhere after recording the first cut decided to drop acid for the remainder of the studio time? Not entirely sure what happened there but I just love how the album quite effectively skips 2.3. and 4. gear altogether and just hits the motorway running on that second track.

I do feel that way! It's a very successful mix of approaches, though. That liquid quality really makes this one of favorite fusion albums. Explosive stuff!