Recent Purchases

Mascodagama wrote: Guldbamsen wrote: Mascodagama wrote: Guldbamsen wrote: Éléphant Tôk - Tôk 1 Would love to know your thoughts on this one David.  It's about time I pulled the trigger on an order with Soleil Zeuhl, and I'm a big One Shot fan, so...  Hey ho Simon! Sorry for my tardiness but I've been dealing with some monstruous kids that simply won't leave my head after work. It's so loud inside the ol cabeza that I struggle to do anything of meaning...let alone something without - such as shooting the breeze on PA fx, which I miss. Sympathies - I find my job can have a similar effect, except the monstrous kids are usually wearing suits. Old enough to know better    Guldbamsen wrote: I am still warming up to the elephant as I have been on more of a Krautrock kick lately (with the odd FSOL spin here and there. Lifeforms is such a beautiful album!), but safe to say that I was a tad surprised...and slightly annoyed when I first span it. I think I was expecting something completely different - something wild and crazily zeulish. What I found instead was fiery jazz rock with overt hooks and melodies Funny how that sounds like a compliment. It is now though. I just had to readjust a bit. Next time I give it a whirl I'll be sure to update you in here. Actually that fiery jazz rock with overt hooks and melodies sounds pretty tasty to me right now.  Lifeforms, now there is a record

Yeah suits can be equally monstruous indeed. I've met quite a few in my day. Kudos to you for putting up with them. I gather you only need to quote Wall Street from time to time to soften their armour?
No elephant was played since last time. I fell down a jazz hole and couldn't get up again. While I was in there I did have a marvelous tile together with Mwandishi, Pharoah Sanders, Bob James, Sun Ra and some live albums from Miles. Good times.

Recent purchases:
Gong - Rejoice! I'm Dead
Ingranaggi Della Valle - Warm Spaced Blue
North Sea Radio Orchestra - Dronne
Sun Ra - Space is the Place (vinyl copy to compliment my cd)
Zwoyld - 200.000
Bushman's Revenge - Jazz, Fritt Etter Hukommelsen
Camera - Phantom Of Liberty
Brian Eno - The Ship

Nah...it's a mix of new releases, second hand and re-releases for me. Not too hung up on original vinyl as it seems like a ridiculously pricey hobby. Especially for music one can aqcuire elsewhere for the price of an orange

Holy swingking that was one sweet track!! Thanks a bunch Simon. Really appreciate that. Tribal, enigmatic, tip toeing on psychelic and with a whiff of the desert. Yup I am sold. Onto the list it goes (at the very top though).

Are you telling me that you do not own Sun Ra's Space is the Place? If that is the case, then you have something to remedy. One of the most deliciously saucy space funk fusion albums ever. Sorta like Herbie's Headhunter crew simultaneously did acid and tried reinventing cool jazz - ending up with something strangely enamouring.

Zwoyld is also very much recommended if you dig a little psych drenched organ with your Zeuhl;-)



Edited by Guldbamsen - October 14 2016 at 15:04

^ Good luck with Cottonwood Hill - it's relentless !! Great album. Is yours a splatter vinyl ?? Mine came with a balloon !!
I have two vinyls on the way - the new MESHUGGAH and VDGG releases, and a batch from Syn-Phonic arrived today :
ALGARNAS TRADGARD - Framtiden.......
BIG BIG TRAIN - Folklore
FROST* - Falling Satellites
RHUN - Fanfare du Chaos
HAWKWIND - The Machine Stops
ARABS IN ASPIC - Pictures In A Dream
                               Victim Of Your Father's Agony
EGG - Saturn (live dbl '68-'72)
TUSMORKE - Fort Bak Lyset

Just ordered on CD, never come across them in my record fair travals, or ever even heard the first three:







plus:

Nice haul there Michael! The Guru Guru one is far better than what it's ratings here will lead you to believe The long tune (I forget it's name) is really tasty

On my way to an old beat down second hand record shop here in Aalborg trying to tell myself NOT to go completely apefeaces crazy when I get there.
It is just such a nice environment to be in, and the old dude behind the counter can be so persuasive...
See you on the other side hopefully not all that broke *crosses fingers*

ALotOfBottle wrote: Tom Ozric wrote: EGG - Saturn (live dbl '68-'72) I'm interested to hear what you think about this one, Tom. I have been thinking about getting this for a while now, but never got around to.

Well, despite some issues with the sound quality, the few tracks I selected to hear sounded brilliant - Newport Hospital (but Dave didn't fuzz his Hammond) Enneagram (amazing), Wring Out The Ground (quite different to Civil Surface) and Saturn, which reminded me of Arzachel. I would say get yourself a copy, even though it's unofficial. Hey, should I ever cross paths with Dave, I'll throw a few bucks his way

I just had myself a better listen of 200.000. What really sets it apart from other such zeuhl inclined acts is the way they use the guitars. The whole album is full of electric twangy and slightly psychedelic sprinklings. Maybe I am losing it but with the add on of some chanting medicine man singing I again feel transported to the Navajo country. Quite a few recent records are doing this Circle's Pharaoh Overlord and Electric Orange's Vol 10 instantly spring to mind.

I'll be sure to check out some more jazz when I get back home from my little (read: far too big) vinyl adventure. Thanks mate.

My initial plan was to get a few used but good looking vinyls and sure enough I went through a to å (Denmark) finding quite a few gems along the way. A good hour later I see a whole room full of new vinyl and instantly decides to dump the old for new...
yup ended up buying 11 of which 4 are double LPs (some I already own on cd but just couldn't resist:

Brast Burn - Debon
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity
Soft Machine - Vol Three
Haroumi Hosono - Cochin Moon
Sunbirds - s/t
Karuna Khyal - Alomoni 1985
Clark Hutchinson - A = MH 2
White Noise - An Electric Storm
Heron Oblivion - s/t
Chickencage Experience - An Eggspoilation Movie

Arrived...