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

I started Paint the Sky from Lalu with (which I didn't like a lot)

An all Italian day:

Agora – Live in Montreux (1975)
Franco Battiato – Fetus (1972)
Jumbo – DNA (1972)

Arturo Stalteri – From Ajanta to Lhasa (1979/2020) (a superb archival release from the Pierrot Lunaire keyboardist)

Le Orme – Elementi (2001) (compliments their classic Seventies albums beautifully, just sublime)

Very cool Italian picks there Michael. It’s been ages since I span the Jumbo albums. Those are indeed some of the most interesting “blues music” coming out of Italy from around that time. Sensation’s Fix being another
As a devout Battiato fan seeing anyone of his early albums in here warms my heart. Fetus is a special release to me.

Samuel: I am rather used to introducing friends to music via their car stereos. I know exactly how that goes…especially for the more rough productions
Some times though it can get quite magical. I remember driving through an extremely wet and rainy Copenhagen with Catapilla Rising blasting through the speakers…and the album had honestly never sounded so amazing. My buddy went ahead and bought the album afterwards.

Btw I am visiting Rome for my 40th birthday in a couple of weeks and plan on scouring the city for RPI..preferably on cd.

Yesterday:
Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up Here
Björk - Vespertine
Ochre - A Midsummer’s Night Dream
Squid - Bright Green Field
Darkside - Psychic
King Crimson - Discipline
Archimedes Badkar - Tre
Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures
Mike Oldfield - Incantations

this last couple of days :
Ozric Tentacles : Jurassic shift
MMEB : Nightingales and Bombers
Rain Tree Crow
Pulsar : Pollen
PFM : Storia di un minuto
Neil Young and Crazy Horse : Rust never sleeps
Wobbler : Rites at dawn
R.L.Burnside : Mississippi Hill country Blues
Quantum Fantay : From Herzberg to living room CD2
Porcupine Tree : Fear of a blank planet
Night Watch : Twilight

Edited by mellotronwave - April 23 2022 at 13:34

Lake | Lake — pop/prog from 70s Germany I just discovered. Not sure about them yet but I bought 3 albums.

Jesu | Jesu — Justin K Broadrick’s finest mope/drone/doom project’s album (ok, what would YOU call this?)

Can | Out of Reach — Dismissed by the band as a mistake but thankfully still in print. I like it now and then, and like Rosko’s vocal numbers too. Reebop’s “Like Inobe God” is pushing it, but I won’t shut it off.

Boredoms | Chocolate Synthesizer — this era of Boredoms is fairly nuts. Playing it during work hours wasn’t ideal. But I love this group anyway.

The Dead C | Trouble — drone/noise album from a few years ago. Got this album when it came out, and got the somewhat ridiculous “fan pack” which included a t-shirt (which I still wear often), a Sharpie Pen, and a coffee mug (which I use to hold my Sharpie Pens)

Spooky Tooth & Pierre Henry | Ceremony — what a weird idea. Pretty wild (and long) rock/soul/blues things from the Tooth, plastered with electronic noise on top by Pierre Henry (a serious composer). Not sure it works but it’s a hell of a conversation piece.

Lift | Caverns of Your Brain — Syn-Phonic’s first release! Bought it when my friend and I first discovered all this previously unheard prog music back in ‘91. Good album! Sounds like early (Banks era) Yes.

Nektar | Down to Earth — damn what a fun album. Rockin and sometimes funky, but conceptually tight and instrumentally interesting all the way thru. Is it their best? Not sure. Haven’t heard the first 2 in decades.

Frank Zappa | The Lumpy Money Project/Object (box set). Heard the 1984 remixes of both “Gravy” (prev unreleased) and “Money” (which pissed me off immensely at first but now is a curious alternate version).

Michael Hoenig | Departure from the Northern Wasteland — my go-to album, period. Usually played when I’m at my lowest. It brings me back out of the doldrums without fail, or at least makes me feel better about being in the doldrums. Usually the latter, honestly. Can a single album really change you from being depressed to being happy? Not sure it can, in my case at least.

Weather Report | s/t
Weather Report | I Sing the Body Electric
Sigur Ros | Valtari
Sparks | Propaganda
Mahavishnu Orchestra | The Inner Mounting Flame
Dire Straits | Love Over Gold

Genesis | Archive 1967-75 (disc 4) — this is the reeeal early stuff, mostly unreleased. They were quite good even back then.
Weezer | Weezer (Blue Album) - Trying again to see if I like them. I kind of do. Can I like them without thinking this album is the greatest album of all time? I think I can.

Genesis | Calling all Stations — on a whim. I’ve warmed up to this slightly in recent years, though sonically it has nothing to do with anything I’ve ever liked about any prior edition of Genesis. At one point I upgraded it to “sounds like a very mediocre Porcupine Tree album might sound”, but this latest (full) listen has me downgrading it from there. Not bad background music, anyway. God, I used to hate this thing so much though. I bought it upon release but didn’t know that Phil wasn’t going to be on it. Imagine my shock.

Lou Reed | s/t — featuring Rick and Steve from Yes! I think I could hear Steve play a solo on “Ride into the Sun” because there’s no way Lou played that. Good underrated album though.

Edited by HolyMoly - April 23 2022 at 21:50

Today’s spins:

Brigg – s/t (1973) (got an LP reissue of an obscure US psych/folk/rocker from a one-and-done young band...a little bit poppy, a little bit folky, some light Beatles influences here and there…a nice and easy spin, but perhaps not a truly lost `classic'...although I warm to it more with every spin - )

Costa Blanca – Viaje a Prantia (1977) (also picked up a reissue a few months back of a Spanish prog-jazz rarity that reminds a little of Italian fusioners Perigeo. Damn good in several parts, although I could do without the unaccompanied drum solo that feels like it goes for about ten minutes smack-bang in the middle! )

Rialzu – s/t (1978) (a beautiful French Zeuhl obscurity with lots of folk and male/female choral touches)

Marillion : One hour before it's dark
Pallas : The dreams of men
Neil Young and Crazy Horse : Weld
TFK : Bank of Eden (CD2)
Rush A farewell to kings
TC Matic : Essential



Edited by mellotronwave - April 25 2022 at 16:46

A little old, a little new today:

Dedalus – s/t (1973) – Don’t play this Italian fusion stunner nearly enough.
M.Efekt – Svitanie (1977) – such an underrated minor symphonic classic

Michael Bruckner/Volker Lankow/Bridge to Imla – Ambient Chapel: Live at Schlosskirche Rumpenheim 2018 (2022) – A gorgeous and atmospheric ambient release.

Michael Bruckner – Hymns to the Dawn (2021) – as above. MB is always an intelligent and class act. It’s staggering that his superior electronic releases keep up such an incredible high standard.

Two Rush: Presto and Power Windows