A curious bit related to one of the band's permutations this century:
https://softmachine-moonjune.bandcamp.com/album/abracadabra-in-osaka-elton-dean-allan-holdsworth-hugh-hopper-john-marshall...
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A curious bit related to one of the band's permutations this century:
https://softmachine-moonjune.bandcamp.com/album/abracadabra-in-osaka-elton-dean-allan-holdsworth-hugh-hopper-john-marshall...
Interestingly, both DiscJapan and IMWAN domains were .com, which may explain their vulnerability to the US court decisions.
https://www.wired.com/2012/03/feds-seize-foreign-sites/
It looks that a new bootleggers hunting season has arrived.
First (a month ago) they took down a couple of sites selling boots, in particular Disc Japan:
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Didn't the black people in the US abandon jazz in the very same way that the whites abandoned rock?
I would not put a dividing line between races, but between modern (loosely bound) and traditional (tightly knit) societies. For a brief moment rock seemed to summon a magical/sacral, social...
How much did the earlier "rock" generations relate to it. I have never observed any manifestation of any deeper identification with music among adults, a tiny minority of music freaks and pros...
Unlike New Order, The Cure, or Kate Bush. :)
Also, I find the omission of all post-Henry Cow projects rather puzzling. I mean, you cannot exclude all of that if you are serious about providing a...
Yeah, another disc with Talk Talk, Pop Group, Skeleton Crew, The Fall, The Clash, The Work, Brian Eno, The Slits, Cassiber, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Art Bears, Bauhaus, The Passage, Random Hold,...
“This is my personally-curated attempt to redress the balance, and to perhaps introduce any ‘80s-sceptics out there to the idea that conceptual thinking and ambition didn’t suddenly evaporate after...
Well, it sounds disturbingly familiar...
2019
https://medium.com/@houseparty/houseparty-is-joining-epic-games-8b6344a4d8e2
2021
Indeed, that 2014 release was the first version I came across to include it:
https://img.cdandlp.com/2015/04/imgL/117493252-2.jpg
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https://onlysolitaire.substack.com/p/rant-music-where-the-hell-is-it-heading
I'd have a hard time picking my fave all-female bands, because I know too few of them. Out of the limited pool of those I know I'd definitely single out Fanny, The Slits, The Raincoats, and...
Nice vid, but they were no match for Fanny. :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNUM-z0xmso
Opeth guys would need to rehearse more. :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT5VUcRYNAg
Their best since the classic period.
Even though lacking the freshness of their younger selves (which is the price of sticking to the formula by most rock acts) it has no corny attempts at...
For me the new album is easily the best since Scenes from a Memory. Although I liked quite a bit its predecessor, Distance over Time, this one finds them firmly back in the groove they lost amidst...
Unfortunately (for my wallet). I mean, most CDs go quickly out of print these days, and my problem is that the ones I want rarely sell cheaply on the second hand market. Quality titles which were...
Let me guess: Nucleus 12CD BBC boxset? :)
https://www.repertoirerecords.com/artists/nucleus/nucleus-live-at-the-bbc/
Fucked Up on their recent Year of the Horse fit the bill. Four 20-minute long suites should satisfy anyone longing for a hardcore re-drawing of the topographic oceans map. ;)
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Glad to hear that. Family's BBC boxset is fantastic (as are Barbara Thompson's and Colosseum's boxes on Repertoire).
I read rumors that Madfish had been working on Wishbone Ash' radio recordings....
Art Zoyd set is among the top archival boxsets ever, so I am already looking forward to this one. :up
This kind of attitude has gained prominence since Napster, with the folks proudly confessing how they ditched/sold off physical media (making the file copies, obviously) and entered the realm of...
Over last few years I bought two DACs exclusively for CD playback, hence not every purchaser uses them for streaming.
And I wonder where all those cheap (second-hand) copies of the stuff I am...
Fanny!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcb1HpH42N8
And now something from the contemporary scene. Can you imagine Kew.Rhone. ramming into Handel’s "Dixit Dominus" accompanied by Albert Ayler's marching band with gospel singers?
If not, here's a...
Coming soon to the house of every self-respecting Brit jazz/fusion buff (with sufficient funds and undiminished appetite for physical goodies):
Barbara Thompson - Live at the BBC [Repertoire...
The packaging are low quality paper/graphics card-sleeves, the medium are CD-Rs, there are no booklets, so unless it is a very rare set (most are not) I'd look for a more professionally assembled...
I've had an impression these titles were initially sold as downloads only via Bandcamp, so it's good to see them officially released on physical formats too:
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I liked Stump's Music's All That Matter a lot; it was a very unusual take on the subject. Where else could one find an eccentric examination of Genesis' early 80s popularity like that below? :)
I'm trying to purchase some stuff and I just can't get through checkout.... Their servers seem to be half-collapsed.
How about some Vocal Ensemble Gordela?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdzHAKPV7dk
Vinyl only?
https://dungen.bandcamp.com/album/dungen-live
Well, there are actually three tunes from Cricklewood (and two from Ssssh if you count "Schoolgirl") on that release, so given their rather static set-lists (perhaps Alvin Lee did not like to rotate...
Like this one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_at_the_Fillmore_East_1970
It's been always like this, hasn't it? Most rockmen played the music to achieve stardom. Now Miley goes the opposite direction: she had been already a big star when she started to crave for the rock...
She has something for Jimmy too. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XLaGBI5tzM
Hasn't Miley got her rock cred after singing with the Flaming Lips? ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfABglBWUkY
Matador, 4AD, Domino, Rough Trade, Saddle Creek, and more are fleeing Warner’s distribution alliance amid widespread complaints about Direct Shot.
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If you like theatrical progressive jazz of AACM variety you may find the first chapter one of the best jazz concept albums.
Also mind that the next three "chapters" are somewhat different, less...
For now (by recording year)...
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter 1: Gens de Couleur Libres (2010)
Steve Day - Song of the Fly (2011)
Fire! Orchestra - Exit! (2012)
Małe Instrumenty - Chemia i...
Some great stuff indeed...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YcxhtfMnKw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8rjZwYFPoI
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/a-major-music-distributor-has-stifled-vinyl-sales-for-record-stores-and-indie-labels-sources-say/
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/30-disc-studio-live-box-coming-from-gentle-giant.712073/page-13#post-22791824
A new double-CD/LP live release from Tasavallan Presidentti on Svart:
https://e.snmc.io/i/300/w/3224fd9fa2bfd75e997245d03b8c1990/7764102
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I have found this one on CD and the sound quality turns out to be suprisingly good, a few tape anomalies notwithstanding. Really cool gig.
And this is what I have spotted on YouTube recently,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rxYw7Y45Eo
The article is no longer there, but there's another one that tells the same story:
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2019/05/15/former-pledgemusic-employee/
And here's a fresh follow-up:
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I have finally got both and there's some really worthwhile material assembled there, but it's not the easiest listen due to the sheer diversity of lineups, dates and styles as well as somewhat...
I remember hearing this band! The girl has a beautiful voice indeed, although last time I heard her she sounded more like Anneli Drecker:
Jennie-Ann Smith:...
Rob Halford would side with me on that one, even though I have to say that his lungs could not match Joan's on Judas Priest's tackle of "Diamonds & Rust". :D
I have been immersing myself in the big Woodstock box for the last two weeks and its physical aspect (artwork, books, discs, posters) is a thrilling part of the whole experience. I cannot imagine...
Blackmore should have talked Joan Baez into filling Dio's shoes in Rainbow. She had the pipes powerful enough to fill the void and would have made the guitarist's transition to Blackmore's Night...
http://only-solitaire.blogspot.com/2019/09/music-where-hell-is-it-heading-to.html
Not particularly prog-oriented, but a thought-provoking read on the state of "flagship" music these days:
Here's the preview of a 1974 live cut:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZEQp1qKklc
BTW, wasn't the first volume supposed to cover the earliest period?
Not a fan of their last two studio productions, but I have just learnt they have two download-only live albums/videos: Live at Davis Square Theatre (2014) and Live at the Space (2015).
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Thanks for the hint; I'll definitely pick it (if they do not re-issue it in the meantime), but I'd rather fetch it from Presto Jazz where they offer it lossless.
That makes it the third jazz...
Is Pitchfork already pu(bli)shing advertorials ahead of the busy Xmas period? I almost started to miss supermarket aisles flooded with 'best of', 'greatest hits' and 'golden collection' titles.......
Well, perhaps that may be due to some of the stylistic ingredients thrown by JotC into the mix, which may be unpalatable for regular prog fans. At times there's a pretty strong (alt-)country vibe...