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Finally, my journey to nirvana is completed! Thank you.

Probably the Gnidrolog 5.1 channel remixes.

Having friends is overrated.

Probably because it rhymes with fire, which usefully is a thing associated with pyres. An easy couplet for lazy rhymers.

Here’s a worthwhile piece:

https://thequietus.com/articles/31366-stomu-yamashta

Have you seen the film about the making of the album? If so you’ll know why he looked pissed off.

…plus soupçon of Arteria??

There’s a huge excluded middle between “liking everything” and finding value exclusively in certain genres.

My experience is that in every genre of popular music there’s a fairly small amount of...

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News of the next OE platter by email:


Dear friend:

Today is another Bandcamp Friday, to support musicians during Covid-19, Bandcamp are, once again, waiving their revenue share on all sales...

True. I was always something of a magnet to the female sex, but I never got so much attention as I do now whilst promenading in my Brand X sweatshirt. The girls all wanna ask me if I knew Morris Pert.

This is groovy:

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Wonderful!

I think it's partly a generational thing. A lot of those who came up in my generation and are in their fifties now still despise prog because it was obligatory to do so during their formative years,...

Le Triton just announced that both Vortex albums have been reissued on vinyl via a South Korean label. Available to buy from Le Triton web site.

Who needs a new car when for the same money you could have a 2m pair of speaker cables...?

Back when I used to read mags like Stereophile (many years ago...) there was no end to the gizmos you...

Er, hang on a minute, that’s an essential surely??

I'm intrigued by this, as I find we usually agree about most things musical and I had this track (and album) down as very good but by no means essential. It is years since I dug it out, and I should...

I must admit I find things like this vaguely nauseating, though there isn't any logical reason why it's any worse than any other form of gratuitous luxury spending.

Thanks for the link. I'm on a big PMG kick at the moment, so this is great reading!

Pretty sure this will be one of the top jazz releases of the year for me:

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Much to absorb, and I've only just started...

A good article here for those who are intrigued by the...

I missed this:



...which is nice.

Recently came across this forthcoming release in an email from Burning Shed.



There's a track from the album on Youtube:


https://youtu.be/zr5KAsCU4L0

The magic of the last two Talk Talk...

I suppose I’ll have to buy the bloody thing then.

Yeah, they mis-spoke there, though if you read further down the hype they do describe it as a re-release. Original vinyl not an option for most!

I've pre-ordered this and am quite stoked about it:

https://www.soundohm.com/product/sunrise-from-west-sea-lp

I don't like Sanguine Hum that much, but am also a keen fancier of the Nuns.

Bubu - El Cortejo De Un Día Amarillo

In my meaningless subjective opinion you cannot beat it. I'm listening to it again now, and although I've done so many many times it's one of those pieces of...

I can’t believe they haven’t done an album called Eclectic Maybeland yet.

I missed it until now :oops

While I'm here:

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NP: John Zorn, Bagatelles Vols. 5-8.

Arrived this morning - if I'd had it sooner there would probably have been five John Zorn titles in my PA top 20 picks for 2021 instead of a miserly four.
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My favourite Towner album is Solstice, and Trios/Solos is a great one too. But you really can’t go wrong with his 70s / 80s ECM titles, IMO.

I've got fifteen of them (I think...) and every single one is vibrant. One of my favourite artists in music, and a great collaborator across musical cultures - one reason I have so many records of...

Could be wrong, but I think Dark Ages is/was a project of a member of Drudkh. I'm a fan of Dark Ages and Cthulhu Rise, the latter I think may be up thedunno's alley.

I realise you were asking Sean, but my 2c is yes - as long as you’re good with long tracks containing a lot of improvisation.

The caveat here is that the band has gone through several phases, and...

I’ve managed to get through life so far without owning any Al Stewart CDs. This would probably be a bit of an excessive way of dipping my toe in the water.

Wonderful to have such memories of the band...I envy you that.

I completely missed that :oops

I've recently acquired this live double CD, released last year - but its existence had passed me by until now.

https://www.discogs.com/release/19608475-Oregon-1974

The recording is taken from a...

This is quite enjoyable:


https://youtu.be/G_oL-SkR-2M

...but did you hear the definitive version?


https://youtu.be/3R6MQblm-MY

Ah, David. I miss him.

Glad you dug it!

I got the CD myself, which is cheap (£8). But shipping from the UK would probably mean that’s not a good option for those on the other side of the pond.

Allowing the silver disc of this to rotate in my player this afternoon. Wonderful and unique music.

Based on this current listen, I have no idea what that fool above was talking about with regard...

Check this out:

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Pretty damn good, and I'm not just saying that because they're from my home town.

EDIT: CD / vinyl available here:
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Thanks for the link. I did a bit of digging and it turns out I was wrong when I said earlier that the Air Craft album never made it onto CD. Discogs doesn't know it, but Doug McKeehan has recently...

I was into their Fragments album. Also Hi Red Center’s Architectural Failures.

Indeed, for the longest time just listening to the snare work I was convinced they must have hired Pongo McPherson - a legend on the West Sussex prog scene who beat the skins for Lambert Simnel’s...

Dragon Wings And Wizard Tales has never seen a CD release - a shame - but there's a nice compilation of Emerald Web's earlier work available that includes some tracks from it:

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I got the CD and I like it. Top players all over this, but Skúli Sverisson's fretless bass is a particular pleasure.

I saw him play at a small club in London some years ago. He was phenomenal.

Hey, 30% is good numbers in this game!

I checked out a bunch of tracks from his later albums that are on YouTube. All seems pretty much in the New Age / meditation / spirituality bag, tastefully done but not really in the more musically...

My personal fave is his first solo album, the snappily titled ...Jaloa Ylpeyttä Yletän....Ylevää Nöyryyttä Nousen.

There was a vinyl re-release on Svart a few years ago, though it's OOP now.

I was also able to buy a legit download here:
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I don't know the Hoelderlin album, sounds like one to check out. Thanks again!

Thanks, interesting info. I found a cheap copy of the CD, so have bought it and will learn to live with the horribly generic cover.

I see that Siebert has a fairly extensive discography. I don’t...

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Laugh point!

I would have more respect for them (more than none at all) if they had the honesty to just call themselves that.