Paul Milns - Reaching out
Mick Karn Richard Barbieri, Steve Jansen, Steven Wilson
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
Livio Minafra
"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
Listen - Rachel Flowers (came today)
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
Van Der Graaf Generator - After The Flood: At The BBC 1968-1977. ****
Pura Vida!.
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind. ∞
Duke Ellington.
Today:
Jean-Luc Ponty - Mystical Adventures
John Garcia - John Garcia
A Silver Mount Zion - Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upward
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
Owl Sevice -Tracing Patterns An EP that works as a companion to their last and final (so they say) album His Pride. No Spear. No Friend Mostly instrumental interludes, bookended by 2 songs. For completists only, or those wanting to combine the last album session into an intended but abandoned whole.
Steely Dan -Gaucho Not their best by some margin, but still OK.
Konchordat -Rise To The Order The 3rd album from the duo previously known as Arque. I enjoyed the first 2 albums, firmly in the so-called "Neo-Prog" style, but this is a bridge too far. Every song is a swelling attempt at...an anthem? I don't know. Way more AOR than Prog-Rock here, and the compressed production leaves no dynamics whatsoever. This is big sounding, shouty, at times reminding of 80s Bad Company. I root for these guys, so hopefully they'll right the ship and get back to a more varied Prog-Rock sound, but I can't recommend this at all. Avoid, sadly. Very, very disappointing.
Calliope -La Terra Dei Grandi Occhi This is very good. Without looking anything up, I recall this as an early 90s release that I didn't buy at the time. No date on the booklet/tray card, so...Anyway, this is really very good in the classic Italian Progressive style. Nothing groundbreaking, but another log on an already spectacular fire. Well rcommended.
Ain Soph -Quicksand: Special Live Volume 3 A nice instrumental Prog-Rock album, vaguely reminiscent of Camel.
Best disc of the night was the Calliope.
Edit: The Calliope is from 1992.
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I was riding the trolley to work today and heard in one the stations a busker playing sax sounding like a Moondog song. Inspired me to play an album or two of his.
Lou
Looking forward to my day in court.
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Black Earth
Dark, slow, gloomy instrumental music. I love it.
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
"Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. ". Ludwig van Beethoven
Love And Rockets - Mirror People
Interviewer of reprobate ne'er-do-well musicians of the long-haired rock n' roll persuasion at: www.velvetthunder.co.uk and former scribe at Classic Rock Society. Only vaguely aware of anything other than music.
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World's rarest guitar. Only playable Stradivarius guitar in existence.
Lotfi Bouchnak & L'Enfance Rouge - N'habbik
Mehliana - Taming the dragon
I really like the music, but I could do without the spoken word parts.
"Henry Cow always wanted to push itself, so sometimes we would write music that we couldn't actually play – I found that very encouraging." - Lindsay Cooper, 1998
"I have nothing to do with Endless River. Phew! This is not rocket science people, get a grip." - Roger Waters, 2014
"I'm a collector. And I've always just seemed to collect personalities." - David Bowie, 1973
"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
Big Big Train - A Stone's Throw From The Line
Larry Young (Usa, 1973) - Lawrence Of Newark
Alive and Well in Argentina - Zal Yanovsky
Goofy insanity but fun. A long forgotten talent.
Lou
Looking forward to my day in court.
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