Hip to the Jag is my pique.
Hip to the Jag is my pique.
I played the new McStine & Minnemann a few times at work today. I thought it sounds great! A contender, fer sure!
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What a year it's been already!!! I've got a rock solid Top 20:
1. JPL Sapiens Chapitre 1/3 Exordium France
2. Pattern-Seeking Animals Prehensile Tales USA
3. Lazuli Le Fantastique Envol De Dieter Bohm France
4. Rick Wakeman The Red Planet UK
5. Magenta Masters Of Illusion UK
6. Airbag A Day At The Beach Norway
7. Zopp s/t Sweden
8. Abel Ganz The Life Of The Honey Bee And Other Moments Of Clarity UK
9. Pendragon Love Over Fear UK
10. Arabs In Aspic Madness And Magic Norway
11. LogoS Sadako e le Mille Gru di Carta Italy
12. Glass Hammer Dreaming City USA
13. Karfagen Birds Of Passage Ukraine
14. Pure Reason Revolution Eupnea UK
15. Fernando Perdomo Out To Sea 3 USA
16. I Am The Maniac Whale Things Unseen UK
17. Samurai Of Prog (Bernard & Porsti) Gulliver Finland
18. Fren Where Do You Want Ghosts To Reside Poland
19. Grandval Descendu Sur Terre France
20. Apogee Endurance Of The Obsolete Germany
And we have a lot of greatness still ahead of us: Wobbler and Neal Morse!!! (And maybe just maybe Transatlantic too.)
The Prog Corner
Zopp's from the UK.Originally Posted by miamiscot
Yes they are!!! But the song "Swedish Love" has been stuck in my head for days...
Great album. Sorry for my error.
The Prog Corner
I thought that might have something to do with it!
Personally I prefer Norwegian bands like The Beatles
The new live album by John Zorn's Simulacrum group (Medeski / Hollenberg / Grohowski), Beyond Good and Evil, is tremendous. No crowd sounds, and the production is impeccable, so comes across more like a ‘live in the studio’ thing.
This has got me sufficiently excited about the group again that I've also ordered the new studio album Baphomet, which is a single 39-minute track that is said to encompass a broad spread of Zorn's compositional interests.
Spheric Universe Experience
Jazz Fusion Releases in 2020 :
Cody Carpenter Control Jan 17
Trilok Gurtu God Is a Drummer Feb 7
Dusan Jevtovic If You See Me Mar 20
Wayne Krantz Write Out Your Head Jan 14
Fernando Lamadrid De Paso Jan 31
John McLaughlin · Shankar Mahadevan · Zakir Hussain Is That So? Jan 17
Pat Metheny From This Place Feb 21
Anika Nilles / Nevell For a Colorful Soul Jan 10
Soften the Glare Glint Mar 3
Ray Suhy & Lewis Porter Quartet Transcendent Apr 17
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF STUPID PEOPLE IN LARGE GROUPS!
^^That new Soften the Glare album is excellent. A real grower.
neil
The Thirlwell/Steensland for me, followed by Dai Kaht, Aksak (a dream come true!), Chromb!, Horse Lords and possibly the Elds Mark. Haven't heard the new Opium Cartel or Thumbscrew yet.
I'd like to hear that Pendragon, though. Seriously: haven't been really listening to them for 35 years.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
I have only heard Fat Again - what else is worth checking out by Steelsmon Stilon?
If it isn't Krautrock, it's krap.
"And it's only the giving
That makes you what you are" - Ian Anderson
Everything you can get your hands on (which is hard enough).
A farewell to brains would be the most logical next step.
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OK thanks in Dutch (or fake Dutch....also called Butch).
If it isn't Krautrock, it's krap.
"And it's only the giving
That makes you what you are" - Ian Anderson
You need to hear this. And preferably read what others have written about it:
It's got an alto solo by Mats Gustafsson duelled by a period-labelled woman in tandem which has to heard to be believed (from 4:45).
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Ok will do...cheers
Moving straight to the top of my list is Magenta's latest. Rob has taken a major step forward as a composer, and Chris played guitar well outside his comfort zone. A must have album.
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"--Dalai Lama
That's my list there, except Dai Kaht is first. And add Irreversible Entanglements, which is the best and more relevant jazz project I've heard in years.
I'll tell youse one fuckin' thing - that wuz some really good shit! You know what I mean? I thought these guys hit it fuckin hard when they dids "Hole Lotta Love" but this shit just pummels that! These guys aren't fuckin' pussies - I'll tell you that. They should play this shit at the next Rally - I'll fuckin' rock out to it and so will our fuckin' president!! Fuck Yeah man!!
If it isn't Krautrock, it's krap.
"And it's only the giving
That makes you what you are" - Ian Anderson
Seriously amazing, the entire thing! Holy carp. This is an epic - totally masterful. From 7:00 on when it breaks down, it's just slays. The greatest piece I have ever heard from SS. It even goes Holdsworth-Gambale-Chick Corea Electrik Band-GRP-circa 1991 at the end
If it isn't Krautrock, it's krap.
"And it's only the giving
That makes you what you are" - Ian Anderson
This might interest some of you...i dug it for the most part:
https://www.invisibleoranges.com/nep...e21KRBAEE0sPwo
Glass Museum - Reykjavik
GoGo Penguin - s/t
Wim Mertens - Inescapable 1980-2020 (a collection box, so I don't know if it counts)
Probably:
Wim Mertens - The gaze of the west Haven't heard it yet.
Baphomet arrived. It slays. But don't take my word for it:
It's a comment on where we are culturally that this fairly substantial piece of new work from Zorn, loosed upon the World a month ago, has exactly one (amateur) review on the Internet to date, and none in English.
The audience is atomised, the role of the critic superseded by Web 2.0 (to use a quaint term) and nobody has the bandwidth or attention span to keep up anyway
I include myself in this malaise as much as anyone...
Last edited by Mascodagama; 07-28-2020 at 06:53 AM. Reason: Because "Baphoment" is not a thing.
This is fantastic, and it fully justifies your comment. Thank you.Baphomet arrived. It slays. But don't take my word for it:
It's a comment on where we are culturally that this fairly substantial piece of new work from Zorn, loosed upon the World a month ago, has exactly one (amateur) review on the Internet to date, and none in English.
The audience is atomised, the role of the critic superseded by Web 2.0 (to use a quaint term) and nobody has the bandwidth or attention span to keep up anyway
I include myself in this malaise as much as anyone...
To add to my list:
Pere Ubu - By Order of Mayor Pawlicki
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
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