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

andreol263 wrote: Arco Iris - Sudamerica o El Regreso a La Aurora Arco Iris - Agitor Lucens V Arco Iris - Los Elementales

ALotOfBottle wrote: See, that's one of the great things about living in smaller-medium-sized countries like Portugal. If I were going by car, it would take me probably 9 hours to get to the place of the concert. But we will see. And actually, in Polish, Jantar is an old term for amber, which is generally known as a symbol of the Polish Pomerania.

On the other hand we don't see nearly as many interesting acts as in Central Europe. The Netherlands are probably the best small country, concert-wise. Thanks to this conversation I learned some European geography, I don't think I could point to the Baltic Sea before 

^^ Well, I only have the last three, the ones I heard at home. There's never enough RPI in ones collection :P

ALotOfBottle wrote: Master Cylinder - Elsewhere (Michael, what a fantastic album! A very American take on the Canterbury sound, reminded me of The Muffins, Happy the Man, and However at times, but it has its own unique character. Great, playful compositions, brilliant arrangements and skillful musical performance, great guitar especially. Superb album. Thank you! )

Tymon, really glad you dug this one, man! It was all new to me as well, and it more or less sounded top notch all the day. I think there were a few LP's of it listed on the Discogs for about $25 US, not really too bad a price (I was assuming it was some complete obscurity worth a fortune! ), I'd probably consider getting it (although I'd prefer a nice reissue).

Oh, and yes, that was me posting in that Canterbury FB group! Small world, my friend!

Yesterday:
Don Cherry - Eternal Rhythm ()
Lard Free - Gilbert Artman's Lard Free
Don Cherry - Complete Communion
Can - The Peel Sessions
The Feed-Back (Il Gruppo di Improvvisazione di Nuova Consonanza) - The Feed-Back

Hey there, guys, sorry for not really being on the forum the last several days. Just flat out at work and having an oddly tough time recovering from my nightshift hours, struggling to get my body clock back to normal, which is odd because I've been doing them on and off for years!

Will be back on here tomorrow, though, business as usual hopefully, be good to catch up on things with you guys.

mechanicalflattery wrote: Sun Ra would be my second favorite jazz artist; the two left the rest of the jazz scene in the dust. Interestingly enough, we seem to enjoy entirely separate eras of Ra. My favorites are Strange Strings and Atlantis, and in general I've mainly listened to the 1960's New York albums. Meanwhile, you generally seem to favor the later 70's recordings. Either way, if there was ever an artist that deserved to be considered his own genre, it was Sun Ra.

Oh yeah, he definitely did! And to be frank, I like all Sun Ra eras. You observed well, though. In my mind, 1971 and 1972 were magical years for his music. The hissy recordings of his Egypt concerts (Nidhamu, Dark Myth Equation Visitation, and Horizon (Starwatchers)) are some of my favorites, but I dig Atlantis, Sound of Joy, and The Night of the Purple Moon especially, too. Don't remember Strange Strings very well, though. Many, many different recordings in many different styles from him - studio works, live albums, bootlegs, lost sessions, singles - a good most of them are excellent. Oh and also, NTS Radio has a separate sub-genre called "Sun Ra."


Edited by ALotOfBottle - July 29 2017 at 04:04

mechanicalflattery wrote: ALotOfBottle wrote: mechanicalflattery wrote: ALotOfBottle wrote: Don Cherry & The Jazz Composer's Orchestra - Relativity Suite () Holger Czukay and Rolf Dammers - Canaxis Magma - Köhntarkösz Nice! Hell of a lineup, especially that Cherry disc. Pretty much anything by The Jazz Composer's Orchestra and its members (Carla Bley especially) is worth listening to.  Organic Music Society (which, funnily, features a lengthy track called "Relativity Suite") will be listened to today! Something tells me I will enjoy this one a lot. Recently, I'm in love with Don Cherry's music. It's been a while since I've listened to anything from him and I want to get to know his discography as well as I can now. Which album of his is your favorite? His four truly great albums are Complete Communion, Symphony For Improvisers, Eternal Rhythm, and Mu, with Communion being his greatest, but I've got a feeling you'd prefer Eternal Rhythm. Perhaps you've already heard all of those, but they're always worth a relisten; I know of no other artist or band that has made four albums with the same extraordinary level of quality (Van Der Graaf Generator has three). I will never refuse an opportunity to rave about the man; he's underappreciated enough in the jazz world.

Cool! I'll listen to all four in the following days. I think I've already heard Mu, Symphony and maybe Communion, but, as you said, they're probably always worth a relisten. Indeed, an excellent, but underappreciated artist. Although the music is much different, I feel like there is a certain similarity between his musical vision and that of (my absolute favorite) Sun Ra in terms of that whole far-off-ness and paradoxically familiar one-of-a-kind-ness, if that makes any sense. Sorry for getting a bit off-topic. Organic Music Society now, Communion later today or tomorrow.


Edited by ALotOfBottle - July 29 2017 at 02:34

mechanicalflattery wrote: ALotOfBottle wrote: Don Cherry & The Jazz Composer's Orchestra - Relativity Suite () Holger Czukay and Rolf Dammers - Canaxis Magma - Köhntarkösz Nice! Hell of a lineup, especially that Cherry disc. Pretty much anything by The Jazz Composer's Orchestra and its members (Carla Bley especially) is worth listening to.

Organic Music Society (which, funnily, features a lengthy track called "Relativity Suite") will be listened to today! Something tells me I will enjoy this one a lot. Recently, I'm in love with Don Cherry's music. It's been a while since I've listened to anything from him and I want to get to know his discography as well as I can now. Which album of his is your favorite?

Meltdowner wrote: ^ I hope you'll make it, it was an awesome concert last year. I'm always reluctant about suggesting concerts in other countries, considering my notions of distance, since I can get to every point of mine in a few hours. To be honest, I first thought they'd play here because Jantar means dinner in Portuguese :P

See, that's one of the great things about living in smaller-medium-sized countries like Portugal. If I were going by car, it would take me probably 9 hours to get to the place of the concert. But we will see. And actually, in Polish, Jantar is an old term for amber, which is generally known as a symbol of the Polish Pomerania.


Don Cherry & The Jazz Composer's Orchestra - Relativity Suite ()
Holger Czukay and Rolf Dammers - Canaxis
Magma - Köhntarkösz



Edited by ALotOfBottle - July 28 2017 at 13:12