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

Breathless will get another go as well...but it’s an lp which is off limits right now as my speakers snuffed it and I haven’t yet set up my old jbl’s. Not sure why but I never listen to lps over headphones..maybe I should.

Btw Samuel, I think you’ll like this: https://m.soundcloud.com/go_march
I’m listening to the album right now and it’s right down my alley. Kinda like James Holden & The Animal Spirits but varied and wellrecorded. Kraut-jazzy-hypno-prog.

Oh and Amen Dunes is nothing like Amon Düül ll Infinitely less weird. It’s more of a laid-back americana indie-like rock..but with a lisp and highly intriguing lyrics. Personally I am hooked. I’ve listened to that album at least 30 times since I got it. Chillout in a different way.

Cool to see you getting into King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Steve..albeit slowly. If you haven’t tried it yet then I heartily recommend Sketches of Brunswick East - their most Canterburian to date..but also a rather soulful poppy affair if you can dig.

Yesterday:
Guerilla Toss - Twisted Crystal
Igor Wakhevitch - Logos
The Heliocentrics - A World Of Masks
Island - s/t
Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man Soundtrack
Monobody - Raytracing (I need to listen to this one some more. I wasn’t really paying attention but what I heard was a mixture of math rock and jazz with an edge)
Out Solar System - Origins
Reve General - Howl
Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information (Hot damn!!)
Ennio Morricone - I Cannibali
Eldberg - Par Er Heimur Hugans (Icelandic band, Icelandic vocals, prawk rock from the early 70s et voila: Eldberg! But man those vocals are beautiful..or maybe it’s just the lingo. The organs as well as the whole production is also just right. Perfect little album that I always seem to return to)

Edited by Guldbamsen - January 17 2019 at 14:17

Lisa Stansfield - Affection: Although it came out in 89' it kinda feels a couple of years ahead of its time. Slicker and smoother than typical late 80's dance stuff, like an energized Sade. Kinda nice actually.

Yeah the Amen Dunes/Amon Duul comment was a joke. Completely different ballpark. I would say technically Amen Dunes is outside my comfort zone but I keep returning to them and have most of their albums now.

David - I see your Hot Damn comment on Shuggie Otis above . I heartily agree with you on that one.

For today’s listening I gave lotsa time to the music of a friend of mine who runs a group in NYC called Oh Oh Ecstasy. Psychedelic lo-fi dream pop/goth/postpunk. Been a fan for years but hadn’t listened in a while so I had a mini-marathon. Look em up on Bandcamp if yr curious.
Oh - coincidentally (inasmuch as David listened to it today) I sent this guy a spare vinyl copy of Guerilla Toss’s new album recently, because I knew he’d love it. He did.

Oh Oh Ecstasy | shuffle of 5-6 albums
Flo & Eddie | The Phlorescent Leech and Eddie
Beak> | >>>
James Ferraro | On Air

P.S. Breathless is officially my favorite Camel album now. It’s also the first one I heard. My dad taped it off the radio when it was new. A couple of years later we saw them live in Copenhagen, probably blocks from where David was being born right around the same time. These coincidences are so awesome.



Edited by HolyMoly - January 17 2019 at 18:43

HolyMoly wrote: For today’s listening I gave lotsa time to the music of a friend of mine who runs a group in NYC called Oh Oh Ecstasy. Psychedelic lo-fi dream pop/goth/postpunk. Been a fan for years but hadn’t listened in a while so I had a mini-marathon. Look em up on Bandcamp if yr curious.

Prog Sothoth wrote: Sade - Love Deluxe: Listening to Lisa led me to wanting to hear this one, a classic on par with Steely Dan's Aja as THE album to play as background music when tea-sippers and fine wine enthusiasts stop by for a visit. I like this long version of "No Ordinary Love" better than the single version (although the video rules...I'm a major fan of mermaids).]

Hands down the most beautiful album from them.

Absolutely NOT on a French-language kick today, but:

Genesis - Selling England by The Pound

Guldbamsen wrote: Breathless will get another go as well...but it’s an lp which is off limits right now as my speakers snuffed it and I haven’t yet set up my old jbl’s. Not sure why but I never listen to lps over headphones..maybe I should. to)

I first heard Amen Dunes a year ago when I took a chance on a used CD purchase of one of his early albums. It was creepy and atmospheric, like Marc Bolan making a confessional solo album in an echo chamber and doing tape experiments and stuff. So I was sold. Later stuff has been a bit smoother and more professional, but that magical otherworldly vibe is still there.

The Dead C | Patience
The Dead C | The Damned
Klaus Schulze | Cyborg
Creeping Pink | Caped in at Mirror Woods
Mouthus | The Long Salt
Various Artists | Frank’s Gotcha Covered (an FZ-fan-created CD of original versions of obscure songs which Zappa covered throughout his career)
Rheostatics | Introducing Happiness
To Live and Shave in L.A. | The 300 Dollar Silk Shirt
Guerilla Toss | Flood Dosed EP

Zappa | 1969 show I found on CD
Jesus Christ Superstar | Orig Soundtrack
James Ferraro | Last American Hero
Zappa | We’re Only in it for the Money
Soft Machine | Fourth
Thee Oh Sees | Carrion Crawler / The Dream
Zappa | Feeding the Monkies at Ma Maison
Billy Joel | The Stranger