What albums did you listen to today?

progbethyname wrote: Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: progbethyname wrote: Lunatic Soul--Walking on a flashlight beam. (this album is a great way to appreciate a peaceful exsistence. ) NIck, I've only just ripped this for the car, while start giving it a proper listen as of tomorrow night. I've got some kind of set that has a hard, book-like case which I think has both a bluray or dvd-audio version along with the CD. Tonight's choices: John Mitchell – Lonely Robot Anthony Kalugin’s Kinematic Orkestra – AKKO 1 Andreas Vollenweider – Down to the Moon Stratosphere – Aftermath Erik Wollo – Blue Radiance Steve Roach – Skeleton Keys Tangerine Dream – Cyclone Hey man. The Lunatic soul album is fabulous. Explores all that dark ambient sound moods very well. It's a thinking man's music...a dreamer if you will. My favourite is the S/T track. Incredible work and the albums audio quality is just about first rate. :) Also, how are your feelings on that Lonely Robot album? The opening track is great, but for the most part the album did not wow me. Tracks 6,7,8 are a tad mediocre which bog down the album. Love John Mitchell though.

I reviewed it just last night, Nick. I was a little bummed to find not a single review on the Archives for it, and I thought Mitchell deserved a little better than that!

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=1423673

I gave it three stars. I don't think it's as good as the last two It Bites albums, and I think it's waaaaaaaay too long at 58 minutes. It's a double vinyl, should have been a single! A nice 45 minutes would have been ideal. Apart from that, when it's good, it's great, but there's also some stretches where, without actually being bad, are not too exciting. Definitely not an essential purchase.

Listening to that Lunatic Soul album last night, and I definitely think Duda was keeping some of the best material off the most recent Riverside all for his solo album! I mean, `Shrine to the New Generation Slaves' IS a good album, but it's also a little tired and not quite up to the standard of the previous Riverside albums. It seenms like Duda poured his heart and soul into `Flashlight', and didn't spend as much time making `Shrine' a bit more special!

Oh, and funny you mention Wilson, because for sure Duda has always acknowledged Wilson/PTree as a big influence. But I'm just going to come out and say it, hopefully start some s*it if I can - I think `Flashlight' destroys the lastest Wilson solo album. I feel `Hand. Cannot. Erase' has a lot of instantly appealing surface enjoyment, but I'm never keen to race back to it, and I think `Flashlight' is much more intense, complex and varied, and it holds together better as well.

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - June 05 2015 at 15:20

Meltdowner wrote: Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: The Byrds were a 60's pop band, Sam. They started off as a kind of folky psychedelic group, then became quite experimental (though still poppy), then turned into a country band, then an odd combination of psych/acid/country and rock! Their trio of albums `Fifth Dimension', `Younger than Yesterday' and especially `Notorious Byrd Brothers' are superb, very adventurous pop music with sublime harmonies and pretty experimental, daring production. They're a very special band to me, even if their later albums are a mixed bag. Lots of throaway stuff with a couple of gems on each of their later discs. That Hawkwind one is stange! It's full of ideas, has plenty of great tracks, but at the same time, plenty of it seems kind of....`straight' for a Hawkwind album! There's not much of that drug fuelled, dirty heavy sound on that one! I did enjoy TD's `Cyclone' (as I always do!), but at the same time I don't find it hugely exciting. It's an easy listen, has some nice oddball and loopy moments, but it's never too thrilling to me either. That sounds nice, I'll give those a listen after I finish listening to Jefferson Airplane, the current 60's band I'm looking into I'll have that in mind, I have to give their classic albums a proper listen first Yes, it's far from being on the same level as the other albums from that era, but it's much better than a lot of their later albums Today: Farmers Market - Slav to the Rhythm (You're right Audun, it's so different. I really like their Fusion Folk sound. The only aspect that relates the two albums I listened are the vocals ) Chopin - Piano Concerto Nº1 Sequentia Legenda - Blue Dream Blakulla - s/t

Ooh, I love Jefferson Airplane! Their debut album is nice, so too is `Surrealistic Pillow, but the really great album is `After Bathing at Baxters', certainly their most ambitious and acid-fried! Takes a few listens to get your head around, but there's a ton of amazing stuff on that one!

Ha, I really like that Blakulla album! Great playing and vocals, and strong tunes as well.

Tonight's choices:


Tool – Aenima
Neal Morse – The Grand Experiment
Aisles – 4:45am
Coheed and Cambria – Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV
Hillmen – The Whisky Mountain Sessions (Djam Karet offshoot, a nice mellow jam-band)
Lunatic Soul – Flashlight
Tangerine Dream – The Deutschlandhalle Performance, Berlin, 1973
Tangerine Dream – Phaedra
Tangerine Dream – Rubicon
Kitaro – Ken Tai
Cosmic Ground – s/t

........anyway..........
So far in the last day..........
SOFT MACHINE - Six (still not a favourite of mine - 25 years+ and counting......love most everything before and after......just something 'uninspired' about this release.........)
KAJAGOOGOO -White Feathers and Various 12" vinyls
SPLIT ENZ - True Colours
HAIRCUT ONE-HUNDRED - Paint And Paint (pretty impressive 2nd album from these New-Wavers.......)
HAPPY THE MAN - S/T debut
ANGE - Emile Jacotey
PETER HAMMILL - Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night
............and currently - AREA - Crac!

^ Mike, you know the fuss-pot pedantic f**ker I am......... Just knit-picking.......
Just thought that Ken Tai is someone I never heard of and this may be misleading for anyone interested, this is a very special album to me (Dan bought me this LP as a Japanese issue for my 21st birthday, or thereabouts - almost ^ 24 years ago....... so I always remember Ten, not Ken, and given that not many here would dig Kitaro............ Far East Family Band aside).
But you know me ..................

Meltdowner - Baxter's is just AMAZING for a 1967 album.........
This was a major obsession for me back in 1989, always on the agenda with whatever narcotic was on the menu...... .......I've left this all behind, but still simply adore the music !!! Glad you can too

I would only consider this Lonely Robot album because Nick Beggs plays..........
.......thinking.....thinking.....................Nick is Bass-God for me these days...........whips Claypool for me any day........
On par with Tony Levin for sure.......

^ You should dig Kajagoogoo .......

Tom Ozric wrote: Meltdowner - Baxter's is just AMAZING for a 1967 album......... This was a major obsession for me back in 1989, always on the agenda with whatever narcotic was on the menu...... .......I've left this all behind, but still simply adore the music !!! Glad you can too

The only substance you need to enjoy that album is vinyl

I forgot these from yesterday:
Franz Ferdinand & Sparks - s/t
Jean Michel Jarre - Les Chants Magnétiques

Tonight's choices:

Ashra – Correlations
It Bites – Map of the Past
Coheed and Cambria – Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV – Part 1
Klaus Schulze – Timewind
Klaus Schulze – Picture Music
Santana – Abraxas
Popul Vuh – In den Garten Pharoas
Can – Future Days

Renaissance - Novella (I finally got this album only a few weeks ago and man this is excellent! I think it conatins some of the band's best moments).