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hellogoodbye
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Topic: 4 little gems (135) Posted: March 29 2015 at 05:21 |
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Manuel Bienvenu : Elephant Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x9JvzPeuxo Dali's Car : The Waking Hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wy8S9UvFSE Feel The Spirit : Other worldly folk music gems and psychedelics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFfjNg-VEFE Airto Moreira : Identity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GxCMuokdcE
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hellogoodbye
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Posted: March 29 2015 at 05:24 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
It's not often an album come through the door that completely stops you in your tracks and demands to be listened to, but this is the case with ‘Elephant Home'…well I say demands, more gently suggests it in a husky voice, but theme keep you there for the duration, as it feels like you are drifting in and out of consciousness. I cannot begin to imagine the amount of different instruments played on this album, all over dubbed and weaved together to create probably the best soundtrack to a French movie never made. Beautiful stuff. Drew Millward https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArAiWCav-eA |
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hellogoodbye
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Posted: March 29 2015 at 08:43 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mark Pritchard Presents....Feel The SpiritLabel: Optimum Sounds – OPTCD002 Format: CD, Compilation Country: Released: Genre: Style: Tracklist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyxfCQG1t4w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxURhmiMuMc |
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zravkapt
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Posted: March 29 2015 at 09:30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I know Dali's Car and Airto Moreira but not the other two. Voted for Airto.
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Magma America Great Make Again
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hellogoodbye
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Posted: March 29 2015 at 09:46 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
His best album,in my opinion. The CD is very expensive.
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Mellotron Storm
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Posted: March 29 2015 at 10:12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I went with Airto as well.
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"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
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hellogoodbye
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Posted: March 29 2015 at 10:18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mmm. Two canadians voting for a brazilian. Another proof of the global warming.
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bhikkhu
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Posted: March 29 2015 at 11:55 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Only know Dali's Car so I can't vote.
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hellogoodbye
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Posted: March 30 2015 at 02:12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No problem.
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hellogoodbye
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Posted: March 30 2015 at 07:35 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Format: Audio CD
When first released, this album was a real enigma - Mick Karn fans wanted something similar to his first solo album "Titles", Peter Murphy fans were thinking Bauhaus, and back to Karn again, for those (most) that had no idea his even did a solo album, they were waiting for something like the later era Japan. The common thread between karn and Murphy was a love of 70's glam and after they had each explored and became tired of the formulas with their previous acts, they moved onwards to record one of the most interesting and challenging albums of the ultra-fertile mid 80's. Murphy's lyrics have never been better----singing over karn's somewhat chaotic bass lines was a true test of meddle for PM who had always been much more straight forward and seemingly in-control. For the most part he seems a bit lost as he takes his well-worn personal themes and lays them atop music that simply didn't make sense to him - the crazy thing, is that it all worked beautifully. To this day I think it's the best thing Murphy's ever done (though he disowns it no doubt due to a bit of ego clashing with Karn and Bauhaus fans that simply couldn't accept it (but for some reason could accept Tones on Tail). I wonder if David Jay and David Sylvian could have come up with something this interesting......At any rate - a true jem for Goth fans as well as a treat for the artsy Fripp, Eno, Laswell set......Karn has to be one of the best bass players ever to walk on this planet and the fact that he collaborated with Murphy was something I felt was ultra-cool (Karn could play circles around most jazz and studio heavy hitters). Very cool and highly recommended. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABgg6raTfxU |
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Man With Hat
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Posted: March 31 2015 at 01:28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ditto
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
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hellogoodbye
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Posted: March 31 2015 at 02:12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Too obscure this duck.
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Sagichim
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Posted: March 31 2015 at 02:32 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All enjoyable of course, I'll go with Dali's Car.
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hellogoodbye
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Posted: March 31 2015 at 02:59 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The real Dali's car, at the night club "Le Rachdingue" in spain. I played there with my band Her Bak, in the nineties.
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hellogoodbye
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Posted: March 31 2015 at 09:10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Anyone who hasn’t yet understood the vital role Airto played as one of the main architects of what gave a good name to early 70s Fusion as a movement that sought to enlarge horizons by incorporating as many elements of what makes music such an universal language as possible , how he contributed to transversely help hundreds of musicians rediscover the ancestral roots of what they played, and why everyone from Miles to McLaughlin, to Santana, to Paul Simon, to Joni Mitchell to a horde of Blue Note Jazz-men, you name them, wanted to have his African or South-American jungle instincts coloring and assisting them in shaping and defining their sounds, should check the man’s identity card, of which this album is a comprehensive and fascinating synthesis.
This is also the fruit of a solid partnership and an undeniable artistic empathy with Egberto Gismonti who co-authors four out of the seven pieces and who is along with Airto a fundamental pillar in the making of this masterpiece, contributing with his dazzling multi-instrumentalist chops, switching from acoustic to electric piano to the ARP Odyssey the String ensemble and the Pro-soloist synthesizers to wooden flutes and to the acoustic guitar he’s best known for; The album’s Magic spell starts being revealed right on from the initial spires, on the brisk hallucinatory ritual of “The Magicians” by the seemingly wildly strummed guitars and hammered piano , incantatory flute phrases , spiraling gut-string single note runs and slithery synth fill-ins atop a percussive frenzy and lead by Airto clamoring and warm vocals, or with beautiful unisons with Flora Purim throughout unpredictable changes and stellar organic arrangements as on the dramatic, syncopated and impassioned “Encounter”. The title track is a percussions-only retour to the jungle with the support of Airto’s percussion’s department assistant And then there’s the stirring and anthemic “Wake up Song”, with its Epic trombone launched arrangement, where producer Herbie Hancock contributes with a blistering synth solo, and which counts with a cameo appearance ofWayne Shorter whose soaring soprano lines respond to Airto calls and vocal pirouettes. If I could only take a handful of Brazilian albums in that famed desert island, this one would surely be among them. |
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