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

The Clash - London Calling

Danny Brown - "Atrocity Exhibition"
Danny Brown - "Atrocity Exhibition"
Autechre - "elseq 1"
Bert Jansch - s/t

Saga  - Generation 13

Meltdowner wrote: Øresund Space Collective - Live at Reverence Festival (Pretty strange to hear a concert I went to, especially when I can hear myself shouting ) Mad Fellaz - s/t (Quite overwhelming at first listen but it seemed really good. These fellaz are mad indeed )

That's awesome, was that one of the OSC's free downloads or through their Bandcamp page? That would be great if it gets a proper CD release, what a way to remember a show you were at. That Tangerine Dream Melbourne concert CD set from a few years ago for the Melbourne Music Festival was a nice memento!

Ah, so you listened to the good Mad Fellaz album?!

Just kidding, the second one is plenty good, just a world away from the knockout first effort. I much prefer that first one, when their were still RPI traits worked in. Sadly as soon as I hear the vocals I start to cry

Terje Rypdal – Terje Rypdal This is excellent! The overall atmosphere of the record is very “sleepy”, however, the musicians are on fire. Terje’s solos are beyond description, incredibly tasty to say the least. Keyboard work as well as use of oboe add great amounts of mysticism.

This Heat – This Heat Another album I love dearly. The soundscapes This Heat creates here are unearthly – very unsettling, disturbing, industrial, yet elegant and very minimalistic. Really rainy album, perfectly suited for today’s weather!

Centipede – Septober Energy Many thanks to José for reminding me of this album. It is indeed a wild, freaky jazz-fest of 50 musicians. This is not only “listening”, it’s the whole experience. A bit like a festival of avant-garde arts, where a huge group of artists follows a loose recipe, enriching it with improvised elements of their own. Amazing!

Hugh Hopper/Elton Dean/Keith Tippett/Joe Gallivan – Cruel But Fair Wow, what an amazing, elegant work this is. As innovative and experimental as it is, it retains the colors typical of Hopper’s, Dean’s, and Tippett’s music. Great, great album. Thanks for the recommendation, José, friend!

King Crimson – Larks’ Tounges In Aspic I’ve had real difficulties enjoying King Crimson outside the first three releases. Still, even on this album, which I love dearly, there are chunks, patches, and gristles, pretty hard to digest for me, which just proves how demanding this music is (and that it's a pretty long sentence, doesn't it?).

Edited by ALotOfBottle - October 04 2016 at 11:21

mechanicalflattery wrote: ALotOfBottle wrote:   This Heat – This Heat Another album I love dearly. The soundscapes This Heat creates here are unearthly – very unsettling, disturbing, industrial, yet elegant and very minimalistic. Really rainy album, perfectly suited for today’s weather! Always good to see some appreciation for my favorite album. This Heat doesn't get enough love around these parts, but then that's true of a lot of the late 70's and 80's experimental acts (Pop Group, Nurse With Wound, Throbbing Gristle, Einsturzende Neubauten etc). But then this is a prog forum and This Heat really isn't prog anyway.

Well, it's progressive music, maybe not prog rock, but definitely progressive. While Throbbing Gristle (whom I consider to be the band capturing the spirit of the era in the very same way as This Heat) are not that great of instrumentalists and composers (with their potential lying in the ability to create incredible sonic landscapes), This Heat could really play and compose well. As a side note, I've seen Einstrurzende Neubauten live last summer and they were steaming (they actually said that was their best performance of the whole tour).


Edited by ALotOfBottle - October 04 2016 at 11:52

Tuesday...

Tonight's choices (although still 90 minutes to go at work!):

Anekdoten – Until all the Ghosts are Gone
Beardfish – Comfortzone
Neal Morse – Question Mark
Yuka & Chronoship – Dino Rocket Oxygen - that reminds me that I should get back to that more recent album from them)
Knight Area - Hyperdrive
FEM Prog Band – Sulla Bolla di Sapone
Tangerine Dream – The Park is Mine
Tangerine Dream – Quantum Key

Sanhedrin – Ever After – Sagi, it’s about that time, surely another year has passed from when we last got to whinge about how there hasn’t been a second album from this group yet?!

Hawkwind – The Machine Stops - Tom, I assume you and Daniel have this already? It’s a terrific album from them, certainly up there with their better later discs like `Blood of the Earth’, `Space Bandits’ and `Alien 4’ for me.

Tangerine Dream - Ricochet Probably one of my favorite Tangerine Dream albums and German live albums in general. The march at the beginning of the first part is definitely my favorite Tangerine Dream moment. The whole album is great though, the sound of the synths is so clear, crystal.

The Keith Tippett Group - You Are Here... I Am There I have written a review on this album. If you wish to read it, you can do so here. As always, constructive criticism is appreciated.

Van Der Graaf Generator - World Record