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

kenethlevine wrote: Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Last two nights choices: Caravan – Waterloo Lily Renaissance – Novella Renaissance – A Song for All Seasons Santana – Welcome Santana – III Fuchsia – s/t Sundenfall 2 – s/t (Maybe hard to truly love all of it, but such a beautiful and eclectic folk-psych gem) Robert Schroeder – Harmonic Ascendant Robert Rich – Live at the Gatherings 2015 Ishq/Experiments in Sound – Suspended Form what did you think of those "latter day" renaissance albums?  We have a bit of a contingent here, especially the prog folk deliettantes, who think ASFAS is their best, though there is obviously close competition.  I keep forgetting to check out other Caravan besides ITLOGAP.  Have you tried Fuchsia's "comeback" album released a few years ago?  Surprisingly good and updated but still recognizable.  I enjoeyed the Sundenfall album.  Try "Midnight Circus" or the group O.W.L. Today I added some albums by Basque folkie Benito Lertxundi and listened to quite a few of them.  A bit mellow, like a cross betweeen Alan Stivell and Gilles Servat more so than any Basque groups I've heard.  He was in the Basque underground movement from early on, so his themes may be anything but mellow.

Hey Ken, I always liked both of those Renaissance albums. When I first got into prog, `Scheherazade' was one of the very first albums I ever bought exploring the genre, and soon after I picked up `Novella' and `Prologue', and for many years I only had those three from the band. So I really came to very much like `Novella', and it was only later on that I learned that it's kind of considered a `poorer' one from that initial run of albums. I think in retrospect the first side is amazing, so to `Midas Man', and the other two are perfectly decent but not as memorable as other pieces they'd done from the same period. I always thought `ASFAS' was always strong, but then again I've always defended `Azure D'Or' quite a bit as well!

I've got a review of that Fuchsia one ready to go as soon as I can be bothered posting it - man, I love that album! I'm very curious to look into that follow-up now after your praise of it now! I just kind of assumed `too little too late'.

Thanks for the two recommendations, will look into them.

Dialeto: Bartok in Rock

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Amon Duul 2 – Yeti (man, those final mellow minutes of the side-long `Yeti’ improvisation)

I know, aren't they like a cherry on top?! Love the second LP of Yeti in all. One of the most psychedelic things I have ever heard. Nice day overall, by the way!


Edited by ALotOfBottle - July 16 2017 at 10:22

Yesterday:
Don Bradshaw-Leather - Distance Between Us
Michael Hoenig - Departure From the Northern Wasteland

AAAAAAAAAARRRGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! Just made a HUUUGE post and forgot to save it......aaaaand got it erased of course. DAMN YOU CAPTCHA

indeed.
This place is fast becoming a "phone site" for me. Over my laptop it has just become too frustrating of an experience. Earlier on I was about to post a couple of pre-written reviews that have been sitting and waiting on my computer for a good while now, but I guess they will have to wait a while.

Music yesterday:
Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds
Yusef Lateef - The Blue Yusef Lateef
Samuel Cadima - Cascata
Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestite (strongly recommended to Berliner Schule fans that have grown tired of the same ol same ol. This album came completely out of left-field parting ways with the band's former black metal sound)
Semiramis - Dedicato A Frazz
Wolf People - Ruins

Nice Altuala pick there btw Michael! The band that manages to splice together every endemic percussion culture out there. Insane...and very very good.

Tymon: I see you found your way to the great Don. Kudos. I bought the cd in Valletta airport (Malta) 10-15 years ago though I'm fairly certain it is a bootleg. Anyway couldn't resist the wonderfully strange cover art.

Yeah looking back now I think the music store there most likely acted as a front for some sneaky music bootleggers. Still, the cd sounds great.

The good monsieur Lateef has accompanied me to bed the last couple of nights now - just the kind of esoterically charged, loose and infinitely chill kind of jazz that suits me at that time of night. Conversely, pour a bottle of vodka down my throat and I'll be pulling out the mad Sun Ra albums. Atlantis at 4 in the morning can be quite the eye-opener and that luckily also includes your neighbours. Frame of mind and all that...

^Good stuff! I was on an Embryo kick last November. And it was biiiig! That band has a very special way of intoxicating me. Now it's King Crimson, I guess.

Friedhof - Friedhof
King Crimson - KCCC 18 - Live in Detroit, MI  (December 13 1971) (The best live KC album I've heard so far.)

La Terra is definitely the one I'd recommend a newbie to the band. Seems more 'direct/linear' if that makes any sort of sense. The debut, in comparison, is far more loose and spacey reminding me of the kind of experimental space voyages one encounters in early Schulze, TD, Kluster and Popol Vuh....but achived through percussion instruments. Only one other album I know of that does this and that's Stomu Yamashta's debut Red Buddha, an extraordinary album.

Michael: If you ever pull the trigger on some Embryo albums online, then please consider Opal, Embryo's Rache, Embryo's Reise, We Keep On as well as the two live albums Wiesbaden and Bremen before you jump on board Apo-Calypso.

Me yesterday:

Charles Mingus - The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady
Dead Can Dance - Anastasis
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Don't Get Lost
Camel - s/t (without a doubt my fave album of theirs)
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang Clan (36 Chambers)
John Coltrane - Sun Ship
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Ryley Walker - Primrose Green
Tim Buckley - Lorca
Homunculus Res - debut
Popol Vuh - Seligpreisung (Conny Veit is the man! (despite his name))