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

Billy Cobham - Spectrum

Finnforest wrote: Two or three times each summer, I drive back to the park/playground I grew up on. I wait for a perfect weather morning and across town I go, parking in the small lot in the back near where the baseball diamond used to be. Floyd's "More" is often my soundtrack. I'll play that while I let the memories wash over me.  Weird perhaps, but it comforts me. Eventually I get out and take a long walk through the old neighborhood and back to the park. Time goes so fast. Lotta ghost voices and laughter in my head whenever I'm there. So much comes back to me when I take that walk. It's therapeutic in a way. I think I'll do it every summer as long as I live. Childhood is long gone, but when I'm there, I can feel it briefly. What a time I had.  "Voice" is the Carpenter posthumous release with Karen's last studio vocals. While the youthful early 70s vibe is gone, her voice is as beautiful as ever on her last songs.

Ace - Five-a-Side
Tal Wilkenfeld - Love Remains
Bangles - Greatest Hits

Frenetic Zetetic wrote: Venom Prison - Samsara

Edited by Prog Sothoth - August 19 2019 at 17:15

Yeah, thanks for the rec! I probably wouldn't have given it a shot otherwise, and I'd be seriously missing out!

HolyMoly wrote: ^^ yes, thank you once again for that review you wrote for my birthday ! That was very thoughtful. It may be the first time I read the term “library music”, a concept that interests me to this day. I haven’t really found many other albums like that one, maybe I should ask for some in a new thread. Re: Cluster, I am just starting to get into them, not sure what took me so long. Probably because I associated them with Eno and I’m not in the habit of buying Eno albums (though I have several). But the. I happened upon the Cluster & Eno album in a used bin and it exceeded my expectations. A little more digging and I became more interested. I’ve got a few of their albums now, including the one you listed.

If you’re curious about socalled ‘library music’ I’d recommend you ask Greg (Logan) for some recs. He is the man regarding said obscurities...but yeah I’d personally recommend you check out a guy like Egisto Macchi
Those Italians eh?
Gotta see if I can stretch myself to other countries when making sweeping recs

I absolutely love Cluster...when I’m in the mood. They’re a bit like olives to me. Highly unique flavour that works oh so well at the right moment. I usually don’t dig Zuckerzeit all that much compared to what it’s surrounded by, but this time it worked a treat. Maybe far too much sun to the old cabeza welcomes such hibernating albums and effectively wakes one up to another way of listening. Who cares when the music flows

Yesterday:
Die Wilde Jagd - Uhrwald Orange (surprise surprise!)
Kim Larsen - Værsgo
Povl Dissing - Jeg er en tosset Spillemand
Taj Mahal Travellers - Live 1972
Secret Oyster - Vidunderlige Kælling
Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food
Kluster - Klopfzeichen (such a headscratcher of an album...even more so when you take into account that this proto-industrial electronic album was sponsored by the local church’s inhouse organist )
Simple Minds - Empires & Dance (perhaps my fave album of theirs)

Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans

Meltdowner wrote: ^ It's the same way for me with Cluster. Zuckerzeit always works with the local weather though  Last two days, a lot of early 80's Portuguese Pop Rock and Les Porches for the forth time this week  Lena d'Água - Perto de Ti Salada de Frutas - Se Cá Nevasse... Banda do Casaco - Também Eu Jorge Palma - Acto Contínuo Maneige - Les Porches Acid Rooster - Acid Rooster Breidablik - Nhoohr Rui Veloso - Guardador de Margens Can - Tago Mago

Hey maybe that is why it worked here in Greece’s 35+ degrees
I had the same experience with Igor Wakhevitch some years ago...though I was visiting Malta.
‘Hey this music is far too strange for my upstairs compartment to handle!!!’
‘Why don’t you try it in flaming heat with sun creme in your eyes and a dehydrated nervous system?...works a treat!’
‘Oh yeah, score That was indeed what was missing from the equation!’


Been meaning to tell you that I’ve been spinning the Jorge Palma album you sent quite a bit before I went on vacation. It is quite simply stunning I hate the fact that I forgot to make some mp3s of it so as to continue my love affair with it.
Oh well you live and learn.
I have on the other hand a couple of albums that sort of remind me of it..though in slightly different ways: Pescado Rabioso’s Artaud, Milton Nascimento’s Clube das Màquinas as well as Lucio Battisti’s masterpiece Anima Latina.

Guldbamsen wrote: Hey maybe that is why it worked here in Greece’s 35+ degrees I had the same experience with Igor Wakhevitch some years ago...though I was visiting Malta. ‘Hey this music is far too strange for my upstairs compartment to handle!!!’ ‘Why don’t you try it in flaming heat with sun creme in your eyes and a dehydrated nervous system?...works a treat!’ ‘Oh yeah, score That was indeed what was missing from the equation!’ Been meaning to tell you that I’ve been spinning the Jorge Palma album you sent quite a bit before I went on vacation. It is quite simply stunning I hate the fact that I forgot to make some mp3s of it so as to continue my love affair with it. Oh well you live and learn. I have on the other hand a couple of albums that sort of remind me of it..though in slightly different ways: Pescado Rabioso’s Artaud, Milton Nascimento’s Clube das Màquinas as well as Lucio Battisti’s masterpiece Anima Latina.

The Fall | This Nation’s Saving Grace — probably my favorite. Dark grooves and and a lot of Can influence. Plus Brix comes up with some tasty guutar licks as well as her signature song “LA”.

Golden Earring | Live — favorite live album of all time. The mid-70s peak of the band’s proggy period, with lengthy takes on lengthy songs that all surpass their studio versions (yes, even Radar Love)

Supersister | Present from Nancy — fantastic Canterbury-ish early 70s Dutch music.

The Yardbirds | Roger the Engineer — truly fun and eclectic Jeff Beck showcase. They’ll never be taken as seriously as the greats from that period, but they’re lots of fun to listen to.

The Who | Magic Bus — oddball US-only compilation of stray singles and b-sides. Has some of their most eccentric songs from the late 60s, many by John Entwistle (“Doctor Doctor” etc)

This Kind of Punishment | A Beard of Bees — early 80 New Zealand low-key post punk led by Peter and Graeme Jefferies. Closest in spirit to John Cale.

Moon Men | 3 — brand new jazzy/avant/spontaneous creations by multi instrumentalist Bret Hart and others, including Dave Newhouse.

Spirit | Spirit 1984 — mostly remakes of earlier stuff, plus some new 80s tracks. A little corny but it’s good for an occasional spin

Steve Miller Band | Sailor — classic ‘68 album with West coast psych and Boz Scaggs still in the band. Early SMB is the shiz.

The Stranglers | The Meninblack — odd synth-based concept album. Very intriguing and adventurous, though not immediately likable

Pavement | Terror Twilight — the final album of theirs, kind of closer to Stephen Malkmus solo albums than the other band albums. His solo albums are great too, so this hits the spot.

Beach Boys | Smiley Smile — what a goofy album. It’s kind of slight and insubstantial but what’s here is eccentric as heck. And hearing Good Vibrations in the middle of it all is even more bizarre. I will take this opportunity to say, however, that I’ve never really liked the classic “Heroes and Villains” song. It just doesn’t hold together well.

Banco | Garofano Rosso — one of my favorite Bancos, along with “...di Terra”

Deep Purple | Fireball — “Demon’s Eye” may be my favorite DP song. Just a blues based song, but man what a great organ/guitar groove, and a great vocal too.