What albums did you listen to today?

Tonights choices:

Swans - To Be Kind
Astra - The Black Chord
Karfagen - Magician's Theater
Banco - Di Terra
Jack Hertz - Weed Garden
Vangelis - Soil Festivities
Steve Hillage - Rainbow Dome Music
Ishq - Autumn Light

PS - Sam, approach that ELP `Hot Seat' with caution, it hits a shocking patch in the middle, tries to get all funky and grinding, and then female chorus singers come in!

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - January 11 2015 at 07:59

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Banco - Di Terra

Gentle Giant - In A Glass House (What, fourth day running?)

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Tonights choices: Swans - To Be Kind Vangelis - Soil Festivities PS - Sam, approach that ELP `Hot Seat' with caution, it hits a shocking patch in the middle, tries to get all funky and grinding, and then female chorus singers come in!

I had a hard time to digest that Swans album, excepts for a few exceptions, it's a sub-genre I can't get into

What are your thoughts on that Vangelis album?

Ouch

Today:
Lizards Exist - s/t (First addition on the site, that feels good and this album sounds as good )
and

Budgie-Squawk

"My Goal's Beyond" - John McLaughlin

John Coltrane - Crescent

Just listened to Jethro Tull's Too Old to Rock and Roll Too Young to Die.

Meltdowner wrote: [QUOTE=Aussie-Byrd-Brother]Tonights choices: Swans - To Be Kind Vangelis - Soil Festivities PS - Sam, approach that ELP `Hot Seat' with caution, it hits a shocking patch in the middle, tries to get all funky and grinding, and then female chorus singers come in!

I had a hard time to digest that Swans album, excepts for a few exceptions, it's a sub-genre I can't get into

What are your thoughts on that Vangelis album?

Ouch

Today:
Lizards Exist - s/t (First addition on the site, that feels good and this album sounds as good )
Sam, well done with your first add, great bio as well! Are you going to write up a review for it?

That Vangelis album is WONDERFUL!! Almost a pure electronic album from him, but he can't hold back from adding little quirky moments as well! I'm excited, because I just got a lovely CD of it for a few dollars off a Melbourne Ebay vendor, after having a lousy vinyl copy for so many years. It's essentially like discovering it for the first time!

Oh dear...have to agree about that Swans album. There's really cool moments that pop up here and there, but every track is at least three times as long as it should be. I got about 45 minutes through it and essentially snapped saying `You have got to be f**king kidding me....' and I ripped it out of the player! I'll try another time....

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Sam, well done with your first add, great bio as well! Are you going to write up a review for it? That Vangelis album is WONDERFUL!! Almost a pure electronic album from him, but he can't hold back from adding little quirky moments as well! I'm excited, because I just got a lovely CD of it for a few dollars off a Melbourne Ebay vendor, after having a lousy vinyl copy for so many years. It's essentially like discovering it for the first time! Oh dear...have to agree about that Swans album. There's really cool moments that pop up here and there, but every track is at least three times as long as it should be. I got about 45 minutes through it and essentially snapped saying `You have got to be f**king kidding me....' and I ripped it out of the player! I'll try another time....

Thanks, I'll write it when/if I get a physical copy, it wouldn't be fair to judge the album by a Bandcamp stream, I think

Great, I also really liked it, very calm but interesting music. It's on my Vangelis wishlist, that always seems to grow

I'm glad it wasn't just me, although I never want to try again: there are albums that I don't like but I think I might like someday (Pawn Hearts from VDGG comes to mind), but not this one

I'm starting to (re)listen to some 2014 albums to write my list:
FEM Prog Band - Sulla Bolla di Sapone
Electric Orange - Volume 10
Mostly Autumn - Dressed in Voices
John Coltrane - Interstellar Space (I'm sorry Nasir, it's too weird, even for my weird taste )



Edited by Meltdowner - January 12 2015 at 14:37