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

Samuel: Perséide is hereby noted, thanks. I’m glad you enjoyed the WigWam album. It’s my personal fave from the band. Their most heralded album Fairyport is also quite the release mind you, but I just have a soft spot for Being.
I just saw your comment about the Bruno gig and the Plantasia cover. That sounds awesome! How was it?
I wish I was there.

Steve: It’s been ages since I’ve heard that BJM album but I seem to remember digging most of those old 90s releases. Take it from the Man! is still the bee’s knees and probably the album I’ve spun the most over the years. Of the more recent ones I tend to reach for Aufheben. Still crazy about that one

This weekend has been a Krautrocking one..be that the Germanic kind or the kosmische Scandinavian variant:
Älgarnas Trädgård - Framtiden Är Ett Svävande Skepp, Förankrat I Forntiden (Thrice! Truly original and very powerful music. Like the long lost soundtrack to a shroomy berserker night at the Viking stronghold)
Älgarnas Trädgård - Delayed (Another masterpiece....aptly titled too as it wasn’t released at the time. Like the debut it’s like this strange unorthodox concoction of sounds a la Third Ear Band and Amon Düül ll teaming up with Banda Do Casado and a whole bunch of psychedelic plants...out in the Swedish wilderness where the northern Shamans roam)
Kebnekaise - ll (Nordic folk music meets Sufi culture and Krautrock in a slow oozing bang)
Les Big Byrd - Iran Iraq Ikea (I think you’ll dig this Steve. Contemporary NEU/Can like motorik rock with balls and clever melodies. The debut is equally good)
Popol Vuh - In Den Gärten Pharaos
Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri (Hi there universe - nice to see you again! Always the same feeling when spinning this album..like slowly being catapulted out into the milkyway)
Haroumi Hosono - Cochin Moon
Terry Riley - In C
International Harvester - Sov Gott Rose-Marie
Elephant9 - Greatest Show On Earth
Elephant9 - Atlantis (What I really love about this band is that it sounds so gooey and raw. Like an uncooked highly psychedelic potato. ELP on peyote)
Witthüser & Westrupp - Der Jesuspilz
Walter Wegmüller - Tarot
The Cosmic Jokers - Galactic Supermarket
Arkimedes Badkar - ll (Semi-acoustic krautrock/krautfolk take on Terry Riley)
Africa Express - In C
Agusa - s/t
Eloy - Metromania
Embryo - Rache (One of those rare albums recorded out on the prarie amongst galloping buffalo (presumably?))
Faust - Fresh Air
Amon Düül ll - Carnival In Babylon
Vangelis - The Dragon
Die Wilde Jagd - Uhrwald Orange
Flamen Dialis - Symptôme-Dei (Anyone know this little rascal of an album? Saucerful of Secrets performed by Egyptian spacetoddlers)
Esa Kotilainen - Ajatuslapsi
Haikara - s/t
The Soft Machine - Volume Two
The Doors - Morrison Hotel
Chrome - Blood On The Moon
Edgar Broughton Band - s/t
Franco Battiato - Clíc
Osanna - Palepoli
NEU! - ‘75

Edited by Guldbamsen - March 08 2020 at 01:55

Esmectatons | Nefelibata - lots of lo-fi bossa nova and piano improvs.

Esmectatons | Space Fortress - spacey rock jams and an extended static drone/noise piece

Esmectatons + Rauppwar | X-Rated — avant rock collab with undercurrent of harsh noise

Faust | Faust Wakes Nosferatu - a rare listen. Some great classic Faust moments but also long stretches of silence or near-silence.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Their Satanic Majesties’ Second Request — one of their most famous releases, but overall not one of my favorites. It’s trying to be its own 60s psychedelic album, but every other song is 6 minutes long and about halfway through the album it feels like there’s not enough going on for it to last this long. And I love other albums of theirs that last 70+ minutes and are full of repetitive songs. This one just isn’t quite there. Just being critical about a band I love though. Well worth checking out.

Jad Fair | I Like it When You Smile — 1/2 Japanese leader’s most 1/2 Jap-like solo album. Fun and solid all the way through.

Slint | Spiderland — been obsessed with this band/album lately. Had it for years on CD but decided to buy a vinyl copy too and that was definitely a good move. So much depth to this album.

Pendragon - Love Over Fear

^ Ahah I'm sorry about that XD I'll have to check out Wigwam when I have the chance.

Since Friday night:

Ash - Free All Angels
Peste & Sida - Cai no Real
Rão Kyao - Oásis
Rick Wakeman - Six Wives
Omega - Wall of Floaters in the Sky (Why didn't I listen to this before!?)
ELP - Live at Montreux 1997
Michael Bruckner - Muzikhala (CD1)
Them Crooked Vultures - s/t (It's been a while since I spun it. Curiously, it's been in my collection longer than Led Zeppelin.)
Kasabian - s/t
Hawkwind - In Search of Space (Thanks for reminding me of it Steve. This time I figured out my problem with this album, bad mixing. They must have been baked when they did it :P)
Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink x 2 (I was disgusted with SWilson's remix, I had to listen to the original again.)
Machine Mass Trio - As Real as Thinking
The Flower Kings - Retropolis
Carpe Diem - En Regardant Passer le Temps
Handwrist - The Golden Swan
Perséide - Parmi les Arbres (I'm sure you would dig this, David.)
Scattered Purgatory - Sua Hiam Zun
Lou Donaldson - Pretty Things

HolyMoly wrote: Guldbamsen wrote: Last night and today was mostly about the can Can - Landed Can - Flow Motion Can - Ege Bamyasi (twice!) Can - s/t Can - Saw Delight Gotta say that I am positively surprised about revisiting those late 70s Can albums. I don’t think I ever gave them the right chance to sing - always comparing them to the albums that went before that I’d heard hundreds of times before I ever span those later efforts. Lately though it’s as if I’ve discovered a brand new favourite band..via albums I already owned Right now I’m listening to Once & Future Band off of Bandcamp. Really nice throwback album similar to 10CC and Steely Dan...but with a decisively warm early 70s production. that happened to me too! I used to DESPISE Out of Reach, Saw Delight, Inner Space, etc. But recently I’ve been playing them and enjoying them as much as the older stuff. Not much music last couple of days (at least in my typical album-based listening mode), but currently chilling with my possibly depressed cat and trying to raise her spirits with this lovely work: Thin Lizzy | Night Life

Sounds very familiar Oh well it is thrilling to be surprised by music one already owns!
I went through my Can records here the other night and found out that I am missing a 70s release in Unlimited Edition
I think I’ll order it for my next batch.

Depressed cat? Nah say it aint so. Too few mice? I visited my parents last weekend and had a wonderful time with the cat...who for all intents and purposes still feels like my cat. She still goes berserk if she hears my voice over the phone: where’s that guy!?!?!?!! I can hear him!!
I used to be a dog person but nowadays I’m bicurious
Yesterday:
Eloy - Ocean
Walrus - s/t
Chaz Bundick Meets The Mattson 2 - Star Stuff
Can - Soon Over Babaluma
Air - Pocket Symphony
Elephant9 - Atlantis

Pendragon - Love Over Fear

Frenetic Zetetic wrote: <span style="line-height: 16.5455px; : rgb248, 248, 252;">Captain Beefheart - Lick my Decals Off, Baby x 3</span>

I know the feeling. An album you just groove with so hard it almost hurts not to listen to it. That happened to me a week ago with Slint’s Spiderland album.

Guldbamsen wrote: Last night and today was mostly about the can Can - Landed Can - Flow Motion Can - Ege Bamyasi (twice!) Can - s/t Can - Saw Delight Gotta say that I am positively surprised about revisiting those late 70s Can albums. I don’t think I ever gave them the right chance to sing - always comparing them to the albums that went before that I’d heard hundreds of times before I ever span those later efforts. Lately though it’s as if I’ve discovered a brand new favourite band..via albums I already owned Right now I’m listening to Once & Future Band off of Bandcamp. Really nice throwback album similar to 10CC and Steely Dan...but with a decisively warm early 70s production.

that happened to me too! I used to DESPISE Out of Reach, Saw Delight, Inner Space, etc. But recently I’ve been playing them and enjoying them as much as the older stuff.

Not much music last couple of days (at least in my typical album-based listening mode), but currently chilling with my possibly depressed cat and trying to raise her spirits with this lovely work:

Thin Lizzy | Night Life

Edited by HolyMoly - March 01 2020 at 16:25

Last night and today was mostly about the can
Can - Landed
Can - Flow Motion
Can - Ege Bamyasi (twice!)
Can - s/t
Can - Saw Delight

Gotta say that I am positively surprised about revisiting those late 70s Can albums. I don’t think I ever gave them the right chance to sing - always comparing them to the albums that went before that I’d heard hundreds of times before I ever span those later efforts. Lately though it’s as if I’ve discovered a brand new favourite band..via albums I already owned

Right now I’m listening to Once & Future Band off of Bandcamp. Really nice throwback album similar to 10CC and Steely Dan...but with a decisively warm early 70s production.

New band discovery however the band themselves is not that new at all. The Japanese Godzilla metal masters have really won me over.

Gojira— L’enfant Savauge ( excellent album. A really discovery for my tastes. Some of the best and new metal I’ve heard in a very long time.

Gojira— Magma ( every bit as good as the previous album from them I heard. Truth be told the Duplantier brothers have really won me over.

I will most likely listen to both of these albums again tomorrow.