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Posted: April 15 2020 at 12:32

Steve Thorne - Part Two: Emotional Creatures

Sting - Nothing Like The Sun

Toto - The Seventh One

Moon Halo - Chroma

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Posted: April 15 2020 at 15:33

Bit of a baroque-folk-psych day today-

Trader Horne- Morning Way

Bridget St. John- Songs for a gentleman

Holdelin- Holderlins Traum

Gruff Rhys- CandyLion

Horselips- Happy to meet, sorry to part

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Posted: April 15 2020 at 20:19

Another boxset go around.

Peter Gabriel— So (25th Ann 2012 remaster)
Disc2/3– live in Athens.

I dedicate my listening to “Dont Give Up” for my good friend Michael (Aussie Byrd).
Don’t lose the passion for sonics, matey!!

Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣

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Posted: April 16 2020 at 02:24

Nick and Samuel:
Yeah taking your music outside is a welcome change - at least for my part. It can also help with albums I previously haven’t had the biggest succes with...yet with a view of trees and bushes I find that some music just goes down a lot easier.
I too mostly use iems when outside. I am a volcano type of guy who is always melting stuff in my vicinity. Add a couple of headphones when I’m out for a stroll and it quickly becomes a wet helmet of sound.
Samuel: music can actually work similarly to doping when used during sports. It’s as if the mind almost forgets how hard it is and just seeps into this wonderful state, where running/cycling nearly feels like meditation....and perhaps most importantly: isn’t half as hard as when you’re not listening to music.
Sounds of nature? I often have seagulls on my windowsill

Yesterday:
Eloy - Time To Turn
Sound Of Blues - Schizofrenia
Simple Minds - Empires & Dance
Perfect Beings - Vier
Phideaux - Infernal
Ukandanz - Awo
Elephant9 - Psychedelic Backfire ll
Tonton Macoute - s/t
Traffic - s/t
Vangelis - Earth
Vangelis - Blade Runner

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Posted: April 16 2020 at 04:56

^ When running particularly I start following the music rhythm, instead of my own pace, and become exhausted in no time, especially if it's in 11/8 LOL

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^ I know what you mean about Endless Way From You, I had/have the same problem with the album softness and don't get me wrong I adore dozens of soft albums, but here I can doze off for 5 minutes without paying attention to a single note. It used to happen more in previous spins so maybe it's just a matter of time before I fully connect to the album, one other thing that doesn't help is that the album is very long.

For now my favorite tracks are the first couple.

Isildurs Bane - Off The Radar

National Health - Playtime

Zopp - Zopp

Abus Dangereux - Le Quatrieme Mouvement

Archaia - S/T

I don't have a problem with soft albums either but they definitely had to spice things up to keep our attention and I believe it's more a matter of production than composition. It's maybe why I liked those Zeuhl-ish tracks in the middle more, at least I didn't doze off on them.

Nice IB review, by the way. I've been meaning to check them out for a while, I missed their concert with Peter Hammill last year and ended up forgetting about them Embarrassed

Never heard of Abus Dangereux (always curious about French and Italian names). How's their music?

Renk - Kıyı (Turkish Floydian chill vibes)
Ryan Mark Elliot - Between a Disillusion and a Resolution
Can - Saw Delight (Had the CD sitting on a pile for a couple of weeks in quarantine :P I guess it makes a good background listen but not much else. It's quite bland and directionless. I think I like the next two more.)

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Posted: April 16 2020 at 09:03

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Never heard of Abus Dangereux (always curious about French and Italian names). How's their music?

Another great band to discover although I think only their first album is worth having released in 1980 or 81'.

The music is jazzy and light but still progressive they also hold a lot of zehul characteristics like vocals and that deep bass sound, overall the music is excellent with tight performance and brilliant ideas. Quite a short album but definitely worth checking out.

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Posted: April 16 2020 at 12:20

Steve Thorne - Into The Ether

Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here

Antimatter - Leaving Eden

Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea

Different Light - Binary Suns Part 1 (Operant Condition)

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Posted: April 17 2020 at 13:14

Steve Thorne - Crimes & Reasons

Strange Hobby - ?

Soup - Remedies

Subsignal - The Beacons Of Somewhere Sometime

Silhouette - Beyond The Seventh Wave

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Posted: April 17 2020 at 16:00

Another work week done, leading to the long-awaited weekend full of... cleaning up? At least I can sleep in later. And working from home gives me full access to all my vinyl & CDs all day long. Not a bad deal. Listening to Trespass at the moment; here’s the rest of the last 2 days:

Genesis | Trespass
Harmonia | Harmonia ‘76
Tangerine Dream | Hyperborea
Gary Numan | The Pleasure Principle
Andy Summers & Robert Fripp | Bewitched
The Fall | Extricate
The Fall | Hex Enduction Hour
Godspeed You! Black Emperor | Yanqui U.X.O.
Sunn 0))) | Life Metal
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band | Against the Wind
Erik Lindgren | Sound on Sound
Grateful Dead | Go to Heaven
Paul McCartney | Tug of War
Steve Martin | Let’s Get Small

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Posted: April 17 2020 at 17:05

Radiohead - Ok Computer
Vladimir Konovkin - Nebulae Music II
Ana Never & Rosa Parks - Slip EP
Vespero - Cello Liventures
Iron Maiden - Killers

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Posted: April 18 2020 at 11:46

Steve Thorne - Island Of The Imbeciles

Toto - Mindfields

U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind

Southern Empire - Civilisation

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Posted: April 19 2020 at 13:33

The Neal Morse Band - Alive Again

Pendragon - Love Over Fear

Arena - Pride

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Posted: April 19 2020 at 18:52

Rina Sawayama - Sawayama: British pop artist that mixes R&B, dance pop, rock and metal in rather unique ways. I find it pretty cool in a scatterbrained sort of way.

Ad Infinitum - Chapter 1: Monarchy: A colon in the title...screws up the way I write my blurbs. Female-fronted symphonic metal.

Suffocation - Breeding the Spawn: I'm thinking the engineer on this album was such a jazz fan that he decided "I don't care if this is brutal technical death metal or whatever they call it, as far as I'm concerned, EVERYTHING IS JAZZ!" Hence the ridiculous production.

Wings - Red Rose Speedway: Probably the most Beatles sounding album post Beatles, but with a strong focus on their goofier stuff. But there's "Loup (1st Indian on the Moon)" on this. That's something else.

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti: I always dug "The Wanton Song". One of my fav Zep tunes. A real groover, even if I do think of wonton soup.

Debbie Gibson - Out of the Blue: I was in the mood for some real 80's teen-trash, and Debbie never lets me down in that department.

Tiffany - Tiffany: Another 80's teen-trash classic, what's interesting is just how inept everything in this album is. Production, singing, the pop-rock numbers, the Beatles cover, it's almost amazing how cheap and dumb this sounds, but it made bank. The power of red hair.

Alice Merton - Mint: She sang "No Roots" with that unstoppable hook. She sang other stuff too, according to this album.

The Police - Synchronicity: "Mother" is such a classic, always a great one to bust out when someone asks for a Police song at a cookout. That request doesn't happen all that much anymore though.

The Isley Brothers - It's Our Thing: FUNK.

Black Sabbath - Master of Reality: DOOM.

GFOTY - GFOTYBUCKS: PANTS.

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Posted: April 20 2020 at 06:08

All Traps On Earth - A Drop Of Light

Present - Barbaro

Univers Zero - Crawling Wind

Babylon - S/T

Isildurs Bane - In Amazonia

Circle Of Illusion - Jeremias...

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Posted: April 20 2020 at 09:39

^ I never returned to the ATOE album since the AOTY listing. I'll have to give it a fresh listen.

Last week:

Isildurs Bane - Off the Radar (Fantastic album, I really liked those complex electronic textures with Jazz elements and incredible build-ups.)
Malady - Toinen Toista
P'Cock - Burning Beach (Berlin School meets Alan Parsons sums it up nicely.)
Abus Dangereux - Le Quatrième Mouvement (Had to listen to it right after reading your description, Sagi. Loved it!)
Edition Spéciale - Aliquante (The previous album reminded me of checking this one, similar but more on the Funky side)
Todd Terje - It's Album Time
Ulls - Anoia s'apodera

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