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First listen to this album. Spiritual jazz, I suppose. Really excellent. Middle Eastern and/or African influenced. Interesting, calming, contemplative, good.
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I tend to like hip-hop influenced sounds rather than hip-hop straight up. However, I've really been enjoying this little bit of noir-ish sounding trip-hop. My frames of reference don't run too deep in this genre... maybe digable planets meets de la sol and then imported from France (its a French group).
Found a video below from the album. The vid's obviously politically tinged. But, what I like more about the album is this sense of (almost romantic) coyness. Some enjoyable vocal guests through out. Not often I find a hip-hop artist and think, "Hey, I gotta go check out more of the guy's stuff!"
If any of you are familiar, recommendations please!
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Trombone Shorty
I posted last weekend that I heard this Kid at the Grammy pre-telecast show and how impressive he was. I ordered his latest CD and it came in and WOW, this cd has it all, I would dare to say reference type. not only his Jazz-funk style with sprinkling of rock and New Orleans riffs. The sound mix is bold in your face with a heavy bass line that will exercise your woofers and subs.
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snowstorm is moving in...we're to expect 12-16" today! not too cool but I've got a crockpot simmering, some beers chillin', and a decent pile of records piled up to soundtrack the day while I watch muted b-ball...
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Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun kinda summery heavy desert tunes but I'm in denial of winter still
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Dan Hicks - truly the walkin' one and only...
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Owen Pallett - Heartland (think he just won a Grammy for arranging the Arcade Fire album?!)
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may end up checking out the new Radiohead today too...we'll see...
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Nice mix there, johnny hambone...I loves me some shoegaze and "Treasure" is a classic...
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Been spending a lot of time lately with The Crane Wife lately and whether it's the sparse storytelling reminiscent of the Japanes parable from which it's drawn or the urgency of the vocals, I've really been enjoying it as a whole production. Again.
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Been listening to some Chet Baker myself that I seem to have happened across...always good stuff. Also, really digging this lately:
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JD McPherson: Signs and Signifiers
This one came out last year but I just heard it and I'm digging it a lot. It's got a great retro rockabilly/soul vibe. As opposed to more than a few things that come out in that realm, this one has some really great playing throughout and is also recorded extremely well on all vintage gear that gives it a great old school sound but not at all lo-fi. Solid vocals and a great backing band. Really well made record. Just a shame it's not out on vinyl, but I guess ya can't have everything.
Hell, as long as I'm pimping this thing, I'll go ahead and toss out the video and here's the blurb from the website:
With a strong singing voice that moves from smooth and sweet, to raw and rockin' on a dime, JD McPherson channels Little Richard, James Brown, Charlie Feathers, to name a few. Hi-Style Records is excited to present the debut release by JD McPherson, Signs & Signifiers! Hi-Style brought JD McPherson up from Oklahoma to the big city of Chicago to record this stellar 12 song, full length album. Produced by Jimmy Sutton (Mighty Blue Kings, Four Charms, Del Moroccos) and engineered by Alex Hall (The Modern Sounds, Del Moroccos), the album also features Sutton on bass and guitar, and Hall on drums and piano. Recorded to an old 1960's Berlant 1/4 inch tape machine, this stellar performance, and brilliant song writing by McPherson, all come together under Jimmy Sutton's impeccable production. This is authentic electrifying rock n' roll/ rhythm & blues with post-structural lyrics and arrangements.
The album also features guest musicians: Scott Ligon, (NRBQ's Terry Adams Rock & Roll Quartet), plays incredibly tasteful piano. Austin's Jonathan Doyle (Nick Curran and the Lowlifes, White Ghost Shivers) and Chicago's Josh Bell (The Del Moroccos) blow killer tenor and baritone saxophones. Susan Voelz (Alejandro Escovedo, Poi Dog Pondering), on violin, and Allison Chesley (Helen Money), on cello, contribute a beautiful string arrangement to the soulful "A Gentle Awakening". Rounding out the album's guests, guitar ace Joel Paterson, (The Modern Sounds) lends some choice guitar work to the Joey Simone classic "Your Love (All That I'm Missing)".
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I always know when I'm in some strange head space when I start pulling out Sun Ra. I have to admit that the avant-garde can get too out there for me most of the time. But, the more down-to-earth tunes I nearly always enjoy. They often lack polish, and for me this just makes them sound like the tunes of a happy voyager (sometime clumsily) exploring ways to set the spirit free. Click the album art for 10 minutes of Sun Ra infused happiness via dropbox. (Sky Blues, 320 mp3) or try this, performed live in 1978. In the right headspace I really enjoy going back and forth between the joy and the avant-garde that is the whole 2-CD recording. Someday I'll make myself a comp of the joy from several Sun Ra albums, without the avant-garde, and have it ready for all the other days.
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^ What's up with the Japanese press of Leige and Lief?! I love love Unhalfbricking and What We Did On Our Holidays...the next obvious purchase will be L and L but I haven't come across it on vinyl lately...
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the new PJ Harvey - really like so far...reminds me alot of the Mekons excellent Journey to the End of the Night ~ autoharp, horns, sharply biting lyrics, good production, both angry and beautiful.
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SparkleHorse - VivaDixieSubmarineTransmissionPlot newly reissued on vinyl, tasty...
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the so good, you forgot it in people, picked up on vinyl last week.
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Sorry Johnny that's the Japanesse SACD. The vinyl that I got was on the 4 Men With Beards label. At $19.98 it is a very clean pressing. No pops that I could hear. Wish I could hear it through my headphones to really listen to it.
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I haven't participated in this thread for a while.
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The Wipers - Over the Edge ... See other thread.
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Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy ... I've been listening to Smoke Ring for My Halo too in preparation for his April 2nd show opening for J. Mascis at the 7th St Entry (hambone, you should go), but I keep coming back to his previous effort. Easily my most-listened-to album of 2011 so far if we're going by number of spins.
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Jonathan Richman - O Moon, Queen of Night on Earth ... new JoJo; seeing him in Chicago next week and then in Minneapolis again in May. "My Affected Accent" is an instant classic, as is "If You Want to Leave Our Party, Just Go," which could be the anthemic statement of purpose of his 21st century aesthetic.
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Future Islands - In Evening Air ... saw these guys a couple of weeks back. Part of the new wave of theatrical electropop, but not nearly as ridiculous as that sounds. Throbbing bass and textured electronic noise under vocals that are sometimes raw, sometimes sobbing, and always commanding.
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James Blake - James Blake (2011) ... straddling the soulful ground between Future Islands-type pop and dubstep. He's moved from primarily sampling vocals from R&B songs to adding his own voice, and it took a little getting used to for me, but the glorious moments on this record are oh so glorious. That shuddering bass on the second verse of his cover of "Limit to Your Love"! Otherworldly.
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Marnie Stern - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That ... still in regular rotation. Seeing her again in Chicago on Wednesday!
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Calvin Johnson - Calvin Johnson and the Sons of the Soil ... Never heard this one until recently. "Can We Kiss?" is as good as any of his solo jams.
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Joey Pizza Slice - Son of Salami ... sorta Daniel Johnston-esque lo-fi stuff, with layered effects achieved by recording to cassette tape with the eraser head removed. "Cigarettes Make Me Feel Good" and "Pretty Girls Is a Motherfucker" are pretty much permanently stuck in my head all day every day.
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Superchunk - Here's Where the Strings Come In
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USAISAMONSTER - Tasheyana Compost ... recently ran across this one on vinyl, one of my most-listened-to albums ca 2004. Still sounds great.
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Betty Everett - There'll Come a Time ... Betty!! My most recent obsession. Forget "The Shoop Shoop Song" and skip straight to "Getting Mighty Crowded", "Is There a Chance for Me", or most sublimely of all, the title track of this LP, which I've just been listening to over and over.
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Roy Ellis: The Boss is Back
Solid set from Roy Ellis back after a long, long break of around 20 or more years. The thing kicks off with a pretty great ska track, One Way Ticket to the Moon, all the slow burn simmer and energy of classic ska updated with solid production featuring a great horn section. Then you get The Boss is Back, the title cut where Ellis announces his return and I'm thinking this is just gonna be a classic album. But, after that great opening it does fall off into some fairly generic reggae tunes, a couple soul tracks and a pretty annoying cover of The Rose. Ellis is in fine voice throughout though and another couple really strong numbers keep the album afloat, but it's fairly up and down between really solid new material and fairly generic reggae tunes. Of course, even the standard issue stuff is at least well done and all the heavier ska tracks are excellent. So, if you're into this sort of thing, definitely worth a listen.
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The Books: Food for Thought - My first exposure to The Books was last years The Way Out. Picked this one up recently and also like it. Actually, I'd strongly recommend it. For me they just find the right balance of keeping the melodies (for lack of a better word) simple enough to be catchy, with eclectic and complex samples to build up the texture and make me want to explore. Just humorous enough to keep from feeling overthought. It's both touching and quirky. The instrumentation and vocals (those that aren't samples) always seem to be just right; they seem to find the right emotion for every collection of sounds surrounding them. I think there's some actual musicianship behind the samples! . I see Pitchfork also gave a review of the album (9 of 10). I agree with it. I keep thinking the first track "Enjoy Your Worries, You May Never Have Them Again" should be the sound track for your local Dept. of Motor Vehicles... insurance claims office. I'm not sure. Great stretch of spoken words in the middle of the track. Probably just me that would enjoy the humor.
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When: The Lobster Boys - Doesn't quite cast the same spell as Thought for Food. The songs are more composed and more whirling, Whereas The Books seem to organically build songs from collections of samples, When decorates and augments songs with sampled sounds. So, more of a jam feel to When; more rhythms more loops. When uses a bunch of middle eastern tones and harmonies and buzzing percussion which add a nice flair; some even come across a bit Beatle-esqe psychedelia. Still, a fun listen. I think my favorite track is Puff Pipe a heavier grooved, droning middle eastern-styled piece with some industrial crashing noises.
btw, like the House of Tribes album above. Well done and very enjoyable.
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That Books album is really good. I also really like The Lemon of Pink from them. The funny thing is that on those first two albums I for a while thought they were good but that just a hint more structure and bringing those noises more into the service of more traditional songcraft would be just about perfect. Then, the next couple albums the band pretty much did just that and in retrospect I find myself going back and enjoying the first two much more than the stuff they fleshed out a bit more. Guess I'm not so smart after all.
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You've both convinced me to toss The Lemon of Pink into my Amazon cart. I went on an extensive filesharing binge recently. Filled in some holes, but mostly explored some new sounds. I feel a need to restore some balance to the commercial karma of the bands I like.
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Boards of Canada was another band I sampled and will need a few more listens to fully weigh in on. But I'm liking their sound and mentally put them in the same taste category. Not really so much in the found samples category; more in that analog electronica category.
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Then, the next couple albums the band pretty much did just that and in retrospect I find myself going back and enjoying the first two much more than the stuff they fleshed out a bit more. Guess I'm not so smart after all.
That such a spot on observation. Well, not the referendum on your intelligence. I'll let others arbitrate that. The suspicion that with some structure they'd hit another plane. I think it just highlights how much the whimsy of their stuff is important to the experience.
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Also love Boards of Canada. My faves for them are <b>Music Has the Right to Children</b> and an EP called <b>In A Beautiful Place Out in the Country</b>.
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^ agreed...both of those are excellent. I've been streaming the new Mtn. Goats here and really diggin' it, which makes me happy. I was a huge fan of earlier stuff, the ****ty sounding but beautifully written 4-track stuff he did when he still had a day-job...the official,produced stuff seemed to lose some of the lyrical gestalt for the last few albums. This one is certainly as produced as other recents but something is hitting right...the lyrics are darkly lovely and haunting, poignantly precise enough. and there's a nice level of nuance with handclaps popping up here and there, amazing bass playing! and just all around tasty album.
It's here for the moment...
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