Recent Finds
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i've learned about a lot of deep cuts on the the strut, so i'm really going to miss the finds (and the thraeds extolling and expounding on teh raers). here's a few recent pickups from a trip to lyon, various thrifts around ontario and the mailbox.
case in point - thx Jimster for writing about the Ogerman!
top three are the private mindgarden legendary 1994 run of Luke Vibert as Wagon Christ, just before it all came together on his debut album. once he moved that project off Rising High, it was never the same... much less weird.
Reset remains endlessly listenable. if you're into 60s vocal groups, the album will melt into your subconscious around those bits, which makes sense since Pete Kember got inspired by the intros of his favs (via Pitckfjork):
Initiated during the doldrums of 2020, Reset found its genesis when Kember noticed that the intros of certain songs seemed to have “a lot of juice to them,” as Lennox puts it. What would happen, Kember wondered, if they drew out that energy to the length of a song, using skeletal, one- or two-chord loops as the foundation? “He’d send me the loops, then I would send back the blueprint of the song,” Lennox says.“It was deep dreaming, really,” Kember adds, citing the neural network that draws surreal, fractal-like patterns out of digital images, like X-rays of some hidden essence. “If you heard the original loop with just the vocal, it had most of the powers already. Right from the start, you could tell that something was happening.you can't really read the text, but the lower row is a copy of Teh Harder They Come, a friend's latest release and John Beltran on Text.
Glad you pulled "Gate of Dreams". I didn't come across it until about ten years ago and the moods really hit me. I had "Cityscapes" with Brecker before, but this is nicer.
If I'd have had heard it 20/25 years ago I would have skipped it as easy listening. I guess such nuances are how we mature and get wiser. We recognise something in the chords that we didn't have in life earlier?
Last person I spoke about Claus with was Gareth Donkin, he was opening for Raquel Rodriguez. Nice to know the youngins have heard of him. He's going for an MJ vibe so he's gone down the Quincy Jones rabbit hole.
If I'd have had heard it 20/25 years ago I would have skipped it as easy listening. I guess such nuances are how we mature and get wiser. We recognise something in the chords that we didn't have in life earlier?
Last person I spoke about Claus with was Gareth Donkin, he was opening for Raquel Rodriguez. Nice to know the youngins have heard of him. He's going for an MJ vibe so he's gone down the Quincy Jones rabbit hole.
nice stuff! that impressions contains what I think might be my favorite all time curtis related song ("seven years").
klezmer electro-thug beats said:
nice stuff! that impressions contains what I think might be my favorite all time curtis related song ("seven years").Thanks! I thought I already had this one (I didn't) but I picked it up anyway. I agree, "7 Years" is one of the standouts. Also has the original/studio version of "Mighty Mighty". Arranged by Donny Hathaway.
The Saul Bass connection checks out since the first and only feature film he directed ('Phase IV', a trippy movie about hyper intelligent ants) included Stomu Yamashita's music, but for a scene which was unfortunately cut in the original release.
https://youtu.be/N7wotKNaj_s?feature=shared
Between this, the "Sea & Sky" cover art above (which was used for a 1980 short film he directed called 'The Solar Film') and the poster he made for an earlier (1968) experimental short film he also directed called 'Why Man Creates', I can tell he was into the setting sun motif.
As for the record I found this weekend, it almost completes my collection of pre-Go Yamashita, some of which were used for 'The Man Who Fell To Earth' (percussive/ambient) and a Formula 1 doc called 'One By One' (more on the jazz-rock side)
https://youtu.be/N7wotKNaj_s?feature=shared
Between this, the "Sea & Sky" cover art above (which was used for a 1980 short film he directed called 'The Solar Film') and the poster he made for an earlier (1968) experimental short film he also directed called 'Why Man Creates', I can tell he was into the setting sun motif.
As for the record I found this weekend, it almost completes my collection of pre-Go Yamashita, some of which were used for 'The Man Who Fell To Earth' (percussive/ambient) and a Formula 1 doc called 'One By One' (more on the jazz-rock side)
Swap meet finds. Fredera is the only LP from the Som Imaginário guitarist who played with the best of the best in MPB. Astrud is in unplayed condition. Egberto Gismonti is the LP he released after the excellent "Corações Futuristas" but before he signed with ECM, starting with "Dança Das Cabeças". Rare Bird is their debut. I owned a Uriah Heep record before. This is their second one.
Hopefully this won't be the last finds post I'll make here as I'll make an effort to do some record shopping while in Salvador, Bahia in two weeks, which coincides with SS going offline soon after.
Electrode said:
A majority of these are Christmas gifts. The first three Brazilian records are reissues, of course. I'm fortunate to have friends who are on my same wavelength. "Alan Parsons Project" is their "debut" (/Dr. Evil). Hummingbird is Bernard Purdie with Jeff Beck's crew. Rare Bird has one of the best Morricone versions I have heard. I saw Andrea Centazzo play with his trio at a local universalist church last week. It was real solid of him to sell me his last copy and to throw in some of his "best of" sampler CDs from his Ictus label. He even signed an bio insert on an Italian jazz comp I found in the dollar bin a few years back. Also pictured is Bayete's auto, who I also met recently.
That Bayete LP is great. Got a copy 15 years ago for $35...not signed, though!
Some Salvador finds. Debut from Ednardo. I thought his name was familiar and I just remembered that I have his and the Pessoal Do Ceará's follow up ("Meu Corpo..."). Never can go wrong with Egberto or Gal. I thought finding the Giorgio here of all places was surprising.
I have been thinking about that for a long time. My mentality is, "it's on YouTube. They can check it out if they want." Thing is, I don't have recording software, a second turntable or a fully functioning mixer to make something proper. I never felt a need to buy or upgrade either because, primarily, no one ever has asked me to be the DJ for anything. Also, I am very frugal. But once the chance arises, it's on!
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