Jazzy D's Soul Notes

Some tracks selected from this part of a rack of CD's in my collection.

Olivier Messiaen - Vingt Regards (X. Regard de l'Esprit de joie)



Gyorgy Ligeti - Atmosphères



Low - Silver Rider



Can - Soul Desert



Henryk Gorecki - Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs (III. Lento—Cantabile-semplice)



Beth Gibbons (of Portishead) · The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

ENJOY

Some more obscure music from Europe -

Galactic Explorers - Lunarscape



Golem - Orion Awakes



Ash Ra Tempel - Space



Enjoy

Another rare slice of kosmiche music -


The Nazgûl - 1975





1. The Tower Of Barad-Dur 00:00:00
2. The Dead Marshes 00:12:29
3. Shelob's Lair 00:25:07
4. Mount Doom 00:37:21

An other ultra rare and long time lost 70's kosmische-kraut-psychedelica project published on the obscure Pyramid label for 50 copies, recently reissued on PsiFi. Weird trippy organ experimentations / improvisations with the add of acoustic, concrete noises, guitar manipulations. In the vein of soacSand, Pyramid, Temple and Early Tangerine Dream but with colder ambiences and with a conceptual approach. Extremely experimental release.


Enjoy

The latest Wire Primer is on Tangerine Dream but this is from their cosmiche music selection some years back.

Popol Vuh - In Den Gärten Pharaos (1971)



Tracklist:
00:00 In den Gärten Pharaos
18:12 Vuh
38:40 Kha-White Structures 1
49:20 Kha-White Structures 2

Drift away with a spliff.

Enjoy.

When Mildlife’s debut album, Phase, was released in 2018 it didn’t so much explode on to the scene as ooze. Their mellifluous mix of jazz, krautrock and, perhaps more pertinently, demon grooves, was the word of mouth sensation of that year among open-minded DJs and diggers searching for the perfect beat.

Their emergence was backed up by European tours that demonstrated a riotously loose-limbed approach to performance that was every bit as thrilling as Phase’s tantalising promise. What was more impressive was how lightly they wore influences that took in Can, Patrick Adams and Jan Hammer Group, while primarily sounding precisely like Mildlife.

By the end of 2018 they’d been nominees for Best Album at the Worldwide FM Awards (Worldwide’s Gilles Peterson was a notable champion) and won Best Electronic Act at The Age Music Victoria Awards back home in Melbourne. Their progress post-Phase was cemented with a UK deal with Jeff Barrett’s Heavenly, who released How Long Does It Take? replete with Cosmic doyen Baldelli and Dionigi remixes, while last year they were officially anointed by DJ Harvey when he included The Magnificent Moon on his Pikes compilation Mercury Rising Vol II.

With Automatic, the band have made a step-change from their debut. It’s more disciplined, directional and arguably more danceable. As on Phase, they are unafraid to let a track luxuriate in length without ever succumbing to self-indulgence. The arrangements, tightly structured thanks to Tom Shanahan (bass) and Jim Rindfleish’s fatback drumming, permit space for the others to add spice to the stew, topped off with Kevin McDowell’s ethereal vocals as Mildlife effortlessly glide between live performance and studio songwriting. “The recorded songs kind of become the new reference point for playing the songs live,’ says Kevin. “They both have different outcomes and we make our decisions for each based on that, but they’re symbiotic and they both influence each other. It’s usually a fairly natural flow from live to recorded back to live.”


The centrepiece of Automatic is the title track where the band sound like Kraftwerk and Herbie Hancock on quarantined lockdown in Bob Moog’s Trumansburg workshop. It’s both a departure and quintessentially Mildlife. This is music you can dance to rather than ‘dance music’ and it’s all the better for it.




Some music for a Monday -

Cocteau Twins - Pearly Dewdrops' Drops



My fave track from this defunct Scottish band.

His Name Is Alive - Deep / Last Night



A gorgeously eclectic CD from this American group which I found for fifty pence in a charity shop.

Next Up, Philadelphian band -

Bardo Pond - Lost Word



La Dusseldorf - Silver Cloud



Enjoy.

Let us go to the disco-

Pet Shop Boys - Before



Kraftwerk - Computer Love




Enjoy.

Time for some music -


Janko Nilovic - Aerospatial



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Enjoy.

More music methinks -


Mike Sammes - Sweet Young Fumbles



Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook - Sweet Pain



The John Buzon Trio - Diga Diga Doo



The Cd was reviewed in Wire in 1996


Jean-Jacques Perrey - E.V.A.





Can - Soul Desert




Enjoy.

I have not done one of my major music posts for awhile - today i will.

Marta Sebestyen - Leaving Derry Quay / Eleni



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Enjoy.