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Four selections pulled from the collection -


Brian Wilson presents SMiLE - Heroes and Villains



The project was originally planned to be released in 1967 as a Beach Boys album, written in collaboration between Wilson and lyricist Van Dyke Parks.
It was conceived as a musical journey across America from East to West, beginning at Plymouth Rock and ending in Hawaii, traversing some of the great themes of modern American history and culture.

The original failure to complete SMiLE has been attributed to several factors: internal resistance towards the project, legal battles with Capitol Records, technical difficulties with recording, Carl Wilson's draft battle, and Brian Wilson's escalating drug use, mental health issues, and creative dissatisfaction with the project.

Nearly 40 years later, Wilson chose to revisit the material with Parks, releasing it as a solo album in 2004.

Scott Walker - Jackie



Laura Nyro - Wedding Bell Blues



Can - Mother Sky (1970)




ENJOY
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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
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A mixed bag of grooves for this last Sunday of June -

Can - Mushroom



Guru Guru - Bo Diddley



Cosmic Jokers - Galactic Joke



Enjoy.
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Some more obscure music from Europe -

Galactic Explorers - Lunarscape



Golem - Orion Awakes



Ash Ra Tempel - Space



Enjoy
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More German spaced our music -

Cozmic Corridors - 1972



1. The Summit (0:00)
2. Mountainside (10:01)
3. Dark Path (13:05)
4. Niemand Verstent (21:51)
5. Daruber (29:50)

- Alex Meyer / Minimoog, Hammond organ, Fender Rhodes, vocals
- Peter Förster / 12 string guitar, electric guitar
- Pauline Fund / vocals
- Hans Jürgen Pütz / percussion, effects


Enjoy
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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
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More German weirdness ad it is brill -

Emtidi - Saat (1972)



Label: Pilz
Country: Germany
Released: 1972
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Folk Rock, Krautrock, Space Rock, Acid Rock.

Line - up:

Maik Hirschfeldt - 6- & 12-string acoustic guitar, electric guitar,
Leslie guitar, electric bass, flute, synthesizer, cymbal, vibraphone,
Maultrommel, vocals
Dolly Holmes - piano, electric piano, Hammond organ, mellotron,
electric spinet, kazoo, female vocals
+
Dieter Dierks - bass, percussion, mellotron
Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser - producer
Tracklist:

01. Walking In The Park 00:00
02. Träume 6:30
03. Touch The Sun 9:48
04. Love Time Rain 21:41
05. Saat 24:27
06. Die Reise 28:36

Popul Vuh

Jun. 15th, 2020 07:20 pm
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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.
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A classic piece of kosmische music -

Technical Space Composer's Crew - Canaxis 5




1. Ho-Mai-Nhi (Boat Woman Song) 00:00
2. Shock Eyes Ammunition 17:31


Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel



Tracklist:
00:00 Amboss
20:31 Traummaschine

Enjoy
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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.

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More blasts from my past - shows the gravitation from pop to weirder territories.

T.Rex - Ride A White Swan



Hot Butter - Popcorn



More tunes )

Then in 1990 I discovered the Wire magazine that reunited me with jazz, new classical music and much more way beyond that. so mainstream music was very much left behind even when I was a DJ with other cool cats such as DJ Abo and Ally Smith.

Enjoy
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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.

Can

Oct. 16th, 2019 11:17 pm
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Of all the recent finds I am quite disappointed with Saw Delight by Can - for about 36 minutes longer just two tracks are really good and the rest well - just okay - but the biggest bugbear is that this copy is copy protected so I canna rip it to the hard drive!

I should have got the Stock Hausen and Walkman CD instead! MVE had it for £15.


Giving Up (US Import)

Anyway, I found a mint copy via Discogs for five quid so I ordered it.

I have put this Can Cd up for sale on Discogs and eBay. I hate copy-protected CD's"!!!

So here is a classic Can track -

Can - Mother Sky

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Let us go to the disco-

Pet Shop Boys - Before



Kraftwerk - Computer Love




Enjoy.
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Twp from Europe, Germany and Estonia.

Faust - Jennifer




Arvo Pärt- Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten




Enjoy/
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Time for some music -


Janko Nilovic - Aerospatial



More music here )


Enjoy.
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About time I did a music post don't you think? So here goes -another mixed bag from my eclectic collection and tastes.

Astor Piazzolla - Milonga Del Angel



More music here )
Rnjoy.
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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.
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What am 1? Avid reader and avid music lover.So - here is some music -

Animal Collective -My Girls



More music here )

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

Marta Sebestyen - Leaving Derry Quay / Eleni



More music here )


Enjoy.

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