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Another sunny morning. Just finished all the reports for the visits yesterday. As I write I am listening to a CD of the music of Galina Ustvolskaya - another composer discovered through the pages of Wire.

Whipped around the flat with the hoover this morning. Then had a few more coffees reading a book by Jeremy Paxman called "The English". I am bound to disagree with him at some point but so far just read the first chapter. I have four books on the go at the moment including essays by Jonathan Franzen.

There are also books I love dipping into such as The Wire Primer book, books on jazz, an art book on Impressionist paintings. I suppose a fertile mind keeps you busy and ageless lol!!

Might have a chili-based dish for lunch. Undecided as of yet. Or I might pop into town and pop into my local. Decisions decisions.
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As promised another mix bag of musical bifurcations.

Arthur Russell - That's Us / Wild Combination



More music here )
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She is me homie gal. So more skank and grooves from her -

M.I.A. - Rewear It



Okay played it before but what a track!
M.I.A -Bad Girls




M.I.A. - Bring The Noize



Just love her shit and she is ab fab gorgeous too!
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The precipitation came but i did not dance, as i was in a hurry to get home plus having to pay £3.70 or the journey back from Faversham, and having only sold a few paperbacks for two pounds and fifty pence. Ugh!

Oh well, lots to watch or listen tp, plus another book almost finished.

Meanwhile, smother rain track

Belinda Carlisle - Summer Rain



Carl Thomas - Summer Rain

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More strange pulsating beats from the man in the know -

Supersilent - 12.4



More music here )

Faust

Feb. 21st, 2016 01:42 pm
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I have seen Faust live four times in my life, the last one at a concert hall in Hove some years back now, and here is part of a BBC documentary about German bands in general.

BBC 4 - Krautrock The Rebirth of Germany (23 Oct 2009)

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More grooviness from the archives -


Ebo Taylor - Love And Death



The Positive Force with Ade Olatunji - The African In Winter



Salah Ragab and The Cairo Jazz band - Neveen



Wganda Kenya - Tifit Hayed





Enjoy
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Time for some quality music -

Aimee Mann - Pavlov's Bell



Yep, this track did appear in a Buffy episode.

Aberdeen - Sink Or Float



Stateless - Bloodstream



Love that song!

Enjoy.
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Some jazz flavoured tunes today - all in a blue note mode -

Us3 - Eleven Long Years



Donald Byrd - Steppin' Into Tomorrow



Horace Silver - Filthy McNasty



Grant Green - Sookie Sookie



And finally -

Herbie Hancock - Blind Man, Blnd Man

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Well, morning was spent doing these reports from the visits i did yesterday.  One for a me;s suit company, an Apple store and a charity shop in Hove actually.

Picked up these from the charity shop visit -

Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by…H is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldThe Murders in the Rue Morgue (Crime…Honor's Voice: The Transformation of…


and this CD -



Jazzy grooves in a hip hop stylee!

The weather in the morning was atrocious and it did not improve till midway through the afternoon. Arrived home at midnight.

I had the Lumix with me and i took some photos, including this wonderful colourful junction box..

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Just the one track this morning as i will out early today. So another fine track from Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds with fellow Aussie Kylie Minogue - Where The Wild Roses Grow. Taken from the Murder Ballads CD.

Did i tell you  before that i met him in the street in Hove many years back as he was once , and maybe still is, a resident of Hove, actually.



Enjoy.
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Okay, as a dyed in the wood soul aficionado here are a couple of classic sweet soul tunes.

The Delfonics and Break Your Promise -



And if you chills up your spine, just listen to the Iceman aka Jerry Butler and Mr. Dream Merchant. -



Well, i said a couple and then i discovered this from the classic Soul Train TV series of Jerry Butler and Brenda Lee Eager singing a version of Close To You.




Enjoy, keep the faith! Peace and LOVE !!
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Sewing the disturbing Anselm Kiefer painting on [livejournal.com profile] cmcmck blog reminds me of the Steve Reich classic i had on the Nonesuch label, Different Trains, second movement, During The War.


As played by the excellent Kronos Quartet. Enjoy

Echoes

Dec. 3rd, 2014 12:30 am
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Final piece of music for the late night and a long LP side of a track from one of my favourite prog rock albums , Pink Floyd and Echoes from the album Meddle.



Enjoy.

It is also to educate Jon, [livejournal.com profile] thespian15,  about other Floyd music apart from The Wall.

CD's Found

Nov. 30th, 2014 11:07 am
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These are the CDs i found in Hythe for a quid each -

Orbital - Snivalization (Internal)
Erikah Badu - Baduism (Universal)
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me (Capitol)
Brahms - Symphony Bp 3 / Alto Rgapsody - Houston Symphony / Christoph Eschenbach (Virgin)


I finally have the Badu album which has been on my wants list for a very long time.
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Two more tunes that i have loved over the years. All About Eve and Martha's Harbour.



Next up, a version of the Tim Buckley song by This Mortoil Coil and Song To The Siren.


Enjoy.
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So as promised , the playlist from last night's DJ gig at the Northern Lights eaterie and pub. It was a quiet night with no more than twenty customers at any one time but it allowed me to play a very eclectic mix of music that veered all the way from jazz to folk via pop and soul music.

I had two people inquire as to what two tracks were, specifically the Bonnie Dobson tune and the classic funk tune by Kool And The Gang.

Here is the playlist -

D'Angelo – Brown Sugar
Captain and Tenile – Song For My Father
Roy Ayers – End of Sugarman
Bishop Norman Williams – Hip Funk
Pharoah Sanders – Rejoice
Della Reese – It Was A Very Good Year
Lalo Schifrin – Rhythm-A-Ning
Jon Lucien – Listen Love
Stan Getz & Charlie Bird – Desifinado
Eden Ahbez – The Wanderer
Bonnie Dobson – Winter's Going
Donovan – Get Thy bearings
Linda Perhacs – Chinacum Rain
Nancy Priddy – Ebony Glass
Heaven and Earth – Feel The Spirit
The Free Design – An Elegy
Bill Withers – Ain't No Sunshine
Dinah Washington – September In The rain
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Small Axe
Donny Hathaway – To Be Young Gifted And Black
Hamish Imlach – Black Is The Colour
Isaac Hayes – Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedallymystic
Blue Mitchell – Granite And Concrete
Benny Golson – Killer Joe
Cal Tjader – Cuchy Frito Man
Blue Sharks – Mongo
Bobby Graham – Softly As In The Morning Drums Rise
Billy Joe Young – The Push
Cannonball Adderley Quintet – Walk Tall
Curtis Davis – Your Love & My Money
Andrew White – Who Got Da Funk
Flow Dynamics – Superjam
Mr. Lif – Enter The Colossus
Afrique – Hot Mud
Nina Simone – Feeling Good
The O'Jays – Don't Call Me Brother
Ohio Players – Skin Tight
Kool And The Gang – Spirit Of The Boogie
Kraftwerk – Trans Euroe Express
Bjork – Play Dead
Massive Attack – Angel
Elbow – High Ideals
Laura Nyro – Oh Yeah Maybe Baby
Geri Halliwell – I Was Made That Way
Emma – Tomorrow
Elvis Costello & The Roots – Walk Us Uptown
Groove Armada – Suntoucher
Mr Scruff – Shrimp
Basement Jaxx – Romoe
Frank Sinatra – Come Fly With Me




Told you it was a mixed bag

Jazz Find

May. 7th, 2014 12:32 pm
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Brother's pressie posted off in Faversham. Pipe tobacco bought.. Oscar Peterson CD found for a quid at the Fleur Bookshop - and then over to Sittingbourne where i am right now - in the library.

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I suppose it is time to do my best finds ot the year music wise , as many seem to be doing their top ten or whatever. Spot has put The Arctic Monkeys "AM" album at the very top of his list. My list does not totally consist of current music and comes from all decades. These are CD's that for some reason i have missed before, or are just new to me. Here is my top ten -

1/  Supersilent - 6 (Rune Grammofon)
      Awesome minimalist electronic jazz splattered grooves that grow organically and weave into your brain.

2/ Ennio Morricone - Mondo Morricone (Colosseum)
      Superb collection of less well known music from the soundtrack maestro

3/ Antonio Vivaldi , Forma Antiqva, Uri Caine - The Four Seasons (Winter & Winter)
        The famous and somewhat overplayed seasons done afresh on baroque instruments with much gusto and vivacity.

4/ Nico Muhly - I Drink The Air Before Me (Decca)
         Better than Glass and Reich i think, modern minimalist classical music that goes somewhere.

5/ Basement Jaxx - Rooty (XL Recordings).
          How i missed this one when it came out is unfathomable, but glad i got it now.

5/ Groove Armada - Goodbye Country Hello Nightclub (Pepper Records)
          I knew of them but this is the first album i have by them, and it is a chilled out sublime groovefest.

6/  Nitin Sawhney - Human (V2 Recordings)
          Fusion and ambient grooves meet Asian flavours and hints of the sub-continent.

7/ Jon Lucien - Love Everlasting , The Very Best Of Jon Lucien (BMG)
          A superb collection of the finest vocal jazz from this great man.

8/ Laura Nyro - Walk The Dog And Light The Light (Columbia)
          My first album by her, and hence some catching up to do. This is a wonderful start.

9/ The Pussycat Dolls - PCD (A&M)
            It was Ian who got me into this excellent pop confection. Hardly a bad track and some great covers.

10/ Various Artists - Wild Cool And Swingin' (Capitol)
            A cool compilation of swinging late fifties and early sixties jazz vocal grooves

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