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Post by DayoRemix on Oct 24, 2023 6:41:46 GMT
Sorry for the delayed response..Haven't been "available"..Interestingly eccentric rambling..Not sure how an entire album of this would sit..Might come off as too forced. Will check it out anyway..
Think I'll punt one over to Rogue from 2006...
"It fit when I was a kid" Liars
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Post by adamcoan on Oct 24, 2023 7:17:55 GMT
I must get my copy of 'They were wrong, so we drowned' out for a spin.
Good choice.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Oct 24, 2023 8:19:55 GMT
Unfortunately that's not the kind of thing I can enjoy. I find it lacking melody and dirge like, and I can't enjoy the singing which was funereal and dreary and lacked any kind of joyful expression. But thanks for trying something different on me, perhaps there are other tracks of theirs I'd be more receptive to..?
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Oct 24, 2023 8:21:11 GMT
I'll have a think of something for someone else today.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Oct 26, 2023 15:26:28 GMT
I'm going to brave Ray.
Hi-Fi Albums and I - Joyce Kennedy
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Post by adamcoan on Oct 26, 2023 15:30:14 GMT
I liked it.
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Post by rayge on Nov 1, 2023 16:23:45 GMT
I'm going to brave Ray. Hi-Fi Albums and I - Joyce Kennedy An impassioned vocal - although I haven't a clue what she was singing about - but, while I generally appreciates a kitchen sink arrangement, some of the sound was weird. It may be the youtube, it may be a worn record - hell, it might even be my ears - but there seemed to be a fair bit of distortion, especially in the climactic ending.
Anyway, I was reminded recently of my favourite track from an album I expect none of you would ever have expected me to own. I toyed with asking DF to have a go, as he's fond of Drum & Bass (  ), or perhaps Harve, the only drummer we have on here to my knowledge, but really, it's got to be fange...
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Post by rayge on Nov 8, 2023 0:19:42 GMT
BUMP
Are you there, fange?
Or shall I torture some other poor bugger?
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Post by fange on Nov 8, 2023 4:10:58 GMT
Oh sorry, didn't spot this. Will pop back later today for a listen.
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Post by fange on Nov 8, 2023 13:15:13 GMT
Anyway, I was reminded recently of my favourite track from an album I expect none of you would ever have expected me to own. I toyed with asking DF to have a go, as he's fond of Drum & Bass ( ), or perhaps Harve, the only drummer we have on here to my knowledge, but really, it's got to be fange...
I haven't heard that one for a while, cheers Ray. I love the bowed bass - Davis and Cecil McBee are two of my faves at that, tremendously talented - and when of the two of them are playing together it does create a very striking, mournful version of this famous tune. TBH though, I probably wouldn't be too worried if they took out 4-5 mins. of the middle section, and just kept mostly the duo playing parts. I really love 'Raunchy Rita' from that album, and the whole is album is good if memory serves. I need to hear some more EJ post-Coltrane dates, thanks for the reminder. Ok, i will think of another song to pick. |
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Post by fange on Nov 8, 2023 13:51:45 GMT
Ok, one for G the Modernist...
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Nov 9, 2023 8:44:56 GMT
Very nice, has a kind of sharp Blue Note groove. The main refrain at the beginning is a bit 70s tv theme, but once it moves away from that and gets into an expansive swing it really takes off. Cheers Ange!
Not sure what to pick myself, but as I found myself mentioning John Surman on another thread, here's a big favourite of mine and we'll choose it for Jimmy..
Nestor's Saga - John Surman
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Post by fange on Nov 9, 2023 9:15:47 GMT
Oh god, if jimmy listens to that his head will explode
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Post by adamcoan on Nov 9, 2023 17:21:14 GMT
Oh god, if jimmy listens to that his head will explode I generally, genuinely dislike jazz and its noodling and cry's of genius from its admirers. I think our brains are obviously wired differently. While many are in awe at the sound of Miles or Coltrane I struggle. It isn't the lack of melody or discordant chords, god knows . I pride myself on my Catholic tastes. I can listen to trout mask and Stockhausen and enjoy it. Scott Walkers later, anti music, surreal disjoined landscapes find my ear and I get it. Many of poor fishies choices that I suspect are given less than thirty seconds by most, find favour in my musical tastes.
There is a product on the market called roon. This (and others) involve listening to music with track listings and mini-biographies available to look at while listening to your drug of choice. I don't enjoy serious listening as an all-encompassing media experience. Music brings pictures or emotions to me all by itself. Total darkness or a lamp is all I require.
So, what do I make of this selection, partly given with a glint in the eye and an expectation of controlled, carefully selected blasphemous remarks?
We have a slow, quiet, repeating, pulsing rhythm, not unlike an early tangerine dream or Phillip Glass. Strange photography stills, blurry , moving as if the projector is in need of calibration. They are mesmerising, interesting and, despite my lack of enthusiasm for a total media sensation, completely in tune with the sound of the artist. You can hear , especially in the ending , moments and the feel of Bowie's Blackstar. He must have been aware of this. It could be in a Lynch movie or the sound that fog would make should it decide to.
It's astoundingly good. It is beautiful, controlled, dreamlike. Soothing and yet menacing. It flows. A quite remarkable track. |
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Post by fange on Nov 9, 2023 23:00:22 GMT
Hooray!
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), or perhaps Harve, the only drummer we have on here to my knowledge, but really, it's got to be fange...