Other than Death Metal, what are you listening to?

[RocDoc]

back at the office earlier today - i'm loving the cool confines of my house at the mo - but i had a SERIOUS blues thing goin' on starting with the incredible:


<sub>Michael Burks
July 3 1998
Mississippi Valley Blues Festival

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01. Why You So Mean To Me
02. Little Did I Know
03. Don't Lie To Me
04. Cadillac Assembly Line
05. The Sky Is Crying
06. Look On Yonder Wall
07. Can You Feel It
08. Talk To My Baby
Encore:
09. Everyday I Have The Blues</sub>

the sound here is phenomenal, again, even as a 40kbps wma file thumping crystal clear, with burks playing oover the top, just cutting through everything like a crosscut saw - don, YOU in particular have got to have this.
i've got a latter day show of his where he's simply not as on fire as this - which i KNEW he was capable of because i did see him on one of the side stages back at the chgo bluesfest years back, possibly even as far back as this, 1998.
EZ, super ez download here:
h**p://tela.sugarmegs.org/alpha/m.html

NEXT up was this sl more prog-blues from the esteemed:

<sub>Robben Ford Trio -
Catalina's Bar & Grill,
Los Angeles,
29 March 2012

1. Lovin Cup
2. Unknown
3. Earthquake
4. Unknown
5. Moonchild
6. Cannonball Shuffle
7. Nothin to Nobody
8. There Will Be Another You
9. Who Do You Think You Are
10. Spoonful
11. Instrumental
12. Riley B King
13. Too Much
14. Unknown
15. Spoonful (Reprise)
16. Chevrolet</sub>

scorched my brain...oh wait - THAT was the heatwave outside.

[RocDoc]

oh and btw, i didn't read the bardens wiki entries far enough to see that p green was guesting there - i figured it WAS bardens, but with an unmistakeable influence.

by now, i know both of us have developed a pretty good ear for the characteristics of a LOT of players.

the 200-level jazz & blues classes i took at U of Ill had a final where we had like 12 trumpeters from the 20s-30s-40s we had to differentiate for and audio portion - it taught us what to listen for...great class.
but with guitar. this is strictly for the love for those players - those bastiches been gettin' me OFF for years!

~

matt, my first listens to lissie made me track down as much of hers online as i could - i dug the shit out of her.
gotta dig her stuff out again.

lumineers are pretty damned impressive too!

i don't know how much of the 'six degrees of separation' for the punch brothers you explored but there's nothing but great music surrounding everything each of those guys has done.

chris thile in particular (esp nickelcreek) but all of those guys are ridiculous players.

suggestion: try the sparrow quartet for something similarly 'organic' without being completely bluegrass oriented...LOVE what they do.

[skvorecky]

[RocDoc]

me like tha reggae touch.
synthy stuff is otherwise nearly always a hard sell to me.

[skvorecky]

snd.sc/O5Hkf4

[Ayinger]

^ ^ I for one would need to get past the title first! LOL (she DOES like to go on a bit with them)

[skvorecky]

4AD coming back around!

[Thorngrub]

Ok, this album is digging it's myriad clawed tentacles deep into my soul. Unbelievable how this process happens. It's akin to the wind scouring away tons of sand obscuring a buried treasure chest. The first several listens blows the sand particles all over the place, entrancing you with the swirling dust dervishes and patterns of sandgrains blasting away. Then, after several more listens....the sand has almost entirely been removed from this sunken alien artifact, and the listener is now riveted by the strange architecture thus revealed. After another listen, certain songs begin opening up--i.e, the artifact reveals itself to be a compartment, which suddenly opens up to blast forth an extraterrestrial light. The experienced Noctourniquet listener is no longer attracted by the wind or sand--he or she will be entranced by the glowing warmth of the alien yet familiar glow of the music. And then the strangest thing happens. That is the moment when the truth is revealed: these songs are in fact, quite ordinarily fashioned. There's the bassline, pretty groovin'. The drum beats also seem rather normal, but good in the bracing, skeletal manner which by all means they should be. Omar's guitar sketches and riffs are also laid bare with multiple listenings, and paradoxically reveal themselves to be simultaneously classic and strange, it's hard to explain...(I'm not rambling, here)...but in a nutshell, it's like this: First time hearing Noctourniquet--all I could think was "how strange and unaccessible." But after hearing it half a dozen times....it's more like, "How classically perfect." It just took time (for me) to get there, I guess. This album is continually growing on me, here is one of my favorite songs off it:



lyrics

if I trust in the wind she will pave me a different road
I will try and start over but I think I must choose someone else
I am pulled from the pages where the letters lack the pigment of trust

must be on my way, I've got to get home
won't be back someday, so let it unfold

I've abandoned the outcome in search of the rest I deserve
you can do what you will with my body but I won't ring the bell
I've omitted the chapters that bow and admit defeat

must be on my way, I've got to get home
won't be back someday, so let it unfold

I am a mountain
of cavernous people
searching for a lighthouse in the fog

of the flowers that grew from the cracks in the ground you paved
didn't you think he would warn me through the thorns of my waking dreams
when the riddles connected the dots of this constellation

must be on my way, I've got to get home
won't be back someday, so let it unfold

I am a mountain
of cavernous people
searching for a lighthouse in the fog

I found a reason to leave you with this load
all I can do is forgive your broken heart
trapped in this tower made of amber for too long
all I can do is forgive your broken heart

All rights reserved to The Mars Volta.

[RocDoc]

gotta get me some of that^...

~

NP:

<sub>This debut album was recorded in October 91 by Bill Laswell and the Knitting Factory in NY, but was only released for the opening of festivities of 93's Antwerp, European Cultural Capital that lasted a whole year. Apparently the Flemish regional government funded the project. Being mostly Peter Vermeersch and Pierre Vervloesem's group, the septet has an incredible sound, being mostly inspired by Zappa (and Beefheart), but clearly these guys listened to a wide array of music and the prog groups also. The inside group photo does show a girl named sally sitting cross-legged, you will never know if it was a spoof or not.
With its slow-beat but eccentric jazz opener the uninitiated proghead might just take the advice from the track title and push the FFWD, but this would be a serious mistake. Zippo Raid is a much more energetic track while the aptly-titled XLS - their eponymous track supposed to define them - raised the standards to such heights that Miriodor or Alamaailman Vasarat better be holding on to their seats, if they do not want to be taken by a storm. Among the other highlights are Blackhead BB with its sax orgies (were VDGG's Jackson was obviously an influence) underlined by Vervloesem's Zappa-esque guitars, Bacon & Eggs and Turkish Bath. In a much harder and funky way (in a Red Hot Chilly Peppers sense) Little hearts and Lacto B rock your heart out with a real virtuosity but staying away from the demonstration.
A stunning debut album (well the group members were no rookies, Plouvier hammering the keys since the early 80's), and the first of series of impressive records. X-L S is one of the seminal bands of Belgium's 90's scenes, and a must-hear-to-believe-it.
:::Review by Sean Trane:::

X-Legged Sally - Slow-Up (1991)

1. FFWD (5:35)
2. Zippo Raid (4:15)
3. XLS (6:53)
4. Down At The Dinghy (4:34)
5. Bacon & Eggs (5;25)
6. 34th Street (4:59)
7. Blackhead Blue Blues (5:08)
8. Lacto B (1:06)
9. Fuck & Coffee (2:50)
10. Turkish Bath (5:21)
11. Little Hearts (4:24)
12. Liquid (4:06)
13. Pinocchio (5:05)
14. Memphis (4:49)
15. Ongenaam (1:54)

Credits
- Pierre Vervloesem / guitars, vocals
- Danny Van Hoeck / drums
- Peter Vermeersch / Tenor saxophone, clarinet
- Eric Sleichim / Alto saxophone
- Jean-Luc Plouvier / keyboards
- Michel Mast / Bariton & Tenor saxophone
- Bruno Deneuter / bass
- Sally C.S. / x-noise, twists</sub>

WHOA!!!
fucking inTENSE disc this one.
their subsequent 'land of the giant dwarfs' was on right before this, but it was way more zig-zaggy flipping from genre to genre (which i generally have a great tolerance for) while rarely even trying to establish a groove like THIS one certainly does.

the only bands in this area are the incredibly great estradasphere...and zappa...maybe panzerballett.

[skvorecky]

Sir Richard Bishop "Salvador Kali"




Moebius and Plank "Material"




JD Emmanuel "Wizards"




Rene Hell "Porcelain Opera"




Astra "The Black Chord

[RocDoc]

i listened to these so long ago and all i remember is i really liked the sir richard bishop (jo-ann castle-esque piano jangle) and the astra (guitar prog)...the rest were in my meh space...

NP:
<sub>Bonnaroo Superjam
June 10th, 2012
Manchester Tennessee

The “Superjam” at this year’s Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival was billed as Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and his “very special guests,” and boy, was that marquee ever accurate. Along with members of Parliament Funkadelic, The Time and his own band The Roots, Questlove welcomed reclusive R&B star D’Angelo to the stage for the singer’s first U.S. performance in 10 years early on Sunday morning (June 10). [Billboard]

THE SETLIST:
Intro >
Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland) [Jimi Hendrix] >
Superman Lover [Johnny Guitar Watson] >
Go Back 2 The Thing >
Pride And Vanity [Ohio Players] >
Players Balling (Players Doin’ Their Own Thing) [Ohio Players]
Funky Dollar Bill [Funkadelic] >
Hit It And Quit It [Funkadelic] >
What Is And What Should Never Be [Led Zeppelin]
Babies Making Babies [Sly & The Family Stone] >
Hollywood Squares [Bootsy Collins] >
> Chicken Grease (teases) > (reprise)
Power of Soul [Band of Gypsys]
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window [The Beatles]
My Summertime Thang [The Time] >
Jam (including Fire [Ohio Players] & other teases)

THE BAND:
Questlove – drums
Kirk Douglas – guitar
James Poyser – keys
Frank Knuckles – percussion
Pino Palladino – bass
Eric Leeds – saxophone
Jesse Johnson – guitar
Kendra Foster – vocals
D’Angelo – vocals, guitar, keys</sub>


jesse johnson!!

[Ayinger]

"Funky Dollar Bill"!!

[wayvedii]

A steady diet of You Am I and Guided By Voices.

[Ayinger]

[Ayinger]