Xann Posted February 15, 2023 Author Share Posted February 15, 2023 Various Artists – 'Viagem' A Collection Of 60's Brazilian Bossa Nova & Jazz Samba Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 Sweet Baboo new album, The Wreckage Just a lovely relaxing album, one of those ones that’s possible these days, recorded at home, finished in a studio. Plus help from a few friends like David Newington (Boy Azooga / Keys), H Hawkline and a couple of others. But not too much help, when the credits read: words and music, vocals, grand piano, clarinet, xylophone, baritone sax and synth by Sweet Baboo, and then he releases it on his own label! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 17, 2023 Moderator Share Posted February 17, 2023 1 hour ago, chrisp65 said: Sweet Baboo new album, The Wreckage Just a lovely relaxing album, one of those ones that’s possible these days, recorded at home, finished in a studio. Plus help from a few friends like David Newington (Boy Azooga / Keys), H Hawkline and a couple of others. But not too much help, when the credits read: words and music, vocals, grand piano, clarinet, xylophone, baritone sax and synth by Sweet Baboo, and then he releases it on his own label! I saw him support Bill Ryder-Jones not long before Xmas, really good.Then you get back home and look him up and realise who he’s worked with, the amount of instruments he plays and the stuff he’s produced and it kinda shocks you because he’s such a talent but no-one (relatively) has ever heard of him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bickster Posted February 19, 2023 Moderator Share Posted February 19, 2023 I found one of my long term wants in London this weekend. Currently listening to it on Spotify on the train home but £12 second hand in Rough Trade of all places. Im not a huge fan of the band but these Dub sessions I always wanted since I bought a compilation of Richard Norris’ Dub Remixes and one of the tracks was on it Jagwar Ma- The Time and Space Machine Dub Sessions 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 19, 2023 Moderator Share Posted February 19, 2023 Right so I bought some records in London, as well as the above. This is my first choice when I've got home. A band I own nothing by previously but are always coming up on the spotify algos for me and I do quite like what it throws at me and last week, there was a new track on my Release Radar playlist, which was the first track on this new album. That is the only track I've heard prior to putting it on. Definitely in Sonic Youth territory without the extreme Thurston Moore experimentation Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World EDIT: So this is a double album and and at the end of side 2 there is a closed groove on the last track that sounds very similar to the noise my turntable makes when its been playing for a while and the motor is a bit hot. Also as much as it's a double, it only advertises three sides. There is however a fourth, an untitled instrumental If the creative use of guitar feedback is a thing you like, this album may well be up your street. I'm sticking with my Sonic Youth comparison but parts of this do head into Slowdive (Souvlaki) territory territory too. I'd like to see these live I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 7 hours ago, bickster said: Right so I bought some records in London, as well as the above. This is my first choice when I've got home. A band I own nothing by previously but are always coming up on the spotify algos for me and I do quite like what it throws at me and last week, there was a new track on my Release Radar playlist, which was the first track on this new album. That is the only track I've heard prior to putting it on. Definitely in Sonic Youth territory without the extreme Thurston Moore experimentation Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World EDIT: So this is a double album and and at the end of side 2 there is a closed groove on the last track that sounds very similar to the noise my turntable makes when its been playing for a while and the motor is a bit hot. Also as much as it's a double, it only advertises three sides. There is however a fourth, an untitled instrumental If the creative use of guitar feedback is a thing you like, this album may well be up your street. I'm sticking with my Sonic Youth comparison but parts of this do head into Slowdive (Souvlaki) territory territory too. I'd like to see these live I think A friend of mine who is a huge Sonic Youth fan is currently loving this so your point may hold weight. Yo La Tengo based on what I own and have heard haven’t for my money been comparable to Sonic Youth but as there is a gap in that market, who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 20, 2023 Moderator Share Posted February 20, 2023 Another one off the want list and at a knockdown price. Rough Trade had two copies of this in the rack both identical to each other, Ltd Edition silver vinyl. one priced at £12.99 the other at the full price of £21.99, guess which one I bought? A tip for record buyers, always the check the price of all the copies in the shop, especially in the larger shops, you can often find discrepancies like this Ahead of his new album due in a month or so, This is two albums ago BC Camplight - Deportation Blues. I know I have a certain reputation for obscurity with music but his work really does deserve far more exposure than it gets. People whose exposure to modern alt-rock (hate that term) is around the Arctic Monkeys / The National / Foals really should give BC Camplight a go, he deserves to be mentioned alongside them. Musically, they aren't comparisons btw, just the same level of talent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 20, 2023 Moderator Share Posted February 20, 2023 See, prime example of a record I never get to see. This was released three weeks ago, not hit Liverpool, not even on CD in Probe, that usually stocks at least the CDs of the Stanley / Wiggs compilations Winter of Discontent A compilation of early post-punk DIY recordings, including early recordings by now revered bands like The Mekons, Scritti Politti, Television Personalities, The Raincoats and The Fall but also from relative unknowns like The Human Cabbages (from Coventry), the Performing Ferret Band and heaps more. This is the stuff Peel used to play in my formative years, I'll always be a sucker for primitive Post-Punk like this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted February 20, 2023 Author Share Posted February 20, 2023 Various Artists - 'Next Stop... Soweto' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted February 20, 2023 Author Share Posted February 20, 2023 Eugen Cicero - 'Rokoko-Jazz' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 20, 2023 Moderator Share Posted February 20, 2023 Another 2nd hand purchase, this time from a shop called Sound Vinyl in Crystal Palace The Fatima Mansions - Viva Dead Ponies 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 21, 2023 Moderator Share Posted February 21, 2023 Another cheapo 2nd hand purchase from the weekend. Modern Eon - Early 80s post-punk from Liverpool. Modern Eon are much lauded for their early single Euthenics, they never really became famous in any way but my mate Joe was a founding member but left before this was recorded to join The Passage and another mate of ours, Bob Wakelin who passed away a few years ago is on this, he later became a very well known comic book artist (Marvel) and video game cover artist (Ocean and Imagine) Alix the main singer / songwriter of the band later went on to become St Che, who only released one album and single but they were produced by Adrian Sherwood so again... Anyway.... Modern Eon - Fiction Tales, their only album. Bought for a few quid 2nd hand and is a remarkably clean copy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 Waiting for something I have or something I know, on this thread. See you in a year or six then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 Purely to put Rob at ease that he does recognise some stuff in here… The 10 year anniversary label sampler from I Ka Ching including the song ‘cont y mor’ which is Welsh for jellyfish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 22, 2023 Moderator Share Posted February 22, 2023 22 hours ago, rjw63 said: Waiting for something I have or something I know, on this thread. See you in a year or six then Get outside your comfort zone, try some of the stuff other people post Anyway I've just finished another Stanley / Wiggs Compilation. Early UK 80s synth groups _ The Tears of Technology. You'll have heard of some of these Rob. The Human League, China Crisis, The Pale Fountains, Soft Cell, OMD.... There's an awful lot of Merseyside stuff on here, which rather surprised me as it doesn't get the credit it deserves for being at the heart of the UK synth groups (and a Flock of Seabats aren't even on here) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 So good they named a whole record label after them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted February 24, 2023 Author Share Posted February 24, 2023 Luis Bacalov - 'La Strega In Amore' OST Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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theboyangel Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Shame - Food For Worms Some great tracks on this - really looking forward to seeing them in a couple of weeks in Bristol, they're a top-notch live act! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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