Flower Travellin' Band - Make Up

Sprawling double Live/Studio set . The live material  has  the  edge .Track one  'All the Days' is a funky Hammond driven thing . Blues work  out 'Shadows of lost Days'  ticks the right boxes .   Yuya Uchida  makes an appearance  for 'Blue Suede Shoes' . .'Look Out My Window' is the pick of the studio tunes. . The  twenty four minute version of  'Hiroshima' is  darkly psychedelic . Right up to the drum solo  . Mixed bag ..  

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1. All the Days (6:38)
2. Make Up (2:53)
3. Look At My Window (10:56)
4. Slowly But Surely (6:06)
5. Shadows of Lost Days (4:44)
6. Broken Strings" (7:19)

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Disc 2

1.Hiroshima (24:49)
2.Blue Suede Shoes (3:55)
3.Satori Pt.2 (9:48)
4 . After the Concert (7:23)

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Gal Costa - Gal

After Caetano Veloso broke out with his solo debut, the self-titled 1968 release recognized as the building block for the now infamous Brazilian Tropicalia movement, his friends and musical peers released similar albums, always upping the ante in terms of outrageousness and inventiveness. This release, the second of two self-titled albums released by Gal Costa in 1969, set the high watermark in terms of overall insanity and complete experimental freedom for the entire lot; not Veloso nor Gilberto Gil, Tom Zé, or even the rambunctious Os Mutantes stepped this far out into psychedelia, and even though Costa had hinted at the noisier aspects she was interested in exploring with her previous release, this album must have shocked listeners when it arrived on the shelves. In fact, 35 years of MPB — or music from anywhere else in the world for that matter — hasn't heard another sonic assault quite like this. Costa is a ball of contradictions here: overtly wild but in control; sweet and accessible, yet brash; and, at times, almost violent as she screams and moans her way through the album while spindly, whiny guitars mix with soulful bass grooves, bombastic drums, exotic horns, woodwinds, and strings. The sonic textures are taken completely over the top with judicious use of delays, reverbs, and various production techniques new and exciting at the time. When taken all together, the listener may not at first notice the high quality of the songwriting for the unreal, emotional freak-outs laced throughout the performances. Costa's crazy improvisations over Caetano Veloso's tune "The Empty Boat" serve as evidence of this delightful impulsiveness when placed side by side with Veloso's own rather forward-thinking recording of the song, which sounds positively conservative by comparison. All in all, Gal Costa is an indescribable, unpredictable, ambitious, and fun record preserving a slice of time when Brazil was at its most controversial state musically and politically and is a must-have for any psychedelic collection. (allmusic)




1. Cinema Olympia Veloso 3:07
2. Tuareg Ben 3:23
3. Cultura E Civilização Gil 4:19
4. País Tropical Ben 3:47
5. Meu Nome É Gal Carlos, Carlos 3:23
6. Com Medo, Com Pedro Gil 3:04
7. The Empty Boat Veloso 4:05
8. Objeto Sim, Objeto Não Gil 5:07
9. Pulsars E Quasars 4:58

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Tim Buckley - Live at the Troubadour 1969

Recorded  at the  beginning of Tim Buckley's moving ( shape shifting )  in the  free- form jazz  direction  of Lorca and Starsailor .. . .    
Excellent live album .

1. Strange Feelin'– 5:40
2. Venice Mating Call – 3:27
3. I Don't Need It To Rain– 11:06
4. I Had A Talk With My Woman – 7:32
5. Gypsy Woman – 14:32
6. Blue Melody– 5:37
7. Chase The Blues Away– 6:19
8. Drifting– 7:56
9. Nobody Walkin' - 16:05

A previously unreleased, recently unearthed recording that catches Tim Buckley at the time he began to incorporate jazz-influenced vocal improvisation and dense, impressionistic lyrics into his recordings. Backed by a small combo, Live at the Troubadour 1969 features loose numbers with bloodcurdling vocal scatting and instrumental jamming. The nine tracks on this 78-minute disc are mostly drawn from his Lorca and Blue Afternoon albums, and include two previously unavailable songs. (allmusic)



Tim Buckley – Guitar, Vocals
Lee Underwood – Guitar
John Balkin – Bass
Carter Collins – Congas
Art Tripp – Drums







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The Electric Flag - The Trip (OST)

Most of  what's on here can be filed under incidental music . I wouldn't mind hearing the full extended versions .

1. Peter's Trip

2. Psyche Soap

3. M-23

4. Synesthesia

5. Hobbit

6. Fewghh

7. Green and Gold

8. Flash, Bam, Pow

9. Home Room

10. Practice Music

11. Fine Jung Thing

12. Senior Citizen

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John Cale Terry Riley - Church of Anthrax

1. Church of Anthrax – 9:05
2. The Hall of Mirrors in the Palace at Versailles – 7:59
3. The Soul of Patrick Lee – 2:49
4. Ides of March – 11:03
5. The Protege" – 2:52

A one-time-only collaboration between former Velvet Underground co-founder John Cale and minimalist composer Terry Riley 1971's Church Of Anthrax doesn't sound too much like the solo work of either. Around this time, Riley's works were along the lines of "A Rainbow in Curved Air" or "Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band": pattern music with an obsessive attention to repetition and tricks with an analogue delay machine that gave his music a refractory, almost hallucinogenic quality. Though Cale was trained in a similar aesthetic (he played with .La Monte Young., surely the most minimal of all minimalist composers), he had largely left it behind by 1971, and so Church Of Anthrax mixes Riley's drones and patterns with a more muscular and melodic bent versed in both free jazz and experimental rock. Not quite modern classical music, but not at all rock & roll either, Church Of Anthrax sounds in retrospect like it was a huge influence on later post-minimalist composers like Andrew Poppy, Wim Mertens and Michael Nyman who mix similar doses of minimalism, rock, and jazz. On its own merits, the album is always interesting, and the centerpiece "The Hall of Mirrors in the Palace at Versailles" is probably the point where Riley and Cale approach each other on the most equal footing. The low point is Cales solo writing credit, "The Soul of Patrick Lee," a slight vocal interlude by Adam Miller that feels out of place in these surroundings. (amg)

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HARMONIA - Musik Von Harmonia

1971 Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Möbius of Cluster move out of Berlin . Relocating to the countryside . A couple of years later  Michael Rother visit's the duo . With the idea of Roedelius and Möbius   joining  Neu! in the live line-up  for an upcoming UK tour . This didn't happen . The formation of  Harmonia , did  . The resulting album  'Musik Von Harmonia'  was released in 1974 .......full review below....

The debut Harmonia album is at once a product of their source bands and a fine new twist on them, resulting in music that captures what for many is the Krautrock ideal, or more accurately, the motorik ideal. It's not Kraftwerk's all-synth, clean, clinical pulse, nor Neu!'s seemingly effortless glide, nor Can's stomping art world funk. Instead it's at once playful and murky, steady and mechanical, a supergroup of sorts who easily achieves and maintains such a seemingly overstated status by embracing a variety of approaches that work wonders. The players bring their usual multi-instrumental roles to the fore, ensuring that the end results achieve their own distinct sound -- this isn't simply Cluster with Rother's assistance or Rother trying for a solo record with Cluster's backing. For all that, there's a touch more Cluster in the end -- the spacier parts on Musik Von Harmonia have that duo's hushed chill, the electronic percussion of Rother meanwhile avoids his familiar crisp punch using real drums in Neu! outside of the perky "Dino." "Ohrwurm," meanwhile, has a strung-out guitar grind nicely offset by a far more restrained wail in the background, further backed by delicate keyboards and tones. When it comes to pure drift, the wonderful "Sehr Kosmisch" is the understandable winner, a nearly 11-minute-long piece that undeniably had to have been part of the attraction for Brian Eno in his later work with the band. A piano piece reminiscent of Eno collaborator Harold Budd drifts up and down through the mix of keyboard shimmers and electronic washes, resulting in a piece at once both meditative and gently rhythmic. Other songs, like "Veterano" and "Watussi," suggest the electro-pop approach, which Kraftwerk inadvertently founded, but with their own quirky edge, rhythmic distortion, and guitar parts playing with the expected formula. (amg)

1.Watussi– 6:00
2.Sehr Kosmisch – 10:50
3.Sonnenschein – 3:50
4.Dino – 3:30
5.Ohrwurm – 5:05
6.Ahoi! – 5:00
7.Veterano – 3:55
8.Hausmusik – 4:30
 



Michael Rother – guitar, piano, organ, electric percussion
Hans-Joachim Roedelius – organ, piano, guitar, electric percussion
Dieter Moebius – synthesizer, guitar, electric percussion

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Talk Talk - London 1986

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Sublime live album..

1 Tomorrow Started - 7:51
2 Life Is What You Make It - 4:31
3 Does Caroline Know? - 7:36
4 Living In Another World - 7:05
5 Give It Up - 5:55
6 It's My Life - 6:29
7 Such A Shame -9:01
8 Renée -7:45

Vocals - Mark Hollis
Guitar, Vocals - David Rhodes
Bass, Vocals - Paul Webb
Drums - Lee Harris
Harmonica - Mark Feltham
Piano - Rupert Black
Keyboards - Ian Curnow
Percussion - Danny Cummins , Phil Reis

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Cooler than the Cold War . Post Punk Sampler 1/2

 This is not a complete overview of every indie band, record, song or label in the 1980s nor is it trying to be. It is simply a collection of bands that I feel helped to define the huge variety of music that came up independently during that decade. I consciously avoided quite a few bands that would now fall under the “indie pop”/“jangly” genre simply because for many people that’s what is assumed to constitute 80s independent music thanks in part to the myths of c86 and various compilations since.
It was a conscious effort to choose music that was often more discordant and noisy than one would expect because I want to put a stop to the myth that Americans were the clear conquerors of that end of the market throughout the decade. In reality it was pretty even.
I also skipped some bands that for many would feel were key to the decade (McCarthy, Close Lobsters, The Mighty Lemon Drops etc.) either because I’m not particularly fond of the bands or couldn’t find a way to fit them, which is very important to the nature of this compilation, i.e. get irritated by my selection and do one yourself because there are literally hundreds of other bands to choose from.  (JH)




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1. Get Up And Use Me - Fire Engines

2. Can’t Cheat Karma -Zounds

3. Try - Delta 5

4. Adeste Fideles - The Monochrome Set

5. Agent Orange - Ski Patrol

6. Double Dare - Bahaus

7. Final Day -Young Marble Giants

8. Blue Boy -Orange Juice

9. Faith - Manicured Noise

10. It's Kinda Funny - Josef K

11. Go For Gold - Girls At Our Best

12. Honey -Marine Girls 

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1. The Purges - Transmitters

2. SPQR -This Heat

3. Love Song - Au Pairs

4. Cathedral - Felt

5.  Sun Connection - Blue Orchids

6. Look, Know - The Fall

7. Moya- Southern Death Cult

8. Astral Glammer - The Homosexuals

9. Radio Love - Prefab Sprout

10.Love At First Site - The Gist

11. The Revolutionary Spirit - The Wild Swans

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Post Punk Sampler 3/4

3.

1. Hand In Glove - The Smiths

2. ¼ Dead - Rudimentary Peni

3. Cakehole - Nightingales

4. Lost Outside The Tunnel - Aztec Camera

5. Don’t Play A Rainy Night In Georgia - TWA Toots

6. No Songs Tomorrow - UV PØP

7. Lorelei  -  Cocteau Twins

8. Sheep Farming In The Falklands - Crass

9 Fire Pits - The Three Johns

10.  In - Flux   - Bourbonese  Qualk

11.  1901 - Yeah Yeah Noh

12 . Sleepless - Microdisney

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4.

1. Spike Milligan’s Tape Recorder - The Membranes

2. Upside Down - Jesus and Mary Chain

3. Excessive - Pigbros

4. I’m So Glad I Found You - Paradise Now

5. Everlasting Yeah! -  Age Of Chance

6. Go Out And Get ‘Em Boy! - The Wedding Present

7. Comfort - The June Brides

8.  Shadow  Figure- Marc Riley With The Creepers

9.  Singing in Braille - Five Go Down To The Sea ?

10. Back To Vietnam - Television Personalities

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Post Punk Sampler 5/6

5.

1. Working Nights - Camberwell Now

2. Journey Of An Airman - The Blue Aeroplanes

3. Really Stupid - The Primitives

4. God Gave Us Life - Half Man Half Bscuit 

5. This Damm Nation - The Godfathers

6. X Powerix - Big Flame 

7. Splashing Away - Jessie Garon and The Desperadoes

8. Wall Star - Janitors
9.  -When You're Sad AR Kane

10. Therese - The Bodines

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I .The Lines Are Down - Bad Tune Men

2. The Loudhater Song - A Witness

3. Round And Round - Hurrah

4. What's So Funny - The Turncoats

5. Sharp - Twang 

6. Looking Back - Shop Assistants

7. 3000 Hurts - The Atom Spies

8. Balloon Girl - Dog Face Hermans 

9. Tupperware Stripper - Stump

10. Pristine Christine - The Sea Urchins

11 .Get out of My Dream - Clouds

12 . Lady Chatterly's Habit - Sperm Wails

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Post Punk Sampler 7/8

7.

1. Excellent Girl - Bogshed

2. Rotting Honeymoon - Noseflute

3. Blackmailer - The Shrubs

4. New Breed - Mackenzies

5. Preposterous Tales - L ludicrous

6. Kick Me Again Jesus - A House

7. Land Of Ming - Stretcheads

8. New Right Wing -  Jackdaw With Crowbar

9.  Your Feet Never Touch The Ground - The Brilliant Corners

10. Tony Hadley - Peruvian Hipsters

11.  On Tape - Pooh Sticks

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1. Fat Lady Wrestlers - The Happy Mondays

2. You Don't Know - Rote Kapelle

3. Destroy The Heart - House Of Love

4. Nothing To Loose - My Bloody Valentine

5. Gwlad Ar Fy Nghefn - Datblygu

6. Non-Specific Song - The Wolfhounds

7 Breakbone - Death By Milkfloat

8.Yield - A C Temple

9. The Wicker Man - Ffaps

10 . Grease Your  Ralph - The Abs

11. Doppelganger - Dawson

12.  Slushy - The Vaselines

13 . Wince - Beethoven

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