Traveling Around The World Through Thrift Store Finds

The listed album is an alternative for Bob Wills – The King Of Swing http://www.discogs.com/release/9000687-Bob-Wills-The-King-Of-Swing

The listed album is an alternative for Şivan Perwer – Min Bêriya Te Kiriye (http://www.discogs.com/release/7104762)

Quite a mixed bag. Some real great tracks and some just ok stuff. The good stuff is mostly instrumental and is really good

This doesn't do a lot for me. Pretty average.

I don't like the cover art and I think it's a silly bandname but it's on the Trouble In Mind label. So, why not give it a try. Well lucky I did because this is a real nice and cool psych pop album. I get a Silver Apples / Yo La Tengo vibe and that's always a good thing.

Some covers are so terribly kitsch, macho and plain ugly (but it does suit the album title)......it makes you curious what he was thinking and is the music any good? Well, yes. It's a great acoustic old timey banjo country folk album recorded in 2020.

CD on Thrill Jockey 2021

"Listed as one of the 100 essential Latin Recordings by Rough Guide books, Paranda is a rare gem.

Paranda is both a Garifuna rhythm and a genre of music. The basic rhythm can be heard in Garifuna traditional drumming styles that date all the way back to St. Vincent and West Africa. Paranda became a genre itself in the 19th century, shortly after the Garifuna arrived in Honduras. It was there where they first encountered Latin music, and incorperated the acoustic guitar and a touch of Latin and Spanish rythms into the music. Paranda reached its promenance in the early part of the 20th century and has changed little since. Its instrumentation is totally acoustic: Large wooden Garifuna drums (called Primero and Segunda), shakers, Scrapers, Turtle Shell percussion, and acoustic guitar." (from the Bandcamp release page)

More beautiful exciting sounds from the remarkable Glitterbeat / Tak:til label. A great haunting album from this Belgian violinist, altviolist, composer and actress.

"Eldorado. People believed it was the city of gold. A fable, a legend that pushed the conquistadors further and further across a continent in search of riches. A myth. A grail. Eldorado was all of those things and more. Over the centuries it’s become a word weighted down by so many meanings, layer upon layer of possibility and expectation. But it can also be a place to find hope and solace and discover dreams. That’s the music of this Eldorado, the second solo album from Catherine Graindorge.

Like a series of secret paths, the music of Eldorado takes curious twists and turns, ranging from stillness to frustration. Things aren’t quite as they seem; even the violin is disguised, shapeshifted by electronics, so the only certainty and continuity are the emotions Graindorge expresses.

It’s intensely personal, a record brimming with tales and reminiscences, like “Rosalie,” a track she composed after reading of the death of a Rwandan woman in Belgium. Rosalie had come to Belgium with her husband to escape the genocide in her homeland in 1994, and Graindorge’s lawyer father had befriended her.

“They built their life here and had two children. Most of Rosalie’s family had been murdered, and in her home village the remains of her family's bodies were finally found in 2019. She left with her daughter and husband to offer them a burial and a ceremony. Three days after her return to Belgium, her heart stopped. She was 51 years old.” (from the Bandcamp release page)

Sometimes you are just flabbergasted when you hear something. And this cd from the Korean duo dal:um is one of those albums. Ha Suyean & Hwang Hyeyoung play the traditional instruments the "Gayageum" and the "Geomungo". And what I understand they improvise and play freely modern and self composed composition with a great sense of tradition. Truly mesmerising.

"The two women met in Seoul Metropolitan Youth Traditional Music Ensemble but formed dal:um to explore modern musical impulses." "Each tune is chameleonic. Moods are established then swiftly evolved. Mid-song moments of quiet are embraced as transitions." (Songlines August/September 2021)

‘Agor’ is the Welsh word for open and it’s an apt name for a recording which exists at sensory thresholds, straddling the various worlds of dance, ambient and contemporary classical while not sounding like an example of any of them. (from the Bandcamp release page)

cd on Matador 2021

cd on New West Records 2021

cd on Bureau B 2021

The listed album is an alternative for Dion Nijland – I Play Me (Improvisations & Compositions - Solo Double Bass) cd on TryTone 2021

"I PLAY ME is a project for solo double bass conceptualized and performed by Dion Nijland. In 19 mainly improvised and a few composed pieces, he shows what musical self exploration can bring. As a double bass player, participating in many Dutch jazz and improvising groups, musical interaction has always been the key element in Dion’s musical behaviour. But how would a recording sound when interaction takes place with no one else but…himself?

Over the years Dion gathered many ideas that he could use when he would be ‘on his own’. Finally, he went into the studio and recorded 19 solo pieces. ‘When I play there is sound, energy, chaos, silence. When I play there is me"(from TryTone release page http://www.trytone.org/inicio/78-i-play-me.html)

Album Trailer:

http://youtu.be/ACl6duDXaa4

This one hits a lot of right notes in my soul. cd on Blue Note 2006

Bass – John Hebert, Drums – Eric McPherson, Piano – Andrew Hill, Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet – Greg Tardy, Trumpet – Charles Tolliver

"With help from engineer Hans Bernhard, the band wired every corner of Sarah Neufeld’s (Violin, vocals) multi-story rural Vermont house. She and the mini orchestra’s other five members — Pietro Amato: French horn, keyboards, electronics; Michael Feuerstack: Pedal steel guitar, keyboards, vocals; Kaveh Nabatian: Trumpet, gongoma, keyboards, vocals; Richard Reed Parry: Bass, vocals; and Stefan Schneider: Drums — assigned themselves to different rooms. They spent two weeks together in camaraderie, creation, and focused isolation to record their improvised sessions every day, but ultimately structured a 45-minute album out of a one hour-and-a-half long improvisation." (from the Bandcamp release page)

cd reissue on Blue Note 2007

Alto Saxophone – Jackie McLean, Bass – Scotty Holt, Drums – Billy Higgins, Piano – LaMont Johnson, Recorded By, Remastered By [2006] – Rudy Van Gelder, Trumpet – Ornette Coleman

Recorded on November 7 & 14, 1969 at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

Bass – Ron Carter, Drums – Lenny White, French Horn – Bob Northern, Piano, Composed By – Andrew Hill, Recorded By – Rudy Van Gelder, Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Alto Flute, Bass Clarinet, English Horn – Joe Farrell, Trombone – Julian Priester, Trumpet – Dizzy Reece, Woody Shaw, Tuba, Bass Clarinet – Howard Johnson

"Most of the tracks on this album were recorded with a basic stereo (2-track) cassette recorder. The studio set-up looked more or less like this: a drum computer (no Midi) and a sequencer were connected to each other and synchronized rhythmically. I crafted melodic sequences and rhythms and usually transposed them to the desired pitch manually, using the keyboards. Other live instruments were played over the top. Then everything, the sum of all the sound sources, was put together in a kind of "live recording" with the aid of a mixing desk. Just a single mistake would mean having to start all over again. Reconfiguring many of the sounds once the controls had already been adjuste was a painstaking process. I ended up with heaps of cassettes, often featuring seemingly endless versions and variations of the same track. Demo Tapes 1984-86 by Heiko Maile includes a selection from his beginnings of electronic music and the bizarre sonic worlds he inhabited." (from Bandcamp release page)

The listed album is an alternative for James Carter Quartet – Jurassic Classics cd on Columbia DIW 1995 http://youtu.be/zTDHhwzp7Q8 http://youtu.be/_9DXKi_wWY0 http://youtu.be/QXQch5w70Do

Acoustic Bass – John Patitucci
Drums – Lewis Nash
Piano – James Williams
Soprano Saxophone – Steve Wilson 
Tenor Saxophone – Bob Berg, James Carter 
Vocals, Piano – Karrin Allyson

Recorded live at Birdland, NYC, January 24-26, 2002.

Alto Saxophone, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Flute – Marty Ehrlich, Alto Saxophone, Flute – John Savage, Baritone Saxophone, Bass Clarinet – J. D. Parron, Bass – Scott Colley, Drums – Nasheet Waits, Piano – Andrew Hill, Tenor Saxophone – Aaron Stewart, Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet – Greg Tardy, Trombone – Charlie Gordon, Joe Fiedler, Mike Fahn, Trumpet – Bruce Staalens, Dave Balou, Laurie Frinck, Ron Horton, Tuba – Jose D'Avila

Recorded March 28, 2009 during Discover Us! at Kino Babylon, Berlin.
Alto Saxophone – Kidd Jordan
Baritone Saxophone, Clarinet – Hamiet Bluiett
Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet – David Murray
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – James Carter 

This album got a lot of mwah and other shit. So, I didn't expect much but I was always curious. When I found it in a thrift store I thought ahhhh why not. And.........? It's actually a real fun record. Definitely not perfect but life never is so let's enjoy the fun parts.....and skip all the boring parts.....and you have a great Mini LP to party with.

The listed album is an alternative for the Chuck Berry – Two Dozen Berrys cd on Vogue 1986 (http://www.discogs.com/release/6254790-Chuck-Berry-Two-Dozen-Berrys)

"This is a recording of the first performance of Harry Partch's dance-satire, The Bewitched, which took place at the University of Illinois' Champaign-Urbana campus in 1957. The performance featured musical instruments designed and built by the composer and played by members of the University of Illinois Musical Ensemble. This recording was originally released on Partch's own label, Gate 5." (from cd liner-notes)

This is an alternative album listing. I found the compilation cd called "Gene Autry – The Singing Cowboy" on Complete Country 2011. "From the early 1930's on, Gene Autry gained fame as a singing cowboy on the radio, in movies, and on television. A member of both the Country Music Hall of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Autry made 640 recordings, including over 300 songs written or co-written by himself. His records sold more than 100 million copies and he has more than a dozen gold and platinum records, including the first record ever certified gold. From 1934 to 1953, excluding 1943–45 while he served in the United States Army Air Corps., Autry appeared in 93 films and 91 episodes of The Gene Autry Show television series. He was also the original owner of Challenge Records, with other business ventures including ownership of a television station, several radio stations in Southern California, & the Los Angeles Angels Major League Baseball team from 1961 to 1997 (aka the California Angels / the Anaheim Angels). [Born]: September 29, 1907, Tioga, Texas [Died]: October 2, 1998, Studio City, California"

"Ahmet Özhan, born August 26, 1950, is a prominent Turkish classic music singer, conductor, and actor." Wonderful discovery. Great music all around.

A record soo good I accidentally bought it twice. Now I can play it and grab another cd and play it again...... Joepie Joepie Jeej 🤓

An American country music singer with 146 songs on the country charts (including 28 number one hits), Arnold ranks among the most popular country singers in U.S. history. He has sold over 85 million records, making him one of the most successful artists of the 20th century.

Wow just 2 songs in.......this is great. The wonderful Maria Muldaur backed by a New Orleans, Louisiana all-star band in a super session. Did anyone mention Dr. John? Neville Brothers? and then some......

I found the cd reissue "Mr. New Orleans" in the Groove Masters series from Charly Groove released in 1994. It's the same album as listed here without track 7 "Poor Folks". It was also released as the "Toussaint" LP in 1970 by Scepter Records and as "From A Whisper To A Scream" by Kent Records in 1985 and then some

Egyptian singer and composer Mohamed Abdel Wahab (born in 1907, died on May 3, 1991) is considered as one of the four "greats" of Arab music, along with Oum Kalthoum, Farid El Atrache, and Abdel Halim Hafez. The Colours From Abdel Wahab Melodies compilation cd on the Voice Of Lebanon label from 1993 is kinda like a tribute cd. The first track is by the master himself and the rest are versions done by other artists. The correct artists track list can be found here: http://www.discogs.com/release/13595436

Tipica 73 – Charanga! compilation cd on Charly Latin 1994 Killer Latin. Most tracks from "Charangueando Con La Tipica 73" minus track 1 Plus a couple of tracks from the "En Cuba - Intercambio Cultural" LP (http://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k1YEFydaytbiOqdwm0A4mBxn4nVyEKyOs)

This is an alternative album listing. I found the compilation cd called "Dunya Super Chark" on Music Star from 2002 in a thrift store. A fun Arabic Pop compilation. The second track on the Dunya Super Chark cd is track 9 from the Diana Haddad album linked here. See for the complete listing of artists on the "Dunya Super Chark" cd the discogs release page here: http://www.discogs.com/release/31570102-Various-Dunya-Super-Chark-Vol-1 2 other cool songs on the Dunya Super Chark Comp: http://youtu.be/UaWyWb88RhY http://youtu.be/GSbqWSZTvJ0

Mucha sentimentales musicales de las Rancheras....

Alternative listing for the Selections Of Zheng Music compilation album I found.......

http://www.discogs.com/release/31415318

Bolivian huayno singer and charango player. One of the founding members of Los De Uncia, before pursuing a solo career.

It's the lovely girls ..... Bob Bert, Jack Martin, Kid Congo Powers, Barry London and my all-time hero Jerry Teel

cd on Complete Country from 2011.

Once upon a time Santana was this totally amazing band........this album was recorded Live At Osaka Koseinenkin Hall, Japan, July 3 & 4, 1973. It kicks off with an almost 18+ minutes free fusion funk latin rock jam in Going Home, A-1 Funk & Every Step Of The Way that would make electric seventies Miles proud and it just keeps on giving.......

cd reissue on Columbia / Legacy 1998

First released in 1971

Here are the full versions: http://youtu.be/QB9wEDqRtoU http://youtu.be/rXgjdU5FFSo

Alternative listing for the N. Rajam – Maestro's Choice album I found.......

http://www.discogs.com/release/9294366

Alternative listing for the Indradeep Gosh & Pandit Kumar Bose – Flames (The Passion of Indian Raga) cd on India Beat 2008 album I found... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxF8HNy0hd4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reurMVeVysQ

From Belgium with love.........

Loretta Lynn''s tribute to Patsy Cline......... what's not to love

Bloedmooi......

Out of tune with a lot of passion and determination....when you think you heard it all.

Very much a product of the eighties but Johnny Clegg was also a major force in the South African anti-apartheid struggle.....so it's nice to give this pop take on South African Music a spin.....

"This album has been designed specifically for extended states of deep uninterrupted meditation, and related applications, such as massage & body-work, centering, or inducing an aura of peace, calm, and sacredness." So you know....

You know.....

Compilation of singles and BBC sessions stuff.........

I'm a sucker for cool Raï and Cheb Mami is one of the best

Classic Jazz Stuff from these giants

Not their best album but still really great from the mighty Stetsasonic posse. This was their last album until they came back together for the Here We Go Again 2024 album but without Prince Paul I don't know about that last one......still gotta check it probably

Psychedelic Folk Band from Lima, Peru is considered by themselves as Enigmatic Music, full of acoustic instruments, experiments with rare instruments, toys or whatever else....again great stuff

Berlin-based quintet play a mix of North African rhythms and modes, live jazz musicianship and analogue synths that's reminiscent of electronic African pioneers like William Onyeabor and Manu Dibango as much as modern ensembles like The Heliocentrics. Great cross culture stuff....

Dutch jazz bandleader, composer, arranger and reeds player, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 4 November 1944 - died 23 July 2010. He was co-founder of the ICP (Instant Composers Pool), and since 1974 he has led the Willem Breuker Kollektief, which performs jazz in a theatrical and often unconventional manner. In 1974 he also founded the Dutch label BV Haast Records. A true dutch avant-garde legend.

Harmonium player and vocalist from India. Songs From Bihar, Uttar Pradesh And Surinam

Alternative listing for the Mohammed Rafi – Sings For Dharmendra (https://www.discogs.com/release/13561134) cd I found...

Abed Azrié (born 1945 in Aleppo) is a Syrian composer and singer residing in France. This was quite a discovery thanks to this http://www.discogs.com/release/4133385 cd

The always fantastic Celia Cruz with Sonora Matancera. Album first released in 1956. I found a cool cd reissue from 1990.

Alternative listing for the Yello – 1980 - 1985 The New Mix In One Go (https://www.discogs.com/master/18478) album I found...

Alternative listing for the Vujicsics – Samo Sviraj (https://www.discogs.com/master/2454979) album I found...

Compilation cd from this Danish Rock Band

Alternative listing for the Famoudou Konaté & Thomas Ott – Rhythms And Songs From Guinea (http://www.discogs.com/release/13273781) album I found...

Great Klezmer cd on the Dutch Syncoop Produkties Label from 1996

Track one of this album is on the Soukouss Dynamite Compilation Cassette (http://www.discogs.com/release/20344666), from 1997 on Sonodisc, I found in a thrift store.........

Lilia Vera (born October 19, 1951) is a Venezuelan folk singer, whose contemporary folk music range is inspired by traditional Venezuelan genres and songs of protest or social justice. Pablo Milanés is a Cuban singer and composer born in Bayamo, Cuba, February 24, 1943. Died November 21, 2022, in Madrid, Spain. He started with groups like Cuarteto del Rey and Los Bucaneros and then worked as a soloist.

http://www.discogs.com/release/14206959

Аквариум (in English: Aquarium or Akvarium) is a Russian rock group, formed in Leningrad in 1972 by Boris Grebenshchikov, then a student of Applied Mathematics at Leningrad State University, and Anatoly (George) Gunitsky, then a playwright and absurdist poet.

http://www.discogs.com/release/6478016