Wat zullen we nu weer eens draaien......

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"That is why, brother, I became a madcap Baul, No master I obey, nor injunctions canons or customs. Man-made distinctions have no hold on me now. I rejoice in the gladness of the love that wells out of my own being. In love there is no separation, but a meeting of hearts forever. So I rejoice in song and I dance with each and all. That is why, brother, I became a madcap Baul" (Bauls philosophy in a song by Narahari Baul)

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"Sound On Stone is an act of love comparable to Alice Coltrane’s completion of tracks she and John had worked on together before his death. The results are profoundly moving, full of beauty and surprise." - Stewart Smith. THE WIRE

31-10-2024

If someone would ask me "What is the sound of loneliness?". This might be a very good answer.......

28-10-2024

"When KMRU relocated to Berlin from Nairobi, he was immediately fascinated by the German capital's relative silence. Back home, he was surrounded by sound: the omnipresent churr of birds and insects, the chatter of passers-by, and the electrical smog belched out by criss-crossing power lines and roaring transformers. In Berlin, this noise was muzzled; pedestrians wandered the streets with headphones in, barely communicating, while electrical cables were hidden away underground, and wildlife retreated from the imposing, concrete jungle. KMRU compares this observation with his visual experiences. Acclimatizing to life in Western Europe, he realized that night, a dusky blue-black lit up by streetlights and shops, offered little contrast with day. Nighttime in Kenya felt more tangible, somehow. After 6PM, when the sun sets, even the dim glow of a screen can dazzle the eyes, which must quickly adapt to the conditions. And as anyone who's closed their eyes while listening to music will know, the ears also adjust when visibility is impaired, enhancing even the tiniest sounds. So KMRU used this phenomenon to inform 'Natur', a billowing long-form narrative that blurs the audible spectrum with an imperceptible sonic universe, contrasting cacophonous electromagnetic soundscapes with more familiar and grounding natural sounds." (bandcamp info)

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The listed album is an alternative for http://www.discogs.com/release/6907124-Raghunath-Seth-Mystic-Flutes-Eternal-Flute

2?-10-2024 & 27-10-2024

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15-10-2024

"CIRCLE OF WHISPERS is a sequence of 13 separate and contrasting songs, performed by various small groups drawn from the JTMA Ensemble, plus some guest musicians. Each song details a character / situation whose presence is hinted at in the companion disc. For the first time on a JTMA record, instrumental composer credits on a number of tracks go to Laura Cole and to Nick Robinson. The result is a powerful and often intensely beautiful record.

By contrast ILLUSION SUITE, although split into 7 tracks, is a single piece of music which runs without break for 75 minutes. The music is structured like a DJ mix - with elements appearing, reappearing, and transforming throughout. Extensive use of chance procedures was made in arriving at the finished form of the electronic music which forms the base layer of the piece, over which we hear both the ensemble in full throttle and Julie’s complex vocal arrangements. Occasionally the music reaches passages of great – almost overwhelming - density, and periodically the 140 bpm rhythms collapse into abstraction." (Bandcamp release page)

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Captured and constructed from tape loops at Studio One Radio Novi Sad, December 1988-January 1989, Published by Staalplaat Amsterdam in 1990.

At the beginning is Death.

(verkocht)

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11-10-2024

Perfect dreamy doomy acoustic psych folk to gently drift into the weekend with …….wonderful stuff!

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7-10-2024

Totally mesmerizing album. Mandekalou is a Mandingo supergroup created by Senegalese producer Ibrahima Sylla including the amazing talents of Kasse Mady Diabaté, Sékouba ‘Bambino’ Diabaté, Mama Sissoko, Kandia Kouyaté, Djelimady Tounkara, Djessou Mory Kanté (not to be confused with the other Mory Kanté), Mamadou Diabaté and many other. A true African Griot masterpiece. Hearing is believing.

https://open.qobuz.com/album/joiacxznhgwyc

06-10-2024

The listed album is an alternative for the Imaginational Anthem Volume Three cd. The last album in the listed 3cd box.

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06-10-2024

The listed album is an alternative for the Huaynos & Huaylas: The Real Music Of Peru Compilation CD Globe Style 1991 http://youtu.be/JeK3kB00OkI

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05-10-2024

The listed album is an alternative for the Zoppo – Les Aumonts CD on Transformed Dreams 2001 http://youtu.be/WSx_Y4GM8Ew

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04-10-2024

The listed album is an alternative for the Mohammed Rafi – Memorable Duets Of Mohd. Rafi cd (http://www.discogs.com/release/21040756-Mohammed-Rafi-Memorable-Duets-Of-Mohd-Rafi)

04-10-2024

The listed album is an alternative for the Orbestra – Transdanubian Swineherds cd (http://www.discogs.com/release/2847579-Orbestra-Transdanubian-Swineherds)

04-10-2024

04-10-2024

"The guitarist Mose ‘Fan Fan’ began playing with the late ‘Franco’ Luambo Makiadi in Zaire in the 1960s. During more than a decade alongside Franco in Kinshasa’s top dance band, OK Jazz, he played on some of the greatest Congolese rumba (later known as soukous) recordings ever made. Then in 1974 he left Kinshasa for East Africa to form the band Somo Somo and a decade later relocated to London, where the unstable politics of Zaire have kept him ever since. With OK Jazz he was noted for adding a rockier element to the mix, but here, as the title suggests, the approach is totally acoustic, stripping down the soukous sound to its essential core. The result is an unqualified delight, relaxed yet intricate as Fan Fan builds complex rhythmic patterns of subtly shifting rumba grooves with his interlocking guitars. His own melodic voice, singing in both Lingala and Swahili, is complemented by the sweet female lead of Deesse, and the rich tapestry is completed by melodica, accordion, understated saxophone and, on one track, a Zimbabwean mbira ‘thumb piano'.

Many of the lyrics deal with the pain of exile and the problems of Zaire, while ‘Lwambo’ is a moving tribute to the great Franco, who died ten years ago this October. The production is ringingly sympathetic and the overall effect warm, mesmeric and irresistibly seductive." (Songlines Summer/Autumn 1999 Nigel Williamson)

04-10-2024

"Frozen Brass was a research project of Rob Boonzajer Flaes at the Center for Visual Anthropology of the University of Amsterdam. Up to now a surprisingly large number of popular brass bands were found in countries like Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Surinam, Mexico, Samoa, Fiji, Philippines, Indonesia, India, Nepal, Ghana, Ivory Coast, South Africa, Malawi, Kenya, and Tanzania. In many cases PAN Records' co-operators were the first researchers ever to document this kind of music, thus gathering a unique body of research data and visual material. This CD contains brass bands from Nepal, India, Sumatra, Central Java, West Java, Moluccas (unique historical recordings), Minahassa, Philippines." (Pan Records Catalogue)

04-10-2024

"The Minangkabau of West Sumatra have one of the richest traditions of performing arts to be found in Indonesia. With only one or two singers and a single accompanying instrument (flute or bowed lute), this is highly intimate chamber music. These recordings, made in West Sumatra in 1992, focus on three distinct genres: saluang (flute and voice), rabab Pariaman (voice and lute), and dendang Pauah (excerpts from a long performance for flute and voice)." (liner notes from the booklet)

04-10-2024

"Gambang Kromong comes from a virtually invisible part of the capital of Indonesia, one that most people have forgotten. Today, both performers and audience for this music live at the edges of Jakarta and in the towns and semi-rural areas beyond. The music is wonderfully disorienting. It combines Indonesian, Chinese, and sometimes European-derived instruments in music that at times is reminiscent of gamelan music and at other times recalls small-group jazz of the 1920s and 1930s." (liner notes from the booklet)

You can download the full booklet here: https://folkways-media.si.edu/docs/folkways/artwork/SFW40057.pdf

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"Set against the vibrant backdrop of La Réunion, this album embodies the soulful essence of maloya music, transporting listeners to the heart of the island's cultural heritage.

Crafted in the quaint village of Bois Rouge, where Danyèl Waro meticulously handcrafts his traditional instruments, "Bwarouz" resonates with the rhythm of life on the island. The kayanm, bob, and roulér, indispensable to the maloya genre, weave a rich tapestry of sound that captures the spirit of La Réunion." (Bandcamp release page)

03-10-2024

John Butcher (2024) "Fluid Fixations places 14 highly individual players into a framework built from instructions that direct ever-shifting groupings, materials and relationships. Overall, the piece was informed by what I think of as psychological orchestration – imagining how specific people might respond to particular ideas, and to the sonic company they find themselves a part of. In places the sound world incorporates saxophone recordings cut earlier to vinyl by dieb13. His improvising with them – for example; the mouth sounds in pt 2 (with Isabelle Duthois’ voice) and the feedback-saxophone in pt 6 (with Aleks Kolkowski’s musical saw) – tangibly changing the fixed into the flowing. Some sections use photographic imagery, mostly drawn from nature, to suggest spaces where the musicians can step away from the score to create their own worlds. Specified solos, duos and small groupings were woven into the piece, but my aim for much of the time was to engage the entire ensemble in a multifaceted group music. One whose internal workings both reflect and refract these musicians’ very unique energies."

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01-10-2024

"Hommage a Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan"

In 1998 the German “Network Medien” label released this fantastic tribute to one of the greatest voices ever to be heard on this Earth. It start with 14:28 minutes of Nusrat magic and then it dives deep into the spiritual sufi world. Perfect for everyone that just discovered Qawwali music thanks to the recently found and released Nusrat recordings on Real World Records

http://open.qobuz.com/album/0785965992125

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“Highlife Safari” is a great highlife classic originally released in 1979. In 1992 the quality label Stern's Africa from the UK reissued it on cd.

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"A year after Galaxie 500 dissolved, Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang returned to Galaxie producer Kramer’s studio and recorded this album of psychedelic break-up songs." (info on band website)

30-09-2024

"Soundtrack of a documentary film about Malian guitarist-singer-songwriter Boubacar 'Kar Kar' Traore. With his sparse, acoustic, blue and melancholic style, Traore was a star of 60s Malian music, who quit professional performance only to be re-discovered in 1987. Je Chanterai Pour Toi is an intimate collection of his best-known songs, performed impromptu, and his guitar and voice are inspirational to say the least. Although primarily a solo performer, Traore is joined on some songs by either kora (harplute), calabash, balafon (xylophone) or that other inspirational master of the African blues, Ali Farka Toure. A bonus, too, is the inclusion of a live version of Kar Kar’s ‘Sa Golo’, performed with Rokia Traore and her group, plus two of his 1963 songs recorded at Radio Mali. If you've heard any of Traore’s five previous CD releases, you’ll need little encouragement to investigate this. It's a powerful, intimate and moving experience." (Martin Sinnock, Songlines March/April 2003)

30-09-2024

NOTES ON W/M/P/P/R/R FROM RICK BROWN

"I feel very lucky to have wound up playing in 75 Dollar Bill with Che. I’ll take some credit for the early setup, as I pursued the idea of us jamming together for a few years before we actually made some music together. But when it comes to focusing our sound, putting together a good set- list, imagining how to expand the group with guests and designing almost all of the visual/package aspects, Che has taken the lead. Obviously, he is responsible for his own parts and playing and his interest in the Arabic modes of Mauritanian music has marked our sound quite a bit but I have brought some things, too. The plywood crate I play is a big factor, defining, by its positive qualities (a nice warm “boom” sound) as well as by its simplicity, what we’re likely to do in the percussion realm.

WMPPRR, this new record, differs quite a bit from the previous one, notably in the rhythmic “tone.” Wooden Bag (released in 2015 on Other Music Recording Co.) was all forward momentum, stomping and shaking, but the new record explores a long-standing interest of mine: odd and “compound” meters. In most of my previous musical activities, I’ve convinced my partners to delve into this, but in 75 Dollar Bill it has just felt natural and I believe Che’s modal investigations and melodic/harmonic tendencies enhance (and are enhanced by) this combination.

The current record differs from the last in another big way: reinforcements! Over our few years together, Che and I have frequently had friends play with us at some of our gigs. There have been all sorts of permutations of instruments and some great friends/players who don’t all appear on this record but here we are lucky to have a bunch of them: Cheryl Kingan (of The Scene Is Now) on baritone and alto saxes, Andrew Lafkas (of Todd Capp’s Mystery Train) on contrabass, Karen Waltuch (of Zeke & Karen) on viola, Rolyn Hu (of True Primes) on trumpet and Carey Balch (of Knoxville’s Give Thanks) on floor tom. 75 Dollar Bill’s plans for the future involve much more playing with these friends and others in bigger and smaller combos – as well as me and Che stripped back to the core guitar and crate duo."

30-09-2024

The listed album is an alternative for the Lobi Traoré – Mali Blue cd on DixieFrog Records 2004 (http://www.discogs.com/release/4227220)

"This compilation brings together 14 of the best tracks from those recordings, revealing the guitarist to be the most potent, funkiest, down-and-dirtiest African bluesman of them all." (Somglines August/September 2024 Hidden Treasures) "1961-2010 Lobi Traoré came from a quite different tradition of Malian music to the trained caste of griots, raised from birth to become storytellers and musicians. Lobi was pure ‘street’ – a working-class singer and guitarist who scuffled for gigs in the bars of Bamako, an African counterpart to the itinerant bluesmen in the juke joints of pre-war Mississippi or on the streets of Memphis. It was a quality reflected in his music, a raw and dirty sound. Born in the village of Bakaridianna, on the Niger River close to Ségou, he moved to Bamako in the 80s and joined the Djata Band prior to launching a solo career. His debut album Bambara Blues appeared in 1991 before he came to the attention of a wider international audience on his 1994 album Bamako, produced by Ali Farka Touré. He released a number of other albums steeped in his own unique, grittily blue-collar take on the Bambara blues." (Songlines August/September 2010 Obituaries)

30-09-2024

"I Was Real. The album, its title’s origin a jumbled misremembering of the lesser-known Motown song “He Was Really Saying Something”, is 75 Dollar Bill’s third, featuring new directions accompanying the band’s previously established interest in sprawling, unusual grooves and microtonal melodies. The record is enhanced by the presence of eight additional players in various combinations over its nine tracks – but also shows off the duo’s strength when stripped down to the core. Requiring a variety of approaches, the album was recorded over a four-year period, in four different studios, with the band’s closest associates and collaborators in a range of different ensemble configurations. The album also features several “studio as instrument” constructions that harken back to the collage-experiments of the band’s early cassette tapes, while at the same time pointing to territories altogether new. The players involved highlight the “social” aspect of the band and the eight guests that appear on the record are some of the band’s closest friends and collaborators. While Che Chen and Rick Brown are always at the core of 75 Dollar Bill, the band is much like an extended family, changing shape for different music and different situations. Some pieces were conceived in the band’s very early days and others are much newer, but the music is unmistakably 75 Dollar Bill. As Steve Gunn said about the previous record: “Strings come in underneath Che Chen’s supreme guitar tone. Rick Brown’s trance percussion offers a guiding support with bass, strings, and horns supporting the melody. They have gathered all the moving parts perfectly.” (Glitterbeat release page)

29-09-2024

"Something can happen and there’s no return, except in our dreams, when the dead come to visit us. Like the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. In the eyes of Orpheus, Eurydice seems alive for a moment, but one look is enough for her to vanish into the world of the Dead. He wants to bring her back to life with his love for her.”

But only in dreams can love be enough to cheat fate." (Bandcamp release page)

29-09-2024

"The liner notes aren't completely clear as to the correct Arabic term for this music: is it "rai" (a style of pop music indigenous to Algeria rather than Morocco, which is this group's homeland), "shaabee" (which simply means "popular music"), or "harira" (which seems to mean something like "stew")? Whatever this intricate, funky North African concoction is called, it kicks some serious booty. The band's name is a bit more straightforward. Aisha Kandisha is the name of an especially malevolent female genie, and the "jarring effects" of her attacks are still greatly feared in modern Morocco; to name one's band after this she-devil is, according to the album's notes, an act of brash tastelessness similar to that of an American band calling itself the Dead Kennedys. My knowledge of Moroccan supernaturalism is limited at best, but I know what I like, and this album's got plenty of it: deep, bone-shaking grooves, lutes, weird samples, and eerie, exotic melodies spun through with lyrics in a language most won't be able to begin to understand. What's not to love? Bandleader Pat Jabbar El Shaheed teamed up with Bill Laswell to bring some extra weight to the group's sound, and the combination of Cheb Ahmed's reedy voice, a huge array of samples, and Laswell's shuddering, rumbling bass is enough to make even the most jaded Westerner bop 'til he drops. You'll hear echoes of Western funk, dub, ska, and house music in the mix here, but the main ingredient is the dust and smoke of the Moroccan "suq" (marketplace), where kids swap rai cassettes and absorb the influences of a hundred different cultures all at once. Highly recommended." © Rick Anderson /TiVo

29-09-2024

"One of the original batch of bands that started mixing indie rock, post-punk, and disco-influenced rhythms in the '90s, Q and Not U return with Power, an album that nods to dance-punk's moment in the sun and also finds them adding more dimensions to their already versatile sound. Like Les Savy Fav, Q and Not U are among the strongest songwriters working in this style, and on Power, they're equally adept at short, sharp shocks like "L.A.X." and more introspective pieces such as "Dine." This ebb and flow makes the album less forceful than previous work like No Kill No Beep Beep, but it also makes Power more interesting, even if the ping-ponging between quietly quirky pieces like "Throw Back Your Head," an oddly folky, flute-driven song, and brainy, spazzy pop like "Wet Work" is disconcerting at first. It's tempting to single out Power's most singular moments, like the medieval harmonies on "District Night Prayer," as the album's highlights, because they're such a departure; however, "Book of Flags" and "Tag-Tag" are prime examples of the band's undeniably kinetic punk-funk. "Wonderful People" and "Beautiful Beats" are even more danceable, but still retain that paranoid, too-smart-for-their-own-good feel of all of Q and Not U's work. This feeling comes to the fore on the tense, "Glass Onion"-esque "Collect the Diamonds" and "X-Polynation," which both echo the trend of mixing politics and dance-punk, but do so more subtly, and timelessly, than the rants of !!! and Radio 4. Even when there are plenty of other bands working in a similar style, Q and Not U remain more distinctive and harder to classify than many of their peers, which makes Power an exciting album and proof that the band has variety and vitality to spare." © Heather Phares /TiVo

29-09-2024

"The Hidden Cameras burst onto the Toronto music scene in the early 2000’s boasting an irresistible combination of pop and queer sensibilities. Playing self-proclaimed ‘Gay Church Folk Music’ a new genre of their own making and songs ranging from haunted, aching ballads to foot-stomping anthems, the band’s outrageous stage shows packed such disparate venues as sweaty dance bars, art museums, working porn cinemas as well as many churches. Fronted by lead singer-songwriter Joel Gibb, the ensemble continues its musical provocations to this day, with Berlin now as its centre of gravity.

The Hidden Cameras had yet to release a note of commercially available music when, in early 2002, they became among the most discussed and celebrated unsigned bands in the history of their native Toronto. By the close of the year, they had been the subject of uncommonly sensational features in The Globe and Mail (Canada’s national newspaper) as well as in every daily and weekly in Toronto. The reasons for the reckless enthusiasm of these usually cautious journals was simple: revelatory live performances that attacked and transcended the staid, dispassionate traditions of rock nightclub culture; and the songs of band front-man and mastermind Joel Gibb, a talent of uncommon melodic and poetic gifts. ‘The Smell of Our Own’, The Hidden Cameras debut album was originally released in April 2003 on Rough Trade" (Bandcamp release page)

29-09-2024

" This LP is a collaboration between French masters of occult rock “Aluk Todolo”, and Austria’s Der Blutharsch & The Infinite Church Of The Leading Hand”, reincarnated from the ashes of the infamous band Der Blutharsch. Following the same concept as Der Blutharsch's 7 inch collaboration with NYC`s psychedelic force, White Hills, both bands provided each other, this time with two, basic tracks to work on. The result is a heavy mix of both bands unique styles, creating a strange and dark new universe of gloom and brightness. A journey into a strange underworld of music, a trip into the most "far out" and hidden corners of your mind, a dangerous joyride on a ketamine flavoured breeze of lysergic bliss." (Bandcamp release page)

29-09-2024

Where an artist like DJ Shadow works similar techniques and materials to create brooding atmospheres, Koala is resolutely comic in spirit, his ever wry sense of humour sometimes veering towards Pythonesque silliness. It’s an appealing quality on first encounter, if less so over time. For all the buffoonery, however, his restraint shines through. He deploys scratches to alter the flow, or to carry nicely curved melody lines. Grooves are picked up like coins lying in the road, then casually discarded. For all its deliberately lo-fi flourishes, this is a quietly masterful concoction.

28-09-2024

"What turned out to be Bongwater's last album before the acrimonious end of the personal and professional Magnuson/Kramer partnership was a sellout only in the sense of the slick cover art and presentation, tongues firmly in cheek. Otherwise, the blend of folk, shadowy psych weirdness, and satiric spoken word and lyrical jabs against the state of the world, specifically America, run as rampant as always. Rick was replaced on second guitar by Raymond Hudson, but this made little general difference to Bongwater's overall approach and Kramer's distinct production style. The title track is one of their best, some lovely guitar drones and singing bringing out the weird, gentle melancholy of the song. Magnuson as always has a great time with her inspired monologues. "What's Big in England Now?" has her in sassy Noo Yawk voice talking about everything from pudgy editors at Rolling Stone to Lenny Kravitz talking about mushy peas. "Celebrity Compass" is even sharper, her depiction of a teenager at a Led Zeppelin party wondering, "Which one will take me away to live with him in his castle in England?," at once hilarious and just a little unsettling. Kramer's hero rock guitar in the background makes all the more sense. There are a couple of interesting deviations from the norm: "Free Love Messes Up My Life" keeps the duet singing prominent throughout, but the arrangement and general groove is very '60s/easy listening, some years before the big cult hype for that sound kicked in. "Flop Sweats," meanwhile, transforms Bongwater into a heavy blues/hard rock group, at least up until Magnuson starts talking about a performance artist who has merchandised and licensed her name with frightening efficiency. A lovely cover of Fred Neil's "Everybody's Talking," with additional ruminations from Magnuson, concludes this intriguing album." © Ned Raggett /TiVo

28-09-2024

The musical traditions of Kenya were brought to the international stage by guitarist/vocalist Shem Tube and his band Abana Ba Nasery. Led by guitarist/vocalist Tube, the group introduced much of the world to the Kenyan tradition of omutibo, an uplifting music produced by two fingerpicked acoustic guitars and three-part vocal harmonies set to a rhythm played on a Fanta soda bottle. One of Kenya's most successful traditional groups of the 1960s and '70s, Abana Ba Nasery disbanded for more than a decade before reuniting in 1991. The revived band reflected the group members' shifting musical influences -- during the group's hiatus, Tube and guitarist/vocalist Justo Osala had performed with an electric banga band, les Bunyore. Their fascination with contemporary music continued following their re-formation. Their debut album, Classic Acoustic Recordings of Western Kenya, showcased the sound of the original acoustic trio.

28-09-2024

"Kasse Mady Diabaté has been associated with much of the best music to come out of Mali in recent years. His voice was heard in Toumani Diabaté’s Symmetric Orchestra and on Bassekou Kouyaté’s award-winning Segu Blue, and he appeared last year as part of Damon Albarn’s Africa Express. Before that, he was heard on the celebrated Taj Mahal/Toumani Diabaté collaboration Kulanjan and as part of the groundbreaking Songhai fusions. Yet despite possessing a thrilling voice that probably takes second place only to Salif Keita among Mali’s greatest male singers, a career that spans four decades and a rare capacity to combine the best of Mande tradition with popular contemporary styles, solo albums from him have been something of a rarity." Songlines June 2009

24-09-2024

Such a great weird record. A universe completely his own. It always surprises me how good it still is.

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Compilation of the first two Califone EPs.

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The listed single is on the debut album from the lovely Whistler (from UK). It was released by Wiiija in 1999. Great pop album. The song "Don't Jump in Front of My Train" is one of the highlights from that album.

http://www.discogs.com/master/133882-Whistler-Whistler

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"As always, it’s Anderson’s voice that captivates so beautifully. At times, it sounds as if she’s sitting atop a dense swell, defying all the forces of gravity, and telling the story of a child of American imperium – flight, power, planes. Anderson’s poetry underlines an essential impermanence all of us, especially those who wield power, should note." - THE WIRE

23-09-2024

Is it too soon to call this the "What's Going On" of our time? Probably but nevertheless this is a truly amazing piece of political art...

"To say the album is all over the place musically is both understatement and compliment. The opening song “Travel”, with its mixture of avant garde vocal patterns and Middle Eastern scales, hints at the journey the listener is about to take. From the heavy bass of the Fela Kuti-like “Pride II” to Jebin Bruni’s driving piano on “Eyes”, which also features a mellifluous vocal from Hicks – reminiscent of the late Jeff Buckley without being overtly derivative – we never know where we might land on the musical map. No More Water: The Gospel Of James Baldwin is revolutionary fire music – but it’s also a celebration, a party held in honour of a man who did so much, expecting nothing in return. " (The Wire October 2024 (Issue 488) Michael A Gonzales)

23-09-2024

"In a blast of splinters and mayhem, the Jesus Lizard have busted loose with their first album in over a quarter century. RACK was unleashed on Friday the 13th of September 2024" (Bandcamp)

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19-09-2024

Hummelinck Stuurman Producties, CNR Music 2 x CD 2000

15-09-2024

Nice slices of cool jazz trip beats. Funki Porcini – Hed Phone Sex 3LP on Ninja Tune 1995

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14-09-2024

ECSTATIC VISION unleash UNDER THE INFLUENCE, a collection of six RAW, FUZZY, PSYCHEDELIC slabs of COSMIC ROCK. UNDER THE INFLUENCE sees the band covering tracks by some of their biggest influences; The stoner doom sounds that came out of ZAMBIA in the early/mid 70s that is known as ZAM ROCK, the godfathers of space-rock HAWKWIND, and the early kings of Detroit rock n' Roll THE MC5, all delivered with ECSTATIC VISION's signature bone crushing, blown-out in-all-the-right-ways recording style.. (from the Bandcamp release page)

14-09-2024

"For the Masses" blends Tripped-out Synth, Semi-Catatonic Desert driving tunes, Afro-tribal Funkadelic Vibes, Troglodyte-Detroit Rock grooves, Acid Freak-Outs, Ethereal Psychedelic Hymns, and Mind-Altering Kraut Rock into Ecstatic Vision's outsider take on modern music. It’s like if Tangerine Dream jammed with Lemmy and the Asheton Brothers and decided to play some World Music and Free Jazz in 1971. (from the Bandcamp release page)

14-09-2024

Did I already expressed my Delgados love? Oh, ok........

14-09-2024

The listed album is an alternative for the Zani Diabate & The Super Djata Band - S/T album from 1985/1988 (here's that album http://youtu.be/akW8fh-YMxs).

The Super Djata Band belongs in my book of the greatest African Bands of all-time on the same page as Bembeya Jazz National. And the page of that book is page number 1. Zani Diabaté (died 4th January 2011) was a musician, guitar player from Bamako, Mali. He became a member of the Ballet National in 1963 and founded the Super Djata Band in 1969 in Bamako, Mali. The Super Djata Band music was based on the traditional rhythms and melodies of the Hunters and Fishermen of the Bambara people of southern Mali. Zani Diabate injected this with his truly amazing explosive psychedelic guitar work and an unique sense of composition. Which resulted in a High Energy Electric Fusion band with complex driven rhythms. He never accuired the fame, here in our western world, as some contemporaries. Maybe because his rawer music didn't fit in the so-called "World Music" coffeebar scene, that got real big with smoother productions. His music was always bubbling a bit underground. But in recent years there was some sort of a minor revival of the Super Djata music thanks to some reissues on for example The Numero Group. The album listed here was first released on the "Milady Music" label in 1985 and got a more global release a few years later on the bigger "Mango" label. The album made some waves here in the Netherlands thanks to an explosive concert they gave, I think it was this concert in the Melkweg 1987 https://youtu.be/_oE9pudY4T4 it was also broadcated on dutch radio if my memory serves me well. Other folks we hear on this album that made some more great music later on, that I know of, are: On bass Abou Camara who became a major player in the Dutch African music scene in the nineties with for example the great Benkadi International band. Also from later Benkadi International fame and all around great singer is Idrissa Magassa. We hear him on vocal duties here together with the amazing Alou Fané (who's "Kamalan N'goni - Dozon N'goni" album on Dakar Sound from 1994 is also in the 1001 Other Albums List)

While writing this I played the album 3 times in a row. And it's still as great as since I heard it the first time in 1987. A real timeless masterpiece.

14-09-2024

Maybe not the most clever choice of a band name career wise but who needs wise career decisions when you are as amazing as Alan Vega & Martin Rev.....and this is not even their best......go figure! Suicide – A Way Of Life 1988 cd reissue on Mute / BMG 2023 (35th Anniversary Edition The Original Album Remastered) Includes a great cover of Bruce Springsteen's 'Born In The USA', a song you wished for never hearing it again until you hear Suicide's version

13-09-2024

Yes, It's the band with the great album titles again

13-09-2024

METZ is a noise rock band from Canada.

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13-09-2024

More good clean healthy fun from these masters.

13-09-2024

Great edgy "noise" rockband from that Mclusky dude also known as mister Christian Fitness.

12-09-2024 & 13-09-2024

Yeah tried it twice because I thought maybe not today. Some cool songs and not bad at all but in the end a bit to average for my taste. Nothing really surprised me after the first song.

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09-09-2024

"Recorded in concert in Tokyo, April 2004, this features Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth plus various Acid Mothers, with Tatsuya Yoshida drafted in on drums. Unfortunately, from what is documented here, the anticipated cosmic explosion never happens. Much time is spent establishing a head-friendly atmosphere, with zany Smurf voices and multiple chants backed by whooshing synths, but it all comes across as fragmentary, episodic and lacking any consistent dynamism. When the players do hit a purple patch, their combined force is impressive enough, as on the lumbering spacerock of “Ze Teapot Zat Exploded” and the drawn out, smoother sounding “The Isle Of Underwear”, but these moments are few and far between, and though a heady ambience is detectable you probably really had to be there to appreciate it.”(The Wire, Soundcheck Reviewed by Tom Ridge, November 2006 Issue 273)

I more or less agree.......ok but not great.

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09-09-2024

Very nice surprise......Never heard of them til now. Recorded in 2007. Great noiserock would fit perfect in the NoiseAmp / Dischord stable. They used to be on Fat Cat Records so that explains a lot.

09-09-2024

Chris Haskett (Rollins Band guitarist) / Brandon Finley (Dog Eat Dog drummer)– Non-Fiction cd on 2.13.61 Records (The label run by Henrietta Rollins. The numbers are Henry's birthdate) 1997 Cool prog fusion funk rock album.

09-09-2024

"Delusion Of The Fury (1966) is without a doubt Partch’s crowning achievement. Each of its two acts, which play without an intermission, is based on a folk tale – the first Japanese, a tragic 11th century noh drama entitled Atsumori, the second an Ethiopian tale called Justice, about a farcical misunderstanding. The “Exordium” an instrumental , overture, lures the audience into the web of dream and delusion, and is reprised when both acts have played and the drama is drawing to a close. An instrumental bridge between the two acts is provided by the “Sanctus” which serves as a postlude to Act 1 , (about a reconciliation between the living and the dead) and a prelude to Act 2 (about becoming reconciled to life’s little absurdities). In each of its two acts, Delusion Of The Fury shows the futility of anger. Once again, nearly all of Partch’s instruments are arrayed onstage, dramatic presences in their own right. The principal singers take on dual roles. Along with the singers and the actors/mime/dancers, the instrumentalists are costumed, and they engage in the stylised gestures of mime-ritual when not obliged to play (though even the act of playing is ritualised). Musical director on this production was Partch’s most trusted aide, Danlee Mitchell." (The Wire,December 2007 Issue 286, The Primer Harry Partch)

08-09-2024

“Moondog calls his saxophone project Sax Pax, underlining that in this case the saxophones are not to be linked with military bands for which the instruments originally had been intended, but are used exclusively for peaceful purposes.

All the pieces are part of a series which Moondog calls ZAJAZ, "jazz" in two directions, like a Janus-head with two faces. There is one looking backwards into the past, represented by classical techniques of composing and the other face turned towards the future which is characterized by a new kind of combining old and new elements of music.

Music which sounds like jazz, sometimes like real wild improvisations as in Present for the Prez., but is in fact classically conceived, written in the form of chaconne. Most of the pieces are written in canon form.

The core of the ensemble, founded by the leading British saxophonist John Harle, are members of the Apollo Saxophone Quartet. Also involved were David Lord as producer, and other big names of British music world, like Peter Hammill, Andrew Davis, and Danny Thompson, the former Pentangle co-founder, whose contra bass, named Victoria, is especially featured on "D For Danny" which Loius Hardin dedicated to his long-time friend.

The piano solos were played by Nicola Meecham, teacher at the Royal Academy Of Music.”

Edited and reprinted from liner notes.

08-09-2024

“The organ has not been called the "King of Instruments" for nothing, because of all instruments it has the widest range of possibilities lending itself to any mood or style. In suffering the organ to emit secular and even profane music, namely dance music, I do not find it out of place, since I am fully aware of the organ ́s pagan beginnings, the pipes of Pan. The organ is capable of producing a percussive quality, provided the notes are played staccato, and more importantly, if the "spitting" flute stop is used. This stop is also known as "chiff", having almost the jazz sound of saxophones playing staccato. Especially in a large room with good acoustics. I think an organ can do anything a jazz band can do as good, if not better. Moreover, when it comes to long, sustained contrapuntal lines, the organ is unapproachable. The organ sounds good with or without percussion. I added percussion to most of the pieces, which are in the dance idiom.” (Louis T. Hardin)

08-09-2024

"Recorded two years later after Moondog 1, Moondog 2 is very different. It’s a realisation of Moondog’s The Art Of The Canon Book I, one of the printed collections of canons and rounds he’d been working on since the early 50s and selling from his Sixth Avenue post. The album was treated as a pop rather than a classical record by Columbia, and this was reflected not only in their promotion of it but also in the record itself. The instrumentation is stripped down and mostly of the electronic rock kind, albeit minus drum kit and with added virginal harpsichord (plus oo and trimba: one-two-three-FOUR-five). The record contains 26 short songs, most of them under two minutes. In Moondog 2’s sleevenotes, as elsewhere, Moondog emphasises that “rhythmically, I am considered to be in the present, even avant garde, while melodically and harmonically I am very much in the past”. And on the album he makes no attempt to hide his love of simple, tonal harmonies. But while, melodically, the tunes tend to be of the “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” kind, rhythmically (sung by many overdubbed voices, panned all over the stereo spectrum) they can get very complex indeed." (The Wire, Moondog Primer April 2015 Issue 374)

08-09-2024

"A good decade after he had last released an album, Moondog got what was clearly his big break. Producer James William Guercio, best known at the time for his successful work with the big band rock groups Chicago and Blood, Sweat And Tears, had met and held a casual conversation with the composer on his Sixth Avenue corner sometime in 1968. A year later Guercio returned to offer him a two record deal with Columbia. Between the late 50s and 60s, Moondog had made numerous appearances at concerts, poetry readings, anti-Vietnam War events and dance performances, in venues varying in size from town hall to small churches and the left-leaning freeform radio station WBAI. But with no new recorded output to mark his presence, his profile had been much lower than in the decade before. Now he seemed eager to both shed his longtime image as a street musician and show the world that he could compose serious symphonic music, his life’s real ambition. Moondog must have felt like a child set loose in the proverbial candy store. Assisted by a production staff that genuinely respected and support his vision, he made the most of the opportunity." (The Wire, Moondog Primer April 2015 Issue 374)

08-09-2024

Moondog And His Honking Geese Playing Moondog's Music Part 2

08-09-2024

Moondog And His Honking Geese Playing Moondog's Music Part 1

08-09-2024

Moondog – On The Streets Of New York 1953

08-09-2024

"Whether intentionally or not, these brief pieces mirror the life of an itinerant, urban street musician that Moondog was living at the time. His rhythms are, as usual, dense and highly complex – even, impressively, when there’s just a single line being played. Most are in the five- or seven-beat metres that Moondog was so fond of. One piece of great significance on More Moondog is “Moondog Monologue”, which features the composer reciting his aphorisms and couplets over a layer of syncopated percussion. Dwarfing all other tracks at a whopping eight and a half minutes, it provides the first picture that many people got of Moondog as proto-beat poet, an image certainly enhanced by his flamboyantly outsider lifestyle, while highlighting the great importance he placed on his prose and poetry writing. Among the highly quotable lines that originated here are: “I do not dress as I do to attract attention/I attract attention because I dress as I do”." (The Wire, Moondog Primer April 2015 Issue 374)

08-09-2024

"Half of Moondog’s 14 tracks are less than two minutes long, and few stretch beyond two minutes, giving the album the feel of a set of snapshots rather than a collection of fully fleshed out pieces. This adds to the record’s slices of life character, but the tunes’ brevity and apparent plainness could never be mistaken for superficiality. Moondog is a wideranging and strikingly original debut, all the more so considering that its creator was blind and, for the most part, living on the street." (The Wire, Moondog Primer April 2015 Issue 374)

08-09-2024

Sufjan Stevens • Nico Muhly • Bryce Dessner • James McAlister – Planetarium cd on 4AD 2017 Also love the little cd size art/lyrics booklet that comes with it.

08-09-2024

The listed album (Faryad) is an alternative for the Beautiful recordings of Persian Classical music by the Mighty Mohammad Reza Shadjarian & Ensemble Aref on the cd Iran: Dastgah Chahargah. Recorded live at Beethovenhalle, Bonn, October 17, 1987 by the WDR. Pure Persian Magic on Network Medien in the World Network series from 1991. Listen to the album here: http://youtu.be/_sLmXl7q-wQ

07-09-2024

"Sheikh Hamza Chakour, born in Damascus in 1947, was a muqri (Koran reader) and a munshid (hymnodist). He was the disciple of Saïd Farhat and Tawfiq al-Munajjid; his task was to assure the continuity of the repertory proper to the Mawlawiya order. He was also the choir master of the Munshiddin of the Great Mosque in Damascus and served at official religious ceremonies in Syria, where he was immensely popular. Shaykh Hamza was an impressively large, charismatic figure. His bass voice with its richly rounded timbre has made him one of the foremost perfomers of Arab singing. His art is uncompromisingly sober and introverted, to the exclusion of all affectation. He developed his improvisations within the framework of a centuries- old modal art, where orison blends with dance, and prayer with art. The Islam he represented, far from being fundamentalist, is that of mysticism and happiness in the Faith. Sheikh Hamza Shakkour passed away on February 3rd, 2009" "The Al-Kindi Ensemble is a music ensemble founded in 1983 by the French kanun virtuoso Julien Jalâl Al-Din Weiss. The ensemble is based in Aleppo and in addition to Julien Jalâl Al-Din Weiss it includes Syrian محمد قدري دلال (Muhammed Qadri Dalal) on the Oud, Egyptian Adel Shams al-Din on percussion and Iraqi jouza player محمد حسين كمر (Mohamed Hussein Gomar al-Bawi)."

05-09-2024

05-09-2024

02-09-2024

"Staunch Honey" was recorded entirely to tape by Nance himself at his Omaha, Nebraska home with the occasional assistance from his longtime live bandmates Jim Schroeder & Kevin Donohue. Great album!

02-09-2024

Folk Rock band from Scotland (Perthshire / Glasgow / Lancashire)

Not my cup of tea.....

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01-09-2024

Hard to look at artwork but a very good album....

01-09-2024

All quiet and peaceful on the Dutch front......a little night cap before we close down..... time for the last round....

01-09-2024

I was a bit insecure. Should I? Would I? Am I overreacting? Am I too easily overexcited? But no, it is what it is .......The Delgados RULE! (or ruled)...and so did John!

01-09-2024

....okay....Okay.....Okay!......It's FUCKING SATURDAYNIGHT AND YOU WANNA ROCK OUT WITH YOUR HEAD IN THE SPEAKERS AND YOUR BRAIN UPSIDEDOWN!!!!!!!!!! Well, Look no further and turn it up Brothers, Sisters & Everything Inbetween \m/

31-08-2024

My introduction to the world of Guy Blakeslee (Entrance) was the exceptional album "Prayer Of Death" on Tee Pee Records. Because of the label and the album title I was expecting cool doom stonerrock. But the voice and the psychedelic sound world of Guy was something else. I kinda forgot about him till a week ago I stumbled on this very special album on Thrill Jockey (always a quality mark, I even think one of my all time favourite labels)

31-08-2024

.......and then there are also albums that are love at first sight...... My god how good do you want it to be ...... Utter beauty.... "The Other Years are a duet born from a sister friendship, two friendly vines headed up the same tree. Their voices combine in many forms, embarking on a journey of song writing influenced by the old time tradition."

31-08-2024

The listed album (The Real Stuff) is an alternative for the:

Set It On Fire! (Play The Scientists) Compilation cd on Dog Meat 1993

A great tribute album by some of the coolest bands (Cheater Slicks, Honeymoon Killers, Laughing Hyenas, Vertigo, Mudhoney, Monomen) that played when I was still young and stupid (now I'm just old and dumb) to one of the greatest rock bands that ever walked on this planet. Listen here:

http://youtu.be/3e2qjOaCwD8

31-08-2024

Sometimes I just don't know what to think or how I feel about an album........ very often those are the albums I return to more often to see/hear and figure out again. With this album it's the vocals that are giving me a hard time. But the band is a solid great rocking unit. It reminds me of the struggle I had with the Volcano Suns, a band I hold dearly nowadays......

31-08-2024

Nice eclectic indie rock from Spain.......cool artwork and cool songs.

31-08-2024

Cool Scottish band formed in 1996 and disbanded 2004. This was their last one.....less weird than their debut but still lovely.

29-08-2024

I was always put off by this record pretty quick.....But just bought it again for €2 and put it on while cutting the vegetables for tonight's soup. So, couldn't put it off right away. And after track 3 things get better and from track 7 and onwards it even gets very good.

29-08-2024

Sometimes you take a cd from one of the piles next to you with stuff you never heard before and it perfectly fits the mood you're in and it takes you deeper into that feeling and becomes sort of a cleansing and gets you back on your feet again..........well this is that kind of a record......What I call a small miracle.

28-08-2024

"The second album by DMST captured the evolving and evocative sound of the band in all its newfound subtlety and sophistication. Recorded in an old wooden barn outside their hometown of Toronto, the album is swaddled in late-night, late-summer ambiance, maintaining an atmosphere of spontaneity and accident (along with the background sounds of chirping crickets) alongside the increased attention to composition in many of the pieces. While the record is bookended by the band’s inimitable psych-rock explosions and explorations, much of the material here is more reflective and experimental, with increased referencing of jazz influences (modal horn passages, chilled-out tempos) and a progressive command of studio techniques that yielded mixes abundant with sonic details and surprises. Electronics and effects are often deployed at micro-levels, placing strange static noises and bubbling textural flourishes in the soundstage which catch the corner of the eye/ear and encourage repeat listens (headphones strongly advised)." (Constellation release page)

28-08-2024

Fantastic hardcore/noiserock band led by Rick Froberg (R.I.P.) and John Reis, formed in 1999 in San Diego, California.

28-08-2024

SOL is a Danish dark ambient & doom metal band with strong neofolk influences and occasional avant-garde tendencies. Started in 2004 as a solo project by Emil Brahe, but each release or concert features a different cast of members and collaborators. "Through outtakes from various SOL recording sessions done between 2011 to 2021 interspersed with classical music samples from the start of the last century, the album is an exploration of nostalgia and the profound melancholia there is to be found within it. Produced by Emil Brahe in a 24-hour feverish stint of inspiration after seeing artist Marc Pilgaard's painting "Rapture""

28-08-2024

“For me, music transcends mere entertainment,” explains Abdel. “It is a spiritual practice deeply intertwined with everyday life. Gnawa music, in particular, serves as a conduit to connect with my ancestors, fostering a sense of community and spiritual unity. It embodies the essence of freedom and reminds me of the path towards living a fulfilling life in harmony with the universe.”

28-08-2024

I think I found this thanks to the First Impressions newsletter by Andrew Kheidoori (Longform Editions curator) but wherever and whenever........this is a thing of extreme beauty.......

28-08-2024

For the mental health of a society everyone in it should at least own one Jad Fair record ....... But I guess that's wishful thinking and we are actually lost because of that......poor us.

28-08-2024

"With Dysnomia, the Brooklyn-based group Dawn of Midi abandons improvisation in favour of composition, utilising sophisticated rhythmic structures from North and West African folk traditions to weave a sonic tapestry of trance-inducing grooves. From close up one may see only dots, but when stepping back an undulating image reveals itself. “We didn’t want to create anything cerebral,” says Belyamani, “we wanted something visceral, something that would awaken our instinctive dance impulses.”

27-08-2024

"The mysterious scenery that Sugai Ken imagines from his home of Kanagawa, Japan takes unusual shape and form in the shadow of UkabazUmorezU’s moon. Sugai's reverence for traditional folklore becomes an intimate, liminal ceremony of interpretative music on UkabazUmorezU and an invitation for the open mind to wander a nighttime world wild with curious characters and strange, serene sounds."

27-08-2024

Gloomy music for these happy times. With mighty Thor Harris on percussion and clarinet.

26-08-2024

"The first release of Orlygur Thor Orlygsson, a native islandic, the album is essentially the work of one man; all written, recorded and played by Orlygur, with drums and synth added by his guests."

26-08-2024

Okay! Okay! Not every Cheap Trick fart smells good and with artwork like this what can you expect.....but...... you know..... It's the Cheap Trick Posse so I'm very tolerant......

26-08-2024

A "Greatest Hits" album from one of my first encounters with the world of HipHop thanks to a cool VPRO documentary from 1986 (http://youtu.be/-kSsqWNSQqs) .........Great compilation this with just a few dull tracks but that's what you can expect with a greatest hits album I suppose

26-08-2024

Not my cup of tea.....only liked track 8 "Big Dome" a bit

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26-08-2024

Started real good but lost interest somewhere halfway the album

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25-08-2024

Let's Get Lost in the Bardo Pond

25-08-2024

“Songbird continues in the ethereal tradition of Allysen’s previous records. With fingers dancing across acoustic strings and that voice, lovely and straight-out-of-Lothlorien otherworldly, Allysen stands out from the area’s predominantly roots and Americana styled folk scene. Tracks like “Bluest Bird” and “Snow Fox” harken back to traditional British folk, though “Shoot Me” has her putting a bluesy-twist on her ghost whisper vocals.” -Providence Monthly

25-08-2024

Wonderful album and a perfect night closer......after this it's sleepy time

25-08-2024

I don't throw parties anymore but if I ever do again remind me to put this album on heavy rotation!

24-08-2024

Well he may be a Brit but Mister Snowboy sure kicks major Latin Ass..........All killers no fillers......hot steaming Latin Jazz!

24-08-2024

Kieran a.k.a. Four Tet meets The Late Great legendary drummer Steve Reid on a beautiful album

24-08-2024

Great album from 1975 from this progressive rock band from St. Louis, Missouri

24-08-2024

Track 3. In the Shadow of the Towers