Non-Classical Music Listening Thread!

[aligreto]

Hadn't heard of that album before now. 

That was in the Peter Green era when they were a Blues band. Most people have probably forgotten who Peter Green was, unfortunately. The album contained Albatross and Black Magic Woman.

[aligreto]

Yes, they are truly a special band. One that I grow in appreciation of as I get older.

I thought that one had to be young and wild to appreciate Tull?

Old and wild also, perhaps 

[SimonNZ]

Hadn't heard of that album before now.  When did it come out?

In the US you would have had most of those tracks including Albatross  and Black Magic Woman on an album called  English Rose.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

That was in the Peter Green era when they were a Blues band. Most people have probably forgotten who Peter Green was, unfortunately. The album contained Albatross and Black Magic Woman.

In the US you would have had most of those tracks including Albatross  and Black Magic Woman on an album called  English Rose.

Thanks gents!

I thought that one had to be young and wild to appreciate Tull?

Old and wild also, perhaps 

  I still enjoy a dose of my JT too! 

[George]

I thought that one had to be young and wild to appreciate Tull?

Old and wild also, perhaps 

I liked them back then, but now I love them.

[Karl Henning]

Thanks gents!   I still enjoy a dose of my JT too! 

Good!

https://www.youtube.com/v/m798LeqV3rQ

[SimonNZ]

[Old San Antone]

Released in 2013 Feeling Mortal by Kris Kristofferson is a late career gem.



Rolling Stone: His latest album, Feeling Mortal, due on January 29th, contains some of the singer-songwriter's most raw and poignant material yet. Ask him, however, and he's quick to dismiss any reference to his supreme talent – despite having scored a Number One album and penned iconic songs for the likes of Janis Joplin ("Me and Bobby McGee") and Johnny Cash ("Sunday Morning Coming Down"). "Hell, I've been making up songs since I was 11," he says. "I think that's just what I do naturally. And I just feel grateful that I've been able to do it all my life."

https://www.youtube.com/v/UO_lybzHWP4

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Good!

https://www.youtube.com/v/m798LeqV3rQ

Thanks for the duck link Karl.   

[Sergeant Rock]

Listening in memoriam:




Sarge

[George]

[George]

[SimonNZ]

Dumama and Kechou - Buffering Juju (2020)


from the Guardian review:

"South Africa's Mushroom Hour Half Hour label has been releasing some of the more ear-tickling sounds from the country's experimental scene in recent years. There was 2019's propulsive free-jazz ensemble debut Spaza, a series of beautiful folk-led guitar and vocal releases from Sibusile Xaba in 2017 and percussionist Thabang Tabane's 2018 debut. Now offering up the label's most narratively driven record is Johannesburg duo Dumama + Kechou.

Loosely concerning the story of a woman released from prison and her shapeshifting attempts to connect with the landscape via spiritual entities, its impressionistic folkloric narrative is sung in layered harmonies by Gugulethu Duma (AKA Dumama) and backed by choppy electro-acoustic production from Algerian-German Kerim Melik Becker (Kechou).

It's a meandering listen, ranging from Duma's crystalline choral harmonies on Leaving Prison and Mother Time, to the bent uhadi bow and garbled speech-in-tongues on For Madala. Yet Duma and Becker achieve a convincing synthesis, crafting electronic drum loops to layer beneath the Xhosa percussion and splicing modal keys between the harsh metallic plucking of strings. They are helped by a list of collaborators: pianist Nobuhle Ashanti and vocalist Odwa Bongo provide an undulating foundation in For Madala, while the synthesisers of keys player Dion Monti are a man-made, steely presence among the warm vocals and percussion throughout.

The album highlight comes on Uveni, perhaps the most straightforward of the eight tracks, with its cyclical song structure creating the perfect improvisational space for free jazz clarinettist Angel Bat Dawid to spear her keening riffs. Ultimately it is the cumulative power of this multi-vocal expression that allows for a soundscape to build over the course of the album. The varied sounds of the record reflect Johannesburg's constantly evolving musicality and the duo's mixed heritages. This is their titular juju, their spiritual power."

[steve ridgway]

Art Zoyd - Les Espaces Inquiets.

[FelixSkodi]

DJ Ravin's most recent mix: https://soundcloud.com/djravinbuddhabarparis/have-a-trip-wih-ravin-02-breathe

[aligreto]

Released in 2013 Feeling Mortal by Kris Kristofferson is a late career gem.



Rolling Stone: His latest album, Feeling Mortal, due on January 29th, contains some of the singer-songwriter's most raw and poignant material yet. Ask him, however, and he's quick to dismiss any reference to his supreme talent – despite having scored a Number One album and penned iconic songs for the likes of Janis Joplin ("Me and Bobby McGee") and Johnny Cash ("Sunday Morning Coming Down"). "Hell, I've been making up songs since I was 11," he says. "I think that's just what I do naturally. And I just feel grateful that I've been able to do it all my life."

https://www.youtube.com/v/UO_lybzHWP4

The voice was sadly gone by then but, thankfully not the songwriting ability.

I am going right back with Me and Bobby McGee

[Old San Antone]

Great film; great soundtrack.

[FelixSkodi]

[aligreto]

Oldfield: Tubular Bells

[Todd]

For no good reason, I decided to listen to this for the first time in I don't know how many years.