Monthly Archive for January 2006
George Golla - Easy FeelingsEvery so often you come across an album that, but for one track, is just another addition to the endless heap of profoundly mediocre music. This baffles me; I don’t understand how a band recording an otherwise crappy LP manages to create the one fantastic track. Maybe, after a long session and a lot of […]
Max S. Sadove, M.D. - Management of the InsomniacReleased in 1960, this is the first CIBA clinical record issued by CIBA Pharmaceutical Products in N.J. and is meant to be “an audio-visual journal devoted to postgraduate reviews of diagnosis and therapeutics.” In his day (and at the time of this recording) Max S. Sadove was rocking out as an anesthesiologist at the University […]
Search Party - Montgomery ChapelI try not to get too carried away with featuring records that I have never owned, but I will probably never ever ever own this one, so whatever. If knowing that I do not actually own an original pressing of this hinders your enjoyment of reading about it on the internet may I suggest you […]
The Late Show - Portable PopGreat indy power-pop album from 1980 on the Rave label. Really Great stuff. Modern power pop music with very 60’s sunshine pop esque harmonies. The vocals are great and the musicians are great. I really enjoy this album. It was recently reissued so get your cop on.
Morgan Fisher - MiniaturesIn 1980, Mott The Hoople Keyboardist and Londoner Morgan Fisher solicited musical contributions from 50 musicians that he admired…
Robbie Basho - The Seal of the Blue LotusAlong with the early Fahey stuff, the first few Basho lp’s are probably pretty much ground zero for the “modern” sound of the solo acoustic steel string guitar music that would become popular on through the 70’s. This is Basho’s first record, and one of the first non-Fahey releases on Fahey’s Takoma label. Much more […]
Hellers - Singers…Talkers…Players…Swingers… & DoersApparently this dude Heller owned an ad agency and did jingles and stuff, and some of the more tepid tracks on here have a corny sort of jingle feel to them. But, the hot tracks fall somewhere between Dick Hyman’s Moog experiments & “soft psych” like Free Design. It took me a couple of times […]
John Braheny - Some Kind Of ChangeExcellent Folk/psych album. This is Braheny’s only album and it’s still relatively under the radar. On the small Cali label “Pete”. definitely worth seeking out. has a 8+ minute intrumental psych melter “Silver Cord”. great stuff
Carol Kleyn - Love Has Made Me StrongerI suppose this record would not be everyone’s “cup of tea”. I imagine some people would say - “but she can’t play an instrument or sing very well” - and they would technically be correct. All I know is that there are far too many people making music who are supposedly “good” at it for […]
Live At Pangaea OneDon’t know the group’s name on this one as it isn’t listed anywhere. Here’s the lineup though, John Gruntfest, Weldon McCarty, Richard Festinger and Joseph Sabella. This is a wayout avant jazz record, to give you an idea here’s some instuments played on this album: tin cans, log drum, oil drum, bell and gong tree, […]
The Tuba Trio - Essence-The Heat and Warmth of Free JazzThe Tuba Trio consists of Sam Rivers, Joe Daley and Warren Smith. As you can see by the picture, this was recorded live at the Bim Huis in Amsterdam in 1976. Surprisingly the tuba sounds great in the free improv setting. I really dig Sam Rivers flute playing on this one as well as Warren […]
The Sons of Truth - A Message From The GhettoHere’s one of my favorite gospel records. This came out in 1972 on The Gospel Truth label, which was a subsidiary of Stax. Every track on here is very soulful, definitely keep an eye out for this one.
Heldon IV - agneta nilssonHeldon is mainly Richard Pinhas, who some would say is the Robert Fripp of France. Nice spacy stuff, tons of moogs and electronics. This would appeal to fans of Fripp and Eno and Cluster and whatnot. Goes for cheap on ebay too due to it’s obscurity which is always nice.
Daniel Hecht - Fireheart/Firedriver - Music for GuitarBefore becoming a mystery thriller author, Daniel Hecht put out a handful of records. This one is in the same vein as Fahey/Basho’s recordings. His lp on windham hill called “willow” is one of my favorite dollar bin records. Definitely worth seeking out imo.
Brian Cutean - lubricating the speciesNice mellow private issue folk lp on Burntoothbrush records circa 1987. The music sounds more like it came out in the early to mid seventies. My favorite track on here is “purple martin”. Brian looks like Charles Manson’s twin brother on the back cover, freaky.
Chris Korzen - Nirvana For Home UseTotal homemade one here. Chris put this out in the mid eighties on the Playfull label. The track that gets me everytime is “Nirvana”. Sounds like The Beach Boys with a total real person vibe to it, it’s really catchy. This is definitely one of those records that straddles the line between being cheesy with […]
Nino Nardini - Musique Pour Le FuturNino Nardini (great name isn’t it?) recorded “Musique Pour Le Futur” for the Crea Sound library imprint in 1970.
This record is not at all like this composer’s better known funky exotica outings. Instead of sleazing it up, Nino is bleeping away in the Forbidden Planet / egghead labcoat electronics idiom here. When he gets bored […]
A Grain of SandPolitically charged psych-folk for the asian american struggle. Grain of Sand interview
Sidney Poitier - Journeys Inside The MindPoitier reads Plato. ‘Nuff said.
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Lokomotiv KonkretMind numbing Sweedish free jazz with electronic accompainiment. That’s Claes Sweger’s business card taped to the cover. He must have given this record to the transvestite i purchased it from.
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