Monthly Archive for August 2006
Charlie Palmieri - Either You Have It Or You Don’tBoogaloo and jazzy too, this Alegre release doesn’t turn up often. Produced by Pancho Cristal for a division of Roulette. I’m digging “Fat Papa’s Descarga”, “Boogaloo-Mania”, the groovy “Fat Papa” and jazzy “Either You Have It Or You Don’t”
Tibet IITibet II - a musical anthology of the orient. Another in the great UNESCO collection, nice gatefold with loads of info, they never disappoint. Spoken word, chanting, instrumentials & all together, you are in the temple here is the “Invitation To The Deity Shugden”
Eduardo Davidson - Le ChienCreepy cover for a creepy sounding album by a trend setter.
conducted and produced by Leroy Holmes ?!?
Bugaloo, frisson & sambas,
but what you really want is the r&b sounds of
“Mueva El Dinero” & the puppy dawg song “Le Chien (El Perro)”
Victor Lundberg - An Open Letter10 pieces of old fogey Victor’s mind, seems he is not up on the changes in these modern times. “On Censorship”, “To The Flower Power”, “Dear Parents”, “To The Destroyers”, etc. 2 tracks were issued on 7″ by Liberty listen to “My Buddy Carl” + “An Open Letter To My Teenage Son”
Jack Marshall & Shelly Manne - Sounds!I forget where I got this record from, but I have probably had it for around 3 years & have listened to it about 3 times (two of those times were in preparation for this review). I do know that it was one of the records I “discovered” in my shelves when I had […]
Dwayne Cannan - Spare ChangeThe first thing that came to mind when I saw this album was downtown. Dwayne is on the cover, carrying his guitar, coming out of an age-old telephone booth with the album name below him… Spare Change. You flip to the back-cover and see song titles like The Gutter Man, Lady, The Drifter, Cocaine Katie, […]
Jungle Trio - Jazz Meeting At Brazzaville1984 French pressing, nice Congolese easy jazz with one more grooving track, “Jungle Spirit”
The Oscar Arias Quartet“From the world famous Mexican Village (in Coronado, CA)” 10 tracks of lounge jazz and pop (drum,bass,organ,trumpet,singer), the better tracks being “I Feel The Earth Move” & “Evil Ways”
Watusi DrumsExciting - Wild - Orgiastic from the Burundi records label, ten tracks that sound like field recordings of drumming, some chanting.
Listen: Mwami
Alex Houston and Elmer - Nashville’s BestI would hate to hear music city’s worst, scary looking dummy doing questionable material. Listen for the random “O.J.” reference ….. Elmer !
A Child’s Cry - A Clue To DiagnosisPfizer must have handed these out with their pills, wacky Dr Weinberg from Capetown S.A. leads you through baby cries & their meaning. Troubling gatefold inner cover will not be shown, here are some diagnosis Crying Babies
Fundamentals of Chemistry“Learn 475 basic facts quickly and easily through this new audio learning method”. 17 tracks, including “The Atom part 1″ and “part 2″, “Halogens”, “Commercial Preparation”, etc. Dare to hear “Metals”?
Twilight: Still Loving You‘Nuther stock covered local lp I picked up recently - which turned out to be quite a bit rarer and better than I’d hoped for. I’m normally not big on late 70’s/early 80’s sounding soul, but the songs here are extremely well written and have an almost singer/songwriter quality to them - or, as it […]
Canti Comunisti Italiani“Songs of the Italian Communists” - now there’s a title crying out for the pop charts. There was a little sequence of revolutionary songs released on 7″ singles by the Italian label ‘i dischi del sole’ in the early sixties, of which this is one. Quite nicely packaged in a fold-out sleeve (would have been […]
KYC 64 - Know Your Car and Get The Best Out Of It“This Noise Means Danger!” - a TV tie-in 7″ single from BBC records in 1964. Know Your Car had a signature tune by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, but sadly it’s not to be heard on this peculiar mix of deadpan narration and the sounds of ailing motorcars. The commentary is by John F. Miles, manager […]
Bergendy: HétfőMy introduction to Hungarian rock came by way of a large stack of lp’s being dumped at a nearby thrift shop recently - so you’ll have to excuse my lack of knowledge on the subject. Anyhow, this is definitely one of my favorites of the bunch. On this later 70’s(?) double album the large, horn-driven […]
BBC Sound Effects Centre - Comedy SoundsAn in-house 7″ BBC sound effects disc from about 1967 by the look of the house style. The ‘handle with great care’ suggestion should have been taken more seriously, as there’s a big chunk out of the edge of the disc, depriving us of “Things Falling and Clanging”. Not very musically inspirational, as you might […]
Steve and Ed: Dream SongA surprisingly good folk-pop lp on the vanity label Century that I picked up recently due to my “leave no stock cover behind” compulsion. The notes say it was recorded in a Los Angeles area church, and it has a sort of cavernous low-fi sound quality that I quite enjoy. Very soothing Simon & Garfunkel-esque […]
Teenage Talk-InStrange 60’s Christian lp that has one of my favorite covers of all time. It depicts youthful scenes of of the era; playing baseball, dancing, riding on a motorcycle, holding a portable radio dangerously close to your ear and screaming, getting maced by the cops, hallucinating the Beatles’ disembodied heads, etc. And the message, delivered […]
Jerry Sinclair: It’s Just The Mercy Of GodAwesome cover! The music is god awful though.
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