All reviews by hcrink
Ford Lile: Track of the ScarabTotally bugged out (no pun intended) album that Douglas recommended to me recently. Ford Lile manages to sound, mystical, erotic, and really creepy all at the same time - which, to me, seems like no small feat! Imagine if Barry White had taken a Paul Horn style career turn and ended up dabbling in new-age […]
Frank Lynch: A New Look At LifeRecords with low budget duo-tone covers pressed by high schools, with Christian kids sporting acoustic guitars pretty much haunt me in my dreams now. So, yeah, I got a full on boner when when I found this. I even like green. And it’s from Canada so it kinda has that lure of “the exotic other”. […]
Freddie Hubbard/Ilhan Mimaroglu: Song of SongmyCrazy record that probably scared Freddie Hubbard fans with it’s extreme Avant Garde-ness. Yet, does not seem to be super well known among Avant Garde enthusiasts - proabaly because it’s credited to Hubbard and was released on Atlantic. But, this is every bit as ruthlessly experimantal as anything I’ve heard on any fringe Classical label. […]
Gary Bradford: I’m Not Handicapped, Just Inconvenienced***Stupid and tasteless review here***
George Braith - MusartOne of the most unique & beautiful jazz albums I’ve ever heard! Sounds ranging from exotica with wordless female vocals, to free jazz - often all within the same track. Worlds away from the typical one dimensional soul jazz that Prestige was cranking out at the time, and from most jazz albums that came before […]
Gershon Kingsley - Music To Moog ByOne of the best common Moog lp’s you can buy. Peep the track “Hey, Hey”
Glaser, Solomon, Clayton, and Contini: AEIOUUltrasound Records made this lp in the mid 70’s devoted to teaching vowel sounds to children. An artifact of the era that would have most likely stayed buried in the graveyard of kitsch had it not become known for the funky breakz of the long E song. But aside from all of that, this is […]
Glenn Derringer: Swingin’ RhythmI don’t really have anything to say about this record but that Lulu cover was seriously starting to freak me out. Anyhow, here’s an MP3
God Is For Real, ManIt’s taken me a good couple years to fully digest this lp, but I think I can now say with some degree of certainty that this is hands down one of the heaviest “non-music” lp’s I’ve heard. I mean, how could a 60’s record of ghetto kids interpreting the bible in jive talk be anything […]
Gospel Heralders: Christ In SongI really just don’t know what to think about this one…
Graduates: S/TTeen/Frat-Rock lp from the south that is at least semi-known. Lots of pretty unmemorable stuff on here, like the usual ill-chosen Beatles covers, etc… but a couple tracks are full-on rad. There’s a great cover of Sly’s “Thank You” with wah-guitar, cheesy organ, and squeaky-clean harmonies. Also a killer fuzzed-out version of “Comin’ Home Baby” […]
Hansadutta Swami: Nothing To Lose But All To GainI was finding this record all over the place when I first moved to the bay area. I like it, but I once enthusiastically sent a copy to my friend Dan and he told me he was unable to listen to it because the cover frightened him. I guess it’s not for everyone.
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 […]
Henry Cowell - The Piano Music OfI can’t really think of a solo piano record that I like better than this. Recorded at Cowell’s home, it has a very intimate sound & consists of him playing and speaking about his compositions for prepared piano. For those of you who don’t know, this is the guy who invented the prepared piano - […]
Hi HopesI grew up near Anaheim, CA, which is where Hope High the school for developmentally disable kids that spawned the Hi Hopes is. So, I’m sorta partial to them even though their records are not very good. Well, I mean they are “good” for records of music made by, to use the liner notes’ not […]
Hoctor - Jazz In FocusDefinitely one of the better Hotor lp’s out there. As with most of these dance records, there isn’t any info given as to players, arrangers, etc, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that some of these tracks were done by Allan Tew (the library dude) dunno how accurate that info is though though.
Holidays To Sing AboutOK, I was just telling a friend that I was going to stop reviewing crappy records on the site… and I genuinely mean it… so help me god I do. Then I log in tonight and see all the dumb shit I have cued up. They’ve been sitting here for months - a small voice […]
Homestead Act: Gospel SnakeWriting about these largely unknown, home-made records can be tough. Take this private press hipster bluegrass lp here… which is particularly a head scratcher. If the cover (which as always is scant on vital info) is to be believed, these kids were from TN, and this record was released in “AD 1972″.
Howard Wales: Rendezvous with the SunHoward Wales is probably best known for his association with the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia. But, he also stepped quite firmly on the tera of jazz funk via his playing on “Music of El Topo”, and with this private solo lp from 1976. The track that quite deservedly gets attention here is “Karnaval” - […]
Iasos: Inter-Dimensional MusicOne of the really great records on the Unity label from Marin County, CA. I guess this stuff is considered “new age”, but it’s super trippy and should appeal to lovers of space rock and Eno style drone stuff. Very entertaining liner notes too. Check out his instructions on “Finger-Listening”…
“Finger-Listening
Try this: While playing this record, […]