Archive for the ‘folk music’ Category
Still not an actual post…
April 21, 2009…but I thought I’d let you know that someone has blogged Bright Phoebus by Mike and Lal Waterson, with Richard Thompson, which I previously mentioned obliquely.
Listening diary 20080821: This month’s emusic take
August 22, 2008Album titles link to sample-laden purchase pages at various commercial servers.
Friend Opportunity by Deerhoof. I love it. It’s starting to sound like they’ve actually learned how to play their instruments, and it’s not interfering with what they do at all.
The Ellington Suites by Duke Ellington. I dig it, and I’m still assimilating it, but for now I’m only recommending it if you already have the Far East Suite and the Afro-Eurasian Eclipse.
Mustafa Kandirali by Mustafa Kandirali. Because there’s no such thing as enough Turkish Clarinet music. Those are supposed to be funny Turkish i’s with no dots. Thanks for the hot tip, Laura!
Instrumentals by the Nels Cline Singers. I like it. Pretty much exactly what I was expecting.
Looking forward to: Borrowed Arms by Two Foot Yard and Masada Book of Angels vol 11: Zaebos by Medeski Martin and Wood.
News to me: B.F. Shelton existed.
July 31, 2008And I’m glad he did. He only recorded four songs, almost like he knew that after three quarters of a century he would exist only as a MySpace page. Will appeal to fans of Doc Boggs.
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Funny genre train wreck.
July 23, 2008Not funny ha ha, more funny oh wow. Here’s a little bit of the song “For a Few Rubles More” by Farmer’s Market. This is from their first record, “Musikk Fra Hybridene,” which contains many hilarious genre trainwrecks, one of the genres always being Bulgarian Wedding Music.
(The other album of theirs that I have, “Speed Balkan Boogie,” is also great but not especially funny)
New Ivo Papasov!!
July 2, 2008Recent acquisitions, 20080109
January 9, 2008Planxty – eponymous first record. High quality Irish folk music, much more traditional that Steeleye or Fairport. Wikipedia.
Melvin Jackson- Funky Skull. Late sixties R&B/Jazz hybrid with the melody work being handled by Jackson playing an upright bass through an ancestral form of the envelope filter. He kinda sounds like the grown ups on peanuts, and I mean that in a good way. Appearances by Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchel, and Lester Bowie. Elsewhere geblogkt.
Trio of Doom- Not a bad record at all, but given that it’s Tony fucking Williams, John fucking McLaughlin, and Jaco fuckingfuckmemotherfucker Pastorious, I have to wonder, is that really the best they could do?
Listening diary: Following up on the British prog/folk…
September 4, 2007I picked up a couple of those British prog/folk records from that list I linked to a few weeks ago. Time Will Pass by the Spriguns is perfectly listenable, even if the main effect of listening to it is to realize how great Liege and Lief is. First Utterance by Comus is quite uneven, its low points are hippy drool (but again perfectly listenable and not without musical skill), but at its peaks it reminds me variously of early Can, pre-echos of Faun Fables, sometimes even Renaldo and the Loaf.
“Some personal views [not mine -sl] on British folk rock”
July 25, 2007Here they are. The records I know are great, the rest I’m intensely curious about.
The via trail: Alan Terrill commented that Stump’s entire ouvre is going to come out soon, so I went to Kev Hopper’s site for more info, but there wasn’t any, so I went to his blog, where he wrote about how great one of those records is, so I googled it.
