What are you listening to right now #53

Joni Mitchell - Two Grey Rooms (Demo Version)

 

I would have agreed with you 20 years ago, Davis wins over Stella now.

Bloss

 

In no particular order > some of the records played (maybe just a track or two, sometimes the whole L.P.) last night in my "give the cartridge a workout / drink a large amount of alcohol" session with my idiot friend > all on record/vinyl

• Laurie Anderson - 'Big Science'
• The Human League - 'Travelogue'
• Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pusyhorse'
• Pretenders - 'Pretenders' (mostly for Private Life)
• Jacques Loussier - 'Reflections Of Bach'
• Major Lazer - 'Free The Universe'
• Led Zeppelin II
• Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft - 'Gold Und Liebe'
• X-Ray Spex - 'Germfree Adolescents'
• The B-52's - 'Wild Planet'
• Burundi - 'Musiques Traditionnelles' *this is a long time favourite of mine, outstanding - it never fails to surprise and amaze/amuse in equal measures* we played the whole of this.
• Killing Joke - 'In Dub'

there was other stuff but to be honest I cannot recall. Apparently we ate a load of chicken? and I have a large cut on my hand.

The new cartridge is amazeballs.

 

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back - Public Enemy L.P.

 

Slapp Happy, Live in Japan

 

My current mix of stuff


Mulatu Astatke and the Black Jesus Experience - Cradle of Humanity - https://blackjesusexperience.bandcamp.com/album/cradle-of-humanity


Yussef Kamaal - Black Focus https://yussefkamaal.bandcamp.com/album/black-focus


Mowgan — No Time For You - https://mowgan.bandcamp.com/album/no-time-for-you


Uproot Andy - Bumper to Bumper - (A remix comp) https://uprootandy.bandcamp.com/album/bumper-to-bumper


Akale Wube - Sost - https://akalewube.bandcamp.com/album/sost


Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile http://www.hdtracks.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/594082/s/your-queen-is-a-reptile/category/22/


Nesesari Kakalulu - self titled (https://nesesarikakalulu.bandcamp.com)


Golden Dawn Arkestra - Children of the Sun https://goldendawnarkestra.bandcamp.com/album/children-of-the-sun


Seun Kuti And Egypt 80 - Black Times - https://seunkutiegypt80.bandcamp.com/album/black-times


The Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Soul Makossa (just been reissued digitally and cleaned up) https://www.junodownload.com/products/soul-makossa/3276429-02/


Sons of Kemet - Lest we forget what we came here to do - https://sonsofkemet.bandcamp.com/


Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Ba Power - (with some trumpet by Jon Hassell, which is how this LP appeared on my radar - https://bassekou-kouyate.bandcamp.com/album/ba-power


Femi Kuti - One People One World - https://kontrabandstor.es/felakuti/fela-kuti-official-store/femi-kuti-one-people-one-world-cd

 

Anita Baker -'Rapture' L.P.

 

Suede - Coming Up
2013 vinyl

 

Brad Mehldau - solo piano 'Live in Japan'.

 

Jilted John - 'True Love Stories' album

 

Hip-hop, rap, jazz keeps getting better than ever.





Bloss

 

Boubacar Traore - 'The Best of the Bluesman From Mali' on CD.

 

Jack DeJohnette/Muhal Richard Abrams/Larry Gray/Roscoe Mitchell/Henry Threadgill, Made in Chicago. 2015 live recording proving the AACM is still to the point. Fantastic record.

 

Prince -Love Symbol' album on c.d. - I aint got the record, tis elusive.

 

David Byrne - American Utopia on record.

I wasn't sure straight away with this album, but I am hooked. Yes, he does sound fragile and even 'off' in places, but I like it far more now.

 

Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge

 

If you can get tickets for a decent venue when he comes back later in the year - GO!
One of the best shows I've seen in a long time. So good I've got tickets to see him again in Brighton in October (Brighton's way cheaper than seeing him at the O2 btw - on the assumption you're at this end of the country)

 

Nottm. and Leeds are closest - thanks.