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Re: OT: What's on your iPod/CDplayer/Turntable



I like these listening lists, it's always a great source for new music.

Last CD's I got:
Sun Ra: With Pharoah Sanders and Black Harold: reissue of an extremely 
rare 
mid-60's Saturn LP. I actually have the LP, but the CD adds 45 extra 
minutes 
of better recorded tracks. This is the energy music side of the Arkestra, 
and Sanders, who was new to NYC at the time of this recording, is already 
sounding killer.

John McLaughlin/Chick Corea: Five Peace Band Live and Return To Forever: 
Live at Montreaux (DVD). In hight school in the 70's, I idolized Corea, 
especially the RTF quartet stuff. I pretty much quit listening to him 
after 
the Elektrik Band's glossy FM overload, but these two releases have just 
been klicking my ass. Both of these are just killer, the new RTF seems to 
have a deeper pocket than they ever did in the 70's, and the 5PB is pure 
fusion, excellent musicianship and a lot of fire.

Mulatu Astatke with the Heliocentrics: Mulatu is an Ethiopian 
musician/arranger/bandleader behind much of the excellent Ethio-funk of 
the 
70's, and The Heliocentrics are a young British band with a vast 70's 
fixation. It's a perfect match, Mulatu's slinky grooves and strange modal 
melodies tastefully updated with touches of hip hop and electronics.

Secret Chiefs 3: The Severed Right Hands of the Last Men (title is 
actually 
in Italian, but I don't have the disc with me and am too lazy to look it 
up). Speaking of 70's fixations, this is a soundtrack to an imaginary 
Italian horror film. If I didn't know better, I'd swear it was a lost 
Morricone or Goblin rarity, even the recording quality fits with the era.

Also, the new Tortoise is very nice, lots of cool distorted analog synths.

But the majority of my listening lately has been stuff I've downloaded 
from 
avantgardeproject.org: an archjive of about 150 lp's of out of print 
academic electronic and 20th Century classical music. Lp's are transferred 
from vinyl with extreme fidelity, even the mp3 versions sound excellent, 
and 
it's really a wealth of interesting music. Material by Parmegiani, Berio, 
Subotnick, Kagel, Cage and many others, including composers I've never 
heard 
of, and I've been kind of obsessed with this stuff since college. Probably 
of special interest to this list are several late-70's Henry Kasier 
recordings. This archive is simply astounding, it'll take me weeks of 
listening to just make a first pass through this.

Seems like I've been living in the past lately :-)

Also, I should second Rick's recomendation of Nik Bartsch's Ronin, I have 
both of their ECM discs and they are incredible. It's like the concepts of 
80's Krimson as played by a chamber-jazz ensemble. Great stuff.