Where did the where did the latest purchases thread go go?

awesome.

First album's as good as any of his earlier stuff, second has its moments.

Currently on order (if that's any help):
Bjork - Medulla
Nick Cave - Abatoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus
The Clash - London Calling 25th Anniversary Editions (with the recently rediscovered "Vanilla Tapes" of demos for the album including several unreleased tracks etc. - yay!)
Dr. Octagon - Dr Octagonecologyst
Ella Guru - the First Album
Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Groove Armada - Best Of
Interpol - Antics
The Libertines - The Libertines
N*E*R*D - In Search Of....
Dizzee Rascal - Showtime
George Russell - Electroci Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature
The Sdaies - Favourite Colours
Super Furry Animals - Out Spaced
Talking Heads - The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads
Tom Waits - Real Gone
Brian Wilson - SMiLE
Various Artists - Rai Rebels

Frankie Negron: Frankie Siempre Frankie

New Jersey's Latin heart-throb, backed up by producer Sergio George's golden pop salsa touch, puts out another dance-floor filler, with a little of the other kind of filler thrown in. ("Comerte a Besos," "No Me Comparas")

[Do I sound like a real critic? No? It's not as easy as I think is it?]

Stanley Clarke: 1, 2, to the Bass Featuring Q-Tip for that comeback album youth appeal.

Thelonious Monk and Gerry Mullihan: Mullgian Meets Monk Fight tooth decay. Tickle those ivories.

Various: World Library of Folk & Primitive Music: Scotland Uncloog your ears.

The songs by Michael Stuart w/ Gisselle, Kevin Ceballo, Jay Lozada (?!) and Brenda K. Starr (an ambarrassment in general) all pretty bad.

just ordered from Amazon:
Guided by Voices - Get Out Of My Stations EP
Muddy Waters - His Best: 1947 to 1955
Sonny Boy Williamson - His Best
B.B. King - Live At The Regal
Otis Rush - Essential Collection: Classic Cobra Recordings

haven't been doing much record shopping but got radu malfatti/mattin duo 'white noise' (its a joke, its mostly quiet and very gd) and re-bought (I liked it at first then did a 180 and sold it) eno/byrne 'my life in the bush of ghosts' for a quid in the bargain bin after reading a heated discussion over this record on an ilm thread abt this a couple of weeks ago.

when is that from? isn't there a boot of theirs called 'skullfuck'?

Marc Anthony Thompson will keep me satiated with his dead-on Mark Eitzel impression until the new AMC hits the streets.

Honeybus - She Flies Like A Bird Anthology

2CD set of everything they've every done. Kinda shocked that I've never heard of these guys, a fantastic melange of a late 60's sunshine style mixed with a more straight ahead power pop feel. Some really gorgeous tunes on here

Bjork - Medulla

Still gestating. I didn't think much of Vespertine at first either so perhaps I'll eventually adore this. Tracks #3 and #11 are early standouts.

Really? I started listening to the one for Scotland, and I couldn't get into it. I will try again in a different mood.

(I was making some pretty weird typos upthread.)

what are these like milton?

you can't lose with any Dowland for lute really. especially the Julian Bream.

Anyway,

CDs:

v/a - Million Tongues Festival (LSD March, Espers, Fursaxa, Kawabata Makoto + Kinski, Panicsville, etc.)

Tapes:

Phillip Glass / Robert Wilson - Einstein on the Beach 2xCS

LPs:

Amon Duul II - Wolf City
Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum
Holger Czukay - Der Osten Ist Rot
Holger Czukay - Rome Remains Rome
Godz - II
Magma - Attahk
Magma - Live

Just picked up at home during doctor's appointment/lunchbrk. Some of the Gilberto Santa Rosa sounds very good.

I'm a little disappointed with the Body Acoustic. The trumpet playing is too reliant on the Miles Davis model, in my opinion (but then I don't like Miles Davis' sound very much to begin with).

I bought this at BIG Kmart partly because I was shocked to see it there (and it was a bit less than what it would be elsewhere, I think). Also, it has a good cover.

Why do I keep making risky purchases like this? I don't really love this style, well, these styles, of music. I'm really glad salsa happened and the Cuban roots got twisted up into something new that I can relate to more.

I'm being overly negative though. It's not bad, but still this first listen drives home how little connection I really feel to this music. Most of the soloing (except for the percussion stuff) really doesn't interest me either. And the Cuban use of violins and flute is usually really really hard on my ears.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000255K3A.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

(I'll take Egyptian oldies over Cuban oldies any day.)

Jefferson Airplane - 2X LP greatest hits
Marc and The Mambas - Untitled
Robin Hitchcock - Black snake diamond role (orig pressing on Armageddon)
Gary Numan and Tubeway Army - Replicas

CD :

Congos - Heart of The Congos (Blood and Fire 2 XCD reissue)
V/A - Rabid/TJM Punk Singles Collection (J.Cooper-Clarke's first recordings, Slaughter and The Dogs, a Distractions track etc etc)
Altered Images - Pinky Blue Plus reissue

Celia Cruz: At the Beginning. . .

I had a hand in this appearing in the collection.

Ellington/Mingus/Roach: Money Jungle
Ellington: Black, Brown and Beige

I was specifically interested in hearing these two albums, although it's unlikely I would buy them without hearing them first, so this is a nice surprise.

Joe Lovano: Viva Caruso

Nothing I expect to like, but worth a try.

Paul Winter/Winter Consort - Icarus (this is great! psych all the way. george martin production and billy cobham even shows up.)
Grover Washington Jr - Mister Magic
Larry Carlton - Alone/But Never Alone (custom pressed on kc 569 blend premium virgin vinyl courtesy of KM in Burbank, California)
Scot Scheer - Night Heat
Hubert Laws - Say It With Silence
Windham Hill Records Sampler '84 - Hedges, Isham, Winston, etc
Windham Hill Records Sampler '86 - ditto with the various, natch
The Wayne Packard Quintet - The Way It Was (private-press jazz from 1971. track listing doesn't look promising, but...you...never...know.)
John Michael Talbot - Beginnings... (sparrow records xian folk from one of the members of Mason Profitt after he found god and started dressing like a monk.)
Heifetz - Beethoven's Kreuzer Sonata (stonecoldmint rca living stereo. the only way to listen to Jascha rock the fiddle)
Gato Barbieri - Ruby, Ruby (Yer in Gadd's country, pardner)

I am all about the quiet storm today.

Sorry I still don't get it. What's a jit? (and I assume you're not talking about Java compilers *stifles nerd laugh*)

Mohamed Abdel Wahab: Le Celebre

Farid el Atrache: Hekayet El Omr Kolloh

A well-done package on Virgin Arabia. (It's not a fantastic package or anything, but by compared to a lot of the Arabic CDs I get, it's pretty nice.) This might be the best one CD collection I've heard of Farid's work (or at least his later work). There are some moments in a few of these songs where his borrowings from western popular music are really a mess, but there's also a lot of beauty in most of them, and he is a great singer.

Various (incl. Wadi el Safi: The Maronite Mass
Mohammed Kheyri/Mohammad El Ouzabi: Nights of Tarab (This is a 2004 release, but a recording from the 70's)
Simon Shaheen/Ali Jihad Racy: Taqasim
Ali Aldik: Super Star 2004

Not totally sure of the title, but that's the only English on the cover that could conceivably be a title. I think some of you would like this a lot. This, to my ears, is some of the best new Arabic music making use of some electronics w/ occasional references to western electronic dance styles, but without giving up an essentially Arabic sound. I don't want to build this up too much (especially since I'm still on the first track), but I think it's pretty good. Oh yeah, this definitely sounds much more contemporary technologically than most Arabic recordings I like (and I think it's way better than 99% of Egyptian New Sound). Crazy electric organs too, not an especially new sound, but I really go for that in this music.

Variazioni Canoniche Sulla Serie Dell'op. 41 di Arnold Schonberg (1950) etc.
on col legno 2001

La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura (1988/1989) on Kairos 2000

Luigi Nono 3 Guai ai gelidi mostri (1983) etc.
on Montaigne (looks like 1995)

My dad (classical musician who tries to recommend things I might like) had been harassing me to check Nono out. Coincidentally, mp3 blog christoperporter.com did a bit on him the other day.

Luigi Nono

as for me:

cheap cassette copies of beatles -yellow submarine and new order 'substance' comp.

paco pena - arte y pasion on nimbus 2 CD set.

should get a copy of christina kubisch's 'on air' and sachiko m/otomo yoshihide duo soon.

V/A - Short Circuit Live at The Electric Circus 10" (Joy Div/The Drones/Steele Pulse/Buzzcocks etc etc)

Julian Cope - Skellington

Punishment Of Luxury - Laughing Academy

Pink Floyd - A Nice Pair

Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Lou Reed - Berlin
The Notwist - Day 7 (EP)
Tom Tom Club - Close to the Bone
Fred Schneider & the Shake Society - s/t (may have overpaid for this one)

Larry Harlow: Hommy

(I'm really looking forward to hearing this now.)

La Lupe: The Queen of Latin Soul

("Amor Gitano" makes me want to literally rip my chest open. Can we have some feeling, even if it kills us?)

Lucho Gatica: 25 Canciones Inmortales: Colección Definitiva

The ultimate seduction-oriented bolerista.

All 5-97 each from solid sounds who have a shockingly bad selection, but who are VERY CHEAP (the fairies CDs are 10-99 in hmv. I'll probably pay that out for ""kings of Oblivion" on the way home tonight. Gawd, the pink fairies were great!!

Aaaah, but blue vinyl or black, Doc?

"Punishment Of Luxury - Laughing Academy"

What do you think Doc? I missed it at the time but picked it up when it was re-released a few years back and I think it's great - it's like the missing link between XTC and Killing Joke, if anyone was actually looking for one!

"New 2CD compilation Heaven And Hell - The Best Of The Mekons"

Ooh, ooh, ooh (and, at the risk of repeating myself) ooh!

Has it got (the original versions of) "Never Been In A Riot" and "32 Weeks" and "Heart And Soul" and "Where Were You?" and "I'll Have To Dance Then (On My Own)" on it?

(If it hasn't, it might be good but it certainly isn't "The Best Of The Mekons" in my book!)

"Reviews":

Ya Nai'man Raqadat Gofounuh. I think this is the best of those two Abdel Wahab CDs, but they are both pretty good. His voice sounds very good. Some of the compositional moves (especially the ones involving the integration of western elements) on the other CD seem a little off to me, although I do like "Assiba Wal Gamal," which includes piano parts, but stitches the Arab and the European together in ways that don't seem as though they should work, and yet they do.

Farid al-Atrash: King of the Oud. This consists of two parts. The first is a collection of live oud solos. There are some problems with this. The biggest problem is that he generally repeats the same basic crowd-pleasing moves from solo to solo. I don't mind this when I hear one of his solos in its original context, as part of a longer work. But these have all been yanked out of context and strung together. They aren't a collection of solos with a lot of difference from one to the other. They weren't planned to be together like this, back to back. He's a great musician, but I think the solos are better enjoyed as they appear inrecordings of complete songs. The second part of this CD is the lengthy song "Kelmet Itab" (with the lines first being recited briefly and then sung). This is just Farid accompanying himself on oud. I like this one quite a bit.

Wadi el-Safi: Natrak Sahran. I'm impressed that something like this was released just last year. Wadi el-Safi is getting pretty old, but his voice still sounds good. This is in a relatively traditional Lebanese style. (I thought I heard audio samples from this that included just a hint of electronics, but there is nothing electronic here, not even any slick production. Strange.) I think I've given Wadi el-Safi short-shrift.

"Has it got (the original versions of) "Never Been In A Riot" and "32 Weeks" and "Heart And Soul" and "Where Were You?" and "I'll Have To Dance Then (On My Own)" on it?"

It's got "Where Were You" and it's got "Work all Week" (but are these the original versions or the re-recordings from last year's Punk Rock album?) and it's got "Snow"; but as far as I can see there's nothing from The Quality Of Mercy Is Not Strnen and no "Teeth".

Bugger.

In case you're wondering, the last 10 are the CDs the NPR Guide recommends for beginning a classical collection. Gotta start somewhere. I'm also getting the Penguin Guide, which I understand is the standard for classical collectors.

today:
julee cruise - the voice of love
ted leo/pharmacists - the tyranny of distance
gordon lightfoot - the united artists years (his complete first 5 albums on 3 cds)
phoenix - alphabetical

on the weekend:
damon and naomi - with ghost
morrissey - kill uncle
morrissey - my early burglary years

last week:
tanya donelly - whiskey tango ghosts
todd fancey - s/t
hooverphonic - jackie cane
morrissey - your arsenal
the mountain goats - the coroner's gambit
the mountain goats - tallahassee
paul simon - the rhythm of the saints
the smiths - the queen is dead
sufjan stevens - greetings from michigan

christina carter "L'Etoile de Mer" CS
christina carter "bastard wing" LP
pink floyd "atom heart mother" LP
marissa nadler LP
grateful dead "anthem of the sun" LP
the dead c "whitehouse" CD
united states of america s/t LP
steely dan "the royal scam" LP
the shadow ring "lindus" LP
bitch magnet "ben hur" LP

charalambides "internal eternal" CD
red crayola "parable of arable land" LP

In a way this is really not so different from stuff I was listening to in the early and mid- 80's, and yet I wonder if the similarities aren't at least partly superficial (jazz musicians meet electronics). Anyway, I like it, for now, and it does sound new.

William Parker Quartet: O'Neal's Porch

(Also ordered a bunch of Arabic stuff which I am justifying to myself as "tying up loose ends," getting just a bit more Farid el Atrache, and a couple Wadi al-Safi CDs to make up for my neglect of him all these years. And also that Rahim Al-Haj CD just for the sake of timeliness, and a Karim Mahmoud CD just because. But after that, I don't plan to be buying many Arabic CDs.)

I do like Groundtruther. I don't quite know why I bothered to make that negative post.

Here's my list:

-ABC: The Lexicon of Love LP (c'mon, $3 for "The Look of Love"? Totally worth it!)
-Japanther: South of Northport (waaaay too short at what, 13 minutes? Fucking best band I saw on my NY trip. Fantastic!)
-Royal Trux: Twin Infinitives (long overdue purchase)
-Super_Collider (forget the name of the particular album. Bargain bin purchase)

"Punishment Of Luxury - Laughing Academy"

What do you think Doc? I missed it at the time but picked it up when it was re-released a few years back and I think it's great - it's like the missing link between XTC and Killing Joke, if anyone was actually looking for one!

Blue vinyl for the Electric Circus, Stew. I dunno why I never had this before - I have the Fall tracks on The Early Years and of course I've heard the Joy Div track. But this is a fantastic recd - even The Drones sound good and the Steel Pulse track is exceptional.

Punilux - I used to have this on tape many years ago, but I haven't heard it for 20 yrs or more, except for Puppet Life, which I have on Seeds 2 and possibly on the 1234 punk box. It's great - I'd forgotten how good they were, fairly proggy at times, great guitarist (Neville Luxury!). The lyrics are a bit sixth-form existential techo-crisis babble, but so what?

Also, I'm supposed to be getting out of my apartment and living, but that is not happening so far.)

My goodness, cdbaby.com is fast.

Farid el Atrache: Wehyat Eineri. That's how it was listed, though that is just the title of the first song here. I already have this song elsewhere, but the remaining songs (which I don't think I've heard before) on this CD, plus the title song, make up a better total package. The other songs are a little draggy, but not horribly so, and there are no embarrassing takes on swing era jazz or the like. "Wehyat Eineri" is really great. The rest of the songs are pretty good, from what I can tell so far; but this would definitely be a decent entry point into Farid's work.

Wadi el Safi: Inta Omri ("Legends of the 20th Century" series.) This is, of course, the song made famous by Oum Kalthoum. Good things about having Wadi el Safi cover it: he is a very good singer and he is a man (and therefore less likely to be tempted to closely imitate Oum Kalthoum's performance). It's unusual for as prominent an Arab singer as el Safi to cover such a famous song by an even more prominent singer (when he wasn't the composer of the sing). As I've said a million times before, overall I don't like the direction orchestration and arrangements took in Egyptian music took in the 50s and 60s: particularly, I don't like the formulaic call and response thing between singer and rigid and bombastic sounding violin section. Too much: lalalal pause DRAMA! lalalalalalal pause DRAMA! However, since this is an Abdel Wahab composition there are, typically, nevertheless some interesting twists and turns and passages of beauty.

Wadi el Safi: The Very Best of. . . [Vol. 1? I thought this was supposed to say Vol. 1 but it doesn't.]

Oum Kalthoum: Raq el Habeeb. I think I just read that this was Mohammed El-Qassabji's last composition for Oum Kalthoum. I don't really care for his style, but I don't think I've ever heard her perform one of his songs live, so that could make a difference. If it's not a live performance, why is it being sold all by itself? I hope it's at least 20 minutes long or something. (The price was lower than any of the other CDs in this series, so maybe it's almost more like an EP.)

Ibrahim Hassan: Damascus Passage. Fairly typical Arabic, specifically Syrian, instrumental music, so far. I hate to say it, but this would make good restaurant music. It's good though. You could belly dance to some of this, if you could belly dance. It's got hints of Turkish and Kurdish music as well, as the back cover hints at.

The Penguin Guide is good if you already know what piece you want to buy, but you're not sure which recording to get. It's not very helpful on deciding which composers or pieces to try. It rarely makes any qualitative judgments on the compositions themselves, only on the performances and sound quality.

Black Keys - Rubber Factory
Devendra Banhart - Nino Roja

anyhow, soooo good

HMV sale, following bargains:

Jackie Mittoo/ Drum Song - top-notch compilation of mellow Bunny Lee productions frm, I'm guessing, late 70s/ early 80s. According to Amazon and All Music Guide this album doesn't exist - but it does, it does!

Guided By Voices/ Universal Truths and Cycles - balls-achingly dull, where are the tunes Bob?!?!?! No wonder they're splitting up.

The Fall/ Totally Wired - got the vinyl but don't have any of this stuff on CD. A few quibbles with the track selection: where are "Putta Block", "Slags, Slates", "Stop Mithering"? Why a live version of "The NWRA"? Why the crap version of "New Puritan" from "Totale's Turns" and not the version on the "Kicker Conspiracy" EP? Still, mustn't grumble too much, it was cheap.

(I guess I am back to ILM, but I think I'm through with ILE.)

(also heard bits of the albert ayler box set)

(its klaus lang, btw)

;)

Pardon?

x-post: mark wastell, the guy who owns the shop.

Gonna take awhile to dig into this...

- captain beefheart, trout mask replica (strangely, the one c.b. record i don't save, save for the "tragic band" ones, the live ones, and the elusive lick my decals off [if someone wants to copy the latter for me, i wouldn't mind)

- london is the place for me - comp of calypsos recorded in the uk in the 1950s (very nice packaging and liner notes)

- sugar and poison - david toop-curated double-cd collection of soul ballads, very hard to find, and i got it for an obscene $10 (yay)

- les paul with mary ford, best of the capitol masters - finally

- cecilia bartoli, if you love me: 18th-century italian songs

- archie shepp, attica blues

- anne sofie von otter, lieder melodies - beethoven, meyerbeer, spohr, etc.

not bad really.

Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - United LP
Thee Midnighters - Thee Midnighters LP
Rose Royce - In Full Bloom LP
Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew - The Show 12"
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band - Meets King Penett LP
Change - The Glow of Love LP
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden LP
Bobby Womack - The Womack Live LP
Eddie Kendricks - People Hold On LP

I liked it for awhile. Music Is My Boyfriend is really cool. Now I'm listened to a Britney comp instead.

none.

i've bought less records this year than ever. i've pirated a few, though.