Music that Has Moved You Lately?
Big_Stacks
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Hey Guys (and Ladies),
I was spouting off some time ago about more LP talk than about the music on the LP. With that said, let's rap about some good music (or song) you've heard lately. Here goes:
1. "Let Love Enter"-Michael Henderson.
-This song is off of his "Solid" LP (Buddah, 1976). First of all, I gotta say I'm biased toward mid-70's soul/contempo jazz stuff. I like this song because it has a nice Latin-influenced, mid-tempo beat, nice rhythm work, good horn line accents, and Michael's powerful vocals. It has that smooth, after work, kick-of-the-shoes feel that I like. Serve with cognac.
2. "Salaam"-Catalyst.
-I love to listen to them when I'm reading (which I did earlier), cause I find their music soothing. This short-and-sweet tune comes from the self-titled album (Muse, 1972). I love flute to begin with, and this song features a solo flute with electric piano, bass guitar, and percussion accompaniment. The song has a mystical, far-eastern sound that's very pleasant and calming. This song could have definitely been longer.
3. "On the Nile"-Charles Tolliver and Music, Inc.
-"On the Nile" comes from his "The Ringer" LP (Arista, 1975). This is a rather majestic, yet tropical sounding sound. It's set in a 3/4 time signature and follows a comfortable, slow rolling meter. Tolliver takes a number of trumpet solos during the piece, and is backed nicely by drums, string bass, and piano.
4. "Icarus Revealed"-Shades of Joy.
-I play this song in the morning, cause it has a bright, happy sound. The tune comes from their self-titled LP (Fontana, 1969). The song features a lead female (delightfully raspy) vocal, some solo sax, and a full accompaniment of rhythm section. It also has a peppy, toe-tapping', 3/4 time signature that gets me hyped for the day. Bonus Question: Can anyone guess what song I looped up from this LP (for one of instrumental tracks on my Soundclick site)?
5. "I Tried to Make You Love Me Last Night"-Colours.
-I mentioned this song in a thread last week. I thought I should describe it hear. It comes from the "Atmosphere" LP (Dot, 1969). The song has a ecletic mix of rock and blues, with a nice slow, bouncing back beat with strong rhythm section work. The lead vocalist has an edgy voice that fits the rawness of the track, with includes drums, bass, multiple guitars, and nice backing vocals. This is definitely a nice diamond in the rough.
Please add on, peoples.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
I was spouting off some time ago about more LP talk than about the music on the LP. With that said, let's rap about some good music (or song) you've heard lately. Here goes:
1. "Let Love Enter"-Michael Henderson.
-This song is off of his "Solid" LP (Buddah, 1976). First of all, I gotta say I'm biased toward mid-70's soul/contempo jazz stuff. I like this song because it has a nice Latin-influenced, mid-tempo beat, nice rhythm work, good horn line accents, and Michael's powerful vocals. It has that smooth, after work, kick-of-the-shoes feel that I like. Serve with cognac.
2. "Salaam"-Catalyst.
-I love to listen to them when I'm reading (which I did earlier), cause I find their music soothing. This short-and-sweet tune comes from the self-titled album (Muse, 1972). I love flute to begin with, and this song features a solo flute with electric piano, bass guitar, and percussion accompaniment. The song has a mystical, far-eastern sound that's very pleasant and calming. This song could have definitely been longer.
3. "On the Nile"-Charles Tolliver and Music, Inc.
-"On the Nile" comes from his "The Ringer" LP (Arista, 1975). This is a rather majestic, yet tropical sounding sound. It's set in a 3/4 time signature and follows a comfortable, slow rolling meter. Tolliver takes a number of trumpet solos during the piece, and is backed nicely by drums, string bass, and piano.
4. "Icarus Revealed"-Shades of Joy.
-I play this song in the morning, cause it has a bright, happy sound. The tune comes from their self-titled LP (Fontana, 1969). The song features a lead female (delightfully raspy) vocal, some solo sax, and a full accompaniment of rhythm section. It also has a peppy, toe-tapping', 3/4 time signature that gets me hyped for the day. Bonus Question: Can anyone guess what song I looped up from this LP (for one of instrumental tracks on my Soundclick site)?
5. "I Tried to Make You Love Me Last Night"-Colours.
-I mentioned this song in a thread last week. I thought I should describe it hear. It comes from the "Atmosphere" LP (Dot, 1969). The song has a ecletic mix of rock and blues, with a nice slow, bouncing back beat with strong rhythm section work. The lead vocalist has an edgy voice that fits the rawness of the track, with includes drums, bass, multiple guitars, and nice backing vocals. This is definitely a nice diamond in the rough.
Please add on, peoples.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
Comments
My recent track of choice is by Eddi Harris "The River Nile." Its on the album "The Genius of (said artist)" and its on the Tradition label. Don't know much history about this record but its an amazing blend of acoustic and electronic elements. Definately one of Eddie's less traditional albums. There's no date but I would assume 1967-68ish.
I've also been feeling this track by a group called "the camel" called "the camel." (not a typo.) Its on Inner City, and anchored by drummer Michael Carvin and features none other than Sonny Fortune. The camel is this really fast yet spiritual and melodic jazz piece. Pick up it up if ou see it.
I've also been feeling this album by Axxess called "Novels for the Moons." Its this german electronic record from 1983. It sounds like video game music and Kraftwerk. Except each song is no longer than about 3 minutes. Needless to say, its amazing. Really intense drum driven electronic patterns.
Hey Sun,
Catalyst put out 3 other LPs on Muse ("Unity", "A Tear and a Smile", and "Perception"). I like them all, but I'm biased. Also, I have that Eddie Harris LP as well, and yes it's some good straight-ahead bop with an electric feel. You should try out some of his other joints (if you haven't already), I especially like "Free Speech", "Mean Greens", "Plug Me In", "The Electrifying Eddie Harris", "Instant Death", and "Excursions" to name a few.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
You're talking about "Eddie Harris Sings the Blues" which isn't one of my faves. I forgot to mention "The Tender Storm" as another one of his LPs that I enjoy.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
This is Michael Carvin's leader session, The Camel. This is a really nice record. good call, goes quite nicely with the Catalyst LP y'all mentioned.
I'm gonna cite Sonny Fortune's work on his LP "Awakening" as a similar moving experience, as well as Gary Bias' East 101. Stacks, if ya like flute, pick up Gary Bias' LP.
Add some details, bro!!! I'm familiar with all of those except the B.Coming jawn. I looped up "Little Green Apples" from that Bryant LP years ago (see "Dialect for the Mind" on my Soundclick site). Provide some description of tbe noteworthy songs from the LPs for the unaware.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
A mix by Jon Sikich(of Hamilton, ON, Canada) recorded live at a friend's wedding back in 2000/01.
This dj knows how to blend music, has an uncanny ability to stay in pitch and to top it off posesses great records.
This particular mix featured Wouldn't Change A Thing - COKE ESCOVADO // Give Me The Night - GEORGE BENSON // I Can't Go For That - HALL & OATES // (that track by Talking Heads w/ 'Where is my beautiful automobile' '...once in a lifetime...') forget the name now
+ a slew of other latin, funk, jazz that escapes me now.
A pleasure to have heard this.
*check out one of his newest mixes here
Charles Wright Express Yourself
"Funky Jamaican" records
Side Effect
and I was really let down by Catalyst's "Perception". I traded it in soon afterwards.
I got some joints that have most definitely been hittin me where it hurts lately. I've been on a pretty mellowed out finding myself tip, so you know there's bound to be some introspective jams up on my platter. Check it:
1. "Gnostic" - Grachcan Moncur III
I like to sit on the floor and stare at my palms when I listen to this one. You ever think about what palm readers check for? This song reminds me of searching for the sun only to find pocket lint. It's on his "Some Other Stuff" (Blue Note, 1964) album, which finds him appraoching mind numb trombone improv svengali status on a hushed sinister piano / bass interplay vibe. Makes me want to stick a straw in a bitch's ass and blow bubbles.
2. "These Days" - Nico
This is on her "Chelsea Girl" (Verve, 1968) album. You ever feel like a song makes your pubic hair stand up? Uh, me neither. But if I did, it would most likely be while listening to these string arrangements. Features Nico's always haunting voice that transvestites seem to take note of when applying make up and talking into the mirror. Someone once asked, 'What's your goal in life?', to which the only reply can be, 'To become immortal and then die.' Hopeless optimism is my bag right now.
3. "Here Comes the Night" - Them
This song starts out with an over-tremolo'd fretboard descension and Van Morrison's heated caterwaul. Such an appropriate opening for a song about seeing your 'girl walking down the street with another guyeeuy.' This version, from Them's self titled album (Parrot, 1965), shits on the million covers by half assed garage bands, Van himself, and David Bowie. Yeah I said it, fuck David Bowie. I like to put this song on when I wake up because it's really depressing and only makes sense to play at night. It also goes really well with my morning routine of drinking a lukewarm pint of goat blood in the front of the crack in my window that lets all the cold air and construction noise into my apartment. This song makes the pit of my stomach wretch.
4. "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" - The Shangri-Las
Shadow Morton produced the Shangri-Las "Leader of the Pack" LP (Red Bird, 1964). I'm not sure what drugs he was on, but I could probably use some. Take some sickeningly saccharine vocals and put them over the sound of high school beach murder scene nostalgia and you get a blurry, shaky-handed picture of this song. Is he just rubbing the surface of electric guitar strings to make those seagull sounds? Why do people not own this record? How is it possible that Sofia Coppola hasn't used this song yet? And other such questions that will probably be answered imminently. 2:18 of skin crawl bliss.
5. "Hardtime Killing Floor Blues" - Skip James
How the fuck do you make your voice sound like a harmonica? I really need to look into that. (From "Devil Got My Woman", Vanguard, 1968).
Bonus:
6. "Slab" - Mr. Lucci
It's been two years, and people still ain't ready for slab. I guess dude doesn't have enough metaphors.
Show 'em what you got.
Peace,
Rape Donk from Nonkalonk
SG
Kim Fowley- "Queen of Stars"- This song is brimming over with lecherous emotion. It may creep out your passengers but it is the kind of sleezy shit that sounds real good real loud on the highway.
Heaven and Earth- "Jenny"- Solo listening pleasure is the order of the day for most of these songs I'm listing. These two ladies sound so great together, their voices are very complimentary and they wear long, crocheted cardigan dress things.
Mandrake Memorial- "Hiding"- Slow sloppy rhythmed song that is nice when you are in or attempting to approximate a drugged out haze.
The Beatles- "Long, Long, Long" - I wouldn't ever say I have overlooked a Beatles song. But this song just really started hitting me in a serious way lately. Intense longing for love or truth...I'm not sure which George was intending but it puts me in that frame of mind where I can see the things I need in life at the tip of my fingers but can't touch them.
Chris Lucey- "Girl From the East"- Nice airy folk that kind of makes me wish (for a second) that spring wasn't coming yet.
This song always does it for me. Even though Nico seems to give up on even attempting to sing in key in the last verse it all adds to the overall effect.
Surfs Up - Beach Boys - absolutely kills me.
Ecstasy - Ohio Players - something about the piano in this
Look what you've done to me - Al Green - I love the change up in this and the way he sings the chorus.
Nico supposedly hated that record because of it's production.
Norman Feels "you cant stop my love" (Just Sunshine). so nice. so. nice.
Pete Rock feat Black Ice "truth is" i wish there was more new rap like this. actually talking about stuff. righteous anger!
UFO "treacle people" - godlike guitar noodling. you can definitely see the elves and wizards when this one plays. catchy! big 60s bass too.
Little Buck "little boy blue" (seven B 45) FINALLY found this fucker, and its just as great as i had hoped. this vocal is just so full of feeling, pain, alcohol!
Salem Travellers "wade in the water" rough gospel with a hot drummer. weepy sweaty vibe.
You lucky bastid! Where'd you track this one down? My dirty little secret is that I kind of prefer this take on 'Lover and a Friend' over the Eddie & Inez version. I like the lyrics better and the vocal is intense.
Music that's grabbing me this week....
Don & The Goodtimes - Turn On - Just got a nicer copy of this (my first was warped). Savage Pacific Northwest garage/organ madness.
Gilberto Gil - Coragem Pra Suportar - Revolver a la Bahia
Lou Courtney - Hot Butter 'n' All - On the turntable non-stop for the last two weeks.
Django Reinhardt - Nuages - Sublime...
String Cheese Incident - Lands End/San Jose - I'm generally opposed to a lot of what falls under the 'jam band' banner, but I've heard a bunch of their stuff on the ole satellite radio and they grew on me. Not sure if it's just Deadhead nostalgia, but they have some good tunes.
Sometimes I think I love Hawes more than Monk. Blasphemy!
Dorando - Didn't I
Didn't you make me stop what I was doing, sit down to listen and then play you three more times? Yes, yes you did.
Latimore - For What It's Worth (slowed down to -4)
Oh those back-up singers send chills down my spine.
Rolling Stones - Sweet Virginia
And I am not really a fan of country. More blasphemy!
The first harmonies on the intro give me goosebumps
this was the last song I heard in the car before I got to work... no wait 1969 was. But "no fun" played a few tracks before and I just had to stop and take a moment to acknowledge how goddamn much I was enjoying it. I love how he stutters/mumbles at the end like he's on speed or somethin. And the hand claps are such a nice touch. And the distortion pedal (throught the enitire album really) gives me a boner.
Interpol-Antics..just some them here in DC, not the best show i've ever been to but being on the list helps make any band better
Eh yo, why am I gonna sit here and let ya'll bug me
Cause I met a dime and the girl is lovely
And though we in love she ain't all luvy-duvy
Smacks me on the ass and says fast nigga fuck me
Don't worry if my babygirl trust me
I don't do nothing for her to bust me
I would love her if her rings were rusty
Feet were crusty
and arms were musty
Cause ain't nobody gettin that--just me
And ain't nobody hittin that--just me
If I cheat I know that she will bust me, crush me
Cause she know how many girls lust me
Back in the day they wouldn't even touch me
Now they say they don't want nobody but me
To tell the truth
Them girls just disgust me
Cause I already found the one that love me
Roman Dub???Harry Mudie/King Tubby: everything about this song is perfect. Snappy drums, wandering guitar lines watery organ stabs and a flanged out echo soaked bridge. Actually I???ve been playing the whole side 2 of Dub Conf. vol 1 several times a day this week.
You're killing me here, RD! This is why the Shangri-Las be the baddest girl group...they weren't the best singers in the world, but man, they were serious about getting the emotion and the melodrama out there!
Let me add "Out in the Streets" and "I Can Never Go Home Anymore" to the must-hear list for them...killer production and truly over the top drama delivered in every note. So vital, y'all need to get this stuff.
2. Been also listening to a bunch of RZA shit. I used to think he was overrated because of the sloppiness but I was bassing! Maybe I was jockin Primo and Pete too hard. He really needs to pull out the stax/hi catalog and let foolios know who started that shit.
I can't believe yall let this ride... brilliance in our midst
NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!!
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MissBassie's Cassette Mix
I was fortunate enough to receive a cassette months ago from our own voice of reason. I listened again last night. Proper, smokey, echoplex set to thrill, and some beautifully blended moodiness. Thank you (again).
Right On For The Darkness - Curtis
I don't know how many times I've listened to this song. 500? 1,000? How does it continue to give me chills? The strings at the end. Curtis' chorus. Unfuckwithable. Curtis appreciation is abundant around here. But fuck me if this song isn't one of my all-time favorites. What's the deal with the strings on this song, seriously?
"Lust Chance"
Since '91 this song has been a perpetual mindfuck. The porno samples ("so what else do you want me to do say, hmmmmm?"), the machine gun drum programming, JB screech?, that weirdo drill sound, 1930s orchestra interludes, the CB radio dialogue. There was some sample clearance problems with this record, so rather than cut the problematic song off the album, they left the song but made it 0 seconds long, and divided the remaining time among the other songs -- so the beginning and end of each song doesn't correspond to the time tracks. Funny.
Jesse's Corrido - Utah Phillips
I'm still sifting through the large collection of folk music I picked up over Christmas. Listening to Utah Phillips' first record the last few days makes me want to take to the rails, eat moose turd pies, and sing acoustic protest songs for Wobblies. This song, "Jesse's Corrido," is smashing. It's one of those tracks that comes on halfway through side two, when you've already relegated the music to background status as you attend to life. From it's opening melody, it lulls you back to side two, and makes you pay attention. It's so fucking sad. And beautiful. I've found it on a few other records amongst the collection as well, Rosalie Sorrels does it justice.
The things that I do are all very bad things;
I do them and then don't know why.
You hold up your sons with their blue or brown eyes
And tell me they're better than I.
My friends, they too all despise me;
I do all the wrong they had planned;
And all that I have for the years of my life
Is a cross that I've carved on my hand.
They put me in jail behind iron bars,
You'll find me with blood on my hands;
And tomorrow I'll stand up in front of the guns
And I'll give you the life you demand.
But tonight, as you sit at your table,
With your wife and your child close by,
Remember this corrido my young blood has made.
And now, mi amigos, goodbye.
From Utah Phillips songbook:
Jesse Garcia was on death row in Salt Lake City. He had originally been put in the penitentiary on a murder rap when he was 16 years old. Jesse had been as close to being an orphan as you can get, battered around from family to family. He got into a lot of trouble and had a pretty ugly life.
There was a big sex and dope scandal at the state penitentiary. Evidently one of the convicts had a very loose lip, so the king con, Billy Randall, suggested that Jake Varner ought to be killed. Varner was found up in the attic of the penitentiary with slash marks on his throat.
Jesse Garcia was just a kid - he was used by the other cons. He was used sexually, he was used to do their dirty work. He was a patsy - he didn't know what was going on. During the murder, Billy Randall locked himself in his cell so that he was clear. He turned in state's evidence. He finally had to be transferred to another penitentiary because he couldn't have stayed alive there any longer.
It was a long, ugly trial when all this came out about the drugs and the sex. In the end, three boys - Rivenberg, Bowen and Garcia - were found guilty and sentenced to death.
It came time for the execution. Protest organizers decided there should be an all night vigil on the road by Point of the Mountain, where the penitentiary is. We would be there with our picket signs when the sun came up, and would hear the sound of the guns. I'd been involved for so long that I didn't want to do that. I just couldn't see any sense in it. So I stayed home, and along about midnight I wrote the song for Jesse Garcia.
Sometime during the night Rivenberg committed suicide. The Board of Pardons met in emergency session and decided that they had their pound of flesh. So, just before sunrise, Jesse's sentence was commuted.
Debriefing
I found a Susan Sontag reading LP from the '70s. Her voice is charming. My girls says it's a "boring" LP, but I have come to adjust my expectations from talking records. It's the subtle things for me. And this LP is chock full of them. One of Sontag's shorts read in her voice, it explores the geography of modern urban living. In their preoccupations ??? with the nature of knowledge, with our relationship with the past, with the complex ways in which we make sense of the world ??? and a cover that gives Thrust a run for it's money.
La Gioconda[/b]
Ponchielli was on blast all last night. Act IV, Scene II to be exact. For those of you not into this opera, that's the death scene: Suicidio!. . . in questi fieri momenti to sol mi resti ("Aye, suicide, the sole resource now left me.") I've been listening to the mono Maria Callas box set. She is so fucking fierce with the opening. I went to the library and photocopied the score for this movement because I wanted to learn something more than the liner notes offer. In reading it, I realized this shit is in 9/8. It so gently transforms from 4/4 to 9/8 right after Callas screams "suicide." Ponchielli was so Josh Davis with his scripture there.
"Send me commissary, motherfuck them flowers"[/b]
Remix of "Tried By 12" by crazy German computer glitch filter-bank knob-twiddling ring modulator operators. My boss just walked into the office and said, "Oh, this is pretty." Huh? But now that I listen again, I guess it is "pretty." I don't know how I feel about this particular remix. But it's playing right now... And my vote is somehow leaning towards "pretty" even though 14-minutes ago I hated my boss and I thought we could never share anything nice ever again, ever. East Flatbush bringing people together...
Lillian Boutte[/b]
I have a Boutte song on a compilation. I need more. Help plaese.
Well written. Are those from TTL?