Matthew Larkin Cassell
TomO
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Ecoutez -Just thought I'd let all of you know (who don't know already) that his LP / EP 'Pieces' and 'Matt The Cat' are now out on P-Vine Jp CD. I'd love both of them on vinyl but there's no way I could afford them / find them!Give the man some deserved credit and pick the CDs up - hopefully he gets some nice royalty cheques from these official releases. A great musician and songwriter - I can't believe these records weren't bigger back when they came out.Take it easy,Tom
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He will - he chose P-Vine after shopping around at different labels. Too bad there won't be any vinyl reissues. That said, MLC will soon be releasing his first new work since the late seventies: a 12" EP w/ two new tracks, handwritten labels.... 100 copies
Paging Kinetic
i love that track on Kon & Amir, and I think it's amazing that it's collectable now... but that kinda price, I'd rather get 2 boscoe's!
yea... it really really sucks.
maybe not your cup of tea...but doo doo ? cmon. thats a stretch.
ive got an instrumental version of heaven. far from doo doo.
as far as fools paying dumb $$ for ANY record...who cares really...i can think of many records aside from matts that people pay far too much for.
Big spending "funky" collectros got tired of the lack of prestige in owning Steely Dan and Doobie Bros records?
I just couldn't do it with this one.
Honest talk here.
And I would be the first dude to jump on some hype bandwagon.
the only one of his i've ever heard, and i think it's great.
and maybe it's all i need??
WHAA??? master reels? DAAAMN...
That song, along with In My Life are obviously the draw of the album itself. The other tracks are OK, but to me its a solid two tracker.
I felt the same way, but after giving his albums some more listens I really think both are something special.
a couple of my homies are a big part of MLC getting his shine these days. good lookin out fellas!
Hehe Get theeself to the thread where people are hatin on Lo Borge's & Milton's Clube De Esquina - you might agree with them too. Each to their own and everything - fair enough you might not rave about these albums or reckon they're worth serious $$$, but anybody who listens to these MLC joints and can't appreciate the production, the brilliant musicians and songwriting, has something wrong with them.
When I first heard In My Life - all I could hope for was that A) there was a whole album that it came from and B) that the whole album sounded like In My Life. It pretty much does.
His voice if Frickin' ridiculous and the shit is so mellow the whole way through. If the house goes up in flames, Pieces is the one record I'm taking with me (if i had to choose).
Kon and I are definitely bias here, but even if it's not your cup of tea, appreciate the fact that this is a dude who had NO idea that anyone in the world gave two shits about what he had done 28 years ago. And then out of nowhere, the vinyl that probably sat on a shelf collecting dust is all of a sudden fetching $1500? It's just an amazing story - and he's the nicest dude in the world. Second lease on life, gentleman. And easy, he might be Monty Starking up in here....
Agreed, I think you have to be a certain type of "mellow head" to understand the genius behind the "mellowness" of stuff like MLC, Milton Nascimento, or even stuff like early Bobby Caldwell, George Cables, etc.
Lots of piano driven mellow yet jazzy/dancey/boogie/modern will never be understood by break heads and certain types of diggers. It takes all kinds.
I can definitely see the appeal of MLC to the Japanese collectros and some Euro heads.
Disclosure: I THINK MLC IS DOPE (but I could never throw down for an OG though unless I won the lotto or something).
Best part is that he's still making music and will be putting it out and making some well-deserved money.
WHATEVER.
do you know whether those reissue cds only came out in japan or do they have a world wide distro? did anyone hear them so far? are all tracks as good as "in my life"? i need that cd...
have you heard those tracks? are they good? who is "mlc" (i guess i should know, right? well then please school an unknowing german-lol).
er.... MLC = Matthew Larkin Cassell
is there anybody who knows where this 12" will be sold / when it'll come out?
Honourary member! 'Heaven' is simply great music imo. No if's, and's, or butt's
Think they're Japan only - but you can get em on ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/MATTHEW-LARKIN-CASSE...Q2em118Q2el1247
Get em both - you won't be dissapointed.