Electrode
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Recent Finds
Swap meet finds. Fredera is the only LP from the Som Imaginário guitarist who played with the best of the best in MPB. Astrud is in unplayed condition. Egberto Gismonti is the LP he released after the excellent "Corações Futuristas" but before he signed with ECM, starting with "Dança Das Cabeças". Rare Bird is their debut. I owned a Uriah Heep record before. This is their second one.
Hopefully this won't be the last finds post I'll make here as I'll make an effort to do some record shopping while in Salvador, Bahia in two weeks, which coincides with SS going offline soon after.
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Old movies you've only seen recently...
"Images" (Robert Altman, 1971): Years ago, all I knew previously about this is that both John Williams and Stomu Yamashita collaborated on the soundtrack. I found it at a local video rental store (yes, they still exist!) and checked it out. Susannah York's character, a poet, retreats with her photographer husband to her childhood home in the UK. Things get weird when her former husband "appears", she sees herself in the distance and a friend of the couple, with a daughter who looks like a younger version of herself, comes over and imposes a little too much. This is a dive into the mind of someone who doesn't know what's real and what isn't.
This also led me to rent "California Split", another Altman film, about gambling addicted friends who learn about the highs and lows (no pun intended) of the "lifestyle".
I also saw "Buck And The Preacher" (Sidney Poitier's directorial debut) with Harry Belafonte hamming it up and the two fighting off Cameron Mitchell's posse of thugs.
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Recent Finds
The Saul Bass connection checks out since the first and only feature film he directed ('Phase IV', a trippy movie about hyper intelligent ants) included Stomu Yamashita's music, but for a scene which was unfortunately cut in the original release.
Between this, the "Sea & Sky" cover art above (which was used for a 1980 short film he directed called 'The Solar Film') and the poster he made for an earlier (1968) experimental short film he also directed called 'Why Man Creates', I can tell he was into the setting sun motif.
As for the record I found this weekend, it almost completes my collection of pre-Go Yamashita, some of which were used for 'The Man Who Fell To Earth' (percussive/ambient) and a Formula 1 doc called 'One By One' (more on the jazz-rock side)
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Recent Finds
Labor Day weekend swap meet finds. Another Association PC, sealed Undisputed Truth and Stomu Yamashita with Saul Bass cover art.
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Old movies you've only seen recently...
I was into anime at one point, but all I remember from "Akira" were the motorcycle battles. If you're into that same style, check out the "Golgo 13" and "Ninja Scroll".
