A New Reflection

 

When I was fixing up Musick that Needed Work: T last month I came across two Tuxedomoon releases that I had not realized were missing from my other Tuxedomoon albums. Half-Mute was one of those. It was the first Tuxedomoon that I ever bought, one of my all-time favorites, & one that I played often until I nearly wore it out. At some point I acquired the digital version but it needed work. It ended up forgotten in the Needed Work folder. What a joy it was to relisten to it after I fixed all the flaws. I was amazed at how well I remembered all the great tunes. I have listened to it regularly since then.

While I was working on Half-Mute (removing clicks, fixing ID3 tags, touching up cover artwork, etc.) I discoved this gem with contributions from Foetus, Aksak Maboul, Simon Turner Fisher, & many others. It contained a bonus 7“ & download code for an additional track...

Various - Give Me New Noise: Half-Mute Reflected, Crammed Discs cram268LP, 2016.
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Side A -
Nazca - Simon Turner Fisher
59 to 1 - Zero Gravity Thinkers
Fifth Column (instrumental version) - The Man from Managra featuring Blaine L. Reininger
Tritone (Musica Diablo) - Norscq
Loneliness - Cult with No Name

Side B -
James Whale - DopplAr
What Use? - Foetus
Volo Vivace - Palo Alto featuring Steven Brown
7 Years - Georgio "the Dove" Valentino & Grey Lotus
KM / Seeding the Clouds - 2kilos & More & Julius Gabriel

bonus 7" -
Tritone (Musica Diablo) - Aksak Maboul
Crash - Non Finito Orchestra

bonus downloadable track -
Dark Companion - el TiGeR CoMiCs GRoUP

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Kind of a Tricky Fix

 

The Baby Namboos was a loosely-defined Trip-hop group founded by Trick's cousin Mark Porter, with vocalists Aurora Borealis (Zoe Bedeaux), Leo Coleing, Claude Williams (of The Wild Bunch), with bassist Julian Brooke & drummer Mad-Dog.

They only released three shorts & one full-length. Although they sound much like Tricky's earliest two, even with the Martina sounding doppleganger of Zoe Cedeaux & the guest help from Tricky himself, I can never get enough of the initial Tricky (or Massive Attack) sound so I listen to this often, right in the Tricky mix but a great slab of music unto itself. Plus the two bonus remixes make it more than worth the listen.

The Baby Namboos - Ancoats2Zambia, Palm Pictures PALMCD2031-2, 1999.
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Intro    
Hard Times
Get Your Head Down    
Ancoats2Zambia    
Provoked    
Persist to Reminisce    
Holy    
Late Night Antics    
Trials & Tribulations    
Play with Me

    
bonus tracks -   
Ancoats2Zambia (Geoff Barrow remix)
Ancoats2Zambia (Dillinja remix)

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

A Further Nod to ZF

 

During the March Madness League Play-offs I received a great deal of helpful insight from many Frienz of NSS who gagged along with the go. One of the most insightful is dear Frienz FlaccusMUC. 

In one comment he sez:
        "If you've got any of the ones that I haven't got (The End of Nothing, the Beginning of Everything, Russian Heterodoxical Songs, A Long Walk, The Tables Are Turning, Further Collusion, A Third Collusion, Ω ℧), I'd be very happy, if you find the time ..."  

I picked the Play-off choices from what I have, mostly 80s / 90s releases. I do have a few newer Zoviet France though, four of which were on F-MUC's list which I'm sharing now. Try these out, my friend...

:zoviet*france: - The Tables are Turning, Soleilmoon Recordings SOL182CD, 2013.
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The Grit in the Clouds    
Amber Rose Hand    
Flam    
Moss Balls on Moss    
Green Air    
Prophecy Loved a Child    
Sweeping Arbor Low    
The Fire of Revolution    
Sandbox    
The Fire of Revolution 2    
A Moment of Film    
Poured out Slowly

 

 

 

 

 

:zoviet-france: - The End of Nothing, the Beginning of Something, 

Vinyl-on-demand VOD165-1, 2020.

Side 0 -
Das Singende, Klingende Bäumchen    
The Monkey is Back    
Radar Screen    
Side 1 -
A Song Before the End of Nothing    
One More Time    
A Song After the Beginning of Everything    
Hurleburlebutz

 

 

 

 

 

:zoviet*france: - Russian Heterodoxical Songs, Vinyl-on-demand VOD165-6, 2020.

Side ☼ -    
Неортодоксальность (Hétérodoxie)    
Ересь (Hérésie)    
Отступничество (Apostasie)
Неподчинение (Indocilité)    
Разногласие (Dissension)    
Инакомыслие (Non-Conformité)    
Side ▲ -        
Вариация (Variation)
Изменение (Changement)    
Противоречие (Contradiction)    
Отказ (Renouncement)    
Инспирация (Inspiration)    
Автономия (Autonomie)    
Возражение (Riposte)
Деконструкция (Déconstruction)

 

 

 

 

 

:zoviet*france: - Further Collusion 2xLP, Vinyl-on-demand VOD 165-16/17, 2020.

Side 1 -        
With Us Today
Sucking the Instrument
Spike
Side 2 -
I Felt the Breath of My Assassin
Soft & Close by Me
False Witness
Side 3 -
Synaestetica
Mir
Daisy Gun
I'saram
Side 4 -
Eleven Drops

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Nation Lights the Fuse

 

Wanted to share a couple hot releases from cool Nation Records. Nation Records was started in Ladbroke Grove UK by Propa-Ganhi of the band Fun-Da-Mental (real name Aki Nawaz).

As his philosophy, Aki sez:
         "It has always been based on an idea from the punk era, be radical musically and politically, never work by the book, re-invent the rules and then re-invent them again when those rules become the norm."  

I've shared favorites of mine from Nation Records roster before: Natacha Atlas & Transglobal Underground; the above mentioned Fun-Da-Mental; “Radio Morocco” by Pulse 8 (Jah Wobble & friends); the Macro Dub Infection I shared recently; Asian Dub Foundation & too many more to name.

This first one is the first one for Nation. #001 is a compilation introducing the world to the cultural hybrid which fused bhangra & Latin with house / techno rhythms through then unknown artists such as Mahatma T (now better known as Talvin Singh) & Pulse 8 (which included the musicians from On-U-Sound, David Harrow with Jah Wobble & Justin Adams) that I shared as My Radio is Picking up Morocco here. 

 

Various - Fuse-World Dance Music, Nation Records NR0001L, 1989.
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SIDE ONE - 
Yassassin (Wild Assassin mix) - David Harrow
Jihad - Mahatma T
Sapna–    Ah Kudia - Sapna
Encantador - !Loca!

SIDE TWO -
O'dhe O'dhe - Sapna
Radio Morocco (Club mix) - Pulse 8
Shanti - Mahatma T
Teus Quay Ana - Paradise Organisation

 

 

 

 

 

Here's the follow-up Fuse II... 

Various - Fuse II-World Dance Music, Nation Records NR0005CD,1991.

Stotinki (Aki Nawaz remix) featuring Jah Wobble - the Space Cadets
Timbal (Chris Greenwood remix) - !Loca!
Yab Yum (Aki Nawaz & Katherine Canoville remix) - Uzma
Chinatown New York (Wobble mix) - Bebop 90
The Unspoken Word - Invaders of the Heart
Radio Africa (Aki Nawaz remix) - Ntuli Abrahamse
Tarana (Talvin Singh remix) - Gondwana
The Voice of Hassan - Amahl
Zapotech - Aztec To Hi-Tech
Chinatown New York (Will 'Shamen' Sin remix) - Bebop 90
Timbal - !Loca!
Stotinki (Dub mix) - the Space Cadets

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Wobbly Winer

My perusing Jah Wobble's catalogue also led me to this. What a treasure to uncover.

A world star that few know...Leslie Winer. 

 

Leslie Winer moved from Weston, Massachusetts to New York City in the late 70s to attend School of Visual Arts. While there she met William Burroughs (who became her mentor & life-long friend) & dated Jean-Michel Basquiat. In 1980 she began a career as a fashion model. Her androgynous look & being difficult to work with gained her fame in the modelling world. She was a Chritian Dior girl & appeared on numerous Vogue covers. In the mid 80s her modeling gigs brought her to London. She became a regular at the Taboo nightclub where she became friends with Jah Wobble.

In 1990 she recorded her debut album Witch with Jah Wobble. John Peel played some tracks from the white-label promo & the recording became a minor cult classic. With this debut album Winer recorded one of the earliest testimonies of a new genre that was to become the signature sound of the 90s, Trip-hop. Although recorded one year before Massive Attack's  Blue Lines, Witch never saw release until 1993. Witch is still considered by those in the know to be the birth of the fusion of hip hop with Jamaican dancehall, integrating a psychedelically colourful bouquet of Funk, soul, house, & R&B elements with electronic stylings. 

 

 

Leslie Winer (also released under the name ©)  - Witch, Transglobal GLOBAL1CD, 1993.
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He Was
Flove
N1ear
The Boy who Used 2 Whistle
John Says
5
1nce Upon a Time
Skin
Dream 1

 

 

 

 

The musicians Winer has collaborated with include acts as diverse as Björk, Bill Laswell, Tim Simenon aka Bomb the Bass, Holger Hiller, Karl Bonnie (Renegade Soundwave), Jon Hassell, Vincent Gallo, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Mekon, Diamond Version, Christopher Chaplin, Jay Glass Dubs, & Maxwell Sterling. Winer's songs have been interpreted by the likes of Grace Jones, Boy George, & Sinéad O’Connor.

About Winer, Boy George sez:
         "She might just be the coolest woman on the planet!"  

But despite her coolness, her closeness & connection with legendary artists, her name is familiar to only a small minority. This next is a career-spanning anthology of Winer's music. It covers three decades of a musical body of work that is unparalleled in terms of independence & originality. "Hold on Postcards" & "Fragment #2" are previously unreleased.

 

 

Leslie Winer - When I Hit You - You'll Feel It, Light in the Attic LITA181, 2021.

When I was Walt Whitman    
N1 Ear    
Tree - Leslie Winer    
Personals - Jon Hassell & Bluescreen featuring Leslie Winer    
Dream 1 - Leslie Winer    
Dunderhead - Purity Supreme    
The Boy who Used 2 Whistle    
Hold on Postcards    
He Was    
RoundUp Ready    
Skin    
Box - Leslie Winer
This Blank Action (Diamond version featuring Leslie Winer)
Battle Porn - Leslie Winer    
Woodshedded    - Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs
Fragment #2 - Leslie Winer & Mari G. Mooney

 

note: the original file I shared was missing track 13. I have fixed it & apologize to all. Thanks, Sam S.

 

 

The song “Woodshedded” above is from the Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs - YMFEES. It is an amazing record, a superb mix of spoken word & Ambient Dub,  I couldn't not share it here as well.

 

 

Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs - YMFEES, Bokeh Versions BKV015, 2018.

Side A -
Woodshedded
Tin Mine
Cogged
Side B -
About the Author
#29
No Famous Actors

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Wobbly Weather, All

My voyage into Sir Jah's music led me to this fantastic remix release.

Jah Wobble & Andrew Weatherall together, doing Primal Scream with the Orb taking the duties on the other side. 

 

Primal Scream - Higher than the Sun (remix), Creation Records CRE096X, 1991
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Side A -
Higher than the Sun (a Dub Symphony in Two Parts) featuring Jah Wobble & produced by Andrew Weatherall
Side B -
Higher than the Orb

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

MAYDAY MAYDAY

 

The 77th anniversary of my entry to this world is May 3rd. So as a gift to myself I'm going (to try) to do what the hell ever I want to this month. I intended to do something like this at the beginning of this year. I felt I had been pushing things too hard last year & wanted to slow down a bit. But this crazee blog thing has a life, a mind, & a tempo of its own & I've been going break-neck. I couldn't even finish April in April.

I'm just going to throw together what I'm listening to at the moment & see what forms of it all. That's what I say right now. We'll see what is transpiring come Memorial Day.

In Febuary I did a month of Dub & Dub adjacent musick, Started out the month with the great Don (Donovan) Letts. Highly successful, it led to Jah Wobble. Since then I've been listening to the Wobbly One quite a bit. Seems like a great place to start & a great way to start off my Birdlegs.

I suppose my favorite Jah Wobble project is Invaders of the Heart. Since the release of Without Judgement in 1990 I have been following their course. It is a varied but thoughtful journey, culminating last year with the double bassed enslaught of NYC with Wobble & my other favorite bassist Bill Laswell working the Invaders.

Here's their first, my first of theirs, & my all-time favorite that I still listen to regularly in its entirety even after 35+ years...

 

Invaders of the Heart - Without Judgement, KK records KK039, 1990.
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Bungalow Park    
What the Problem Is    
Anything Can Happen    
A13    
Drowned & the Saved    
So Many Years    
Message from Our Sponsor    
Coypu    
Burger Bar    
What Will You Say    
Spirit    
Voodoo    
Psyche    
Good Ghosts    
Saracen    
Eternal Vendor    
Invisible Cities    
Inferno    
Location    
Uncommercial Road    
Will the Circle be Unbroken

 

 

 

 

 

Here's another one that will give the above a run for its money, the follow-up... 

Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - Rising Above Bedlam, Oval 782386-2, 1991.

Visions of You
Relight the Flame
Bomba
Ungodly Kingdom    
Rising Above Bedlam    
Erzulie
Everyman's an Island
Soledad
Sweet Divinity
Wonderful World

 

 

 

 

 

One more Invasion that I couldn't forget... 

 

 

                      Jah Wobble & The Invaders of the Heart - Full Moon Over the Shopping Mall,                     30 Hertz Records 30HZCD10, 1999.

Full Moon Over the Shopping Mall
Ethos
Waxing Moon
Waning Moon
Acting the Goat
I'll Be Sad to See You Go

 

 

 

 

 

Finishing off this tour-de-force of the Wobbly One, a 34 track behemoth of Dub... 

 

 

Jah Wobble - In Dub 2xCD, 30 Hertz Records 30HXCD430, 2016.

CD1 - 
Cleopatra King Size with Temple of Sound 
I'd Love to Take You Away    
I'd Love to Take You Away (Dub version)    
Orion with Bill Laswell    
Metamorphosis (Burnt Umber Youth Dub) with Invaders of the Heart
Blacksmith with Invaders of the Heart    
Blacksmith Dub with Invaders of the Heart
Club Scene Dub    
Kodak Dub    
On the Right Road    
On the Right Road Dub    
Symphony of Palms with Temple of Sound    
Forest Funk Dub with Invaders of the Heart
Dragon & Phoenix with the Chinese Dub Orchestra
Dragon & Phoenix Dub with the Chinese Dub Orchestra
Universal Dub    
Invaders of the Heart (Decadent Disco mix)    with Invaders of the Heart

CD 2 -    
Shinto Dub with the Nippon Dub Ensemble    
Last Days    
Last Days Dub    
L1 Dub with the Chinese Dub Orchestra
Nice Cop; Nasty Cop    
Forest Gate Dub with Invaders of the Heart    
The Way I Feel alias The Sweetest Feeling (new mix)    
Lam Saravane with Invaders of the Heart    
Lam Saravane Dub with Invaders of the Heart    
Alam Dub with Bill Laswell    
Night    
Appearance & Thing-in-Itself    
I Remember that Time    
I Remember that Time (Dub version)
Inspector Out of Space (Youth Inner Space Dub) with Invaders of the Heart
Once Upon a Time in the East    
Tyger Tyger

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - Two Lone Swordsmen

 

Finishing off the letter T is one from two...Two Lone Swordsmen. that is. Only ran over by a couple days.

Thought I had all Andrew's stuff fixed up & sorted. Somehow overlooked this choice cut. 

 

All I need say is Keith Tenniswood & Andrew Weatherall. You all should know. I've shared elsewhere before now. Here's one of my favorites, repaired at last. 

 

Two Lone Swordsmen - Stay Down, Warp Records WARPCD58, 1998.
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Hope We Never Surface    
Ink Cloud    
The Big Clapper    
Ivy & Lead    
We Change the Frequency    
No Red Stopping    
Spine Bubbles
Mr. Paris's Monsters    
Light the Last Flare    
We Discordians (Must Stick Apart)    
Alpha School    
As Worldly Pleasures Wave Goodbye... 

 

 

 

Anyone still waiting for ABBA, I was (April) foolin'.

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Wotk: T - The Tropicals

 

The Tropicals was the Italian duo of Giancarlo Barigozzi alias Ginazzi, a jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, flutist & Oscar Rocchi alias Chiarosi who provides the electric piano & keyboard to the drum-laden LP Urubamba. 

 

Urubamba intermixes field recordings & sound library music with cavalcades of drums, flutes, & funk exotica. The release presents an overarching African flavor but travels to tropical climes of Jamaica, India, & other locations all around the globe. Rounding out the enthralling sounds is the tasteful use of acoustic guitars, several bongos, congas, & djembes as well as the terrific voice of an otherwise uncredited female singer who provides chants similar to Sally Terry's vocal range off Robert Drasnin's classic 1959 Voodoo!.  Urubamba is one of the lost exotica diamonds. 

 

The Tropicals - Urubamba, Jump Records J-0119, 1972.
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Side A -
Urubamba    
African Popcorn    
The Girl from Morococha    
Brazilian Butterfly    
Flute Safari    
Tropical Love

    
Side B -
Tarzan Dance    
Jamaican Love Song    
Message from the Jungle    
Baobab Blues    
Amazon River    
Indian Cobra

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work : T - Techno Animal

 

Birningham native, multi-instrumentalist Justin Broadrick & London's Kevin Martin (The Bug & King Midas Sound) were Techno Animal. 

 

They now continue the Techno Animal sound performing as Zonal. 

 

Techno Animal - The Brotherhood of the Bomb, Matador OLE482-2, 2001.
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Cruise Mode 101
Glass Prism Enclosure
Hypertension    
DC-10
Robosapien    
Freefall    
Monoscopic    
Piranha
Sub Species    
We Can Build You
Blood Money    
Hell

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - The Thing with Five Eyes

 

The Thing with Five Eyes is a experimental drone darkjazz project of Jason Köhnen, formerly of the Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (which I have shared before here) & The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation. Where those bands mixed jazz with drone & doom elements to create ‘darkjazz’, The Thing with Five Eyes has a fresher appeal, taking electronica & jazz, then throwing in a palette of Middle Eastern sounds / atmospheres to create an album that feels more worldly with fewer mountains. 

 

About The Thing with Five Eyes, Jason sez:
       "Our music cleaves the depth of mystical and occult territories of the soul." 

On this one Köhnen is aided by Leila Bounos - vocals & Izzy Op De Beeck - trumpet. The harsh unpredictability & brutality of darkness is conveyed through a soundscape of body rumbling bass, intriguing drum/break formations, uncanny sounds of human heaving, electronic manipulations of rattling noises, & the plummeting yet buoyant vocals of the wonderous Algerian/French Leila Bounous who sounds a lot like Natasha Atlas of Transglobal Underground. 

 

The Thing with Five Eyes - Noirabesque, Svart Lava LAVA003, 2018.
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Salem    
Alma    
Hedra    
Zigurhat    
Nakba    
Taurus    
Nehex    
Qun    
Selenga

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - Twiggy Frostbite

 

Twiggy Frostbite was originally a five piece indie pop outfit made up of Elin Lindfors - vocals, Joel Thedéen - guitar, AnnaKarin Berglund - keyboards, Emma Sjöberg - bass, & David Kramer - drums from Gävle, Sweden.

 

Twiggy Frostbite play a unique style of dreamy ethereal pop, spectral icy music that recall Mazzy Star, Cocteau Twins, or Sigur Ros. The band is now an all-female quartet consisting of Elin Lindfors, Anna-Karin Berglund, Emma Sjöberg with newly added member Sofia Stolpe. 

 

Twiggy Frostbite - Through Fire, Despotz Records DZCD006, 2009.
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Intro    
Eye for an Eye    
Morning    
Thrown in Two
Chimera    
Heroes
Grime Star    
Narrow Pride
Along Your Way    
All I Need    
Still Here    
Angels

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - Tar Babies

 

The Tar Babies was a band from Madison, Wisconsin. The original line-up consisted of Bucky Pope - guitar), brothers Jeremy & Robin Davies - vocals & bass respectively with Dan Bitney - drums.

They played their own unique style of artsy-hardcore punk. With the departure of Jeremy Davies in 1987, the remaining trio signed to SST Records. By this point their sound had progressed into a streamlined punk/Funk sound.  

 

Tar Babies - Fried Milk, SST Records SST101, 1987.
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Side A -        
More Salt
My Spiritual Forklift
Clenched Fist
Swing Set
Loose Convictions
Karma Soldier
Pig Relevance
Sound & Color
No Light Ever
On the Phone (W/ Pepsodent)

Side B -
Love Epidemic
Vices
Ceiling Skies
Set Me Up
Blood Sugar
Stryofoam
Flower Power
Storm’s Over
Paradise Shines

 

 

 

 

 

On No Contest, the trio has added saxophone player Tony Jarvis who pushes their sound ever so slightly in a jazzier direction.

 

 

Tar Babies - No Contest, SST Records SSTCD169, 1988.

Lay of the Law    
Lupe    
Link in a Chain    
Actualizing    
Clean Living    
Catch My Fall    
Wisdom Drill    
Cure it All    
Blood Onion    
Real Time

 

 

 

 

 

The Tar Babies - Honey Bubble, SST Records SSTCD236, 1989.

Rockhead    
Rhino a Go Go    
Lab Test Animal    
Ninety Pounds    
Bimbos & Idiots    
Joy Ride    
Yama Yama Man    
Waking    
Reprise Reprise    
Spaight & Ashbury

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - Traces of Torpid

 

Traces of Torpid is a Russian trip-hop project made up of BogoMire (Mikhail Tulikov) - guitar / bass & Squash - sampling / programming / drums, recorded at SquashHomeStudio, Moscow, Russia. 

  

Traces of Torpid - Plastic Mirror EP, No Head Records, 2002.
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Silence Sale    
Traces of Torpid    
Overhelming Sorrows Laugh    
Azure Pantomime

 

Enjoy,
NØ
 

Musick that Needed Work: T - Time for Dreams

 

Time for Dreams is the Australian duo of Amanda Roff & Tom Carlyon. 

 

They make bleak yet vivid bad-dream pop where the twosome's thoughts & memories are condensed into sound driven by deep Dub basslines, beats, mesmeric melodies, & vocals. 

 

Time for Dreams - In Time, It Records itCD009, 2017.
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Projects    
The Stranger    
Lighthouse    
Move It    
I Love that Tiger    
My Operator    
Orders    
Newscene

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - Traffic

 

Traffic was basically a super-group of British musicians: Steve Winwood; Dave Mason; Jim Capaldi & Chris Wood. They were around from 1967 until 1975 with break-ups between & many line-up changes. Winwood was in post-Cream band Blind Faith during a 1969-1970 break-up. They re-united briefly in 1994. 

 

Here's one of their classics, released next after the John Barleycorn reunion of 1970, graced by the sublime presence of Rebop Kwaku Baah...

 

Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, Island Records SW9306, 1971.
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Side 1 -        
Hidden Treasure
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Light Up or Leave Me Alone

Side 2 -
Rock & Roll Stew
Many a Mile to Freedom
Rainmaker 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ