May: I Come Again - Mish Mash

On October 4, 2016 I shared a release by Alan Bishop (Alvarius B) here. Al B is one of the founding members of Sun City Girls, a band that I hold in high esteem. I've also shared several by the other surviving Bishop brother & Sun City Girl, Sir Richard here & here.

Sun City Girls was formed in Phoenix, AZ in 1981 by multi-instrumentalist brothers Alan & Richard Bishop with their friend, drummer Charlie Gocher. Gocher died on February 19th, 2007 after a long battle with cancer at the age of 54. The Bishop brothers continued together as Brothers Unconnected. Both also have extensive solo careers as well as numerous varied side-projects. 

 

Alan runs Abduction & Sublime Frequencies labels. He has travelled extensively including long stays in Indonesia & Egypt. He has been in over a dozen groups & has released solo material as Alan Koeswoyo, Uncle Jim, Hitman Kong Thep, & Alvarius B.

Here's one from Alvarius... 

 

Alvarius B - Baroque Primitiva, Abduction ABDT046, 2011.
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The Dinner Party    
Mussolini's Exit    
Humor Police
You Only Live Twice
Face to Face With a Couple Axes    
Well Known Stranger
Naturally Absolute    
Funny Thing Is...    
3 Dead Girls
Like That Madri Gal    
God Only Be Without You

 

 

 

 

In the early 2010s, Alan formed a band based in Cairo, Egypt amidst mysterios circumstances. The band is called El Ayadi El Kafeyya (or The Invisible Hands). The band consists of Alvarius B with     Adham Zidan, Cherif El Masri, Magued Nagati, & Aya Memeda.

This is their second offering from 2014. Here they are joined by Eyvind Kang, Mohamed Asem, Mohamed Ibrahim, & Sammy Sayed..

 

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The Invisible Hand - Teslam, Abduction ABDT054, 2014.

Invisible Hands    
Slaughterhouse    
Places    
Over Easy    
Eyes in the Back of Your Head    
Weasel Down    
The Great Implosion    
The Blaze    
Spaces    
Priests & Poets    
Carrion

 

 

 

 

 

Brother Richard Bishop released his first solo record (while still a member of Sun City Girls) Salvador Kali on John Fahey's esteemed Revenant Records label in 1998. It was issued under the name of Sir Richard Bishop (the name stuck). Nowdays, Richard is mainly known as an experimental solo guitarist whose work often reflects the shadow worlds of India, the Middle East, North Africa, & other points along the Gypsy trail. 

Tangier Sessions was released in 2015 by Drag City. It consists of a series of improvisations recorded in Tangier, Morocco in 2014 using a 19th century parlor guitar of mysterious origin (seen above). Them Sun City Bros. love their mysteries.

 

 

Sir Richard Bishop - Tangier Sessions, Drag City DC618CD, 2015.

Frontier
Bound in Morocco
Safe House
Hadija
Mirage
International Zone
Let it Come Down

 

 

 

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May: I Come Again - Absolute Equinox

On a June 21, 2016 post highlighting Surrealism crafted around the surrealist tome Les Champs Magnétiques (The Magnetic Fields) by André Breton & Philippe Soupault, I shared Aksak Maboul  in the third chapter "Eclipses" here. 

 Sven Advisory Warning

Aksak Maboul is a Belgian band started in 1977, when producer Marc Moulin commissioned Marc Hollander to write & record an album for his label Kamikaze. Marc teamed up with his friend Vincent Kenis. The pair proceeded to fuse & deconstruct all kinds of genres to create their own musical world. Their 2nd album Un peu de l'âme des bandits (see link above) was recorded with an extended line up featuring Fred Frith & Chris Cutler (of Henry Cow / Art Bears fame).

In 1980, Aksak Maboul went through an avant-No Wave phase after enrolling three members of Brussels band Les Tueurs de la Lune de Miel, as well as vocalist Véronique Vincent. The new line-up then recorded the 1982 Honeymoon Killers album. They then continued performing under that name until 1988.

2014 saw the release of the 3rd Aksak Maboul album. It's the avant-electropop opus now known as Ex-Futur Album, which was written, recorded, yet unfinished in 1980-83 by Marc Hollander with Honeymoon Killers vocalist Véronique Vincent & original founding AM member Vincent Kenis. 

 

Véronique Vincent & Aksak Maboul with the Honeymoon Killers – Ex-Futur Album,
Crammed Discs CRAM014, 2014.
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Chez Les Aborigènes
Afflux de Luxe
Je Pleure Tout le Temps
Veronika Winken
Réveillons-Nous
I'm Always Crying
My Kind of Doll
Luxurious Dub
Le Troisième Personnage
The Aboriginal Variations


bonus tracks -    
Réveillons-Nous (live)
Mit Den Eingeborenen (live)
I'm Always Remixing

 

 

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May: I Come Again - This Dub is Beat Meat

On April 10, 2016 I shared Meat Beat Manifesto - Echo in Space Dub here. 

 

 

Thought I’d share some more of Jack Dangers' MBM Dub. Some different versions of the song I shared before along with numerous new tracks... 

 

Meat Beat Manifesto - ...In Dub, Run Recordings RUN33783, 2004.
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Introduction Dub    
Echo in Space Dub
Spinning Round Dub    
Fromage Dub
Intermission Dub    
Super Soul Dub
Caramel Dub    
Happiness Supreme Dub    
Retrograde Dub
Timebomb Dub    
Radiation Dub    
Retrograde Pt. 2 Dub We R 1 

 

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May: I Come Again - Fire & Bromstone

On September 3, 2015 I shared Darshan Ambient - Autumn’s Apple here. 

 

 

Darshan Ambient was a solo project of Mike Allison. If you want to read about Mike's extensive music career (especially 80s NYC bands) follow the link above. Allison left New York in 1987. He moved to San Francisco & began to make ambient electronic music independently of major record labels. He was heavily influenced by NSS faves Brian Eno & Bill Nelson. He chose the name Darshan, from a Sanskrit word meaning "divine vision", adding the word "Ambient" to distinguish his music from that of an existing band called Darshan. He started to record & release his own music in 1992.

Allison died January 9, 2020, aged 61, from cancer.

Here's one from 2002... 

 

Darshan Ambient - The Zen Master's Diary, Darshan Ambient self-released, 2002.
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Prelude: Evidence of Light    
Night Shot of Earth    
Grace    
Drawing Water    
Wanting    
It has Begun    
Bless You    
The Rightness of Things    
The Zen Master's Diary

 

 

Revisiting,
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May: I Come Again - How Many Pygmies? 17 Pygmies in the Tall Grass

On June 18, 2015 I shared Welcome here & on August 8, 2021 I shared Jedda by the Sea here.   (considered by many a "post-punk" masterpiece).

17 Pygmies started as an odd, kind of surf-a-delic, Emerson, Lake, & Palmer inspired band doing cover versions of the theme music to David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia. They quickly evolved into a kind of spooky instrumental / 80s style techno-pop band who perservered in obscurity. There have been many line-up changes (as well as name: Pygs; The 17th Pygmy, etc) with only Phil Drucker as constant member. Their style vacillates between post-punk, new wave, experimental, or alternative at any given moment, thus keeping us listeners guessing (& thoroughly entertained, imo).

For this release, 17 Pygmies are: Dirk Doucette - drums, Jackson Del Rey - guitar, Jeff Brenneman - guitar, Meg Maryatt - guitar & accordian, Philip Drucker (who is also Jackson Del Rey wearing other hats). This one's kinda Prog-ish in a Pyg-ish way.

It is with great sadness that I report the passing of Philip Drucker, a.k.a. Jackson Del Rey, (November 17, 1958 – July 16, 2022)  founding member of post-punk, industrial band Savage Republic & founder of 17 Pygmies.

 

17 Pygmies - Isabel, Trakwerx TW1024, 2013.
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Isabel I
Isabel II
Isabel III
Isabel IV
Isabel V
Isabel VI
Isabel VIII
Isabel VIII
Isabel IX
Isabel X
Isabel XI
Kyrie

 

 

Revisiting,
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May: I Come Again - Desert Dwellers

On June 7, 2014 I shared Desert Dwellers here. 

 

Desert Dwellers is the electronic music duo of Amani Friend & Treavor Moontribe, hailing from the deserts of New Mexico / California. Both artists were independent music producers & DJs who teamed up in the late 90s after connecting through the legendary Moontribe scene. As Desert Dwellers they are one of the best downtempo, psy-bass, tribal trance acts in the United States.

Their live shows at Shambhala, Lightning in a Bottle, Envision, Coachella, Rainbow Serpent, & Boom are world renowned. They combine the raw sounds of the natural world with deep bass, earthy percussion, etheric voices, & cross-cultural instrumentation.

They have a series of releases centering on what they lovingly call DownTemple Dub: Waves; Flames; Roots; & more. Here's some lost mixes...

 

Desert Dwellers - DownTemple Dub: Lost Mixes, White Swan Records, 2011.
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Snake Charmer (Shakuhachi solo)    
Sukhavati (Lost in Space mix)    
The Dub Sutras (Sensual Sutras mix)    
New Generation (Kama Sutra mix)    
Moonlit Horizons (Ricardin Unplugged)    
Taking Flight (Ricardin Unplugged)    
Snake Charmer (Nomad's Dub)    
Yoga Dub Mystic (Found in Space mix)    
You Can See Forever (Black Rock Spaces)    
You Can See Forever (Ether mix)

 

 

 

 

This one is a more recent self-released share... 

 

 

Desert Dwellers - Selected: Deep Bass, Desert Dwellers self-released, 2022.

Seeing Things    
Spaces Between (Expansion mix)    
Saraswati’s Twerkaba    
One Giant Consciousness (Gumi remix)
Traversing the Endless Road (Nanosphere remix)
Longing for Home (Mindex remix)

 

 

 

Revisiting,
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May: I Come Again - Close only Counts in Love & Handgrenades

On February 19, 2013, I shared some Tackhead here. 

 

Tackhead was a mainstay of On-U Sound in the 80s & 90s. The core members are Doug Wimbish (bass), Keith LeBlanc (percussion), Skip McDonald (guitar), & producer (sometimes credited as "mixologist") Adrian Sherwood. In the late 1970s, Wimbish, LeBlanc, & McDonald were members of the house band for the Sugarhill Records record label. Soon after British producer Sherwood met LeBlanc during a visit to New York in the mid-80s, the trio of Wimbish, LeBlanc, & McDonald relocated to London. They began working on tracks for Sherwood's On-U Sound record label.

Beside appearing as Tackhead, the band took over band duties for Mark Stewart & the Maffia for three LPs between 1985 & 1990. They toured with the On-U Sound System with MC Gary Clail as Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System, releasing the 1987 LP, Tackhead Tape Time. LeBlanc released two solo LPs featuring all Tackhead members. Since then, the trio has been the backing band for various Sherwood-led On-U Sound productions artists such as Gary Clail's solo efforts, African Head Charge, Dub Syndicate, New Age Steppers, Strange Parcels, Barmy Army, & the blues-oriented Little Axe.

On the first Tackhead LP proper (see link above), 1989's Friendly as a Hand Grenade, vocalist Bernard Fowler joined the line-up. Many of Tackheads older instrumental tracks re-appeared with lyrics.

The follow-up album was 1990's Strange Things... 

 

Tackhead - Strange Things, SBK Records SBKCD1003, 1990.
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Nobody to Somebody    
Wolf in Sheeps Clothing
Classic Rock    
Dangerous Sex
Strange Things   
Super Stupid
See the Fire Burning   
For This I Sing
Take a Stroll
Change       
Positive Suggestion    

 

 

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May: I Come Again - R.I.P. Nappy Star Child

I shared some Funkadelic to honor the passing of Garry Shider June 17, 2010  here. 

 

Being from Plainfield, New Jersey, Garry Shider as a youth used to be a regular at George Clinton's barbershop where future members of Parliament sang doo-wop for the customers. Early on, Clinton noted young Shider's talent on guitar.

At sixteen, Shider & his friend Cordell "Boogie" Mosson moved to Canada. Shider & Mosson formed a funk/rock band called United Soul. They started making waves with their jumping style. George Clinton was living in Toronto at the time & heard about United Soul. When he found out that Shider was one of the founding members, he approached the band, offering to produce some tracks for them.

In 1971, Clinton produced several tracks by United Soul with help from members of Funkadelic. The songs "I Miss My Baby" & "Baby I Owe You Something Good" were released as a one-off single by Westbound Records in 1971. After producing United Soul, Clinton invited Shider & Mosson to join Parliament-Funkadelic. Shider became a prominent contributor to albums by both Parliament and Funkadelic.  He co-wrote many noteworthy Parliament-Funkadelic songs like "Cosmic Slop," "Getting to Know You," & "One Nation Under a Groove", After P-Funk, he continued to work regularly with Clinton's P-Funk All-Stars & made important contributions to acts including Bootsy Collins & Eddie Hazel.

During Parliament-Funkadelic performances, Shider was known for appearing in a diaper, making him instantly recognizable on stage. His attire earned him the nickname "Diaper Man". His talent earned him the nickname "Nappy Star Child".

In 2010, it was announced that Shider was suffering from cancer of the brain & lungs. On June 16, 2010, Shider died from complications of his cancer at his home in Greater Upper Marlboro, Maryland. 

 

Garry Shider - Diaperman Goes Starchild, Raw Funk Records, 2002.
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DoDoWah    
Funky 1    
Ghetto Invaders    
Glory    
Rough!    
The Boy's Room

 

 

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May: I Come Again - It’s a Crime

I shared Crime & the City Solution December 30, 2009 here.

On the selections I'm sharing today are two distinct C&tCS bands, the Rowland S. Howard Crime & the post-Howard Crime.

 

 

Crime & the City Solution had first existed in Sydney, then Melbourne, before the band fragmented. Simon Bonney, the band's founder, decamped to London, forming a new version of the band with Mick Harvey (Birthday Party / Bad Seed multi-instrumentalist), the late Birthday Party guitarist Rowland S. Howard, Rowland's brother Harry on bass, & Swell Maps drummer Epic Soundtracks. This line-up released four Mute offerings: the two EPs - The Dangling Man & The Kentucky Click as well as two full-lengths - Just South of Heaven (see link above) & Room of Lights.

 

 

Crime & the City Solution - Room of Lights, Mute CDSTUMM36, 1986.
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Right Man, Wrong Man
No Money, No Honey
Hey Sinkiller
Six Bells Chime
Adventure
Untouchable
The Brother Song
Her Room of Lights (for Lisa)

extra tracks -    
Rose Blue
The Coal Train
Five Stone Walls
The Wailing Wall
Trouble Come This Morning
The Dangling Man

 

 

 

Simon Bonney decided to take shelter from the intense lens of the London music media by moving to Berlin. Berlin in the Eighties was a thrilling artistic community, filled with interesting collaborations between musicians & artists. Simon Bonney fostered these collaborations & built a new band  from fellow ex-pats & the best local talent. Bonney's new Crime featured Mick Harvey, Einstürzende Neubauten's Alexander Hacke, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft's Chrislo Haas  & Gerausch's Thomas Stern, who was brought along by Alex a bit later on when they discovered that Haas, who passed away in 2004, was "a bit erratic, unpredictable and unreliable." Completing the new line-up was Bronwyn Adams, Bonney's wife, who contributed violin & lyrics to the new Crime.

Here's the new Berlin line-up's first release on Mute... 

Crime + the City Solution - Shine, Mute CDSTUMM59, 1988.

All Must Be Love    
Fray so Slow    
Angel    
On Every Train (Grain Will Bear Grain)    
Hunter    
Steal to the Sea    
Home is Far from Here    
On Every Train (Grain Will Bear Grain) 12" version
All Must Be Love (early version)

 

 

 

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May: I Come Again - More Cowbell

That strange cosmic entanglement has a way of working its wonders ever so unexpectedly.

The anniversary of my birth is on the 3rd. I'm not really one to make any hoopla about it, it's just another day, nothing really changes, I'm just one day closer to the end, but it does often cause me to reflect on the past a bit & think a bit about the future.

This year as it approaches I was thinking a bit about the future of this here mess I make on the interweb, in visitors ears & minds. I was of an inclination to revisit artists & bands I had shared before, adding to their catalogues as struck my fancy.

note: If anyone has their own requests for revisitations, leave a comment somewhere this month.

Then I got a comment on an Exuma post from more than ten years ago. A Frenz of NSS, Strugglin' Singer sez: 

     "How do I contact the Blog Owner. I have some extra ‘Exuma’ LPs to share." 

 

Turns out he had several additional releases, some live shows, a Best of...compilation & various mixed single tracks of Exuma songs & folks covering Exuma tunes. I was overjoyed & overwhelmed by his generosity. It also convinced me that my thoughts of revisitations was obviously meant to be.

So starting with More Cowbell share from April 13, 2014 here, these are just a few of the goodies SS shared with me to share with you.

Macfarlane Gregory Anthony Mackey aka Tony McKay aka The Obeah Man aka Ezuma, through his musical recordings, live performances, & fanciful paintings, has promoted Bahamas heritage throughout the world more than any other contemporary Bahamian recording artist. 

 

 

Exuma - Penny Sausage, Inagua Records INA999, 1979
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Side A -
Exuma the Obeah Man Returns    
Penny Sausage    
Africa    
Rasta    
Black Hawk    

Side B -
Southern Comfort    
Soul Conga Line    
Joanna    
Pretty Woman    
Beware    
Armageddon

 

 

 

 

Exuma - Universal, Cat Island Records CAT123, 1982.

Side A -
Guy Fawkes
Fame is the Name of the Game
Roller Reggae
Rose Mary Smith
Cat Island Rake & Scrape Band

Side B -
Get It (Good Feeling)
Super Star Who Do You Think You Are?
Alowis Plant (Aloe Plant)
Maasi
Praise Jesus Tonight

 

 

Here we go,
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April - Came in Like a Jon, Going Out Like a Der

Got jonder coming & going this month. Both offerings are short & to the point... 

 

The Fans was a punk band from Atlanta, Georgia. One of the many projects of prolific guitarist, vocalist, & songwriter Kevin Dunn. They released three single between 1977-1980. Thinking of friend jonder when I was listening to this (his homebase is ATL,GA).

The Fans - Cars & Explosions, Albion Records FAN 1, 1979.

Side A -
Cars & Explosions
Side B -
Dangerous Goodbyes

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

In the Temple of Roy

The duo of Richard(s) Van Spall & Tindall of Windsor, Berkshire UK teamed up with multi-instrumentalist Mick Bund from the band Felt (hence the band moniker???) to form Templeroy in the early 90s. They only released this one full-length, the 3xLP Deaf & Dumb, in 1995.

I am sharing the Echo Beach re-issue from the EB Serious Classics series. It is much edited down. I have added numerous other tracks from the original release that I have been able to gather together over time plus two Dubometer versions.

If anyone has a copy of the original 3xLP, please share it with me, I’m begging. 

 

Templeroy - Deaf & Dumb re-issue, Echo Beach Serious Classics series EBSC006, 1997.
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Look Out They've Landed    
2001 OD    
Peace to the I
Core of the Earth
Dawn Patrol    
Dub Down    
Heroin on Dub

additional original 1995 tracks -
Pride
Avarice

alternate mix -
Peace to the I (parts 1)
Peace to the I (parts 2)

original 1995 2xCD versions -
Heroine on Dub
Core of the Earth
Dawn Patrol
Dub Down

bonus tracks -
Dubometer
Dubometer (remix)

 

Enjoy,
NØ

It was the Best of Walter, it was the Worst of Walter

 

In a foreword to the book No Wave, writing about the movement's continuing influence Weasel Walter sez:
     "I began to express myself musically in a way that felt true to myself, constantly pushing the limits of idiom or genre and always screaming "Fuck You!" loudly in the process. It's how I felt then and I still feel it now. The ideals behind the (anti-) movement known as No Wave were found in many other archetypes before and just as many afterwards, but for a few years around the late 1970s, the concentration of those ideals reached a cohesive, white-hot focus." 

From the compilation notes: Madcap selections from WW's solo archives, spanning 1995-2010
     "The Best of the Worst contains 1 hour & 36 minutes of abstract mastery, including drum solo pieces, rare compilation tracks, guitar deconstructions, abrasive brutal prog composition, deathly minimalism, machine guns & air raid sirens with Beefheartian skronk in one long, flowing stream of audio terror." 

 

Weasel Walter - The Best of the Worst, ugEXPLODE, 2020.
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Nobody Watching    
Cuntish Beerfarts    
Viral Humanity    
Shards    
Perverted Percussion    
Trajectories    
Hairmaze    
Strictly Improbable
Baldikhu
Antisocial Distance    
Ick & Glick    
Knife Through the Face of the Bitch I Hate
For Martin Billheimer    
All Fast All Loud All the Time    
Retrograde Composite    
Rattling Down

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

A Brief Return to the Days of Youth

 

I so wanted to share this one since I first heard it years ago but couldn't come up with a copy (that I could afford). I pieced it together but was missing the fourth track. This month when I was doing the Days of Youth I was determined to share this essential set. Thanks to friend jonder who shared the final track, I am able to present it in full.

Coming out at the time of Brexit, this anti-Brexit protest polemic features one of the finest post-punk supergroups in my opinion. These longstanding musicians with the eclectic mastermind of Jah Wobble collaborated on this CD single in protest of the then-current political climate.

A Very British Coup came about through the creative genius of bassist Jah Wobble, recorded with producer Youth featuring Wobble's former Public Image Ltd band mates Richard Dudanski on drums & Keith Levene on guitar together with lead vocals from Pop Group frontman Mark Stewart, additional bass / keyboards added by Youth with Charlie Wardle on Chinese harp along with loops from Andrew Weatherall / Nina Walsh. It doesn't get much better than this. 

 

Jah Wobble with Levene, Dudanski, Stewart, Weatherall , & Youth – A Very British Coup,
80 Proof Records 80P009CD, 2020.
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A Very British Coup
A Very British Coup (radio edit)
A Very British Coup (Dogma)
A Very British Coup (Youth Dub) 

 

 

Stay young,
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What Happened to Me? - David Thomas R.I.P.

 

The ultimate drunken curmudgeon, great Father Ubu, Crocus Behemoth has died. 

One of my top-ten musicians, I have seen David or Ubu uncountable times, in the tiniest halls & slummiest bars to Grande Ballrooms & Theaters of Light. I should take the time to do this man justice but I am flummoxed at the moment & just need to hear (& share) some David. 

This one is for us all. 

 

David Thomas - Monster Walks the Winter Lake, Twin/Tone Records TTRCD8667, 1986.
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My Theory of Spontaneous Simultude / Red Tin Bus
What Happened to Me
Monster Walks the Winter Lake
Bicycle
Coffee Train
My Town
Monster Magee, King of the Seas
Monster Thinks about the Good Days
What Happened to Me

 

 

David Lynn Thomas R.I.P.
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It was Ten Years Ago Today

 

Ten years ago today I shared Ralph Lunsten’s Universe featuring the Andromeda All Stars - Universe recorded between March & October 1976. Here's one he released with the Lovetopia Feelharmonic Orchestra ten years after Universe, to stick with the decade theme.

Lundsten passed away in 2023. 

 

Ralph Lundsten with Lovetopia Feelharmonic Orchestra – The Dream Master, CBS, 1986.
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Prelude to the Future    
Life Crusader    
Poem of Love    
On the Funny Side of the Street    
Cosmic Psalm    
Surfing on a Dream

Suite Amoroso Op. 371, 1986    
Dream    
Desire    
Divineness

 

 

note: While preparing this share, I noticed in the B/W foto of Ralph Lundsten an album cover near his left shoulder. It was so interesting looking that I had to search it out.

It is the alternate cover for Side 2 of Lundsten’s Gustav III release entitled “Nattmara (Opus #56, 1970)”. The album is subtitled Horror & Ballet Music from Ralph Lundsten. I decided to share Side 2 (the Horror side) as a bonus track (include in Dream Master share). Enjoy...

Ralph Lundsten - Gustav III / Nattmara, His Master’s Voice 4E061-34362, 1971.

Side 2 -
Nattmara 

 

 

Dream On,
NØ

More AD

Back in April 2024 I did a deep dive into all things 4AD & the incredible Ivo Watts-Russell

One of the 4AD's earliest signings was the band Modern English. In 1983, Watts-Russell decided that the band should re-record two of its earliest songs, "Sixteen Days" & "Gathering Dust", as a medley. At that time, ME was closing its set with this medley & Ivo felt it warranted a re-do.

 

When the band declined the offer, Watts-Russell decided to assemble a group of musicians to record the medley themselves: Elizabeth Fraser & Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins; Gordon Sharp of Cindytalk (later known as Cindy Sharp or Cinder); Martyn Young of Colourbox; plus a few members of Modern English themselves (guitarist Gary McDowell & bassist Michael Conroy).

The 1983 Sixteen Days/Gathering Dust EP resulted from these sessions. Pleased with the EP, Watts-Russell decided to pursue the recording of a full album under the This Mortal Coil moniker, 1984s It'll End in Tears, which I included (along with Filigree & Shadow) in the 4AD shares.

Here's their third full-length, Blood which I had not shared yet. Again the album contains some wonderful but off-kilter cover songs in the typical TMC style (like their incredible take on Spirit's "Nature's Way"). 

 

This Mortal Coil - Blood, 4AD DAD1005CD, 1991.
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The Lacemaker    
Mr. Somewhere
Andialu
With Tomorrow
Loose Joints    
You & Your Sister
Nature's Way
I Come & Stand at Every Door
Bitter
Baby Ray Baby    
Several Times
The Lacemaker II    
Late Night
Ruddy & Wretched
Help Me Lift You Up
Carolyn's Song
D.D. & E.    
'Til I Gain Control Again
Dreams are Like Water    
I am the Cosmos
(Nothing But) Blood

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

The Return of the Kings

 

Heres a kinda recent live set by those We Intend to Cause Havoc kings of Zamrock. Last time I shared them was way back in 2013 on the tour Music Around the World when I reached Zambia. The Zambian psychedelic rock troupe dropped by the Boiler Room home studio & did their thing. This is the results.

 

W.I.T.C.H - Live from Boiler Room, London, September 22, 2017.
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Intro

Toloka

Thou Shalt Not Cry

Strange Dreams

October Night

Lazy Bones

Feels So Good

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Returning Once Again to 4Hero.

This release followed Parallel Universe & Jacob's Optica Stairway that I've shared in the past. This is simply a most perfect album! 4Hero are magickians of  break-ology & sampling, Here they weave a concept album from an unexpected palette of broken beats, soul, jazzy drum&bass.

 

The whole thing starts off with political poetess Ursula Rucker expounding the album's thesis, that Humanity is a hostile passenger aboard the sacred vessel Earth, witnessing our own harsh destiny & vessel Earth's destruction play out through a cosmic dance of Future jazz. 

 

4Hero - Two Pages, Talkin' Loud, 1998.
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Page One CD -    
Loveless featuring Ursula Rucker
Golden Age of Life
Planeteria (A Theme from a Dream)
Third Stream
Escape That
Cosmic Tree
Spirits in Transit
The Action
Star Chasers
Wishful Thinking
Universal Reprise

bonus tracks (from the Two Pages recording session) -
Mother Solar (Part One)
Normal Changing World

 

Page Two CD -    
We Who are Not as Others    
Humans
In the Shadows
Mathematical Probability    
Greys    
Pegasus 51    
Worlds End    
Wormholes    
Dauntless

bonus tracks (from the Two Pages recording session) -
(Title Appears as Strange Symbols)
De-Sci-Fer

 

 

 

 

Next is the remix CD that came out about a year after Two Pages. Remix albums are not always favorites of mine, but here the reworks are often as good as the originals (especially Jazzanova "We Who are Not as Others" & Masters at Work "Starchasers").

 

 

4Hero - Two Pages Reinterpretations, Talkin' Loud, 1999.

Planetaria (Hefner remix)
We Who are Not as Others (Jazzanova version)
Mathematical Probability (Mustang remix)
Escape That (New Sector Movements Selekshan 2 Sector Rub remix)
Escape That (Off-World remix)
Dauntless (Restless Soul South Pacific remix)
Star Chasers (Masters at Work main mix)
Star Chasers (Azymuth remix)
The Action (Shawn J Period remix)
We Who are Not as Others (Alpha Omega remix)
We Who are Not as Others (Sonar Circle remix)

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Stanley Keith Bowsza

When I was working on R. Stevie Moore for last month's Musick that Needed Work - R, I came across my musikal stash of Minóy. Happily (to me) much of his work has been re-issued since 2014 on his original tape label Minóy Cassetteworks or on Phil Klinger's other label, PBKsound. 

 

Cassetteworks was the label run by Minóy himself from his home address at 923 W. 232 Street in Torrance, California from the 1980s through the early 1990s. Cassettes produced on this label were dubbed by Minóy with a copyright followed by a year & his signature or collaboration project name along the right edge of the spine of the tape. Only a few of the tapes he releases were actually branded "Minóy Cassetteworks".

Sound of Pig, out of Great Neck, New York under the management of Al Margolis was another outlet for Minóy releases enabling them to reach a larger(?) audience. Al Margolis earned the title "Cassette Godfather" with his Sound of Pig cassette label by releasing obscure tapes, distributing them through a growing DIY music underground. 

 

Minoy - The Art of Egyptian Bathing, Minóy Cassetteworks C60 cassette, 1986.
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Side A -
The Art of Egyptian Bathing
Side B -
Secret Ceremony
Time Step

 

 

 

 

Minóy – Pretty Young Negro Man, Minóy Cassetteworks C60 cassette, 1986.

Side A -
Pretty Young Negro Man
Side B -
Outback

This particular one was recorded live January 27, 1988 in San Bernardino, California...

 

 

Minóy – Devil Music - Minoy Live!, Nihilistic Recordings C60 cassette, 1988.

Side A -
The Flavor of Acid on Ice (A Dance in the Manner of Japanese Butoh)
Me & My Shadow
Side B -
Phil Runs the Voodoo Down

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ