PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED, LIKE SLEEVE OF WIZARD
Quiet week. Writing. Resting. Home.
Listening to: "Bachelor's Guide to the Galaxy"—kitschy jams from the late ‘50s and early ‘60s, on Rhino Rec.
Starling Electric "Clouded Staircase" (thanks Jon and Remi)—amazing midwestern psych jams
Plastiq Phantom s/t release by Seattle electronischer whiz kid on Imputor Rec.
Edwin Starr—STOP THE WAR---NOW!!
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds live in Linz Austria Oct. ’86 (thanks Peter!)
Lemontaor “At the Presence of Great Beauty”—check out ‘Guardian Maria’ which features Jon Auer on vocals, quite a good song that. (Universal Music Finland)
Os Mutantes “Technicolor” considered their worst album by some, it was an English language redo of several of their songs from other albums. So the production is less far out than their Portuguese language albums, and in some cases, the translation reveals some rather mundane lyrics. But still…they have great songs.
Hot Hot Heat “Elevator” this is great from start to finish. I can’t say the lyrics are always super deep but there is not one minute of this album where the energy drops.
The Microphones “Mount Eerie” one of the most ominous, epic beginnings to any record I can think of…distant echoes build up to a kind of tribal drum and tambourine beat..all this takes about 10 minutes, and then a beautiful song emerges, and then another…fascinating groups of voices or horns or gawd knows what come in and out…it’s a really beautiful album. I am very curious what the creator of this music, Phil, does when he plays live. This is on K records.
Marvin Gaye “I Want You” his paean to his 17-year-old bride to be…yow. I actually got more into the bonus disc of instrumental jams, a capella vocal tracks and works-in-progress.
And watching: Bill Hicks “Sane Man” –“you smoke a pack a day, you little girl? I go thru two LIGHTERS a day”
Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra—my son, Kenny, visiting from the US, and I went to see them perform last night at the Cite de la Musique. Both far out and familiar…echoes of Stan Kenton, Gil Evans (with whom she worked in the 80s) but also Mingus, Gustav Holst…and many unclassifiable sounds come out.
And, I saw the new James Bond film, which certainly does the franchise justice; and I saw ‘Borat’, which is certainly consistent with the body of work that Sacha Baron Cohen has put in the world. I can’t believe he didn’t have the balls to film his establishment shots in Kazakhstan tho. The beginning/end of the film was shot in a village in Romania.
Love
KS
Paris
