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Santana — Caravanserai | DeRank™: 0,00

This album diverges significantly from the primal rhythm of Santana, which blended salsa, rock, and jazz, and is characterized by numerous instrumental passages that prevail over the sung tracks.
Caravanserai is the first in a series of Santana albums known for their increasingly complex musicality and marks the transition from the rock of the first three albums to a sound that leans much more towards jazz. more
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Santana — Abraxas | DeRank™: 0,00

A mix of salsa, blues, rock and roll, jazz and other influences that made it a classic. (quote from wiki)
The title of the album comes from this quote from the book "Demian" by Herman Hesse:
We were facing him and began to freeze inside from the effort.
We interrogated the painting, we berated it, made love with it, prayed: we called it mother, we called it whore and slut, we called it our beloved, we called it Abraxas... more
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By now useless, I have worn it out... more
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The Shadows — Apache | DeRank™: 0,00

"Apache" was dedicated in 1960 to the homonymous Native American tribe.
At the beginning, there's a roll similar to that of the animal skin drums of the natives, then the electric guitar kicks in, repeating the introduction notes twice, after which the others join in with a motif identical to that of the natives as they march towards war. The central notes are repeated several times, similar to the initial ones, but faster or slower at the same time. The concluding notes are the same as the introduction, but the piece ends classically with a sharp pluck of the guitar without repeating the notes for a full two times. (cit. wiki) more
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Dik Dik — Vendo casa | DeRank™: 0,00

uhm, "The grass is high now, I know..." more
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It was a real craze of those years... more
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I Pooh — Piccola Katy | DeRank™: 0,00

Despite "Piccola Katy" being on the B-side of the album, this song was much, much more successful than the A-side. more
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Equipe 84 — Tutta mia la città | DeRank™: 0,00

On the drums, there was none other than Franz Di Cioccio... more
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Well, "Senza luce" was the cover of "A Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procol Harum.
"Waiter, never mind..." more
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Shakira | DeRank™: 0,06

Sing, dance, and smile, marry a millionaire footballer and round it all off by saying a couple of words in some ad. It's all about being smart in life. more
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Nada — Ma che freddo fa | DeRank™: 0,00

At just fifteen years old (I was about ten), he made his debut at the Sanremo Festival with this song that I fell in love with and played over and over again... more
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I Giganti — Proposta | DeRank™: 0,00

Better known by the title "Put Flowers in Your Guns."
The text is structured like a journalistic investigation into youth discontent.
The three verses that it is divided into are performed in turn by a member of the group, giving voice successively to a young worker, a painter, and a wealthy son.
Binding the three parts of the song together like a sort of red thread is the voice of the "interviewer." (cit. wiki) more
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A.R. Kane — 69 | DeRank™: 0,00

A.R. Kane were an English musical duo consisting of Alex Ayuli and Rudy Tambala.
The group drew inspiration even from the dark and atmospheric jazz of Miles Davis and the sinister, surreal fluidity of Robert Wyatt for the dreamy compositions of the album 69, a stylistic puzzle that reinvents the role of rhythm and melody.
(Copyright © 1999 Piero Scaruffi)
Tracks:
1. "Crazy Blue" 3:26
2. "Suicide Kiss" 3:36
3. "Baby Milk Snatcher" 3:16
4. "Scab" 3:25
5. "Sulliday" 6:33
6. "Dizzy" 3:47
7. "Spermwhale Trip Over" 4:40
8. "The Sun Falls into the Sea" 5:45
9. "The Madonna Is with Child" 3:49
10. "Spanish Quay (3)" 2:00
Musicians:
Maggie Tambala – backing vocals (track 1)
Russell Smith – bass (track 3)
Billy McGee – double bass (track 6)
Stephen Benjamin – clarinet (track 8)
Ray Shulman – bass (tracks 1 and 7) more
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It's their debut album as an English progressive rock band from the Canterbury scene, released in 1974.
Side A:
The Stubbs Effect (Pyle) – 0:22
Big Jobs (Poo Poo Extract) (Sinclair/Pyle) – 0:36
Going Up To People And Tinkling (Stewart) – 2:25
Calyx (Miller) – 2:45
Son Of "There's No Place Like Homerton" (Stewart) – 10:10
Aigrette (Miller) – 1:37
Rifferama (Sinclair arr. Hatfield and the North) – 2:56
Side B:
Fol De Rol (Sinclair/Wyatt) – 3:07
Shaving Is Boring (Pyle) – 8:45
Licks For The Ladies (Sinclair/Pyle) – 2:37
Bossa Nochance (Sinclair) – 0:40
Big Jobs No. 2 (By Poo And The Wee Wees) (Sinclair/Pyle) – 2:14
Lobster In Cleavage Probe (Stewart) – 3:57
Gigantic Land Crabs In Earth Takeover Bid (Stewart) – 3:21 more
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Robert Wyatt — Comicopera | DeRank™: 0,00

Despite his departure from the Communist Party of Great Britain nearly twenty years earlier, Wyatt continues his political commitment, and "Comicopera" is one of the albums where his denunciations of the system, particularly the Anglo-American one, are most dramatic.
Among the 18 musicians accompanying him are Brian Eno, Annie Whitehead, Paul Weller, and Phil Manzanera, who had already appeared on Wyatt's recent works. (cit. wiki) more
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Robert Wyatt — Cuckooland | DeRank™: 0,00

The cast of musicians on Cuckooland includes former Roxy Music members Brian Eno and Phil Manzanera, Paul Weller, Annie Whitehead (who also appeared in Shleep), and David Gilmour of Pink Floyd (along with 9 other notable artists).
Regarding the Iraq war, it highlights children's fears during bombings in the track "Lullaby for Hamza," which is followed by half a minute of silence to provide a moment of reflection for the listener. (source: wiki) more
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Robert Wyatt — Shleep | DeRank™: 0,00

The title of the album is a distortion of the English word sleep, and it was chosen by the artist reflecting on his disturbed sleep during that period.
Shleep is a progressive rock album, released in 1997.
It marks the end of an artistic silence that lasted for several years, interrupted by sporadic appearances on other musicians' albums, and signifies the exit from the isolation in which Wyatt had enclosed himself after the recordings of the seventies, which had led him to create most of his works playing alone.
The musician and multi-instrumentalist is joined in his effort by an exceptional cast, 12 musicians who collaborate and alternate on the tracks of the album, carefully chosen by Wyatt based on specific criteria of character and intellectual rigor. (source: wiki) more
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Oneida — Absolute II | DeRank™: 0,00

The definitive abandonment of the song form by the band from Brooklyn. more
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Robert Wyatt — Dondestan | DeRank™: 0,00

Dondestan is an album with soft, melancholic, and at times dark tones. The arrangements are minimalist, featuring few instruments, all played by Wyatt (organ, synthesizer, percussion, drums), with melodies primarily built on hexatonic scales.
The hexatonic scale is also known as Debussy's scale due to the fact that Claude Debussy made extensive use of it in his compositions, thus creating his impressionistic character, as seen in "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune," "L'isle joyeuse," or "Voiles, Prélude, Book I, No. 2."
Hexatonic harmony can also be found in the early compositions of Stravinsky and Bartók, and more rarely in Ravel. It is also present in the early works of Schoenberg and Berg in almost atonal contexts. (source: wiki) more
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Robert Wyatt — Old Rottenhat | DeRank™: 0,00

In 1979, Wyatt joined the Communist Party of Great Britain, driven by anger over NATO's colonial activities and the ongoing apartheid in South Africa. When he resumed publishing after several years of semi-inactivity, he committed his art to political ideology, convinced that the revolutionary charge of rock was losing credibility.
All the tracks on Old Rottenhat are consistent with these choices and contain political references related to pressing realities, such as "East Timor," which addresses the massacres happening in that country under American cover...
With this work, he returned to composing after gaining recognition in the early 1980s with singles that were covers of protest songs by other artists. (cit. wiki) more
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