macaco

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Adrian Belew: e
CD Audio I have it ★★
Sterile crimsonisms.
  • macaco
    25 jan 15
    In fact, it would be in the name of Adrian Belew Power Trio.
After Crying: Overground Music
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
A record that everyone should listen to. It draws universal value when, through elaborate harmonies, it penetrates the soul of some sentient being.
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    24 feb 15
    Fantastic these Hungarians, classic without being so, progressive without sound tightness, chamber melodies made to get stuck in your brain, and find yourself whistling them without realizing it. Beautiful voices, timeless record.
Ahvak: Ahvak
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
One of the best prog albums of this millennium. Complex, technically flawless, filled with tension and drama. A product of the American and Belgian RIO school.
Assalti frontali: Terra di nessuno
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
I bought it at a politically correct price of 17,000 lire, after reading an enthusiastic review in AudioReview (which is unusual since it’s also recorded haphazardly). It had the power to make me reassess an entire genre.
  • De...Marga...
    22 jan 15
    One of the very few records I bought in the early nineties, with the explosion of rap in Italy. A memorable season with Onda Rossa Posse, AK 47, Assalti Frontali, Isola Posse All Stars....
  • De...Marga...
    22 jan 15
    One of the very few records I bought in the early nineties, with the explosion of rap in Italy. A memorable season with Onda Rossa Posse, AK 47, Assalti Frontali, Isola Posse All Stars....
Bill Bruford & Tony Levin: Upper Extremities
File Audio I have it ★★★★
Project born as a result of David Torn's album Clouds About Mercury, which sees our records unleash their sordid desires without falling into the usual rants. Drum & Bass to the max!
  • hjhhjij
    2 feb 15
    Eh, a duo that's worth 100. Now I like you more :)
Birds performing acrobatics among the skyscrapers. One of my favorites of the new millennium.
Bruford: The Bruford Tapes
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
This live document is spectacular, with Holdsword less showy than usual... in fact, it’s not him who’s playing but a guy named John Clark. Unbelievable stuff...
Caetano Veloso: Outras Palavras
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
How to best enter the infamous eighties. 1981, all in all, a great year.
  • imasoulman
    27 feb 15
    oh right! if someone were to have only (poor him...) five records by this man, this is one of them.
Carl Craig: ReComposed
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Ravel & Mussorgsky on a journey through high-tech Detroit. A must-have!
Cosa Brava: Ragged Atlas
File Audio I have it ★★★★
Excellent project by Fred Frith, where he sounds like a regular musician, composing songs and instrumental pieces in a more accessible way compared to many of his works. Recommended for those looking for something different. Folk in opposition?
Still the year '81. Great album, crazy and dazed.
  • fuggitivo
    29 may 15
    Look what you've pulled me out of! And just a week after I put it on the iPod.
  • hjhhjij
    29 may 15
    And with Richard Thompson on guitar. How cool.
Doces Bárbaros: Ao Vivo
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
The four horsemen of the pós-calypso in 1976 celebrate ten years of career together, from Bahia to Rio and São Paulo, renewing Brazilian music. We are obviously talking about Caetano, Gil, Bethânia, and Gal and their musical show created for the occasion. An excellent lineup to accompany them, original music and more, a touch of psychedelia and plenty of groove.
Extrawelt: In Aufruhr
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Currently, this is everything I could have imagined from electronic music. Minimal techno, which, despite its name, comes across as sophisticated and original without the excesses that other genres flaunt and that often overwhelm me. This album is incredibly different from the other masterpiece; Schöne Neue Extrawelt, reviewed by the unparalleled Untilted. Anyway, as you know, I don't know a damn thing about electronic music!
Gong: Camembert Electrique
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
An eternal young boy.
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    6 feb 15
    Every time I pull out the record, I can't help but pause at the photo on the back cover and think about how Robert Wyatt's little boy could be among that incredible company of Astral-Freaks. I too would have loved a vacation like that.
  • tia
    6 feb 15
    in my ears since I was 10 years old... wonderfully anarchic record! and then I love cheese...
  • tia
    6 feb 15
    Sorry, I corrected myself... since the age of 3! My older brother listened to it and it was all the rage…
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    6 feb 15
    “I can only hope that, during this journey, I have somehow contributed to the happiness in the lives of a few other fellow human." Daevid Allen, with the little time he has left, has asked his fans to let him go peacefully. Having seen Gong live three times, I can say that I have experienced a triple dose of happiness. Thank you, Daevid.
  • hjhhjij
    6 feb 15
    What bad news, many are leaving. Hats off to this man, gentlemen, and thank you for everything, old fool.
  • Lao Tze
    6 feb 15
    The albums with Allen will remain kids forever. Too free and out of everything to grow old. The Gong (but why, Kevin Ayers and others..?) are a resounding punch in the face for those who think that the early '70s were the "senile" age of Rock.
Henry Cow & Slapp Happy: In Praise Of Learning
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
I begin my DeCollection with one of the albums of my life, the result of a miraculous fusion between two almost antithetical bands. The masterpiece of Rock in Opposition!
  • hjhhjij
    27 dec 14
    The other one was Slapp Happy & Henry Cow, here basically just the Cow with fusions inside the Slapp Happy. Crazy album that I haven't listened to in too long, damn it.
Hugh Hopper: Hopper Tunity Box
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
The second solo album from the former Soft Machine, as always accompanied by illustrious names from the Canterbury scene, comes across as more progressive than jazz-rock. Probably his best album, without forgetting some interesting works from the nineties (Hughscore).
  • hellraiser
    26 jan 15
    I don't know it but I'm very interested. I'll try to find it soon, great tip!
Ivano Fossati: La Disciplina Della Terra
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
With this album, Fossati reaches the limit, arriving at the border of what is, by definition, the Italian singer-songwriter genre. A limit he will never want to surpass, by a conscious and shareable stylistic choice, but one that leaves other possibilities unrealized that could have emerged. In the end, during this long coexistence of the musician with the singer-songwriter, the latter has almost always prevailed. And this is by no means a bad thing.
King Crimson: The Great Deceiver: Live 1973-1974
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Box set with four CDs, released in the early nineties, when I was deeply infatuated, depicting the finest lineup of our beloved band and gifting us with compositions performed with great technical skill and attention to details that make the performances always different from one another. In the improvised sections, you can catch glimpses of material that will go on to form Red. Unbeatable!
Lenine: Olho de Peixe
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
The first CD I bought was in Terras Brasilis. Recorded with Suzano (a great innovator of the pandeiro), in Recife in 1994, it's already a classic of MPB. Leão Do Norte has become a Pernambucano anthem that everyone here knows how to sing. Without a doubt, one of the best Brazilian records of the last twenty years.
Lucio Battisti: E già
Vinile I have it ★★★
The first vinyl I bought. I was ten years old and until yesterday I thought; what bad luck, one of Lucio's less pretty ones. Then I reconsider and think that maybe for a child it’s perfect; imagining flying on the waves with windsurfing, or writing a name on something that matters. And if I had come across Anima Latina, I would probably have been traumatized.
  • De...Marga...
    30 dec 14
    The album that I like the least in the entire immense career of our national Lucio; perhaps because it is laden with electronics and it is the first without the writing contribution of Mogol. Indeed, it is his wife Grazia Letizia who takes care of the lyrics. Hey dude, is it hot over there?
  • De...Marga...
    30 dec 14
    The album that I like the least in the entire immense career of our national Lucio; perhaps because it is laden with electronics and it is the first without the writing contribution of Mogol. Indeed, it is his wife Grazia Letizia who takes care of the lyrics. Hey dude, is it hot over there?
  • De...Marga...
    30 dec 14
    The album that I like the least in the entire immense career of our national Lucio; perhaps because it is laden with electronics and it is the first without the writing contribution of Mogol. Indeed, it is his wife Grazia Letizia who takes care of the lyrics. Hey dude, is it hot over there?
  • macaco
    30 dec 14
    30 degrees. Today I'm going to the beach, Porto de Galinhas. But don't hate me though ;)
  • De...Marga...
    30 dec 14
    So you live in Brazil. But for work? Or by choice? Going back to Lucio, I’m currently listening to "Anima Latina"... What an album!!!!!!!!!
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    30 dec 14
    It's a record I found in London for 99 pence, leaving the sticker on the cover; I think it's a nice album and all those synths don't bother me. Just now I was listening to Sergio Mendes & Brasil '88, a cheerful antidote to the icy Milanese breeze, imagining a New Year's beach party. Lucky you. ;-)))
  • macaco
    30 dec 14
    Dear De...Marga, choice of life, destiny, luck, who knows...
M.O.D.: U.S.A. for M.O.D.
Nastro Audio I have it ★★
Those who arrive late for the S.O.D. have to settle for the M.O.D. Billy Milano fat piece of shit!
Matching Mole: Little Red Record
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
The first one I bought from the so-called Canterbury school. I still didn't know Wyatt; I bought it just because it was produced by Roberto Frippo. A whole new world opened up for me...
  • Buzzin' Fly
    7 jan 15
    Beautiful, but I prefer the namesake; it contains one of the best things of the Canterbury Sound. The first one I heard, I don't remember. The first one I bought, "Soft Machine 1 & 2" as a single CD, was my first CD purchase. My second CD was "Chocolate Watch Band," the third was "Starsailor" by Buckley, over 20 years ago; what a memory.
Material: Temporary Music (1979-1981)
File Audio I have it ★★★★
The first two EPs of the band formed after Allen's New York Gong. Sharp funk, linear rhythms with an eighties flavor, a hint of dance, and a good dose of experimentation. From the next one onwards, they will become a distinctly Laswellian band.
  • Lao Tze
    9 feb 15
    There is a lot of my idea of "sound" in the early Material. Just as in James Chance and the OTHERS (uhm...) who have shaped Funk in a CERTAIN way. In THAT New York.
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    9 feb 15
    One might call it "dance with depth," and the nice thing is that it has aged well, unlike other contemporary works on the edge of the Avantgarde. The subsequent EPs are also great. Everything is collected in Secret Life, an excellent CD alternative to the vinyl package.
  • macaco
    9 feb 15
    And who else but you two... I have the impression that THAT New York hasn't been appreciated enough, at least here on the debasio.
  • macaco
    10 feb 15
    By the way, I'm currently listening to Lyrics Set To The Músic, dedicated to Paul Haine, with an exceptional line-up.
melvins: bullhead
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Therapeutic. It calms the anger and gives the right charge.
  • piro
    1 feb 15
    Oh yes. One of the best.
Michael Manring: Thonk
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
A successful blend of musicians from different backgrounds. Alex Skolnick, Steve Morse, Tim Alexander, Steve Smith. The New Age of Windham Hill coexists harmoniously with metal, great technique and strong expressiveness, intimacy and explosive power.
Miriodor: Jongleries élastiques
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
A record like this leaves behind 3/4 of the prog scene of the nineties. Too complex at a compositional level to be immediately absorbed, it demands an effort that is, however, amply rewarded. For lovers of Rio or the Canterbury scene.
Mr. Bungle: Mr. Bungle
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
I remember perfectly that evening about twenty years ago, I was cruising the streets of Bologna in my friend Franco's red Renault 60 when, at one point, he popped a cassette into the car radio. Nothing would ever be the same again. Not even Faith No More.
  • De...Marga...
    5 jan 15
    What a monstrous band!!!! I remember when I saw them live for the tour of their latest album (sigh!!) California. I'll let you imagine how I tore myself apart and how truly monstrous they were… EGG…
  • macaco
    5 jan 15
    How envy! They passed by me but I have never seen them.
Os Mutantes: Tecnicolor
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Recorded in Paris in 1970, it aimed to be an album targeting the foreign market. It was rejected by Polydor for being sung in too many languages and was only released in 2000. It is essentially the first album (which we all know, right?) under a new guise, with a more robust rhythm and predominantly vocal parts sung in English.
Batmacumba, Batmacumb, Batmacum, Batmacu,, Batmac, Batma, Batm, Bat, Ba, B.
  • Loconweed
    7 feb 15
    I know of the Mutants from Brazil's two self-titled albums ("Os Mutantes" and "Mutantes"), the latter even features a version of "Tintarella di Luna."
Os Mutantes: O 'A' e o 'Z'
File Audio I have it ★★
What can you expect from Brazilians high on LSD playing English prog? Nothing good, actually, a mess.
Pat Metheny: Secret Story
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
2nd barracks 1992. A month before the end of my military service, they transferred me to another barracks. A grandfather among strangers. To comfort me through all this and the stupidity of the sergeants, this well of emotions while a cold February passed through the window of a shabby barracks in Treviso.
  • alexx
    18 jan 15
    The "methenite" arrived for me just two years later... I was forced to buy them all!
Present: Barbaro (ma non troppo)
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Thirty years after Heresie (Univers Zero), Trigaux gifts us with a dark chamber rock. Jack The Ripper come back.
Samla Mammas Manna: Klossa Knapitatet
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Used to the dark plots that unfold in cold Sweden, we will be surprised by the friendliness of this eclectic progressive. Best enjoyed in the company of beer and sausages.
  • macaco
    4 jan 15
    I'm sorry, but I can’t access external links. However, if you provide the text you'd like me to translate, I'd be happy to help!
  • Lao Tze
    4 jan 15
    They have always made me think of a gathering of Swedish hippies. Genius band.
  • hjhhjij
    4 jan 15
    Shit, I miss them.
Slapp Happy: Casablanca Moon
File Audio I have it ★★★★
After the rejection from Polydor in Germany to publish the album, they found approval with Virgin in London where it was recorded, enriched with new arrangements and released in 1974. An album with a pop spirit born between Kraut-rock and Rock in Opposition.
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    11 jan 15
    It may seem strange to you, but I prefer these albums of theirs to the first two Henry Cow.
  • Buzzin' Fly
    11 jan 15
    Beautiful album, it absolutely doesn’t feel its 40 years.
  • Lao Tze
    14 jan 15
    even if for me it’s a 5.
Slapp Happy: Acnalbasac Noom
File Audio I have it ★★★★
The original recording, from 1973, rejected by the German Polydor, finds light in the early eighties thanks to Recomended Records by Cris Cutler. Sparse arrangements and the legendary Faust's rhythmic foundation. In contrast, the beautiful cover by Peter Blegvad. High-class "pop," a sunny Dagmar like we will never hear again, caught as she will be between the artistic and political commitment of Cow and Brechtian interpretations.
The Raincoats: Odyshape
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Post-punk? Low-fi? A female band definitely ahead of its time and out of the ordinary. I bought the album as soon as it was reissued on CD. And I liked it.
  • imasoulman
    19 jan 15
    Beautiful stuff spotted today in this land. Post-punk for sure, and lo-fi definitely yes, but the real deal, which precedes by more than a decade the certain indie-rock that sold, compared to the Raincoats, tons more. But the raw and scrappy post-Velvet art of Vicky Aspinall and her companions will remain something unique.
  • Buzzin' Fly
    20 jan 15
    Here, I've never heard this. Like so many post-punk things, I believe it's purely for age-related reasons, but it's a musical period I know little about.
Recommended by my trusted shopkeeper, it soon turned out to be quite disappointing. And then that booklet, which once you took out of the CD, you could only manage to get back in with a hammer. Forgive me, but I detest rock and roll and the blues.
  • hjhhjij
    1 feb 15
    A very ugly thing :(
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    1 feb 15
    I did better, my friend Macaco, first I listened to him, then I made sure to keep him out of my collection.
  • hjhhjij
    1 feb 15
    In my opinion, you are all crazy, there you go. :P
  • madcat
    1 feb 15
    but above all you hate rock and roll and blues and you buy the rolling stones.. wow man :D
  • hellraiser
    1 feb 15
    For me, however, it’s among the best albums in rock overall, but that's just how it is; tastes are tastes, and there’s not much you can do about it...
  • macaco
    2 feb 15
    Aho, dear madcat, you have to stick a finger up your ass to know if we’re not gay :)
  • ZannaB
    2 feb 15
    I vote for comment number 6 by Macaco as the comment of the month!
  • De...Marga...
    2 feb 15
    I quote comment 7 by Zanna that praises comment 6 by macaco; who, macaco, has a lot of courage to speak so poorly of an album that isn’t really that bad after all. De gustibus.
  • extro91
    2 feb 15
    I quote comment number 3. For the first time in my life, I feel like a Christian surrounded by blasphemers.
  • Buzzin' Fly
    2 feb 15
    I don't like it, just as I don't really like the Rolling Stones. Just like I don't like the blues, just like I don't like cheese.
  • Buzzin' Fly
    2 feb 15
    how I don't like jazz, rap, funk, soul, afro, ska, and reggae
  • Buzzin' Fly
    2 feb 15
    I like them up to "Aftermath" and then just some scattered songs. I'm among those who prefer the Beatles; at least they had the good taste to stop at the right moment.
  • hjhhjij
    2 feb 15
    Yes, Buzzin, but you have some issues, you know :D
  • hjhhjij
    2 feb 15
    Widen your views, plebeians!
  • ZannaB
    2 feb 15
    How could you say that you don't like cheese??????
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    2 feb 15
    @Buzzin'--A little beyond Aftermath would be ideal, especially knowing your tastes, Their Satanic Majesties Request cannot be overlooked. And my life piece recorded by them is right there...any Psych soul can't help but love 2000 Light Years From Home to madness.
  • Buzzin' Fly
    2 feb 15
    Yes, for "Their Satanic," which I see as an exception. I got into the Rolling Stones at the end of the '80s because I was listening to a lot of garage and I therefore feel more affinity with their earlier works.
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    2 feb 15
    More than a parenthesis, it’s their ability to slip into any mood and genre, and to do it well. Their Satanic is dark, drugged, jammy, and astral, much closer to The Piper... than to the Beatles. Even the single She's A Rainbow is irresistible; it’s the hit single that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart would have composed if he had lived in the Flower Power Era.
  • Lao Tze
    2 feb 15
    A band a bit different from Univers Zero, Macaco ;;;;--))))))));
  • piro
    7 apr 15
    I've been laughing for an hour reading this definition. Thank you, macaco!
This Heat: This Heat
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
One of the CDs I’m most attached to. Stuff that's way ahead.
  • hjhhjij
    29 jan 15
    Crazy stuff, really light years ahead. I personally like "Deceit" even more.
  • Buzzin' Fly
    30 jan 15
    Extraordinary works that bring together two distant worlds, at least for the time being: the avant prog universe that is more unconventional and the post-punk that is less tied to the song format. Today it would be called post-rock.
  • odradek
    30 jan 15
    But come on, I wouldn't have said that. Back in the day, I preferred Deceit, for the feeling of numbness at certain points of the album, but I was still an instant fan of theirs. Hi, Maka
Tony Allen: Lagos No Shaking
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
I'm certainly not an expert in afro-beat, but I prefer this album to some of Fela Kuti's that I've listened to. Absolutely intriguing rhythmic interweavings.
I tried three times and the most I managed was twelve minutes. That same battery just kills me inside; for me, it’s an unbearable record. Anyway, maximum respect.
Weidorje: Weidorje
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Weidroje is the flying saucer with which the mutineers of Commander Vander escaped from the mother ship. A fantastic disc even if the audio quality is not top-notch. If it were branded Magma, it would be one of their best albums. And that says a lot.
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    16 jan 15
    So there should also be Jannik Top among the mutineers?
  • hjhhjij
    16 jan 15
    So you create huge expectations, you know that, right?
  • macaco
    16 jan 15
    No dear Barracuda, the pilot is Gauthier and the co-pilot is Paganotti. The split happened after Udu Wudu.
  • macaco
    16 jan 15
    Trust hjhhjij that they will not be disappointed.
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    16 jan 15
    Thank you, friend Macaco. I had no doubts about Paganotti, since they chose the title of one of his songs for the new project. I believe Top and Blasquiz would have stayed on the mother ship without hesitation; Top is one of my favorite bassists, a giant, and his De Futura is an absolute masterpiece. As soon as I have some time, I will look for this album on YouTube.
  • macaco
    16 jan 15
    So I dedicate this to you
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    16 jan 15
    Phenomenal quartet, I am enchanted. ;-)))