EP released in 2014 by Blackball Universe in Oakland, California. Fantastic Negrito draws heavily from the history of African Americans and that of the blues. A guy dedicated to music since he was a kid, a multi-instrumentalist from a Muslim-orthodox family, growing up listening to Afro-traditional music, Arabic sounds, and Funkadelic, he literally converted to the blues after a fatal accident that somehow opened his mind. An interesting record with some soulful passages ('The Time Has Come') and neo-soul and hip-hop experiments ('Fever'). I know his first LP is set to be released soon; I'm at least curious to hear it.
Flat Earth Society: Waleeco
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Recorded at Fleetwood Studios in Boston, 'Waleeco' is the only LP released by this psychedelic rock band from Massachusetts back in 1968. A small gem of the genre and, as far as I'm concerned, a fantastic discovery. Eleven tracks of psychedelic sounds typical of that era, between The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield, with deviations that already hint at Velvet Underground ('Midnight Hour,' 'In My Window') and more evocative episodes like 'Satori' and 'Portrait in Grey,' which foreshadow some experiments that later became typical in the genre. Beautiful.

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Franco Battiato: Foetus
CD Audio I have it
I WASN'T EVEN BORN YET, BUT I COULD ALREADY FEEL THE HEART, THAT MY LIFE WAS COMING INTO BEING WITHOUT LOVE, I DRAGGED MYSELF SLOWLY, INSIDE THE HUMAN BODY, ALREADY THROUGH THE VEINS, TOWARDS MY DESTINY...
  • Kotatsu
    16 feb 18
    Foetus?
  • Kotatsu
    16 feb 18
    I completely miss the English version!
  • sotomayor
    16 feb 18
    Ah, I wouldn’t know. I only know the original version in Italian. I saw a post on the home page and felt compelled to comment on the work I practically know by heart. It reminds me of a specific phase of my existence... obviously a negative one, but who cares. And it reminds me of the blackout. I was listening to this record that evening and preparing for an exam for university. One of the few I’ve taken. I’ve never understood what I actually did with my life during those two or three years.
  • Falloppio
    16 feb 18
    Fetus is the Italian album. Foetus the English version that I've never heard. I'm sorry about the association of an album to such a long period of life. You'll recover.... :)
Frank Cappello: He Was A Quiet Man
File Video I lack ★★★
Acid psychological drama featuring Christian Slater as a tormented employee humiliated by his colleagues, the typical 'Mr. Nobody', who overnight finds himself the center of attention for having shot a killer who was committing a massacre in his office. In a process of identification with the murderer and in attempts to find a new equilibrium, the plot unfolds, ultimately rewinding like the old tape of a video cassette.
Frank Oz: The Stepford Wives
File Video Not intrested ★
Taken from the famous novel by Ira Levin and already brought to the big screen by Bryan Forbes in 1975, starring Nicole Kidman and featuring the talented Christopher Walken, the film tells the story of life in the town of Stepford, Connecticut, where, immersed in an atmosphere ideally typical of the 1950s USA, the women who live there could be described as the prototype of the perfect housewife of that era. Obviously, behind this apparent perfection lies a grotesque truth, curated by Frank Oz as a black comedy and based on a story that can be considered a classic in its own right, regarding a certain type of satirical thriller with sci-fi elements. Objectively: much better could have been done.