zappp
zappp
30 mar 23

DeRank™: 18,00  BarNecchi

Rashomon - A Ghastly Discovery

"Rashomon"
by Akira Kurosawa (1950)

#jazzlegends
 
zappp
zappp
30 mar 23

DeRank™: 16,54

Mal Waldron Trio - J.M.'s Dream Doll

Mal Waldron (4 out of 10)
"J. M. 's Dream Doll" from: Mal/4 Trio
1958 (New Jazz)

#jazzlegends
 
lector
lector
29 mar 23

DeRank™: 21,00

Music from Other Worlds (subtitle: 'listen to a fool)
Totó La Momposina - La Candela Viva (live at Real World Studios)
"...so you can stay among yourselves listening to Peruvian groups with bagpipes that are heard by only a handful of people, and not even their relatives buy them!" (quote)
HERE I AM! PRESENT! I, the arrogant know-it-all, frequenter of the most foul-smelling and hidden niches, who "will never be part of a majority" as that guy said in that movie... I invite you to listen to some of the most unimaginable stuff that has come my way over the years. You, heed a fool's advice, lose yourselves for 5 minutes because listening (reading, watching, eating, sniffing...) to the same old things that you already know how they are, without taking any risks, will simply lead to your brain atrophying.
8) Totò la Momposina and Her Drums
Sonia Bazanta Vides carries on her shoulders a family tradition spanning 5 generations of musicians. Born in 1940, daughter of a percussionist and a singer/dancer, she left her village of Talaigua Nuevo in Colombia and arrived in Paris and London (at the court of Peter Gabriel) and at the University of Bogotá as a teacher, while always remaining a "cantadora del pueblo."
Her extraordinary music, as Totó herself explains, "has its roots in a mixed race; being African and Indigenous, the heart of the music is completely percussive."
Only voice and percussion for a hot and vital, wild and ancient music.
She has recorded 8 fantastic albums, but at least the 2 with RealWorld are ABSOLUTELY MUST-HAVES!
And don’t say I didn’t tell you.
 
vibration
vibration
29 mar 23

DeRank™: 1,42

CUERDA HUIDA - "S/T" (2023, full album) #PUNK #HARDCORE #new #2023
As a layman, it doesn’t seem bad to me.
 
vibration
vibration
29 mar 23

DeRank™: 5,53

Sidewalks and Skeletons - WHITE LIGHT (2015) FULL ALBUM in the ranks of the forgotten NOCTURNO
 
Valentyna
Valentyna
29 mar 23

DeRank™: 14,92

Suede - Pantomime Horse (Audio Only)

Suede was released today, 30 years ago, and for me it was the beginning of everything.
 
IlConte
IlConte
29 mar 23

DeRank™: 20,75

The Cynics - Blue train station

Let’s also open the chapter on the Cynics. For my personal taste in garage-garage punk, they are among the very best.

Disillusioned by the local punk scene in which he had grown up (the one around the Electric Banana in Pittsburgh) and disgusted by the rising new romantic movement, Gregg Kostelich decides to return to the purity of the sixties music he had discovered as a kid through 45s he salvaged from a burglary at a radio station in Canonsburg, his hometown. He thus decides to form the Psycho Daisies with the intent of emulating the spirit of bands like Seeds, Music Machine, Blues Magoos, Alarm Clocks, Litter, Nightcrawlers, and Sonics.

Renaming themselves Cynics and replacing Mark Keresman (the one who sings on the band’s debut 7”, NdLYS) with new singer Michael Kastelic, former lead vocalist of the Wake, the band is ready for their debut album, released in 1986 on the band’s own label, catalog number GH-1000.

Alongside Gregg and Michael are the loyal companion Bill Von Hagen (the protagonist of Debt Begins at 20, a short film by Stephanie Beroe that explores the birth of the punk movement in Pittsburgh, NdLYS), a bassist who seems to have slipped out of a Redd Kross album cover, and the lovely Beki Smith on Vox organ. The blue train station is one of the essential stops of the quick neo-garage of the Eighties: loud vocals and a sound that wobbles between fuzz hornets (Waste of Time, borrowing the riff from That’s What You Always Say by Dream Syndicate, Love Me Then Go Away), R ‘n B rattlesnakes (Blue Train Station, No Way, Hold Me Right, the cover of Road Block), and trails of slime from the mollusks that inhabit the folk-rock garden of the sixties (On the Run). There’s little to discard, except that I Want Love had already been done, better, by our Sick Rose and the comparison with the No Friend of Mine by Fuzztones has always favored the latter, forcing us to postpone the appointment with the masterpiece to the next meeting.
 
cofras
cofras
29 mar 23

DeRank™: 24,57

Franco Battiato - Propiedad Prohibida

Today he would have turned 78. Best wishes wherever you are.