Death Have Mercy (Vera Hall) (1959)

John Avery Lomax, ethnomusicologist, met Adell "Vera" Hall Ward in the 1930s and recorded her for the Library of Congress. Lomax wrote of her that she had the most beautiful voice he had ever recorded, stating: "Her singing is like a shepherd's flute with a deep, sweet, and pure tone, (but always with hints of lips and the flesh that delights in pleasure...) The sound comes from deep within her when she sings, from a source of gold and light, otherwise hidden, and falls directly on your ear like sunlight. It is a liquid contralto, full, rich in low nuances; but it can leap directly into falsetto and sound there effortlessly like a bird in the wind."
 
 
 
 
 
 
Watch "Les Négresses Vertes - Sous le Soleil de Bodega (Clip Officiel)" on YouTube
Les Négresses Vertes - Sous le Soleil de Bodega (Clip Officiel)
 
 
#piero "the real war is not fought with weapons, it's fought with the heart that's why I'm a hero" Piero Ciampi - Uffa che noia
 
 
Icehouse - Street Cafe
My sport is soaring with these spatial harmonies.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Giorgio Gaber - La libertà

When will we come down from the tree?
 
 
 
 
Icehouse - Dusty Pages
A truly remarkable band... in some tracks they continue the path of Simple Minds, in others that of Japan, and in pieces like this one they sound like Roxy Music's My Only Love or The Space Between.
 
 
 
 
Warm greetings from the city of seaweed, that is, from Alghero.

Ingrandisci questa immagine
 
 
Country (Love &) Death Songs: #ViolentFemmes Approximately Top Twenty, N°04
Country Death Song
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Watch "BARRIO POPULO - Thèmes Piétinés [Clip Officiel 2013]" on YouTube
BARRIO POPULO - Thèmes Piétinés [Clip Officiel 2013]
 
 
 
 
Wallace Roney - No Room for Argument

Wallace Rooney - from "No Room for Argument"
2000 (Concord Jazz)

#jazzlegends
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Squid - Paddling (Official Audio) ...intellectual post punk, the first album comes out in May...I like it.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Myra Melford Extended Ensemble - Even The Sounds Shine

Myra Melford - from "Even the Sounds Shine"
1995 (Hat Hut)

#jazzlegends
 
 
'Tales From Monographic Oceans': a spontaneous journey in a stretch of sea, cutting through the isthmuses of some discographies (Mama Africa 35, 18)
'Balkan music has really annoyed us, it’s beautiful and all that but in the long run…'. Instead, African music, never.
For a brief backward glimpse into the Dark Continent, at the foot of the exceptional music to which everyone owes their due respect, if not devotion. Because, like it or not, we are, largely if not entirely, its children.
17. Ismael Lo
Ismael Lo - Nafanta
 
 
Supersilent - 6.4 [320kbps, best pressing]

Supersilent - from "6"
2003 (Rune Grammofon)

#jazzlegends
 
 
 
 
Genesis - The Musical Box
...about Splendid Fifty-Year-Olds...
 
 
Fabulous Fifties 1971 - 2021 (170) Witthuser & Westrupp - Trips and Dreams... Trippo Nova
 
 
Povo

#unochesiannoiavapoco

a semi-serious journey through the discography and collaborations of Billy Cobham in almost chronological order
1973 Freddie Hubbard - Sky dive
 
 
Clannad ‘An t-Oileán Úr’ The Embankment, Dublin - 1976 The Brennan Family (or Bhraonain if you prefer).
 
 
Roxy Music - Trash
I fear I will have to change my judgment on the Roxy. The phrase "Phenomenal in the first 4 records" will be replaced with "Phenomenal always."
(But how perversely beautiful is the lunar intro that immediately crashes against a wicked sinfulness?!)