Lao Tze
Lao Tze
11 aug 18

DeRankā„¢: 6,00

Ultra - Say It Once (1998)

The #improposables

In '98 Di Caprio was God.
I remember TV contests for Di Caprio lookalikes, I remember barbers displaying his photos in their windows.
Everyone wanted his haircut, many tried to imitate him (or at least attempted to).
But the first ones were the boy-band singers.
Like a certain James Hearn, who to be honest didnā€™t exactly rock the Di Caprio look.
But almost all the promotional photos of the Ultra played on that (vague) resemblance.
Exactly, the Ultra. WHO?
Right, they were in the charts. But almost everywhere they landed in the Intertoto zone (back in '98 they still held the Intertoto, remember?).
Only in Italy did they come in first. It was August. MTV played the video at all hours.
James Di Caprio Hearn left the music career not long after.
ā€œHe abandoned me, this music show-business.ā€
Apparently, he said.
 
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masturbatio
masturbatio
11 aug 18

DeRankā„¢: 5,83

The The - Giant Il sole è alto...
 
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NAB(m-l)
NAB(m-l)
11 aug 18

DeRankā„¢: 8,98  Comindeb

How to step in boldly and with disarming clarity on the concepts of internationalism and nationalism (set aside the specific experience being referenced. The analysis holds true beyond the particular context: reflect especially on the very first and last lines.):
"You donā€™t become a communist in a day. Nationalism has always been a concept foreign to me, and the extremist variant that arose in Lithuania at the end of the eighties was unacceptable to me. My parents were peasants, we were poor, and if it hadnā€™t been for the Soviet power, I would never have left this little farmhouse where I am now conversing with you. I would have worked as a laborer and spent my whole life here, next to the photograph of my parents and this icon that had already been hanging here when I was born. I was able to study, I watched Lithuania grow economically and culturally. Lithuania, as the intellectual Saloméja Néris wrote, was a "vibrating string" within the Soviet Union, and things were working, but the nationalists destroyed everything, and this is not just a Lithuanian illness: now in Russia, they shout "Russia for Russians" just as we once shouted "Lithuania for Lithuanians." This is simply not right."
(Juozas Kuolelis, former head of the ideological department of the Lithuanian Communist Party, interviewed by journalist Galina Sapoznikova, author of "The Lithuanian Conspiracy," from which this excerpt is taken.)
 
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IlConte
IlConte
11 aug 18

DeRankā„¢: 3,94

Dall'Interno, the movie - part 01/20 - Bob Dylan's "What was it you wanted" dance on Vimeo
A stunning album for the Count...
I don't know if the Zimmy version is okay ahahahah
 
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dsalva
dsalva
11 aug 18

DeRankā„¢: 3,00

Blood Sweat & Tears - (Blues Part 2)
The BLUES -27-
 
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Carlos
Carlos
11 aug 18

DeRankā„¢: 3,00

Calexico - Fade
 
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Battlegods
Battlegods
11 aug 18

DeRankā„¢: 4,72

Simply Red - Picture Book Class and inspiration.
 
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ALFAMA
ALFAMA
11 aug 18

DeRankā„¢: 0,00

GoGo Penguin - Jazz sous les Pommiers (Full Concert) 2015
I don't love Jazz, maybe I'm convinced that I don't love Jazz, is this Jazz? But why do I write Jazz with a capital J? Maybe because I have to spend the day at home all alone like a dog and this is Jazz or maybe it's more Blues?
 
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Battlegods
Battlegods
11 aug 18

DeRankā„¢: 7,41

Simply Red - Come to My Aid (2008 Remastered Version) This is a great album, the only one I listen to from him. She, Holding back the years, the title track, and Money too tight to mention stand out above all.
 
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ALFAMA
ALFAMA
11 aug 18

DeRankā„¢: 3,00

The Fred Bison Five - BEATROOTS full album (1992) **vinyl rip**
I'm sending this to @[IlConte]. Garage psycho blues
 
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IlConte
IlConte
11 aug 18

DeRankā„¢: 9,00

Thickfreakness - The Black Keys (Audio Only)
But amazing thanks Maestro @[Pinhead], new life...
 
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ALFAMA
ALFAMA
11 aug 18

DeRankā„¢: 11,56

#BIVI § Television - Marquee Moon
There's no need to spend more words on this album. Personally, I find it very melancholic. A melancholy that transforms into electric resignation in the dialogues of the guitars. I found many albums at home, legacies from older siblings. I listened to them without knowing anything, looking at the cover and fantasizing as only a teenager's mind can do. While listening and looking at the cover, I perceived sounds in black and white, neurotic, but with a sense of sad resignation, an inevitable fall into that spiral on the cover. This very personal vision made it even more fascinating.
 
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sotomayor
sotomayor
11 aug 18

DeRankā„¢: 4,06

A record suggested by the almico @[ALFAMA] and featured in the #zot2017 review.

Cobalt Chapel - Cobalt Chapel (KLOVE, 2017)

I spent quite a bit of time with this record at the end of last year (2017) after it was pointed out to me right here on these pages, then for no specific reason, but because I got caught up with a thousand other listens, I set it aside only to pick it up again now, months later, and confirm all the wonderful feelings it had already given me back then. Cobalt Chapel is a collaboration between Jarrod Gosling and vocalist Cecilia Page. The album takes certain Canterbury-derived elements and reinterprets them in a noir and mysterious key, placing them in a more modern context shaped around Ceciliaā€™s voice, which clearly plays a central role (though there are moments of purely instrumental sections and long sessions of organ and synthesizer sounds) and at times serves as the very backbone upon which the individual tracks rest (see "The Lamb," "Crestone Ridge"). The beautiful thing, what might be the true strength, is that itā€™s hard to give it an exact genre definition. The duo jumps from a certain form of French chanson styled like Serge Gainsbourg to sophisticated synthetic baroque atmospheres, spatial lounge dimensions, and that histrionic psychedelia of the United States of America (clearly inserted within a visionary context, but in a different setting). Had it come out forty years ago, it would have been just another record of psychedelic folk music, perhaps with references to Celtic culture. Instead, today, who knows, perhaps it could be defined more as a kind of post-modern sacred music. It holds up over time, without losing its edge even after a year. Thatā€™s no small feat. I believe they released a new single recently, so, well, I imagine theyā€™ll soon put out a new LP; letā€™s see if they can maintain this ecstatic, ultra-dimensional formula without taking dangerous indie dérives.

Cobalt Chapel - Three Paths Charm
 
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IlConte
IlConte
10 aug 18

DeRankā„¢: 1,98

The Amboy Dukes - Dr. Slingshot (HQ)
#viaggiliberi60 (26)

I would like to recommend Ted's first bundle...
Manicocattivoduroacidopsi chedelico...
 
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Battlegods
Battlegods
10 aug 18

DeRankā„¢: 3,48

Red Army Blues (2002 Remaster) A piece like this "Big Music", full, complete, lyrical, heartbreaking that surpasses even the divine "Trumpets", "This Is The Sea" and "The Pan Within". Here, voice and sax give their best.
 
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dsalva
dsalva
10 aug 18

DeRankā„¢: 0,00

Jackson Blues
The BLUES -26-
 
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IlConte
IlConte
10 aug 18

DeRankā„¢: 5,35

And The Address - Deep Purple

#viaggiliberi60 (25)
For those (I know itā€™s few) who donā€™t know the Mark I very well, so much criticized and so dearly loved by me... well, those guys debuted like this...
 
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