Raw Edge So Beast
For me, one of the most interesting Italian realities, one of the few
 
The Velvet Underground - I'm set Free #pezziminori ... the third chapter of the Velvet Underground sees an increase in the number of "calmer" tracks ... and it is definitely the album where Lou lays down the rules, although in this somewhat overlooked piece, it is Moe's shamanic percussion that intrigues me...
 
Lucio Battisti - Acqua azzurra, acqua chiara (Still/Pseudo Video)
It's true that certain songs listened to in the green years of youth remain indelibly impressed in memory. For this old song by Battisti, my mental association goes to the first time I heard it. It was a sunny day in the spring of 1969. I was still wearing shorts and playing football with other kids, while nearby someone was blasting a little radio playing "Acqua azzurra, acqua chiara." I was too young (only 10 years old) to understand the meaning of the lyrics, well centered on the dialectic between chaste love and profane love, but the melody was so captivating that it became associated with the radiant atmosphere of the budding spring. Since then, I have listened to a lot of beautiful music (not just Lucio Battisti), but for me, it is still difficult today not to appreciate this composition. Perhaps it’s nostalgic sentimentality...
 
Ruts DC - Parasites (2010 Digital Remaster)
How much I love the twisted dub bass rhythms in punk/post-punk.
 
Primates - Ain't like you

This piece alone, even just the beginning of this piece, would be enough to place the album up there among the essentials of '80s garage and its surroundings...
 
The Doors - Hyacinth House [HQ]

… having definitively resigned as a rockstar, Morrison could reach "his" Paris, far from everything and everyone. There, he could be reborn as James Douglas the American or die as the "end of all elaborate plans" and "of everything that stands," as evoked some years earlier in his The End, a beautiful friend in any case. And he also reached the homeland of Rimbaud, whose works he had devoured fully and beyond…
 
Sogno-B
Toilet tablet song.
 
Il laureato

"The Graduate"
by Mike Nichols (1967)

#35mm
 
Isabel the Liberator (Recorded Live in 1977)

Woody Shaw (8 out of 10)
"Isabel the liberator" from: Live Volume Two
1977 (HighNote)

#jazzlegends
 
Other Music from Other Worlds (subtitle: 'listen to a fool)
Golden Hands - What To Say (Part I & II)
"...and so you stay among yourselves listening to Peruvian groups with the bagpipes that are listened to by 4 cats and that not even their relatives buy!" (quote)
HERE I AM! PRESENT! I, a pompous know-it-all, frequenter of the most foul-smelling and hidden niches, who "will never be part of a majority" as that guy in that movie said... I propose you listen to some of the most unimaginable stuff that has come into my hands and ears over the years. You, heed a fool, lose yourselves for 5 minutes in listening (reading, watching, eating, smelling...) to the same things you already know how they are; if you don't take risks, what happens is that your brain simply atrophies.
18) Golden Hands
Are you ready for Moroccan funk?
Between the late 1960s and the early 1970s, at the dawn of the reign of Hasan II, Morocco (but also a good part of Africa bordering the Mediterranean) was home to rock, jazz, funk, and a bunch of other Western music. Whether this was good or bad is not the case to discuss here; let’s just acknowledge that "from Casablanca to Tangier, from Marrakech to Rabat, nightclubs and other concert halls have seen a good number of small, more or less amateur and definitely DIY groups come and go, some of which have been catapulted onto the international scene like Golden Hands." In fact, the band, founded in '69 by the El Makane brothers, made it to Europe with their "funk in Moroccan style" and released their only album (Golden Hands) in 1978, but only on cassette from the Moroccan label Disques Gam. Needless to say - in certain circles of enthusiasts like myself - that cassette became a cult object over the years...
Then, fortunately, someone (I think it was Sdban rec. or something similar) thought it wise to reprint it.
And so here it is, THE MOROCCAN FUNK!
Are you ready?
 
Luna tucumana - Maria Dolores Pradera great song by Athualpa Yupanqui
 
the untold fables - to be your man

Madooooooo what a punch garage-punk-r&b... Stuff that didn't even come out —-

Robert Butler's transition to the Miracle Workers places Untold Fables in history without erasing its memory. After all, how could it, following a stunning debut like Every Mother’s Nightmare and the two singles released just as Butler joins forces with Mohr, Rogers, and Trautman? It’s precisely the content of those singles, almost in its entirety, that serves as the skeleton around which Dionysus assembles the band’s "second" album, having not received what were supposed to be the demos of I Love Lee. The result, somewhat rough around the edges (some titles are inexplicably truncated or distorted on the cover), only fuels the bitterness over the loss of one of the best California garage bands, capable of matching the devastating power of the Morlocks, in whose territories their Spit the Winkle and the cover of By My Side seem eager to venture.

But the love for sixties-punk remains unscathed.

Simply put, bitten with an even more animalistic voracity.

Tracks like I Think, To Be Your Man, Wendylyn, or Watch Your Step Woman detach from the ceiling of the Crawdaddy, Pandora’s Box, or Haunted House to crush us like cockroaches, narrating the last tales and nightmares of one of the most incredible, animalistic, brutal garage bands of the eighties.