Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

flight (1971)


2nd part of the previously posted itsutsu no akai fusen LP new sky.

ode to nothing (2011)


the lightouse keepers were from australia (canberra and sydney) in the 80s and early 90s. they're fantastic, really.

Monday, November 5, 2012

Monday, October 15, 2012

das hohelied salomos (1975)

bit more lively kraut-fare on this record. comes with bonus tracks also!

hosianna mantra (1972)

riyl: blues control's latest, brian eno, loren connors, beautiful things that make yr heart sing(s)

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

new sky (1971)

a-grade japanese psych folk. i really dig the side-long opening track, sounds of water and construction.

Monday, October 8, 2012

Красногвардейская (1989)

yanka dyagileva was a punk/folk singer from siberia, she rules, listen to her. this isn't that crummy shit like plan-it-x records trash or whatever fyi

Monday, September 17, 2012

la condition masculine (1976)

funky electronic african folk music, sometimes i think it sounds like kraftwerk or gainsbourg (it's all in french). also, it's a really fantastic album!

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

soubindoor (1988)

i feel especially dumb trying to write anything about traditional african musics (i think i've heard a total of 3 albums from guinea?) so idk what to say. riyl dense extended folk ensemble pieces.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

vernal equinox (1977)

this trumpet... it does not sound like a trumpet
sorta like later miles long pieces thru some sort of artificial larynx? indian rhythms and the sounds of the sea

Friday, August 24, 2012

dabke sounds of the syrian houran (2012)

block rockin party tunes from syria
free syria yall (suck my dick assad bro)

ballads from her appalachian family tradition (2003)

no words

a kiss and a cuddle (1996)

whaddaya want me to say, it's australian and understated and fantastic. some say Sarah but i say singular


Wednesday, August 8, 2012

i never loved a man the way i love you (1967)

the most beautiful, flawless, bittersweet of albums. hope it tears your soul apart too!

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

lady in satin (1958)

this is the best album billie holiday recorded. i'm really drunk so forgive my writing but the immediate effect of her voice, and the added fact that this was the last LP she released, it really packs a punch. the orchestration and ethereal backing vocals are just incredible. it's like nothing else she recorded. get heartbroken

Monday, July 9, 2012

when i see the sun bonus tracks

these are the extra (non-album) tracks from the codeine re-issue boxset. demos, alternate versions and b-sides. grab this if you've already got the albums, i suppose. i'll up those later when i've time


Wednesday, May 30, 2012

high atmosphere (1965/75)

ballads and banjo tunes from virginia and north carolina, recorded in 1965. my favourite appalachian folk compilation; lloyd chandler and wade ward's tracks in particular.

classic mountain songs from smithsonian folkways (2002?)

pretty varied and comprehensive compilation, earliest recording from 1928, up into i think the 70s. if ya like karen dalton, there are some earlier recordings by other artists of a few songs she performed on here

death chants, breakdowns, and military waltzes (1964)

"Blind Joe never sang. He had no voice. He had been struck blind and dumb at the age of three by a local member of the NAACP, for not complying with the organization's demand to learn bar chords and diminished augmented sevenths, so that he might disassociate himself from the myth of the Negro past..."

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

lovely thunder (1986)

you might like this if you like that down below
woo

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Monday, May 14, 2012

tomorrow come someday (1969)

sound track for the film of the same name, same group as agincourt

fly away (1970)

three friends making sick jams is all

music of indonesia vol 20 - indonesian guitars

there's a huge range of styles here, even some really amazing lap-steel, and nice raga-like stuff. don't think there's any solo guitar stuff - all the tracks have vocal accompaniment which might be my favourite part. minor key folk hollerin'