Daily Planet Playlist

[aylesburyfox]

No Man - Flowemouth
King Crimson - TOAPP
Robert Fripp - Let the Power Fall

[Geno]

Speaking of metal, TLC, Pain of Salvation's newest is quite the stonker. Hie thee to a vendor of round plastic discs on Tuesday.

PoS, Scarsick
Steve Morse Band, Structural Damage
Woven Hand, Denver '06
P6, East Coast Live
The Gathering, If_Then_Else / Sleepy Buildings

[Michael]

Miles Davis: Sorcerer

John Coltrane: Stellar Regions

Albert Ayler: Copenhagen, 1964

Bud Powell: Red Rooster Recordings (late '40s)

P2: Chicago, '98

John Cage: Cheap Imitation

[Chip]

Jean-Luc Ponty - Individual Choice

Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station

Jean-Luc Ponty - Open Mind

Mastodon - [whatever the new one is called; sorry, I'm starting my early senility, or maybe a midlife crisis, or maybe even both!]

[tgraham]

If you like Finnish music, you might want to try Finntroll, a hilarious blend of black metal and Finnish Viking folk music that ends up sounding an awful lot like polka metal.  I picture them looking like a band full of bearded little Gimli clones.  Listening to this stuff is guaranteed to make you want to hoist a flagon of mead.

~s

Coming to Houston in March. Not sure I want to spend money on it though.

[muziko]

 The alan lomax collection; the spanish recordings - Ibiza and Formentera - the pityusic islands 

  some very trppy yodeling type vocalising similar to what is heard in Bulgarian singing. i thought the disc was skipping!! my friend just returned home from Ibiza and picked this up there. Field recordings from 1952 for hardcore ethnic audiophiles only.

 Fode Bangoura - Fakoly

 absolutely insane totally "sick" djembe player with full ensemble including bala and chorus.  one of the top most sought after from the new generation of djembefolas. This cat is BAD!! seriously BAD-ASS!!

[The Light Construkctioner]

Thanks for the tip, G. Pain Of Salvation always does good stuff.

No wonder Roine invited Daniel Gildenlowe to play with the Flower Kings!

TG - Finntroll is playing Houston? Is it a headline show or part of a festival?

[owen]

Today in the post...

Louis Moholo's Viva La Black: Freedom Tour - Live in Sth Afrika 1993

Ouch! THIS IS HOT! Blue Note in exile returns home. 25 titles over 16 "tracks" and 70 minutes with NO PAUSING FOR BREATH WHATSOEVER. Any fans of Mbube, Zulu and Xhosa tinged (Brit) jazz NEED this.

And Smithney's mentioned a VLB recording with mssrs Tippett and Tippetts from 2004 is around. Oh! I! Am! In! Heaven!

Woza woza woza woza woza...

O!

[tgraham]

TG - Finntroll is playing Houston? Is it a headline show or part of a festival?

Thurs, Oct. 11 at the Meridian. No support acts metioned yet.

[The Light Construkctioner]

Interesting! I'll have to look into it, see if they are doing a full tour or what.

Today:

Prog/black metal:

Enslaved: Ruun, Below The Lights, and Monumension Gonna see them tomorrow!

[Michael]

Kaoru Abe: Winter, 1972

Masayuki Takayanagi: Axis, A Removable Thing, Part I

King Crimson: Discipline

I just finished listening to Discipline, and it continues to provide inspiration, enjoyment, etc.  However, it did occur to me that, like The Beatles's albums, there's not a note left of surprise.  (This is a compliment to how often I've played it, not a criticism of the music.)

Also, for every track there's at least one live version that's better.

Despite all of that, I'd still take it to a desert island. 

[scorched earth]

I just finished listening to Discipline, and it continues to provide inspiration, enjoyment, etc.  However, it did occur to me that, like The Beatles's albums, there's not a note left of surprise.  (This is a compliment to how often I've played it, not a criticism of the music.)

Also, for every track there's at least one live version that's better.

Despite all of that, I'd still take it to a desert island. 

Yeah for the reasons you mentioned I never bought a remaster, so I just have the lousy sounding mid-Eighties original CD release (and the LP of course), but it's such a classic record I really should get it in a listenable version.

Speaking of surprise, last night's listening included a Return to Forever concert from '74. The acoustic solos I could do without, but as a group, hey those guys were pretty hot. I never really liked Al DiMeola before,  but his playing here is pretty ferocious.

[Michael]

I never really liked Al DiMeola before,  but his playing here is pretty ferocious.

Al DiMeola has proven that he can match McLaughlin and DeLucia, which I think qualifies him as a master.  That said, I've never cared for what he plays ot RtF.  Was this an officially released recocrding?

[Absinthe]

The Power to Believe

Today I made my first real sale:  I did something I never thought I'd do (but I'm glad I did) and sold two of my paintings!

The works were conceived whilst listening to TPTB, an album that was playing when they left their mother's arms.   Thank you for being such an inspiration, Crimson Boys... thank you, always.

[muziko]

I never really liked Al DiMeola before,  but his playing here is pretty ferocious.

Al DiMeola has proven that he can match McLaughlin and DeLucia, which I think qualifies him as a master.  That said, I've never cared for what he plays ot RtF.  Was this an officially released recocrding?

 

 Dimeola can play his ass off. i think his playing with RTF was excellent. he got a lot of flack  for his "mechanical" technique which was really something he got out of flamenco that he utilised in a more electric rock setting. he was amazing. And they were jealous. Some of his work started to get somewhat repetitious and he may have fell into a technical rut but that can be expected. he was very young at the time. Tunes like mediterranian sunrise and land of the midnight sun are top notch.

he could be pretty hokey at times.
i don't know about his cape wearing problem.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fioN0ookO1Y

 This is better
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hPfGvKxobfk

RTF with original guitarist bill connors
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lFP-alYNq5I