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One Leg One Eye - .... And Take The Black Worm With Me
This is Ian Lynch from Lankum's 2022 side-project, where he combines lo-fi drone (and being a piper, he gets drone better than most, I think) with more trad-folk elements. You'll either love the sound of that or you won't.
Full disclosure, I own the vinyl version of this, but I'm playing it on headphones from the Bandcamp app. Partly, this is because the telly's on, the washing machine's on and I'm cooking the tea. Partly, this is because it works well on headphones. Mainly, this is because the LP is pressed with recycled vinyl chips, all very eco-friendly of course, but absolute cat shit as far as pressing quality goes. If you've ever bought Jamaican pressings, it's a bit like that.
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Steely Dan - Aja
Despite me and my mate Tim having a shared (was it just us?) obsession with Donald Fagen's solo album, New Frontier in the early 80's I was only ever marginally aware of Steely Dan until a mate at work in 89/90 put Peg (and a few other bits) on a compilation tape for me, and I realised that it was the sample from Eye Know from De La Soul's 3 Feet High And Rising which I had been rinsing.
I spent a couple of days in bed with a bit of a virus this week, and spent a febrile night playing this album in my head, convinced that I had to write a meaningful critique of it. Next day I re-watched the 'making of' docco on YouTube. Fucking hell, it's good. You don't come out of it thinking Becker or Fagen are particularly blessed in the people-skills department, but, oh my, the craft!
This is the perfect album. Special mentions, though, go out to Michael McDonald's BVs on Peg and Wayne Shorter's solo on Aja.
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Harp Stays Sharp
Alice Coltrane - Huntington Ashram Monastery
Just a lovely album to start the day with. Or finish the day with.
Since I've been documenting my listening, it's dawned on me how often Ron Carter pops up as bass player.
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Last bit of the moon this morning over the Flinders Ranges.
Wilmington, South Australia
Contemplating the contradiction in hating the military industrial complex and getting well excited at seeing a massive air-to-ground missile.
Woomera, South Australia
Some more highlights from the weekend in Sydney
11 December 2022
Shift Eatery
Chimers
Dead
Yullis, Surry Hills
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