Ripple Effect Band - Mayawa
An all woman band from Arnhem Land, the the NT, doing Indigenous rock/reggae.
It kind of ends up sounding a bit like The Bodysnatchers meets Dengue Fever. Nothing wrong with that.
It's an LP so niche that I had to add it to Discogs myself.
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Paulinho Da Costa - Sunrise
A distinctly average album by the eighties' favourite percussionist.
The cover of Jorge Ben's Taj Mahal just makes you realise how Reform Rod ruined that song.
I'm Going To Rio is the best track, and makes it to jazz night warm up DJ level vibes.
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Jill Scott - To Whom This May Concern
I had this on pre-order and it never materialised, so I had to cancel my order. Managed to get a copy off Discogs this week.
Jill Scott is fucking great.
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Shakatak - Night Birds
Shakatak were well ahead of the game. This, their second album, came out in 1982, and is choc-full of every influence they could absorb from the burgeoning jazz-funk scene. So on the button were they that they had a handful of smash hit singles (three of them from this album) and so popular were they that everyone got sick of hearing them and moved on to other things and you'd never hear these tunes anywhere, apart from on the BBC radio station for old cunts, Radio 2.
The Japanese fucking loved them though, and they've made a decent living there ever since.
This album's really good. I particularly love Keith Winter's guitar sound.
I picked this up for something silly like 20c in the old Fishermans Warf Market in Port Adelaide - now the site of a brand new shiny and largely empty car park. UK pressing. Mint.
Also, the Wikipedia page has a photo of them live at the Capital Jazz Festival in 1982. I was there.
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Robert Johnson - King Of The Delta Blues Singers Vol. II
I dug this out to give it a spin because I've just started reading Brother Robert - Growing Up With Robert Johnson by Annye C. Anderson. Apparently this is the book which dispels all the (Eric) Claptrap which has been spoken about Johnson over the years.
This record has no sleeve. The paper inner sleeve in which it is stored has a 1 pound sticker from Low Price Records in Barking. This was a proper old shabby record shop round the back of the shopping centre, that used to have a big poster of Billy Bragg behind the counter, signed with 'If music be the food of love, eat at Low Price Records.' I bought a few blues LPs sans sleeves there.
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Blyth Power - The Guns Of Castle Carey
My favourite Blyth Power line-up. With some of the most enduring BP tunes.
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The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Countdown—Time in Outer Space
I didn't even realise I owned this record until today. The only inkling I have as to how I acquired it is that it came as part of a load of LPs from an auction a decade or so ago. I don't think I've ever played it.
It's proper end of the 50's jazz, from Brubeck's peak line-up. With polyrhythms galore and fancy time signatures that I have no hope of understanding, and a Franz Kline painting on the front cover - just listening to this makes you feel cleverer...like the dude on the front of the Mastermind game, or something.
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Anita Baker - Rapture
Recorded amid the legal wranglings between her record labels, this was Baker's second solo album, where she emerges from the primordial indie soul soup and drags herself up onto the beach of superstardom to bask in the bright, life-giving sunshine of major label production.
Listening back with a few years under my belt, this sounds like a Chapter 8 album which has been polished until you can see your pores in it. (Her old bandmate, MIchael J. Powell, twiddled the knobs on this.) The songs - and Baker's performances - are so good, though - Mystery is fucking breathtaking! I'd just love to hear this album if it had been made by Beverly Glen.
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Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun
The good news is, there's a new Erykah Badu album coming out in December. I pre-ordered it yesterday.
Thought I'd play this today to get me in the mood. This is such a strong album. That whole Soulquarian vibe is so strong. Don't know why I don't play this as much as some of her other work.
Roll on December.
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Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan - Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan
I think the reason I like Rufus so much is that they kept things pretty minimal - just the basic four players (with some overdubs), plus ol' superlungs herself. No long list of percussionists, strings, brass...a bit more of a rock band approach, really.
Turns out that this very morning the Guardian have done a ranking of Chaka's twenty finest tunes, and Sweet Thing off this album, comes in at number 4. Fair enough. I mean, it is pretty awesome.
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Nubya Garcia - Source
I bought this as soon as it came out (6 years ago, already) having been caught in the British Jazz rip, which swept me along for a bit before washing me up on the shore, leaving me feeling it was all a bit of an anti-climax.
As a result, I haven't played this much. It's not bad. It's just...not bad.
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Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan - Ask Rufus
This album took a long time to record. Part of the reason for this was fighting between the band members. Actual fighting. (Chaka Khan and drummer, Andre Fischer being particular sparring partners.)
Despite this, erm, creative tension, this is a really good album. Lead track At Midnight (My Love Will lift You Up) is one of their best tunes. Hollywood is another career highlight.
You can almost taste the post-nasal drip, so cocaine-infused is this music.
Love it.
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Quincy Jones - Sounds...And Stuff Like That!!
Quincy Jones is one of those people whose reputation remains untarnished, despite spending his whole career neck deep in the entertainment cess pit, and, what's more, making his best-known work alongside a massive nonce. It looks like the only person who ever had a bad word to say about him was Tupac, who had a go about him only marrying white women. Fucking idiot.
Stuff Like That was the big hit off this album. It was such a big hit that it becomes diminished by its familiarity. It's only when you listen to it nearly 50 years later that you realise how good it is.
This album also contains modern-soul-dancer-deep-cut, Love, I Never Had It So Good, which is outstanding.
The list of players on this album is huge, but includes, Ashford & Simpson, Chaka Khan, Gwen Guthrie, Ralph MacDonald, Patti Austin, Michael Brecker, Hubert Laws, Herbie Hancock, Eric Gale, Tom Scott, Steve Gadd, Richard Tee, Melvin "Wah Wah" Watson, and a pre-fame Luther Vandross. Plus the whole cast of Ben Hur.
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Planxty - After The Break
Planxty's 1979 get-back-together album.
Full of confidence, competence and big ideas, not to mention impeccable production.
I've somehow got two of these.
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Plastikman - Spastik 12"
....well apart from the name, obviously.
A classic slice of minimalist techno.
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Art Ensemble of Chicago - People In Sorrow
I haven't played this much. However it was just what I fancied this morning and I really enjoyed it.
A Japanese pressing with a proper Tesco Value sleeve.
Bowie and Adler squeak and squawk over a very low-key background. However, out of that emerges some beautiful melody. Makes me promise myself to sit down and properly listen to this album and reveal its hidden depths. One day.
This album was recorded in Boulogne. This was where British schools used to go to for our French day trip. I remember discussing Holiday In Cambodia with my mate on the coach because John Peel had played it the night before. This means it was 1980 when I went. Like some Willie Russell play, we'd be let loose in the town to buy flick knives and bangers, fill up on Orangina (Mmmmm) and get in fights (boys) or cop off with (girls) the local youth whilst the teachers got half-cut. Happy days.
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Squarepusher - Kammerkonzert
When I was a little kid, we used to drive up the A12 to see my cousins in Chelmsford. I have three abiding memories of this. We used to drive past the big onion. Now this wasn't a Big Onion like you'd get in Australia, but part of - I think - a cigarette factory. We then went past the Marconi factory (the world's first radio factory, don't you know). My cousins had a big old mangle down the back of their garden, which I found fascinating.
Who could have known that such a dowdy place would spawn Squarepusher?
I've been in the musical doldrums again recently, but this LP has managed to penetrate enough for me to both buy it immediately and play it a fair bit.
It's so good - kind of jazzy, classical-y, sometimes beautifully melodic, but often sitting on the very edge of irritating, loads of frantic clavinet-sounds. All mangled in that classic Squarepusher way.
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Christy Moore - Prosperous
I found a really decent - and reasonably priced - copy of this on Discogs. Irish pressing.
It's famously the first Planxty album in all but name. They were clearly trying a few things out here - some of it works and was taken forward onto the Planxty black album; some of it doesn't and was left to wither on the vine.
In my search for information on Prosperous House in County Kildare, where the cover was shot, I ended up falling down the rabbit hole of looking at houses for sale in the Curryhills area in general.
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Neil Young - Tonight's The Night
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been two months since my last confession.
The tl;dr of the whole thing is that I’ve been playing tunes that I’ve already written about and haven’t really felt like buying more. I’ve particularly been digging Mingus.
I’ve also been reading Shakey the Neil Young biography, which is pretty good.
This made me pick up a copy of Tonight’s The Night, which is the only pre-Trans Neil Young album I haven’t got.
It’s very good.
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Mulatu Astatke – Mulatu Plays Mulatu
An album in which Mulatu, now in his eighties, re-records some of his earlier music.
If you like Ethiopian jazz, occasionally on the funky side of things, you’ll like this.
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Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda
Just getting round to posting my Christmas presents.
This was the album Alice Coltrane made whilst grieving the death of her husband. The definitive spiritual, meditative fusion of modal jazz and Indian classical music.
Pharaoh Sanders to boot.
It should be an entirely gloomy affair, but it manages to be uplifting.
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clipping. - Dead Channel Sky
This arrived in the post whilst I was at work over the weekend.
I popped it on the turntable when I got up this morning and my wife says to me, “That was supposed to be your Christmas present, you [redacted slur].”
Oh well.
Incidentally, the Welsh have the best name for Father Christmas. I'm not Welsh. Would it be cultural appropriation to start using it as my default? Hmm.
Slave - Slave
This is the only album I’ve ever had a fight over, I think.
In my defense, this was the eighties in Essex - a time and place where a young man could easily get into a fight over anything at any time.
To cut a long story short, me and my mate were listening to a tape of this album in a gym and a bloke had a bit of an overly-confontational whinge about it. The track You And Me was playing and he said it sounded like The Muppets. They had to pull me off of him.
Funny thing is, I can kind of see what he was getting at.
This, Slave’s 1977 debut, is a super-funky album. Electric trumpet player, Steve Washington is credited as The Fearless Leader on the sleeve here. God-Funk-Colossus Steve Arrington had yet to join the band and take power in a coup d'etat. It's what Jesus would've done.
Slide is fucking brilliant – that bassline, man! And it has that Chic Cheer hi-hat lick a whole year before Chic used it.
Helpfully, the rear of the sleeve tells you the star signs of the band members. Phew.
T.S. Monk - Too Much Too Soon 12"
Thelonious Sphere Monk III is the son of Thelonious Monk the genius jazz pianist.
He was given his first set of drums by Art Blakey and taught to play them by Max Roach.
This is a pleasant but very ordinary boogie 12”, which doesn’t display any of that rich heritage.
Ornette Coleman -The Shape Of Jazz To Come
There’s really nothing to say about this album. It seems pointless to re-state the bleeding obvious: that it’s a work of staggering genius.
I realise that the rather grandiose title was not Coleman’s idea, but also, how wrong was it? The absolute state of jazz today, it would’ve been more appropriate for a Kenny Fucking G album.
I didn’t realise until today, though, that Coleman played a plastic saxophone. He's pictured with it on the sleeve. He has a rather pleased-with-himself look on his face, as well he might. Most other jazz records sound a bit shit in comparison.
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Richard Dawson - Nothing Important
Dawson at his most abrasive.
This reminds me of the Trumpton theme, if played by someone who has really had enough of your shit.
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Ewan MacColl accompanied by Peggy Seeger - The Manchester Angel
A couple of weeks before we moved into our house, we were at a folk festival about a hundred kilometers away. There were some flyers for a forthcoming folk and rock record sale scattered around and one of our party said, “Isn’t that the road you’re moving to?” It was. It was the house next door and the record sale was on the day after we moved in. It was that sort of area. I popped next door to say hello and fill my boots with as much folk as I could afford.
This was pre-discogs days, so someone selling their collection out of their shed is less likely to happen nowadays, sadly.
This was one of the albums I picked up. It has a version of one of my favourite folk songs, Round Cape Horn.
Now, I’m pretty sure that Peggy Seeger made an appearance at a Stop The War gig I attended in 1991 at the Hackney Empire. I barely new who she was, but remember it was a big deal.
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Denise LaSalle - My Toot Toot
Another Malaco Records artist, although this is the European version of the album, which was licensed to Epic – it was a re-packaging of her Love Talkin’ album with some extras.
This is another classic album of the southern soul/blues genre. I once heard a local blues cover band cover Someone Else Is Stepping In, which impressed me greatly - beats Mustang fucking Sally, for sure.
The title track off this album is a cover of Rockin’ Sydney’s cajun classic. This became, rather oddly, a massive UK novelty hit single, which I recall having a bit of irked-purist rage about at the time.
Johnnie Taylor - Wall To Wall
Malaco Records in the mid-eighties epitomised the sound of independent modern southern soul. They existed in a sphere which has one foot in soul music, one foot in gospel music and, erm, one foot in blues. This tri-footed beast rarely needed to venture outside of Black America to sustain itself.
After Malaco’s flagship artist, Z.Z. Hill, died, they signed Johnnie Taylor, whose career was in the doldrums, after he had sung at the funeral. Always. Be. Closing.
This was his second album for the label. He is wearing his best clobber and a shit-load of jewellery on the sleeve. According to the credits, Bandiera's from The Galleria did the wardrobe. Sadly, my extensive internet research produced no results.
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Johnny Guitar Watson - Giant
Once was a time when my three favourite artists were filed under W (Womack, WAR, Watson). Years later, I still find myself drawn toward the W section of a record shop first.
Johnny Guitar Watson always tried to adapt to whatever the current trend in black music was. By adapt, I mean he did his signature singing, scatting and clean Texas blues guitar playing largely unchanged, over the new-style backing. Sometimes this works really well; sometimes it doesn’t. It helps if you’re a fan, which I am.
This album tries to hit the jazz-blues-disco highs of his hit I Need It from a couple of years prior. Whilst it doesn’t achieve that, its still a decent album – mostly disco-orientated. Apart from an updated version of his early hit, Gangster Of Love and his cover of WAR’s Baby Face (She Said Do Do Do Do).
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Lankum - Live In Dublin
Musically, this is a fine example of a live album. Lankum’s signature drone is even more droney than the studio versions and frequently runs between songs. It manages to capture the bass, so often missing from recordings of folk music.
This was released as a limited edition 500 pressing in 2023 (Hooray!). Then re-released soon after, in 2024 (Boo!). Thanks Rough Trade.
The pressing is catshit. It crackles like it’s spent ten years sitting in a dollar bin. Outside. In a sandstorm. In fact, it's so poor that I've never been sure whether the infinite loop runout of crowd noise at the end of side two is supposed to be there or is just due to the shitty pressing. Thanks again Rough Trade.
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
What can I say? It contains some of Young’s biggest bangers, three of which were written in a single day when he was delirious with the flu. Makes you sick, doesn’t it?
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in reply to John Spithead • • •I had never heard of Lester Bowie, nor his Brass Fantasy, until today. I don’t know what it was about the sparse cover art that drew me in. I couldn’t find a digital copy of this exact album, but found I Only Have Eyes For You. I can’t remember the last time I was so enthralled by the first song on an album that I saw no need to move on to track two. It’s I listened to all night, at least 12 times in a row. Absolute brain candy.
Thank you 😀
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in reply to John Spithead • •Thanks for the comment, @marc with a C🇨🇦 - it's always wonderful to get someone into something brilliant.
Give Rios Negros a listen, see what you think of that.