Sade - Lovers Rock
I sometimes wonder if Sade regrets that her best album by far (IMO), Diamond Life, was her first, and subsequent releases didn’t quite match up. She never seemed to retain that huge popularity she enjoyed at the start of her career, which is a shame because Lovers Rock, for example, is an excellent album.
Staying with George
Live in Japan, on sacd from the Dark Horse box set, with some sympathetic backing from Eric Clapton and his band.
Another one I’m going to add to the list of sublime songs is Jackie Blue by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils another song that makes you wonder where did that come from.
Now playing…
Nils Petter Molvaer - Solid Ether
Nils Petter Molvaer (Piccolo Trumpet, Trumpet, Synthesizer, Basses, Loops, Electronics, Samples, Synth-Bass, Percussion, Effects, Electronic Trumpet, Keyboard, Vocoder Trumpet, Voice Effects, Beats, Piano), Elvind Aarset (Guitar, Electronics), Audun Erlien (Bass), Paal Nyhus (Beats, Samples, Voices, Vinyl, Ambience), Per Linvall (Drums), Rune Arnesen (Drums) and Sidsel Endresen (Vocal).
Streaming on Qobuz (44.1/16)… continuing on this morning with Nils and as David Adler wrote on his review, “where boundaries between jazz and electronica are being creatively blurred by a growing number of forward-thinking artists.” Very enjoyable and shaking the cobwebs out and sounding mighty fine!
There is a Richard And Linda boxset on the way includes pretty much all R&L recorded including the much sought after Sunnyvista and First Light. It’s been compiled by @TheKevster mate Andy Batt who did such a sterling job on the Bobbie Gentry boxset.
Radar set for that one
I was at the Jazz Café in London the night this album was recorded back in 2000. What an enormous talent Terry Callier was - amazing voice, superb songwriter and an absolutely lovely man to boot. There are some great performances here, especially from TC himself and Jim Mullen on guitar. “Step Into the Light” and “You’re Gonna Miss Your Candyman” are outstanding.
UK first press vinyl.
Yes, him and his dad Gordon could be very persuasive 
Now playing…
Jon Balke’s Batagraf - Statements
Jon Balke (Keyboards, Percussion, Vocals), Batagraf: Frode Nymo (Alto Saxophone), Kenneth Ekornes (Percussion), Harald Skullerud (Percussion), Helge Andreas Norbakken (Percussion), Ingar Zach (Percussion), Arve Henriksen (Trumpet), Sidsel Endresen (Recitation), Miki N’Doye (Recitation), Solveig Slettahjell (Vocals), Jocelyn Sete Camara Silva (Voice) and Jennifer Mykja Balke (Voice).
Streaming on Qobuz (44.1/16)… continuing on this morning with Jon Blake and his very talented band Batagraf and this fun album. The set includes drummers, electronic keyboards, sound processing saxophone, trumpet, and vocalists singing, chanting and reciting poetic texts. Nothing like a fantastic album with some music and poetry combined! …a very enjoyable album, love it!
From 1965 and originally released on Fantasy, it’s Callier’s debut LP. All the songs are covers, mostly of traditional songs, but this is unmistakeably Callier - just him, his guitar and a double bass. In this stark setting his beautiful voice becomes an incredibly powerful thing, utterly transforming the material. This is the limited edition (just 1500 copies) BGP vinyl reissue from 2003.
First, Get the Blessing - Lope and Antilope
Now, The Bad Plus - For All I Care
Rest easy, veggie spag bol on the way.
If nothing else, that gets a ‘like’ for a reminder of when printing the rebate area of a 35mm negative was a thing 
