Who’s Next (2003 UK/EU Limited Deluxe Edition 29-track triple vinyl LP reissue of their 1971 original 10-track LP complete 19 bonus tracks recorded live at The Young Vic and New York Record Plant Session.
Listening to…
LP2:
[NEW YORK RECORD PLANT SESSION]
I usually like more boogie-woogie and less ambient background, but some music works equally well as quiet background or as the focus for real attention. That might stretch from Satie to some Eno, but now includes the excellent Esja by Hania Rani, a brilliant Polish pianist and composer.
………when the reality was that the mom and pop independents and small regional chains whose profit margins depended on the far more lucrative used CD trade basically told EMI and the other majors to get bent. The majors went home to sulk and look for something new that might possibly kill the music industry.
Pretty much the only lasting artifact to come out of this whole rather pointless affair was Buy This Used Compact Disc, a sampler of songs on labels controlled by what was at the time the largest independent record distributor in the US, Dutch East India Trading. Because DEIT’s main customers were just the sort of independent retailers targeted by the major labels’ misguided wrath, the distributor put together this 22-song sampler, to be sold at the same price as a used CD, and offered it to their customers as a show of support, complete with ranting liner notes by DEIT president Jack Sheehy.
Ozo - ‘Museum of Mankind’ (1978). I picked this up on vinyl a few months back, having seen it at the Bristol Fair. I didn’t know of its existence until then. I had their previous album ‘Listen to the Buddha’ years ago after hearing the last track ‘Anambra’ on the radio. Both of the albums are tuneful and restful reggae/jazz/funk.