La traversee - Patricia Petibon
Ten Years After | Positive Vibrations | 1974
Not their finest album but almost any TYA is good for me, so it’s getting a rare outing.
New album from Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids - an ambitious melange of spiritual jazz with a dash of afrobeat and more than a smidgeon of Funkadelic. Lots of call and response on social issues and ancestry. Malcolm Catto of the Heliocentrics produced.
Just out, forgot to order the vinyl pre-release but given my experience getting Scarlet’s Walk a fortnight late it may not be a bad thing!
Now playing…
Anat Cohen - Quartinho
Anat Cohen (Clarinet, Bass Clarinet), Vitor Goncalves (Piano, Accordion, Fender Rhodes), Ta Mashiach (Bass, Guitar) and James Shipp (Vibraphone, Percussion, Glockenspiel, Analog Synthesizer).
Streaming on Qobuz (96/24)… continuing on this morning with this album, released October 6th, 2022 from Anat Cohen and she and the band are sounding sublime! One fine album…
Wind and Wuthering. Genesis. A rare outing. Some lovely stuff on here. I believe Hackett’s last outing. Greatly missed after he left imho.
A great best of
Solo Anthology - Lindsey Buckingham
A very powerful album from the 1993. Terrifying, moving, pastoral and industrial by turns; has the same affect on me as The Wall. Sonic-ally stunning as well. A forgotten masterpiece imo.
2023 remaster.
Digital sacd or vinyl? And is it much better?
Bob Marley and The Wailers - African Herbsman (Trojan CD)
The original Trojan compilation of BMW’s recordings with Lee Scratch Perry…
So, not sure this new Steven Wilson mix of Rick Wright’s 1978 solo album Wet Dream really improves it. There are a couple of decent instrumentals (“Funky Deux” and “Drop In From The Top”), and one halfway good song (“Holiday”) but most of the songs are .pretty dismal affairs; despite the sunny Mediterranean imagery this is more akin to a drizzly weekend in Morecambe. Those who like their Floyd flaccid and apolitical will dig it.
Still, the overall package is gorgeous, and it keeps the collection complete.