Leo Takami - Next Door, Unsee Worlds (2023)
I’d never heard this Japanese guitarist/pianist before tonight but he has really impressed me a fusion Japanese traditional sounds blended with modern Jazz. Tidal has records of his dating back to 2008 which I’ll enjoy sifting through.
Gets rid of the silence?
Aren’t you supposed to put them in the dishwasher? 
Almost silent I believe I said cleaning makes it silent but don’t let that get in the way of a good trolling.
Ivor Biggun?
Two LPs were delivered today - Johnny Cash at San Quentin, and My Bloody’s ‘Loveless’.
Thats not wotyer roat 
An absolutely appaling pressing, I have four 1st press copies bought from different sources, all of which suffer from some of the worse non fill I’ve ever had the displeasure of hearing.
I only ever bought the CD’s from PW through Heliocentric.
The problem with vinyl during the nineties was that many labels werent really interested in producing properly mastered and pressed LP’s. Often just using the same CD mastering to cut an LP and trying to squeeze CD length playing times on to a single LP, for example I think Wild Wood has a playing time approaching 30 mins per side, thats a sure recipe for sonic disaster.
Betty Davis - They Say I’m Different. A reissue of this 1974 record on the Light In The Attic label, this is tremendous hard funk music with a blues edge on some tracks and it sounds excellent. I already have it on CD, but I couldn’t resist getting it on vinyl. Contains a poster and a booklet - it’s quite a nice package. Betty was certainly ahead of her time.
Also bought this Betty Davis reissue at the same time as the one above. This is her first record from 1973 and is just as good as the one mentioned above. Contains contributions from members of Sly And The Family Stone and the Pointer Sisters.
Pure gold from Nick Drake.
Michael Smith - Mi Cyann Believe It (UMG/Island re issue 2023)
I saw that UMG are re issuing ten albums for Black History Month including this absolute Jamaican Dub Poetry classic. So yesterday I dug out my original 1982 press of the album, see the link for the info and more about Michael Smith that I posted yesterday…
Anyway the re issue piqued my interest as these titles are cut and mastered at Abbey Rd and this one has been extended with four of the instrumental cuts produced by Dennis Bovell with The Dub Band, members of Aswad and others.
Perhaps predictably its not as good sounding as my original and the instrumental cuts I note are tagged on to the end of each side and sound like there cut at slightly less volume to the rest of the album which make them sound a little anti climactic.
On its own merit the sound is probably OK and the pressing is good, so probably still worth checking in the abscence of a good clean original, especially if Dub Poetry like Linton Kwesi Johnson, Mutabaruka etc is up your street.
What/who is it?
