Very good music. Soulful and groovy hard rock + psychedelic
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Neon - Neon 1970 Paramount
I love this kind of hilarious album covers. On the first side there is something that sounds like CCR. The side two of this album is much better than the first side, because they ( i think) just do what they are and at the same time are a bit more free from commercial expectations than on the first side and just play together jamming and listening each others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF1fEBlCSVU
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Bang - Bang (re Svart)
Very good music. At first i thought the singer of this band was a bit slow or my record player is a bit slow but then i found out not. This album by Bang is something i have never before heard. This is great. Why so? Because i can listen to this over and over again. Why so? Don't know. Quite simple music but i'm simple too. Is this some kind of proto something? I'm sinking i'm listening i'm sure this is something from the roots of rock.
Bang - Mother (re by Svart)
Mother. Quite different from their first album. Good guitar but the compositions are not any special. American sound is the why i accept this as good album. It is hard to understand why a Finnish record label Svart chose to remake this. Thick gatefold cover. Yes i like those original American thick cardboard folds but why did they choose this band to make a new version? This is a very nice music artefact with quite nice music inner too, but still...
Friday, November 17, 2017
Lamb / Barbara Mauritz - Cross Between (WB 1971)
Fortunately i can still occasionally find a lost gem like this. I love Sandy Hurvitz's "Sandy's album is here at last" and this Barbara Mauritz's "Lamb" sounds a lot like it. The two first songs do not wake any big expectations, but then from on the title song "Cross between", the music begins to grow and grow and the entire second side is gorgeous. There is a moment on "While waiting" where i can hear Barbara singing like Björk sings on her "Vespertine."
Thursday, October 19, 2017
A birthday cake for a big Pink Floyd fan
My friend Jukka turned 60 and he is a big big big Pink Floyd fan. It was obvious that we invited got to taste not any amazing budding, but the famous Frisian Lulubelle the Third. And by the way, Jukka is a well known cattle rancher in our district.
Monday, October 16, 2017
Mona Carita - Mona Carita (1979 Finnlevy)
You may ask What Mona Carita has to do on this blog... Rasputin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bx2WeeUv84 Call me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmH70ykr164 Words https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5hv4Xt6V_Q
Our Generation - Compilation
"Woodstock music and art fair presents an Aquarian exposition in White Lake, NY." 50 songs between years 1964 and 1969.
Ari Vaahtera - Mustat Rummut (1987 Not on Label / Self released)
In 70s he played bass guitar and guitar and was a vocalist in Kalevala and Bluesounds. Ari's singing reminds me somehow of the style of Ismo Alanko (Hassisen Kone). Mustat Rummut is 80's modern (laconic?) synth pop (side A) or post punk style (side B) taking something from Duran Duran, Talking Heads, Pet Shop Boys, Gabriel, Human League, 80s Bowie and so on.
Vaarallisia valloituksia 1991. Pleasant and well made music. These two albums were a bit surprise to me - in a positive meaning.
Brewer & Shipley - Weeds (1969 Kama Sutra)
Country music from between two houses and neither one of them is pink or big.
Angel Pavement - Maybe Tomorrow (2013 Tenth Planet)
A compilation of quite nice British baroque pop but too honed to be my kind of music. Funny thing is that song Maybe Tomorrow begins with same theme later known better from Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4.
P.F.M. Premiata Forneria Marconi - Cook (1974 Manticore)
Excellent live album and Alta Loma Five Till Nine is super.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY9H0lKlwj0
Joe Beck - Nature Boy (1968 Verve)
Wow! Base guitarist Joe Beck's first album from 1968 is just great! The picture on the cover does not tell anything at all about what the inside of the album is. This is quite obscure mix of psych and jazz and his base guitar playing is maybe best i have heard before. Why did he not play with Zappa. That would have been super!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgZyCxPgSyU
Epitaph - Outside The Law (1974 Billingsgate)
Cheryl Dilcher - Special Songs (1970 Ampex)
Special songs indeed. Very nice album. Maybe a forgotten pearl. This is second time I found a copy of it here in Finland.
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