Sunday, July 27, 2014

George Duke - Faces in Reflection (1974 MPS CD)




With my all respect to George Duke. When he worked with Frank Zappa, FZ created his best music and i think a big part of this merit is because of George Duke. R.I P. Capricorn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eFXZzyEnc8

Gruppo d'Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza - Feed-Back (1970 RCA this re)




John Irwing uses in one of his novels the word "bottom suction" or something which draws you under water and you can't help drowning. This Feed-Back is such like dangerous music because of it's bottom suction. It begins with the first drum hits and does not release you before the end. Now when i know that Ennio Morricone is a member of the band i begin to see some bad guy blowing in his gun pipe and i begin to be able to breathe under water. Is that the feed back...?  from a an artificial cage bird back to fish?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHpumFSr6t8

Octopus Syng - Reverberating garden Number 7 (2014 Mega Dodo)




May be the best light psych album from any band from Finland. Reviews seem to say there is a Syd Barret effect in OS:s music but i'm not quite sure of that. Ok, if there is some, anyway it does not mean they try to imitate either Barret's sounds or his meanings or his thoughts. They do their own music at the same time honouring from afar where they may gain their influences. Very nice music. Made with intelligent good taste.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvTb9ucWBzQ

Tasavalan Presidenti - Lambertland (Love Records 1972 this re Svart)





After Wigwam's "Being" Lambertland is on my personal list the second best music album by any Finnish band. The music is mostly composed by the guitarist of the group Jukka Tolonen and there are some elements of his forthcoming solo album "Tolonen" which is on my top ten Finnish list too. Lambertland is nicely zappaesque. As a Zappa fan it is so good to here his influence on this. Lamertland is by all means a quality effort and not any zappa imitation at all, even if i'm right most of the band members were Zappa fans. The musicianship reaches the  highest level you can imagine. For really prog-jazz and zappa lovers: Lambertland is worth an exploration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t91dLyvNGTk

The Best Geneuine Unaffected Psych Album



Found this after some time again and have been listening to the whole sunday when reading a book and surfing on net.  There is nothing affected or forced in this music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DprmuBbi0N0

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Yays & Nays - S/T (1968 this re)



It is hard to understand why some collector are ready to pay even over 500$ to own an original mint copy of this. The music on this is quite okay, but nothing special. This is one of those overrated or i should say over valued albums for collectors with big money.