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.
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.
Sunday, October 15, 2017
Björk - Vespertine (2016 One Little Indian LP)
In 1977 i went to military service for almost a year. Since it I mostly listened to progressive rock and other early 70's rock. Then came AOR and Punk and I dropped by the wayside. Over 20 years I was not very interested in 80's and 90's music. It was boring. I used to listen to my old records. It was in 2001 or so, when I bought this album on CD and it was a new beginning to my music listening. Vespertine's meaning to me musically is about the same that Frank Zappa's music was to me when I was 15 in 1973. I woke up to believe, there is always interesting new music to come. Even it may take 25 years.
The Beatles - 1962-1970 (1973 Apple)
I don't own many Beatles albums but have always wanted to get these two compilations in mint shape. And now... here they are and the first pressings. 20 euros each.
Julian's Treatment - A Time before This (1970 Decca)
Once again... yet another copy of this album arrived my collection. I give this 10 out of 10. And this cover of the US pressing is much finer than the original English.
Phluph - Phluph (1968 Verve)
This is Phluph, not Bluff. I give this album 9 out of 10. At first i say they sound when singing together, like Moody Blues. Fluff is organ driven playful psychedelic pop with some slight proto-prog elements. Excellent album.
Bear - Greetings, Children of Paradise (1968 Verve)
This Bear was from New York. If Grapefruit ( below) sounds like The Beatles, Bear sounds more artistic than both Grapefruit and Beatles. Maybe it is because there are some jazz elements i like a lot. Psychedelic beatlesque sound yes, with jazzy groove. Ps. Nice to hear in the the end of the side one them playing Eric Satie's Gymnopedie, which happens to be my number one favourite classic piano themes. Very pleasant album yes. 9,5/10
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