NEGATIVLAND - A BIG 10-8 PLACE
Theme from A Big 10-8 Place
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A Big 10-8 Place part One
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Clowns and Ballerinas
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Introduction
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Four Fingers
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180-G A Big 10-8 Place part Two
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Negativland "A Big 10-8 Place" Album Review
A great example of early Negativland
This was their third release and the first one I ever heard. I remember playing this many times on my late-night radio show. The original LP came with a "Car Bomb" bumper sticker, which spent many years on the back of my 1978 Mercury station wagon.
There are two actual songs on this release: Four Fingers, a cute little folk tune that counts fingers, and the car bomb track, which was very timely in the early 80's. The centerpiece of the album is the two-part title tracks, a wonderful travelogue through Contra Costa County, CA, narrated by The Weatherman and filled with inside jokes. This is a perfect extension of the work Negativland did on their "Over the Edge" show on KPFA in Berkeley; lots of samples (not called samples back then, of course), lots of stream of consciousness, and a giddy sort of experimentation with radio and recorded music/comedy. They picked up where Firesign Theater left off.
This and their next one, Escape From Noise, were their best.
Video Fetch My Cigarettes
Negativland's short film "Fetch My Cigarettes" from the band's long out-of-print "No Other Possibility" video, now available again as a bonus DVD included with the recent reissue of the group's landmark album "A Big 10-8 Place."
MOONDOG - MOONDOG
Theme
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Stamping Ground
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Symphonique 3 (Ode to Venus)
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Symphonique 6 (Good for Goodie)
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Allegro II Andante Adaio III Vivace
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Lament I Birds Lament
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Witch of Endor
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Symphonique 1 (Portrait of A Monarch)
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Bells are Ringing
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Voices of Spring
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Whats the Most Exciting Thing
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All is Loneliness
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My Tiny Butterfly
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Why Spend A Dark Night with Me
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Coffee Beans
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Down is Up
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Be A Hobo
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Remember
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I Love You
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Neros Expedition
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No the Wheel was Never Invented
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With My Wealth
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This Student of Life
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Some Trust All
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Wine Woman and Song
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Sadness
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Maybe
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Each Today is Yesterdays Tomorrow
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Imagine
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You the Vandal
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Trees Against the Sky
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Behold
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Sparrow
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Pastoral
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Moondog "Moondog" Album Review
Perfect covers
This is one of the earliest Band albums I bought, and I've never really stopped listening to it. Its a set of classic covers played and sung with all the style and panache you'd expect from one of the best ever American (though mainly Canadian) Rock 'N' Roll Bands.
With three lead vocalists and playing a dozen instruments between them the Band could take a project like this and make it into something really special. There are exquiste moments throughout. Previous reviewers have commented on some of the vocal highlights so I won't repeat these. Listening carefully to this album though will reveal a multitude of great moments. A track that hasn't been mentioned by previous reviewers is their version of Chuck Berry's "The Promised Land". OK its just straight Rock 'N' Roll but its done so well. A great Piano solo by either Richard Manual or Garth Hudson echoing Johnny Johnson (Chuck Berry's Piano player). Add in Robbie Robertson's guitar and you have Rock 'N' Roll heaven. In a similar mode "I'm Ready" is another stonking rocker with some rip roaring Saxophone from Garth Hudson.
Sadly Richard Manual and Rick Danko are no longer with us, and Levon Helm and Robbie Robertson have irreversibly fallen out with each, so we will never see The Band again. Don't believe anybody who tells you this is a poor album. This is a magical album that even hints at how music was before Rock 'n' Roll, as well as giving a sassy mixture of old-fashioned Rock 'N' Roll with a lot of soul recorded by THE Band at the very height of their powers.
Video TV Song - Moondog Jr. (Zita Swoon)
TV Song from their first album Everyday I Wear A Greasy Black Feather On My Hat
EVAN PARKER - CONIC SECTIONS
Track 1
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Track 2
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Track 3
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Track 4
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Track 5
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Evan Parker "Conic Sections" Album Review
snake charmer
...Conic Sections, recorded in 1989, is not the most recent documentation of solo Evan Parker. For example, there's Process and Reality (FMP, recorded 1991), Chicago Solo (Okka, recorded 1995), and several individual tracks on various compilations (e.g. "Sonf" from The Saxophone Phenomenon, 1992) and concert recordings (e.g. "no. 112" from Three Concerts per a A.T., 1997). ...however, ...Conic Sections is great solo Parker, and you should probably buy it just for the third track alone.
NICK GREY AND THE RANDOM ORCHESTRA - REGAL DAYLIGHT
Thievesamongthorns
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Look Like Moses
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Song for Wyatt
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Intruders (Upon the Family Grief)
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The Zealot
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Weeping Chipsets Workshop Mess
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(You Can't Spell) Parachute Drops
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Structure and Faith
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November Fadeline
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Obedient Fathers
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Hiding in Seaweed
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Nick Grey and the Random Orchestra "Regal Daylight" Album Review
Album Description
Nick Grey's debut album, available again after a first confidential release in 2004 : an unexpected, elegant cross between avantrock and classical music, not far from the Tindersticks' poignant laments, David Bowie's "Outside" LP and Current 93's haunted ballads. "Regal Daylight", which features the participation of Nick's father, Romanian tenor Vasile Moldoveanu, is a hypnotic, lyrical and intimate experience.
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