The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
John Cale -Fear
A sparser sound than the previous years Paris 1919 and joined by Eno and Manzenera.
A sparser sound than the previous years Paris 1919 and joined by Eno and Manzenera.
Urban75 Album of the Year 1974
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Alessandro Alessandroni - Prisma sonoro
Alessandroni worked with Ennio Morricone and did the twangy guitar bits in The Good, The Bad & The Ugly soundtrack, he also did the whistling parts in The Dollars Trilogy & Once Upon A Time In The West. He knocked out a fair few film soundtracks himself [40+], this one isn't a soundtrack but it is a masterpiece of lounge / library music.
Alessandroni worked with Ennio Morricone and did the twangy guitar bits in The Good, The Bad & The Ugly soundtrack, he also did the whistling parts in The Dollars Trilogy & Once Upon A Time In The West. He knocked out a fair few film soundtracks himself [40+], this one isn't a soundtrack but it is a masterpiece of lounge / library music.
Two looped echo guitar albums.
We have the final one of these from Achim Reichel, Autovision. It's got more standard rock groove than the previous and it wasn't well received and he gave up on the progressive/avant garde and went back to his pop career, he would be back two years later with an album of sea shanties. Still, Autovision is probably a bit underrated IMO.
More interesting is Günter Schickert's debut Samtvogel. Wobbly guitar notes, whispered vocals and deeply psychedaelic.
What an album cover, too!
We have the final one of these from Achim Reichel, Autovision. It's got more standard rock groove than the previous and it wasn't well received and he gave up on the progressive/avant garde and went back to his pop career, he would be back two years later with an album of sea shanties. Still, Autovision is probably a bit underrated IMO.
More interesting is Günter Schickert's debut Samtvogel. Wobbly guitar notes, whispered vocals and deeply psychedaelic.
What an album cover, too!
Another odd little one off krautrock album from Kaputter Hamster. Not on Spotify so I'm just going to post the youtube link here.
It's a little on the amateurish side. It could be tighter - put it that way. But that just doesn't bother me, it's got strong ideas, good songs and it's light and quick and pootles on like it's gently burning.
It's a little on the amateurish side. It could be tighter - put it that way. But that just doesn't bother me, it's got strong ideas, good songs and it's light and quick and pootles on like it's gently burning.
Another one not on Spotify and not on that list. Between - Dharana. This represents the side of "krautrock" (not even rock here really) that's less talked about ie. the world music or south asian or middle eastern plunderings. This one is really chill and trance. Very clean production and sounds very modern.
Final(?) krautrock roundup.
Another one off from Sand. Golem is a completely unique minimalist and very downbeat combination of rock electronica. Not a happy record at all but has a really strong atmosphere to it.
If you cast your mind back four years we (Killer B iirc) briefly mentioned Missus Beastly's debut which was fairly typical for 1970 - grungy organ driven rock. They broke up and reformed a few years later with a very different line up. This is much more in the jazz rock vein and with a clean sound, more complexity and some experimentation. The first track is great.
Exmagma's second album Goldball. Nothing to do with Magma. Wild weird jazz-rock. I don't think there can every be too much wild and weird jazz rock in the world.
Dzyan - Electric Silence. The third, last and most experimental album from Dzyan. Jazz and sitars and improvisation and noise but somehow in a coherent way.
I do strongly recommend the Sand and the Dzyan, though neither will be for everyone.
Another one off from Sand. Golem is a completely unique minimalist and very downbeat combination of rock electronica. Not a happy record at all but has a really strong atmosphere to it.
If you cast your mind back four years we (Killer B iirc) briefly mentioned Missus Beastly's debut which was fairly typical for 1970 - grungy organ driven rock. They broke up and reformed a few years later with a very different line up. This is much more in the jazz rock vein and with a clean sound, more complexity and some experimentation. The first track is great.
Exmagma's second album Goldball. Nothing to do with Magma. Wild weird jazz-rock. I don't think there can every be too much wild and weird jazz rock in the world.
Dzyan - Electric Silence. The third, last and most experimental album from Dzyan. Jazz and sitars and improvisation and noise but somehow in a coherent way.
I do strongly recommend the Sand and the Dzyan, though neither will be for everyone.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Despite all the controversies over the artist ... and this album, still reckon it's astonishing
Oh and of course the two Can entries this year!
I think Soon over Babluma is great. The first without Damo and last really good one. There's no drama on this, just long meditative but oddball songs. Dizzy, Dizzy is fantastic and catch Quantum Physics at the very end.
And whereas the above is underrated a bit. Limited Edition (later rereleased with more material as Unlimited Edition) is incredibly underrated. It may even be my favourite Can album. Archival. Lots of odds and ends they recorded in their studio. A lot of it is strange "ethnological forgeries", odd bits of acoustic meanderings. But the thing is, there is very little else out there like it, including on other Can albums. And the whole thing just vibes.
I think Soon over Babluma is great. The first without Damo and last really good one. There's no drama on this, just long meditative but oddball songs. Dizzy, Dizzy is fantastic and catch Quantum Physics at the very end.
And whereas the above is underrated a bit. Limited Edition (later rereleased with more material as Unlimited Edition) is incredibly underrated. It may even be my favourite Can album. Archival. Lots of odds and ends they recorded in their studio. A lot of it is strange "ethnological forgeries", odd bits of acoustic meanderings. But the thing is, there is very little else out there like it, including on other Can albums. And the whole thing just vibes.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Not family with the second, but do believe that post-Damo Can is often underrated. Good call!
Most of the second is with Damo, some of it with Malcolm!
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Deffo want to hear this... off to Discunion next week, and they're usually good for obscure second hand stuff. Will keep an eye out...
You may have trouble streaming it or finding a physical copy. It's been made obsolete by Unlimited Edition. So listen to that instead.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Will do!
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
Second gig I ever went to (and I know the date without looking it up) was Supertramp at Southampton Gaumont (now Maylflower) on 19th December 1975. They started with the excellent "School" from this album, though a lot of their set was from their subsequent, then new, release "Crisis, what crisis?" which was nowhere near as good.
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
Cockney Rebel´s "The Psychomodo," another great album from this marvellous year, which I played to death on cassette at the time.....
I feel there are two tendencies on this thread: 1) me and the editor, who (being old bastards) are going back to things we actually loved at the time; 2) everyone else, who are retrospectively picking out something which would seem "cool" from a current perspective.
I feel there are two tendencies on this thread: 1) me and the editor, who (being old bastards) are going back to things we actually loved at the time; 2) everyone else, who are retrospectively picking out something which would seem "cool" from a current perspective.
Idris2002
Christmas Eve, you know?
Cockney Rebel´s "The Psychomodo," another great album from this marvellous year, which I played to death on cassette at the time.....
I feel there are two tendencies on this thread: 1) me and the editor, who (being old bastards) are going back to things we actually loved at the time; 2) everyone else, who are retrospectively picking out something which would seem "cool" from a current perspective.
And 3) me, who is defiantly uncool (there's nothing I would have loved at the time, as I was 3 years old and living in Kingston, Ontario).
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Plundering old music is something that happens as a natural matter of course now that it is so easily available. And I think it's the case that what people think of as representing a period is often quite distinct from what people were actually listening to at the time. I doubt most people were listening to Duke Ellington and Count Basie in the 1930's. So there is going to be a mismatch between those who were there and younger generations looking back. And actually I think there's a difference between how gen x look back how gen z look back. Old things go in and out of fashion.
But what I'm doing is mostly look at things that were never really known by most people at the time or for that matter today from years of digging around in this period. I think at this point in time there was a big separation from the "underground" and the mainstream in a way that didn't happen in say the 1960's. With a few exceptions - Kraftwerk and David Bowie and maybe even King Crimson for example might straddle the divide. But there's a lot of music from this time that was resolutely challenging, or peculiarly unique and largely ignored and still largely ignored. Some of it super cool, some of it actually quite cringey. But looking back it was a period where lots of things were bubbling below the surface and I love it.
But what I'm doing is mostly look at things that were never really known by most people at the time or for that matter today from years of digging around in this period. I think at this point in time there was a big separation from the "underground" and the mainstream in a way that didn't happen in say the 1960's. With a few exceptions - Kraftwerk and David Bowie and maybe even King Crimson for example might straddle the divide. But there's a lot of music from this time that was resolutely challenging, or peculiarly unique and largely ignored and still largely ignored. Some of it super cool, some of it actually quite cringey. But looking back it was a period where lots of things were bubbling below the surface and I love it.
Anyway on the super cool side of things here's the first Heldon album Electronique Guerrilla
At this point really just a Rinchard Pinhas solo project. Big slow buzzing drone electronics and repetitious guitar arpeggios. Similar territory to those Eno+Fripp albums, but somehow warmer.
At this point really just a Rinchard Pinhas solo project. Big slow buzzing drone electronics and repetitious guitar arpeggios. Similar territory to those Eno+Fripp albums, but somehow warmer.
ska invita
back on the other side
this is really great! i love this kind of heavy acid user back to the land energy
all out on bandcamp now and theres more!!
"Fans of “Standing Stone” will be blown away when they hear “Stone Unturned”, a previously unreleased second Oliver album, recorded also in 1974 at the farm and assisted by brother Chris. Performed by Oliver using a single mic, guitars and various effects devices, this is in the same vein as “Standing Stone” but even more loose and raw. Highly recommended to any acid folk / psych blues fan.
*Previously unreleased album from 1974 released for the first time"
--- at a quick dip i like most of all this though its best when he doesnt sing too much IMO. If I can be bothered Id compile my favourite tracks into one album i could listen to without having to skip
ska invita
back on the other side
i wasnt born in 74 but anyhow with all these threads i always find new-old music that i actually like and want to listen to - im sure thats the case for most everyone -= not sure where cool comes into any of this = people like the music that they like - your coolometer is like all in your mind man!!I feel there are two tendencies on this thread: 1) me and the editor, who (being old bastards) are going back to things we actually loved at the time; 2) everyone else, who are retrospectively picking out something which would seem "cool" from a current perspective.
sometimes when its threads from years i was alive in the albums i rinsed at the time sound dated, or not. most often not though, as they were cool then
as someone who struggles to find any new music that i like i really enjoy the forced process of going back and digging
+ all my old favourite albums from growing up are played to death so little joy to be found there
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
Two Italian fusion albums
Area - Caution Radiation Area
This is their second and most difficult to listen to album. This really goes hard and the last track is proper headfuck. Probably not the best Area album to listen to first but give it props for being properly wild. Also singer Demetrio Stratos was the best singer in known galaxy.
Arti & Mestieri - Tilt
Not as adventurous as the above then what is. However this is incredibly tight and Furio Chirico was the best drummer in the known galaxy.
Area - Caution Radiation Area
This is their second and most difficult to listen to album. This really goes hard and the last track is proper headfuck. Probably not the best Area album to listen to first but give it props for being properly wild. Also singer Demetrio Stratos was the best singer in known galaxy.
Arti & Mestieri - Tilt
Not as adventurous as the above then what is. However this is incredibly tight and Furio Chirico was the best drummer in the known galaxy.
Well there's a lot more acoustic folk in that than the description implies, but the contrast does seem to work well. I'm also trying to select the best track for my list and it's really difficult, it really is banger after banger.
