i kinda hate frank sinatra (so this is a great tune :D) but i'll try to give it a listen

eta: heard the sinatra, not really my bag, but thanks anyway, expanded my knowledge

this is one is the track for me:



you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZyVBVFnrm4

15 minutes of mostly instrumental super mellow organized chaos. a brief touch of vocals.

for the mostly-sung version, a true human instrument along the right musicians:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaq9Gx9GT5E

honorable mention for monk



who is brilliant, but here... changes the mood to his own brand of playful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGz6my4q-20 too clever i guess

quatuor ellipsos

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https://nomadmusic.fr/sites/default/...ret_nmm088.pdf

https://www.highresaudio.com/en/albu...sos-saxophonie


a beauty for the ears

Armstrong - Sprinkler

Looooove that 'plays Duke Ellington' album

pure genius. he's like a textbook case from "the anxiety of influence"-- makes everything his own

"Actually, the very first 'concept' album. The idea being you put this record on after dinner and by the last song you are exactly where you want to be. Sinatra said that he's certain most baby boomers were conceived with this as the soundtrack." —Tom Waits, who listed In The Wee Small Hours in his 20 most cherished albums of all time. If Sinatra really did say that, it's some fucked up shit right there, given that ITWSH belongs to what is known as his "suicide albums" tetralogy (the others being Where Are You?, Sings For Only The Lonely and No One Cares). So we're not exactly in Let's Get It On territory.

(Incidentally, back to the "concept album" notion, yes, it's probably Woody Guthrie, then Frank.)


I've never been able to get into Ella Fitzgerald. I'm sure that technically she could wipe the floor with Billie Holiday, but when Ella sings "my man has gone...", it's like the guy just went to get some groceries. When Billie sings it, you know the fucker is NOT coming back. I'm not saying more pain = better art, that's bullcrap, but Ella could get too airy for me.

That album ranks pretty high in my 'most depressing albums' list. Fuck me, it's a downer. I've actually never got through it all. I'd have more fun listening to Scott Walker's The Drift album at a funeral than that one.

that is often the case elsewhere, eg this little cole porter number https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7M5NBC2y8U where she's airy as fuck

but mood indigo is a different kind of tune

since the 1930 version, duke flipped the parts of the instruments (trombone, trumpet/sax, clarinet) to play counter to type, and made extensive use of mutes. and he kept fucking with the arrangements because they played that regularly for decades so had to update.

eg this seems earlier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GohBkHaHap8
and then here's an example from later? don't know exactly when, but you can still see the trombone and the clarinet switching places, the sax pushing low:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x02lJ023tJ4

the link from some posts above, my favorite from 1950, shows a lot of play with mutes. reportedly eve duke aka yvonne lanauze was put in vocals because she could sound like a saxophone. here it is again just for ease of access: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZyVBVFnrm4

anyway, by 1957 ella had quite a past (lol) but the point of this note is not a biographical one: it's just that she sounds like a wind instrument (which she is!), and pushes to the lower part of her register just like the clarinet is asked to do in other arrangements. and it's fucking brilliant, musically. here it is again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOdjqzvE3jw

the key to that tune is not the words, but the horns.

I'm in a Dark Dark Dark mood
Listening to my two recordings of them, and uploading them to the Live Music Archive (and Dime)

Here's one:
Dark Dark Dark Live at Trix Bar on 2013-05-13



I'll add another later today....




This album still remains amazing!





https://brightbrightbright.com/album/who-needs-who




Or check out this vid of a live version of one of their songs:
Dark Dark Dark - How It Went Down

The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You.


Rather brilliant is is too.

First I hear of this band. Maybe they're good, but now I'm pretty sure you do not wanna know Robert Forster's 10 rules of rock and roll. :D

esquivel - psiconauta

don't know who he is, but he doesn't like SY apparently ;) :


but yeah, Dark Dark Dark I listened to a lot, some albums get boring to listen to after a while especially after hearing them repeatedly for a long time. Not with them.
Same applies to Anonymous Choir's Neil Young After The Goldrush cover album, which is a project led by DDD's singer

lol i used to know a chick who said back in the day she had a list of "punk rules"

rule #1: worship stalin xD xD xD

(lol she was a poser)

ANY WAZE...

im curious about this band now but im watching teevee (scary nuns of the pence wet dream... ffs im afraid of americans)

eta obvious post would now be bowie, but episode 3 of handmaids tale ends with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k51zy00GeIU

Been listening to Pakistani singer Arooj Aftab quite a lot lately.


She's mesmerizing. Check for yourself.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVPtt8Dd2Fo

R.I.P. Barbara Ess

NOOO... Fuck! :(:mad: I'm reading now this happened two weeks ago - clearly my news sources are useless.

He's been one of the greatest songwriters on Earth for over 40 years. The list is... partially tongue-in-cheek, I think: "The second-last song on every album is the weakest"? "Going Blind" is PERFECT.

I hope you've at least made it to track 9, his take on Cole Porter's "What Is This Thing Called Love?". That clarinet line (Ted Nash, if I'm not mistaken) - man oh man...

No wonder Ian Curtis liked Sinatra so much (to the exasperation of his bandmates). He actually took his own life in the wee small hours of the morning - Frank's LP might as well have been on the turntable instead of Iggy Pop's The Idiot.

Come to think of it, alright, I "dropped the ball", as you U.S. cats say, but am I the only one who can start obituary threads around here? And Barbara's SY connections were multiple, so damn all of ya!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Ess

https://www.bard.edu/news/photograph...rum-2021-03-08

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/09/a...-ess-dead.html

From The New York Times:

Ms. Ess joined the photography department at Bard College in 1997. There she influenced a small but key segment of the younger art world, including the Lower East Side gallerist James Fuentes.

“In a critique or meeting about my thesis,” Mr. Fuentes recalled, “she would conjure a Sonic Youth song and start singing it.”

this is some good shit...





eta not all of it lol but some yes

Yeah, it kind of completely flew under my radar as well. Found out through a post from UT's official Facebook page.

Speaking of, I was in contact with Jacqui Ham until the pandemonium struck. I believe the reissue of Griller should have followed not long after In Gut's House's (that was January 31, 2020), but Covid-19 probably postponed it. (Maybe you know more via your Facemook shenanigans there. ;))

Apparently there's also something called DarkDARK:



Look at those fucking assholes. I mean, that's when things come to a point in which I don't even care what they sound like - CLEARLY they're ASSHOLES. They "feel so much"? Horseshit. Fuck 'em. Fuck 'em in the EAR. Fuck 'em in the OTHER ear.

wow man. she sings beautifully. thank you.

i woke up with her new single, and now i'm listening to this

im finally listening to some of this band

i like how she sings, and some tunes are pleasant, but i got many queued up, so i don't have an overall impression yet. so far, it's nice and mellow.

No promotion at all for Griller last year, and I haven' t heard anything about the re-release being dropped anywhere else either. So yeah, it got postponed.

Jeff Tweedy - Love Is The King.

Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over The Country Club.

I fucking love this. Third spin. This is not Norman Fucking Rockwell II. It's more laid back, more atmospheric.

I could make it through more than a track or two.
Boring to me.
But when it comes to Lana, I like individual songs here and there, but never have totally fallen for an album.

Also she’s kind of a tone deaf weirdo and she’s developed a bit of a reputation for being — uhh — maybe not overtly racist, but possible QAnon material? I dunno.

Anyway, the huge Walmart sticker on the physical edition is gross lol

Traditional beginning of Spring listen.

Well, yeah, I haven't followed the drama closely, but some of her statements are.....troubling. Her life is clearly not perfect.

But I am fucking loving this album.

im watching the martin scorsese rolling stones movie

grandpa jagger is insane--pure focus--it's like an orchestra director who dances lol

Shine A Light, innit? I seem to recall that even Scorsese seemed to shrink in Jagger's presence.

yah. it's a private show for the rich and powerful to benefit the clinton foundation.

marty scorsese bitching and moaning about not knowing the setlist is hilarious.

keith richards running on cigarette smoke lololol

There's blood in his drugstream.

this now classic...