February 1, 2012

al kent's disco demand re-edits

Top notch disco edits by Glasgow's Al Kent of Million Dollar Disco now (re)compiled by BBE!
http://www.spin.com/articles/hear-dj-al-kent-burn-through-his-nsfw-disco-demands-box-set
http://www.bbemusic.com/data.pl?release=BBE173CCD
http://www.bbemusic.com/data.pl?artist=2076
http://www.milliondollardisco.com/mdd.html

January 30, 2012

carol kaye's spider's webb

Excellent boogie funk from 1976 by Spider's Webb, featuring Wrecking Crew bass ace Carol Kaye … on lead guitar! "I Don't Know What's On Your Mind" (Fantasy cat. no. F-9517) has just been reissued by BGP in their "Funk & Jazz Classics" series (CDBGPM247).

January 25, 2012

apocryphal dylan & zimmermania

Hee hee hee … wanna buy some mandies? Just out: "It's Zimmerman's World …We Just Live In It (Soft Sounds For Gentle People Garage And Folk Rock Tributes To The Beatnik Bard)" on Pet (cd or lp, cat. no. 009). Amazingly, that most ultimate of Bob spoofs or Dylan imitations, "A public execution" by Mouse and the Traps (Fraternity 1966 - see below), isn't on it. (And neither is the Trashmen's downright irritating "Same lines" for that matter.). Oh well, you'll probably have that Mouse track via that seminal and oft reissued "Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era" v/a 2lp or cd on Elektra (1972), won't you? If not: see below. Otherwise, bar the omission of Dutch Dylan Armand and the 5 Gentlemen track below, "It's Zimmerman's World … We Just Live In It" is pretty flawless. And hilarious, for those maniac mannerisms and how they reflect on both the Bawb phenomenon and the copy and cash in routines that are part and parcel of the pop industry. So go buy it! And if you do not pay, they got computer collectors that'll send you through the ceiling!

January 9, 2012

sleeves without the deceased

Cool concept … record sleeves with only the living on them, the dead having been removed with some software or other … via http://liveiseedeadpeoples.tumblr.com/ [tnx4tip Eav!]

January 6, 2012

my children kool and together

Some of the rare & sparse releases of Kool and Together (from Victoria, Texas, aka My Children +2, but not at all related to Kool and the Gang) have been recorded in the Sugar Hill studios in Houston, Texas. Kool and Together's output has just been compiled by Heavy Light (HLR-001, 2011-10). Amazingly, there's no info yet on this untitled release via http://heavylightrecords.com/ but see here instead: http://lightintheattic.net/news/?p=4292 + http://lightintheattic.net/artists/365-kool-together

January 3, 2012

tino contreras' mexican jazz

Jazzman Gerald has just compiled the best of Tino Contreras on "El Jazz Mexicano De" (JMAN 043 cd / 2lp, 2011-12) … and he's entered the hip record bag business too … Contreras' “Orbita” (taken from the rare and virtually untraceable private press record “Quinto Sol, Musica Infinita”) required specially modified harmonic harps developed by Julian Carrillo … Top reissue for the non religious as well!
http://jazzmangerald.blogspot.com/2011/10/handmade-knitted-record-bags.html
http://jazzmangerald.blogspot.com/2011/10/coming-soon-tino-contreras-cddbl-lp.html
http://fingersports.blogspot.com/2011/11/el-jazz-mexicano-de-tino-contreras.html
http://randallfunk.blogspot.com/2011/10/tino-contreras-el-jazz-mexicano-7.html

December 28, 2011

pink french on floyd tv

What with all those dinosaur boxes, here's a track with the Pink Floyd sound still très pointu at the sky … ideal for midwinter … As for the Floyd flock's greed: careful with that axe, number 51 …

December 19, 2011

experience gary byrd

Almost rappin' … and bringing tribute to dr. Martin Luther King, the rev. Jesse Jackson and Malcolm X. Gary Byrd's lp was originally released on RCA in 1972; Get on Down have recently reissued it (2011) with a 1973 single as a bonus. Oh and don't confuse Gary Byrd with the reverend Gary Davis, will ya?

December 18, 2011

johnny gangster of love watson

"Gangster of love", some twenty years after the original version. Do listen to the delicious intro, with nods to the Coasters' "The Shadow knows" and "Riot in cell block no. 9" … (and did I recognise a "Limehouse blues" too?) - a sublime performance by Johnny 'Guitar' Watson & his band from 1977, recorded in Bremen (Germany). A well documented best of JGW's early work has just been reissued on HooDoo (who still have no website) as "Space Guitar Master (The 1952-1960 Recordings)" (2011, cat. no. 263397). "Motor head baby" is off that compilation and dates from 1952. Freaks note: the man was an important influence on Frank Zappa, and Jimi Hendrix dug "Love bandit" aka "Gangster of love" too; like the Cadets, he recorded a version …