Uncle Remus

YouTube video by Julius Hemphill - Topic Mirrors

This one, starting from the badass cover photo!

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Zamrock Before Zamrock: A Guide to the Early Sounds of Zambia’s Copperbelt Before the fuzzed-out sounds that shook a nation, early pioneers laid the groundwork.

Fifty years on, Zamrock's story still feels electric. Here are the pioneering artists who laid the groundwork for the fuzzed-out sounds that shook a nation.

spotify wrapped? more like “spotify warped music and devalued labor while paying those who made the songs you love fractions of pennies,” thank you

Spotify Wrapped is taking over our feeds, but you don’t have outsource your relationship with music to AI | Liz Pelly The streamer’s annual charts are just another version of the tech that’s alienating us from our inner lives. Hold on to your musical memories and reclaim ownership of your taste

"When we just accept that what a streaming service tells us about our music taste is true, there is much that we are not remembering, learning or celebrating about the music of our years and lives."

This Spotify Wrapped season, don’t outsource your love of music to AI:

My year in music would be very difficult to wrap. It's very unlikely that I have listened more than once the same song.

Imaginary records. This is what generative AI should be for.

Flea :: A Plea - Aquarium Drunkard "I'm not being corny/this shit's for real," Flea intones over a bubbling jazz fusion groove on "A Plea," a new solo single which finds the Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist returning to his first instrume...

Can you see the god in everyone? Part electric Miles epic, part Gil-Scott Heron righteous rant, @flea333.bsky.social's "A Plea" (featuring Jeff Parker, Anna Butterss, Josh Johnson & more) is incredible.

Listen now at @aquariumdrunkard.com. @nonesuch.com

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Very good interview and music selection. If only SRB and Sun City Girl's records were easier to find...

The Infinity of Jack DeJohnette The drums are almost beside the point: It was his absolute presence in every musical situation, across a half-century, that made him one of the creative giants of our time

"[Jack DeJohnette] is a person who for around 50 years, dating from his early work with Charles Lloyd and Jackie McLean, circa 1966, up through In Movement, released in 2016, managed to sound, at every point along this timeline, deeply and restlessly contemporary, forever on the edge."

Jonathon Grasse Maps Eric Dolphy's Jazz Revolution The biography 'Jazz Revolutionary' illuminates the complex world of Eric Dolphy through meticulous research and fresh interviews. Grasse discusses his decade-long quest to understand one of jazz's most enigmatic voices.

The biography 'Jazz Revolutionary' illuminates the complex world of Eric Dolphy through meticulous research and fresh interviews. For The Tonearm, Grasse discusses his decade-long quest to understand one of jazz's most enigmatic voices.

Jonathon Grasse and the Enduring Echo of Eric Dolphy:

I can relate. My wife almost asked for a divorce because of a Frisell/Cyrille/Wadada Leo Smith record.

‘I almost always play it in hiding, alone’: can anyone get into free jazz, history’s most maligned music? Even though he’s partial to hideous noise, free jazz is mostly unknown to the Guardian’s pop critic. A new guidebook from Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore may change his mind

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YouTube video by Subrhythmic: Digging Deeper International Holy Hill Jazz Meeting (1969 · 🇩🇪) (Full Album)

Second record of the day:

International Holy Hill Jazz Meeting (1969)

Pierre Favre Trio
Rolf Kühn Quartett
Peter Brötzmann Oktett
Joe Viera - Ed Kröger Quartett
Joki Freund Quintett
Marion Brown
Joki Freund Quintett

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I have been to the biggest record fair in the world two weeks ago.

There's a record fair tomorrow.

No drained bank account will stop me.

YouTube video by Régis Kermarrec Normil Hawaiians ‎– More Wealth Than Money

Record of the day

Normil Hawaiians – More Wealth Than Money

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there's something going on with this list, but I don't know what it is

The angrier also works for me.

Reflecting again on how John Cale’s piano playing on Nick Drake’s “Northern Sky” is one of the single most moving things I’ve ever heard, and also how it's like the thirtieth most historical thing to occur over the course of his career in music. A remarkably passionate oracle. Truly no one like him.

Tone Poet is great. I have an old bargain bin copy of this, and it still sounds fantastic.

Pat Thomas — HIKMAH (Tao Forms) Pat Thomas - For Caroline L. Karcher There’s a sense of experimentalism on Pat Thomas’s new LP HIKMAH. It’s a solo piano record where he uses the instrument in unusual ways: strumming and rubbing the....

“Thomas explores his piano’s full range of sounds. It’s not always successful, but it is interesting to hear him push at the edges,” writes Roz Milner. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/8012140... @rozmilner.bsky.social

Majors haven't yet realized that "AI" is a toxic asset for their customers.

Gerald Clayton's Jazz Experiment: When Two Becomes One Jazz pianist Gerald Clayton has a new album. We have a few questions.  After a couple of decades as one of his field’s most inventive, talented and in

Read the SPIN feature on Gerald Clayton's GRAMMY-nominated album "Ones & Twos"! www.spin.com/2025/11/gera...

Find the album here: geraldclayton.lnk.to/OnesTwos

Montreux Suisse is a live album by the improvisational collective Air featuring Henry Threadgill, Steve McCall and Fred Hopkins. It was recorded at the 1978 Montreux Jazz Festival.

“Brigitte Fontaine est… ?”, un album qui “ne correspondait en rien à la mode” de 1968 Quelques semaines après Mai 68, Brigitte Fontaine publiait son deuxième album, à l’âge de 29 ans. Retour sur le contexte d’un disque culte, salué par la presse britannique, à l’occasion de sa luxueuse...

" #BrigitteFontaine Est Folle" featured in @telerama.bsky.social by Laurent Rigoulet 🔥🔥

"A cult album!"

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Thank you for your reply! I confess I sometimes skip the cumbia bits but I totally respect your taste for it 🙂

I am a long time listener of your show, I have always wondered where your passion for "latin" sounds comes from!

Today's selection.

Bob Frank - Light in the Attic reissue
Give me my flowers - 50s gospel from Nashboro Records - Third man reissue

How ‘The Disintegration Loops’ Saved William Basinski’s Life The composer’s ambient masterwork, created from disintegrating magnetic tape, became synonymous with 9/11. When he made it, his own life was falling apart.

"When he glanced at the tape, he saw the iron oxide flaking off, that he was catalyzing the very process he hoped to pre-empt. He let it happen for nearly an hour, then repeated the process with five more loops."

How ‘The Disintegration Loops’ Saved William Basinski’s Life (gift link):

At 80, This Composer Is Easier Than Ever to Celebrate

really nice piece on braxton in the nyt today. no fireall
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Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag 7" back cover. Black and white shot of the band on stage with some back projection.

"Geoff Travis at Rough Trade said,:'We need to make sure this single is the best it can possibly be.” And [the producer] Red Krayola’s Mayo Thompson had kind of become connected with Rough Trade...'

‘Nag Nag Nag’ (1979) The Strange World Of… Early #CabaretVoltaire

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