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A late-night set that balances virtuosity with genuine connection.
Playful, intimate, and technically fearless without ever tipping into showboating.
Not a discovery piece, but a near-definitive snapshot of an artist at ease with her powers.
Sun-bleached and conflicted, caught between radical past and mellow future.
The fire dims, replaced by pastoral drift and reflective songwriting.
Not so much an uneven comeback—more a document of comedown and recalibration.
Can dissolve their own motorik attack into vapor, tide and heat-haze.
What’s left is hypnotic, weightless, and oddly sit down physical.
One of their quietest statements, and one of their most confident.
I do know it, but don’t own it on vinyl.
He softens the edges just a tad too much for my tastes on this one.
Side point: it’s amazing how much Bill Hicks looks like him on this cover.
I picked it up 10/15 years ago as I was a fan of his 60’s Bossanova albums. It left me a bit cold on my first few listens, but I reach for it regularly now.
08.02.2026 12:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A quietly radical record that slips from post-bossa ease into something deeper and stranger.
Lôbo blends folk intimacy with jazz ambition and liturgical weight.
Subtle and spiritual, but by the final bar you realise just how much it’s been doing.
A double album that feels like a sketchbook and a manifesto at once.
Pastoral melodies mask sharp observations and wiry rhythmic invention.
Too much of everything—yet somehow that’s exactly the point.
Podcast - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
07.02.2026 19:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Episode 4 is live.
Feature to Factory via Savoy, Prestige, Vee-Jay and the odd private press — Cajun ache, fiddles that bite, hi-fi optimism misfiring, teenage noise on cheap tape and machines learning to breathe, one year at a time, 1950–1989.
Lean, ferocious bop that never pauses to admire itself.
Hampton attacks the vibraphone like a prizefighter, all sparkle and menace.
Not refinement, but combustion.
Occasionally too suave for its own good, flirting with easy-listening gloss.
Beneath the polish is a deep groove informed by library funk and street-level soul.
Loose, gritty, and way better than its smooth surface sometimes lets on.
A 1972 lost Grunt oddity drifting somewhere between San Francisco folk-psych & after-hours prog haze.
Flutes, wordless vocals & gentle grooves suggest an alternate Jefferson Airplane universe.
Not essential, but quietly beguiling if you like your counterculture with the volume turned down.
Less churchy uplift than spiritual reckoning, Swing Low sounds almost dangerous in its restraint.
The space, the tension, the unpolished intimacy all pull gospel toward blues, folk and something altogether darker.
it’s June.
17.01.2026 15:52 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#nowplaying
Ray Fisher - The Bonny Birdy (1972)
Old songs, sung as if they’ve never needed updating.
Fisher delivers tragedy and tenderness with the same calm resolve, her voice carrying the weight alone.
US 1st press of this strained, unsettling record with and its flashes of beauty.
The chaos feels unintentional but strangely fitting.
A vulnerable statement.
Music as landmark to be hit.
10.01.2026 16:44 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
#NowPlaying
Bobby bends country songwriting to his own bruised soul phrasing.
The production stays restrained, letting emotion do the heavy lifting.
A left-turn album that rewards everyone.
Who are your top 10 all-time favourite guitarists? Top of the head stuff.
Curtis Mayfield
Peter Tosh
Jimmy Nolan
Neil Young
Vini Reilly
Robert Quine
James Williamson
Hubert Sumlin
Les Paul
Link Wray
Seven 7s on a Sunday afternoon DJ set.
04.01.2026 19:45 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Much needed.
03.01.2026 17:44 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Delirium In Hi-Fi - Elsa Popping And Her Pixieland Band. 1958 reissue [1957], Columbia. Picked up after seeing recommend on @pasty90.bsky.social 1957 list #NowPlaying
03.01.2026 11:22 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Quarteto Nôvo – Quarteto Nôvo (1967) ★★★★★
Brazilian music at full stretch: regional roots, modern jazz instincts. A legend.
Big Maybelle – Saga Of The Good Life & Hard Times (1966) ★★★★
Joy and hardship sharing the same breath.
Big Maybelle makes the “saga” part feel earned. Great cover too.
Stan Getz With Laurindo Almeida – Stan Getz With Guest Artist Laurindo Almeida (1963) ★★★★½
Getz’s lyricism and Almeida’s touch meet in the middle for a joyful conversation.
Abner Jay – Terrible Comedy Blues (1967) ★★★★★
Abner Jay was doing something nobody else touched. Outsider blues where the jokes cut deeper than the laments.
Here are a few that really caught my ear.
Julius Watkins Sextet – New Faces – New Sounds (1954) ★★★★½
Turns out the French horn was always a jazz instrument — it just needed Julius Watkins.
..anything with '4 stars' or above gets added to the Discogs wants list if not already owned.
31.12.2025 17:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nerd alert.
Final 2025 tally for albums listened to and given a rating on 'Rate Your Music' was 656.
