Realm of Dusk

Possibly my absolute fave of 2024.

Japanese import vinyl edition of ‘Mosaic’ by Fennesz.

#nowplaying #ambient #glitch #vinyl
Fennesz — ‘Mosaic’
Yep, it’s the most recent album by experimental electronic music legend Christian Fennesz, on vinyl. Only came out on CD in the west. This is a Japanese import, hence the cool obi strip.

Recent vinyl reissue of John Coltrane’s ‘A Love Supreme’.

#nowplaying #jazz #vinyl
John Coltrane — ‘A Love Supreme’
Another purchase in my ‘buying stupidly obvious classic albums I’ve somehow never owned project’

The MBV track on that comp is one of my fave recordings evar.

An original vinyl copy of ‘Hopes and Fears’ by the Art Bears.

#nowplaying #prog #vinyl
Art Bears — ‘Hopes and Fears’
My protestations that I do not care for progressive rock grow ever more feeble.

‘Fernwärme’ by Michael Rother, on vinyl.

#nowplaying #krautrock #vinyl
Michael Rother — ‘Fernwärme’
I put Bluesky back on my phone.

Aside from being an extremely square list, with distinct millennial blinkers, I'd say there's a 50-50 chance it was written by AI.

Guess this new thing is a lot more electronic, which is probably more my thing than yours.

My Dad taught A-level geology to the original line-up of Decadence Within.

Oh, wow! Thanks!!

YouTube video by shane140 浅川マキ (Maki Asakawa) - 幻の男たち LIVE 1984

Maki Asakawa concert film. So cool, so mysterious.

Looove this album, love this couple. 'Such Winters of Memory' is perhaps my second favourite ECM evar. But this one is something else altogether. Fingers crossed a few of the records make it up to Canada. Also, recommend Krog's 'We Could be Flying'.

Love that album. Super underrated.

Kan Mikami - Chikan ni natta shonen [Japan, Folk/Blues] (1972)

Kan Mikami - Chikan ni natta shonen [Japan, Folk/Blues] (1972)
https://redd.it/4108ed
https://youtu.be/G7Z_MMDVYrE

Have I ever told you that the lady sitting next to me at this cried inconsolably all the way through?

YouTube video by elpaisa2005 Ras Michael & The Sons of Negus - Love Thy Neighbour (full album)

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Ras Michael & The Sons & Daughters of Negus - 'Love Thy Neighbour'
One of those albums that, when it starts, you briefly think the record player must be broken.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZom...

Japan — ‘Tin Drum’

#nowplaying #newwave #vinyl

Big fave. Where's the Muses reissue program????

Voting Poppies because I sincerely loved that album when I was 15.

YouTube video by London Records Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro (Official Video)

#nowplaying #summermusic
Happy Mondays - 'Pills'n'Thrills and Bellyaches'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8ma...

Squeeze - 'Up the Junction', Kirsty MacColl - 'They Don't Know', Sparks - 'Beat the Clock'

Yes, it's pretty well-established that VDGG was a huge influence on Bowie, although I don't think he ever acknowledged it publicly (though he was perfectly happy to admit to the influence of Scott Walker, who had more mainstream cultural caché).

Well, I was mostly joking. But it's true that punk and prog were essentially different factions of the same 'underground' scene. And that Hammill and VDGG were especially huge influences on punk, post-punk and new wave (especially PIL, The Fall, and Soft Cell).

As well as being punk, post-punk, new wave, and goth, The Banshees were pretty ahead of the curve in terms of being a neo-psychedelia act (but the Television Personalities probably got there first).

That seems pretty accurate. The Banshees were never really new pop because they weren't a political band that raided the pop charts. They were glam rock fans who formed a punk band and got really popular. Of course, this also raises the goth issue.

All the music mentioned above was, of course, primarily influenced by Peter Hammill and Van Der Graaf Generator.

There's also 'new pop', which is the 'second British invasion' groups who emerged from post-punk after Green from Scritti Politti had a nervous breakdown and decided he should be making mainstream pop music. If new wave is pop pretending to be punk, new pop is punk pretending to be pop.

Nowadays, shitty indie rock bands universally brand themselves as 'post-punk'. Ten years ago, they said 'garage rock'. Early 2000s bands like Franz Ferdinand might be described as 'post-punk revival'. Currently, we're experiencing a minor post-punk revival revival.

To my mind, post-punk started at the same time as punk and ended around 1983-4. New wave is punk-styled pop music. In reality, any given vaguely alternative rock band from 1976-84 might be described as 'punk', 'post-punk', or 'new wave' (think Siouxsie & The Banshees).

'Reformation' is dreadful, but it's not the one I'm thinking of. The White Fence bloke was def on that, but maybe he also came back to guest on 'Re-Mit'? I like a lot of post-Scanlon Fall, but 'The Unutterable' and 'Imperial Wax Solvent' would be the high-points for me.