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TRACKLIST
01. The Ring
02. Jamila
03. Waltz In Three Colors
04. Nabat´s Parade
05. Rhythm Of Life
06. Janana
07. Only You
08. Sinai
09. Cup Of Feel
MUSICIANS
Kobi Shefi - guitar
Marina Maximilian Blumin - voice
Roni Tzadik - drums & percussion
Yarom Itta - percussion
Ilan Pustopetzki - keyboards & computer
Yoram Lachish - oboe, english horn & alto flute, zurna
Alon Farber - saxophones
Yoni Dror - saxophone, duduk, didgeridoo & flute
Nimrod Lachish - bass
PREVIEW
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According to Hesiod, Dreams are the children of Night, and brothers and sisters of Death and Sleep. Deceptive dreams issue from a gate of ivory, true
dreams through a gate of horn.
The spirits of the departed, too, so long as they are not in the kingdom of Hades, have the power of appearing to the sleeper in dreams.
Later poets call dreams the sons of sleep, and give them separate names. Morpheus, for instance, only appears in various human forms. Ikelos, called also Phobetor,
or Terrifyer, assumes the shapes of all kinds of animals as well as that of man: Phantasos only those of inanimate objects.
Today we serve up half of this round, black inanimate object, known as DL 9062, specifically the delicacy presented on side two: Three dramatic readings from Edgar Allan Poe as performed (with no directing credit) by James Mason, with creepy and dramatic organ stylings by Buddy Cole, who no doubt wore an Inverness cape for the occasion.
Rather than wax eloquent about Mr. Mason or the dear Mr. Poe, let us simply enjoy the delicious tones of his words as read by a master appreciator of same.
A larger copy of the full cover art for this gem is found HERE.
And the MP3s on display are:
The Tell-Tale Heart
Annabel Lee
Silence
Happy Hallowe'en All!
is a noise metal band from San Jose CA, which began in
2001. Formed by Troy Kooper and Gene Nite, and later Bass player Josh Santaga and their first drummer Brian Bieler. In 2003, the band and Bieler split ways before any official recordings. Jack
Panaghetti joined briefly and recorded drums on their self released debut full length album “El Buzzard”.In 2004, before "El Buzzard" was released Panaghetti left the band and was replaced by Clay Parton (x-Mohinder and Duster).
With Parton added to Kooper, Santaga and Nite the lineup never again changed. They went on to release a 6 song, 11 minute EP on “The Electric Human Project” Label titled “Tranquilazante Del Elefante” (Elephant Tranquilizer), and their final full length release “Gringa” on the same label.
In 2007 the band disbanded as El Buzzard and formed an experimental band called “Breasts”.
You can download all the albums, Songs for Total Dicks, Gringa, Tranqilizantè Del Elefantè, and the self-titeld El Buzzard for free on their website.
Links;
El Buzzard
El Buzzard @ MySpace
The Static Cult Label

medicines carry the warning: do not drive or operate heavy
machinery after taking. This needs a similar caveat. On this Kramer-produced second album from the Minneapolis band, there are washes of psychedelic colour and a trance-inducing metronymic
Krautrock beat. And while you can clearly hear the influence of the Silver Apples and the driving rhythms of Can, you can also detect the narcotic 80s/90s indie feel of bands like Spacemen 3 and
the Telescopes, while there may even be some of the dreamier elements of Mercury Rev in the mix too.It's an album where the mood is more prominent that individual songs so just a few stand out from the atmospheric squalls of drone-noise: 'Squid Ink' has ringing guitars and whispery vocals that add to the spooky spaciness while the long (7 minutes plus) 'Smokestacks' settles into a mesmerising rhythm with a troublesome bass rumble keeping you on the fringe of oblivion. It's strictly for stoners, but what a trip!
Lovingly Taken From; Sounds XP, Article written by Ged M
Flavor Crystals - Ambergris
Flavor Crystals @ MySpace
Flavor Crystals
SECOND SHIMMY

The first line-up was Bent Sæther (vocals, bass), Hans Magnus “Snah” Ryan (guitar, vocals) and Kjell Runar “Killer” Jenssen (drums). They came
up with their band name while watching a Russ Meyer triple-feature in London. Two of the film titles (“Mudhoney” and “Faster Pussycat”) were already taken by other bands, the name “Motorpsycho”
was still available. Their first album was “Lobotomizer” in 1991, after which Killer quit and Håkon Gebhardt took over on drums, forming the nucleus of Motorpsycho for many years to come. But it
was the release of their third album, “Demon Box”, which finally brought them acknowledgement and amazing reviews all across Scandinavia and Europe.Demon Box contains everything from brutal pop to long, gliding progressive themes and industrial terror visions. It was voted best album by the norwegian press and was later nominated for a Grammy.
Stolen from; STICKMAN RECORDS
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Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments {thanks to the uploaders}
Motorpsycho @ MySpace
Motorpsycho
STICKMAN RECORDS

of the second album from Omega. "Classic album from
this legendary Hungarian band. In order to understand and appreciate what a remarkable achievement this work was when it was recorded in 1968, it is perhaps necessary to briefly examine the
constraints and restrictions faced by aspiring pop bands behind the veil of The Iron Curtain during the 1960s. Despite the fact that Hungary was one of the first breakaway satellite countries
both socially and economically under Josef Kadar's New Economic Mechanism implemented in 1966, a censorship board known as The Song Committee had been established in order to syphon out any
sensitive material which it deemed harmful to or which seeked to undermine the idealogical agenda of the state.This was a good thing and a bad thing for the bands. They could play their rock n'roll music, which in itself was considered to be symbolic of Western capitalistic endeavors, but the lyrical contents were not to cross any fine lines politically.
One has to bear in mind that this was the time when The Beatles were singing about a revolution, Bob Dylan was speaking his mind through the rock medium and closer to home in Western Europe, bands like Amon Düül and Floh de Cologne were making political musical statements. It was the '60s man! The themes throughout the album are mostly mystical and full of legend and even if the listener is not familiar with the unique Hungarian language, the music is very moody and appropriate to the individual song concepts. Omega evolved into the biggest rock act to emerge from Eastern Europe ever, recording in English and German, touring Western Europe as well as Japan. Omega broke down barriers long before the Berlin Wall was broken down and for those who want a taste of what was going on behind The Iron Curtain rock-wise, in the 1960s, 10000 Lepes is an interesting and important audio document which reveals the early Omega East meets West rock formula. Vintage Eastern European prog which rocked against the odds that takes the listener into a forbidden place in a dangerous time. Highly recommended for serious students of the prog rock genre."
Lovingly Taken From; Ian Gledhill, Prog Archives
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Omega - 10000 Lépés
Omega
Hungaroton

the huge success of their second record,
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Iron Butterfly scored a second straight Top Five album with Ball. While it didn't have any acid rock freak-out to compare with the epic "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," Ball was a more
ambitious album, as the group experimented with shorter, more melodic songs. Like any Iron Butterfly album, the quality of the material is wildly inconsistent, yet cut for cut, Ball is a more
consistent album than their two previous records, as the group trimmed away some of the acid rock excesses of their earlier records while retaining their brutally loud trademark heavy
guitars.Lovingly Taken From; AMG
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Iron Butterfly
BUY STUFF!!!

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Here's a Driftwood statistic worth noting: this site's authors have made five children since we began four years ago on Nov. 1, 2005, at 8:45 p.m.
A lot has happened, but perennial themes tell a story: controlled spoilage , the curdling of tastes , aesthetic relativity , the world-weary shrug one eventually adopts in the face of overwhelming evidence that things probably aren't going to get much better than they are right now. You'd think we would have quit by now.
But always, eventually, somewhere in the hidden folds of the crow's feet of a leathery gaze into the sunburst desertscape of our spiritual condition, we find reasons for joy and hope. In records, albums, songs, melodies, beats, lyrics, riffs, barbaric yawps, fay whispers, harmonic convergences, thunderous licks, melted time signatures, all manner of stoned philosophy, rough mixes, ripples of phaser and dollops of wah-wah, sonic wizardry of pretty much every stripe and stipple. If there's a sparkle in the groove, we'll fish it out. We're as moved by an epic failed attempt as by the soulful note perfectly struck.
As people, we grow ever more barnacled and bloated, what with jobs and kids and mortgages (gulp), untethered from a long-lost center that didn't hold and was never destined to hold. We need stronger liquor now, it's true. A revelation: people our age, Gen-X, have realized we're finally just a subset of the Baby Boomers, our cultural circuit-board built to believe we were extending the 20th Century narrative on some inevitable arc to somewhere (over the rainbow?), never suspecting we'd just end up digitizing the whole human drama and folding it all into an archival box for a flattened, airless age. End of History and all that. We're still a bit stunned that it turned out this way, aren't we? I think that's what The Driftwood Singers has always been about: for us, records aren't just the flotsam and jetsam of a faded generation anymore, they're also flotation devices to keep us from going under. We're collecting them like scrap metal for some kind of floating junkyard paradise where we can hang out and talk shit, drink bourbon and eat beans around a fire when it's all just Waterworld. Inside a grain of sand, a universe: in this case, ours. Pilfer a little reefer in a hand-rolled cigarette, settle in for the gauzy journey to the stereo, the first shocking notes, the quivering vocal, the tremolo guitar trembling between the speakers like a shimmering sun, the enveloping rapture of a musical moment.
It'll do in a pinch. Happy Four Years to us!
Divine Daze of Deathless Delight - Donovan
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In Amerika is Halloween hét griezelfeest bij uitstek. Typisch Amerikaans, zul je misschien
denken. Kinderen die verkleed als spook of zombie aanbellen voor snoep. Nu ja, zo heel Amerikaans is het allemaal niet. Halloween is het Angelsaksische restant van het Katholieke
Allerheiligen en Allerzielen, dat plaatsvindt op 1 en 2 november. Deze dag werd in 998 door de Abdij van Cluny in Frankrijk ingesteld. De Katholieke kerk deed weer inspiratie op bij de oude
Kelten, die jaarlijks op 31 oktober het einde van het jaar ('Samhain') vierden.
Men geloofde dat op deze avond de grens tussen de 'gewone' wereld en de wereld der geesten vervaagde, en de doden voor de laatste keer hun familie bezochten. Tegelijkertijd zagen allerlei kwade geesten hun kans schoon om af te dalen. Om deze boze geesten te verdrijven, trokken de Kelten afschrikwekkende kleren aan en maakten een hoop lawaai.
De naam 'Halloween' is afgeleid van 'All Hallow's evening', de vooravond van een Ierse heiligenfeestdag; Ieren gingen van deur tot deur en vroegen om voedsel voor een feestmaal – hoe meer je gaf, hoe voorspoediger het nieuwe jaar zou uitpakken. De Ierse en Schotse immigranten brachten in de 19e eeuw hun tradities naar Amerika, waar de verscheidene feestdagen gecombineerd en gemixt werden. Het Amerikaanse Halloween is dus een vreemd allegaartje van folklore en verzonnen gebruiken. Een beetje zoals Sinterklaas langzaam transformeerde naar zijn aalgladde evenknie Santa Claus.
In ieder geval: mocht je het geval krijgen dat je Halloween-avond redelijk tam is verlopen, luister dan naar 'Halloweensounds' van Scott McNulty. Dit album bevat vier tracks ('Haunted', 'Cemetary', 'Nightmare' en 'Spirits') die je ongetwijfeld in de juiste stemming brengen. Lang uitgesponnen klanktapijten, die beelden oproepen van verlaten begraafplaatsen en mysterieuze spookhuizen. Er wordt weliswaar met kettingen gerinkeld, af en toe weerklinkt er onheilspellend klokgebeier en het naargeestige gejammer van de wind is niet van de lucht, maar McNuly slaagt er gelukkig in om aan de goede kant van de cheesy-grens te blijven. Luister zelf: 'Halloween Sounds' (256 kbps vbr, 116 MB).
She Drives Me Insane / Hare And Love / Dusty Friends / Modern People / I Don't Care / Speedlife O' Mind.
Wild child was a french combo ... They came from Marseille to burn Paris !
After a single "Stooge face" they recorded this mini lp "Speedlife O'mind" in 1982 ! This is pure Stooges stuff , directly from the Fun House !!!
Take it ... you won't regret it !
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Wild child was a french combo ... They came from Marseille to burn Paris !
After a single "Stooge face" they recorded this mini lp "Speedlife O'mind" in 1982 ! This is pure Stooges stuff , directly from the Fun House !!!
Take it ... you won't regret it !
Dedicated to the Trépigneur !
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TRACKLIST
01. 666
02. The Robot
03. Paperlapapp #1
04. 777
05. Wet Fred
06. BMGG+G
07. Warm Valley
08. Tirol
09. 777 Solo
10. Fru Fru (Frappée Faux Pas)
11. The Air of December
12. Dancing With A Silhouette
13. F.S.
14. Paperlapapp #II
MUSICIANS
Conrad Schrenk - guitar
Franz Hackl - trumpet, flugelhorn
Thomas Kugi - sax
Stefan Mitterbacher - keys
Werner Feldgrill - bass
Thomas Lang - drums
PREVIEW
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The exceedingly thoughtful blogger at Record Collector's Hot Platters shares his collection of memorabilia related to the shocking, I tell you, simply shocking! 1959 movie of a romance between an Asian man and a "beautiful American" (read: pasty white) girl. There are all the trappings of an obsessive collector -- posters, lobby cards, ads, and a promo copy of the theme autographed by the composer. Tho I dunno, "Crimson Kimono" sort of sounds to me like the story of a girl with bad hygienic practices.

Album: Too Late, Too Late Blues, Vol. 4
Styles: Blues
Released: 2000
Label: Document
File: mp3@128K/s
Size: 63.5 MB
Time: 68:59
Art: Nil
1 Brudder Rasmus Louis Vasnier 2:48
2 Southern Blues 1:41
3 I Got What It Takes But It Breaks My Heart to Give It Away Jackson, Papa Charlie 3:10
4 Hot Papa Blues Jackson, Papa Charlie 2:53
5 Mama, Don't You Think I Know? Jackson, Papa Charlie 2:37
6 Gay Cattin' Jackson, Papa Charlie 2:55
7 Teddy Bear Blues Jefferson, Blind Lemon 2:29
8 Mr. Moore Blues Mack, Ida May 3:11
9 When You Lose Your Daddy Mack, Ida May 3:14
10 You Got Me in This Mess Georgia Tom 3:06
11 Saturday Night Rub Big Bill 2:57
12 Pig Meat Strut Big Bill 2:59
13 All Night Long Blues Louise Johnson 3:04
14 Black Spider Blues Sweet Papa Tadpole 2:52
15 Weep and Moan When I'm Gone Sweet Papa Tadpole 2:49
16 Nok-Em All Eddie And Oscar 2:45
17 Flying Crow Blues Eddie And Oscar 2:47
18 Death Room Blues McTell, Blind Willie 2:51
19 Lord, Send Me an Angel McTell, Blind Willie 2:57
20 Doin' the Best I Can Peetie Wheatstraw 2:54
21 Where the Sweet Old Oranges Grow Sam Montgomery 3:01
22 Keyhole Blues Weldon, Casey Bill 3:06
23 Family Trouble Blues Andrew Hogg 3:09
24 Kind-Hearted Blues Andrew Hogg 2:36
Notes:
Vol. 4 in this valuable series has a variety of selections discovered too late to be included in various "complete" reissues of top early blues artists. Actually the first two performances are in a different category altogether. Way back in 1892, American artist Louis Vasnier was recorded relating and singing "Brudder Rasmus," but unfortunately the recording quality of the cylinder is so bad that it is impossible to hear what he is saying/singing. Next up is a much more rewarding and charming guitar duo from 1915 of Southern Blues, which really fits more into Hawaiian-style music than blues. Otherwise, this disc has music from the 1925-37 period, with selections from Papa Charlie Jackson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ida May Mack, Georgia Tom Dorsey, Big Bill Broonzy, Louise Johnson, Sweet Papa Tadpole, the team of Eddie Chafer and Oscar Woods, Blind Willie McTell (two previously unreleased cuts from 1933), Peetie Wheatstraw, Sam Montgomery, Casey Bill Weldon, and Andrew Hogg. After its rough start, Vol. 4 contains quite a bit of interesting music.
Too Late, Too Late Blues, Vol. 4

Tracklist
1. Rodjenje bogorodice (4:15)
2. Vezak vezla Djeva Marija (2:59)
3. Lazi, Lazo, Lazare (4:29)
4. Sinoc mi je dolazio Djordje (3:31)
5. Cije je ono devojce (2:58)
6. Shushkavac (ide Mile livadom i peva) (3:28)
7. Gusta mi magla padnala (4:08)
8. Gugutka guka vo osoje (4:50)
9. Podignimo Stupove – Radoslav Jankovic (priest) (1:41)
10. Podignimo Stupove (3:10)
11. Bozic, Bozic, blagi dan (4:50)
12. Hristos voskrese, radost donese (4:43)
13. Sve sto dise neka hvali Gospoda, Aliluja (4:21)
Location: Serbia
Genre: Serbian folk, Serbian Orthodox Church singing
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01. Tarannoum
02. Iman
03. Eklil
04. A Kind Of Love
05. Jito & Tato
06. Derballah
07. Frag Habibe
08. L Enfant DU Sable
09. L Ange Aveugle
MUSICIANS
Dhafer Youssef - vocal, oud
Markus Stockhausen - trumpet, flugelhorn
Nguyên Lê - guitar
Renaud Garcia-Fons, Achim Tang - bass
Deepak Ram - bansuri
Zoltan Lantos - violin
Jatinder Thakur - tabla, dolak
Patrice Héral - drums
Carlo Rizzo - tambourine
PREVIEW
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Sometimes a whole album doesn’t quite lift the fingers onto my grubby keyboard. I can’t quite muster the oomph necessary to inflate my words past that one song that is slowly worming its way into my daily thoughts. Plus, sometimes I just want to say my ephemeral peace and move onto other chores in my daily agenda. Anyhow, this will be the first of a frequent series of posts devoted to a single song. If I find myself whistling it in the morn, you can be sure I will be sharing it in the eve.
Bill Fay
“Garden Song” from s/t album
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Prevailing winds have blown a big ass storm into my general vicinity, so here I sit waiting for the beginning of the World Series. To be honest, the anticipation is akin to the mosquito-covered tootsies depicted above my worrisome words. However, I walked into my backyard and blankly stared at my ghetto garden as the rain nourished the weeds and I thought of this song. This is kind of ill-fitting since it romanticizes death and his subsequent burial so he can commune with roots and maggots. Dude even goes so far as to devote lyrics to his conversations with muddy critters that pick and poke at his own personal compost pile. It’s a fitting tune for this Halloween as it literally explores the old-fashioned ditty where the “worms crawl in , the worms crawl out, the worms play pinochle in your snout.” Well, my father was known to take liberties with his vocal interpretations of children’s song, so I may be speaking to an empty room.
Anyhow, “Garden Song” possesses such a morbid grace. Fay eloquently waxes about the beauty of nature and the cyclical nature of our existence using a simple garden as an obvious, but effective metaphor for hippie ideals where yesterday’s ashes blossom another day. It is a song about sad conclusions and how they ultimately lead to rebirth. Fay celebrates surrender because he knows that this can only lead to a new battle tomorrow.Ha! I guess that is the reason I am anxiously awaiting the start of Phillies game in hope of late night redemption.
This is the absolute top notch best drumming you'll hear for years. Negative reviews attack everything from the accompaniment to his haircut, but you simply can't deny the technical prowess. Well, that's been challenged too. And to that I ask, Really? What would you prefer? For him to dumb down his grooves or soloing? To make a mistake? Look at his approach. Challenge yourself to evolve. Look at how relaxed and effortless his playing is. He addresses things like dynamics in addition to the sound. He is always in control, in the zone. I can't fathom how a drummer, percussionist, or musician won't allow themselves to appreciate this because they want the old keyboardist back or they want him to play with a has-been like Sting. The dynamics, fluidity, sounds, interpretation, production, improvisation, and above all playing and soloing in multiple, layered odd time signatures with jaw-dropping ease make this a truly great album. I defy you to find two bars of music on these 2 CD's that are played the same by all members. Dave never repeats a lick. Keep an open mind and you'll find yourself enjoying this album more and more with every listen.
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TRACKLIST
01. The Maze
02. Percolator
03. New Day
04. Troll
05. Flight
06. Smooth Move
07. No Goodbyes
08. Rain Daze
09. Caveman
10. Prayer
MUSICIANS
Jim Weider - guitar
John Holbrook - keyboards, bass synthesizer
Tony Levin - bass guitar
Rodney Holmes - drums
Carlos Valdes - percussion
PREVIEW
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Sometimes a whole album doesn’t quite lift the fingers onto my grubby keyboard. I can’t quite muster the oomph necessary to inflate my words past that one song that is slowly worming its way into my daily thoughts. Plus, sometimes I just want to say my ephemeral peace and move onto other chores in my daily agenda. Anyhow, this will be the first of a frequent series of posts devoted to a single song. If I find myself whistling it in the morn, you can be sure I will be sharing it in the eve.
Bill Fay
“Garden Song” from s/t album
http://www.mediafire.com/?obj2dwddooe
Prevailing winds have blown a big ass storm into my general vicinity, so here I sit waiting for the beginning of the World Series. To be honest, the anticipation is akin to the mosquito-covered tootsies depicted above my worrisome words. However, I walked into my backyard and blankly stared at my ghetto garden as the rain nourished the weeds and I thought of this song. This is kind of ill-fitting since it romanticizes death and his subsequent burial so he can commune with roots and maggots. Dude even goes so far as to devote lyrics to his conversations with muddy critters that pick and poke at his own personal compost pile. It’s a fitting tune for this Halloween as it literally explores the old-fashioned ditty where the “worms crawl in , the worms crawl out, the worms play pinochle in your snout.” Well, my father was known to take liberties with his vocal interpretations of children’s song, so I may be speaking to an empty room.
Anyhow, “Garden Song” possesses such a morbid grace. Fay eloquently waxes about the beauty of nature and the cyclical nature of our existence using a simple garden as an obvious, but effective metaphor for hippie ideals where yesterday’s ashes blossom another day. It is a song about sad conclusions and how they ultimately lead to rebirth. Fay celebrates surrender because he knows that this can only lead to a new battle tomorrow.Ha! I guess that is the reason I am anxiously awaiting the start of Phillies game in hope of late night redemption.
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Illegal Downloaders 'Spend The Most On Music' Says Poll
Crackdown on music piracy could further harm ailing industry
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Sunday, 1 November 2009
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MX-80 Sound's first full album found the band balanced in some sort of weird zone where punk, art metal, and a drawling sort of humor Stephen Malkmus would chase down in later years could all happily coexist. That the band was a contemporary (in terms of time, if not exact location) of Devo and Pere Ubu makes a perfect sort of sense -- the quartet's songs were less immediately anthemic, but something in the Ohio water seems to have seeped over to Indiana as well. Lines like "There's an electrical alliance when you turn on that appliance" could be pure spud-boy attitude, while the nervous frazzle of the music and the semi-sci-fi identity the band used for their appearances and photos make for pure herky-jerky fun. If anything, Hard Attack may just well be the secret counterpart to the Fall at the time, and for good reason (even the two-drummer team of Armour and Mahoney arguably beat Mark E. Smith and company to the punch). Stim is a wonderfully offbeat singer, ranting without ever raving, as prone to talk over, around, and beside the beat as to sing anything straightforward, while his occasional turns on horn seem like the type of thing he would do for the hell of it. The rhythm section's affinity for prog rock's tempo switching and jazzy breakdowns never become an end in and of itself; the goal instead is to keep both the noise and the groove on, and they do it with raunchy power. Lead guitarist Anderson makes some righteously giddy feedback and circus/carnival riffs (Stim aiding him at points, other times finding its own path), and the end result is a sharp balance between insanity and just enough control. Outrageously funny/bad lyrical joke: "A horse that lives for a year is a yearling, but a horse that lives for a week, is it a weakling?"
-Ned Raggett, allmusic.com
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MX-80 Sound-HARD ATTACK (1977)
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01. The Bigger Equation
02. Bingo
03. Celestial Carnies
04. Waiting For Diana
05. The Secret Decoder Ring
06. We Feast, But First We Dance
07. Flight of the Bumblebee
MUSICIANS
Marco Villarreal - guitar
Buddy Pearson - bass
Bill Romer - drums
Waz Fox - piano
PREVIEW
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01. For You
02. Train
03. A Short Story
04. Lullaby
05. Groovemania
06. M.K.
07. Dynamic
08. Nostalgia
09. Move Your Neck
10. Conversation
MUSICIANS
José De Castro - guitar, bass (1)
Melvin Lee Davis, J. Vera (3,5) - bass
Enzo Filippone - drums
Denis Bilanin - pad
Inaki Quijano - hammond
PREVIEW
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Track List:
01 - Ages of Magick (5.48)
02 - Mind Over Matter (4.02)
03 - The Forgotten King (3.02)
04 - The Storyteller (3.42)
05 - The Whale's Last Dance (4.30)
06 - Time Between Times (5.03)
07 - Flight of the Condor (4.48)
08 - Lutey and the Mermaid (3.02)
09 - Standing Stones (4.31)
10 - The Enchanter (6.04)
11 - The Healer (4.18)
12 - Through the Eyes of a Child (2.13)
13 - Hy Breasail (8.38)
LineUp:
- Oliver Wakeman - (keyboards, pianos, Hammond organ)
- Steve Howe - (electric & acoustic guitars, steel guitar)
- Dave Wagstaffe - (drums, percussion)
- Tim Buchanan - (bass)
- Tony Dixon - (uilleann pipes, whistles, flute)
- Jo Greenland - (violin)
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Here's a Driftwood statistic worth noting: this site's authors have made five children since we began four years ago on Nov. 1, 2005, at 8:45 p.m.
A lot has happened, but perennial themes tell a story: controlled spoilage , the curdling of tastes , aesthetic relativity , the world-weary shrug one eventually adopts in the face of overwhelming evidence that things probably aren't going to get much better than they are right now. You'd think we would have quit by now.
But always, eventually, somewhere in the hidden folds of the crow's feet of a leathery gaze into the sunburst desertscape of our spiritual condition, we find reasons for joy and hope. In records, albums, songs, melodies, beats, lyrics, riffs, barbaric yawps, fay whispers, harmonic convergences, thunderous licks, melted time signatures, all manner of stoned philosophy, rough mixes, ripples of phaser and dollops of wah-wah, sonic wizardry of pretty much every stripe and stipple. If there's a sparkle in the groove, we'll fish it out. We're as moved by an epic failed attempt as by the soulful note perfectly struck.
As people, we grow ever more barnacled and bloated, what with jobs and kids and mortgages (gulp), untethered from a long-lost center that didn't hold and was never destined to hold. We need stronger liquor now, it's true. A revelation: people our age, Gen-X, have realized we're finally just a subset of the Baby Boomers, our cultural circuit-board built to believe we were extending the 20th Century narrative on some inevitable arc to somewhere (over the rainbow?), never suspecting we'd just end up digitizing the whole human drama and folding it all into an archival box for a flattened, airless age. End of History and all that. We're still a bit stunned that it turned out this way, aren't we? I think that's what The Driftwood Singers has always been about: for us, old LPs and quasi-salvageable bygone pop isn't just the flotsam and jetsam of a faded generation, it's a flotation device to keep us from going under the waves. We collect them like scrap metal for some kind of floating junkyard paradise where we can hang out and talk shit, drink bourbon and eat beans around a fire when the rest has turned to Waterworld. Inside a grain of sand, a universe: here's ours. Pilfer a little reefer in a hand-rolled cigarette, settle in for the gauzy journey to the stereo, the blue-green glow, the first shocking notes, the quivering vocal, the tremolo guitar trembling between the speakers like a shimmering sun, the enveloping rapture of a musical moment.
It'll do in a pinch. Here's to four more years ...
Divine Daze of Deathless Delight - Donovan
Yellow Sun - Donovan
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