Three flavours of Teutonic jelly: solo workout ('with The Exposures') & showing jazz chops (of a sort) with toy-toting Japanese funsters & one of the great drummers...
Bonus:
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'Her audition for Limbo District consisted of asking her to play cover
band standards like "Louie Louie" and when she had no idea what to do
was immediately included in the band...'
'Iftin's Mogadishu is where the world's sounds begin & end'...
'Digitized from cassettes recorded between 1982 & 1987 at the legendary
Al-Uruba hotel's secret studio & the jams for the masses performed in
the basement of Somalia's national theatre.'
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Kahil El'Zabar's new Open Me, A Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit revisits his 'Great Black Music' - 'often attributed to the Art Ensemble of Chicago but, in fact, an El’Zabar composition' - after earlier takes both by his Ethnic Heritage Ensemble & his Ritual Trio...
Another week's listening: from Dennis Young (Liquid Liquid) & Randall Kennedy's punk-funk poetics to modal Duke Pearson pleasures, via the Benelux post-punk of Jo Bogaert, Betty Padgett & Arnie Love's biscuit tin productions & DJ Nature & Jamie xx bangers (& even Kieren Hebden's first LMYE appearance in an age)...
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Another week's listening: from the post-punk/synth pop interface of Talking Drums & Linear Movement to the majesty of Don Cherry/Johnny Dyani & Coltrane, with intermediary stops including Bill Nelson, State of Art, Astrud Gilberto, Bessie Jones, Eagles Lupopo '77, Afro 70, The Smile, Seven Davis/John Cale (somewhat improbably), Lloyd Cole/Mogwai (at least equally improbably...), Paul Haig & Abdullah Ibrahim.
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