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That time Asha Puthli sang (gorgeously…) for Ornette! & later with Ornette's subsequent Prime Time bassman Jamaaladeen Tacuma...
Also a wild take by The Thing's Mats, who has a fine version too with (yes, really) Neneh Cherry - whose step-dad played on the 'Science Fiction' album where it first appeared & later explored the track (whose original he sat out from) with Bobo Stenson et al & separately with Nana Vasconcelos & Ingrid Sertso!
The Neneh/Thing got some trans-Nordic remix action as well, while she & her brother featured on a Swedish album that had a go at it too (though without them, regrettably).
Oh, & there's a whole Italian strand - from that, the Sabina Meyer-sung Agus Collective take.
Finally, if you do Spotify an ultra-nerdy collection of 'WRCIG's...
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'Lucinda' rises again...
From the 45th anniversary companion, 'The Joy of Sextet'
'Tilly’s lyrics, Jez Kerr explains, “reflect her take on life in Manchester, “walk along the waterline, see the ships passing by, grey skies, still water”.
Who listens to The Camberwell Now now? They don't even get their 'The' any more.
Still, they may be a lower-profile sliver of This Heat that only ever recorded one album & a couple of EPs, but their 'nostalgic, scary, quietly desperate' output speaks to these times as much as theirs...
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Another month's listening: from Ferkat Al Ard & Rainer Maria to Merry Clayton & Wellesley Braham via The Necks, Ornette & Dylan...
A smattering from August's Bandcamp-able portion:
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Actual Cherry aider Christer Bothen & crew '[track] down the "traces" of the legendary Don Cherry's legacy while paving their own way in contemporary creative music expression'...
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Begin the Benin! Mid-70s tastes of El Rego, Gnoassas Pedro & - of course - Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo...
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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...'
Photo by Marlys Lenz Cox.
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'delicate fluidity & shape-shifting'
Photo by Marion Benoit.
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'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.'Important: LMYE only makes music available that artists/labels have chosen to share freely. Let us know if something here shouldn't be.
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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...
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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)...
Some tracks (Bandcamp where possible; YT if not...):
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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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Journey to the valley of the ultra-banger - Peter Gordon & David Van Tieghem's Winter ('78, pre-Love of Life Orchestra) with Kathy Acker...
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