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Written by Mrowster on 2025-01-31 at 20:43

[#]NowPlaying #FalsettoFriday #SouthAfricanMusic

"Mbube" by Solomon Linda's Original Evening Birds (Gallotone, 1939)

The South African original that begat both #TheWeavers' "Wimoweh" in the 50s and #TheTokens' "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" in the 60s - here in all it's pre-WWII 78rpm #falsetto glory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH0BrpCK0Cc

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Written by Mrowster on 2025-01-30 at 10:21

[#]NowPlaying #PaulTaylor #AvantProg #HammondOrgan #LeslieSpeaker

Leslie’s gore

https://discusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/whirl-and-magnet-167cd-2024

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Written by Mrowster on 2025-01-28 at 07:54

[#]NowPlaying #Americana #TexasMusic

Shout-out this #8TrackTuesday to #OmnivoreRecordings who recently reissued #JimmieDaleAndTheFlatlanders beautiful 1973 debut album, All American Music, released only on #8TrackCartridge at the time. While this has been reissued before, here it's extended with bonus tracks and with the original cover artwork restored - hence definitive. Truly, this is my/your/our #Texas.

https://omnivorerecordings.com/shop/all-american-music/

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Written by Mrowster on 2025-01-26 at 16:48

[#]nowplaying #RockInOpposition #MotorTotemistGuild #ModernComposition

Solar Maxima by James Grigsby (2024, Rotary Totem)

https://jamesgrigsby.bandcamp.com/album/solar-maxima

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Written by Mrowster on 2025-01-25 at 19:19

[#]NowPlaying #RenéLussier #LeTrésorDeLaLangue #AvantProg #ExperimentalMusic #Québécois

Discovering what is hidden behind the tongue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7JCj3_5zz4&t=99s

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Written by Mrowster on 2025-01-24 at 18:24

[#]FalsettoFriday

Time was, I owned upwards of, like, 2 dozen different #ToddRundgren records. While I wouldn't swear by all those today, I still hold his idiosyncratic vocals and early 70s albums - Runt, The Ballad of Todd Rundgren, and Something/Anything - dear to my heart. Those records are absolutely lousy with good songs ratcheted up a big notch through a keen use of #falsetto.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAoM1a7DHqA

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Written by Mrowster on 2025-01-21 at 08:24

[#]NowPlaying #Kraftwerk #Krautrock #Autobahn #8TrackTape #8TrackTuesday

Wir fahren, fahren, fahren auf die 8 spur stereo

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Written by Mrowster on 2025-01-18 at 20:39

[#]NowPlaying

Noise Uprising by #ChristopherTrapani (New World Records, 2024).

Inspired by the #MichaelDenning book of the same name, this is a "polystylistic atlas" of early 20th century global #VernacularMusic reimagined, reconfigured & recontextualized in astonishingly beautiful ways. Featuring the spellbinding voices of #SofiaJernberg and #SophiaBurgos along side instrumentalists #Zwerm.

https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/christopher-trapani-noise-uprising

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Written by Mrowster on 2025-01-17 at 14:12

[#]NowPlaying

Even later albums by #CurtisMayfield had their share of deep cuts, like "Tripping Out" from 1980's Something To Believe In LP. That easy, strolling rhythm, those tasty horn & keyboard accents, and Curtis' incomparable #Falsetto. Happy #FalsettoFriday everybody.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBgelyLjbdo

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Written by Mrowster on 2025-01-14 at 16:41

[#]NowPlaying #UrKaos #ChamberRock #RockInOpposition

[#]LachenJonsson’s poignant song meditations on works by the Nobel Prize-winning German/Swedish poet #NellySachs

https://lachenjonsson.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-exile-and-metamorphosis

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Written by Mrowster on 2025-01-14 at 14:04

[#]NowPlaying #8TrackTuesday #8TrackTape #8TrackCartridge #RichardHarris #MacArthurPark

Someone left the tape out in the rain

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Written by Mrowster on 2025-01-10 at 07:08

[#]NowPlaying #FalsettoFriday #RootsReggae

[#]TheCongos' Heart Of The Congos LP is often considered the crown jewel of #LeePerry's Black Ark productions, and for me it was #CedricMyton's #falsetto vocals that put these guys on a spiritual plane all their own. This cut has those ancient Nyabinghi winds blowing through it - long may they reverberate.

(Music writer #BobMack first turned me on to the Congos with his brilliant Lee Perry overview in #GrandRoyal magazine in the early 90s - still worth re-reading today. RIP Bob.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1yhijkS4X8&list=PLF35600334B4C072F&index=2

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Written by Mrowster on 2025-01-08 at 19:16

[#]NowPlaying #DrunkRock #CowPunk #TexAndTheHorseheads

Taken from a mid-90’s Japan-only CD by #DannyWest (he of San Francisco’s 80’s big hair slumlords #Vain), this cut has righteous lead vocals from the-one-and-only #TexacalaJones. It demonstrates that still astonishing, assbackwards way of singing a song Tex had – to glorious, full-flowered effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voSX9rcVmbY

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Written by Mrowster on 2025-01-07 at 15:57

[#]NowPlaying #8TrackCartridge #8TrackTuesday

In the broad wake of #Deodato's 1973 smash-hit "Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)", STAR-PHASE was one of many studio groups (credited only as "Tommy, Steve, Carolyn, Ron and Stephanie") who tried to cash in with disco-fied, instrumental versions of sci-fi movie themes from the day. They weren't at all successful and only ever got released on #8TrackTape. This means even today, grizzled hip-hop beat hunters haven't plundered their recordings. Yet.

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Written by Mrowster on 2025-01-06 at 19:00

[#]NowPlaying #MickHobbs #TimHodgkinson #TheWork #RockInOpposition

THE WORK - "Hell" from The 4th World CD (Ad Hoc Records, 2010; recorded 1994).

"The texts for the songs performed on this tour were montaged from art catalogues, sacred books, mistranslated poems, medical manuals, teaching materials, newspapers and play scripts."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEVnTnR9l6o

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Written by Mrowster on 2025-01-03 at 17:47

[#]NowPlaying #Falsetto

[#]FalsettoFriday has come around yet again, and I just can't stop French WTF pop legend #MichelPolnareff's 1966 number 1 hit "Love Me Please Love Me" from ricocheting around in my skull. May his high notes light up yours forever too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOnIMq9bME8

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Written by Mrowster on 2025-01-02 at 09:32

[#]NowPlaying #DonaldFagen #WalterBecker #SteelyDan

Woke up to crisp -1°C temperatures and a pleasant blanket of fresh snow atop all of Orkney. Happy New Year everyone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8px0fO_es5A

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Written by Mrowster on 2024-12-31 at 10:33

[#]NowPlaying #8TrackTuesday #DeadFormats

It's oddly appropriate that #LouReed would add otherwise unreleased music on to the #8TrackTape release of his Berlin album back in '73. I mean, his Metal Machine Music #8Tracks (particular the Quad version) are some of the few tapes to have regularly fetched higher collector prices for a few decades now.

But add he did: 23 secs of inexplicable incidental piano/synth grafted ungracefully on the end of the title track "Berlin". Has this ever been reissued? Check it out at the 2:56 mark.

Happy #8TrackTuesday (and a happy new year) everyone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE0VV5v9Y7c

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Written by Mrowster on 2024-12-29 at 20:40

[#]NowPlaying #CenturysEnd #DeadFormats #SteelyDan

Thank god for these simple plastic adapter rings. How else am I gonna listen to this #DonaldFagen 3-inch compact disc single?

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Written by Mrowster on 2024-12-29 at 14:01

[#]NowPlaying #DocSeverinsen #SteelyDan #Peg

I (don't) know I'll love you better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pmpuBWR0eE&t=41s

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