Tidiane Thiam :: Africa Yontii

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Not everyone in my life gets my many musical obsessions.

I grew up in Phoenix, which means that I didn’t have a whole lot of cultural options, but Bob Corritore and the Blues was always a constant in my life. I remember sometimes thinking: “How can this guy play five hours of Blues every week and not get tired of it?”

Years ago, I also knew someone that hosted a regular Reggae radio show that was 3-hours each week and I remember thinking: “How can this guy play five hours of Blues every week and not get tired of it?”

And here I am having professed my love for Tuareg guitar music and music from the Sahel region in general recommending yet another album. I could easily play five ours of Tuareg music, and no, it’s doesn’t all sound the same. In addition to the newest album album by Etran De L'Aïr :: 100% Sahara Guitar, the fabulous Sahel Sounds label recently put out the newest album from Tidiane Thiam :: Africa Yontii.

This one is laid-back.

Relaxing.

Meditative yet driving.

Exquisite interplay. With overlapping melodies.

Enjoy.

Watch “Yewende”:

Etran De L'Aïr - 100% Sahara Guitar Gets The Video Treatment

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By now you’re familiar with my love of Tuareg guitar music and music from the Sahel region in general. One of my favorite labels, Sahel Sounds, is releasing the newest album by one of my favorite acts, Etran De L'Aïr.

Entitled 100% Sahara Guitar, the album will be out next month. To celebrate, the band has released a video for one of their live staples, “Imouha.” Filmed on a green screen at Vancouver BC's Shoreline Studios Vancouver BC by Christopher Kirkley with additional footage courtesy of Abdou Hamani (Discothèque Ambiance de Tchiro), the song is a great teaser for the full album.

Enjoy.

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Phish :: NPR Tiny Desk

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If you’ve ever visited this music blog, chances are that you’ve already watched this. Watch it again.

Phish recently stopped by NPR’s Tiny Desk for a 35-minute, 5-song set.

You enjoy myself . . .

Setlist:

  1. “Sigma Oasis”

  2. “Evolve”

  3. “You Enjoy Myself”

  4. “Sample in a Jar”

  5. “Chalk Dust Torture”

Kikagaku Moyo Live at WFMU (2019)

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WFMU recently announced the opening of their vaults and began sharing videos from their Monty Hall archives. So guess what we’ll be featuring more of lately!?

From the show’s Youtube page:

“Japanese psych band Kikagaku Moyo played at WFMU's Monty Hall in 2019, following the release of their album Masana Temples on the Guruguru Brain label in 2018. The powerhouse group announced their final tour in 2022 and are on an indefinite hiatus.

Recorded at WFMU's Monty Hall in Jersey City, NJ on June 27, 2019.”

The Deets and Setlist:

Recorded at WFMU's Monty Hall in Jersey City, NJ on June 27, 2019.

  1. Green Sugar

  2. Nazo Nazo

  3. Kogarashi

  4. Tree Smoke

  5. Fluffy Kosmich

  6. Entrance

  7. Dripping Sun

  8. Gatherings

  9. Streets of Calcutta (Ananda Shankar cover)

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Sylvan Esso Live at NPR's Tiny Desk (2015)

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Sylvan Esso perform at NPR’s Tiny Desk (2015)

Setlist:

  • "Coffee"

  • "H.S.K.T."

  • "Come Down"

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Saturday Sessions :: Billy Strings and Chris Thile :: CBS Saturday Sessions (2024)

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By now I’m sure you’ve seen the videos of Billy Strings and Chris Thile for CBS’ Saturday Sessions. That’s OK. You can watch them again and again and still be amazed by the interplay between these two master musicians. The duo performed three songs (I don’t know the order they originally appeared):

  1. "I've Been All Around This World,”

  2. "I Am A Pilgrim,”

  3. "Wild Bill Jones.”

Enjoy.

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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Live At KEXP (2017)

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KEXP presents King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded October 11, 2017.

Setlist:

  • Welcome to an Altered Future

  • Digital Black

  • Han-Tyumi The Confused Cyborg

  • The Lord of Lightning

  • Altered Beast I

  • Alter Me I

  • Altered Beast II

  • Alter Me II

  • Altered Beast III

  • Alter Me III

  • Altered Beast IV

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Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily :: Tiny Desk Concert

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Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily live at NPR’s Tiny Desk (May 12, 2023).

Setlist:

  • Eyes Of The Endless

The Deets:

Musicians:

  • Vijay Iyer: Fender Rhodes, piano

  • Arooj Aftab: vocals

  • Shahzad Ismaily: bass, Moog

Tiny Desk Team:

  • Producer: Bob Boilen

  • Director/Editor: Maia Stern

  • Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin

  • Series Producer: Bobby Carter

  • Videographers: Maia Stern, Kara Frame, Sofia Seidel

  • Audio Assistant: Hannah Gluvna

  • Production Assistant: Ashley Pointer

  • Tiny Desk Team: Suraya Mohamed, Joshua Bryant, Marissa Lorusso, Hazel Cills, Ashley Pointer, Pilar Galván, Jill Britton

  • VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins

  • Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann

Raz Mesinai and Shahzad Ismaily Live

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Today we feature a live duo performance from Raz Mesinai and Shahzad Ismaily.

The Deets:

  • Raz Mesinai - frame drum, effects

  • Shahzad Ismaily - bass

Bob Marley and the Wailers :: Live at the Santa Barbara County Bowl :: 11/25/79

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Bob Marley and the Wailers, live at the Santa Barbara County Bowl, 11/25/79.

Setlist:

  1. Positive Vibration

  2. Wake Up And Live

  3. I Shot The Sheriff

  4. Ambush In The Night

  5. Concrete Jungle

  6. Running Away

  7. Crazy Baldhead

  8. Them Belly Full

  9. Heathen

  10. Ride Natty Ride

  11. Africa Unite

  12. One Drop

  13. Exodus

  14. So Much Things To Say

  15. Zimbabwe

  16. Jamming

  17. Is This Love

  18. Kinky Reggae

  19. Stir It Up

  20. Get Up Stand Up

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Talking Heads :: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival (1982)

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Saw this come across my Twitter feed. Sorry, I can’t remember who posted it if it was you, THANK YOU!

From the show’s Youtube page:

“This is full footage of Talking Heads performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, July 9th 1982. Originally broadcasted on Swiss TV and radio, but this footage is from an archive of the master tapes (except the last song)”

Setlist:

  1. Psycho Killer

  2. Cities

  3. Big Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open)

  4. Once in a Lifetime

  5. Mind

  6. My Big Hands (Fall Through the Cracks)

  7. Big Business

  8. I Zimbra

  9. Swamp

  10. Slink

  11. Houses in Motion

  12. What a Day That Was

  13. Life During Wartime

  14. Take Me To The River

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Goat :: Live at Le Guess Who? (2022)

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We recently highlighted Goat’s fabulous 2023 album “Medicine” as one that we heard too late to make our favorites list. I still can’t believe we missed it. Goat has been a long-time favorite around the Holiday at the Sea Fake Offices.

In penance, I offer you this short but terrific live set from 2022.

From the Youtube page: “Swedish psych outfit Goat perform live at Le Guess Who? 2022 following the release of their latest album 'Oh Death' via Rocket Recordings.”

Setlist:

  1. Under No Nation

  2. Gathering of Ancient Tribes

  3. Do The Dance

  4. Disco Fever 

  5. Goatman

Deets and Credits:

  • Captured at TivoliVredenburg’s Ronda on Saturday, 12 November during Le Guess Who? 2022.

  • Direction: Dammes Kieft

  • Camera: Anaïs Saebu, Jonathan Sipkema, Nicky Pajkić, Rikash Gobardhan, Yuma Eekman, Dammes Kieft

  • Production: Claudia Rison, Studio Dammes

  • Coordination: Barry Spooren Montage: Nicky Pajkić S

  • ound recording: Marc Broer

Heard Too Late 2023 :: Goat :: Medicine

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Welcome to the third and pen-ultimate (for now) of our Heard Too Late 2023 series. Today, I humbly present to you a band I love with an album I somehow missed last year. Scandinavian Pscy-Rock-Folk-Space Voyagers Goat put out a solid album of space out music called Medicine. It is indeed medicine for what ails ya.

This one’s right up my alley for working and studying. I think you’ll dig it too.

Watch the video for “Join The Resistance”

Watch the video for “Tripping In The Graveyard”

Heard Too Late 2023 :: Lee Gallagher And The Hallelujah :: The Falcon Ate The Flower

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Welcome to Heard Too Late, a short series of posts where I highlight artists and albums I didn’t spend enough time with to put on my 2023 year-end list. However, with hindsight being what it is and all, it is safe to say that if I had heard these albums sooner, they would most definitely have made the cut.

First up is “The Falcon Ate The Flower” by Lee Gallagher And The Hallelujah. As you might ascertain from the name, Gallagher’s CA (by way of Ohio) cosmic country space rock taps in to the spiritual side of life without being preachy. Maybe we’ll call it existential rock? Anyways, having recorded with Victoria Williams and others after moving to CA, Gallagher has continued to expand his sound and scope. Reviewers and biographers are quick to point to Gram Parsons, Workingman’s Dead, Humble Pie, and, surprisingly enough Rod Stewart (that last one came up a few times!) and, of course; all of these apply, but only as touch-points.

Album opener “Planes” soars in perhaps the most psychedelic country jam the album reaches, but it sets a great opening bar. Though “The Falcon Ate The Flower” doesn’t quite reach those same heights throughout the rest of the album’s songs, we take a journey through ballads, and no review would be complete without mentioning the stellar performances by violin legend Scarlet Rivera (probably best known to this crowd by her appearances in the Rolling Thunder Revue. She here appears on the tracks “Something Better,” & “Can Anyone Hear Me?”, both of which are well worth your time.

Head out on a road trip. Blare this and then let’s talk.

Watch the official video for “Baby I’m There:”

Listen to “Something Better:”

Listen to Half Lit (The Future’s Ours):

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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard :: Live at Lowlands 2023

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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard :: Live at Lowlands 2023.

Setlist:

  1. Gila Monster

  2. Converge

  3. Witchcraft

  4. Self-Immolate

  5. This Thing

  6. The Garden Goblin

  7. Hypertension

  8. Magma

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Chitinous Mandible

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When asked to describe his music in 3 words by Secret Eclectic, Tom Herman Jr. (aka Chitinous Mandible) responded with:

Enveloping surrealistic familiarity

That seems to be as good a description as any.

Prior to the Chitinous Mandible moniker, New Jersey’s Herman recorded as Old Smile, who Aquarium Drunkard described as “a wave of lo-fi, bedroom psych,” and of whom The Quietus said: “After countless recent waves of revivalist bands embracing jangly psych and sixties music - Temples, Tame Impala, Ty Segall, etc. - Old Smile is the best I've come across.” That’s high praise indeed! And as The Quietus points out: “And this dude managed to do it all himself at home!” Herman continues to ride tht independent spirit, saying of this new, self-titled project as Chitinous Mandible: “I wrote/performed/recorded/mixed everything on it aside from a couple tracks where my dad plays drums.”

Rolling in like a lo-fi swamp fog and wrapping you up in its shimmery swirls, this is music to get lost in or focus down on the details. Because there are layers if you’re willing to dig. And dig, I do. cosmic psychedelic blues for the laid-back set. Hints of Krautrock throb over Devo keyboards. More quirky non sequiturs for great music here.

I asked Hermon how his songwriting has progressed over the last few albums. He said:

“In Arches the sound was kind of slow and melancholy. The sound of Old Smile was more all over the place, there were a lot of detours. Chitinous Mandible is a bit all over the place too but it’s more concise.”

Chitinous Mandible is a bit all over the place, but more concise. That’s as good a description as any. Swampy music for sweaty afternoons. The best thing you can do is go listen for yourself. I highly recommend.

For those interested, Bandcamp reveals that "Pops plays drums on the songs "Time Design" and "Summertime Drive."

Watch “Summertime Drive:”

Watch “Connection In A Parking Lot”

  • RIYL: Rose City Band, Los Halos

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Oki Dub Ainu Band Live For KeenStream

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From the Youtube page:

“Festival TV on KEENSTREAM, a YouTube program that started in April 2020, hoping that the day will come when we can enjoy the music and outdoor activities that we love. We welcome over 100 artists in total and liven up the program with MC George Williams.”

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  • Hear "マナウレラ - Matnaw Rera" by Oki Dub Ainu Band on Episode 06 of the Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow

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Harry Belafonte Live in Germany (1988)

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Harry Belafonte live in Ravensburg, Germany, Nov 1988.







Setlist:

  1. Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)

  2. Kwela (Listen to the Man)

  3. Skin to Skin (with Sharon Brooks)

  4. Matilda, Martin Luther King

  5. Island in the Sun

  6. Try to Remember (with Ty Stephens)

  7. Jamaica Farewell

  8. Paradise in Gazankulu

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jaimie "breezy" branch forever :: Roulette, Brooklyn :: XXIII Vision Festival :: 05.28.18

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As the recent Aquarium Drunkard e-mail says: jaimie "breezy" branch forever!

We are all deeply saddened by branch’s passing. Let’s visit some live breezy.

So far we’ve visited a solo set, a trio set and a two-part live show. Let’s round out the week with this quartet setup, live from 2018. This one includes a bit more information, including the players, which include branch on Trumpet, Anton Hatwich on Bass ,Lester St. Louis on Cello, Chad Taylor on Drums.

This was at: Roulette Intermedium, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn May 28th 2018

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jaimie "breezy" branch forever :: First St. Green : Arts For Art :: Paris :: 09/29/19

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As the recent Aquarium Drunkard e-mail says: jaimie "breezy" branch forever!

We are all deeply saddened by branch’s passing. Let’s visit some live breezy.

So far, we/ve visited a solo set and examined two of her songs with lyrics and another one Yesterday we covered a band set, and today is branch in a trio format. As with the other sets, not a lot of information or tracklisting here, but ti’s great nonetheless. This set features Branch on trumpet, Luke Stewart on bass, Mike Pride on drums.

OH, and apparently this was “on Roy Campbell & Steve Dalachinsky's birthday.”

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