The big musical event of the spring has come and gone - the 10th Annual Community Record Show. Over the next few shows, I'll be playing tracks from/profiling a few of the LPs I managed to pick up. Tonight, Toronto's Yamantaka // Sonic Titan (2012) and Grobschnitt's 'Ballerman' 2xLP (1974).
| Starting out with a new LP (OK, 2012), the debut from Toronto heavies Yamantaka // Sonic Titan. Can't believe I missed this when it first came out, glad I was able to get a copy at the Record-Con! |
| Hoshi Neko Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - YT // ST 
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| A Star Over Pureland Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - YT // ST
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| Reverse Crystal // Murder of a Spider Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - YT // ST
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| Second set, still in the heavy vein. For some reason Loud guitars are back on top with the Nightwatch! |
| Musik Hissanol - The Making of Him
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| Faceless May Nomeansno - Old ep
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| Crystal Wizards of the Cosmic Weird La Otracina - Reality Has Got to Die |
| Heavy present-day stoner-psych seems to be the order of the day... so why not continue? Why not indeed... with one of my favourite heavy/neo-psych/prog bands, Residual Echoes. |
| Bush Pij/Sometimes Residual Echoes - The Middle Path |
| Ah, the side-long-track - friend of the Nightwatch! Now it's time to roll into some more experimental music, as we make way for the percussion of Stomu! |
| Gathering Storm Godspeed You Plack Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
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| Sawney Bean Snakefinger's Vestal Virgins - Night of Desirable Objects |
| Four Squares and 3 Circles Fred Frith & Rene Lussier - Nous Autres
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| Now a long-awaited addition to my collection from the Record-con: Stomu Yamash'ta's debut solo LP, 'Red Buddha' - one side of an LP with 2 side-long-tracks, all entirely comprised of percussion! |
| Red Buddha Stomu Yamash'ta - Red Buddha |
| Out of the avante-garde-percussion, and into the jazz-rock and kraut-rock! |
| Smoke (E.F.S. #59) Can - Flowmotion |
| Interplay of Forces Ash Ra Tempel - Starring Rosi |
| Splat Nucleus - Alleycat |
| A quick sampling of a few other things that came my way by way of the Record-Con: Kraut from Ash Ra Tempel (the LP that has been unjustly panned - a very neat and varied LP, 'Starring Rosi'), and another LP from Ian Carr's Nucleus - can't seem to hear enough of his stuff these days. Now, a song from an LP I did not pick up ('Et Cetera' by Et Cetera...), though I saw many copies... and having said I was liking the Quebecois-prog, I feel like a bit of a sham, as well as a fool - this is the station's copy, and it's very good. |
| Entre Chien et Loup Et Cetera - Et Cetera
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| Morning Song Grobschitt - Ballerman |
| Now we finish the show with the BIG feature... and I do mean 'BIG', as it's the entire ~33minute 'Solar Music' suite from Grobschnitt's 'Ballerman' - Klassic Kraut! |
| Solar Music Grobschnitt - Ballerman |
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