Night Watch
Sunday October 15th, 2017 with Dav Fot
Purchases from the 17th Community Record Show, including Embryo's 'We Keep On'!

Filling this edition of the Nightwatch with Purchases from the 17th Community Record Show, including a full album drop of the entire Embryo LP 'We Keep On'!

Starting out with a few tracks from the re-acquired copy of Bevis Frond's 1990 release Ány Gas Faster', and then going back to the early-70's for a couple of tracks from Roger Miller (who was to form Mission of Burma a decade later) and Co in a band calledSproton Layer. The album of recordings were only released in the early-90's. One wonders what would've come of it if they'd've had wider appeal - they definitely sounded years ahead of their time!

Legendary
Bevis Frond - Any Gas Faster

Olde Worlde
Bevis Frond - Any Gas Faster

The Wonderful Rise
Sproton Layer - With Magnetic Fields Disrupted

Tidal Wave
Sproton Layer - With Magnetic Fields Disrupted

Now a great find - Les 4 Guitaristes... are a great 4-guitar band from Quebec (including guitarist Rene Lussier and Drummer Chris Cutler!!) - they didn't release much, tho'; this is a live effort from '89.

La Chute De La Maison Usher Pt. 1 (Prelude)
Les 4 Guitaristes de lÁpocalypso-Bar - Tournee Mondiale léte '89

La Chute De La Maison Usher Pt. 2 (Danse)
Les 4 Guitaristes de lÁpocalypso-Bar - Tournee Mondiale léte '89

Des Murs, Des Murs, et Derriere... la Lumiere
Les 4 Guitaristes de lÁpocalypso-Bar - Tournee Mondiale léte '89

Continuing on in a less-avant-garde way with the band formed by Carlos Santana's brother, the band Malo. More Latin and less acid than Santana, it's still some energetic stuff. After that... I couldn't resist Santana's 1st LP.

Moving Away
Malo - Evolution

Shades of Time
Santana - S/T (1st LP)

Savor
Santana - S/T (1st LP)

Now playing some surprising picks - a few Blues LPs. I've never really had a serious hankering for blues product... but these LPs are well worth the while. The Blues Project is good, definitely influenced by the nascent psychedelic scene. The Albert King LP is one I've wanted for a long time - great live performance. And the John Mayall - surprisingly non-trad blues!

You Can't Catch Me
The Blues Project - Projections

Wake Me, Shake Me
The Blues Project - Projections

Blues At Sunrise
Albert King - Live Wire Blues Power

So Hard to Share
John Mayall - Turning Point

Out of the Blues now and back to the more reg'lar Nightwatch stomping grounds - some great early-70's Swedish jazz/hard-rock material from Tasavallen Presidentti. The later LPs were great, but more fusion-y -
the earlier LPs a harder edge, definitely. After that, a track from some very early Offenbach!

Introduction
Tasavallen Presidentti - S/T

Sinking
Tasavallen Presidentti - S/T

Kyrie
Offenbach - Sainte-Chrone-de-Neante

After the Early-70's hit, we get back to the 2000's. Managed to find A Chis Forsyth LP, simply entitled 'Solar Motel' released in 2013 - perhaps the precursor LP to the albums with the Solar Motel Band? Either way, great guitar-driven jam/psych. After that, the entirely-improvised Third-ear band. 'Experiences' is a comp, the track 'Ghetto Raga' being from their 1st LP 'Alchemy' (1969)

Solar Motel (Pt II)
Chris Forsyth - Solar Motel

Ghetto Raga
Third Ear Band - Experiences

Into a quick set of non-record-show tracks, just to bulk-up the Canadian Content! Some little-known Q-prog, then a bit better-known Q-fusion... and finishing up with some ferocious neo-psych from Sask.'s Shooting Guns!

Present du Futur
Franck Derviex - Dimension M

Toujours Trop Tard
Maneige - Composite

Vampires of Industry
Shooting Guns - Flavour Country

Time to finish the Nightwatch with the gem of the Record Show, a full album-drop of Embryo's 'We Keep On' - superlative jazz-krautrock!

No Place to Go
Embryo - We Keep On

Flute and Saz
Embryo - We Keep On

Ehna, Ehna, Abu Lele
Embryo - We Keep On

Hackbrett-Dance
Embryo - We Keep On

Abdul Malek
Embryo - We Keep On

Don’t Come Tomorrow
Embryo - We Keep On

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