Decided to bookend this show with features - to start, tracks from a compilation of oddities: African Garage Rock from the 70's, which owes more to acid rock/psychedelia & rock 'n' roll than afrobeat and funk. Then to finish, Magma's latest (possibly last? Let's hope not...) release, a 40-minute long cut called 'Zess'.
| Lucked into a great new compilation on Nowagain records, chronicling some forgotten 'Nuggets'-style gems from Nigeria, Zaire and Zimbabwe, obscurities from 68-78, or thereabouts, which owing more to acid rock/psychedelia & rock 'n' roll than afrobeat and funk. More info can be had here: https://www.nowagainrecords.com/announcing-cant-you-hear-me/ |
| Can't You Hear Me? Paul Ngozi - Comp - Can't You Hear Me? African Nuggets - Nowagain Records |
| I Had A Dream 5 Revolutions - Comp - Can't You Hear Me? African Nuggets |
| Amanaz Amanaz - Comp - Can't You Hear Me? African Nuggets |
| Breakthrough Funkees - Comp - Can't You Hear Me? African Nuggets |
| Peaceful Man Peace - Comp - Can't You Hear Me? African Nuggets |
| Fwe Bena Zambia 5 Revolutions - Comp - Can't You Hear Me? African Nuggets |
| Poor Connection Blackfoot - Comp - Can't You Hear Me? African Nuggets |
| No Time Witch - Comp - Can't You Hear Me? African Nuggets |
| Continuing on with something recent and local - a track from Not Really's newest album, and a note that their record release show will be happening at Cafe Pressed on Thursday!! |
| The Same Thing Not Really - On The Spectrum - 2019 
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| I Am a Voyeur Kim Salmon & The Surrealists - Ya Gotta Let Me Do My Thing - 1998 |
| Faceless May Nomeansno - Old E.P. - 2010
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| Silk Road Grails - Burning Off Impurities - 2007 |
| Vibraciones Doradas Causa Sui - Vibraciones Doradas - 2017 |
| Jumping out of the post-rock into some in-rock: A little live Offenbach from '75! |
| Jam Offenbach - Tabarnac! - 1975
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| C'Mon Man - Back Into The Future - 1973 |
| Moving on from the jam-rock to something a little more funky and jazzy (though the metal influence in the Utopianisti track is undeniable... but it's a relatively new release) in a set I like to call 'The Pimp Set' :^) |
| Spanking Time Utopianisti - II - 2013 |
| Willie The Pimp Frank Zappa - Hot Rats - 1969 |
| Ballad of Joe Pimp Nucleus - We'll Talk About It Later - 1971 |
| After the pimpy jazz-rock-attack... we backpedal a bit to something a bit more acid-y, world-y... still some jazz in there, though. |
| Baranzibar Jade Warrior - Released - 1971 |
| The Bite Comus - First Utterance - 1971 |
| Now, the BIG Finale - the latest track/album (and some have speculated, the last...) from French Zeuhl progenitors Magma! Of course, it's not strictly speaking 'new' - a first draft emerged in 1977. After being gradually completed, the piece debuted in concert in the spring of 1979. It became a staple of Magma’s repertoire until it was set aside in 1983. To Quote the Seventh Records site, to illuminate the story and where it sits in the Kobian legendry: " It is an immense celestial arena, an agora where all the voices of the universe resonate. Everyone has assembled for a last celebration, a gathering of the innumerable into a single point where everything comes together for the Day of Oblivion.
Zëss had long been plagued by its incompleteness and its recording was deferred for years. Four decades after its first draft, the work has finally been recorded in an orchestral version that gives it both its true dreamlike dimension and its transcending power. For Zëss is above all the visionary reflection of an immemorial dream haunting the most obscure part of our souls. Zëss treads a line between a vital overflowing and the edges of the unlivable. It is an incandescent and heady oratorio where consciousness questions its other side in a measureless journey. Zëss indicates the ultimate reversal out of which bursts a beyond of music that only music can reach. Magma’s whole story condensed…" |
| Zess Magma - Zess
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