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What's been your favourite recent discoveries?

Porter Wagoner - The Rubber Room (compilation of the most warped Country and Western tragic story songs ever)

John Stewart - California Bloodlines ( I got obsessed with this late 60s album last year)

Kettel - electronica from the netherlands that I keep on listening to...

Live Allman Brothers Band, someone played some of this in a bar tent at Glastonbury and it sounded soooo goood...

I got quite into an album of early demos by the guys that would form Steely Dan.
The album is called Any World That I'm Welcome To (I only liked the first cd , but I listened to it repeatedly)

All Vince Guaraldi Charlie Brown theme albums...

Roky Erickson - I think of Demons, (I really really got into this album for a few months)
 
ohmyliver said:
I've only just discovered the f*cking amazingness of The Congo's Heart of the Congos. Which has led to me wishing I'd discovered it years and years ago.
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i was reading a lee perry biog the other day and it talked about this period of perry's work. according to that the congos was an album that for a few reasons may never have seen the light of day. first of all lee claims that no one really wanted to work with cedric myton (the congos falsetto singer) because of his unusual voice (this may or may not be true). lee does have a thing for male falsettos.

Lee then did THeHeart album and sent it to ChrisBlackwell in London, as Island was releasing perry albums, but according to what i read Chris didnt like it and thought it wasnt suited to european tastes and so it sat on the shelf. lee asked him repeatedly to release it but chris refused. <insert abuse at chris blackwell here>

lee released it himself in JA, whilst it got a limited press in the UK after the Congos did a deal themselves with a small indie. it wasnt until Blood and Fire released it in the great double cd format that most people got to hear it and the album got the wider respect it deserves. Bearing in mind that that B&F release wasnt till 1996 it makes sense that its only now slowly climbing the ladder of great albums in peoples consciousnesses.
 
ska invita said:
i was reading a lee perry biog the other day and it talked about this period of perry's work. according to that the congos was an album that for a few reasons may never have seen the light of day. first of all lee claims that no one really wanted to work with cedric myton (the congos falsetto singer) because of his unusual voice (this may or may not be true). lee does have a thing for male falsettos.

Lee then did THeHeart album and sent it to ChrisBlackwell in London, as Island was releasing perry albums, but according to what i read Chris didnt like it and thought it wasnt suited to european tastes and so it sat on the shelf. lee asked him repeatedly to release it but chris refused. <insert abuse at chris blackwell here>

lee released it himself in JA, whilst it got a limited press in the UK after the Congos did a deal themselves with a small indie. it wasnt until Blood and Fire released it in the great double cd format that most people got to hear it and the album got the wider respect it deserves. Bearing in mind that that B&F release wasnt till 1996 it makes sense that its only now slowly climbing the ladder of great albums in peoples consciousnesses.
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cheers , I didn't know all that
 
Baskery
Kid Congo Powers (rediscovery)
Frontier Ruckus
Slim Cessna's Autoclub
Major Lazer
Gas
Honkeyfinger
Salem
Elizabeth Cotten
Mr Roboto by Styx
 
Hungry March Band:

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New York street march brass band. Sublime chaotic fartiness.
http://www.hungrymarchband.com/hungryhome.php
 
Andrew Bird. Brilliant multi-instrumentalist, his album reminds me a lot of Sufjan Stevens (who seems to have gone a bit quiet, what happened to his album for every state in the USA!?).
 
I've recently got into Tangerine Dream, I think through them being cited as a Brian Eno influence on AllMusic. Minimalist and maximalist concurrently, although the AllMusic review for "Rubycon" compares them to Pink Floyd but without the guitars, which makes me think I'm turning into my Dad. :eek: :)
 
Dave Van Ronk

I always just thought he was just some singer-songwriter who hung out with Bob Dylan. But he's got a great voice (when he doesn't do his 'cheesegrater singing' thing), great taste in songs, some great songs of his own, and a great line in whiteboy country blues. And loads of albums.
 
up until this weekend i had never (knowingly*) heard le tigre. since hearing their song "hot topic" a couple of times last weekend i have been listening to them quite a lot this week. and i like them a lot :)

(*i say knowingly, as it turns out that one of their songs i've heard loads of times on some (diplo?) mix that the missus has)
 
dodgepot said:
up until this weekend i had never (knowingly*) heard le tigre. since hearing their song "hot topic" a couple of times last weekend i have been listening to them quite a lot this week. and i like them a lot :)

(*i say knowingly, as it turns out that one of their songs i've heard loads of times on some (diplo?) mix that the missus has)
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:cool:

If they ever play live again I can't recommend you seeing them enough!
 
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