Albums we shouldn't be without

uglymusicuglymusic
edited March 2011 in Other music
What are your recommendations for must-have music of 2010, irrespective of genre?

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  • JimJim
    Very good question.  I tend not to think of new music, just music.  I find there's so much I've yet to hear that I ignore when it was made.

    So I'm not best placed to make any recommendations I'm afraid.

    I could certainly contribute to a Albums one shouldn't be without - with no time criteria.

    I'll start one later.
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    That's funny. I always have a need to hear what's happening and being released now. To me, this is where the real life is. 

    As much as I love Coltrane, Mingus, Monk and the rest, and continue investigating the stuff I haven't heard yet, their's is a historical music, made in and of their time. I want to hear what the world in 2010 is causing people to create.
  • JimJim
    I may not have been clear enough.  I take no notice of the year it was made but I do hear new stuff as well as old - I just don't make a point of it.

    William Elliot Whitmore is an example, his Animals in the dark was new last year and that's when I heard it.  I've just looked it up so now I know it was last year.  Equally I bought Bag It and have not looked a the date.

    Also, getting philosophical or metaphysical for a moment albums like The Koln Concert and Sun Ship always sound fresh as new paint to me :)
  • uglymusicuglymusic

    Also, getting philosophical or metaphysical for a moment albums like The Koln Concert and Sun Ship always sound fresh as new paint to me :)
    Yes, I agree with that. The best music speaks outside of its time.
  • AlanAlan
    I downloaded the Koln concert recently, still have to get round to converting the format though. It is probably the only high-rez album I have, and I'm not even familiar with the standard version! What a philistine...

    So, is it good then?
    :-??
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    OK. Maybe I should start with my Top 5 from 2010:

    David S Ware - Onecept
    Grinderman - Grinderman 2
    Paul Motian, Jason Moran & Chris Potter - Lost in a Dream
    Robert Wyatt - For the Ghosts Within
    Jason Moran - Ten

  • uglymusicuglymusic
    I downloaded the Koln concert recently, still have to get round to converting the format though. It is probably the only high-rez album I have, and I'm not even familiar with the standard version! What a philistine...



    So, is it good then?

    :-??

    Just a bit  :-)

    For my money, Jarrett is one of the 'greatest living jazzmen'.
  • AlanAlan
    Oooooh!











    So it's jazz then?

    8->




    Only kidding, just kidding!  ;))
  • JimJim
    edited December 2010
    +1 what Dave said.

    Get settled in the quiet and play it - not too loudly.  Guaranteed you'll play it through at least twice times.
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    Oooooh!











    So it's jazz then?

    8->




    Only kidding, just kidding!  ;))
    That's actually quite a serious question.

    Jarrett's solo improvisations quite often sound like classical/composed music rather than jazz, and the jazz police have taken him to task for that.
  • JimJim
    Those bloody jazz police! The last one I saw looked like he was 12

    :))

    But, yes an interesting question.  One I have no answer for.  Most people I would suggest would say any music with a swing type beat and using horns and drums to be jazz.  In the same way that guitar based music with a solid drum behind it would qualify as rock music and lots of violins, cellos, French horns and kettle drums would be classical. And for a quick definition I think that's about right - we all know what Dave means by the categories he's created for music.

    But there's a multitude of grey areas which is the difficult part of the question.


  • JimJim
    @Uglymusic

    Robert Wyatt?

    As in:

    Is it worth it?

    A new winter coat and shoes for the wife

    And a bicycle on the boy's birthday

    It's just a rumour that was spread around town

    By the women and children

    Soon we'll be shipbuilding


  • uglymusicuglymusic
    That's the man! The hairy one in the wheelchair, not the self-important hubby of Diana Krall (I believe).
  • JimJim
    Nothing wrong with Declan MacManus, he's a good lad.  And yes he is Mr. Krall

    I've got Nothing Can Stop Us where he does an "interesting" cover of Strange Fruit.
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    Robert Wyatt is one of my all-time musical idols; Declan is OK, but seldom inspires (IMO).

    I like that "interesting" cover of Strange Fruit!

    On the latest is an "interesting" cover of What a Wonderful World. Did you hear it at the show?
  • JimJim
    I like Wyatt but not to idol status.  I saw Declan supporting Dylan in the 90s - double whammy for me.  I'm sure it was that gig where Dylan did a cover of the Clash song London Calling - now that was interesting!  As an encore they both did Watchtower - brilliant.

    I like his Strange Fruit as well.  Didn't hear him at the show, no.  I'll have to find the album.

    This is a thread on it's own - "interesting covers"
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    Cool.

    I think we possibly need a Miscellaneous category for that and similar stuff. 

    In fact, I'll set it up in a few moments.
  • JimJim
    whooooops! I put it in Classifieds CD and LP before I read the Classifieds but.

    D'oh.

    Hope you can move it.
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    No probs. It is done

    Classifieds is now For sale - much clearer, I think.
  • JimJim
    Ta much - I'll have to look as to how that's done.

    Yup, For Sale is better
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    Set up new category and make sure the permissions are right.

    Then click on Edit on the first post of the Discussion you want to move, and use the pull-down menu select the new category. Done!
  • AlanAlan
    I can't get on with most of Declan's newer work tbh - his best of compilation has some really interesting moods on it.



    I absolutely adored his album with Allain Toussaint - 'The River in Reverse', one of my all time faves - and I also like the collaboration with Bacharach....so don't listen to anything I say!

    :-@
  • JimJim
    I enjoyed the Bacharach album as well.  But I prefer his early angry, punky stuff.
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    I enjoyed the Bacharach album as well.  But I prefer his early angry, punky stuff.
    Yeah. If I must listen to the man, the early stuff is best.
  • schwantz34schwantz34
    i completely agree with uglymusic , Robert Wyatt is one of the genius of contemprary music ., ive discovered him with ROCK BOTTOM then i ve heard THIRD of soft machine , amazing ...

    He also collaborated in recent times with a italian singer , Cristina Dona' ,

    enjoy



    and look at this

    , shiver!



    ciao!
    s.
  • schwantz34schwantz34
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    Wow! Thanks Sergio

    I can find one track that Wyatt collaborated with Cristina Dona. Is there an album, by any chance?

    I'd completely forgotten about The Wind of Change. Fantastic stuff!
  • schwantz34schwantz34
    Hi Ugly , you're welcome , about dona album , is just a cd singles with 4 tracks , R.Wyatt plays the horn in "goccia2 , here some infos :

    http://www.rockit.it/album/907/cristina-dona-goccia-cd-single

    unfortunately is in italian language ,
    yep , the wind of change is also one of the tunes i love ! Also the videoclip was amazing , i remember it when i was a young kid , 8 or 9 years old ...and i ve discovered now hat in the video there are also  two component of the SPECIALS , awesome!
    ciao


  • uglymusicuglymusic
    It's great to see them dancing around Trafalgar Square in front of South Africa house.


    There used to be a 24/7 protest outside South Africa House. I always used to stop for a chat or to sign a petition, or give them some money for a coffee or something. Anyway, one icy afternoon I'd just stopped to talk to the protesters, turned round and slipped, fell and dislocated my shoulder. Apartheid's revenge, I called it 
    :-)
  • JamielJamiel
    edited March 2011
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    Rick Smith 'Bungalow With Stairs'
    Limited edition available only from underworldlive.com together with the exhibition catalogue from Karl Hyde’s recent exhibition in Tokyo: 'What’s going on in your Head when you’re Dancing', only a few copies left at the moment (£30).

    After Underworld's very disappointing 2010 album 'Barking', which was bland europop and didn't sound like Underworld's dark indie tinged techno. Rick Smith's ambient album for Karl Hyde's exhibition was a compelte contrast, beautiful, gentle and full of feeling.

    Other than that album I can't say that much from 2010 impressed me at all, but perhaps I will find some other releases in the coming years.
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    You could always start a 2011 thread for the best of this year, so far. Just a thought.
  • mozzamozza
    That's funny. I always have a need to hear what's happening and being released now. To me, this is where the real life is. 

    As much as I love Coltrane, Mingus, Monk and the rest, and continue investigating the stuff I haven't heard yet, their's is a historical music, made in and of their time. I want to hear what the world in 2010 is causing people to create.
    Maybe you should get yourself to some live gigs....
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    I do.
  • scottyhammerscottyhammer
    Live Dates 2 on vinyl
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