Unpopular Music - July 12, 2020

8/1 - addendum to the playlist

 

For today's offering, we have mostly selections from this month's Bandcamp binge (on the day they were waiving their fee for the artists and labels), plus a couple of other recent additions to the Unpopular Music Library. When listening through the recent purchases, I found some similarities across the selections (which were somewhat arbitrarily chosen) and many potential segue points. Current events are somewhat indirectly invoked.

This mix is a little less jazzy than usual. It starts off atmospheric, electronic, and rhythmic, before a bit of a spiritual jazz interlude, a more atmosphere, before ending with exuberant, and the a bit more calm pleas for peace, love, and understanding.

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See the playlist after the break...

artist	title	album	comments	label / date
Oliver Coates	Three High Places - 2. The Wind At Maclaren Summit	John Luther Adams - Canticles of the Sky / Three High Places	music by John Luther Adams	RVNGIntl. 2018
Horse Lords	People's Park	The Common Task		Northern Spy Records 2020
Tim Munro	Liminal Highway – IV: Liminal	Christopher Cerrone: Liminal Highway	music by Christopher Cerrone	New Focus Recordings 2020
Juana Molina	In the lassa	Halo		Crammed Discs 2017
Deerhoof & Wadada Leo Smith	Last Fad	To Be Surrounded By Beautiful, Curious, Breathing, Laughing Flesh Is Enough	Satomi Matsuzaki (voc, b) Ed Rodriguez, John Dieterich (g) Greg Saunier (d) Wadada Leo Smith (trp) album title from Walt Whitman recorded at New York City’s Winter Jazzfest at Le Poisson Rouge (help them out) 100% of album proceeds benefit Black Lives Matter	Joyful Noise Recordings 2018
John Coltrane	Spiritual	The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings	John Coltrane (ss) Eric Dolphy (b clt) McCoy Tyner (p) Reggie Workman (b) Elvin Jones (d) originally released on the Other Village Vanguard Tapes	Impulse! 1961
Brother Ah	Sweet Illumination	Move Ever Onward	Brother Ah (d, flt, hrn, sit, Nature Sounds, RIP) Aiisha (voc) Eugene Cooper (b) Pat Patrick (clt, ts, shawm) John Belcher, – Mbutu (prc) Steve Solder (d, obe) Ras Karby (d, kiti kup) Olu (elec p, p) Kufu Ptah (prc, Shakuhachi, Space Beam) Ayida Tengemana (g) Obowale (g, prc) Dara (kora, prc) Barbara Mc Cloud, Branice Inemugo Williams, Carolyn Davis, Elssi Atiba, Harold Lucious (voc) Lance Dozier (pan flt) Alfred Wade, Jr. (tmb)	Manufactured Recordings 1975
Eric Hofbauer & Tony Leva	Terrible and Beautiful	Book of Fire	Eric Hofbauer (g, syn, elec) Tony Leva (b, turntables, smplr, elec) the voice of James Baldwin	Creative Nation Music 2020
William Parker	This Is My Country (New York)	I Plan To Stay A Believer: The Inside Songs Of Curtis Mayfield	William Parker (b) Hamid Drake (d) Amiri Baraka, Leena Conquest (voc) Dave Burrell (p) Lewis Barnes (trp) Darryl Foster (ts, ss) Sabir Mateen (as, ts, flt) Asim Barnes (g) New Life Tabernacle Generation of Praise Choir of Brooklyn, NY song by Curtis Mayfield	AUM Fidelity 2008
Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets	(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding	Live At Haw River Ballroom	Nick Lowe (voc, g) Eddie Angel (g, voc) Pete Curry (b) Chris Sprague (d, voc) Greg Townson (g)	Yep Roc Records 2019