Album Cover: Larsen - Cool Cruel Mouth [Tin Angel Records, 2011]

#albumshuffle Day 501: Larsen - Cool Cruel Mouth [Tin Angel Records, 2011]

Caught the tour supporting this album by chance - plans I had with a boyfriend fell through at the last minute and we had to hastily cobble together a weekend in London where I suggested an evening at Cafe Oto.

Album Cover: John Stevens, Kent Carter & Derek Bailey - One Time [Incus, 1995]

#albumshuffle Day 500: John Stevens, Kent Carter & Derek Bailey - One Time [Incus, 1995]

A rather fun hour of free improvisation with Derek Bailey's usual guitar work, Kent Carter on bass and John Stevens pulling things together on drums and on the final piece a pocket trumpet.

Album Cover: Glenn Jones - The Wanting [Thrill Jockey, 2011]

#albumshuffle Day 499: Glenn Jones - The Wanting [Thrill Jockey, 2011]

American primitive album with all the lush fingerstyle playing and nostalgic country blues allusions that entails. Final track features Chris Corsano on snare & percussion and has the propulsive energy of a steam train.

#albumshuffle Day 497: Kay Adams - Make Country Mine [Tower, 1967]

Lovely bakersfield country album collecting a handful of her early singles, released in the months between the trucking themed Wheels and Tears and the honky tonk focused ballads of Alcohol and Tears.

Album Cover: Bégayer - Terrain À Mire. Une Maison Rétive. Contrainte Par Le Toit [Les Disques Bongo Joe, 2018]

#albumshuffle Day 497: Bégayer - Terrain À Mire. Une Maison Rétive. Contrainte Par Le Toit [Les Disques Bongo Joe, 2018]

Trio from the French Alps playing a blend of psychedelic electrified folk borrowing from tuareg music while also utilising radios and an array of traditional instruments.

Album Cover: Bee Gees - Odessa [Polydor, 1969]

#albumshuffle Day 496: Bee Gees - Odessa [Polydor, 1969]

All the lush baroque arrangements make this an excellent comfort album. The harmonies and songwriting are solid and I appreciate the audacity of the late 60s excesses plumbed by tracks like edison, with all nations and the british opera.

Album Cover: Sun Ra & His Arkestra - The Antique Blacks [Enterplanetary Koncepts, 2015 reissue

#albumshuffle Day 494: Sun Ra & His Arkestra - The Antique Blacks [Enterplanetary Koncepts, 2015 reissue]

Originally released on El Saturn in '74, this reissue unearths the full 24 minute suite from which There Is Change in the Air & The Antique Blacks were sourced and restores the track sequencing

Album Cover: Tori Kudo - Enka Blues [OSR Tapes, 2016]

#albumshuffle Day 494: Tori Kudo - Enka Blues [OSR Tapes, 2016]

A intimate Christmas performance from 2008 where Tori Kudo performs blues arrangements of Enka and folk classics with a couple of western rock songs thrown in too. Truly radical transformations in a rough and ready style on guitar.

Album Cover: Shizuka - Heavenly Persona [P.S.F. Records, 1994]

#albumshuffle Day 493: Shizuka - Heavenly Persona [P.S.F. Records, 1994]

A truly special psychedelic rock album from Japan. Songs written and performed by dollmaker Shizuka Miura with her husband Maki Miura on guitar & Jun Kosugi on bass as core members - both previously in Fushitsusha.

Album Cover: John Duncan & Torturing Nurse - Glass Mind [WV Sorcerer, 2025]

#albumshuffle Day 492: John Duncan & Torturing Nurse - Glass Mind [WV Sorcerer, 2025]

John Duncan and Shanghai based harsh noise project Torturing Nurse with a suite of two halves: Thirty minutes of pummeling metal junk focused noise then several tracks of droning buzzes & shortwave interference.

Album Cover: Spider Compass Good Crime Band - Organ Winding Sheet Music [Pecan Crazy Records, 2004]

#albumshuffle Day 491: Spider Compass Good Crime Band - Organ Winding Sheet Music [Pecan Crazy Records, 2004]

Caroliner adjacent vulture duo on keyboard and electronics. Free flowing revue of gothic melodies, waltzes and mutant lounge music with cheery midi percussion and queasy electronic noise.

Album Cover: Various - The Best Of Excello Gospel [Ace, 1998]

#albumshuffle Day 490: Various - The Best Of Excello Gospel [Ace, 1998]

Compilation of glorious gospel sides from Excello, sister label to Nashboro Records. Nashboro was conduit for many southern gospel acts and while Excello was focused on secular R&B they also released gospel in the early 50s.

Album Cover: The Shangri-Las - Myrmidons Of Melodrama [RPM Records, 1995]

#albumshuffle Day 489: The Shangri-Las - Myrmidons Of Melodrama [RPM Records, 1995]

Decent compilation of sides from one of the finest girl groups of the 60s. The classics are all accounted for, including my personal favourites Dressed in Black, Past Present & Future and Give Him a Great Big Kiss.

Album Cover: Joe Panzner - Clearing, Polluted [Copy For Your Records, 2011]

#albumshuffle Day 488: Joe Panzner - Clearing, Polluted [Copy For Your Records, 2011]

Remarkably lush and textured electronic work that blends delicate eletroacoustic movements with ferocious passages of noise. Glitchy high frequency hissing and chirping/insectoid drones & rolling deep bass rumbles

Album Cover: Betsuni Nanmo Klezmer - Waltz [Nani Records, 1996]

#albumshuffle Day 487: Betsuni Nanmo Klezmer - Waltz [Nani Records, 1996]

Joint second release from Kazutoki Umezu's big band klezmer project, sourced from the same sessions as Ahiru, released concurrently. Tight, exuberant arrangements with Makigami Koichi & Tokyo Nammy serving as vocalists.

#albumshuffle Day 486: Ros Sereysothea - ហុឺ...អង្អែលអើយអង្អែល [Cambodian Vintage Music Archive, Inc., 2022]

The CVMA have been doing a phenomenal job digitising & cleaning up golden age Khmer 45s, LPs and cassettes. In the process they've released a glut of great comps on streaming services such as this.

Album Cover: Viola Wills - If You Could Read My Mind [Hansa, 1980]

#albumshuffle Day 485: Viola Wills - If You Could Read My Mind [Hansa, 1980]

I'm in it for the cover of the titular Gordon Lightfoot song, which is one of the all time disco hits. Lovely voice & great versions of There's Always Something There to Remind Me & Gonna Get Along Without You Now.

Album Cover: Tucker Dulin & Ben Owen - Cat Guarding Geese [ErstAEU, 2021]

#albumshuffle Day 484: Tucker Dulin & Ben Owen - Cat Guarding Geese [ErstAEU, 2021]

Something between a field recording and improvised performance with fuzzy boundaries. Starting with the sound of wind against a microphone and ambient traffic with gentle electroacoustic intrusions over 70 minutes.

Album Cover: 386 DX - The Best Of [Staalplaat, 2001]

#albumshuffle Day 483: 386 DX - The Best Of [Staalplaat, 2001]

Alexei Shulgin's cyberpunk rock band. A 386DX computer with 4mb of ram and a Soundblaster 16 card warbling out midi renditions of classic rock songs synchronised to a basic text-to-speech system for vocals and visualiser.

Album Cover: Various - KlapYaHandz Vol. 1: The Cream of the Crop, 2001-2011 [EM Records, 2019]

#albumshuffle Day 482: Various - KlapYaHandz Vol. 1: The Cream of the Crop, 2001-2011 [EM Records, 2019]

Cambodian hip hop from the KlapYaHandz label. Insanely sick beats using a blend of sampled Khmer rock, traditional music and western sounds. Even gender split too - Lisha's Srok Sre is great.

Album Cover: Lon Moshe & Southern Freedom Arkestra - Love Is Where The Spirit Lies [Black Fire, 1977]

#albumshuffle Day 481: Lon Moshe & Southern Freedom Arkestra - Love Is Where The Spirit Lies [Black Fire, 1977]

A really cracking spiritual jazz album. Double the vibraphone means double the pleasure. Eka-Ete Jackie Lewis' vocals on the title track are sublime.

Album Cover: Lhasa Cement Plant - Chakra Full Of Blood [Warpodisc, 1996]

#albumshuffle Day 480: Lhasa Cement Plant - Chakra Full Of Blood [Warpodisc, 1996]

Heavy psychedelic improv quartet featuring Don Miller and Brian Doherty from Borbotomagus. Two guitars, a drummer and bass. Given the pedigree you'd expect something real brutal and noisy but it's not really.

Album Cover: Los Punk Rockers - Los Exitos De Sex Pistols [Nevada, 1978]

#albumshuffle Day 479: Los Punk Rockers - Los Exitos De Sex Pistols [Nevada, 1978]

A Spanish re-recording of Never Mind the Bollocks in it's entirety using uncredited studio musicians. A cynical attempt at cashing in without paying those pesky licensing fees and tricking hungry listeners? Probably!

Album Cover: Blues Boy Rawlins - A-K-A "Sweet Lovin' Daddy" [Good Time Records, 1978]

#albumshuffle Day 478: Blues Boy Rawlins - A-K-A "Sweet Lovin' Daddy" [Good Time Records, 1978]

Raw chicago blues on acoustic guitar and harmonica. Very little biographical info about Blues Boy Rawlins beyond the fact he would perform on the streets of LA and this was produced by Shakey Jake.

J-Card Art: Senior Eddie Donkor - Eye Banker [Enoch Music]

#albumshuffle Day 477: Senior Eddie Donkor - Eye Banker [Enoch Music]

Lovely cheerful bit of highlife goodness from Ghana. Not to be confused with the 1982 record of the same name. Fun synths on the title track and a very familiar sample of a hysterical laugh that I can't place (a toy?).

Album Cover: Jurica Pađen to Braco - All Is One [Buđenje d.o.o., 2014]

#albumshuffle Day 476: Jurica Pađen to Braco - All Is One [Buđenje d.o.o., 2014]

Croatian rock musician Jurica Pađen's paean to economist turned faith healer Braco the Gazer. Braco stands silently & motionless before crowds with a benign smile on his face which purportedly has great healing powers.

Album Cover: Various - Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still: The Warner Collection, Volume I [Appleseed Recordings, 2000]

#albumshuffle Day 475: Various - Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still: The Warner Collection, Volume I [Appleseed Recordings, 2000]

A treasure trove of field recordings of rural folk song and ballads made by Anne & Frank Warner on their many trips through Appalachia between 1940-1966.

Album Cover: Zuppa di Pesce - Colazione [Compare Notes, 2006]

#albumshuffle Day 474: Zuppa di Pesce - Colazione [Compare Notes, 2006]

Funny little instrumental avant pieces from Japan on analog synths, trombone, sax and drums. Cheerful and naive, sometimes very proggy and other times more of a gentle march or waltz. An extremely boingy, plinky-plonky deal.

Album Cover: Lee Morgan - The Gigolo [Blue Note, 1968]

#albumshuffle Day 473: Lee Morgan - The Gigolo [Blue Note, 1968]

This is one I don't think I've listened to for a good 20 years. Just a really great hard bop album. Yes I Can, No You Can't is a groovy opener (Harold Mabern Jr's piano is fantastic) and Speedball is real nice.

Album Cover: David Watson - Throats [Ecstatic Peace!, 2007]

#albumshuffle Day 472: David Watson - Throats [Ecstatic Peace!, 2007]

Highland bagpipes in a multitude of forms - layered drones, electronic processing, extended trills & glissandos. Accompanied by Makigami Koichi on jew's harp and overtone singing, and Shelley Hirsch's extended vocal techniques.