This reminded me I did a #Fave1975 earlier this year posting an album a day for 30 days. Somehow it seems I omitted this one! Which shows just what an amazing year for music 1975 was. As well as how badly organised & forgetful I am 😉
And that's yer lot! 30 days, 37 wonderful albums. I may post a full list tomorrow. Or I may not. Don't hold me to anything... #Fave1975
black vinyl LP playing with album sleeve behind Lovingly reissued by Superior Viaduct.
#Fave1975 Day 30 #NowPlaying
Joe McPhee: Black Magic Man
Had to find room for this gem! Recorded in the 1970 sessions that produced the iconic Nation Time but not unleashed until 5 years later as the inaugural Hat Hut release. Masterful modal free jazz & improvised magic.
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Which reminds me that today is the last of #Fave1975 & I haven't included Schulze's Timewind. Criminal, frankly. Pretend I did 😉
black vinyl LP playing with album sleeve behind
#Fave1975 Day 30 #NowPlaying
The Far East Family Band: Nipponjin
Japanese commune band + Klaus Schultze production = A cosmic classic complete with trippy undulating sonics, heavenly mellotron & a psychedelic prog rock grandeur that cocoons you in a warm, mind-altering fug.
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black vinyl LP playing with album sleeve behind reissue on Superior Viaduct
#Fave1975 Day 29
Alvin Curran: Canti E Vedute Del Giardino Magnetico
Curran's first solo record after moving on from Musica Elettronica Viva; transcendental drone, found sounds, minimalist micro melody & repetition. A beautiful, deeply creative, prescient all-timer ❤️
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Miscounted my #Fave1975 selections so a small cheat to include two for Day 29! Plus this week has wrecked me so I badly needed to listen to two transcendental masters of experimental minimalism this evening...😁
CD jewel case for Velvet Donkey, featuring a pink cartoon donkey in a yellow circle on a black background
#Fave1975 Day 28
Ivor Cutler: Velvet Donkey
Back in the 90s I lived on a Hackney council estate with Kavus & his then partner Andrea, who introduced me to Cutler's genius. And every time I listen I'm transported back to our hashsmoke heavy lounge, laughing like a loon ❤️
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#Fave1975 Day 26 #NowPlaying
Parliament: Mothership Connection
We need the funk. We gotta have the funk...
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Double CD jewel case of Physical Graffiti (2015 remaster)
#Fave1975 Day 25 #NowPlaying
Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti
Considered not including this coz I don't really listen to Led Zep these days. But then I put it on. And of course it's great, arguably their peak, despite (or maybe because) of its sprawling array of influences & souped up outtakes.
Ok, I realise that's two #Fave1975 for today but I missed yesterday so pretend Anthony Braxton was from then 😉
black vinyl LP playing with album sleeve behind 2018 reissue on the wonderful Superior Viaduct label
#Fave1975 Day 24 #NowPlaying
Takehisa Kosugi: Catch Wave
"Sounds speeding on lights, light speeding on sounds. Music between riddles & solutions."
Improvised violin drones & voice, layered with oscillations, echo delays & tape manipulations.
Otherworldly & sublime.
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black vinyl LP playing with album sleeve behind a black & white headshot photo of Anthony Braxton staring into the camera, smoking a pipe with a cloud of smoke obscuring his face below his nose
#Fave1975 #NowPlaying #JazzSky #Vinyl
Anthony Braxton: Five Pieces 1975
Love this record! As Braxton himself says in the liner notes, "I listen to whatever I can get my hands on that sounds interesting". And man, does this fit that bill...and then some
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black vinyl LP playing with album sleeve behind
#Fave1975 Day 22 #NowPlaying
Hawkwind: Warrior On The Edge Of Time
It's a 70s Hawkwind album. Nuff said.
And the last before Lemmy was fired.
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CD jewel box of The Rotters' Club (2009 Cherry Red reissue)
#Fave1975 Day 21 #NowPlaying
Hatfield and the North: The Rotters' Club
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#Fave1975 Day 20 #NowPlaying
Black Sabbath: Sabotage
Doubt anyone would argue it's their best but it's still the classic Sabbath quartet. And it slays 😁
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CD jewel case for Tonight's The Night
#Fave1975 Day 19 #NowPlaying
Neil Young: Tonight's The Night
The last of Young's "ditch trilogy"; a raw, unpolished album, at times teetering on the verge of falling apart, thematically darkened by mourning yet loaded with rock'n'roll swagger & moments of heartfelt emotion ♥️
black vinyl LP playing with album sleeve behind. gatefold 1982 repress on Recommended Records
#Fave1975 Day 18 #NowPlaying
Slapp Happy/Henry Cow: Desperate Straights
Sticking with yesterday's absolute favourites theme, another perfect all-timer. That these folk managed two such astounding albums in one year defies belief...
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ICYMI yesterday's #Fave1975 day 17 was a 'cheat' day when I posted six of my absolute favourite albums of the year from Henry Cow, Magma, Neu!, Robert Wyatt, Peter Hammill, Lee Perry.
Some day's listening that was!
Back to just the one today, coming right up...
black vinyl LP playing with album sleeve behind, the legendary Henry Cow sock in red on red. 2011 vinyl reissue on ReR.
#Fave1975 Day 17 #NowPlaying
Henry Cow: In Praise Of Learning
If day 17 has been about some of my absolute favourites, then this all-timer would quite probably top the lot.
A masterpiece for the ages...
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CD jewel case of Revelation Dub, 1998 reissue on Orange Street
#Fave1975 Day 17 #NowPlaying
Lee Perry & The Upsetters: Revolution Dub
Acknowledged as 'the first pure dub album' recorded at Perry's then new Black Ark Studios, this is a revelatory set of pared down dub wizardry & signature Scratch weirdness
#dub #reggae #TheUpsetter
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Magma Live/Hhaï CD jewel box
#Fave1975 Day 17 #NowPlaying
Magma: Live/Hhaï
Magma's first live album & the first I ever heard by them. Astounding. Made me rethink what music could be. Been lucky enough to see them live several times & they remain untouchable.
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CD jewel case from 1998 reissue. Cover features artwork by Alfie Benge, a painting of a man & a woman (possibly Robert & Alfie?), the man wearing a strange full head bird mask, the woman in a grotesque horned skull mask, both looking into hand mirrors they are holding. Behind them washing hangs on a clothes line suspended from the branches of two trees. There is an armchair & a deckchair by a cooking pot with a TV some distance behind, and a ladder protrudes from a hole in the ground.
#Fave1975 Day 17 #NowPlaying
Robert Wyatt: Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard
Wyatt can do no wrong in my eyes, an absolute legend. Not his best but still essential listening...
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CD jewel box of Nadir's Big Chance, 2006 remaster
#Fave1975 Day 17 #NowPlaying
Peter Hammill: Nadir's Big Chance
Backed by the rest of the classic VdGG line-up, Hammill's fifth solo LP goes hard, his creative ingenuity mixed with a warped pop sensibility, from angst-ridden proto-punk bangers to intense emotive ballads
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Having set myself an arbitrary 30 days for #Fave1975, I've come to realise this is actually nowhere near enough to cover the albums I love from that year. So gonna 'cheat' today (Day 17) by listening to more than one! Including some of my absolute favourites...😁
CD jewel box of Godbluff (2005 remaster)
#Fave1975 Day 16
Van der Graaf Generator: Godbluff
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Cover of New Dalta Ahkri's Reflectativity LP
CD box set "Kabell Years 1971-1979" by Wadada Leo Smith. A black & white portrait of Smith, arms folded, staring off camera in front of trees. Released by Tzadik in 2004.
#Fave1975 Day 15 #JazzSky
New Dalta Ahkri: Reflectativity
Wadada Leo Smith's sax/bass/piano trio's superb debut of mournful, minimal free jazz, originally released on Smith's own Kabell label. Available on the essential "Kabell Years 1971-79" 4CD box...
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