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Of course, Neil Tesser was entitled to his own opinion, but I know that during those days, I didn’t know Mizell from a Midas Muffler, but it still was fun music for me.

Well, another part of my childhood gone... Ralph Lundsten (6 October 1936 – 5 July 2023)

I understand the part about older people and their sometime needs to be creative, but I don't understand the need to be enslaved by the old ways of doing things. These guys might be capable of creating another slower, less precise form of the music that they love without being tied to an old band's repertoire. One example is a new band called House of All. Guys in their 60s who used to be members of The Fall. I'll disagree with you on your take on new music. It's an incredible time to be alive with a HUGE - actually overwhelming - amount of great new music worldwide. Yes, I love a lot of past people and bands, but I can live the past, present and, hopefully, the future comfortably as well. On tonight's show, I'm featuring mostly lesser-known 70s prog bands for two hours, but on other nights I feature segments of "New Sounds, New Releases" - some of which have yet to be officially released. People's creativity has been unleashed in major ways this century and I'm loving it.

Yup. Interesting that they went back to their original Soft Machine name right after Daevid Allen died. Seems to me that their previous handles were closer to the truth - a cover or extension of the original, but if you're going to be a cover band, then, at least, bring some life back into it instead of sleepwalking your way thru what you remember from the old albums. Again, I listened to "Penny Hitch" on this and the drums are woefully off-kilter wrong and almost ghost-like in their (near) presence. The keyboard riff that's so crucial to the original is completely lost in a mush of marsh-mellowness while the tune somnambulistically fades like a tottering guy with a walker shuffling into a dense fog. You kinda want to wake the ol' guitarist up too. Honestly, if it wasn't an attempt at SM, I probably wouldn't be listening to it at all. I might've just heard it as S&M.

You’re welcome. Here’s an interesting interview and info about Samo‘s interview channel that he has.

I’m impressed by its variety of execution considering the nature of the trio. As you see in the notes, Samo has a pretty illustrious background when it comes to his hard-work ethic. You don’t have to actually know the poems or the poet mentioned in order to fully enjoy their interactions (plus, you’ll notice that there’s nothing actually recited). It’s something I’d return to at least a few more times.

Judy Carne? Tom Skerritt?

Kelena Fôly by Cheick Tidiane Seck

Well, I'm not that sure I'd call it a "return" since, for decades, various versions of the band have been releasing things every two or three years. Somewhat embarrassed to say that I've been getting all of those releases whenever MoonJune sends me updates (which is pretty often), but I honestly think that they've been floating on the "soft" part of their band name for too many years. Etheridge is the earliest band member (from '75 on) and they rolled in Babbington for this date and this is farewell to the retiring Marshall (whose gotta be in his 80s?), so unless they can get in some new, young, energetic, creatively thinking new musicians, I just don't get why they keep this up. Gotta wonder if this is it. They try to bring in tunes from the early albums, but the elements that made tunes like, (for example, on the latest) "Joy of a Toy," "Penny Hitch," and "Backwards" stand out compositionally are totally lost in the eighth-hearted attempts at playing them. It's pretty sad when you give the appearance that a young covers band could do a whole lot better with your own material than you can. Still, I buy them out of a weird "duty" mixed with the many-headed hydra of deep nostalgia.

...and thanks for the reminder...

I’m often surprised by our little New Mexico radio station. Sometimes, I think, “Is this something I could play?” wondering if it may be too “out”, but then I’ll be listening inside our Pacific-provided archive and “that” artist or style will show up in another show. Also, the mostly jazz overnight shows each night (“Music till the Morning”) are actually a delight to fall asleep to. It’s becoming the only radio I choose to listen to anymore - happily and surprisingly so.

Going to the link, you’ll see that the more well-known ones are probably Hino and Takayanagi. Nice to come across another Miyama project.

Absolutely incredible. Where have you tone colors been all my life?

The above disc is from 1994. I met a guy in Germany who claimed to have nearly all of Braxton's output - something around 250 titles - and I thought "that's cRaZy!" That was around 15 years ago. Now, I look at what I have and it's around 300. It's still cRaZy! I'd estimate there are somewhere around 4-500 titles out there. That's not including the hundreds of recordings of other people's albums that he's played on. This one doesn't count: