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welcome back!

I nearly had to come and join you over here as the original thread was blocked to me too. Switched form IE to Chrome and was able to post. So no gatecrashing required in the end

Dewey Redman Quartet - Look For The Black Star [Fontana Japan]

Togashi Masahiko - Guild For Human Music [Denon] I do wish I could read the Japanese insert notes

Tomasz Stanko Quintet -Purple Sun [Calig] straight out of the postman's hands.......great music in lovely sound. Great cover design too, just why we love LPs

Your thoughts aren't a million miles off Scott although Wooley does explain why it felt the time to visit them now, at his age and his current stage in a career. Also interesting the think that Wooley was just eleven when 'Black Codes' was released. I'd hate to make public what I was listening to at that age

I would scan but don't have the tech to do so. Hopefully someone does as it would hopefully give Wooley a voice of some sort in this thread. Motives have been attributed to him on many posts. The notes run into a few hundred words. A taster, "inwardly recognising the inherent danger in navigating an exceedingly thin line between inspiration and appropriation and into the equation the political snares involved in altering the early music of one of America's most devout defenders of repertory practices - Wynton Marsalis - and the result will almost certainly lead me to defending the decision to make the recording" "My age, and probably a certain amount of naivete allowed me to listen to them [early Marsalis recordings] without having to deal with political or social positions represented by Marsalis or his antagonistic role in the music I would grow up to make. I was just moved by the energy, virtuosity and novelty on Black Codes, J Mood and Wynton Marsalis at that age. there's lots more and there's danger in my choice of these extracts, out of their context, leading to misinterpretation of Wooley's thoughts and motives that are fully explained in the complete notes. So I post them only to give a flavour of the complete notes

You find it so easy to make personal attacks based on little or no evidence don't you? It's so brave hiding behind your barn. The posting of endless youtube clips doesn't add anything to the discussion nor does it hide your very obvious ego-laden motivations for posting. I know the desired response of the provocateur is to get a response like this so pat yourself on the back and smile self-satisfyingly but frankly it's time you're called out on this behaviour as would anyone who was serious about engaging in fruitful debate

Of those I'd not heard before: Watersons - Seven Virgins Anne Briggs - The Time Has come Mark Hollis - A New Jerusalem Bill Fay - Til The Christ Come Back Sheelagh McDonald - Stargazer Tim Hollier - Streets Of Gold for starters........it also confirmed that Pentangle are my favourite folk band except for the Unthanks who I saw last night on their 10th Anniversary Tour. Career spanning set starting with unaccompanied duet from Becky and Rachel. They do seem to manage to scale up to quite big arrangements without losing the integral soul of a song - I think because the voices hold sway no matter what else is going on

I'm tempted but too far away

5 hours in and still listening (not quite continuously but nearly). thoroughly enjoyable

listening now. This could be very educative for me, thanks. I must get around to reading that book

They were the days, my cosy indiedom invaded by Aran sweaters and tin whistle players , O, how we mocked in our cloth-eared certainties I left the Waterboys behind when they released Fisherman's Blues and it all got fiddle-tastic. I remember buying the first Bragg mini-LP and being equal parts intrigued and bemused - he could pen a good line. dear old Kev and his Celtic Soul Brotherhood were better than not. The Men They Couldn't Hang (or similar) had a better name than songs I seem to recall. A bit later Les Negresses Vertes were fabulous Lynched it is, thank you. I like them for their name before I hear any of the music

take World Music out of that equation and he was certainly correct when it came to The Pogues. One of the finest songwriters backed by a very talented band of musicians. There was a young Irish folk group the Graun were raving about recently, referencing punk I seem to remember I'm pleased to say I actually have one of the fRoots top 20 - Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal Musique De Nuit (No Format!). But I have to admit it was bought for me by someone who knows his World Music onions

Thanks Jazzyjet. The Fresh Maggots never did have a hit, did they?

I've been flirting with that one but haven't jumped in yet. I do wonder whether 7 discs might be too much of a good thing

Allen, this is just a small point but maybe illustrative of the larger issue. When you released the batch of albums recently I was intrigued. With international postage being so high I wanted to listen to something before committing the cash. I went to your, nicely presented, website but could find little opportunity to listen to your music there. I looked for a soundcloud link to to no avail. I didn't buy which is very probably my loss but I'd've thought if you do wish to disseminate your music to a wider audience you could make it easier for them to access it. I wish you well in your reassessment and hope you find a fruitful path forward

Thanks Bev. I'd thought it might be Boyd related. Just snaffled a couple of tickets for her performance at Kings Place....in April. Now all I need to do is buy the album Just don't take your swimming togs to Scarborough

O, good lord, listening to Marry Waterson for the first time.....I think I'm falling in love........ whilst I can hear what "witchseason" may mean as a sub genre, where's that term come from?

Damn....woke up this morning looking forward to how the discussion may have moved on.....I recognise what Larry did as something I've had to do but without such dire consequences Anyways, what JSngry says above puts it so much better than I tried to last night when responding to my first listen of this track

trying to avoid spoilers.... I thought it became progressively less convincing after the rather good first episode. The finale was disappointing and I thought tried to hide its mundanity behind unnecessary layers of "atmospheric" dialogue. The best bit was Alex being tested by his own invention but even that was hardly surprising. I'm sure 'the establishment' would have found much more clinical ways of torturing him than they did. I have to disagree about Wishaw who seemed to have two settings - "disappointed puppy dog" and "outraged teenager" and why did he go "all cockney" every now and again. Broadbent held it all together (do we know why he came to the end he did?) I thought which may have been why I was disappointed in the final episode

and I got all excited because you thought it was London. Don't think I'll be making the trip

European dates don't include UK sadly. Also no sign of the CD release date here yet

Alexander von Schlippenbach - The Living Music [FMP]

John Patton - Soul Connection [Nilva] with thanks to Homefromtheforest and the poster that preceded him. Great listen