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Keep going @Pim, this is an invaluable service that's helping me decide which of the albums to consider buying separately! I'm only in for one or two of them at most

That's great, it must be 45 years since I last listened to Rory

I'm beginning to wonder if I can introduce these type of fire drills whilst working from home...

Olie Brice is the next one to inherit the Edwards mantle here I think.

Barbar Dumbo Donald J. Trump

I'm getting this as soon as it hits these shores, I expect Oto will stock it

Robert del Naja Grant Marshall Adrian Thaws

Worthy of note for the title alone That modern Blue Note not releasing Jazz again...

In the queue, where do I pay?

I was at one of the gigs. It was very good

Great LP

Edwards/Noble is my Oto rhythm section. I like Sanders a lot too mainly because he is more improv-ey. I had a ticket for that Jones gig and was sad not to be able to attend. I like the early albums too.

Aneurin Bevan Ernest Bevin The Bevin Boys

Great collection of music

Great photo and pretty good album too

Absolute gem And another. I played it last week and for the first time in ages realised how strong side 2 is That's been my issue with his entire career. I always wish he'd hired a vocalist to sing his lyrics. And yes, I do realise this is tantamount to a heresy

Got my copy yesterday, first listen was very positive

Thanks

Is this referring to Westlake? Sorry I've got confused (easily done...) but like the sound of that recommendation

Maybe if you turned it up to 11...

New to me, looks like an interesting line up. One to investigate, thanks for posting

Great to hear everyone is alright

So assuming it's the same Max Johnson I checked Bandcamp https://maxjohnson.bandcamp.com/ and found that he has 13 releases since 2012 which isn't a bad release schedule and because of the sales platform he should be getting a reasonable slice of each purchase, I'm really not sure how it squares with the statement " the streaming companies have ostensibly wrestled almost all the income from recorded music away from the artists, because it only discourages people to make records".

I think "pearls" to a considerable degree too With platforms like Bandcamp artists can have instantaneous worldwide distribution it seems to me. I'd hazard there's more non-mainstream music being made commercially available these days now that the traditional gatekeepers don't have such a tight grip on the market. The issue is getting heard amongst the crowd not that music can't be made available for an audience to buy. And I don't see how 'Machine Gun' wouldn't happen today, that was hardly a major label release that the audience would listen to piecemeal on Spotify on a playlist. It was a release (if vitally important historically) in a niche market, at the time and would be now.

That description makes me sit up