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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

Enjoy it I have indeed. There's some great interplay going on there throughout the disc between varying combinations within the quintet. Evan P sounds almost funky at a couple of points Must be the influence of Hamid Drake.... (as he did with Black Top a couple of weeks ago......but then Pat Thomas and Orphy Robinson were hitting some grooves that night)

now today's other arrival Hamiet Bluiett Quartet - SOS [India Navigation] couldn't be more different to the Lacy but another nice one

Listened to mine now. I don't think you'll be disappointed try contacting Drake or Evans perhaps?

Steve Lacy & Cie - The Owl [Saravah] first listen .I'm drawn in as much by Ms Aebi's vocals as anything else. I can see myself returning to this one many times to fully appreciate what's going on

mine arrived today courtesy of Mr Hawkins. Very efficient service, thank you Alex Yet to listen to it but the packaging is certainly impressive if nothing else

for a moment there I was heading off to the Mall.......then I spotted 'Boston'. damn, not even Lincs either

What a great trio. I've never seen Sclavis play with Pifarely and would love to....maybe if I make a dash to Eurostar now. it seems too long since Sclavis has played in London

Thanks, that's plenty Grachan. Just bought a copy!

mine has a jacket, which requires some glue. and has one nasty pressing issue on side 2 for 30 secs. Music's great how much Grachan?