What music did you buy today?

[Rabshakeh]

On 17/09/2021 at 4:49 PM, The Magnificent Goldberg said:

 

Are these tapes?

[mjazzg]

Souffle Continu reissue

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Tommy's latest E-maI offer is from Metropolitan Records so I ordered:

Haunted Melodies- Music of Rahsaan Roland Kirk   MR 1114

Sterling Place All Stars- featuring Vincent Herring  MR 1117

Memories of New York- Through Jazz and Photography MR 1118

A Jazz Christmas- That Special Time of Year     MR 1125

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

On 19/09/2021 at 9:49 AM, Rabshakeh said:

Are these tapes?

On 19/09/2021 at 9:49 AM, Rabshakeh said:

 

Yeah, they were originally issued as K7s. The guy I used to get them from back in the nineties, has ripped his favourite stuff to CDR and is flogging it at £10 a go. I'm getting them cheaper because I only want downloads as I've no more room for CDs or LPs. It's easier to get them from him than to rip my own K7s.

Today's newie is one I didn't get back in the day

Zani Diabate & the Super Djata Band - Ni Zani mani - Oubien Productions 1991

MG

 

 

 

Bloomin' brilliant! I could have been listening to this for thirty years if I'd been on the ball!

[Pim]

 

 

both on vinyl for way too much money…

[mjazzg]

6 minutes ago, Pim said:

 

 

both on vinyl for way too much money…

You will not be disappointed. Money well spent!

[kh1958]

On 9/25/2021 at 2:18 PM, The Magnificent Goldberg said:

Yeah, they were originally issued as K7s. The guy I used to get them from back in the nineties, has ripped his favourite stuff to CDR and is flogging it at £10 a go. I'm getting them cheaper because I only want downloads as I've no more room for CDs or LPs. It's easier to get them from him than to rip my own K7s.

Today's newie is one I didn't get back in the day

Zani Diabate & the Super Djata Band - Ni Zani mani - Oubien Productions 1991

MG

 

 

 

Bloomin' brilliant! I could have been listening to this for thirty years if I'd been on the ball!

Zani Diabate is superb. I have two CDs and 2 LPs of music from him. He seems lightly recorded, or the music is just hard to access.

What may be the final Zani Diabate recording is available for download here: https://kskrecords.bandcamp.com/album/kaboko-zani

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

22 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

Zani Diabate is superb. I have two CDs and 2 LPs of music from him. He seems lightly recorded, or the music is just hard to access.

What may be the final Zani Diabate recording is available for download here: https://kskrecords.bandcamp.com/album/kaboko-zani

I see no information that would lead me to a correct conclusion about this album: no personnel; nothing to indicate where it was recorded, or why, or by whom. Do you have any details?

System Krush have issued an apparently well-meaning statement " a fair-trade principle, focused on the preservation and promotion of traditional music from West Africa. By bringing this music to the world market", which doesn't incline me to buy their stuff. I'm greatly in favour of the exploitative model for record companies as their owners take care that the music they produce meets the needs of the community in which the artists live. Recordings made for Europeans don't make it, as far as I'm concerend.

I see that Lobi Traore, whom I also like a lot, has made three albums for them. Again you can't see who's with him, where, when or why the album was made. This, however, was clearly made for a local audience.

(The Bar Bozo album seems to me the equivalent of a Prestige album, compared to a Blue Note.)

MG

 

 

[kh1958]

1 hour ago, The Magnificent Goldberg said:

I see no information that would lead me to a correct conclusion about this album: no personnel; nothing to indicate where it was recorded, or why, or by whom. Do you have any details?

System Krush have issued an apparently well-meaning statement " a fair-trade principle, focused on the preservation and promotion of traditional music from West Africa. By bringing this music to the world market", which doesn't incline me to buy their stuff. I'm greatly in favour of the exploitative model for record companies as their owners take care that the music they produce meets the needs of the community in which the artists live. Recordings made for Europeans don't make it, as far as I'm concerend.

I see that Lobi Traore, whom I also like a lot, has made three albums for them. Again you can't see who's with him, where, when or why the album was made. This, however, was clearly made for a local audience.

(The Bar Bozo album seems to me the equivalent of a Prestige album, compared to a Blue Note.)

MG

 

 

I can answer those questions.

Kanaga System Krush was a U.S. based West Coast label which formerly issued CDs and LPs. It seems to have failed as a business in that regard, and the several Bandcamp downloads are the only partial remnant of the label. It is not a "produced" label. They traveled to Mali and recorded the musicians in their home environment. Most of the CDs I have on this label are quite good, with my favorite releases being by Lobi Traore, Zani Diabate and Madou Diabate (kora).

The Zani Diabate  is an acoustic guitar duo recording with Moudy Sissoko, and vocals from Oumou Diabate. It was recorded in February of 2005, in Abdoul Doumbia's family compound in Bamako. (Not his last recording, I was mistaken on that point.) Very good one.

Moving on to Lobi Traore, Bwati Kono (Raw Electic Blues from Bamako) is a live recording recorded in 2007 and 2008 at two music venues in Bamako. Indoors at Espace Academie and outdoors at "Hotel.' This is with his working band (bass guitar, drums, rhythm guitar, djembe, and balaphon on a few tracks. This is a great album, perhaps not quite as intense as Bamako Nights. This was on CD and then an LP was released with part of the material; I was hoping for a volume 2 with extra tracks but the label failed soon thereafter.

Barra Coura is another acoustic guitar duo recording from February 2006, recorded in the same location as the Zani Diabate. Also very good. Lamine Soumano is the second guitarist. One track adds Adama Couloubaly on Bolon.

Bamako Nights is on Glitterbeat, recorded live in 1995 by Yves Werner. The band is Alou Dembele, bass, Binke Traore, bass, Yaya Dembele, djembe, and Samba Sissoko, drums. A great record.

All of these are in finely recorded sound.

 

 

 

 

[mjazzg]

Visit to two new to me shops

[Rabshakeh]

8 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Visit to two new to me shops

Veeery nice. Which shops?

[mjazzg]

9 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Veeery nice. Which shops?

World Of Echo and another on Columbia Road. The second is stocking Japanese imports exclusively and is split with a wine retailer.

[Rabshakeh]

30 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

World Of Echo and another on Columbia Road. The second is stocking Japanese imports exclusively and is split with a wine retailer.

What's the other one? WoE fills quite a specific ecosystem, although I rarely buy from there.

[mjazzg]

30 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

What's the other one? WoE fills quite a specific ecosystem, although I rarely buy from there.

Just found the card they gave me 'VDS', only web presence is Instagram. Had a good few hundred all Japanese stock. Jazz, Funk and other sections I didn't look at. Jazz was 50s through to new releases. Two I bought are NM, looked a pretty good set up.

I stumbled across it whilst killing time after picking purchases up from WoE. They had the Texture Sextet which I have been after for ages.

[Rabshakeh]

1 hour ago, mjazzg said:

Just found the card they gave me 'VDS', only web presence is Instagram. Had a good few hundred all Japanese stock. Jazz, Funk and other sections I didn't look at. Jazz was 50s through to new releases. Two I bought are NM, looked a pretty good set up.

I stumbled across it whilst killing time after picking purchases up from WoE. They had the Texture Sextet which I have been after for ages.

Apparently it's a branch of a Tokyo shop. I may accidentally find myself there over the weekend.

[mjazzg]

24 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Apparently it's a branch of a Tokyo shop. I may accidentally find myself there over the weekend.

That makes a lot of sense. They said their next stock was due end Nov and would be 1500 so worth keeping an eye on

Accidents do happen...

 

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

On 29/09/2021 at 7:35 PM, kh1958 said:

I can answer those questions.

Kanaga System Krush was a U.S. based West Coast label which formerly issued CDs and LPs. It seems to have failed as a business in that regard, and the several Bandcamp downloads are the only partial remnant of the label. It is not a "produced" label. They traveled to Mali and recorded the musicians in their home environment. Most of the CDs I have on this label are quite good, with my favorite releases being by Lobi Traore, Zani Diabate and Madou Diabate (kora).

The Zani Diabate  is an acoustic guitar duo recording with Moudy Sissoko, and vocals from Oumou Diabate. It was recorded in February of 2005, in Abdoul Doumbia's family compound in Bamako. (Not his last recording, I was mistaken on that point.) Very good one.

Moving on to Lobi Traore, Bwati Kono (Raw Electic Blues from Bamako) is a live recording recorded in 2007 and 2008 at two music venues in Bamako. Indoors at Espace Academie and outdoors at "Hotel.' This is with his working band (bass guitar, drums, rhythm guitar, djembe, and balaphon on a few tracks. This is a great album, perhaps not quite as intense as Bamako Nights. This was on CD and then an LP was released with part of the material; I was hoping for a volume 2 with extra tracks but the label failed soon thereafter.

Barra Coura is another acoustic guitar duo recording from February 2006, recorded in the same location as the Zani Diabate. Also very good. Lamine Soumano is the second guitarist. One track adds Adama Couloubaly on Bolon.

Bamako Nights is on Glitterbeat, recorded live in 1995 by Yves Werner. The band is Alou Dembele, bass, Binke Traore, bass, Yaya Dembele, djembe, and Samba Sissoko, drums. A great record.

All of these are in finely recorded sound.

 

 

 

 

Thanks very much. I'll look into getting the two I haven't already got.

MG

[Rabshakeh]

Julius Hemphill - Blue Boyé (Mbari, 1977)

The Mbari original. Not in the finest condition but plays great and wasn't too expensive.

[mjazzg]

50 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Julius Hemphill - Blue Boyé (Mbari, 1977)

The Mbari original. Not in the finest condition but plays great and wasn't too expensive.

Nice.  Did you make it to Columbia Road accidentally?

[Rabshakeh]

39 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Nice.  Did you make it to Columbia Road accidentally?

No. I was unfortunately in the neighborhood of UCLH so popped into HJ East. A much smaller jazz section at the moment, but some good stuff still, including a copy of For Alto in good knick for £30, which I didn't get as I already have it.

[mjazzg]

16 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

No. I was unfortunately in the neighborhood of UCLH so popped into HJ East. A much smaller jazz section at the moment, but some good stuff still, including a copy of For Alto in good knick for £30, which I didn't get as I already have it.

I don't have it....hmm. 

Hope UCLH did their magic, they tend to in my experience

[Rabshakeh]

1 hour ago, mjazzg said:

I don't have it....hmm. 

£30 is cheaper than I'd seen it. I didn't check the vinyl itself but the sleeve was in good condition. Just saying.

1 hour ago, mjazzg said:

Hope UCLH did their magic, they tend to in my experience

All fine, thanks. The now-not-so-toddler has baby asthma and sometimes things get a bit hairy. He's okay now though. He got an ice cream and I got a Julius Hemphill record.

Edited October 9, 2021 by Rabshakeh

[mjazzg]

5 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

£30 is cheaper than I'd seen it. I didn't check the vinyl itself but the sleeve was in good condition. Just saying.

All fine, thanks. The now-not-so-toddler has baby asthma and sometimes things get a bit hairy. He's okay now though. He got an ice cream and I got a Julius Hemphill record.

Ice cream, Hemphill, all good then

[Steve Reynolds]

Mujician: 10 10 10 - last recorded concert from 10/10/2010

Judson Trio with Joelle Leandre, Mat Maneri & Gerald Cleaver 2 CD set “Light and Dance” on Rogue Art. Disc 1 live & Disc 2 recorded in studio / in France January 2020 right before the pandemic changed the world.

former sounds good but maybe a bit down from their peak in the mid to late 90’s 

latter is incredible - lots of mesmerizing subtle abstract improvising care of three of the greatest living improvisors

 

 

Edited October 14, 2021 by Steve Reynolds

[colinmce]

14 minutes ago, Steve Reynolds said:

Mujician: 10 10 10 - last recorded concert from 10/10/2010

Judson Trio with Joelle Leandre, Mat Maneri & Gerald Cleaver 2 CD set “Light and Dance” on Rogue Art. Disc 1 live & Disc 2 recorded in studio / in France January 2020 right before the pandemic changed the world.

former sounds good but maybe a bit down from their peak in the mid to late 90’s 

latter is incredible - lots of mesmerizing subtle abstract improvising care of three of the greatest living improvisors

 

 

Thanks for the heads up, I had completely missed that Mujician release, I'd like to give it a shot. Cuneiform's advertising & distribution is miserable.

I actually had the Judson Trio studio disc on the night before last for the second time. Lots of absorb on both sessions, but very strong musicianship on display. It's nice having a record like this that's worth returning to and listening to more intently; doesn't happen a lot these days.