Iva Bittova /Vladimir Vaclavek – White Inferno (Bile Inferno)
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1990s
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[Previous] (https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/aldldz/what_have_you_been_listening_to_january_30_2019/efdy3fg/) 0302 [**Fabrizio De André** - *La buona novella*] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BYsPBHjUME) (Italy, 1970, canzone d’atore / chamber folk / singer-songwriter). A religious album by a professed atheist, *La buona novella* is an exploration of the lives of the Holy Family as told in various apocryphal accounts, with De André ending with a meditation on Jesus as being not so much God but a brother to the poor. Although I disagree with the interpretation of the content, the poetry of this concept album is beautifully rendered, and his voice is hypnotic. 0303 [**Henry Cow** – *Unrest*] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmji113JJD4) (UK, 1974, rock in opposition). More free improvisation on oboes and bassoons in rock music, please! This is a perfect album example of the old phrase, “Necessity is the mother of invention”. Perhaps they should’ve named this *Necessity*, since it was necessary for them to indulge in free improv and other experimental techniques with tapes and whatnot to fill out the album, since they didn’t have enough material to make an LP. This is what makes music grand: put some talented, creative, innovative musicians in the studio and see what happens. 0304 [**Amália Rodrigues** – *Com que voz*] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k2NQaQe3BM) (Portugal, 1970, Fado). This has a real Old World feel, something to connect to emotionally if not intellectually. Rodrigues has a voice so rich and authentic that I can understand why Portugal considered her a national treasure and why when a voice like this passes a president would declare three days of national mourning. The sparse stringed accompaniment showcases the whole point of this album: the voice. 0305 [**Bob Dylan** - *The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan*] (https://open.spotify.com/album/0o1uFxZ1VTviqvNaYkTJek) (USA, 1963, contemporary folk / singer-songwriter). The footing of the world is often treacherous, so on your stroll through life, it’d be best if you were able to take someone else’s arm. Anything to protect against the cold winds blowing. Well, the world didn’t end in 1963, but it will someday, so the lyrics will punch as hard then as they do now. Besides, the world is made and unmade every day thousands of times, so just hold on to someone until your world disintegrates around you and your own personal apocalypse envelops you. 0306 [**Iva Bittová & Vladimír Václavek** – *Bílé Inferno*] (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0thgAIKqkpvDx4kJ4o6fds) (Czechia, 1997, avant-folk / progressive folk). Two evocative vocalists with their instruments of choice (violin and guitar) and some 20th-century Czech children’s poetry make for a charming, quirky, and uplifting non-English folk with a lot of ethnic pizzazz to it. So let’s all put on our masks and enjoy the playful compositions that unfold here. It’s not as weird as people say, but it’s cute. 0307 [**Mahavishnu Orchestra** – *Birds of Fire*] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMcjQC0F_EE) (USA, 1973, jazz fusion / jazz-rock). It’s everything you expect from a fusion master like McLaughlin, who was also friends with and worked with Miles Davis: complexity, playfulness, originality, and energy, all while not being afraid to improvise. This is a guitar-driven album, but I really like the keyboard interludes, creating cool oases of very different sound while the fire rages around them. 0308 [**Sting** – *If On a Winter's Night…*] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl1FnmSGj1Q) (UK, 2009, Christmas music / contemporary folk). This is always in rotation at Christmas time but only at Christmas time. It doesn’t make sense to play this normally. It’s got a lot of nice interpretations of traditional Christmas tunes. It’s a soft, warm album that’s safe for a winter’s night. Good with hot buttered rum. 0309 [**Neil Young** – *After the Gold Rush*] (https://open.spotify.com/album/5EVlXlHbRQI8ybuNt4ArXI) (Canada, 1970, folk rock / singer-songwriter / country rock). One of those albums where it’s a delight to sing along or whistle along to. This is a weird one for me, because I never thought it would become a five-star album for me, but it has. I mean, the dude sings like a muppet. I’m kinda sitting her scratching my thick monkey cranium and trying to figure out why I like Neil Young but dislike Bruce Springsteen. 0310 [**Angus & Julia Stone** – *Angus & Julia Stone*] (https://open.spotify.com/album/66l2L8FUcunj8MFWZ01zrq) (Australia, 2014, indie pop / folk pop). This is the music of old familiar forever-new love that is so assured it is beyond question or concern. The love forged through a lifetime—these siblings nail it. Get up early just to watch him dress for work, and in the evening, take a bicycle ride for two down Main Street! 0311 [**Quella vecchia locanda** – *Quella vecchia locanda*] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQwa5QuNiaM) (Italy, 1972, progressive rock / symphonic prog). This outfit is basically the Italian modern classical version of Jethro Tull. The flutes are wild, with moments of violin smoothness, and after all the guitars noodling and rocking out, the album ends with a beautiful, delicate moment of classical piano and strings. 0312 [**Shpongle** – *Tales of the Inexpressible*] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WTxC8wnXQo) (UK, 2001, psybient). So many late-night memories of this one, dancing in private and just getting lost in the music. Posford knows how to craft a perfect scene with his music, to keep the party going but not let things get obnoxious. “Some laugh, some weep, some dance for joy.” Some do all three. 0313 [**Os Mundi** – *43 Minuten*] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCaoUNiUQJg&list=PL94gOvpr5yt06Ubb6nykSEAVRGFb1vjzW) (Germany, 1972, Krautrock). So basically it’s progressive jazz rock, but because it was made by Germans, it’s Krautrock. Got it. More famous than but not as good as *Latin Mass*. A strong King Crimson influence on this one. 0314 **Shugo Tokumaru** – *Toss* (Japan, 2016, art pop / singer-songwriter). After twelve years, Shugo hasn’t lost any of his childlike magic and wonder, and every song is a delight. What I like best about him is that even though he writes pop music, he fiddles with melody so much that you cannot predict where he’s going to go with it. He even has a song that sounds like the soundtrack to a vintage Saturday morning cartoon, zany and fun and innocent. [Sample track] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IgykkU5z-A). 0315 [**Radiohead** – *Kid A*] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIpPpj7-en8&list=PL5x70mXJf_W2wkEM6mPUPrP3M_k8En13P) (UK, 2000, art rock / experimental rock / electronic). This is a brilliant album, Yorke’s answer to the creeping dread within him that rock as a genre was dead. Also, the band was disillusioned by all the copycat bands that came out of the woodwork after the commercial and critical success of *OK Computer*. What I find most impressive about this album is how they got away from a guitar-driven sound and weren’t afraid to experiment with string and brass instruments, electronic, and jazz. “National Anthem”, for example, has a very strong avant-jazz feel in parts. This is a fine, contemplative answer to mega-success. 0316 [**Henry Cow** – *Legend*] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBHBF4di8Sk) (UK, 1973, rock in opposition). So what do you put on your leg ends? Socks, of course. Not only is this a mind-blowing debut album, but the first track is a masterpiece of complexity. The world’s first taste of Henry Cow is them experimenting on their audience’s ears, treating them like little white laboratory mice, the result being a rocket launch straight to Nirvana. The sounds of Canterbury cling to the music here, but soon the band will shrug that off and establish their own unique sound. ~~**Radiohead** – *In Rainbows*~~ I don’t care about this one. It’s a bit too mainstream in its sound, that is, boring and unimaginative. 0317 [**Duke Ellington and His Orchestra** – *Such Sweet Thunder*] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASvWE6LlTGI) (USA, 1957, big band). I had no idea that this album was part of a twelve-album project based on the works of Shakespeare. Basically, Ellington immersed himself in Shakespeare’s poetry and plays in preparation for this project. The album title comes from a line from *A Midsummer Night’s Dream*, in which Hippolyta says of Hercules and his hounds of Sparta: “I never heard so musical a discord, such sweet thunder”. Hmmm. Not sure about that for this album. I sense no baying of hunting dogs as they bring down a bear. Nothing even close musically in this piece. 0318 [**Sufjan Stevens** – *Seven Swans*] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mr_VkAXWZA&list=PLZqsyBiYZFQ3ErFCewScrmeG9xfsPI8ga) (USA, 2004, singer-songwriter / indie folk / chamber folk). Frighteningly personal, confessional poetry in music form. There is only one way I listen to this album, so when it came up in rotation while I was out, I skipped it and moved on to the next album. When I got home, I told my wife we would be listening to this after supper. So once the chores were done, we banished the children downstairs, turned on the faerie lights, and I broke out the vinyl LP. Then I sat back and fell into a kind of meditation as Sufjan unfolded a beautiful album of religious imagery. [Next] ()
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