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My most recently played albums, playlist archive, current favourite, new releases, Mojo & Uncut mags and hi-fi equipment.


Most Recently Played Albums

The albums I've played during March 2024.

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Eagles - The Long Run || Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme || Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way || Family - It's Only A Movie || Miles Davis - E.S.P || The Bevis Frond - Focus On Nature || Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (II) || David Bowie - Tonight || Dirty Three - Toward The Low Sun || Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release || Rinocerose - Schizophonia || Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense || Faithless - The Dance || T. Rex - A Beard Of Stars || Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion || Field Music - Commontime || Eat Static - B-World || Ozric Tentacles - Become The Other || Labradford - Fixed::Context || Jethro Tull - Roots To Branches || Jimi Hendrix - The Rainbow Bridge Concert || Jane - Lady.


Playlist Archive

All the albums I've played each year since 1st January 2018.

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

Current Favourite

Miles Davis - Get Up With It

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Released in 1974 and containing material recorded during sessions from 1970-1974, this album involves a host of musicians including John McLaughlin, Dominique Gaumont, Mtume, Billy Cobham, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, Sonny Fortune and Steve Grossman. Considering the numerous line-ups and the fact these cuts did not appear on subsequent releases, this album comes across as a coherent piece of work of the highest quality. This may be the most commercial sounding of all of Miles' electric records from the 1970s, but it still sounds out there, hypnotic, alien and futuristic in all the best possible ways. I often think that this is Miles' equivalent of Can's "Tago Mago" and a great album to introduce yourself and others to his work.

He Loved Him Madly || Maiysha || Honky Tonk || Rated X || Calypso Frelimo || Red China Blues || Mtume || Billy Preston.

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New Releases

The Bevis Frond - Focus On Nature

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This is Nick Saloman's twenty-ninth album as The Bevis Frond, a band in which he was often the only member. Here he presents a defiant stance against obscurity, "I'm waiting here for the hug, a little bit of recognition", he sings on "The Hug" before busting out one of his wonderful guitar solos. These glints of humour are clues as to why Saloman has survived so long on a tiny ration of notoriety. The nineteen tracks cover a range of emotions from cantankerous rants on modern musicianship to his poetic reflections on the process of aging. A fantastic release.

Heat || Focus On Nature || God's Gift || Vitruvian Man || A Mirror || Leb Off || Here For The Other One || Happy Wings || Empty || Wrong Way Round || Mr Freds Disco || Jack Immortal || Hairstreaks || Maybe We Got It Wrong || Brocadine || Big Black Sky || The Hug || I Can't Breathe || Hung On A Wire.

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Steve Hackett - The Circus And The Nightwhale

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Steve Hackett's latest album (his thirtieth solo full length release) is as wide-ranging as the entire catalogue that precedes it. "The Circus And The Nightwhale" is a quasi-autobiographical tale, on which Hackett shows his mastery of the guitar and sings the majority of the lead vocals. The music includes ballads, blues, blistering prog rock and a healthy measure of theatre and fantasia. The concept here is based on a character called 'Travla' and his journey through life - but it is actually a musical biography based on Hackett's own life experiences, from his early life in post-war London, through loves and experiences to the present day.

People Of The Smoke || These Passing Clouds || Taking You Down || Found And Lost || Enter The Ring || Get Me Out! || Ghost Moon And Living Love || Circo Inferno || Breakout || All At Sea || Into The Nightwhale || Wherever You Are || White Dove.

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Can - Live In Paris 1973

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Volume four of Can's live chronicles finds Cologne's improvising greats actually playing their songs. This latest volume, captured at L'Olympia in Paris on Saturday, May 12, 1973, is the most astonishing of the series so far, helped by the inclusion of the late Damo Suzuki. Though the five tracks presented here are given numeric titles, with this performance we have the unfamiliar and bizarre situation of several of them being recognisable songs, played more or less as they were written, a special kind of heresy for a group who never played the same thing twice! Freak-out heavy it may be, but it still floats beautifully in the clouds. A must for any Krautrock fan.

Paris 73 Eins (aka Whole People Queueing) || Paris 73 Zwei (aka One More Night) || Paris 73 Drei (aka Spoon) || Paris 73 Vier (aka Stars And Lines) || Paris 73 Funf (aka Vitamin C).

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The Smile - Wall Of Eyes

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Channeling jazz, krautrock and prog, the Radiohead offshoot's second album digs deeper into their strangely enchanting world. Throughout the album, the haywire guitars and arrangements veer between Can's wild experimentation and Robert Wyatt's alien sounding folk-fusion while Yorke's ethereal vocal is tested to dizzying effect. The band seems able to move nimbly between themes to create new modern hybrid jams as takes their fancy. With this band, it feels like Yorke and Greenwood have become liberated to sidestep the expectations of Radiohead and create something beautifully new and hauntingly odd. There are only eight songs but they are huge scope, with music this powerful it's impossible to feel short changed.

Wall Of Eyes || Teleharmonic || Read The Room || Under Our Pillows || Friend Of A Friend || I Quit || Bending Hectic || You Know Me!

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Jimi Hendrix - Hollywood Bowl

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This live recording was captured just five days before the US release of the debut album "Are You Experienced" and it is notable for being one of the last times the band performed in front of an American audience as relative unknowns. The vast majority of the 17,000 plus Los Angeles concert goers were there to see headliners The Mamas & The Papas and were caught off guard by Jimi's electrifying musicality and showmanship. Not a single second of this unique set has ever been released before and although the audience did not know what to make of Jimi's electrifying showmanship; it still perfectly captures the full firepower of the band on stage.

Introduction || Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band || Killing Floor || The Wind Cries Mary || Foxey Lady || Catfish Blues || Fire || Like A Rolling Stone || Purple Haze || Wild Thing.

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DJ Shadow - Action Adventure

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Twenty-seven years after releasing his debut album, "Endtroducing...", which became a seminal work in instrumental hip hop, Josh Davis' seventh studio album is both a homage to his career and a record about his relationship with music. This is achieved by incorporating the 1980s influences of his recent work with the distinctive, soulful exploratory spirit of his early years. The music is driven by funky hip hop beats backed up by synthesizer bleeps, squelches and textured moody pads, like a Kraftwerk-Portishead mash-up. It's a monstrous set of pure brilliance.

Ozone Scraper || All My || Time And Space || Craig, Ingels, & Wrightson || Witches Vs. Warlocks || A Narrow Escape || You Played Me || Free For All || The Prophecy || Friend Or Foe || Fleeting Youth (An Audible Life) || Reflecting Pool || Forever Changed || She's Evolving.

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Ozric Tentacles - Lotus Unfolding

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When it comes to prolific creative output, not many can match musical wizard Ed Wynne and Ozric Tentacles. Formed in 1983 at the Stonehenge Free Festival by brothers Ed and Roly Wynne, the band have always been an anomaly in British music, blending a plethora of genres, influences and techniques to create a unique and distinct sound that puts them in a league of their own. "Lotus Unfolding" makes your synapses buzz with pleasure as the multi-layered and richly textured songs morph into limitless meditative soundscapes as your brain comes alive with multiple kaleidoscopes of colour and shimmering light. This is a magnificent, hypnotic and trippy listening experience that is another excellent addition to their catalogue.

Storm In A Teacup || Deep Blue Shade || Lotus Unfolding || Crumplepenny || Green Incantation || Burundi Spaceport.

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The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds

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Here we have only the second album of original material by the Rolling Stones this century and the first since the death of drummer Charlie Watts and yet they haven't sounded this energised and focused in the last fifty years. Paul McCartney, Elton John and Lady Gaga lend a helping hand but it's still a full on Stones album. What you won't find much of here is the late-in-life introspection heard on recent records by some of the Stones' peers instead you get Jagger snarling as the guitars tear it up around him, in other words, great blues driven rock by one of the world's greatest rock bands. If this is to be their last studio album then it will be a great way to remember them.

Angry || Get Close || Depending On You || Bite My Head Off || Whole Wide World || Dreamy Skies || Mess It Up || Live By The Sword || Driving Me Too Hard || Tell Me Straight || Sweet Sounds Of Heaven || Rolling Stone Blues.

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This Winter Machine - The Clockwork Man

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This Winter Machine return with their fourth album and their first conceptual piece which has a dark dystopian storyline and a sci-fi steam-punk feel. They present it with great imagination and musical skill, drawing you into the narrative with impactful progrock songs filled with a combination of power and subtlety. "The Clockwork Man" is modern, neo-tinged, progressive rock perfectly created and performed by a band that have found their feet after three accomplished releases and have delivered their finest work yet. This Winter Machine now stand at the forefront of modern neo-progressive rock and can be rightly proud of a concept album that can stand the test of time with some of the best that have gone before.

The River, Part I & Part II || Solitude, Silence And Steam || Final Goodbye? || Change || Refections || Nothing Lasts Forever || The Light || Hole In The Sky.

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The Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling

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The Chemical Brothers pick up where 2019's "No Geography" left off, with a no nonsense reaffirmation of the dance duo's greatest strength in making largely instrumental psychedelic house and techno. There are also touches of funk and prog, just listen to "Magic Wand" for a synth part that's reminiscent of Rick Wakeman. "For That Beautiful Feeling" keeps the wheels rolling, as colourful as its artwork and true to its title, the album is as hedonistic and propulsive as any of the duo's best work. The eleven track record has a dreamy otherworldly vibe, you can almost feel a chill descend over you as the music lifts you up. Well worth the four year wait.

Intro || Live Again || No Reason || Goodbye || Fountains || Magic Wand || The Weight || Skipping Like A Stone || The Darkness That You Fear || Feels Like I Am Dreaming || For That Beautiful Feeling.

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Mojo

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Mojo issue 366 featuring Pearl Jam; Wayne Kramer; Jimi Hendrix; The Lemon Twigs; David Bowie; Anne Briggs; Brian Wilson; Roxy Music; Shabaka Hutchings; Damo Suzuki; Nico; Pretenders; Cymande; Alice Coltrane; Richard Hawley; Francis Rossi plus 151 reviews.

Includes free CD "Live Rarities".

Ten rare live tracks from the Pearl Jam archive featuring Thumbing My Way; Down; Sad; Leatherman; Hard To Imagine; Ghost; No Way; Fatal; Drifting plus Parting Ways.


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Uncut

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Uncut issue 324 featuring Pink Floyd & Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets; Nico; REM; Adrianne Lenker; The Beach Boys; The Jesus And Mary Chain; Shabaka Hutchings; Damo Suzuki; Albert Hammond; Wayne Kramer; Jah Wobble; Townes Van Zandt; Betty Harris; A Certain Rato plus 196 reviews.

Includes free CD "One Of These Days".

Fifteen tracks of the month's best new music featuring Cedric Burnside; Jane Weaver; Pernice Brothers; Ride; Grace Cummings; The Black Keys; Hannah Frances; Arushi Jain; Oisin Leech; Jim White; Waxahatchee; Holiday Ghosts; Alejandro Escovedo; Patrick Sansone plus Sunburned Hand Of The Man.


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Hi-Fi Equipment

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My sound system: KEF speakers, Technics deck, Philips wireless headphones, Marantz CD player and Marantz amplifier.


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