Planet P! Nice! Have all of the albums.
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Dude Tony Carey was/is a great musician. I’m going thru all his solo stuff right now from the beginning.
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That should be a fun fun journey! Enjoy!
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The most recent Slowdive album. Dreamy atmospherics, as typical for the band.
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Not quite music I’ve listened to this week but Spotify Wrapped is here for 2023 so I thought it would be fun to drop some my year in review!
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Been going through my YES LP
collection.
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This album has absolutely nothing to do with any of Andre 3000’s previous music. Instead, it is very competent, if somewhat nondescript, Ambient. And then he goes and names the tracks like “That Night in Hawaii When I Turned into a Panther and Started Making These Low Register Purring Tones That I Couldn’t Control … Sh¥t Was Wild”. I can’t quite decide if I think he’s being subversive and doing something sort of revolutionary here or if he has completely lost his mind. Somehow this harkens back to the free/spiritual jazz movement of the 70’s, but with a very modern electronic sound you would expect to hear coming out of Japan.
Either way I’m very here for it. 
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I am ignorant of his rap, so coming to this isolated from any history. As a flutist myself, I find this reminds me of the middle of the night LSD induced jams I had with my fellow high school students at performing arts school. The big difference, and what I find value in, is the environment he makes with all the sampling and digital toys that didn’t exist (or we didn’t have) when I was doing this type of musical wandering as a youth.
He must be a somebody in the rap world because he’s getting a lot of play with this. And he wins 2023s award for strangest song titles. And longest? But I love to see psychedelic flute getting some play.
I may have to double my micro-dose tonight to understand this release…
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You may know him better as part of Outkast of “Hey Ya!” fame
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I love The Crusaders, and Joe Sample in particular!
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Same. Really interesting how it showcases the impact the mixing/mastering engineer can have on an album. I generally prefer the Bright Side, by Mark “Spike” Stent (longtime Bjork collaborator)
Plus I’m a huge Peter Gabriel fan and it has been far too long since we’ve had new work from him.
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I’ve been listening to a couple black female R&B | soul performers.
While far outside my then routine listening habits, I tried Erykah Badu’s debut album Baduizm (1997) based on strong reviews. It was a noteworthy hit back then, and it surely had enough unique content to keep my attention.
This week I was scanning through recent album releases at MetaCritic and tried Jamila Woods Water Made Us as the next album on their list.
Are these two clones? Are they mother and daughter? They have similar accents and awfully, awfully similar phrasing. I could be fooled into thinking one track was from the other singer. Both are solid performers in this genre. My guess is that Erykah entered a chrysalis to clone herself:
Erykah:
Jamila (or Erykah after emerging 25 years later?):
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I don’t know Jamila, but I’ll check her out. I love Badu!
“You better call Tyrone. But you can’t use my phone.”
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Of Norway = Fever Ray + Delerium, with a heavy dose of 4/4 electronica underpinning. I’m particularly fond of track 7, “It’s You”. As someone deeply steeped in the history of house music, its influence here is readily apparent, but with a thoroughly modern avant-garde electronica approach.
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Revisiting this with my new Caldera and remembering that this is truly one of the best albums EVER made. 
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I’m trying to love it, but I’m finding it a bit uneven.
Of course I had to leave UP alone for 10 years and then come back to it to really appreciate it.
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