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Wow! Here's something I don't hear everyday. I spent a day crawling through blogs this week and I came upon this unbelievable Japanese prog rock power house Pochakaite Malko. They've been around since the mid-90's. They had an album titled Laya which came out in 2004. I got their last offering which is this EP Doppelgänger from 2006. It's only 4 songs and it really left me wanting more. One of these tracks builds into a brutal and briliant wall of texture. I love it! Their metal violin player is nuts. I really dig this group. You know I went through a lot of crap to find this. I can't tell you how much awful indy hip-hop and electronic music I had to go through to find about 3 decent things. I'm going to try to get their other albums. This is total Fistula food.
When my wife's mother passed away last month my wife set me to task to find music for the memorial. She wanted music that her mother liked. I was asked for Simon & Garfunkle, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Melanie, Joni Mitchell, It's A Beautiful Day, Steeleye Span, Joan Armatrading, and this band Joy of Cooking. Now I've heard of all of those, and we had most of the tracks that we needed. Joy of Cooking was pretty alien to me. My wife reminded me that she made me try to find it several months before but to no avail. For whatever reason I found it in a couple of hours when we needed it. This is a damn fine album. I've played it about 30 times now. The band was formed by two women Toni Brown (piano) and Terry Garthwaite (guitar) in Berkeley, California 1967. This first album was released in 1971 on Capitol records. It's a pretty hippy album but it's got some great vibes, rhythms, and lyrics. The band seems to have piano, acoustic guitar, drums, bongos, and bass. They're pretty tight. The sound overall reminds me of Janis Joplin being backed by a hybrid of The Holding Company, The Grateful Dead, with Carol King on piano. Possibly Joni Mitchell thrown in there somewhere. I find it strange that I had never heard of this group. My wife is always whipping out something cool here and there and saying "oh, you've never heard that?". It's so hard to know what people know. I'm not happy about the circumstances surrounding finding this album but it a way it makes it a bit more special. As always check it out if you get the chance. I'm posting the first three tracks from the album. It's so good it's too hard to pick random ones.
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It's like comfort food, very familiar(even though I've not heard of them), makes you feel good & right at home. Down home goodness fer shur!
Cheri B.B. is the latest offering from French producer Bertrand Burgalat. It's his 4th album and was released last year on his label Tricatel. I posted about his first album and his history HERE. He also released a collection of unreleased and rare tracks at the same time called Inedits. This album has him written all over it. He's such a strong artist with a very definite style and sense of himself. He has a really great track called "This Summer night" which features ex-Soft Machine drummer Robert Wyatt (he's also an amazing artist in his own right). There's a great video for the song on the Tricatel main page HERE. Unfortunately I can't embed the video and it's not on YouTube but check it out. The last song titled "Happy Inbetween" features German electropop group Donna Regina. The album is everything I expected it to be. It's fun and very Frenchy. If you like downtempo music like Air or High Llamas I think you'll enjoy him. Parts of this album have a 70's singer-songwriter feel to them which is a bit unlike the earlier works. As with previous albums Serge Gainsbourg is a major influence on the album. It's good music. I have to say though there's about 4 tracks on the album that I could take or leave, but coming in at 14 tracks, that's not so bad. Bertrand is pure genius. Check him out.
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So kewl - and from the first notes of "This Summer Night," I was thinking '70s Euro-disco. And not a bad way.
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Pochakaite Malko – Anna 5:33
Geezus, this is amazing. What a tight group & that violinist is incredible(as I'm sure they all are, but the violinist really stands out)!
I know, huh! They're so controlled. It blew my mind away. I hope the earlier work is as good.