Covid-19 Music… part 30… Sun Ra, I Roam The Cosmos
Sun Ra, I Roam The Cosmos… All the times that I have played this record have been extremely positive. I don’t know… could be how the poetry is enunciated, the length of the tracks, or the hypnotic horns in the background. However for most of the other people that I play this for, it is …
Covid-19 Music… part 29… Stevie Wonder, Greatest Hits
Stevie Wonder, Greatest Hits, Tamia… it was Stevie Wonder’s birthday the other day. The radio had a three part retrospective on him recently and it really augmented my Stevie Wonder knowledge. I have been a fan for years and years so I have a number of Stevie records to play on his birthday. I’m choosing …
Covid-19 Music… part 28… El-Michels Affair, Enter the 37th Chamber
El-Michels Affair, Enter the 37th Chamber, Fat Beats… On a vacation to New York I was at randomly walking around and for whatever reason I noticed that I was at 4th and Broadway. In my head, I had this ridiculous idea that there should be a record store at that intersection because of the obvious …
Covid-19 Music… part 27… ESG
ESG, self titled ep, 99 Records, 1981 and ESG, A South Bronx Story, Soul Jazz Records, 2000… Years and years ago there were a couple of radio shows that were from midnight to 4 am or 5 am that played all the fun and interesting music. These included Liz Copeland‘s show on WDET and Patti …
Covid-19 Music… part 26… Kraftwerk, Electric Cafe
Kraftwerk, Electric Cafe… Florian Schneider, one of Kraftwerk’s co-founder’s died recently. They were one of the most important bands ever… so many references on this… [1], [2], [3], [4] I remember years and years ago, one of my friends at the time introduced me to Kraftwerk. He had a few different CDs including a compilation …
Covid-19 Music… part 25… Grimes, Visions
Grimes, Visions, 4AD, 2012… Apparently Grimes had a baby on May 4th. So having one of her records, I decided to celebrate by listening to it. I remember a few years ago I was a bit bored with my record collection and thought that it needed a bit more variety. Also at the time I …
Covid-19 Music… part 24… The Cure, Seventeen Seconds
The Cure, Seventeen Seconds… I was listening to the radio the other day, and they played a few Cure songs, and then they announced that on April 22, 1980 that Seventeen Seconds was released. I remembered that I had a copy and went through my record collection to play it. There are many good reviews …
Covid-19 Music… part 23… Fela Kuti, Zombie
Fela Kuti, Zombie… Tony Allen died today. The one thing that is crazy is newspapers and radio stations that never played or talked about anything that he ever did all of a sudden are his biggest fans. I really wish I had more of his music (if I ever get a job that pays some …
Covid-19 Music… part 22… Polygon Window, Surfing on Sine Waves
Polygon Window (Aphex Twin), Surfing on Sine Waves, Warp Records, 1993… so certain ‘communities’ are a bit close minded and tend to like a what they like. It’s not everyone who lives there but it seems to be impossible to find anyone different. Whenever I go to a record store in one of those communities, …
Covid-19 Reading… part 3… Flatland
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott… I remember a long time ago, in my university undergrad daze, these guys I knew took a philosophy course where they read this book. I overheard what sounded like a great conversation, and they suggested that I should read the book as well. At the time, I didn’t read this …