Covid-19 Music… part 47… Miles Davis, Sketches of Spain
Miles Davis, Sketches of Spain, Columbia Records… I don’t remember where I found this record, but I found it used for like $7. Original 6-eye in quite good condition for a great price. This used to be one of the songs I listened to while waiting for the subway. I felt kind of sneaky listening …
Covid-19 Music… part 46… Yussef Kamaal, Black Focus
Yussef Kamaal, Black Focus, Brownswood Recordings… One day I was driving on the Lodge in Detroit and ‘Yo Chavez’ came on the radio. When I parked my car I had to stay in and listen to the reset of the song. I bought this album as a ‘birthday treat’ for myself a few years ago. …
Covid-19 Music… part 45… Nice Up the Dance, Studio One Discomixes
Various – Studio One, Nice Up the Dance… I found this record used a while ago when I was in a 70s reggae phase. It’s always a great record to play when relaxing. Anyways, the title track is a classic. This is the extended ‘discomix’, so it might be a bit longer than the original …
Covid-19 Music… part 44… Sun Ra, Nuclear War
Sun Ra, Nuclear War… I came across this from looking at recommendations from this list of foreign record stores. I used to listen to a wide variety of radio and for some reason they never played anything like this before. I bought this one online using some gift card money that I won from some …
Covid-19 Music… part 43… Colin Stetson, New History of Warfare vol 2.
Colin Stetson, New History of Warfare vol. 2, 2011… A while ago I was shopping at home depot and was buying some wood to make a cabinet. It was a slow moving day since it was the middle of summer and I was melting from trying to put some large pieces of plywood into my …
Covid-19 Music… part 42… Soul Jazz Records, Studio One Djs
Soul Jazz Records, Studio One DJs… For me, reggae from the 70s and 80s still is quite relevant. Some people I know think if it’s not Bob Marley it’s not reggae, and the new generation only listen to crazy dance hall. This album is a good mix of some classics from a long time ago. …
Covid-19 Music… part 41… Jazz Crusaders, Lookin’ Ahead
Jazz Crusaders, Lookin’ Ahead, Pacific Jazz… Years ago I met this crazy guy who ran a restaurant. At 7pm he would change the radio station over to WDET for the Ed Love program. The overall business plan was sell cheap Chinese-like stir frys, use the radio as entertainment, and make up for everything with expensive …
Covid-19 Music… part 40… Digable Planets, Rebirth of Slick
Digable Planets, Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)… This song is one of the greatest hiphop songs ever, but the cover art is perhaps the exact opposite. The video repairs the damage for whatever the artwork was trying to do. So the record has two ‘mixes’ which sound very similar, which is still all good …
Covid-19 Music… part 39… John Coltrane, Blue Train
John Coltrane, Blue Train, Blue Note Records… A perfect record can’t say much of anything or I will take away from how good it is. For all my excursions to record stores, I never came across this in the used bin; I so I had to buy this one new. I like putting this album …
Covid-19 Music… part 38… Mike and Rich, Expert Knob Twiddlers
Mike and Rich, Expert Knob Twiddlers, Rephlex Records… So this album is the result of two electronic music kings competing creatively while being super crazy drunk. The songs are the perfect soundtrack for an 8 year olds end of school year party. When I got this album, the guy at the store told me… ‘make …