Recent content by francesco

Almost impossible to choose for me, it's like to choose the best Beatles or the best Black Sabbath album... it's easy to choose the worst anyway: Electric Cafè. Not absolutely bad at all EC is a big comedown from the perfection and artistry of all the previous records and the first time they...

The anthology 2cd Everythig and Nothing is great, since Sylvian albums are flawed in my opinion... otherwise my favorite is Secret of the Beehive, sort of Scott Walker 3rd album meet Ecm.

The first 30 or so album by ECM are on various degree very good. In the first years this label was very experimental and open to the best extreme fringe of seventies jazz, both electrification and improv. After there are some good records, but most is pasteurized crap. Also some of this best...

Reading the "Bring the Noise" is sometimes giving me hints on something, the love for the record as a cultural artifact, that seem to be long gone today. History. Like records shops. Those shops were you meet (sometimes nerdy) people who love as you records, who were also meeting point, were...

i was searching info on FAR OUT and just in case anybody here is interested in bidding more than 1.200 $ for a copy of the album!!! http://cgi.ebay.com/FAR-OUT-s-t-JAPAN-ORIGINAL-PSYCH-LP-1st-PRESS-TOPCOPY_W0QQitemZ110125737758QQihZ001QQcmdZViewItem obviously those records, like most krautrock...

On only read the first chapters so far. yes Simon writing is always a pleasure, even when he was much younger, he is a natural born writer. As someone who like me is trying of reborn itself as a writer (of science mostly, but also tried and failing of write about metal recently), i'm in deep...

Got it in the mail from Amazon this morning. Reynolds is one of my all time favorite writers so really happy to begin to read this.

Brainticket "cottonwoodhill" is actually one of my favorite kraut records. they were actually from switzerland and recorded the albums and played live in italy festivals with italoprog people. The record was heavily sampled by Nurse with Wound for "brained by falling masonry" (the original...

i really have to check the 'Ys' album, a real fave of everyone c93 and Scritti Politti too, being some of my favorite groups ever, but again, excellent but no new music problem with dubstep for me is the same problem i always had with jungle, two step, grime, etc: i'm not in the best place nor...

really this year have been musically speaking depressing, i have, when possible, really been with my mind elsewhere (no, i don't take drugs...), like on Studio One clash in the '60, or at the Hacienda in the '80, or listening to jazz at the Vanguard in the '50, or to classic and avantgarde disco...

I think the great blissblogger is referring to some aspect of this thread in his latest post and he is OTM like and deep as ever. I have listened a lot to the recent FSOL greatest hits this week: now i remember been left totally cold by their output, but i always loved (who don't?) Papua New...

i live in oaxaca since this july. my and my girlfriend are of the very few strangers who have not run away. the situation is tragic, really, and since the principal economic activity of this state was tourism, people is on the verge of total poverty. me i'm not even seen a pesos for my teaching...

which make me think of how much is in metal is the bass buried down in the mix... (expecially Metallica sadly for the poor Burton). Why have to be all screaming vocal and guitar? An exception is Iron Maiden, but not that the bassist (who is also the main composer) is one of the greatest bassist...

Most prog fans are like me? God, where is the emoticon of shame...:p ? ps.... tomorrow i will cut my hair and listen only to my Oi and Gabba record......

Obiously great, but my favorite Queen bassline ever is Body Language (in effect the bassline is almost all of the song... and probably it's a synth) from the decadent gem that is Hot Space.