Link rays

Life has failed to meet my high expectations once again so I've decided to lay down and hit you with some linkin'

Those who wanted me to reup my Moodymann rareties will be heartened by tracks on offer at Boards Of Electronica. I've also been digging their I:Cube uploads lately. Sadly my own Moodymann compilation no longer exists, except distributed all over my DVDs-of-mp3s archives which would take hours to recompile. Sorry, I should've saved a copy in my hard drive. I'll sort another one out in the future. Same goes for the Radiohead remixes - but those will be a bit easier to regather.

Sad but unsurprised to see Swami's given up the ghost but A Great Work Of Fiction will at least fill the void left by Church Number 9 particularly with its recent posting of all ten of Thurston Moore's recommended underground jazz albums.

Another promising new blog is Boogie No More, including all ten of Irma Records's lushly packaged and superhip Easy Tempo compilations. Volume 5 was one of the first vinyls I bought and features Stephano Torossi's Running Fast - which is one of those tracks that is quite simply perfection.

Long may New Mixes continue. As well as providing Gilles-a-plenty including this awesome Brownswood show and a Moodymann interview they've also got John Digweed's Transitions from London's Kiss FM including recent sessions from Gui Boratto, Terry Francis and Chris Fortier.

Also worth registering at Resident Advisor just to grab this indecently good mix by Tyger Dhula of Cobblestone Jazz. You can't sleep on these mixes, by the way.

And one of my links I don't see around so much is OLO Radio which right now has this tasty mix by Lacuna (no, me neither - as is the case with most of the selectors here).

Once again, in a nerdy way, I have to big up my link list. Its a highly diverse but highly select group!

Image by Tatiana Sardá though the latest pictures are protected by some kind of technical devillery. Gorgeous, artistic, weird... I'm in love... again.

Jay Electronica - Voodoo Man

Fan video of a great rap - check it!

Nightdriving

Nightdriving

01 Jaleo - Truby Trio / Cuica
02 Spring Theme - Norken
03 The Deep - Global Communication / 40 Oz
04 Minimus - Paztek / I:Cube
05 Harps - Bushwacka
06 The Leopard - Minilogue / Extrawelt
07 Inca - Indio / Josh Wink
08 Night Images - Larry Heard / Swayzak
09 Me And My People's Eyes - Moodymann
10 In Ten City - Soul Central


The photos are taken from Negtive at Flickr.

Dave Mothersole Faith Mix

You Gotta Have Faith

In my ongoing campaign to get Dave Mothersole to upload mixes, I started a facebook group to that end. One of our 11 members, Rina Meta recently posted this link and comment from Dave himself.

Thanks Rina, and thanks Dave!

" i tried posting a comment and link on
that wooden elephant site but i couldn't suss out how to do it -
fucking computers do my nut in sometimes.

anyway, if you get a minute could you put this link on there? it's for
the 'faith' cd i did about 4 years ago.

cheers,

dave"

Art Blakey Paris May 13th 1961

http://www.divshare.com/download/2575252-399

A while ago I searched through the bewildering array of online Blakey discographies and found a note of this recording, but can't find it now. Its definitely a rarity, then, and I remember reading before that the second disc here got a particularly limited release. Both discs are included on this download, ripped at 256, which I discovered on EMule over a year ago. I erroneously labelled it 1960 but the original ripper tagged the tracks with the relevant information anyway.
As with all Blakey and Messengers recordings from around this time it has incredible exuberance and dynamism, a virtuoso unit at the peak of their talents, playing at a time when jazz was vital and exciting music.

disc1

1. The Summit
2. Yama
3. Close Your Eyes
4. Dat Dere
5. Lost And Found

disc2

1. Round Midnight
2. Kozos Waltz
3. Unidentified
4. A Night In Tunisia
5. The Theme

Complete Pacific Jazz Small Group Recordings - Art Pepper

http://www.divshare.com/download/2242639-b87

Parts 1 & 2

http://www.divshare.com/download/2258149-a07

Parts 3 & 4

http://www.divshare.com/download/2258867-9e5

Parts 5 & 6

This was ripped from vinyl at 320kbps (not by me, found it awhile back on E•Mule). I’m a bigger fan of later Art but its still nice stuff. It seems to be largely unavailable so I thought I’d provide this one for y’all.

1.Tynan Time
The Route
Sonny Boy
Minor Yours

2. Little Girl
Ol’ Croix
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
The Great Lie
Tenderly

3. Picture Of Heath
For Miles And Miles
CIA

4. For Minors Only
Minor Yours
Resonant Emotions
Tynan Time

5. Diane-A-Flow
Zenobia
What Is This Thing Called Love?
A Foggy Day
Popo (alt)

6.Popo (master)
Didi
Powder Puff
Bunny

As regular readers will have noticed, my blogging activity has waned of late. Whilst I fully intend to keep this blog open for business for the foreseeable future, I will probably never again be quite as active as I have been at times over the last two years, through my discovery of the anti-intellectual factoid's soakingly wet dream Imdb to the filesharing programs and torrent downloads of Emule, Soulseek and Azureus to the Brownswood forum and 'social networking' monoliths Myarse and Cuntfacebook and with the discovery of sharity blogs and the maintenance of my own humble blog you see before you.
I have developed a theory on the Internet which I share with anyone unfortunate enough to be having a conversation with me. Television, which I removed from my existence with some decisiveness a few years ago, is quite succinctly referred to as the Idiot Box. Trying to find anything of dramatic interest in the formulaic soaps and cop shows I used to watch - or even to laugh along with the nudge wink irony of the inevitably gay scriptwriters of this drivel - became an increasingly futile task and indeed made me feel like an Idiot (and don't even get me started on the flabbergastingly rancid shit that is reality TV). Once I realised that there was actually not a man jack but only my own rabid octopus (or 'self') making me fidgetedly sit through hours of this insulting turd, I got the damn thing largely off my back (only to be tempted back to the fold for choice cuts like Sopranos, Curb and DJ Rory B ft MCs John F & John B).
If you've ever seen John Carpenter's They Live, it is an interesting expeeriment to replace all the shop and advert signs with the words 'BUY' or 'EAT' etc (as the main character does when he dons the special sunglasses in that highly allegorical low budget sci fi gem). Indeed should you escape the Idiot Box, the evil corporations (interesting tangent - anyone who rails against corporations these days seems to set off a trigger in the listener that all is not well with the speaker and he has 'problems') have another cornucopia of entertainment - which also requires you to stay seated and stare into a very bright square of light, typically for several hours - for you.
I would like to officially christen this the Nerd Box. As the TV makes Idiots of us so does the computer make not Idiots (after all, we choose the media we are exposed to) but Nerds of us. To whit, I used to get high and listen to jazz. Now I am discussing it in forums. I used to hang out with my friends. Now my Cuntfacebook zombies bite them. I used to chat up girls (after many of my neuroses and I went our separate ways after several years of symbiosis). Now I watch porn. Hey maybe I could find a girlfriend through the Int... FUCK THIS! I will not confirm the predictions of sociologists (who are only pseudo-intellectuals like me but with the drone-like ambition to apply their mind to one of society's unquestioned 'disciplines' - psychology, economics etc) that we'll all be making social connections and finding our partners on the Net. It might be harsh and unfriendly in the 'meat markets' (and for sure the music's worse - can someone please do humanity a favour and kill the Black Eyed Peas and remove every single visual and audio trace they ever existed. Oh and that talentless arse Jay Z too) but I'd rather meet someone there (EDIT: or of course the female's meeting of choice ''meeting through friends'' - the conformity of it makes me choke on my own bile) than discussing Art Blakey reissues with some chick who'd have to be mental anyway let's face it (not sure what is the evolutionary / genetic principle of this but the sexes have completely differently tuned ears). That said I'm still open to overtures from DJ Celine and Aubert Delphine. Anyone physically dope, intelligent with English not as their first language is in with a chance. I say going back on what I've just said and only half-joking about it as well.
Anyway, where will I go now that I've turned my back on the Nerd Box? Conventional wisdom says take to travelling or hiking with the appropriate brands (Eastpak) and upload my photos onto Flickr.
My music tastes will remain as broad as ever, but I plan to engage with music more in the 'real' world rather than plunder the infinite Borgesian archives of fascinating experimentation, virtuosity and combinations thereof which are provided by my blogging brethren at superhuman pace. This is of course not to say I will not dip my toe into the waters now and again to see what Bacoso at Orgy In Rhythm (a consistently amazing source and nostalgically important to me as it was the first sharity blog of its kind I ever found) or Joski at my new favourite blog Merlin In Rags (stuffed to bursting with authentic and dope U.S. roots & blues music).
I have massive mp3 archives which I add to in progressively smaller increments but I am sure I will continue to upload periodically (I always like Peel-like surprises to come through on the shuffle so will continue to plunder for diverse commuting soundtracks) so it will be worth checking back at least on a monthly basis. Also its nice to have this blog established and present so I know there's some kind of audience for my rants and recommendations. Recommendations from other blogs are likely to become rarer but choicer of course.
Stay weird.

Image is 'Pierre' by Jean-Joseph Sanfourche

Jazz For Petra

A little jazzy treat for my friends Robin and Petra.

http://www.divshare.com/download/1975662-e30

01 Paul Gonzalves - Boom-Jackie-Boom-Chick
02 Chet Baker & Art Pepper - If I Should Lose You
03 Nina Simone - African Mailman
04 Django Reinhardt & Sidney Bechet - Clair De Lune
05 Toquinho - Carolina Carol Bela
06 Don Cunningham Quartet - Tabu
07 Francy Boland - Rosa DeLuxe
08 France Gall - Le Coeur Qui Jazze
09 Sammy Davis Jr - The Joker
10 Focus 65 - Sombrero Sam
11 Baden Powell - Canto De Ossanha
12 Noro Morales Quartet – Saona
13 Rhetta Hughes - Light My Fire
14 Freddie McCoy - Spiderman
15 Gus Viseur Et Son Ensemble – Jeannette
16 Bola Sete – Choro 1
17 Herbie Mann - It Ain’t Necessarily So

California Beard Faith

3 mixes…

Fine mix of M.O.R. Californiana by a Frenchman (of course)

http://my.opera.com/tibolano/blog/why-i-came-to-california?cid=3583129

According to its mixer, Chris Keyz, this one has ‘All kinds of things on it with a bit of Rock, some dubby Disco, a classic or two and some edits thrown in.’ Its pretty damn great whatever it is…

http://talkinginstereo.blogspot.com/2007/08/chris-keyz-plays-crosstown-freebeards.html

And a tip top Peel tribute from Gary Walsh (of the John Peel Everyday blog)

http://my.opera.com/garywalsh/blog/show.dml/1293345

Meanwhile on the zip front I discovered this ace blog of original gritty blues recordings

http://joski56.blogspot.com/

Finally a really nice jam from Ahmad Jamal at Devil’s Jazz Pit. Its supposed to be a bit ‘challenging’ but it sounds pretty smooth to me!

http://shimanchu-devil.blogspot.com/2007/09/ahmad-jamal-outertimeinnerspace-1972.html

Image is taken from a friend's humourous blog which you can find here...

http://www.benleto.com/blog/

3 Chairs

3 Chairs 1 http://www.divshare.com/download/1890125-4a9

3 Chairs 2 & 4 http://www.divshare.com/download/1902243-cf7

3 Chairs 3 cd1 http://www.divshare.com/download/1919848-4aa

3 Chairs 3 cd 2 (including ‘bonus’ track All Over) http://www.divshare.com/download/1920258-030

I use two file sharing programmes for downloading – Emule and Soulseek. I have got some unexpected nuggets from EMule at times but its Soulseek that (with patience) can yield the most impressive culls.

For instance, by constant reference to Discogs, I think I now have a complete discography of the 3 Chairs project which I’m sharing with you here.

3 Chairs are Kenny Dixon Jr. (aka Moodymann), Theo Parrish, Rick Wilhite and Marcellus Pittman. Dixon Jr and Parrish’s ‘solo’ output is classifiable as underground dance music, but within that genre much of it is accessible and even ‘dancefloor-friendly’. So perhaps the 3Chairs project gives them a chance to challenge their listeners a little more than at least the music on their big releases (i.e. cd albums).

There’s some distorted bass on a couple of tracks which probably reflects the quality of the rips – but, with this stuff, nothing is certain! A lot of these rips are definitely good quality though, with some very high bitrates in these bundles.

Free-Market Propaganda Antidote

'Soon after US petroleum production had peaked, official policy began emphasizing 'free trade' as a global panacea for unemployment, underdevelopment, despotism and virtually every other economic or political ill. Through its manipulation of the rules of global trade, the US sought to maintain and increase its access to natural resources worldwide. Those rules - written primarily by US-based corporations and encoded in the policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) as well as in treaties like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) - essentially said that wherever resources lie, they must be available for sale to the highest bidder. In other words, whoever has the money to buy those resources has a legally defensible right to them. According to these rules, the oil of Venezuela belongs to the US every bit as much as if it lay under the soil of Texas or Missouri. Meanwhile technology, or 'intellectual property', was regarded as proprietary; thus nations with prior investments in this strategy were at an advantage while 'underdeveloped' nations were systematically discouraged from adopting it.
In the early 21st century, growing opposition to globalization - peaceful and otherwise - began to emerge in mass public demonstrations as well as in terrorist attacks. Most Americans, however, informed only by commercial media outlets owned by corporations with energy resource interests, remained utterly in the dark as to what globalization was really about and why anyone would object to it'

From The Party's Over : Oil, War And The Fate Of Industrial Societies by Richard Heinberg

Image is Dusk on the Promenade des Anglais, Nice by Peterinlille, found on Flickr

5 minutes from my flat in Valencia

5 minutes walk from where I live now, this is an interesting take on a small part of the extravagantly-designed 'La Ciudad De Les Artes Y Ciencias', found on Ojodigital.



And this is 5 minutes from where I used to live in Alboraya (Alboraia in Valenciano), a village just bordering the City and the home of horchata (a soft drink, resembling a milkshake, unknown outside of Spain). Found on Flickr.

Layton & Johnstone

http://www.divshare.com/download/1879756-3b3

Further to my earlier post requesting a recording of Layton And Johnstone’s recording of ‘Oh Donna Clara!’ here

http://wooodenelephant.blogspot.com/2007/07/appeal-to-blogland-leyton-johnstone-oh.html

I ordered a recent compilation of their songs entitled ‘Bye Bye Blackbird’ from Ray’s Jazz in London which I’ve now burned and uploaded for you.

It includes ‘Oh Donna Clara!’ and 26 other charmingly dated tunes. Some of it, like ‘ODC’, ‘Blue Moon’ and ‘Auf Weiderseh'n, My Dear’ still resonate as ballads – I’m not messing about, you know…

These are the tracks, 27 in total.

Always
Auf Weiderseh'n, My Dear
Black Bottom
Blue Moon
By A Waterfall
Bye-Bye, Blackbird
Charmaine
Dames
Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
Hiawatha's Lullaby
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
I Don't Know Why-I Just Do
I Found A Million Dollar Baby
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
If I Had A Talking Picture Of You
Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries
Little White Lies
Louisiana Hayride
Oh, Donna Clara!
Silver Hair And Heart Of Gold
Singin' In The Rain
So Blue
Sometimes I'm Happy
Sunny Days
Time On My Hands
Under A Blanket Of Blue
The Wedding Of The Painted

The downloads from File Front have been disappointing so I’m giving Divshare another try tonight.

Recommended

Chicago DJs actually from Chicago, blending the styles to great effect.
http://www.sonicsunset.com

I can't remember where I got it from, but I've been rinsing the 'New York State Of Mind Mix' by deep house DJ, Matt Whyman (which I intend to upload). You can stream more of his mixes at his myspace.
http://profile.myspace.com/mattwhyman

Soaked with that psych-rock-pop sound, PB Conspiracy at My Generation
http://mygeneration60s.blogspot.com/search?q=conspiracy

And, more challengingly, Nico and John Cale team up for a difficult but truly great album in 1968, The Marble Index
http://mygeneration60s.blogspot.com/search?q=marble

Thurston Moore's Root project here
http://autresgrooves.blogspot.com/2007/08/post-52.html

Some rare Moodymann eps here
http://boardsofelectronica.blogspot.com/search?q=moodymann

And the Tortoise debut
http://boardsofelectronica.blogspot.com/2007/08/tortoise-tortoise-1994.html

Swami's one of the best there is. No diggidy. Mind-exploding, amazing Polish fusion from 74 and Eastern-tinged British jazz from 69.
http://swami-hermitus-solus.blogspot.com/search?q=urbaniak
http://swami-hermitus-solus.blogspot.com/search?q=hum+dono

Head Music

http://hosted.filefront.com/wooodenelephant

Great mix of psych-folk from my main man Ben M - hopefully the first of many guest mixes from him. This man is showing some seriously deep knowledge here and its a seamless listen too. It comes in at just over 80 mins so you can delete your least favourite track and burn this mutha 4 keeps!

01 Wooden Ships - Christine Harwood

02 Wheeling And Dealing - Daddy Longlegs

03 Forest And The Shore - Keith Christmas

04 The Bells Of Dunwich - Stone Angel

05 Graveyard - Forest

06 Rosemary Hill - Fresh Maggots

07 Pastures Of Plenty - Odetta

08 Along Came Sam - Spleen

09 Sheep Season - Mellow Candle

10 Sandoz In the Rain - Amon Düül II

11 Feel The Spirit - Heaven & Earth

12 Easy To Be Hard - Three Dog Night

13 Sulla Neve Con Te - Carmen Andaloro

14 Då Klagar Mina Grannar - Charlie & Esdor

15 The Herald - Comus

A note on the host - if you haven't used File Front before, you will have to register and all that crap, but it will be worth it - if you like the music on my blog - as I'll be uploading plenty of music here til I find a better host.

Image is Andy Goldsworthy, 'Icicles And Wall, Scaur Glen, Dumfreisshire'

Let's stay in tonight...

Alternative Rock Mix

http://hosted.filefront.com/wooodenelephant/

(You'll have to scroll down the page a bit to get to the 'download now' link. Also you may have to skip an ad. This link is in small type at the top of the page.)



I made this mix for my friend Rachael who's into Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, Violent Femmes etc so I've made an effort to try to impress her with my alt rock credentials.


Quite a few of the tracks are taken from the now sadly discontinued Burnt Brown Sounds mp3 blog. Its writer, Karl, is concentrating on his group Speck Mountain (who also feature on this mix) - but Karl if you're reading - come back, we miss you!!! If you dig this kind of stuff check out Unconscious Repeat, run by Karl's buddy Nate.

Tracklisting

01 Blood Is Clean - Valet


02 Break The Empress Crown - Death Vessel


03 Walking On Nails - Gabor Szabo


04 Face On The Factory Floor - Kim Fowley Jr


05 Labyrinth - The Cure


06 Like A Virgin - Teenage Fanclub


07 Straight Out Of Compton - Nina Gordon


08 Corn Pan Bean Pan - Jackie O Motherfucker


09 Times - Ithaca


10 5 55 - Charlotte Gainsbourg


11 Suicide Is Painless - Johnny Mandel


12 So Sad - Vincent Gallo


13 Dying Song - John Frusciante


14 Downs Are Feminine Balloons - Mercury Rev


15 Hey Moon - Speck Mountain


16 All Cats Are Grey - The Cure


17 Red Rocks - Gorky's Zygotic Mynci



Image is 'Jessica' by Adrian Littel

Now a note on the file host. The trusty Divshare seems to have reached its limit though all the stuff I previously uploaded is still there. I've returned to File Front despite the fact they've deleted the three things I was storing there - and with no record of them ever being there. If you click on the download tag you will notice all the early posts of this type were with Zupload who have since deleted everything. If there's anything you'd like reupped send a request and I'll try to oblige. If anyone can recommend some new file hosts, let me know.

That's all. Girls, if you're single, put out more.
Give it up to the guys with the pigeon chests.
Think Steve Buscemi not Steve Baldwin.
C'mon.
And if you're not single, get single.

Woody's Winners

The second post ripped from a cd I actually bought, this was a low price compilation on the Castle Pie label, compiling 20 really nice big band tracks featured in the films of Woody Allen. The Tommy Dorsey, Joe Venuti and Billie Holliday tracks being particular highlights...

http://www.divshare.com/download/1734255-224

The Roots - Organix

1993 rarity from The Roots which I originally got from Black Man Land - a Russian music blog which eventually became impossible to download from. The Wikipedia article on The Roots says ´this is generally thought of as their debut'.

http://www.divshare.com/download/1721430-533

Bill Hicks - I'm Sorry Folks

http://www.countsofthenetherworld.com/mp3s/billhicks/index.html

The only annoying thing is you have to download the tracks one by one.

Anyway, I put some old stuff on my mp3 rcently and I was laughing out loud on the Metro at the show titled 'I'm Sorry Folks' which I've wrapped up as a nice easy zip for you to download.

Hey, if anyone fancies posting some more zips of Bill in the comments that would be pretty cool. Just how community spirited are the Wooodenelephant readership?? Lets find out!!!

http://www.divshare.com/download/1441528-8f0

Ingmar Bergman R.I.P.

No disrespect to Bergman, but this is a great spoof which I wanted to post anyway...