Monday, June 2, 2008

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

It's Partially Parstic Podcast # 2




As promised, here is the second side of the mix tape/podcast made by Shrimp Cracker. It furthers the mission of its parstic quite nicely, and you will agree with me.

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Track Listing:
1. James Jackson Toth - Nothing Hides
2. Allen Toussaint - Last Train
3. Howlin Rain - Goodbye Rudy
4. Black Mountain - Last Train
5. Pink Floyd - Jugband Blues
6. Mogwai - Honey (Spacemen 3 cover)
7. Vic Chesnutt - Glossolalia
8. Matthew Loiacono - Vaults + Crowns
9. The Felice Brothers - Ballad of Lou The Welterweight
10. Pepi Ginsberg - The Waterline
11. Marah - Round Eye Blues
12. Bruce Springsteen & The Sessions Band - Blinded By The Light

Monday, May 26, 2008

its parstic podcast # 7




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Track Listing:
1. Eyvind Kang - The Story of Iceland: Circle of Fair Karma part 1
2. Elizabeth Cotten - Hallelujah, It Is Done
3. Lloyd Miller - Gol-E-Gandom
4. i'm an ant - Jimmy Stewart
5. Wovoka - Whispering Creek Raga of French Mountain
6. Rev. Utah Smith - Two Wings
7. Horace Silver - Sanctimonious Sam
8. Entrance - Silence Of A Crowded Train
9. Jozef Van Wissem - Propempticon

Monday, May 19, 2008

its parstic podcast # 6




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Track Listing:
1. J. Spaceman - Blues 1
2. Mark Fosson - Another Fine Day
3. Shirley Ann Lee - How Can I Lose
4. A Man From the Harak Ethnic Group (SF) - Khen
5. Chieko Mori - Spiral Wave
6. Ed Askew - Real Train
7. Archie Shepp - Blues For Brother George Jackson
8. Beyene Habte - Tefqereni Zeneberet
9. Roosevelt Gravies & Brother - I'll Be Rested
10. Kronos Quartet - String Quartet # 3 "Mishima" - Closing (Glass)

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

imanant


our good friend, and former master of the college radio airwaves, imanant has recently completed another album. It's all over the place in all of the best ways. Here is his link where you can hear mp3s. Magic man indeed.

Monday, May 12, 2008

It's Partially Parstic Podcast # 1


Ok folks, you're in for a treat. Here we have the first of 2 installments of the Partially Parstic Podcasts courtesy of Its Parstic friend Shrimp Cracker. This one is side A of the mixtape, side B will follow. Parstic indeed. Hopefully we'll hear more from SC in the future.

It's Partially Parstic Podcast # 1 Side A

Track Listing:
1. James & The Quiet - The Pushers
2. The Black Angels - You On The Run
3. Danava - Where Beauty & Terror Dance
4. Tinariwen - Zin Es Gourmeden
5. Awesome Color - Already Down
6. Dead Meadow - Between Me And The Ground
7. DJ Miller aka Ike Snopes - Settling On The Future
8. Dr Dog - The Girl
9. Los Dug Dug's - Lost In My World
10. Grateful Dead - The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)

Running Time: 35 min.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

its parstic podcast # 5




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Track Listing:
1. Cul De Sac - Mirror 1
2. Brethren Of The Free Spirit - In Him Is No Sin
3. The Warlocks - Stickman Blues
4. Vetiver - Maureen
5. Erik Friedlander - Block Ice & Propane
6. RL Burnside - Mellow Peaches
7. Glenn Jones - Linded Avenue Stomp
8. Marah - Jesus In The Temple
9. Eric Carbonara - Naked Jade
10. Bojan Gorisek (Satie) - Les Pantins Dansent

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Sir Richard Bishop


Another one of the bigger names amongst instrumental guitarists these days is Sir Richard Bishop of the Sun City Girls. He has several solo albums to his credit, and all of them are mesmerizing. He brings more of an Eastern influence to his music than some of the other "primitive" guitarists. While some of the Sun City Girls recordings are pretty out there, and at times far from melodic, the same cannot be said of his solo work. Here is an example from his Improvika album:

Skull of Sidon

Friday, May 2, 2008

its parstic podcast # 4


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Track Listing:
1. Cian Nugent - I Will Take the Top of a Tall Cedar and Break off a Tender Sprout
2. King Khan & The Shrines - Le Fils De Jacques Dutronc
3. Othar Turner & The Afrossippi AllStars - Shimmy She Wobble
4. Roy Orbison - You're My Baby
5. Tinariwen - Tamatant Tilay
6. Six Organs of Admittance - Shelter From The Ash
7. Robbie Basho - Sansara in Sweetness After Sandstorm
8. Giant Sand - Loving Cup
9. Sun Ra - El Viktor
10. Thee Mighty Caesars - Cowboys Are Square
11. Franz Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 17 in D Minor

Thursday, May 1, 2008

its parstic podcast # 3



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Track Listing:
1. Eluvium - Area 41
2. Darker My Love - Summer Is Here
3. Evelyn Freeman - Didn't It Rain
4. The Dirtbombs - Fire In The Western World
5. Mulatu Astatqe - Yegelle Tezeta
6. The Figgs - Breaking Through These Gates
7. Moondog - lament i
8. Leadbelly - New Black Snake Moan
9. Howlin Rain - Lord Have Mercy
10. The Staple Singers - You Don't Knock
11. Conjunto Iberico - The Secret Agent (Glass)

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

its parstic podcast # 2



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Track Listing:
1. James Blackshaw - O True Believers
2. Bob Dylan - Outlaw Blues
3. Jackie-O Motherfucker - Valley of Fire
4. Los Saicos - Cementerio
5. Frankie Delmane - Wasting My Time Again
6. The Lovetones - (I Gotta) Feel
7. Jack Rose - Revolt
8. Wooden Shjips - Losin' Time
9. Johann Sebastian Bach - Concerto in A minor BMW 593 Allegro

Glenn Jones


As a friend put it this past weekend, John Fahey is a gateway to other great music. After being blown away by his guitar playing, I went searching for other, and newer musicians that treat the guitar the same way he did. Among the current crop of instrumental guitarists (and there are several great ones that we'll get to eventually), one my favorites thus far has got to be Glenn Jones. Jones is a founding member of instrumental rock band Cul de Sac, and within the past few years has released a few solo acoustic albums that are amazing. 2007's Against Which The Sea Continually Beats, is one of my favorite albums of the past few months. I strongly urge anyone remotely interested in this kind of music to check it out.

Here's a track:
Against My Ruin

Sunday, April 27, 2008

its parstic podcast # 1


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Track Listing:
1. John Fahey - Jaya Shiva Shankarah
2. Spacemen 3 - The Sound of Confusion
3. Arizona Amp and Alternator - Velvet and Pearl
4. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - The Way It Was
5. Six Organs of Admittance - Attar
6. Willie West - Fairchild
7. Mississippi Fred McDowell - I Heard Somebody Call
8. Syd Barrett - Love You
9. The Morris Wilson Beau Bailey Quintet - Paul's Ark

Friday, April 25, 2008

Spiritual Jazz


One of the cooler albums I've picked up recently is the Spiritual Jazz comp on Jazzman Records. It ranges from Coltrane-esque modal to some raging funk/jazz. Here's what the label has to say about the album:

"Existing completely under the critical radar and largely ignored or unknown by music fans and critics alike, most of the musicians featured in this album won’t be familiar to even the most seasoned jazz aficionado. But in this era of musical apathy, where so many music junkies look to the past for their musical fix, we have re-discovered hidden, obscure and esoteric jazz musicians who looked to the four corners of the earth - and beyond - for inspiration. Here we evaluate Spiritual Jazz – music that is a snapshot of the era after Coltrane, a time which saw the evolution of an underground jazz that spoke about the reform of the soul, the reform of the spirit, and the reform of society: a music which was local and international at once, which was a personal journey and a political statement, and which was religious and secular in one non-contradictory breath. Soul Jazz - Black Jazz - Spiritual Jazz."

Here's the last track from the albu
m. I highly recommend it:

The Ohio Penitentiary 511 Jazz Ensemble - Psych City




Thursday, April 24, 2008

One Foot In The Grave



Here's another version of Rev. Clayborn's Let Jesus Lead You, this time titled He's a Mighty Good Leader. It's the leadoff track to Beck's One foot In The Grave, and its the best thing he ever did.

Beck - He's A Mighty Good Leader

Calexico


I miss the old calexico. As cool as the newer stuff has been, i really enjoyed the heavy mariachi doses. Here's a nice accordion-led instrumental from the 1997 album Spoke.

Calexico - Mazurra

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Reverend Edward W. Clayborn


While not as well known as Blind Willie Johnson, Rev. Edward W. Clayborn was another big name amongst the Guitar Evangelists who recorded extensively in the late '20s and '30s. Clayborn was yet another master of the slide guitar, and here, you can hear it for yourself:

Reverend Edward W Clayborn - Let Jesus Lead You

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Blind Willie Johnson


Blind Willie Johnson was the guitar evangelist. He had one foot planted in the blues, and the other foot firmly planted in spiritual music, and he wasn't alone. There have been many blues singing preachers, and a lot of them are collected nicely for us on this here compilation that i just picked up. I'm not much of a fan of evangelists in general, but there's something about this music that makes the message that much easier to go down smoothly. As we dive headfirst into this music, we'll share more of it.

Blind Willie Johnson - You'll Need Somebody On Your Bond

Monday, April 21, 2008

jack rose



let's start things off with a track from Jack Rose's 2004 album Raag Manifestos:

Jack Rose - Black Pearls From The River

it's parstic.
stay tuned.