I believe Copeland is on there because of a tweet of yours if I'm not mistaken. Comparing it to Mario 64. Every year when I do this I go back through my photos for stuff I screenshotted tweets or quotes about because they sounded cool. Like when the guitarist for Dr. Feelgood died, the way Stephen Thomas Erlewine tweeted about that record caught my eye, so I saved it and now it's there. When Ian Tyson died, someone tweeted an excerpt of Warren Zevon saying Northern Journey was the single most influential album on him as a musician, etc.
Ha! Yeah that was one of my favorite listens from last year. There was a light snow on the ground, it felt ethereal and calm. Highly recommend reading the Pitchfork Sunday Review on it after your first listen... good context for the music. I keep a running note on my phone of potential records as I go through the year. Will throw that Ian & Sylvia album on there.
Might as well just stick with this thread. I have a super chaotic month coming up so I’m really hoping I can follow through with listening to everything.
Always game for this! List that I've pulled together quickly, going through various other lists - will absolutely take recommendations / suggestions for alternate albums if anybody has any thoughts on the list! Edit: Not that it matters - but I've changed my list to add in some records I'm more interested in. Patti Labelle - Winner In You Youssou N'Dour - Set Minnie Riperton - Perfect Angel Harry Belafonte & Miriam Makeba - An Evening with Belafonte / Makeba Teddy Pendergrass - TP George Jones - I Am What I Am Celia Cruz & Johnny Pacheco - Celia & Johnny Patsy Cline - Showcase Grinderman - Grinderman Barrington Levy - Englishman Burna Boy - African Giant Terri Lyne Carrington - New Standards Vol 1 Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye Machine Head - The Blackening Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems Orchestra Baobab – Pirates Choice The Isley Brothers - 3 + 3 BB King - Live at the Regal Spoon - A Series of Sneaks Built to Spill - There's Nothing Wrong with Love The White Stripes - White Blood Cells Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert Ryuichi Sakamoto - async Roberta Flack - First Take The O'Jays - Back Stabbers Maxwell - Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
@George highly recommend New Standards Vol 1. I haven’t listened yet obviously since it’s on my list but it’s an effort spearheaded by Terri Lyne Carrington to make jazz standards more inclusive. One of the more exciting things on my list for sure
Loved doing this last year, but of course it starts the week I’m super busy and am not sure if I can commit to it lol will probably try to do it anyway because I love overwhelming myself
So many great ones here. I’d usually recommend something other than Belafonte/Makeba but you got a good crash course on him so that record is cool. I feel like you’ll dig The Koln Concert I dig that Cruz/Pacheco album. I have not heard a subpar album from Fania yet. Even if that wouldn’t be my single favorite, it’s excellent
It's so lovely. Between Lanois and Larry Mullen, @Matt Chylak was not wrong about the album having some big U2 vibes.
She's just such a gifted singer and interpreter that I want to hear her in every setting possible. Trio with two other legends? Yup. Duetting with Gram Parsons? Yep. Slathered in reverb and atmosphere? Yep.
I also just wish more country artists made albums that sounded like this. Gimme the lush Daniel Lanois-produced Kacey Musgraves album.
Dude, I didn't know what my life was lacking until I read this post. Now an existential sadness has arisen.
1. Songs Ohia - Songs: Ohia (Black Tape) 2. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady 3. Fishmans - Long Season 4. Keith Jarrett - Sun Bear Concerts Piano Solo: LIve in Japan 5. VA - Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990 6. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children 7. Bolt Thrower - War Master 8. Casiopea - Mint Jams 9. Darkthrone - Under A Funeral Moon 10. Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward 11. Everything But the Girl - Walking Wounded 12. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime 13. Fuel - Monuments to Excess 14. Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven 15. Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness 16. Ice Choir - Afar 17. Ingram Marshall - Fog Tropes / Gradual Requiem / Gambuh I 18. Joni Mitchell - Hejira 19. Labradford - Mi Media Naranja 20. Nico - Desertshore 21. Oval - 94 Diskont 22. Peter Murphy - Deep 23. Poor Righteous Teachers - Holy Intellect 24. The Roches - The Roches 25. Rodan - Rusty 26. Roxy Music - Avalon 27. Steely Dan - Gaucho 28. Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
Haha, I apologize. In general, I wish artists in that space were a little more adventurous with their choices of collaborators. Rather than everyone working with Dave Cobb or Jay Joyce on every album. One of the things I appreciate about Dawes is they've really chosen an interesting array of producers across their catalog, and it's led to some really cool contrasts between their albums. The Blake Mills album sounds completely different from the David Rawlings album, which sounds completely different from the Dave Cobb album.
Perfect record to kick off the month. This put me in such a good mood. So effortlessly bright and a real joy to listen to
Not that you asked and also not to sound like a total broken record but since I know you’re into jazz, check out New Standards Vol 1