Record Nerd

[lindy jihad]

hey guys, i dont know if you all know about this site, but its pretty neato.
its kind of way to show off your music to other people. it can also serve as a wish list.
its also great for DJs. you know, when those annoying people want to look through your collection and you dont want them to touch your stuff.

show us what you have.

check it out. here is mine, not totally completed but i'm just lazy..
http://www.recordnerd.com/lists/nocturne

www.recordnerd.com

[Swing Kitten]

that's pretty cool lindy jihad... my music collection is shamefully pathetic :oops: ... perhaps I should poke around that site

[HothouseSalsero]

I'm not quite obsessive enough to make a list of the CDs I own (around 500, which isn't that many for one of my ilk), but I did recently make up an actual wish list that ran to another 500.

Given your old school punk style graphic and your involvement with retro lindy (I hope that's an acceptable description), I was expecting a fair amount of punk.

I don't like too much downtempo type stuff, but Cinematic Orchestra's Motion is pretty nice, probably my favorite album along acid jazz/trip-hop/downtempo lines.

[HothouseSalsero]

& if you are interested in Sun Ra recommendations, let me know.

[lindy jihad]

hah, yeah. i understand not wanting to type up all your cds, i still have a good 200 or so left to throw in there.
and thank you about the sun ra offer, i have about 10 ra cds, but by all means PM me with some recommendations.

and i would not quite say retro, infact i am completely against the word retro. i am into keeping it like it was. but anyway..
i guess it could all fit into the genera of "downtempo", but that would be doing a horrible injustice to most of the music on my list.
you got everything from K&D pure stoned out mushroom jazz.. to Funkstörung, the postmodernists of the glitch-error music.. 60s bossa, jazz, soul, gospel..

most of what i listen to and dj is based around jazz.
i like the word jazz much better than downtempo. ok, enough bantering from me. :)

[HothouseSalsero]

I didn't mean to say that everything there is what would be called downtempo, just that I noticed what seemed like a lot of it.

I was going on the assumption that that Sun Ra was the only one you had, and thought there might be something in his work that would relate more closely to some other things you listen to. My personal favorite is the collection Out There a Minute, but I think that's getting harder to find (especially since some of the individual tracks now appear on Evidence reissues of Saturn albums).

[lindy jihad]

well yes, i do like a lot of downtempo.. i just dong like the word. :lol:

i dont have Out There a Minute, thank you for the suggestion. on my next shopping trip to Amoeba i will pick it up.

[HothouseSalsero]

I keep hearing about Amoeba Records. It must be a very good store.

[HothouseSalsero]

Something I just bought that you might possibly be interested in: Marcel Khalife's Caress. Khalife is a pretty highly regarded Lebanese composer--popular, but very serious artistically. This particular CD combines Arabic and jazz elements on many of the tracks, something I generally don't find satisfying, but do in this case. Khalife plays oud; his sons (I am assuming) Rami and Bachar play piano and vibraphone/percussion, respectively; and Peter Herbert (who has played with several big name jazz performers) plays bass. (There's also one track that consists entirely of a violin solo, by someone else. That's not one of the jazz inflected ones.) I feel obliged to warn you that right in the middle of the album is a very odd, very saccharine, Chopinesque, solo piano piece working around the melody of "Happy Birthday to you!" I don't know what Khalife is up to with this, but the same thing, more or less, appears on one of his songs from the 80's.

You can get it at www.maqam.com and it's should be at www.amazon.com soon as well, though it might be cheaper from the specialist distributor. You can hear samples on the maqam.com web-site now.

I feel like an advertisement, but I'm really not. I just am seizing every opportunity to mention this. I'm not sure I would call it great, but it's very good, and it's an unusual recording.

[lindy jihad]

I keep hearing about Amoeba Records. It must be a very good store.
it is by far the best record store i have EVER been in.. and thats saying a lot.
really though, you can spend hours and $$$$ there. its nuts.

next time you find yourself in CA, hit it up.

Marcel Khalife's Caress
that sounds awesome. i love arabic + jazz, makes for awesome listening.
thanks for the hint!

[HothouseSalsero]

next time you find yourself in CA, hit it up.

If I leave the east coast, I'll turn in to a pumpkin.

Seriously, I hardly ever travel at all. But if I do make it to California, I will probably check it out.