Dan – Tafo feat. Naheed Akhtar with Mehdi Hassan and A. Nayyar – “Zambo Zambo” – This is from a collection of Pakistani Picture House music. The record has an amazing cover and it kicked my ass/made me crazy. It’s a Finders Keepers Sounds of Wonder release and it has a lot of drama. From the weird electronics, drum machines and continually unspooling melodies/territories it delivers exactly what it advertises and what I needed. Always trust a cover. This one opens up a brand new sound world.
Travis – Liekki – “Kun kattojen ylle löi (aurinkoon)” – It was hard to even figure out the name of the band, they are from Finland. They have a really interesting alternative Pop/Rock concept with lots of familiar sounds, but unfamiliar choices. They have put out several recordings but nothing I found online is translated and their web link seems defunct. Travis recalls it as one of those recordings you assign to a time in your life, where the music accompanies a period and it floods you with memories when you revisit it. One of those special things music can do for you.
Bart – Ruth Goller – Skylumina – Pretty weird! Bart really invests in newer Jazz, and Improv, based music more than I. In fact, I sort of rely on him to alert me to new and interesting things in that area. This is on International Anthem, a label he has a lot of dedication to and one he has drawn many a Seshjawn play from. I haven’t heard anything bad from this label yet and everything they release is creative and experimental in the best way. It’s its own scene and this is a bizarre and compelling recording, if not something I will necessarily gravitate towards again.
Nawi – Kim Gordon – “Shelf Warmer” – I have a lot of love for KG and immediately recognized her voice, though I was unaware there was a new album out. It has a similarity to things she has done before, but those things are so weird that it is hard to connect them. There are huge beats, she has a sort of spacey vocal delivery – like if Beck were an older woman who had seen it all and the arrangements are experimental in a Sonic Youth like way. Interesting to see how she may have helped shape that band’s sound retrospectively.
Dan – The Persuasions – “One Thing On My Mind” – I had to end it with a deep cut. Early Persuasions whom I have been collecting. Both their newer recordings where they “a cappella” a song collections of a specific band’s work and investigating their earlier recordings, of which there are plenty. They released almost an album per year from the mid-seventies on. Here, with a band in the 70’s, we have a deep Funk bass part and really interesting vocal arrangements where they blend with the instrumentation in a way a standard R&B vocal ensemble never would. Treasures from the past.
Found Sounds 