What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

[Nick]

I think John Fordhom summed it up rather nicely

Contemporary jazz can anything from studiously forensic to loud and funky - but it doesn't usually go for laughs, perhaps for fear it might seem to be sending itself up. Young UK quintet WorldService Project have no problem with that. Pianist/leader Dave Morecroft has described their genre-mashing brashness as "a cage-fight between Weather Report, Stravinsky, Meshuggah, Zappa and Monty Python," and he might have added the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band to that list. This mix, and WSP's ambitious pan-European Match & Fuse collaborations, have brought them plenty of new fans. This set's title track and the boiling De-Frienders are full of farmyard honkings, free-jazz melees, glimpsed bebop, and thrash chords, while Barmy Army mixes march-time and trad-jazz with flatulent free-trombone eruptions, and Change the Fucking Record is stompingly raw and punky - all elements that make WSG a riotously entertaining live band. But it's the utterly contrasting 10-minute finale, Cunha - a slow coalescence of electronic murmurs, long-note horn sounds and dark ensemble accumulations that represents WSP's highly creative straight face.

[andrew Ivimey]

A million years ago I used to live in a high rise block above The Plough on Stockwell Rd if my poor memory serves me well I was there almost every night. Aw schucks I've played a few nights there but...

This stuff is necessary. God knows ( silly expression) most of this stuff is self indulgent, masturbatory enjoyable only to those who are actually playing it or the few who wont admit the emperor isn't wearing any clothes. BUT

might be necessary for wondrous music to come forth. Is that patronising?

Does anyone out there remember live music? I've written twice complete sets , both of which go down the covid pan, and, I csnr be bothered to do it right for the night, which isn't going to happen.

Still lissnin to Debussy

[Greg]

Debussy will settle your heart and mind. World Service Project probably won’t. It is interesting though, don’t you think?

[andrew Ivimey]

Feel Greg, feel.

I'm lost in Enigma at present. Weird.

[andrew Ivimey]

ZZ top, dunno doesn't hit the spot. There are riffs and attitude that's soooooo good but on the whole I dont get it.

Bored with enigma I prefer my own sleep for what dreams may come Early night.

Bugger, a track comes on that puts me back in India, somewhere in the Deccan, a national park full of leeches and no tigers but I'm HEARTBROKEN... SAD NOT SADENESS. I'll let it play out.

[andrew Ivimey]

I've been putting off listening to The Joshua Tree for years. Astonishing mix, brilliant.

I must look into their music but surely the Joshua Tree is their best, n'est ce pas?!

[Nick]

I've been putting off listening to The Joshua Tree for years. Astonishing mix, brilliant.

I must look into their music but surely the Joshua Tree is their best, n'est ce pas?!

I can't say. I remember the early more raw stuff with fond memories, and the Joshua Tree is hard to dislike, but I wonder how much of that is Eno (don't mean that in a dismissive way for U2). I find it hard not to like most of Eno's work. There is certainly some great tracks on TJT, but I would also listen to Rattle And Hum. Must admit don't know their latter stuff at all others than singles on the radio none of which seemed to be unpleasant.

[simon]

Certainly their most famous. Maybe Rattle and Hum was better, maybe it wasn't.

Edit - Nick beat me to it!

[andrew Ivimey]

I'll try Rattle and Hum then. I too hugely admire Brian Eno and dudnt know there was a connection to TJT.

[The Stratmangler]

I really like the first album U2 recorded with Lanois & Eno - The Unforgettable Fire.
It has a great spirit of adventure.

[The Stratmangler]

Weather Report - 8:30 (1979)

[gninnam]

Brilliant record - great writing, musicianship and production..

[The Stratmangler]

[ed]

[IslandPink]

First heard it on a radio review of best ever albums, in ~1985 , I was instantly smitten.