rgould

Member Since: Feb 03, 2003
Rank: 15
Rated 34 releases, average: 4.38
Location: UK
Profile: Didn't like the music I heard on the radio in the 80's... until I discovered funk through hip-hop and electro. This opened a pandora's box of jazz/funk/soul leading to p.funk, house, acid, techno, ambient, psychedelia, dub, prog rock, Floyd and Ivor Cutler. Coldcut's Solid Steel in the early 90's opened my ears so far it hurt. Now I can't get enough of it, all of it. Lovely.

Reviews:

Various - Blue Skied An' Clear - 29-Sep-05 08:11 AM
This album is a fantastic point of entry into the wonderful world of Morr Music, whether or not you are a fan of Slowdive. The tracks that arent covers are just as good, and in some cases better, than the shoegazer classics that inspired them. There are a couple of killer Ulrich Schnauss tracks on here that none of his fans should be without.

Faultline - Closer Colder - 17-Aug-05 05:00 AM
This is a great album. Accessible enough to keep you listening short term but plenty of depth to it. Tripped out beats mixing intimate electronic soundscapes with warmer but melancholic parts from harmonica and trumpet. Sounds like the sonic backdrop to a disconnected and cold urban dystopia.

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks - 07-May-05 12:56 PM
A regular contender in "best album of all time" lists, Astral Weeks is streets ahead of much of Van Morrisons later output. His way with words is clearly in evidence on all tracks with many passages that etch themselves in your mind.

It is a much more visionary album than his earlier work, less dependent on American R The imagery is more psychedelic and rooted in Blakes spirituality.

"Youre high on your high-flying cloud, wrapped up in your magic shroud as ecstasy surrounds you. This time its found you."

Brand New Heavies, The - The Brand New Heavies - 07-May-05 12:36 PM
This album is a very raw funk record with some fantastic tracks on it - notaby the rougher sounding original recording of Stay This Way, which achieved some success as a much more commercial release years later. Dont be put off by their smooth and (to my tastes) over-produced sound of the late 90s - this is good stuff.

Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes* - Expansions - 25-Apr-05 10:35 AM
A landmark pioneering jazz-funk album that is packed with goodies - apart from the obvoius anthemic title track which packs dancefloors across genres and decades. The other tracks are a combination of dirty funk and haunting mellowness that makes this and the LP that followed it, Visions of a New World, the perfect soundtrack for summer days and nights. Lonnie Liston Smith at his finest.

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