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What's your latest "Discovery"

You know when you buy a new album and it just clicks?! And then you have to play it rather frequently in the mix over and over for the next several days....What's the last album's you bought that really clicked for you?

I just picked up a Jazz trio album that is just a wonderful recording and performance:

It's called "Achirana" on ECM (that label seems to have a lot of great discs!). Vassilis Tsabroplulos, Piano. Arild Andersen, Double-Bass. John Marshall, Drums. Love the 5th cut! That double bass is right there in the room!

Also been enjoying a new classical guitar disc: Julian Bream, "The Ultimate Guitar Collection" on BMG. Great double-disc set. Not that crazy about the recording on this one, but the performance and breadth of the tapestry of work on those two CD's is remarkable.

Any new "discoveries" to share?
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zaikesman
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No kids, and don't really watch the Cartoon channel (with the sometime exception of early morning vintage Gigantor reruns -- love that no-fi spy-jazz, even if the dialog [such as it were] is half unintelligible). But they don't seem to show the vintage Tex Avery or WB (or even Hanna Barbera) 'toons I might actually sit still a few minutes for. The newer, snarkier stuff doesn't interest me by and large, so I usually skip right over the channel without glancing. I do however enjoy myself a little Spongebob on Nick from time to time :-)

So Synthfreek, do you have Sharrock in your collection?
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synthfreek
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Just a few Axiom albums that he plays on but no a proper solo album. You might wanna give the Marc Ribot album titled Y Los Cubanos Postizos a spin...I'm guessing you'll like it.
By the way Space Ghost Coast To Coast would probably just confuse a child. It's pretty subversive humor that is squarely aimed at adults. If you get a chance try to catch some episodes of Sealab 2021 or The Venture Brothers. They may change your outlook on "cartoons". They're total parodies of Hanna-Barbara cartoons from the late 60's/early 70's and specifically one little-known one called Sealab. They actually use the original animation but redub the voices and reanimate the characters.
zaikesman
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Sounds like Mystery Science Theater 3000 or What's Up Tiger Lilly? for cartoons...

I've heard some Marc Ribot, including some of the title you mention, and actually have a friend who knows him, but I don't own any of his albums. What I heard was good though, and I do own an Ellery Eskelin (tenor) disk that Ribot plays on (Ellery I knew personally myself many moons ago).
eril
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Iva Bitova on "Mater"
Mariam Matossian on "In the Light"
Tartit on "Ichichila"
Szaloki Agi on "Hallgato" (Lament)
Nynke Laverman on "De Maisfrou"
Teresa Salgueiro on "Obrogado"

These are my new discoveries for 2007.
They are on my CDP pretty often - and while foreign, most people who hear them say "Wow! where did you find that?"
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tboooe
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I just heard Emi Fujita on the Best Audiophile Voices series...I really like her voice. Another one is Salena Jones. If you like female vocals both of these artists are worth checking out.
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