Whats on your turntable tonight?

Quincy Jones And His Band - "I Dig Dancers" [Mercury LP '60]
Wes Montgomery - "Down Here On The Ground" [A&M LP '68]
Tax Free - S/T [Polydor LP '70] Wally Tax of the (Dutch) Outsiders fame, here not sounding like that earlier group's Pretty Things-ish fuzzed-out freakbeat whomp, but being mostly unplugged meditative lite-psych, featuring Tax on acoustic guitar and flute, the ubiquitous Richard Davis (Van Morrison) on string bass and with a guest appearance from the Velvets' John Cale on viola (come to think of it, the Pretties' Phil May also eventually revealed his inner hippie-folkie too...)
The Beach Boys - "Sunflower" [Brother/Reprise LP '70] Another often-overlooked gem from their 'later' catalog and their first on Reprise, recorded at the band's Brother Records studios. Dig this item from the audiophilic Technical Notes: "The songs on this record were recorded in true stereophonic sound; they are not 16 monophonic signals placed somewhere between right and left speakers blended together with echo, but rather total stereo capturing the ambiance of the room and the sound in perspective as heard naturally by the ear. Although more difficult to perfect, this type of recording is far more satisfying to hear, as will be demonstrated upon playing this album."

Taking a break from classical and Jazz. Just finished Harmonia Mundi's Sacred Music. Now revisiting my youth and listening to:

The XX - The XX

Micachu & The Shapes - Jewellery

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

Mica Levy and her band mates transport me back to days in Amsterdam listening to Gong. If I listen while thumbing through my old Fabulous Fury Freak Brothers comics I'm almost there.

Make that Levi, not Levy. Duh. Even spelled like the famous SF denim and I botched it (and I've even been to Levi central (near Fog City Diner).

Hey Airegin: I admit I'm not much on current 'indie' rock (mostly quit that back before the Seattle thing exploded and 'indie' eventually came to stand for "industry") and have never heard the artists you mention -- and that I myself do mainly listen to stuff recorded before I was born or while I was still in knee-pants (or would have been, were I quite old enough to have been around when kids still wore knee-pants). But given that Wikipedia tells me Ms. Levi was born in '87, had it not been for your comment about Gong and Freak Brothers comix, I would've chuckled to think that your "youth" as you put it must've been about last Thursday! ;^)

I admit I'm not much on current 'indie' rock (mostly quit that back before the Seattle thing exploded and 'indie' eventually came to stand for "industry")

INDIE still stands for INDEPENDENT - and is *not* mainstream which you were probably - incorrectly - alluding to when referring to it as "industry." Get a clue... the "Seattle thing" was tagged as alternative. Now synonymous with mainstream....

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