2014 in Songs #12 - The Phantom Band - "Clapshot"

From "Strange Friend". This is has little to do or Christmas... Scottish strange guys... organic krautrock or something like that...

2014 in Songs #11 - Goat - "Hide From The Sun"

Psych is the hype - but Goat, the Swedish band, don't settle for less than Experimental rock, hard rock, fusion,afrobeat, worldbeat, acid rock in Wiki terms. Nevertheless, this "Hide from the Sun" is pure psych, like if it came out of San Francisco on an acid afternoon.

13th Floor Elevators, anyone?

2014 in Songs #10 - Beck "Morning"

Not so dark as 2002's "Sea Change", this year's "Morning Phase" shares the same tranquility, with less unrelentelessness and discomfort. Beautiful, sometimes moving and certainly accomplished - heralded by several magazines as "THE" best of the year or one of the best.

2014 in songs #9 - Neneh Cherry - "Blank Projet"

Neneh Cherry and a raw album - stripped down and powerful: one of the best of this year that is going to die soon.

2014 in Songs #8 - My Brightest Diamond - "Pressure"

From "This Is My Hand", the 2014 album of My Brightest Diamond, aka Shara Worden.

Put in the same folder as Sufjan Stevens and Owen Pallett - inteligent and vibrant music

Great Gigs in the Cloud: Episode 4

One of my all time favorites, the mighty and magical Annie Haslam in Renaissance.

Brings great memories from my childhood, and I have to thank my family for that. They're the one's to blame.. I had it easy, really!

SET-LIST:

CARPET OF THE SUN
MOTHER RUSSIA
CAN YOU HEAR ME
OCEAN GYPSY
RUNNING HARD
TOUCHING ONCE
PROLOGUE

ORIGINALLY BROADCAST ON
8 JANUARY 1977, ENGLAND

ANNIE HASLAM - LEAD & BACKING VOCALS
JON CAMP - BASS, BACKING VOCALS
MICHAEL DUNFORD - ACOUSTIC GUITARS, BACKING VOCALS
LOHN TOUT - KEYBOARDS, BACKING VOCALS
TERENCE SULLIVAN - DRUMS, PERCUSSION, BACKING VOCALS


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Spiritualized - "Do it all over again"

Há algo de natalício neste tema...

Keith Emerson / Greg Lake - Live from Manticore Hall- 2014

Keith Emerson and Greg Lake released this year ‘Live From Manticore Hall,’ a 10-track live album recorded during the duo’s 2010 world tour. 


The record contains some of ELP’s best-loved songs including Lucky Man, From the Beginning, Tarkus and also "I Talk to the Wind" from King Crimson's first album.

Don't expect the full-bodied  sound of Emerson Lake & Palmer or the truculence of Mr. Palmer. This is an intimate set of songs, guitar and keyboards. 

Palmer decided not to continue to play live with them after  a 2010 performance by the trio at the High Voltage Festival. In his own words: “We rehearsed for five weeks, which I could never understand why we needed to rehearse that long,” “Upon hearing the recordings, maybe five weeks was not long enough. It wasn’t to the standard that I liked and I didn’t think it sounded that good.”

So, we are left with two thirds of the band, that do a good job of making us want to listen to the originals again...


Track Listing
‘From The Beginning’
‘Introduction’
‘I Talk To The Wind’
“Bitches Crystal’
‘The Barbarian’
“Take A Pebble’
‘Tarkus’
‘C’est Le Vie’
‘Pirates’
‘Moog Solo’ / ‘Lucky Man’

2014 in songs #7 - Blues Pills - "High Class Woman"

Blues Pills fabricate a form of powerful blues rock that finally ended up in a form of an album this year.  This young American-Swedish-French quartet create a very unique, intense and extraordinary rock atmosphere.

Their wesbsite cite as referrences Aretha Franklin, THE ORIGINAL FLEETWOOD MAC, LED ZEPPELIN, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and CREAM. 

One natural highlight is the voice of Elin Larsson, strong and full of soul. 

Listen to one of the best songs of their album "Blues Pills"




http://www.bluespills.com/index.php/en/

2014 in songs #6 - Messenger - "Somniloquist"

Messenger is an new UK band and "Illusory Blues" is their exquisite debut album. It is one of the best this I head this year. Beautifully crafted, elusive, nicely built, with grandeur and mystic.

 Listen to "Somniloquist"  ont his list, as an example.

2014 in Songs #5: The Eels - Lockdown Hurricane

The real Hombre Lobo has come back with another very good album in 2014, "The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett"


And a very good video too for "Lockdown Hurricane"

For Crimson Heads

King Crimson's "The Elements of King Crimson" is a two-disc set that collects recordings largely unreleased on CD of alternate takes, live recordings, rehearsals and completed tracks culled from 1969-2014

Created to promote the band's 2014 tour of the same name, it's sold exclusively through the band's merchandise booth on the tour and from the Discipline Global Mobile online stores. The box's content is less focused on actual songs and more on song "elements"; extracts of studio recordings, alternate takes, mixes with one or two instruments isolated, live recordings and rehearsals; the tour box is the first CD release for most of the tracks included. Some of them have already been released for digital download through the DGM Live website while some others are set to be included in future DGM releases; it also comes with a 24 page booklet. The box marks the first time both studio and live recorded material with Gavin Harrison is released on CD, the first time material with Jakko Jakszyk is released under the King Crimson name, and the first time material with Bill Rieflin is released overall.

1.	"Wind Extract"	Michael Giles, Robert Fripp, Ian McDonald, Greg Lake	In the Court of the Crimson King 1969, London	0:31
2.	"I Talk to the Wind"	McDonald, Peter Sinfield	In the Court of the Crimson King 23/07/1969, London	4:12
3.	"Cadence and Cascade" (Greg Lake vocal)	Fripp, Sinfield	In the Wake of Poseidon 03/02/1970, London	4:29
4.	"Cirkus" (guitar extract)	Fripp	Lizard 11/09/1970, London	0:15
5.	"Cirkus" (live)	Fripp, Sinfield	Live at the Marquee 1971 10/08/1971, Marquee Club	8:43
6.	"Hoodooo" (extract)	Fripp, Mel Collins, Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto, Gavin Harrison, Jakko Jakszyk, Bill Rieflin	Elstree band rehearsals May 2014	0:23
7.	"Sailor's Tale" (guitar solo - early take)	Fripp	Islands 08/09/1971, London	6:13
8.	"The Talking Drum" (Steven Wilson alt mix)	Fripp, Bill Bruford, John Wetton, David Cross, Jamie Muir	Larks' Tongues in Aspic October 1973, London	6:43
9.	"Larks' Tongues in Aspic" (extract)	Fripp, Bruford, Wetton, Cross, Muir	Elstree band rehearsals May 2014	2:36
10.	"Larks' Tongues in Aspic" (extract - David & Jamie)	Cross, Muir	Larks' Tongues in Aspic 16/01/1973, London	2:40
11.	"Fracture" (SW 2014 mix)	Fripp	Starless and Bible Black 23/11/1973, Concertgebouw	11:28
12.	"Fallen Angel" (extract - RF harmonics)	Fripp	Red 08/07/1974, London	1:14
13.	"Fallen Angel"	Fripp, Wetton, Richard Palmer-James	Red July 1974, London	6:22
14.	"21st Century Schizoid Man"	Giles, Fripp, McDonald, Sinfield, Lake	USA 30/06/1974, Palace Theater	8:27

Censorship in Art - Two Recent Examples

On a not so subtle level, censorship is working again and again. It is sad how we are going back in terms of art and exposure of the body in art works - to a level that not even catholic church assumed a century ago. We are going back to pre-Reaniassance times, and that is happening in the period of one generation. Censorship is becoming awful.

Let's be clear about this: you can access all the porn and nudity you might need or ever want for the rest of your life in the internet. But when it comes to show the butt of a small kid, it's indecent exposure - oh yeah, all those paedophiles out there lloking for record covers! And the body of a woman is indecent all the way, except if you are advertising for some famous brand or social media campaign.

Just look at two very recent examples:

Led Zeppelin - "Houses of the Holy" - the recent reedition features always a sticker or a band covering the childrens butt. In previous versions, there was always a stivker too, except in the original cover.

The Very Shy reedition

Previous Reedition

Original Version

Beady Eye -"BE" -If you google it,  it's increasingly more difficult to find the original version of the album cover since the US released the album, excludind the breast and the nipple.

US Cover

Original Cover

The Shy Cover, with Sticker

By the way, it is an extremely beautiful photograph on the cover. Yes, it´s a woman laying naked and you can see one of her breasts!

How bad is this when compared to the incredible amount of crap the US produces when it comes disgusting TV programs and the language and violence you find in todays' movies, games and children series? I can hear them saying: I am protecting the children!

And let's not forget it all started with that sort of human being that was President of the United States in the 80's, Mr. Ronald Reagan.

How perverse is the mind of these people...

2014 in songs #4 - Tony Allen with Damon Albarn

Tony Allen, the legendary veteran drummer teamed up with Damon Albarn in this song of his "Film of Life".

Great drumming, as usual, and a melting of elements, paired with an exploratory sense, make this one of the best albums of 2014.