my favourite archival stuff from 2024 (1/6)

All of these 13 „chapters“ contain what I call „healing music“. For all the good reasons. But please don‘t buy them all simultaneously – a slight overdose of magic can have terryfying side effects. Though written with a permanent smile, it’s deadly serious stuff, and a countdown to ecstasy. Chapter 13 is a record I lost at somwhere under my rainbow, and whenever I read the name of its very British secret agent, I missed it, I missed the humour, the extravagance, the charming obliqueness. Finally „Wewantsounds“ saved the album from obscurity. „Dancing The Line“, by Steve Beresford and Anni Marie Beretta. David Toop has joined this fashion party, by the way. Something like Robert Wyatt overtaken by 1980‘s spirit of Roxy Music…

Chapter 12 on this countdown to Shangrila is NOT the only time travel sheding telling lights on the most adventurous decade of history since the invention of polyphonic singing. Can: Live In Paris 1975. Most of their live appearances were secretly bootlegged, and a challenge for ears adapted to high fidelity, but this concert from Paris came quite close to a decent recordig. And, like „electric Miles“ (remember „Aghartha“!), this heavenly music corporation offered deep trance work in sheer and freeweelin’ abundance. (to be continued)