These Made My Ears Happy In 2006

Majoie Hajary - La Passion Selon Judas [CBS] lp

R. Quenzel - Electronik Percussion Points [Conroy Library] lp

Roland P. Young - Isophonic Bogie Woogie [Em Records] cd

Beyond The Wizards Sleeve - Spring [3rd Mynd] Mini lp

Salah Ragab And The Cairo Jazz Band - Egyptian Jazz [Art House] lp

Mustafa Ozkent - Genclik Ile Elele [Finders Keepers] lp

Okay Temiz - Drummer Of Two Worlds [WEA] lp

Dead Moon - Echoes Of The Past [Sub Pop] cd

William Sheller - Lux Aeterna [CBS] lp

The Ridiculous Trio - No Fun [Slovenly] 7”

Have Guitar Will Travel

Raw, chicken scratch guitarist supreme. Today is National Bo Diddley Day round these parts. It don't get better than this.

Todays Top Five Plays

1. "Mumblin' Guitar" - Bo Diddley
2. "Pop Orbite" - Chico Magnetic Band
3. "Space Bugaloo" - The Mike Nock Underground
4. "I'm An Old Cowhand" - Sony Rollins
5. "Engram" - Caroline Peyton

Isophonic Boogie Woogie - Roland P. Young

An ultra obscure disc of mesmerizing chimes, kalimba, saxophone and lo end electronics. It's an utterly compelling mixture of stuttering woodwinds, whimisical bells/chants and warm sunbeams. Recorded in 1980, this is true oblique outsider music. The whole disc is steeped in tradition while sounding as if it was beamed down from a satellite from the distant future.

Five More Top Plays

1. "People Get Freedom" - Ghost
2 "Kopruden Gecti Gelin" - Ferdi Ozbegen
3. "Ab Hoc Et Ab Hac" - Jean Cohen Solal
4. "Buddy Mikro" - Electronic Percussion Points 70
5. "Brown Rain" - Victor Brady

Todays Top Five Plays

1. "Psyche Suki" - Electronic Sounds
2. "Got My Boogaloo" - Jackie Mittoo
3. "Rhythms Call" - Flying Rhythms
4. "Introduction To The Story Of Spedy Sponda" - Oren Marshall
5. "Winter's Going" - Bonnie Dobson

Lunar Probe

A fantastic library on De Wolfe stocked to the brim with exotic android musique. "Alchemie Rhythmique" by Pierre Sciortino combines classical tumbling percussion cello/piano interplay, a deranged, oblique fractured soundscape. Seek out!

Berto Pisano & Jacques Chaumont "Kill!" OST

This soundtrack has everything, driving percussive workouts, strange creepy celestrial wordles vocals, nimble orchestral jazz stylings and pensive scraping free form avant tomfoolery. Sheer brilliance.

Electrk Bizaar

This lp seems to have taken years to find but the wait has definately been worth it. There's lots of sleazy moog action on this rather lovely 1974 Southern library. A few of the tracks have appeared on comps compiled by hipsters Barry 7 [Add 'N' To X] and Luke Vibert but there's still plenty of compelling electronic squiggle doink to investigate.

Majorie Hajary "La Passion Selon Judas"

.... I've been playing this wonderful lp non stop. A strange mix of choral chants, sitar and jazz. It's a really special and individual sounding record which makes it very hard to reference. Think of the spectral sheen of William Sheller or the choral groove of David Axlerod and y'r only halfway there. It has very odd psych production touches with strange grooves weaving in and out. Highly recommended indeed.