Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 17 hours ago

Speaking of jazzy instrumental ska and kiwi dub, that reminded me of Oakley Grenell's Ōtautahi Allstars, so I'm #listening now;

https://oakleygrenell.bandcamp.com/album/otautahi-allstars

Despite the release year given on BC, I believe the album was recorded and originally released about 20 years ago. I saw these tunes played live a few times, always a skanking good time : )

#music #instrumental #jazz #dub#OakleyGrenell#ŌtautahiAllstars
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

The radicalism of the 1960s must have come from somewhere. I've read that it was an attempt by the youth movements to hold their parents generation to its own professed standards. As represented by the broadcasts on Radio Free Asia, and other US broadcasts into countries of the Eastern Bloc and the Nonaligned Movement.

(1/?)
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

I'm #listening to the latest mix from SSSD (kia ora e hoa!);

https://www.freefm.org.nz/Programmes/Details.aspx?PID=97468cee-0f3c-4451-952a-8d2473baa59e

He drops a sample from a rah-rah post-WW2 film uses the phrase "future citizen's" to describe children in public education. That's some aspirational language. We could use a bit of that.

(2/?)

#podcasts#FreeFM#Deep#InSessioNZ #SSSD #music #electronic
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
#Listening to Burnin' Coal by Les McCann, the frantic instrumental jazz opener to s02e01 of Severance;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYQV0v3-Fes

I love the honky tonk piano work on this track. Will definitely listen to some more of McCann's tunes. So far I've found a live album recorded in 1966 in Seattle;

https://resonancerecordsjazz.bandcamp.com/album/les-mccann-never-a-dull-moment-live-from-coast-to-coast-1966-1967

#music #jazz#LesMcCann #piano
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
#Listening to The Giant's Lawn, the 2023 album by Ōtautahi band Wurld Series;

https://wurldseries.bandcamp.com/album/the-giants-lawn

It's delightfully whimsical, like the Flaming Lips of Pink Robots, but more musically sanded, lacking the Lips' cultivated roughness. More The Residents than Pure Guava era Ween.

#music #pop #psychedelic#WurldSeries
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp last month
#Listening to a fantastic jazz-funky episode of the Netwaves music podcast;

https://archive.org/details/nws.bpm0192

This selection has an abrasive edge, and I wasn't in the right mood for it the first time I tried to listen. But tonight, it was just the ticket. The call to action at the end is brilliant.

#music #jazz #funk#JazzFunk #podcasts#Netwaves
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

to What's The Frequency, Kenneth?

youtube.com/watch?v=2ZMUNyLmar

The big single off the 1994 R.E.M album Monster. I still don't really understand what this song is about, but it has a great use of delay on the fuzz guitar, and some great lyrics;

"You wore our expectations like an armored suit"

"A smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth
You said that irony was the shackles of youth"
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
#Listening to the 1969 album
Tadpoles by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band;

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCIVQjOLLGl4yfixXwAlgo0tn0F7Bheb4

There's a track that starts with a posh-sounding gentlemen trying to interview passers-by about shirts. It's not surprising that these folks shared personnel with Monty Python, in the form of Neil Innes.

#music #comedy#BonzoDogDooDahBand#MontyPython#NeilInnes
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
#Listening to the classic Pumpkinhead single Nark (Rat on your neighbour). Here's a recording of the music video broadcast on music TV;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOjtpyFV0SE

Like Hallelujah Picassos, these guys are mostly unsung but were a big presence in the Aotearoa music picture of the late 1980s and early 90s;

https://www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/pumpkinhead

#music #rock #grunge#PumpkinHead
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

Beyond that, try to focus on the collective power we have to organise together for a better world.

Reorganising our communications into channels we have more control over is one part of that, small but measurable. With a potential amplifier effect, if those channels help people organise more effectively in other areas.

Take the Power Back!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yMlW9YkpmA

(this video is a Brass Against cover, and is literally the coolest thing I've seen on the internet!)

(10/10)
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago
#Listening to the Brass Against cover of You Know You're Right, the final song recorded by Nirvana. Actually, *this" is the coolest thing on the internet;

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=vb8_iOOvJ0k

The brass section leaning into those grooves, the singer's voice!?! 😳🤯

#music #covers #brass #horns#BrassAgainst