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You're welcome. Your next artist from Mexico City to check out is Mabi Fratti - experimental #cello doing #chamberPop - she coined the term #noiseros and I am here for it.
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@buffyleigh Late offering but I will put this forth as my #AOTY. It’s uhhh progressive melodic blackened death power metal from France:
https://ethmebb.bandcamp.com/album/allo-babar-et-les-caramboleurs
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@buffyleigh
The #DivineComedy's album Office Politics may just be so wrong it's right.
Especially recommend Infernal Machines and You'll Never Work In This Town Again.
https://thedivinecomedy.com/videos/infernal-machines-youll-never-work-in-this-town-again
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@buffyleigh Hmmm, I'm not sure the (limited) Covid wastewater data for Edmonton backs that up.
The provincial data (as passed on to the universities that used to do it independently) is supposed to be normalized by sewage volume & then reported relative to population. It shows fairly stable medium-low Covid levels in Edmonton:
https://covid-tracker.chi-csm.ca/The federal dashboard (reported as raw virus per millilitre concentration) has a spike in the most recent value, leading the dashboard to declare it as high activity, and that seems to be what the article is using:
https://health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/?dateSel=alltime&sort=asc&grid=1®ions=2&showDailyValues=true&thresholds=falseNow, I'm fairly skeptical of health data from our provincial government. But since the "high" status is based on a single, once-a-week reading, I'd say that it is quite possible that it's a fluke. Hot & dry weather could have led to low sewage volumes & the per-person normalization process may be a reasonable correction.
But still: Covid levels are trending up compared to the spring, here & across the province.
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@buffyleigh 's current 1001albums project made me think about which album of Austrian origin should be included.
The problem is: most of the songs lose a lot if you don't understand the lyrics.
Anyhow, if I had to pick one #Austropop album, it would be this one:
Ludwig Hirsch - Dunkelgraue Lieder
https://album.link/at/i/1442407480
It may not sound like it, but this is the darkest and heaviest album I know.
@Almoehi do you think this (or other Austropop albums) should be included?
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@buffyleigh
"Worst" in what way?
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@donutage @buffyleigh @accordionnoir
We’ve played (excerpts of) the acoustic orchestral transcription of Metal Machine Music on @accordionnoir radioSadly there’s no accordion on the zeitkratzer ensemble’s latest recording of the piece
https://zeitkratzer.bandcamp.com/album/metal-machine-musicHey, I see #Vancouver #CoopRadio’s former technical director Anju Singh was part of a live reimagining of MMM with Lou Reed’s sometime guitarist Aram Bajakian
That’s pretty cool 😎
https://do604.com/events/2026/5/16/lou-reed-s-metal-machine-music-as-realized-by-aram-bajakian-stefan-maier-and-anju-singh-berlin-live-at-st-ann-s-warehouse-fi-tic -
@donutage @buffyleigh @accordionnoir
We’ve played (excerpts of) the acoustic orchestral transcription of Metal Machine Music on @accordionnoir radioSadly there’s no accordion on the zeitkratzer ensemble’s latest recording of the piece
https://zeitkratzer.bandcamp.com/album/metal-machine-musicHey, I see #Vancouver #CoopRadio’s former technical director Anju Singh was part of a live reimagining of MMM with Lou Reed’s sometime guitarist Aram Bajakian
That’s pretty cool 😎
https://do604.com/events/2026/5/16/lou-reed-s-metal-machine-music-as-realized-by-aram-bajakian-stefan-maier-and-anju-singh-berlin-live-at-st-ann-s-warehouse-fi-tic -
@donutage @buffyleigh @accordionnoir
We’ve played (excerpts of) the acoustic orchestral transcription of Metal Machine Music on @accordionnoir radioSadly there’s no accordion on the zeitkratzer ensemble’s latest recording of the piece
https://zeitkratzer.bandcamp.com/album/metal-machine-musicHey, I see #Vancouver #CoopRadio’s former technical director Anju Singh was part of a live reimagining of MMM with Lou Reed’s sometime guitarist Aram Bajakian
That’s pretty cool 😎
https://do604.com/events/2026/5/16/lou-reed-s-metal-machine-music-as-realized-by-aram-bajakian-stefan-maier-and-anju-singh-berlin-live-at-st-ann-s-warehouse-fi-tic -
@donutage @buffyleigh @accordionnoir
We’ve played (excerpts of) the acoustic orchestral transcription of Metal Machine Music on @accordionnoir radioSadly there’s no accordion on the zeitkratzer ensemble’s latest recording of the piece
https://zeitkratzer.bandcamp.com/album/metal-machine-musicHey, I see #Vancouver #CoopRadio’s former technical director Anju Singh was part of a live reimagining of MMM with Lou Reed’s sometime guitarist Aram Bajakian
That’s pretty cool 😎
https://do604.com/events/2026/5/16/lou-reed-s-metal-machine-music-as-realized-by-aram-bajakian-stefan-maier-and-anju-singh-berlin-live-at-st-ann-s-warehouse-fi-tic -
@donutage @buffyleigh @accordionnoir
We’ve played (excerpts of) the acoustic orchestral transcription of Metal Machine Music on @accordionnoir radioSadly there’s no accordion on the zeitkratzer ensemble’s latest recording of the piece
https://zeitkratzer.bandcamp.com/album/metal-machine-musicHey, I see #Vancouver #CoopRadio’s former technical director Anju Singh was part of a live reimagining of MMM with Lou Reed’s sometime guitarist Aram Bajakian
That’s pretty cool 😎
https://do604.com/events/2026/5/16/lou-reed-s-metal-machine-music-as-realized-by-aram-bajakian-stefan-maier-and-anju-singh-berlin-live-at-st-ann-s-warehouse-fi-tic -
I wanted to like Bandcamp, but they are pretty much dead to me now after the owners screwed over the employees:
Best thing I found so far is #Rokk and their approach to funnel more subscription money to the artists.
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Thanks @buffyleigh .......
#MohammadSyfkhan – I Am Kurdish cd on #NyahhRecord 2024
http://nyahhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mohammad-syfkhan-i-am-kurdish -
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#Bongwater — DAVID BOWIE WANTS IDEAS -
@Coolmccool @buffyleigh Have you heard the collaboration version made across 5 continents by #PlayingForChange ? I love it.
https://youtu.be/ph1GU1qQ1zQ?si=D7YTjzomrCCW7Uwp -
RE: https://mas.to/@buffyleigh/116422293166141999
This thread is a gem. #GenreBending
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@1001otheralbums.com @buffyleigh
“Elisapie gave new meaning to 10 pop and rock classics by translating them into Inuktitut”This great interview delves into the making of the album
I liked the bit about reaching out to the original artists (who all said yes)
“Who do I know who knows Led Zeppelin?”
https://www.cbc.ca/arts/q/elisapie-on-her-new-album-inuktitut-1.6971863
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Fantastic discovery thanks to @buffyleigh also listed in the #1001otheralbums list. If #DiamandaGalas is ever looking for someone to carry her torch.....
#LinguaIgnota - Caligula dl 2019 on the marvelous #ProfoundLoreRecords
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David Bowie - Earthling
When @buffyleigh was going through the entire Bowie discography and she came to this album I realized I had never really listened to it. Outside of the “hit” (I’m Afraid of Americans). So I listened to it once through on YouTube and knew I wanted it on vinyl.
I seem to remember it was sorta written off as Bowie trend hopping—NIN, Chemical Brothers, Prodigy. But Bowie has always been someone who has absorbed the zeitgeist and made it his own. This album has held up incredibly well. While you can hear those late 90s influences, it doesn’t sound dated at all.
#vinyl #vinylCollection #nowPlaying
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Still a day behind on @buffyleigh's #BowieADay. I made a playlist yesterday of live versions of all the songs on #Earthling (only 2 aren't on the various live albums found on Spotify). On the Earthling tour, David and Gail Ann Dorsey duetted on Under Pressure, and Gail sang lead on a cover of Laurie Anderson's O Superman (linked).
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Still a day behind on @buffyleigh's #BowieADay. I made a playlist yesterday of live versions of all the songs on #Earthling (only 2 aren't on the various live albums found on Spotify). On the Earthling tour, David and Gail Ann Dorsey duetted on Under Pressure, and Gail sang lead on a cover of Laurie Anderson's O Superman (linked).
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Still a day behind on @buffyleigh's #BowieADay. I made a playlist yesterday of live versions of all the songs on #Earthling (only 2 aren't on the various live albums found on Spotify). On the Earthling tour, David and Gail Ann Dorsey duetted on Under Pressure, and Gail sang lead on a cover of Laurie Anderson's O Superman (linked).
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Still a day behind on @buffyleigh's #BowieADay. I made a playlist yesterday of live versions of all the songs on #Earthling (only 2 aren't on the various live albums found on Spotify). On the Earthling tour, David and Gail Ann Dorsey duetted on Under Pressure, and Gail sang lead on a cover of Laurie Anderson's O Superman (linked).
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Still a day behind on @buffyleigh's #BowieADay. I made a playlist yesterday of live versions of all the songs on #Earthling (only 2 aren't on the various live albums found on Spotify). On the Earthling tour, David and Gail Ann Dorsey duetted on Under Pressure, and Gail sang lead on a cover of Laurie Anderson's O Superman (linked).
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Really cool.... thanks @buffyleigh
#SightlessPit – Grave Of A Dog cd on #ThrillJockey 2020
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I wanted to show you my shirt.
@buffyleigh it reminded me of you!
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Ian William Craig – Durbē (2017, Canada)
Our next spotlight is on number 250 on The List, submitted by myself (buffyleigh).
A couple weeks ago I began a listening project where I’ll be going through all my old AOTY lists to see if they still hold up, listening to each album on those lists and re-ranking or removing as needed. By coincidence – as I already had this album picked for the next spotlight – the first AOTY list I re-evaluated was my 2016 list that included Centres, a brilliant studio album from the sound artist, composer, and classically trained vocalist we’re listening to today, Ian William Craig. And I sure am glad for that coincidence, as in revisiting that list I realized that (a) I somehow didn’t have Centres in my digital library (only on vinyl), (b) both Centres and Durbē have a couple of the same songs, and (c) Durbē – alternatively titled Live in Durbē – was recorded at a show (in August 2017) that was part of Ian’s tour for Centres (released July 2017).
In my defence, 2016/17 was during a bit of a (pre-pandemic-black-hole) black hole for me, and I was using a listening methodology to approach this artist/album that was rather different from my usual nerdy methodology (see Spotlight, Version B[1]). Also, I have a brain like a sieve, and, if an album only exists in my vinyl collection, it can unfortunately become forgotten. At any rate, my ignorance can perhaps be at least partially excused because one of the shared songs exists in a vastly different form on the live album – while the studio version of “The Nearness” came in at just under 8 minutes, on Durbē it stretches to over 21 glorious minutes. And perhaps this is why my brain latched onto Durbē much more strongly than Centres: the live format really allows Ian the space to do his thing, i.e., some sort of sorcery where tape is looped, delayed, distorted, and further manipulated through various faulty cassette machines, providing a gorgeous bed of decaying, droning sounds for Ian’s beautiful vocals that are sometimes nearly operatic, sometimes also looped and distorted. Without the time constraints of a physical album release, Ian is able to push his initial more controlled studio experiment to its limits and beyond, and to great effect. Indeed, the word “celestial” appears in a couple of the comments on Bandcamp, and, following the literal hundreds of times I have listened to this album, I have to agree with that description.
Anyway, all that is to say that I would highly recommend listening to both Durbē and Centres, in whatever order. For that matter, I would highly recommend listening to Ian’s entire discography. I for one will be revisiting most of it soon, as pretty much all of his releases have ended up both in my vinyl collection and on my AOTY lists.
- Spotlight, Version B
Have you ever gotten into an artist because of someone you know, to somehow understand someone you know? I once knew someone in Ian’s close personal circle, via someone in my close personal circle, though perhaps ‘I was once adjacent to’ might be a better phrase to describe our (non-)relationship. In the couple of decades I was adjacent to this person, I never managed to understand a single thing about them. But one of the ways I attempted to understand them (or at least to gain some insight into why I couldn’t understand them) was to take a listen to Ian’s work. For this person, though they talked about Ian’s work semi-frequently, had noted that they were unable to listen to Ian’s work, because it made them think too much, it stirred up too much. And so, to try and parse out what that could possibly mean, I bought an album of Ian’s, then another, then another, and felt that I ended up understanding Ian through his work much more than I understood this person I was adjacent to. I am no longer adjacent to that person and will never be again, but I am grateful for our past adjacent-ness simply because it introduced me to Ian’s work. ↩︎
- Spotlight, Version B
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BIG|BRAVE just dropped a pre-release for their new record, “in grief or in hope.” If the first track is any indication of the rest, it should be great.
https://bigbrave.bandcamp.com/album/in-grief-or-in-hope
(CC @buffyleigh)
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Orchestra Harlow – Hommy (A Latin Opera) (1973, Puerto Rico/Cuba/US)
Continuing our journey through the epic Fedi-sourced catalogue of must-hear albums, our next spotlight is on number 1039 on The List, submitted by myself (buffyleigh). This spectacular Afro-Caribbean/salsa opera was inspired by The Who’s rock opera 'Tommy', with a similar narrative framework (the titular character is deaf and blind, and is a fantastic conga player) but all original songs, with lyrics by Puerto Rican composer and singer Genaro “Heny” Álvarez. Headed by American bandleader and producer Larry Harlow, over 60 Puerto Rican, Cuban, and American musicians were in this Fania-released production, including the fabulous Cuban singer who would later be known as the “Queen of Salsa”, Celia Cruz.
Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at https://linernotes.club/@1001otheralbu[email protected] or on the blog: https://1001otheralbums.com/2025/12/23/orchestra-harlow-hommy-a-latin-opera-1973-puerto-rico-cuba-us/
Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a Songlink: https://album.link/i/1464282074
Happy listening!
#OrchestraHarlow #OrquestaHarlow #CeliaCruz #TheWho #Fania #salsa #AfroCubanMusic #AfroCaribbeanMusic #LatinMusic #Cuba #PuertoRico #1970s #music #1001OtherAlbums
