opus111 Beiderbecke's only piano recording. Whatever has happened to our red, jazz-loving, eight-legged cephalopod of friend from Austria? ;) #jazz@redoctopus
opus111 This album and Only the Only are probably my two fave Sinatra LPs. Night sounds for those who may be out there.

In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning (Frank Sinatra)

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opus111 Whipped Cream and Other Delights features one of the best album covers I know. Live, Alpert used to joke: "Sorry, we can't play the cover for you." (reblip)
opus111 Entre l'est et l'ouest, la tradition et le nouveau. RB@SabineWe: "@TheJohnC (rb)." #classical (reblip)
opus111 Looking forward to a night of dark brooding at the laundromat. Nothing like an impending existential crisis to brighten your day ;) Off I go.
opus111 Joe Meek, "the alchemist of pop," achieved some pretty wondrous sounds in his small studio. Snapshots in time. .@melodyofyourlife. RB & TY @JA_ABBOTT (reblip)
opus111 More of my fave R&B - No words can add to the song itself.
opus111 From one of Sun Ra's more comprehensible, if rare, albums - Lanquidity. @redoctopus @SabineWe #jazz @franswa

Sun RaLanquidity

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opus111 A new album (with Toumani Diabate) has just been released. thanks - @Word_Bandit: "Thanks. RB @TheJohnC: @nonchalant "Ali Farka Toure – Savane"" (reblip)
opus111 From their last album together - @Word_Bandit

Ali and Toumani~Ruby

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opus111 @ginhollow My favourite Debussy interpreter, alongside Gieseking.
opus111 Thanks for the slow mov't from the Hammerklavier. There's absolutely nothing quite like late Beethoven. @akiraboy2000 #classical
opus111 Nothing quite like Lady Day. #jazz @TheJohnC: "Hi & Thanks again @redoctopus: "TY RB@grey_cat: "@redoctopus""" (reblip)
opus111 I noticed your versions of the great Beatles tune. @BBWolfey Here's Wes Montgomery weighing in - a misstep, I think, but still worth hearing.

'Alabama Bound' LEADBELLY, Blues Guitar Legend

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opus111 Who are the people with "top ten" badges? I've yet to encounter one. #classical
opus111 #classical I love this mov't. @franswa: "@opus111 of course made me think about Beethovens last 3 pianosonates" (reblip)
opus111 Welcome @NewageBlipper - with some atmospherics from Brian Eno and Harold Budd.
opus111 From that pastoral masterpiece of an album, Village Green. @eubieland
opus111 Frontman from the Paragons delivering up a gem #reggae @Meowienyc @dubian
opus111 I'm reblipping my own, initial blip - just because I want people to hear this. And masturbation is never a bad thing. (reblip)
opus111 Nathan Milstein, with my favourite interpretation of Bach's mighty chaconne @katiekissedvinyl @ClassicalAct @pjhanse #classical
opus111 A super closer to 12 golden greats. (reblip)

WEEN Fluffy

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opus111 Das ist ja voll der Hammer, Alter! ;) Really loving it. @redoctopus: "Sonny Criss – Blues In My Heart" (reblip)
opus111 I love this Nilsson version of the classic - @BunnyNut - produced by a debauched John Lennon.@DuncanDogg @jlw3rd@killerswp@BBWolfey@Hazel143@ginhollow
opus111 This is the music we should actually get to hear while waiting at the airport. @franswa (reblip)

Brian Eno2-1

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opus111 Dolphy was something of a miracle worker. - thanks - #jazz and @akiraboy2000 (reblip)
opus111 Back at you with another classic Lee Perry production. #reggae @RadioFreeIllinois. Also @Meowienyc @fluffyboots
opus111 @opus111: "One of the greatest pieces in all of music: wordless testament to the transcendence of the #blues (circa '27-28)." Also @BluesdaddyD@helonc (reblip)
opus111 The great R&B is the stuff of capital "s" Singing. We either need to spell it that way or to come up with a new word altogether. How about "redding?"
opus111 Speaking of Belew - @eubieland - get a load of the look Tina casts his way during his solo, as if to ask, "How is he doing that?" & @RadioFreeIllinois
opus111 Great to find someone who makes choice picks from the classical repetoire - @eleniap. Here's a little bit of the Michelangelian magic.
opus111 Just read a review of a Nickelback show - similar in tone to the Gulag Archipelago, which recounts the horrors of the labour camps under soviet rule.
opus111 "Hangover" doesn't quite capture what I'm feeling. So I'm going to spell it backwards and coin a new term, "revognah." I've got a serious revognah.

The Rift by Ween

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opus111 You should check out Jimmy Smith's "The Sermon," another stellar late-night #jazz record - and featuring Burrell on the gueetar. @eubieland: @jas13 (reblip)

KENNY BURRELL, Midnight Blue

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opus111 One More Time, coupled with the Mikey Dread version. From the mighty Sandinista! @RadioFreeIllinois

The Clash ~ One More Time & Dub

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DoctorOfJazz Nice one Ty@CamelWalk: "Dr. Lonnie Smith – I Can't Stand It ... Cheers! (reblip)

'Cocaine Habit Blues' THE MEMPHIS JUG BAND (1929) Memphis Blues Legend

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opus111 One of her many versions of this devastating song. @redoctopus @steveshelley TheJohnC
opus111 Dear Nickelback, Thank you for simulating in me the feeling of what it is like to put my genitals through a meat-grinder.

Händel: suite in sol min HWV 452 Keith Jarrett, piano

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eleniap A 1946 recording by virtuoso violonist Alfredo Campoli & National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Victor Olof, complete (18min)
smilecin have you heard of Blo? @opus111 fantastic psychedelic African rock/groove. ;-)

BloBeware

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opus111 And with this sublime little ditty, the calendars will be reset - and based on the year of Bach's death. I hereby blip this in the year 260 A.D. ;)
bobfrombrockley The Fattie/Money Maker story 1968 @modarcadia (also @opus111

Clancy Eccles Fattie Fattie

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eleniap By Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, complete (48min)
opus111 The Germans call beer, 'liquid bread' (flüssiges Brot). I wonder if Luther's translation of the bible says that man can live by liquid bread alone.
opus111 This was Bix's only piano recording - @tiofyra. Also for @TheloniousJim and @garbageman01.
opus111 @melodyofyourlife listeners (36,273) minus mine (299) = 35,974, the population of Geraldine, Alabama. I hereby rename that city, melodyofyoulife ;)
opus111 We have a saying in English, "Seeing red," which means to be angry or annoyed. I have new saying for listening to good jazz - "Hearing @redoctopus."
opus111 I'm well here, Az. I'm about to carry out my domestic duties: to do dishes, cook supper, & clean up cat poo. You know, the usual! ;) @JanetSEyre
opus111 @eubieland @JanetSEyre - a breakdown in international communication. That's how wars start, you know?! ;) Happy that Az has cleared up the confusion.

Boards of Canada-in a beautiful place out in the country

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TJim "FELA" by Hugh Masekela ... I could play this track over and over and over, etc Give it a spin! Dedicated to South Africa and the World Cup of Soccer

Hugh MasekelaFela

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opus111 Bud Powell, mad genius. Exhibit A. ;) Reblippification and thanks @rosenbloom: "He's reciting poetry as he plays. . . ." (reblip)
steveshelley some inspiration for the high confessions recording session this weekend

ChangeKilling Joke

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eleniap Interpreted by Corey Cerovsek (violin), Kim Kashkashian (viola) & Gardner Chamber Orchestra, complete (29 min)
opus111 These are among the most magical minutes in music (1928). (reblip)
opus111 I'm remembering the time when "blipping" meant doing something you're not allowed to say on TV. Oh, and this is a masterpiece of a song. Enjoy!
opus111 There is no hell, but my vision of it involves a never-ending rotation of musicals and Phil Collins singing songs from Disney movies. Pogues, anyone?

The Pogues-Hell's Ditch

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eleniap Interpreted by Jupiter String Quartet, complete (25 min)
eleniap Guitar played by Narciso Yepes, complete (21 min)
opus111 I have two large framed prints in my apt: One of J.S. Bach, and one of this man. You know the photo. @BluesdaddyD
akiraboy2010 Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters - Popcorn | cool its like a JB groove! thank you | @medina: "Sente o groove!" (reblip)
eleniap By Borromeo String Quartet with violist Liz Freivogel & cellist Daniel McDonough (Jupiter String Quartet), complete (42 min)
opus111 I bid adieu with a classic of its kind.

The Dynamites ~ Kingston Dub

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opus111 Chovo Borraro, 'Blues para un Cosmonauta.' Bluesy jazz by a cosmonaut from Argentina.
opus111 Not sure if this gets my mojo or my juju working.
opus111 I just read that the albums Synchro System & Aura are being released on a single CD. See my last blip for more King Sunny goodness from that era.
opus111 Your Steely Dan, 'Reelin in the Years,' inspired this blip - from one the brilliant Jesus of Cool record. @greentrees
opus111 RB! @anothercraze: "You should totally be following each other: @ElNito wins for best uploads ever and @opus111 has music-smarts coming out the ears" (reblip)

CHANDRA kate 1980

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opus111 This is the very first version of the song I heard - @steveshelley.
liminal Life Line – Életvonal (2007)
liminal High Tone / Delhi, Katmandu
opus111 Sitting on a patio today, someone was blasting this album from an apartment window above. Dedicated to whoever you are.
opus111 This is the only documented footage of Getz & Coltrane together - with Peterson on piano, and the Cobb / Chambers rhythm section! Yikes @TheloniousJim

Stan Getz and John Coltrane

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opus111 Yo la Sun Ra - with a picture.
opus111 Dear Flashbacks, R.S.V.P.
opus111 From Zombies frontman's solo debut. His 'Misty Roses' is not in the blipiverse, so here's another gem.
opus111 The Year that Bossa Nova Broke - 1962.

Stan Getz, Tom Jobim & Charlie Byrd - Desafinado

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opus111 From 'Trombone Jazz Samba.' I'm not the biggest fan of the vibraphone, but sometimes it's just perfect. #jazz for @redoctopus.
opus111 Is it true that an inspired album title makes the perfect name for a firstborn child - in this case, 'Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas'? @anothercraze
opus111 A picture of Hardy holding a bust of Beethoven? Somebody's after opus111's heart!
opus111 Television - somewhere between the abacus and the internet.
musicjunkies What day is it? TGIW! @Echo_L - some words of wisdom "when you are getting older you will start listening to country music"
opus111 A fave #blues clip - his hair is almost as wild & wicked as his playing. I'm actually listening to a great Hopkins comp (on SPV) as I type. RB @ElNito (reblip)

Lightnin HOPKINS

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opus111 Thanks and RB@24websurf. Also sending this short dance lesson to @TheNewYorkChimes & @anothercraze. (reblip)

Rock The Boat 1974 Hues Corporation

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opus111 1970 soul jazz produced by Herbie Mann. I don't own this record but will snap it up when I come across it. @34thStreetVintage @neo_akboy @garbageman01
avivajazz Sonny Criss (alto sax) | Blue Prelude | #jazz #jazzaviva
avivajazz Sonny Criss (as) | Smile (1967) | Walter Davis Jr (p) Paul Chambers (b) Alan Dawson (d) | #jazz #jazzaviva
opus111 'Grizzely Bear,' 1967. Host: 'That is 'Banana. I have heard so much about this guy.'
opus111 This video is right up there with 'Gandhi.' Where is that woman today? Thanks and RB ---->@steveshelley. (reblip)
opus111 I discovered Sweetheart of the Rodeo as a teen. It pointed me to my last blip, the Jim Reeves original, & to the existence of the Louvin Brothers!
opus111 For anyone who hasn't check out Crosby's 'If Could Only Remember my Name,' here's @tiofyra's invitation to do so: "something gorgeous to say thanks!" (reblip)
opus111 Martin Denny, with his 'bachelor pad royale' variation on the #jazz standard, for @redoctopus @avivao & SabineWe.
opus111 'Oh, the snot has caked against my pants / It has turned into crystal,' -- which leads to making 'my soul ascend.' Only on Forever Changes.
opus111 What happens when you blast the music of birthday boys John Lee Hooker, Debussy & Stockhausen simultaneously? Like swallowing the 20th century whole.
opus111 Dub, the matriarch of the three-cat household, is a perfect orb. Diet calls. This music's new to me, and for that I'm thankful to @melky. (reblip)
opus111 In memory of Abbey Lincoln (d. Aug. 14 2010). 'When will trouble let up? This heartache is letting me down.' A fave for @steveshelley & @BluesdaddyD.
opus111 In memory of jazz songstress Abbey Lincoln (1930 - Aug. 14 2010), with what is perhaps her most ecstatic vocal performance. This is something else.
opus111 In memory of jazz songstress Abbey Lincoln (1930 - Aug. 14 2010), a champion of the people and culture of Africa.

"Walk Right In" Gus Cannon Documentary Cannon's Jug Stompers

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opus111 Another Dylan number from the Wilburys' debut. I have my dad to thank for having this LP in my collection.

Tweeter and The Monkey Man- The Traveling Wilburys (CD) HD

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The Funkees- Slipping Into Darkness

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opus111 Leaving with another psych gem. Walka-walka-walka -- going places.
opus111 Enter sitar. More from these psychedelic folksters.
opus111 From 'The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter.' For @greentrees.
opus111 Big thanks & RB@liminal: "Sounds Galactic: An Astromusical Odyssey (1971), London Phase 4 Stereo label." Bouncing to @garbageman01 & @anothercraze. (reblip)
opus111 We are built so that the so-called meaning of life lies in the fact that we are so profoundly unable to understand anything. http://tiny.cc/76ufs
opus111 My dad once told me a story about Cohen at a party in L.A. - dipped a woman's hair in his drink & then licked it. He wasn't slapped. @garbageman01
garbageman01 Classic . . . but the Beatnigs video's even better (said without a trace of irony) . . . thanks, @01dela (reblip)
opus111 Poetry of the blues: Son House gave up god for the guitar.
opus111 Time for a little Shaft and a totally unnecessary drink. I will also upload a great reggae version if it's not already here. For @neo_akboy.
opus111 'Geschlechtsverkehr' literally means 'gender traffic' but is a German euphemism for sex & possibly the greatest word in the history of civilization.
opus111 The University of Toronto, School of Management has a new slogan - 'a new way of thinking.' I'm thinking they left out a key fifth word: 'not.'
opus111 I'm just dying to listen to a dark and dreary requiem mass from the year 1605.
opus111 I think this was the first thing ever recorded by Columbia records. The date matches. Confirmation would be cool.

ORIGINAL DIXIE LAND JAZZ BAND 1917

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opus111 Davis once said that the best compliment he ever got came when Dizzy asked him for a second copy of a Miles album that he'd worn thin with listening.
opus111 Lady Day. Also recommending Wes Montgomery's version of this standard.
opus111 'Baby Don't You Weep.'

Garnett Mimms & The Enchanters--- Baby Don't You Weep

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opus111 Jackie Wilson's 'You Got Me Walking.'
opus111 I bought 1954's 'Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy' on impulse about ten years ago. The old guy at the record store said he cried when he first heard it.
opus111 I recently picked up a reissue of 'Satch Plays Fats.' It includes the 1955 album & earlier (holy) Hot Fives versions of the same Fats Waller material.

Louis Armstrong "Aint misbehavin"

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opus111 'Farmisht, Flatulence, Origami, ARF!!! and me.' I was just wondering how the tongue-twister of an album title came about - @steveshelley.
opus111 Um Gottes Willen! - some fine fine stuff, again with Rother and Dinger -- almost 40 years ago.
opus111 Now this is some nifty stuff - Florian with Rother and Dinger before the days of Neu!
opus111 From the same 'Stone Flower' album. I've decided that the great 'Wave' loses out by a hair, despite an album cover that features a giraffe.
opus111 Possibly my fave Jobim album - 'Stone Flower.'
opus111 Always happy to discover albums I don't know. @steveshelley
opus111 I just love this killer footage. Oh, Was Santana ever imprisoned for collaborating with the guy from Matchbox 20 & Chad Kroeger?

Santana Feat Neal Schon Live 70's

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opus111 I'm not a big Santana fan, but I'm not against letting this live footage kick my ass. Fantastic.
opus111 I have a friend in his sixties who just LOVES Yello. Yes, it's true.

yello i love you ( extended mix )

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opus111 Title track from Pas Nicholas' 'Na Teef Know The Road of Teef,' recorded in Ginger Baker's Nigerian studios in 1973 - now reissued on Daptone records.

1 Na Teef Know the road of Teef

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opus111 1961's 'The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra' has been getting some serious mileage these past couple of weeks.
opus111 Back to my dirty litter box I go -- @melky tells me to keep my 'paws off' Lee Hazlewood, because he's 'her man.'
opus111 I always think of Dylan's 'I want you' (below) with the entrance of the piano on this Harrison, 1974.
opus111 From a comp that I once considered a guilty pleasure. For better or for worse, I no longer feel guilty.
opus111 Taj Mahal is a place where rock, R&B and mind-blowing head attire meet. Jesse Davis on guitar.
opus111 The wrestler curiosity featuring the young Greg Sage of Wipers 'fame,' on guitar ~1971 - for @sandyland & @garbageman01

BeauregardeTestify

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steveshelley i always love it when this one pops up on my shuffle - old friends who followed their own path...............--------------->>>>>>>>>>

Aluminum GroupPop

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opus111 'The Heavenly Music Corporation,' (part 1/2) - Side 1 of Fripp's & Eno's 'No Pussyfooting' (1973).
opus111 I wonder if there was a British musician who didn't touch a sitar in 1966.

The KinksFancy

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opus111 Thanks, @TheNewYorkChimes. Songs for distingué music lovers. . . . - & I'm really into your neighbour's blog, too.
opus111 From the stellar 1974 album of the same name, with the great cow bell during the solos. @Shanti_baba

Gene ClarkNo Other

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opus111 My g-friend doesn't like the idea of naming our first-born daughter, Robert Zimmerman. What's up with that?
opus111 I've always wished that Stereolab would put out an instrumental album. Thoughts?
opus111 Tasteful use of the vibes here. Even as a kid I loved this instrumental pause on Side One.
opus111 The vibraphone isn't my favourite instrument, but Hutchinson puts it to memorable use here on this classic cut. @garbageman01 @Mysterymix & @Diordan
opus111 "The snot has caked against my pants / It has turned into crystal." ;) But the real magic comes with the shift in intensity midway. @greentrees @melky

Marie Laforêt / Et si je t'aime (Sunday Mornin') (1968)

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ayogafriend (rb) hey @koiheart I was looking for a worthy Bruckner motet, not easy! so I asked @opus111 and he had this to share, which is stellar, you enjoy (reblip)

AVoxxOs Justi

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opus111 Great de Machaut, @Perotin. His mass should be canonized as a saint. As you likely know, Gombert wrote some stunning music - but was also a pedophile.
opus111 That last song put me in mind of this, from the album Joia.
opus111 Cool to hear - an intoxicating band for sure - RB@steveshelley: "so much fun to watch Michael get turned on to Os Mutantes last night at Maxwell's." (reblip)

20-bat-macumba

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opus111 This slow-building traditional, the centrepiece of Unhalfbricking.
opus111 I wonder how it came about that SY covered this Dylan tune. . . . @steveshelley
opus111 Following up my last blip, my guess is that the Red Hot Chili Peppers take their name from this, Jelly Roll's legendary band.
opus111 Robert Johnson, with a song that the Stones would popularize on the great Let it Bleed. #blues
opus111 'Still I'm Sad,' one of the Yardbirds' most special recordings.

Still I'm Sad- The Yardbirds- 1965

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opus111 Shuteye thanks to stellar music fans @garbageman01 and @TheloniousJim. (reblip)

this here bobby timmons.wmv

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opus111 Another song from Chet Atkins in Holywood. For @melky.

Chet Atkins "Meet Mr Callaghan" (version 1)

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opus111 From the elevatoresque oddity that is Chet Atkins Goes to Holywood - an album that has completely won me over. Two songs for @greentrees.
opus111 Music is a playground. Thanks and RB@Perotin: "Pre-Moog props to @ opus111." Also for @melodyofyourlife & @eleniap. (reblip)
opus111 I sometimes wonder if the MP3 / computer speaker culture will bring about a renaissance of mono. Thanks & RB@rosenbloom. (reblip)
opus111 The vault of the sky has opened & I find myself bathing in the light from on-high (which is to say, I now have my 500 badge). ;) Thanks to @JanetSEyre
opus111 Wondering if this might not be the guiltiest of all possible pleasures. . . . For @ragtimerebecca, @Margir & the guilty pleasure #velveeta theme.
opus111 It's only a hunch, but my guess is that this is what inspired Eric's Trip to cover 'Open your Heart to me.' Big thanks & RB@randyhate & @anothercraze" (reblip)
opus111 Dear God (or better: prospective employer), If you exist and know of a job for an articulate person with a good command of spelling, then GIMME JOBZ!

XTCDear God

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steveshelley @opus111: "Hope you enjoy this late sixties Jamaicana. A beaut for (reblip)
opus111 Something my dad listened when I was a young boy.
opus111 The levy of my memory breaks. The past comes flooding in. Thanks and RB@chazzz. Also for @ragtimerebecca @colourjuinky @organicsue @neo_akboy@crazydv (reblip)
opus111 Tilting at windmills of the mind. Courtesy of, thanks and RB@JanetSEyre (reblip)
opus111 And now to pretend that we`re in a jazz bar on a space ship bound for travel to a time when Sun Ra hits number 1 on teh charts. Thank you & RB@wetrust (reblip)

Sun RaAstro Black

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opus111 I hope these night sounds find some listeners out there.

Chopin Nocturne Op.27 No.1 (Arthur Rubinstein)

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opus111 Who knew that @Perotin was alive & well at 800+ years of age here in blipdom? Here's somethign from your salad days. Also for @anothercraze @koiheart

Leonin: Dulce lignum

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opus111 A great Public Image Ltd. performance. Great, but my feeling is that Johnny Rotten is in perpetual need of a good old-fashioned wedgie. RB@neo_akboy (reblip)

PIL CAREERING POPTONES USA TV 1980

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opus111 The cat-in-sink name's Calypso, daughter of the orbed one, Dub. They produce mass amounts of poo in a box filled with sand. RB@anothercraze (reblip)

Jacno: Triangle (1979 France Synth Underground New Wave Art Rock Classic)

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opus111 To anyone looking for great country, I suggest Lewis' stuff from 69/70. Another Place Another Time & She Still Comes Around are available on 1 CD!
opus111 An intoxicating groove from Coltrane & Dolphy (on flute), just before they took heat for getting too 'experimental.' For @TheloniousJim & @SabineWe
LeoMahlerBR For @opus111 and @ClassicalAct. A full performance with Chicago Symphony and the master Pierre Boulez. I hope you enjoy it!

Berg Lulu Suite, Debussy Jet D'eau & Stravinsky Firebird Boulez, Chicago So, 2000

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opus111 'Manassas' is a masterwork - and I've been relistening to it today. But this is the first time I've come across this footage.
opus111 I turned 31 in May. My math may be getting rusty in my old age, but I think that 31 rounds up to 40. Time for a mid-life crisis! Inspired by @tiofyra
koiheart rb@avivao: "Ahmad Al-Jawadi | Sufi Arabic Violin | Elegy (Gole Sangam)" The beautiful, sad, and wise are so nicely interwoven here...thank you!! (reblip)

Sufi ِArabic Violin. Dua müziği, كمان، موسيقى صوفية، دعاء

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opus111 One of the lonestar state's most famous bluesmen.
opus111 'Treadwell no more,' from the Grizzly Man soundtrack. Yikesingly good improvisation by Thompson. For @eubieland.
opus111 Dear Doctor. Please inform the world that the level of happiness in marriage is often reciprocally inverse to the work put into the wedding.
opus111 This just came to me - more Jack Nitzsche - and, of course, sounds from a wonderful movie. Enjoy.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest-Opening Theme & Closing

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opus111 From 1973's closing time - the kind of thing a piano man's playing somewhere as the drunks rest their heads against the bar. TY & RB@chelseagirl19. (reblip)
opus111 And the thang-shaking continues. New to me - thanks & RB@melky: "this swedish group did a whole LP of ... Hildegard songs and it's really. good." (reblip)

Garmarna Euchari

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opus111 I'll take their 1970 Electronic Meditation over either decade. Inspired by @garbageman01 ("I'll take the '80s over the '90s") & @DJFrankie.
opus111 The anachronistic CA legislation is a case of stalling the move for a richer conception of rights, the crowning principle of a liberal democracy.
opus111 Feeling particularly chipper on this fine summer day. I just realized that life is a palindrome spelled death. @anothercraze
opus111 Sweet, thanks & RB@malcher: "@ opus111 Karen Dalton's GREAT rendition of this song." (reblip)
opus111 Another southern delight: the tradition of sacred harp singing. The choir really does dound like a harmonica. @anothercraze
opus111 Happy to hear it's more than a place where antiquated ideas cling on to life longer than they should. @anothercraze
opus111 This, and everything else on the Kung Fu Meets the Dragon record, reflects Jamaic's obssession with movies (1975). Fans will recognize the riddem.
opus111 From a Lee Perry-directed album of the same name, 1969. This reflects Jamaica's fascination with cowboy / western movies.

The Upsetters❥Return of Django

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opus111 I've heard rumours that Kenny G's upcoming album will be called Songs in the Key of Holy Shit These Songs Make Me Want to Shoot Myself. @TheloniousJim
opus111 If I could only land a job, my life would go from an unpalatable and warm bud light lime to a glorious pint of Irish stout. - @anothercraze (reblip)
opus111 Shit - I'd better blip this before Shane MacGowan passes out in a gutter in some dark corner of Dublin. ;)
opus111 After tasting Bud Light Lime, it occurs to me that its creators are destined to spend an eternity in hell, where the only available drink will be it.
opus111 This masterwork was given its first performance during World War II - in a prison camp in Poland. This, the Quartet for the End of Time's last mov't.

Messiaen: Louange a l'Immortalité de Jésus

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opus111 Opus cat: Today I choose to look at opus111 as though I've never seen him before. He will still love & feed me & clean my big box full of poo. @melky

Horace Andy-see a mans face

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opus111 There is a common prejudice in the world that goes something like this: 'Classical music is relaxing.' Why must the beautiful also be relaxing?

Bartok: String Quartet Nr.4 Sz91 Amadeus

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opus111 From the ridiculously hot Hot Rats.
opus111 Second only to the music is the term Satie came up with to describe it - 'furniture music' ('musique d’ameublement'). @prescottscott et @SabineWe
opus111 I once slept with my past in a dingy room at memory motel. Thanks &RB@melodyofyourlife. (reblip)

The Rolling Stones- Memory Motel

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opus111 A rare occasion when listening to Jarrett talk pays off. This is phenomenal stuff. Top drawer, top of the pile music courtesy of @TheloniousJim.
opus111 RB@TheloniousJim: "Isle of Wight Fesival 1970. The jam had no name but made the album. When asked what the title was Miles said 'call it anything.'" (reblip)

Miles Davis "call it anything" (Isle of Wight festival 1970)

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opus111 New cat in the apt (& sink) which means that I've been demoted to 4th place on the list of most important mammals in my g-friend's life. @anothercraze (reblip)
opus111 I'm still processing the fact that someone covered this. Wow, I'm not even sure if Lou Reed owns a copy of the album. Thanks & RB@dronnoisseur (reblip)
opus111 The Stones, taking the blues of the more subtle, squeeze-my-lemon variety up a notch. @BluesdaddyD
opus111 And now for a little something by J.S. Periwig's most well-known composer son.
opus111 Soon time for some grievous angeling.
opus111 A fave clip - jesse davis on the gueetar. And what a hat, Taj.
opus111 2 dictionaries open on a desk. The words at the top of each of the four pages: 'Oddfellow of dildo dimple.' Sounds like a demented children's story.
opus111 People confuse the idea of the mixed tape with the artifact of the cassette. Bring back the steady swapping of music, but let the tape RIP. @bestblips (reblip)
opus111 I just took a little walk through the business school at the university. Soon time for a jazz & beer with my good friend, professor polymath.
opus111 Perhaps my all-time Yardbirds fave.
opus111 The title is ambiguous, so I should clarify that this song is not about pouring beer over the greatest musical mind in history. ;)
opus111 And now to pepper my blips with nothing but positively positive uplifting thoughts of the Hallmark variety. ;)
opus111 Fashion-wise it seems that some city women have gone from wearing pants to wearing standard tights to wearing what resemble superhero tights.

Charles Bradley This Love Ain't big enough... Funk 45

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opus111 I've been thinking a lot about the organ lately, isolating some choice recordings that feature it - from classical to the Hammond. 'Rain Forest.'
opus111 It is impossible to read this without picturing Yanni on horseback, at sunset, with wind-swept hair.
opus111 One of the early, massive Moog prototypes is apparently collecting dust in a basement somewhere at the University of Toronto.

Hugo Montenegro Moog Power

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opus111 Everybody's got to learn sometime that there's nothing wrong with bright blue shirts with white polka-dots.
steveshelley ahhhhh - i've been looking for clips from this performance - nice!
opus111 Am presently living up to my role as the only man here by manning the library desk, @anothercraze.
opus111 Richter live in studio - super footage - early Prokofiev sonata. His recordings of the 'war-time sonatas' (6, 7 & 8) are among my fave piano records.

Richter plays Prokofiev Sonate No. 2: Part 1

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opus111 I recommend the soulful 'Life of Contradiction' as an album for people who find it hard to warm up to #reggae.
opus111 Not quite starting my day with chicken and booze, but a strong homemade latte sounds close enough.
opus111 Admiring a 1789 edition of Plato in the Greek - which thankfully includes a translation. . . . in Latin. - & it was probably read by 14 year-olds.
opus111 I don't get all of the Xmas/Xbox/playstation hype. I'm one of those savage types who gave up playing video games when he learned to play with himself.
opus111 I always wonder what makes this kind of thing possible ---> http://tiny.cc/65j6w. From an alternate galaxy - one that is only 6000 years old, I guess.
opus111 That Creationism Theme Park link inspires me to blip yet another one in praise of human folly, which can be as immeasurable as the universe is vast.
opus111 RBababrooks --->@rico: "Baba Brooks is my favourite Jamaican trumpetter. Rumours say he died totally forgotten in some elderly home. Shame!" (reblip)
opus111 If by 'big black cow' they mean either Guiness or Jaegermeister, then we're at T minus two hours. Top 10 obscure SD lyrics ---> http://tiny.cc/t35fv
opus111 It's true. There is a planet - in a galaxy far, far away - where all of the creatures look and sound just like Heino.
opus111 I love how - in the album notes - MG thanks all of the people without whom he COULD have finished the What's Going On a lot sooner.
opus111 Does Type A stand for 'anal' or 'annoying' or maybe 'all of the above'?

Derrick Harriot and Cystalites-Bombshell

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opus111 Mozart turns 255 today - & I'm guessing he's eating warm peanut-butter & banana sandwiches with Elvis at a roadside diner somewhere in South Dakota.
opus111 It appears that one jazz composition technique is to steal something by Miles Davis and then name it after the city you live in.

Lenny BreauToronto

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opus111 That cat would be Fela! @tenderlee: ""great pic of orange cat on deco bed spread :) ty rb @ opus111." (reblip)
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