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Concordia Viols - Crye. English Viol Music. On Metronome METCD1020.
Metronomehttps://www.allmusic.com/album/crye-mw0001242600 |
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+1 on Bruce Cockburn: I like "High Winds, White Sky : 1971 : early, happy, trippy, folky Obscure Ann Richards & Stan Kenton : Two Much : 1961 : slowburn jazz vocals Sea Level : (self titled ) 1977 : smooth and funky jazz fusion, a great lineup. Sea Level: One the Edge : 1978 : funky and musical jazz fusion, wow! The Beau Brummels : Bradley’s Barn : 1968: early San Fran folk Rock Ron Elliott: The Candelstickmalker : 1969 : only sole effort of Beau Brummels member : Dark and musical Poi Dog Pondering : Pomegranite : 1995 : sonically interesting and intense release from the Austin-based musical "family’ that featured Frank Orall |
Not really sure if this qualifies as obscure. Perhaps less known and certainly underappreciated. One of the finest voices ever. "Greetings From LA" Tim Buckley Unfortunately, there is no video from this album, but I did find this gem from his album "Sefronia". https://youtu.be/LtU-9EMSYu0 |
Red Steagall - Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music (if you can find it) Swingle Singers - Anyone for Mozart? Glen Campbell - The Astounding 12-String Guitar of Glen Campbell George Jones - My Very Special Guests Koerner, Ray, and Glover - Blues, Rags, and Hollers Koerner, Ray, and Glover - The Return of Koerner, Ray, and Glover Love - Love Love - Forever Changes The Roland Kirk Quartet - Rip, Rig, and Panic The Incredible String Band - The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter Townes Van Zandt - For the Sake of the Song John Fahey - The Dance of Death & Other Plantation Favorites The Fugs - The Fugs First Album The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sound of the 13th Floor Elevators The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Flying Burrito Bros The Flying Burrito Brothers - Last of the Red Hot Burritos |
Mùm. Finally we are No-one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R1lYsF4W0k&list=PLplZ_yA5BHkJ3Wrr2_BDhlhy44FTkEycF |
Flim &/and the BB's - Tricycle - Not sure if it's obscure but great music nonetheless. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YCgIorbove4 |
I have a solid list that you guys may not have heard Oteil and Peacemakers - Love of a lifetime or Believer Some offshoot not well known Garcia stuff unless you are a head. All might find them interesting Hooterall Fireup Diga Rythm Band- Mickey Hart Danny Cox- Life at the family dog or other stuff from him |
Every time I come across a copy of Ralph Graham's album Differently in a used record store (which is often) I buy it and give it away to a friend. Great early-70s soul, halfway between Bill Withers and Johnnie Taylor. It was finally uploaded to the major streaming platforms, but it sounds like a crappy needle drop from a noisy old copy. |
Igor Stravinsky L'Histoire du Soldat Deutsche Grammophon recorded 1975 Boston Symphony Players This never made it to CD. It's an extraordinary performance, both musically and how well it was engineered. Just marvelous. |
"Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records" by Jan Jelinek (2001). This minimalist electronic ambient album is quite special. Great for late night listening. It might be difficult to find a hard copy, but you can check it out at youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mRqd3w68qYN4deTCJUEdJdyMiXwBSBaw4 |
While none of these are sonic spectaculars, I’ve always enjoyed listening to: 1) "Living with the Animals" by Mother Earth (lead singer = Tracey Nelson and song writer Powell St. John who also was with the 13th Floor Elevators) 2) "The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators" (arguably, the first psychedelic rock band and certainly one of the most interesting) 3) "On the Shore" by Trees (a short-lived psychedelic folk-rock band somewhat reminiscent of Fairport Convention)4) "Mirror Man" by Captain Beefhart and the Magic Band (the Captain at his best)5) "The Loading Zone" by The Loading Zone (a much maligned "second rate" house band for the Fillmore and a very harsh recording on RCA records but it’s on Tidal and it brings back a lot of memories) 6) "Ahead Rings Out" by Blodwyn Pig (evocative of early Jethro Tull, not surprisingly given that at least one member of the group played in the other band). 7) "The Sons of Champlin" by The Sons of Champlin (sort of like Tower of Power, again there were personnel exchanges between these groups)8) "Big Brother and the Holding Company" (with Janis as the lead singer, doing the finest renditions of "Ball and Chain" and "Summertime" I’ve heard)9) "My Griffin is Gone" (by country rock singer Hoyt Axton but it’s not country) 10) "Buenos Noches from a Lonely Room" (Dwight Yoakam in an interesting performance and an excellent recording but in my much disliked country music genre, likely an artifact of me growing up in Phoenix and having to listen to that on the radio)11) "It’s a Beautiful Day" by the group of the same name (the San Francisco sound at it’s pinnacle). |
dweller2 I was going to suggest Wishbone Ash's Argus for the way-cool and melodic dueling guitars, but you beat me to it, so here goes: Frank Zappa's first CD was a double, Apostrophe and Overnight Sensation. He absolutely had his best musicians during this era. The instrumental title track to the former was written for the ex-Cream bassist Jack Bruce, and he romps. Jean-Luc Ponty appears on violin, and George Duke asks the question, "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?" , with references to "The toilet seat", and certain anatomical parts feeling like a "Pair of maracas". Zappa's guitar work also superb, as are his compositions, and we learn about "The Slime oozing out of your TEEVEE set". |
Buddy Guy's Living Proof. Serious blues from the man whom Eric Clapton called the best guitar player in the world, and about whom Jimi Hendrix said that Heaven would be lying at Buddy Guy's feet while he performed. In addition to the great electric guitar blues, there are acoustic songs that should be in all stereo demo rooms, in order to test speakers. |
'Episode' by Avo Demirdjian, electric violin+band Here is some prog rock from 2016. Start with the 3rd track, when the album really starts to take off. Here's that track at YouTube -- as good as it is here, it truly shines in hi-rez. Trust me on that. I mastered the album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAgP-Su0bJo |
Knopfler - Good On You Son Mainstream, but awesome. Great textures and groove throughout song and actually the whole album. https://youtu.be/JIBCHh-fMUE |
While obscure is highly subjective, I love this post! So I will post more than one suggestion! My top two "out there" pics are in the new age-ish category (though new age does these recordings a disservice):
If you are into the ECM jazz label, which could be obscure for some but hardly so for others, there is one release that is an absolute gem without much attention:
I always loved these two 80s releases which never got too much attention (though some may disagree) ... these are in the 4AD / Dead Can Dance genre:
For a last song recommendation, something from a well know band:
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I've been listening to a lot of Blues and Prog Rock lately, so my high recommended Prog albums (that you won't hear much about here in the States) are by Southern Empire, Riverside, Porcupine Tree (Steven Wilson), Moonrise. Then there are some blue artists in the States that you won't hear much about but are worth hearing like Shuggie Otis (Strawberry Letter 23), Billy Paul, George Benson. There's is a lot of old vinyl music out there that deserved to be heard and those albums you may not find in the new vinyl box and this is what makes them obscure. ChuckStereo |