MP Cavalier
- My Music 🎼
- https://mpcav.bandcamp.com/album/gps
- My Hobbies
- Comics, Home Recording
- I play 🎸
- Bass and Guitar
Husband. Father. Music Addict. Co-Host of the "Let's Play Ten" podcast.
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Joined Apr 2022
🎧 U2, "The Unforgettable Fire". The past 48 hours have dealt us 3 major crises (nobody is dead) and needless to say it is not exactly sunshine and rainbows in our house right now. When I came down to the office this morning to start my day, and try to do something normal, my music brain selected this album. Haven't listened to it in 30 years. It's working,. Just waiting for "Wire" to kick my ass.
🎧 Mamogi, "MAMOGI". Three absolute virtuosos - on bass, sax, and drums - perform intricate prog-rock/prog-jazz workouts, with ridiculous solos and time signatures. No vocals needed. But they really should have re-thought the album cover.
🎧 Sweep the Leg Johnny, "Sto Cazzo". Very sad to hear about the death of Steve Sostak this morning. He was a real pioneer, and an activist for action in education. I only got to see STLJ once at a show I was helping to promote many years ago. The mix of punk, jazz, noise-rock, and laser-precise prog shook the room to its core. Rest in Noise, good sir.
🎧 Skeleton Key, "Gravity is the Enemy". Little known project from Eric Sanko (Lounge Lizards). They made three killer albums between 1997 and 2012. If the 1973 version of King Crimson and combined with the 1993 version it might sound like this, replete with "junk" percussion, interpolating arpeggios, and all the levels in the red. Sanko's bass tone is the stuff of dreams.
🎧 Fea, "No Novelties". Remember the band Girl in a Coma? When they split up, the rhythm section formed a four piece Chicana punk band called FEA. Unapologetic, brash, and fearless punk rock. But the records have a very listenable production quality, the music is danceable and sing-a-long ready. I love this band.
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It's an alternate Thursday so there is a new episode of LETS PLAY TEN! Pack a lunch because if ten brand spanking new indie music tracks aren't enough, we've added bonus content! Plus - we talk about AI and it's impact on songwriting and production. Please give us a spin!
🎧 L'il Yachty, "Let's Start Here". When artists step out of their comfort zone and throw their fans a major screwball, the results can be very mixed (Chris Gaines anyone?). Hip-Hop artist L'il Yachty has produced an alt-rock album with some major late night stoner vibes. It's not hip-hop dressed up with wiggly guitars, it's chill-out rock with light brushes of hip-hop and r&b. And it's very good.
🎧 Beth Orton, "Comfort of Strangers". Orton's moody folk-icana usually isn't my cuppa. You know those albums that you just can't pinpoint what you love about them? This is one of those for me. By the time it gets to "Heart of Soul" near the end, I want to go on and on. She had pretty much stripped out the electronica by this time, and it's one of her most enjoyable records.
🎧 King Crimson, "In the Wake of Poseidon". My second favorite band of all time. 'Nuff said eh?
🎧 Opeth, "Heritage". OG fans of Opeth who were aghast at the non-metal direction of their "Damnation" album certainly must have been scratching their heads over this Steven Wilson-produced prog opus. There isn't a death metal riff or cookie monster vocal to be found on Heritage, which I think is their best record. I asked Mika Akerfeldt about the fan reaction in what was supposed to be a 3 minute intervu in 2013. Apologies for the very poor quality.
🎧 Primus, "Frizzle Fry". The band that converted me from a really shitty guitar player to a wanna-be bass player. Saw a video of them on MTV (1991 maybe?) and went out the next morning and bought my first bass. Never looked back.
🎧 Vanishing Twin, "Ookii Gekkou". A little Brazilian psych-jazz, a little neo-lounge, a little westernized afro-funk. So, Stereolab meets Os Mutantes and drives by Talking Heads rehearsal space. It's a really fun listen. Cathy Lucas is an enchanting singer, and the percussion and bass keep it very real, and funky.
🎧 Neko Case, "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood". Summer 2006, we are driving from Indy to NYC. We had a 6 cd changer, and had loaded up on some new music b4 we left town. In the PA mountains, my SO, in the middle of a sentence, breaks off and says "ok hang on because I think I am in love with this album." For reasons we never cared about, this cd got stuck on repeat and had been playing for hours. As with many things in our lives, fate intervened.
https://songwhip.com/neko-case/fox-confessor-brings-the-flood
🎧 Palette Knife, "New Game+". Just released LP from Columbus OH emo-indie trio. The songs are mostly pandemic/quarantine-centric, and the math rock is dialed up a bit. Like the kids say, every track is a banger, the tempos are breakneck paced, and their drummer must be exhausted.
🎧 Low Dose, "Low Dose". The only LP from the Philadelphia quartet comprising the members of Fight Amp and Itarya Rosenberg (Legendary Divorce) on vocals. A snarling punk-grunge slab, replete with will-they-or-wont-they moments of screamo. Get in your car, put it on, drive fast, preferably not into something.
🎧 UK, "Cleveland 1978". Prog's first "supergroup" fizzled out pretty quickly, but that first record is a must-have. Bruford and Wetton were 4 years removed from King Crimson, and Holdsworth and Jobson were just what they needed to push the genre to the next level, while their contemporaries were descending into plot-loss. This was recorded at the Agora in Cleveland, and the band is at the height of its power. I don't think this is commercially available, HMU if interested.
There are two kinds of people in the world. People who think Capt. Beefheart's "Trout Mask Replica" is a masterpiece of incalculable genius, misunderstood by simpletons due to it's immeasurable complexity, and people who think it is unlistenable dogshit, elevated well above it's station to mythological status by people who "get it".
🎧 Porcupine Tree, "The Incident". One of PT's hardest rocking and more complex albums. If I knew at the time it was going to be their last record for 13 years I would have paid closer attention! Steven WIlson's exo-PT work was so uneven it's nice to remember how perfectly executed and well-written most PT albums were. It's neo-prog, it's hard rock, it's alt-rock. Whatever you want to call it, it's undeniably Porcupine Tree. The last great prog band.
🎧 David Byrne, "The Catherine Wheel". This score was commissioned by Twyla Tharpe for her dance project of the same name. It sounds more like "Bush of Ghosts" than it does like Talking Heads, which is not a bad thing. Confession: this is the first time I have ever listened to this entire record.
https://songwhip.com/david-byrne/thecompletescorefromthecatherinewheel
🎧 The Nymark Collective with Kristin Asbjørnsen, "Bessie Smith Revisited". Ummm.....Norwegian improvisational vocalist backed by a jazz quartet (also from Norway) covering Bessie Smith songs at a Jazz festival in Oslo? Sure, that's a thing. I sent an email to Kåre Nymark in 2009 asking how to get this CD in the US. He emailed me back "I'm in Seattle - I will send you one if you buy my new album." Deal!
MP Cavalier
- My Music 🎼
- https://mpcav.bandcamp.com/album/gps
- My Hobbies
- Comics, Home Recording
- I play 🎸
- Bass and Guitar
Husband. Father. Music Addict. Co-Host of the "Let's Play Ten" podcast.
"What are you listening to today?"
https://help.counter.social/en/latest/index.html
Joined Apr 2022