new list: music we like

so we've got kinda weird taste in music. here are the reasons i've selected these:

butterfly: because it's one of malcolm mclaren's least remembered attempts. i bought this album when it came out way too many years ago and liked the mix of funk and opera. it's definitely dopey, but i still like it.

kew.rhone.: so old that the album is in a wheelchair on life support, but blegvad is highly intelligent and frequently funny, especially here. carla bley (who also worked with zappa), as well as other highly respected musicians like john greaves, joins blegvad for some seriously complicated music which is accompanied by lyrics so densely referenced that there's a flow chart to keep track of it all. not for the stupid.

i'm not in love: ok, so i was an 80s club bunny, but if you can get a better copy than the crappy one on amazon, this was 120 tracks of 2 guys, a piano, and a secretary they pulled out of the office for the whisper thingy at the last minute. i used to listen to this in a recording studio booth at school, where it became this wall of sound- sheer heaven, at least for me. a brilliant piece of studio engineering.

one nation: george clinton, parliament, funkadelic, bootsy collins, bernie worrell, big complicated music to groove to, musicians who were amazing, all kinds of genres brought together in a danceable mode. if you have any rhythm or joie devivre, preferably both, this is it.

space is the place: another complicated, genre-crossing group, sun ra and his arkestra- you can't really even classify it- it's closest to both jazz and classical music, but other influences can frequently be heard. a crazy guy who insisted his musicians conform to sun ra's way of living, kind of like a dojo of music. the guy was apparently hard to live with but light years ahead of his time.