By Gisela Hein, from the Van Nostrand Reinhold Creative Craft Series. Purchased here.
How is everybody doing? Trying to get some music stuff together for future posts but finding it a bit tough going. I basically have just been listening to Ariel Pink and Vince Guaraldi's Christmas album lately. On the reissue front I did want to mention that Jean Le Fennec's Phantastic appears to be out on CD (great French pop weirdness -- check Mutant Sounds) and also that one of my vinyl holy grails, A. Alessandroni's "Industriale" library LP, is now on itunes (!)
Vince G = fave, but if you like Ariel Pink, may I point you in the direction of Darren Sylvester, an Australian artist who made an album to accompany a show of his set in The Carpenters backyard... it's really incredible, home made drum machine etc. Here's a song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3uLrtLEWgg Might be hard to track down the album where you are. If so, let me know.
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seems like a new MP3 reissue label..
You can stream every releases(!) on the deezer.com website.
Vince Guaraldi's Christmas album is in my top 2 for X-Mas albums (the other being The Harry Simeone Chorale's Little Drummer Boy).
ReplyDeleteJust bought Alessandroni's "Industriale" from Amazon (no DRM and it's a buck cheaper). Thanks for the tip. It's really excellent!
Kate: sounds cool, will check it out! I don't know Darren Sylvester -- the Carpenters project looks interesting. By the way, how was the Broadcast show?
ReplyDeleteCheval: Thanks for the link. Pinball looks a bit dodgy, non? These seem like unofficial bootlegs. I wonder if the original artists are getting a penny.
Gregory: I will buy it from Amazon too! I don't know the Harry Simeone Chorale LP -- will look into it.
This CD contains the original album from 1958 (originally titled Sing We Now of Christmas, but reissued a few years later as The Little Drummer Boy to capitalize on the success of the TLDB single):
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I like it. Want to find scratched up vinyl copy.
ReplyDeleteI think this was the version my family owned when i was a kid:
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The Broadcast show was dreamy. Trish looked like a white dress version of Mia Farrow in Secret Ceremony. Dreamsville.
ReplyDeleteDreamy to the max
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