What Are You Listening To?

Catching up on Ibibio Sound Machine today and came across this nifty cover by them of The Cure's "A Forest"

https://youtu.be/Z8z5CAJhC3k

Was trying to figure out why Garvin was listed as  chekerer…is he playing checkers on the album
but that's french for percussion
why are the others not in french?

Side-Shadenfreele wrote:
Was trying to figure out why Garvin was listed as  chekerer…is he playing checkers on the album
but that's french for percussion
why are the others not in french?

Is he playing French percussion or percussion in a French style?

Better explanation: chekere is an alternate spelling of shekere

Bingo

this
seems impressive to get billing on the cover of the album for playing this

I think the tradition in jazz is to either bill everyone or nobody (other than leader) on front cover

It’s not like rock where on back cover you say in small letters “assisted by”

Instrument is pivotal on bossa nova music

Side-Shadenfreele wrote:
Was trying to figure out why Garvin was listed as  chekerer…is he playing checkers on the album
but that's french for percussion

no it isn't. 

sweetcell wrote:

Side-Shadenfreele wrote:
Was trying to figure out why Garvin was listed as  chekerer…is he playing checkers on the album
but that's french for percussion

no it isn't.

well maybe not in Quebec
google led me astray, I can't vouch for that.  Even disogs was kind of weird on the subject of what exactly Garvin did as it has him listed as Shekere

Starsky wrote:
Instrument is pivotal on bossa nova music

can confirm, still the person playing rarely gets billing on the front of an album (although I'm no expert on this topic)

Side-Shadenfreele wrote:
Even disogs was kind of weird on the subject of what exactly Garvin did as it has him listed as Shekere

Discogs likes to use consistent names for instruments and artists. For a new submission, when you start to enter an instrument, it will show accepted names that can be entered. "Chekere" is not found but "Shekere" shows up as an option as soon as you type "she". But for clarity, you can enter an alternate instrument name in brackets after the acceptable instrument name, e.g. "Shekere [Chekere]". This is done a lot for particular synthesizers.

For artists, every artist has a standardized name plus any variations ("Artist Name Variation (ANV)"). ANVs are shown with an asterisk by the name. For example, there is State Of Alert and S.O.A.

This concludes your Discogs lesson for the night.

Damn dude…I am impressed

Can you all please just kiss and get married and go on your honeymoon with your portable vinyl record players? WE ARE ALL SO TIRED WAITING (for closure).

New The Boo Radleys - Keep On With Falling

totally slept on the fact the new Hoodoo Gurus was also out today… sounding pretty great so far, will revisit next week…

Stooges - Stooges

Track 3 sucks

bonobo tiny desk
https://youtu.be/gQ6maLl5pQA

Tropical Fuck Storm - Deep States

there is a WHOLE going on here, jury still out on it..

TiVo/Allmusic has this as part of their description

Tropical Fuck Storm channel the brooding and menacing sound of Nick Cave as well as leader Gareth Liddiard's previous band the Drones.

note: I've never figured out the whole TiVo/Allmusic connection… looks like AllMusic became TiVo at some point and now TiVo feeds AllMusic.

Sp*ti@y description is TFS is weird music for people who are sick of the same old shit..

Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager

yes that's the name of the artist…

next up

Seasick Steve

ditto

Gotta say though it’s not always the case the original vinyl of this smokes the cd issues sound wise