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Finally picked this up…been on my wishlist for years
Back when Rhino still cared.
Bruno and the Outrageous Methods of Presentation

Bruno and the Outrageous Methods of Presentation is a situationist / aktionist un-group / paramilitary masterminded by the precocious teenage brat Bruno Bof Wilkinson. They play a staunchly uncompromising brand of outsider punk influenced by various forms of occult underground sounds. They are a culmination of everything important to have ever happened in culture and the universe

dive right in there are many many songs to choose from here… he's only 17 and been doing this for awhile

https://outrageousmethodsofpresentation.bandcamp.com/music


https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bruno-and-the-outrageous-methods-of-presentation-interview
Often the gumbo approach to recording an album doesn't always work but I'm enjoying the heck of out of this one by Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy

https://youngfathersofficial.bandcamp.com/album/heavy-heavy

lifted from the Qobuz review

Young Fathers borrows a little bit from a lot of genres—hip-hop, mbaqanga, alt-pop, noise pop, punk, gospel, to name a few—for something that is truly avant.
Nice!

1) Why did you choose this album to listen to?
2) What genre of music does this album best fit into?
3) What distinguishes this album from other recordings by this artist?
4) Would you consider this an essential, "desert island" pick?
5) Which 1 or 2 tracks are the standouts on this album?
contradiction wrote:
Nice!

1) Why did you choose this album to listen to?
2) What genre of music does this album best fit into?
3) What distinguishes this album from other recordings by this artist?
4) Would you consider this an essential, "desert island" pick?
5) Which 1 or 2 tracks are the standouts on this album?


1) I have really gotten into Art Pepper and found at record store
2) Jazz
3) not much…all his stuff is just top notch
4) not yet
5) Patricia. Apparently was featured on a tv show called Botsch which got people into Pepper


More late career Art. A live record cut in Japan in I think 1979.

What I find remarkable about Art is that after being off the scene for about 15 years due to multiple jail times, heroin,  being part of a cult, etc…he came back and recorded some incredible stuff between 1975-1982 before his body gave out. Arguably his comeback years were the peak of his career

This record has a skip but since I paid only a quarter for it I don’t really care.
That's interesting! I may give him a listen . Thanks!
Hutch on a ryan adams kick… strange
Yada wrote:
Hutch on a ryan adams kick… strange
ageed, might need to do a wellness check
Starsky wrote:
5) Patricia. Apparently was featured on a tv show called Botsch which got people into Pepper

thanks for providing a jumping in point
and yes, every comment mentions Bosch

but this comment from Chet bakers drummer was worth reading the comment section
I worked with Chet Baker for many years, and I remember being with Chet on the grass above Santa Monica Beach, and we were talking about different musicians that we liked. I mentioned how much I liked Art Pepper, and Chet looked at me with a smile on his face and said that 'Art Pepper was the most lyrically swinging Alto player ever'!!- And I completely agree. I've always loved Art's tone & phrasing. Man, Art can make me cry & conversely, lift my spirit to the heaven.  Artt Frank long time drummer with Chet Baker.



I assume you knew this was for his daughter

Patricia Ellen Pepper is the estranged daughter of jazz musician Art Pepper. It is assumed that after her mother and father's divorce, Patricia moved with her mother, whom later remarried. There is no other additional information found after their divorce. More… According to the documentary film "Art Pepper: Jazz Survivor," his ex-wife took 12-year-old daughter Patricia to visit Art in prison; thereby proving to their daughter that Art was an animal unworthy of his daughter's love and respect. After being released from prison, Art learned that his daughter, then 30-years-old with two children of her own, lived nearby. So he contacted her, but she didn't want to see him or talk to him, and never did thereafter. In frustration and grief over the estrangement, Art composed his hauntingly beautiful blues Ballad "Patricia."


Found a good live version from a 1978 concert
https://youtu.be/SQPb84jdKNA
No. I didn’t know that…. Just reading Art’s autobiography but it’s so dark


This is such an underrated album…by 2004 very few people were paying any attention to Luna. They had lost a lot of their fanbase and been written off but this album is my third favorite after Penthouse and Bewitched. In DC they had gone from sold out shows at the 930 to non sold out shows at the Black Cat and Dean Wareham was looking worse for the wear. The Luna movie Tell me do you miss me documents this period well. It wasn’t a surprise when they bid adieu shortly after Rendezvous. I wish they had made this record five years prior (after Pup Tent). The first five songs are perfect. Britta’s bass on Astronaut always makes me happy in its Hookian derivation. New Order as usual is an underrated influence on Dean.

Am definitely due for a Luna show. I haven’t seen them since their Penthouse show in late 2019.
The Flithy Six - The Fox

Starsky wrote:its Hookian derivation
love this


Am definitely due for a Luna show. I haven’t seen them since their Penthouse show in late 2019.
yet refused to see them at the birchmere in 2021?
I will never see them in a sit down venue.

This is a rock band not opera.
Starsky wrote:
I will never see them in a sit down venue.

This is a rock band not opera.
fair…

but you might kill yourself when you see their setlist had 2 from Rendezvous and a Cure cover
with an encore of Marquee Moon by Television
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/luna/2021/the-birchmere-alexandria-va-1b8a05d0.html
Hutch surviving a car crash, brain cancer, and COVID only to be taken out by a vapors-induced-heart attack at the sight of a Luna setlist he missed would be so on-brand. Instant HoF status. He'd be our Roberto Clemente.