hi! well, first post…without much to say about really, however:
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i have absolutely been high AF and played this whole side to a room full of wonky cuddle puddles. nearly 20 minutes, and a 130 bpm bounce, baby.
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I would LOVE to have been there. I listened to this album for about a year when I first got it.
PS this is the dub, the other side has the club banger on it
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The first Weather Report record is like a continuation of In a Silent Way (which makes sensa as IASW was basically Miles giving Joe Zawinul a lot of rope to shape what the music sounded like.)
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Keith Jarrett really hated electric piano, but that didn’t stop him recording a few albums playing it after/during his time with Miles Davis. This one is interesting, and foreshadows his later collaboration with Jack DeeJohnette (they had already been bandmates with Charles Lloyd and Miles…)
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Karin Krog from Norway. This album Freestyle from 1986, the song “Just Holding On”
Played with Archie Shepp, John Surman, Terje Rypdal.
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Most of Pat Metheny’s output can be called Balearic, but it’s amazing to me just how formed his sound already was so early in his career. He’s the definition of a hard worker, dude is relentless, but this album to me is like starting off on the top floor. Amazing.
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i didn’t listen to the KJ version close enough, but maybe they’re different interpretations of the same song?
i don’t know (you know, har har) that this is necessarily balearic - it’s much more downtempo/trip hop adjacent and has been sampled as such. but they do have the same title. and they both groove. another one that was fun to get super high and knock your friends on to their heels when hella stoned/played loud.
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A favourite from Miles.
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Wayne Shorter with Milton Nascimento. Cracking tune.
I’ve been fortunate to see Pat Metheny live twice in the past two years. He’s exactly as you describe. Dude has been in the game for nearly 50 years and is such a consummate pro, full of energy and positivity on stage and just delighted to be sharing his talents with us mere mortals.
I’m far from a completist buts he’s worked with David Bowie, Steve Reich, Milton Nascimento, Ornette Coleman, Charlie Haden and god knows how many others. A total don.
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Definitely Balearic and slightly jazzy. Hat tip to Nick Holder for introducing this to us back in the day.
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It’s not the same tune but I love the Mahavishnu one too! That first record and the second one were peak Jazz Rock craziness. Then I think they got much worse with McLaughlin getting progressively nuttier.
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I saw him recently too, and he put on an amazing almost 2.5h career spanning concert with a fantastic quartet. It was a real highlight. We never get this kind of show here in Brazil. My father in law who is a good guitarist too (in fact check my next contribution to this thread below) went to see him both nights and bought us all tickets for the second one. He was one of the few huge names I wanted to see and for once did not disappoint one bit.
PS check this edit out:
(If anyone’s got one, I’m looking for a decent WAV of this as the record has proved quite elusive…)
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Posted this here before in the Brazilian thread I think, but this is the perfect place for it. My father-in-law’s first record released 1990:
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Jose Padilla approved
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