Switzerland 1974 (Cuneiform) Time telescoped in the late-’60s/early-’70s. Year by year artists ranging from Miles Davis to Frank Zappa to David Bowie reinvented themselves, and Soft Machine was no different. Virtually no consecutive Softs albums ever had identical personnel, and with new members came new material. By 1974, when this…
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Ba Power (Glitterbeat/Planet) Can music get more joyous than this? It seems to swirl from the speakers, wrap itself around you pick you up on the waves of rhythm. Not being a medical man I won’t claim it will cure depression, but it will do a pretty handy job on…
The Necks: Vertigo (Fish of Milk) Sandy Evans: Kapture (Rufus) Gary Daley: Sanctuary (garydaley.com.au) Allan Browne Quintet: Ithaca Bound (Jazzhead) We all remember doing it: falling for a song and buying the relevant album only to discover the rest of it was dross. Then along came the brave new world…