Mining the Audio Motherlode, Volume 52 (MP3s)

Give the Drummer Some's
6 Favorite Downloads from the MP3 Blogosphere

Here, friends, is another sextet of sonorous delights to add to your to-burn list. Get clicking:

(1) In 1968 Louis Armstrong had a private audience with Pope Paul VI. One wonders if Pops brought the Pontiff this sweet long-player as a house gift. ••• (2) After disbanding their pscyh combo Aguaturbia, the married duo of Carlos and Denise Corales formed the softfunk group Panal. At least they kept their clothes on for this record jacket. (Here, not so much.) ••• (3) Located near Colombia's Atlantic coast, Palenque de San Basilio was founded in the 17th century by escaped African slaves. Descendants of those fugitives make up a majority of the town's 3,500 residents—including members of the legendary drum troupe Sexteto Tabalá. ••• (4) Spaced-out vocals and fuzzed-out guitars are the hallmark of this sole effort from the Tropicália-era outfit Os Brazões. Gal Costa tapped them to be the backing band for her live shows back int he late '60s. ••• (5) The '70s rock band from Papua New Guinea Black Brothers, a beloved inspiration to adherents of the Free Papua Movement (and the band behind the nationalist anthem "Judgment Day"), sought refuge on Vanuatu in 1988 when things got to hot for them at home. ••• (6) I don't know much about the singer Bryony James, though an hour of obsessive Googling finally uncovered this line of text from an 1969 issue of the British music mag Gramaphone: "Bryony James is a promising American-born newcomer with a stylish sound midway between Cleo Laine and Marian Montgomery...well supported by the Laurie Holloway Quartet, augmented by bongos." Now I ask you, just how bad could any record be that is "augmented by bongos"?

(1)

Let Us Pray
Louis Armstrong  ~  "Louis and the Good Book"
(Blog: Mec Fais Tourner les Skeuds)
[Password = fucksarko]

 

(2)

Chile Today, Hot Tamale
Panal  ~  "Panal"
(Blog: Lost in Tyme)
From the album: El Humahuaqueño (mp3)

(3)

Roll On, Colombia, Roll On
Sexteto Tabalá  ~  "Los Reyes del Son Palenquero"
(Blog: Black Star Liners)

(4)

Gal Costa's Funky Crew
Os Brazões  ~  "Os Brazões"
(Blog: FM Shades)
From the album: Espiral (mp3)

(5)

Papua's Got a Brand New Bag
Black Brothers  ~  "Kaum Benalu"
(Blog: Madrotter)

(6)

Shirley Bassey-esque
Bryony James  ~  "Feeling Good"
(Blog: Quimsy's Mumbo Jumbo)
From the album: Our Day Will Come (mp3)

Listen for music from these and other incredible finds on
Give the Drummer Some, Fridays on WFMU, 9 to Noon (ET).

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Comments

[Sister Hairy Hymen]

where is the link for the armstrong album? I clicked on the links everything else but/

[Sister Hairy Hymen]

Never mind I found its hidden well and there is also a password required. fucksarko Im not sure If I should post it here but there it is.

[Doug Schulkind]

For anyone else stymied by the Armstrong link: Click on the word "amen" in the first comment.

[Murray the Quay]

If you like this Armstrong material, hunt down the spectacular 4 CD set "The Complete Decca Studio Master Takes, 1935-1939." Everything on it is a treasure, but there are several spoken word satire tracks in which Armstrong plays a character called "Elder Eatmore." The two tracks are "Elder Eatmore's Sermon on throwing Stones" and "Elder Eatmore's Sermon on Generosity." Surely these were examples of Louis riffing on African-American comic story telling traditions. Just brilliant stuff—like a cross between Chaucer's anti-clerical satires and a Redd Foxx routine.

[icastico]

Here's my latest

Exceptionally good even for this excellent African music blog
http://wrldsrv.blogspot.com/2010/01/dafra-star.html

Shades of Syd Barret or Alastair Galbraith
http://bendle.bandcamp.com/album/tattered-tongues

And, of course, the shameless plug for my stuff.
http://aboombong.bandcamp.com/album/asynchronic
(also on the FMA)

[HowdyDodad]

Does anyone have the "Buried Country: Original Film Soundtrack" that used to be on the Uncle Gil's blog (linked from MtAM)? It was removed, probably for copyright, yet isn't for sale anywhere on the informacion superautopista (I looked and would gladly purchase). Anyone up for a trade or good graces? Gracias.

[Me]

No Donnie and Joe Emerson Dreamin' Wild album damn i had my fingers crossed.

[djack]

Is the great music blog El Diablo Tun Tun no more?
If so, damn!

[Doug Schulkind]

It sure looks like El Diablo is gone. What a loss.