Bedhead - 4 Song CDEP 19:10 [1994]

Here's a different kind of music and since most of you are metalheads and whatnot this is a short one, Bedhead are a slowcore group, if you don't know it slowcore is a alternative rock subgenre, it is minimalistic, melodic and  features depressive lyrics and atmosphere. In this case the music is composed of a repetitive bass, repetitive and upfront drums and some melodic guitar playing, vocals are calm and clean.This is a good EP for the genre and features a Joy Division that is great (in my opinion).

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Dog Faced Hermans - Hum of Life [1993]

Who doesn't like to hear some experimental punk from time to time? I do and if you do here's a punk release    with heavy folk and jazz influences (even some noise), something in the vein of sonic youth given that both borrow much from the No Wave movement, the difference is that Dog Faced Hermans borrow more from the Louge Lizards and James Chance than Sonic Youth. The female vocalist also plays trumpet and the guitarist viola. The is like you would expect extremely weird and experimental punk with a strong jazzy feel.
This album in particular features their standard sound and it's awesome and I don't know what else to say, just download it wont bite you.

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Suara Parahiangan Group - Degung Sabilulungan - Sundanese Music of West Java; Vol 2 [1995]

So first post today is a Gamelan post.For all of you who don't know Gamelan is the classical music of Indonesia which has no relation with the western classical we all hear. This genre has a very different rhythm form and musical scale among many others, instruments used are mostly percussion instruments hand drums, cymbals and countless chromatic percussion instruments (mostly stuff that resembles xylophones, marimbas, etc...), sometimes vocals are also used, like classical music many styles exist (mostly based on region not era though).I have very few information about this release in particular, only know this is a recording of a group lead by Ujang Suryana who is a famous suling player, being the suling a kind of flute/oboe thing.
This lack of information is due to Gamelan being sacred and almost propriety of the Indonesian government so all recording of true Gamelan have to be licensed and most performances are closed to the general public. Anyways this is one more weird release I show you, but this time it is truly weird trust me, this is nothing you ever heard before (unless you know the genre already).

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Paco de Lucía y Ramón de Algeciras - En Hispanoamerica [1969]

And another crazy album that doesn't seem to fit in here, but hey I'm alone in here I feel like going crazy over this.
This his flamenco, a Spanish genre of music that you probably see in those clubs where women with red and black dresses play castanets. But this here feature few of those stereotypes, this is a guitar driven folk album, the folk being flamenco. Paco de Lucía is the most well known guitarist of the genre, most of his work shows a impressive skill with the guitar, he plays awesomely fast in a flamenco guitar (and acoustic guitar with 12 strings and each string is more far from the others than the standard acoustic guitar) and the songs are simple but interesting.
But forget all that the main thing about this is that it's fun as hell, like the soundtrack for a "running of the bulls" (I thinks this is what its called in english) or a pistol finghting in a mexican bar in westerns.

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Johnny Cash - With His Hot And Blue Guitar [1957]

Down the Rock Island Line she's a mighty good road
Rock Island Line it's a road to ride
Rock Island Line it's a mighty good road
Well if you ride you got to ride it like you finally get your ticket 
At the station for the Rock Island Line

This is the most well know country man (at least that's the perception I have) and this is his first release. A classic, "Folsom Prision Blues", "Cry!Cry!Cry" and "I Walk the Line" are widely know country songs and they are great songs, But my favourite here is the opener "Rock Island Line" and that songs represents everything Cash music was at the time: a steady rhythm section extremely simple but effective (to some similar to the sound of a train), a electric and a acoustic guitar playing a few chords per song, all standard, simple but awesome. 
The best classic country there is here. 

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Swans - Filth [1983]

Blog alone for a few days.

This is Swans debut and one of the most "heavy" if not the most heavy one, in this first release Swans featured Norman Westberg for the first time Michael Gira obviously and two drummers, Jarboe was not yet in the band. The consequences of that and given that Gira was not yet using the whole folky stuff he later used never to let go completely (at least till this point) is a no wavy, noisy and repetitive as fuck release. Gira's vocals are far from melodic. For Swans fans or noisy stuff fans this might be a masterpiece for the others only a listen will tell.

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Off to Bloodstock - back in a few days!

Unless somebody else posts something (Pastilhas might but I can't guarantee it) there won't be any posts for a few days, until Tuesday at the earliest, because I'm going to BOA with a few of the others (JohnRCC, randerson1893, Xylem and Demigod1993). Once again I'm looking for more people to post stuff, not because I'm struggling with it (I've got loads to re-upload/post), but because I think a higher volume would be nice. Also, I'm going to university in October and I'm unsure about whether I'll be able to post whilst there - and I don't want to see CitA die!

Cheers,

Persona 101