The Listening Club - 19th January 2020

Greetings,

Standard intro here, wishing you all well, gently griping about the weather, light commenture and plans about upcoming gigs (John Grant! Pigs x 7! Dekmantel! Birthday shenanigans!). Pretty standard week really, but with much to look forward to...

Last week, @xpollen8 was in the chair, sharing their results of what sounds like quite an immense digitization project in the form of sounds from Ebony Rhythm Funk Campaign, Vanguards, and Funk St Workshop from his Father's studio archives. Thanks to him for the fine work, and for sailing the frisb way down to Buenos Aires, where @mrtorture is waiting to provide his debut introduction....

Hello peeps!

First time handling the Frisbee here. I decided to pick something mellow, to go down the road on this Sunday afternoon/night/whichevertimefits.

Lots of mellotrons, pouding and very present bass lines, mellow lyrics and vocal tracks. These fellows have come and gone a long way, fans tend to dislike this particular album (same old "their old stuff was better!!" excuse). Nevertheless, for me this album represents a change of pace in the right direction. They would soon reinforce this in latter releases... but this one feels a lot like where everything began.

I discovered this band and this album at a very different time in my life. In a way that time feels a lot like right now, since thanks to a group of people, I found the joys of musical discovery and rediscovery. I wanted to share this with the rest of you, since it feels like the right place to do so. Serve yourself a smooth cup of tea, or a soothing scotch, sit back and let yourself go.

Cheers!

Okay, direct download is here, and the stream is below:

See you at 8pm GMT!