Eclectic Grooves

I know that you have all been patiently awaiting the next post on Eclectic Grooves, so I hope that this one is more than worth the wait. Over the past couple months, I have been painstakingly working on a couple new series that will serve as a replacement for the now defunct  Plain Brown Wrappers and What's Playing on My Stereo.  My plans are to revitalize the somewhat successful  Rediscoveries of Lost Gems   series with some incredibly mind-bending sonic trips into the great unknown. The albums featured in this series will be extremely rare or out of  print, and will only be available for a limited time. Hopefully this will increase the interest in the blog, and encourage readers to stop by more often to make sure that they aren't missing out on these rare gems. Also, another coal that I have on the fires is an ongoing post featuring live shows that I have amassed over many years of downloading from various sources on the internet suc...

Nina Nastasia- I Write Down Lists , Odd Said the Doe , Our Discussion , and Late Night From: You Follow Me [Fatcat, 2007] This is probably the first time these two words have ever been uttered in the same sentence- free-jazz folk. But, that's exactly what Nina Nastasia's latest album entitled "You Follow Me" sounds like. I know some of you won't agree with me on this, but I'm not saying it sounds like Milford Graves or Sunny Murray . The drums just sound like they could easily be accompanied by squalling saxophones and trumpets. Steve Albini , the highly revered sound engineer on Nastasia's previous albums and founding member of Shellac , is manning the boards again with his trademark drum sound remaining perfectly intact on this recording. Nastasia is joined on the record by Jim White from the Australian group the Dirty Three whose inventive free-form drumming creates a sound that is entrancing and complex. Nina's haunting and fragile vocals co...