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Used to live in cool places and do cool things. Now I just drink coffee and post music. Classical / Jazz / Electronic / Ambient / Beats / Grooves / Experimental / World Fix your hearts or die.

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 2d

Last Week in Music

Baroque - Handel
Classical - Schumann
20th/21st C. - Part, Lang
Vocalists - Dionne, Aretha, Dusty
Electronic - FourTet, Djrum, Anthony Naples, Jacques Green
Ambient - Patricia Wolf, Sofie Birch, Kirk Barley, Jeremiah Chiu

Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Robert Schumann - Études symphoniques (Ashkenazy)
Oliver Knussen - Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3
Dr. John - Gris Gris
Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
Garreth Broke - Life Through Loss
Chant 1450 Renaissance Ensemble - Le Beau du Monde
Nina Simone - Wild Is The Wind
Billie Holiday - Lady Sings the Blues
Nate Mercereau - Openness Trio
Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours
George Frideric Handel - Anne Queffélec Plays Handel
Robert Schumann - Humoreske, Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana (Radu Lupu)
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
Kirk Barley - Lux
Duval Timothy - wishful thinking
Verses GT - Verses GT
Robert Schumann - The Koroliov Series, Vol. 9
Djrum - Under Tangled Silence
Biosphere - The Way of Time
Jeremiah Chiu - Different Rooms
Prince Buster - I Feel The Spirit
Joanne Robertson - backstage raver
Georg Friedrich Händel - Suites for Keyboard
Sofie Birch - Hiraeth
Robert Schumann - Kreisleriana, Humoreske
Patricia Wolf - Hrafnamynd
Aretha Franklin - Runnin' Out of Fools
Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Ivo Pogorelich - Schumann Symphonic Etudes & Beethoven Op. 111
Robert Schumann - Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana (Argerich)
FKA twigs - EUSEXUA
Four Tet - Sixteen Oceans
Schumann - Symphonic Etudes (Vladimir Ashkenazy)
Arvo Pärt - Summa, Symphony No. 3, Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Jan Garbarek - Ragas and Sagas
Four Tet - Live at Alexandra Palace London, 24th May 2023
Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt
Steve Reich – Music For 18 Musicians (Colin Currie Group, Synergy Vocals)
Laurence Pike - The Undreamt-of Centre
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Anat Fort - A Long Story
Robert Schumann - Geistervariationen (Andras Schiff)
Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis
Jordi Savall - The Borgia Dynasty
Anthony Naples - Scanners
Dionne Warwick - Presenting Dionne Warwick
David Lang - Child

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 4h

Love this one ❤

cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 5h

Really is a hidden gem 💎

cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 6h

I listened to the Dead Kennedys and The Cramps the other day, and I think my brain is still trying to compensate. The ambient binge continues...

cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 6h

Oh it's really lovely, recommended.

cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 6h

One of my faves. In a way it's at the very ambient end of the indietronica spectrum, but I might be influenced by the fact it's the same guy behind the band, Yndi Halda.

cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 6h

The birth of a new day?

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 6h

#NowListening

Toby Wiltshire – Surfacing (Not on label, 2019)

Ambient / Electonic / Drone

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 6h

* as in piano and flute ambient

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 6h

#NowListening

John Carroll Kirby – Conflict (Stones Throw, 2021)

Ambient / Organic*

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 11h

PS. The Japanese title (Atarashii hi no tanjou) means 'The Birth of a New Day'.

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 11h

#NowListening (well, a little while ago)

2814 – 新しい日の誕生 (Dream Catalogue, 2015)

Ambient / Vapourwave*

*apparently

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 11h

We used to have foxes when we lived in Glasgow too, plenty of food around for them! Here we are in a small town but on the edge of woods and fields so not quite as much of a surprise.

The beaver, however, was a surprise! They have been reintroduced in our local river.

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 11h

#NowListening an ambient favourite

A Lily – wake:sleep (Dynamophone, 2006)

Ambient / Leftfield Electronic

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 17h

#NowListening

Seefeel – St / Fr / Sp (Warp, 1994/2021)

Ambient / Electronic

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 1d

O'Locco and Sarotti are both on thr same album, Kitchen.

The one is posted is ambient bliss. Highly recommend for ambient fans.

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 1d

Sarotti!

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 1d

#NowListening

Sun Electric - 30.7.94 Live (Apollo, 1995)

Ambient

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 2d

Yep! Straight in!

cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 2d

Was scrabbling around for a true favourite and hit the jackpot. If its eligible, that is.

cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 2d

@richards7370.bsky.social need the referee on this one:

Manuel Göttsching's first solo album was 'Inventions for Electric Guitar' but it was released as Ash Ra Tempel VI-Manuel Göttsching.

The first album with just the Manuel Göttsching name was E2-E4. So is this one eligible?

#5DebutAlbums8084

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 2d

#5DebutAlbums pick of the bunch today

ESG – Come Away With ESG (99 Records, 1983)

No Wave / Dance-Punk / Post-Punk / Funk

cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 2d

#5DebutAlbums8084 this one is oddly the first ever CD I purchased. Not in 1980, of course.

Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (Cherry Red, 1980)

Punk

cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 2d

#5DebutAlbums8084

The Cramps – Songs The Lord Taught Us (Illegal, 1980)

Garage Rock / Psychobilly

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 2d

Fair enough👌

cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 2d

Nina, Dr John, Van Morrison?

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