The Best Albums of 2017 By Electric Looser

1 Guido And Maurizio De Angelis ‎– La Polizia Incrimina, La Legge Assolve (Four Flies Records)

2  Andrew Wartts and The Gospel Storytellers ‎– There Is A God Somewhere   (Superfly Records)

3 Ill Considered ‎– Ill Considered  (Ill Considered Music)

4 The John Danser Octet ‎– The Danser Revolution  (Everland Jazz)

5 Jerzy Milian, Orkiestra Rozrywkowa PRiTV W Katowicach ‎–  Pretekst  (GAD Records)

6 Barney Wilen ‎– Moshi   (Souffle Continu Records)

7 Rosa Balistreri / Luis Enriquez Bacalov / I Ninhos Pega ‎– La Seduzione (Colonna Sonora Originale Del Film)   (Sonor Music Editions)

8 Azimüth ‎– Azimüth   (Far Out Recordings)

9 The Library Archive: Funk Jazz Beats & The Vaults Of Cavendish Music  (BBE)

10 Alfa Mist ‎– Antiphon  (Pink Bird Recording Co.) 

Καλά Χριστούγεννα και καλή Πρωτοχρονιά!Υγεια αγάπη έμπνευση και καλή μουσική σ' όλους!

Taste :

The Best Albums of 2017 By Electric Looser

By Electric Looser

Ned Doheny ‎- Hard Candy 1976 (Columbia)

Label : Columbia

Value :

A seminal set from Ned Doheny – a lasting bit of California cool from the 70s, and a record that's every bit as refreshing as its image on the cover! The sound is tight, but never too slick – well-crafted songwriting with equally well-crafted production and studio execution – but somehow in a space that's far from the charts, too – which makes the whole thing a really great discovery in music! Ned Doheny's got a way of hitting an AOR vibe, but holding into more personal elements too – and the vocals glide along with the music with the same charming vibe.By Dusty

Taste :

Ned Doheny - Get It Up For Love

Ned Doheny -  If You Should Fall

Download Lp

By Electric Looser

Electric Looser Live Dj set @ Garazaki 11/12/2017

Vinyl Mondays Stream 
by Milk n Chocolate Radio

Electric Looser Dj set @ Garazaki

BIG THANKS V. Fockas (Mr. Vagz) & V.Bertolis ( JazzVandals) 

Track List :

1 Gabor Szabo And The California Dreamers ‎ - San Franciscan Night
2 Igor Nazaruk Quartet - Approval 
3 Janko Nilovic - Trumpet Sketches 
4 The Invaders - Lost Time 
5 Ju Par Universal Orchestra - Flute Salad 
6 Aura Urziceanu - Surpriza 
7 Houston Person - Soul Dance 
8 Hinbal Butss - In The Pocket 
9 The Rob Franken Organ-Ization ‎- Scintilla 
10 Roberto Pregadio - Erika Seq.18 
11 Connie Boerman - Yes Tonight 
12 Soul Swingers - Ca - Ba - Dab 
13 The Majestics - Funky Chick 
14 The Jimmy Ed Trio - Baby , Baby , Oh Baby 
15 Roy Lee Johnson - Boogaloo #3 
16 Cover Up 
17 Leroy & The Drivers - The Sad Chicken 
18 Electric Machine - Fancy Good 
19 Collage - Do What You Gotta Do 
20 Nata - Tu Sais Que Je T'aime Bien (edit) 
21 Dos Mukasan - Betpak dala 
22 Michel Gonet - Flower Dance A
23 Embryo - Knast Funk

Enjoy!

Electric Looser Dj set @ Garazaki

 

Vinyl Mondays Stream @ GARAZaki

 Monday from 19:00 pm  to 20:00 pm (+2 gmt)

Click for Live Streaming here 

#milkandchocolate #garazaki #electric_looser #vinylporn #vinyl #season06 #mondays #live_streaming

Chilly - For Your Love 1979 (Polydor)

Label : Polydor

Value :

Chilly was a popular German Euro disco/rock band at the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s. Their most famous songs include hits like "Friday On My Mind",'Johnny Loves Jenny', 'Come to L.A.', 'Simply a Love Song', 'For Your Love' and 'Get Up And Move'.
The Song "For Your Love" was originally written by Graham Gouldman (later of 10cc fame) and performed by the Yardbirds in 1965. Chilly's version was produced by the composer and author Bernt Moehrle, who created with this song a new standard in Disco music in the late 70s and early 80s. His version was used and remixed among others by DJ Hell on the album Munich Machine. It was also re-released in 2006 by the French label D-Classics in an edited version called "4 Love" made by Dylan Petit and in 2011 by Chocolate Puma feat. Colonel Red.

Taste :

Chilly -  Sensation

Download track.

By Electric Looser

Odetta - Odetta Sings 1970 (Polydor)

Label : Polydor

Value :

By the time Odetta Holmes recorded Southern Soul classic Odetta Sings in 1970, she'd already released a dizzying array of albums over a 13-year career. Initially a rhythm and blues artist, she played a key role in the American folk revival of the 1960s and became a leading figure in the civil rights movement. While Odetta Sings included some softly spun fusions of folk and soul (see her fabulous covers of Paul McCartney's "Every Night" and James Taylor's bluesy "Lo and Behold") and string-drenched ballads, for the most part it was an impassioned and upbeat affair, containing such classics as "Mama Told Me Not To Come", "Hit and Miss" and "Movin' It On". In hindsight, it's one of the strongest soul albums of all time.

Taste :

Odetta - Hit or Miss

Odetta - Give A Damn

Download Lp

Guy Boyer ‎– Ballade Pour Un Vibra 1971 (Neuilly)

Label : Neuilly

Value :

On demand jazz library album on the cult french label Neuilly. Really pleasant album with Guy Boyer on vibes and arrangement. Includes the deep modal jazz tunes like "Vibra conceptions", "Jazz on vibes" or the on fast paced "Bongos and Sound" with brilliant drum breaks and killer vibes solo. This is the Creasound version of the same release on Neuilly called "Ballade pour un Vibra" with one extra track.

Taste :

Guy Boyer - Bongos & Sound

Download Lp

By Electric Looser

Piotr Figiel ‎- Piotr 1971 (Pronit)

Label : Pronit

Value :

Polish composer, arranger, vocalist and keyboardist Piotr FIGIEL (1940.04.13 - 2011.12.22) is probably best known for composing music for other artists, movies, TV, radio and theatrical plays. But in the 1960's he was an active musician himself, and toured Scandinavia with The Clivers. Later he would concentrate on studio work, as a collaborator with other artists in one capacity or another or for recording material for a wide variety of purposes.

Figiel also recorded and released a couple of solo albums: Piotr in 1971 (also known as Organ Hammondy) and Music in 1976. Of these two productions it's the former that will be of interest to fans of progressive rock, especially if you have a soft touch for jazzrock and fusion. The latter appears to be more of a purebred pop production, and from some descriptions apparently more of a compilation in spirit, but issued under Figiel's name. .

Taste :

Piotr Figiel - Prelude in e Minor

Download Lp

By Electric Looser

P.E. Hewitt Jazz Ensemble ‎– Winter Winds 1975 (Not on Label)

Label : Not on Label

Value :

Hewitt was only sixteen when he recorded his first album Jawbones in the auditorium of the Community School of Music and Arts in Moutain View, California, where he was an artist in residence. Part of his mission involved using music as a healing tool for those with degenerative neurological conditions. Another part, no less personal: the incessant need to document the songs and ideas welling up in his own young brain. Jawbones, pressed at Custom-Fidelity Records in Hollywood, California in a run of fifty pieces, paved the way for a second album, Since Washington, so named because the band had traveled to Washington, DC, to play for Richard Nixon. For his sophomore album, Hewitt pressed one hundred pieces.

Winter Winds, his third album, is the most “accessible” of the three Hewitt records. This is not to say that his previous albums are esoteric, just to say that this album appeals to those who might want to dance while having their consciousness expanded. Of the series of 4/4 numbers contained within, “Bada Que Bash,” a modal piece in a latin-tinged bag, stands out. Vocalists Sonia Valledeparas and Nina Scheller seem as if they’re speaking in an exotic language, amidst the band’s cavernous roar.  “This is actually organized scan singing,” Hewitt clarifies. “Instead of incessant, skittly “do wap du bop,” I provided rhythmic words that sounded like a language.” Hewitt was not yet twenty when “Winter Winds” saw its small press run disappear into the ether, awaiting rediscovery decades to come.By Now-Again

Taste :

P.E.Hewitt Jazz Ensemble - The Winterwind

Download Lp

By Electric Looser

 

The Soul Explosion - Soul Fire 1968 (Center)

Label : Center

Value :

Detroit? Chicago? Well, no not at all. This 1968 release comes from a German band playing some lush and dynamic soul pop with an emotionally exalted vocal style that reminds a bit of Tom Jones at times. The songs range from powerfully onward grooving booty shakers to striking melodic tunes with great chorus lines that enlighten your spirit. When you take a listen you will realize these folks had a sense for the classic beat music of just a few years prior to this release and they really manage to lay down a steaming performance on this style actually already outdated back then. But since THE SOUL EXPLOSION spice up everything with a dark and brooding back street club atmosphere at the right moment, they could do what they want and always sounded exciting and fresh. I could not have told the difference between these krauts and any popular British or North American act in their genre. There is passion, sheer lust, a wild and animalistic drive and an ongoing groove that will mesmerize you. Technically this is a really solid group that knows to let loose when it is time to but mostly keeps the energy flow under control. I am certain that 60s fanatics who love the soul and early rock fusion of this era will go insane. It might be one of these typical exploito bands that were only studio projects done by the same musicians on several occasions for good money to be sold in the bargain bin to a willing audience. Well, we rather do not think further into that direction since the music that appears on “Soul fire” strikes your deepest inner self and sets your spirit aflame. The melodies are amazing and if you go and check the rhythms you will end up shaking without a chance to escape the everlasting pulse. This should have been enormously big. Think of later day ANIMALS, THE FOUR TOPS and the EQUALS all thrown into a mixer on full throttle, you might get something of a similar quality. Oh, Baby, c’mon shake it with me, yeah! From Granadilla Music.

Taste :

The Soul Explosion - See How They Run

Download Lp

By Electric Looser

I Called Him Morgan 2016 by Kasper Collin

I Called Him Morgan is a 2016 Swedish-American documentary film written and directed by Kasper Collin which gives an account of the life of jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen Morgan, later responsible for his murder in February 1972.

Taste :

 I Called Him Morgan - Trailer

By Electric Looser

Tamba 4 ‎– We And The Sea 1968 (A&M)

Label : A&M

Value :
Beautiful stuff – and a record we never tire of hearing! This album's a sublime extension of the earlier Brazilian style of the Tamba Trio – in a set that has them adding a fourth member, and picking up some cool new sounds from producer Creed Taylor! The set brings the group's earlier blend of bossa jazz and vocal harmonies into play with Taylor's spacious sensibilities in the early days of CTI – that stretch when the label was partnered with A&M Records, in a mode that also echoes some of the best studio qualities of that imprint too! The songs are longer than usual – nicely stretched out in a beautiful blend of jazz, bossa, and voice – and tracks include a classic reading of Luiz Eca's "The Dolphin", a great take on "Canto De Ossahana", and the tracks "Flower Girl", "We & The Sea", and "Lemanja"

Taste :

Tamba 4 ‎– We And The Sea  (Full album)

Donowload Lp

By Electric Looser

Stringtronics ‎- Mindbender 1972 (Peer International Library Limited)

Label : Peer International Library Limited

Value :

This LP  from Stringtronics offers a genuinely psych/baroque exploration, that could be considered the missing link between David Axelrod’s “Song of Innocence” and Ennio Morricone’s Sergio Leone period, with a light exotic touch. It features an astonishing dynamic 6-track suite, written and conducted by the versatile virtuoso Barry Forgie. Stringtronics also gives stunning ethno-lounge music from famous French composers Nino Nardini & Roger Roger.

Taste :

Stringtronics (Barry Forgie) - Mediterranee

Nino Nardini - Tropicola

Download Lp


By Electric Looser

The Thing Live In Athens!

Οι The Thing, η θρυλική avant jazz/punk μπάντα των Mats Gustafsson, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten και Paal Nilssen-Love επισκέπτονται την Αθήνα για πρώτη φορά, για μια μοναδική ζωντανή εμφάνιση στο ΙΛΙΟΝ plus, την Κυριακή 26 Νοεμβρίου 2017, καλεσμένοι του Underflow Record Store & Art Gallery.

Η πώληση των εισιτηρίων έχει ξεκινήσει και γίνεται αποκλειστικά στο χώρο του Underflow Record Store & Art Gallery, Καλλιρόης 39, Σταθμός Μετρό Συγγρού-Φιξ. Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες και κρατήσεις, επικοινωνήστε μαζί μας τηλεφωνικά (2114039926) ή μέσω email (info@underflow.gr).

Τιμή εισιτηρίου: 30 ευρώ

 The Thing - Have Love Will Travel

 

Mistral - Starship 109 1978 (CNR)

Label : CNR

Value :

After Galaxy-Lin Robbie van Leeuwen en Rick van der Linden started another project named Mistral. They used a variety of uncredited featuring vocalists for their recordings. Their first hit "Jamie", in 1977, featured Sylvia van Asten of Funny Face. Next year it was succeeded by "Starship 109", featuring Marjan Schatteleyn and their last hit "Neon City" featured Mariska Veres (the voice of Robbie's earlier band Shocking Blue). In 1980 three more singles followed. "You're my hero" features Sheen Milholland (who already had recorded "(You're) my hero" as Sheen in early 1976). Their last single "I feel it" by the end of 1980, featured Cheyenne-vocalist Julia Loko. Those last three singles no longer were hits. This only mentions the vocalists that got known.

Taste :

Mistral - Starship 109

Download track

By Electric Looser

Little Barrie ‎– Death Express 2017 (Non-Delux)

Label : Non-Delux

Value :

RIP
Virgil Howe, the drummer in Little Barrie and the son of Yes guitarist Steve Howe, has died at the age of 42.

Over the course of a decade and a half and four albums, Little Barrie have proven themselves to be masters of the power trio. They throw the blues, hard rock, psychedelia, and good-old album rock in a blender and end up with a brew that's both familiar and sounds sparklingly new.

Their fifth album, Death Express, is the first that Little Barrie produced themselves, and it's their most immediate and atmospheric yet. Recording at their own pace in their practice space, the bandmembers were able to spend time honing their songs and sound to a fine point. When they emerged, it was with a batch of songs that bludgeon the listener with heavy riffs and thunderous drums, the moody tunes creeping in the shadows while sporting a menacing snarl. Guitarist Barrie Cadogan pulls out every trick he's learned along the way, but never plays an excess note. Everything he does is in service to the song or the mood, not to show off his formidable skills. Drummer Virgil Howe and bassist Lewis Wharton are also unselfish sorts, and provide a rock-solid rhythm section that also has plenty of flash when called upon to step to the front. The album is long at 20 songs, but to the trio's credit, the energy never flags.

Like a mighty boulder gathering speed as it rolls down a mountain, the album alternates between window-rattling rockers ("You Won't Stop Us" and the super hooky "Love or Love"), nasty laid-back workouts ("I.5.C.A."), scathing prog funk jams ("Vulture Swarm"), and strutting songs that sound like blueprints for a (really good) Black Crowes comeback album (the title track and "Mind Mountain," which is built out of their killer riff that serves as the theme to Better Call Saul). The trio never falters or hits a bum note throughout the album, and if -- like in the past -- the focus is more on atmosphere than songcraft, that's OK, because the atmosphere they create is so thick and fuzzy, like a favorite old album from the early '70s lovingly cleaned up but still a little scruffy. It's hard to rate Little Barrie albums, since they are so close in sound and structure, but this might be their tightest, toughest, and most impressive work to date. 

Taste :

Little Barrie - I.5.C.A

Little Barrie - You Won't Stop Us

Little Barrie - Death Express(@ Hostess Club Weekender

 
Download Lp

By Electric Looser

Home Cookin' S02E02 alongside Dj Snatch vs Electric Looser. 4/9/2017

 

Enjoy..... 

 

Facebook : Electric Looser

Facebook : Dj Snatch

Shades Of Joy ‎– The Music Of El Topo 1970 (Douglas)

Label : Douglas - Columbia

Value :

The mysterious Shades of Joy recorded the wholly instrumental album The Music of El Topo in San Francisco, the LP finding release on the Douglas label in 1970. Co-produced by Alan Douglas (famous for his controversial posthumous work on some Jimi Hendrix material), it's an odd but listenable mix of early jazz-rock fusion, psychedelia, funk, and the kind of meditatively somber and pretty music you might expect to hear on the soundtrack to a period drama.

And in fact most of the compositions are credited to film director Alejandro Jodorowsky, who was responsible for the early-'70s cult film El Topo. Fifteen musicians are credited with playing on the album, the most noted of them being occasional Grateful Dead/Jerry Garcia sideman Howard Wales (on electric keyboards), though there are also numerous percussionists, brassmen, and flutists; in fact, there are three combination flutist/tenor saxophonists alone. (Jodorowsky himself does not play any of the music, however.) Martin Fierro (who played flute, tenor sax, alto sax, and cowbells, as well as being credited as a "scratcher") seems to have been the musician most involved with the project, also doing the orchestration and horn arrangements. The Music of El Topo, incidentally, is an entirely different album than the Apple-issued El Topo soundtrack, for which Jodorowsky got composing credit for all of the music.By Allmusic

Recorded in San Francisco in 1970 on the Douglas label, this LP is commonly associated with the visionary Western-on-acid epic film "El Topo." It's an intriguing piece of urban jazz funk fusion.

And a somewhat confusing record. First, there are two versions – the film score on Apple (which I hear is to be avoided) and this bay area jazzfunk jam “inspired by the film” by the Shades of Joy on Douglas.
Alejandro Jodorowsky – the movie’s director is credited here with writing all the music (which sounds improvised), yet appears to play no instrument or take part in the session at all. But, of the people who do actually play on this record, most noteable is funky keyboard legend Howard Wales! The sound here ranges from all out funky get-downs, to trippy, moody electric Miles Davis-esque excursions. Very highly recommended.By Wax

Listen here to an exerpt from one of the more groovin’ tracks.

Taste :

Shades of Joy  - The Desert Is A Circle

Shades of Joy  - Flute In A Quarry

Download Lp

By Electric Looser

Κώστας Τουρνάς ‎- Αστρόνειρα 1973 (Polydor)

Label : Polydor

Value :

Το 1973 ο Κώστας Τουρνάς ηχογραφεί το δεύτερο προσωπικό του album με τον τίτλο “Αστρόνειρα”. Οι επιρροές του απο το “Ziggy Stardust” του David Bowie ήταν αρκετά εμφανείς  από το εξώφυλλο του δίσκου μέχρι και το περιεχόμενο του. Η θεματολογία του παρέπεμπε σε αστρικές αναφορές και μελλοντικές προφητείες γύρο απ την τύχη του πλανήτη ενώ το κομμάτι “Η Μηχανή του Χρόνου” μέσα απ αυτό επιλέχθηκε για να αποτελέσει το παρθενικό του σόλο single. Το “Αστρόνειρα” αλλά και το πρώτο προσωπικό του album με τον τίτλο “Απέραντα Χωράφια” θεωρούνται φωτεινά ορόσημα για το εγχώριο ροκ και απαραίτητα για κάθε σοβαρή δισκοθήκη.  

Taste:

Κώστας Τουρνάς ‎- Ο Άρχων Νους

 

Κώστας Τουρνάς ‎- Ο Πιο Καλός Τραγουδιστής

Download Lp

By Electric Looser