#brother theotis taylor

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Somebody's Gone - Brother Theotis Taylor (Brother Theotis Taylor, 2020)

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De Algemene Verwarring #93 - 30 May 2023

The ninety-third episode of De Algemene Verwarring was broadcast on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, and you can listen to it by clicking on the link below that will take you directly to the Mixcloud page:

https://www.mixcloud.com/MedialabKortrijk/de-algemene-verwarring-93-30-mei-2023/

Pictured below is the trio Olimpia Splendid from Finland. Olimpia Splendid has a new album out on Kraak Records and Fonal Records, and they presented it last week live in Ghent, and I enjoyed it very much. Long and repetitive meandering songs, a drum machine, and whispered vocals, the kind of thing I like. I had already played two tracks from the new album in previous episodes, so now I’m playing the hit single from their previous and debut album that came out in 2015. Also, I seem to have less inspiration lately to write something here on the Tumblr-page and I’m late to the party again, so my apologies for that. I know you are all waiting for the much needed “duiding”. In this episode I also play tracks from the brand new split release with Röt Stewart and Freddie & The Vangrails on Hopvil Records, new releases also from Yfory, Fantasy Sex, Eyes Of The Amaryllis, and old stuff from the likes of AC Temple, Stone Roses, Eyeless In Gaza, Motorpsycho, and Spunky Onions. And beneath the photo you can find the playlist for this show. Enjoy!

Playlist:

Röt Stewart: Contractor / Nazi Truck (split 7” “All Split Up” with Freddie & The Vangrails on Hopvil Records, 2023)

Hot Snakes: No Hands (CD “Automatic Midnight” on Sympathy For The Record Industry & Swami Records, 2000)

Freddie & The Vangrails: Room For Two Knights (split 7” “All Split U” with Röt Stewart on Hopvil Records, 2023)

The Drin: Stonewallin' (LP “Today My Friend You Drunk The Venom” on Drunken Sailor Records, 2023)

Yfory: Chwaer Pwy? (7” Yfory” on Static Age Records, 2023)

A.C. Temple: Ulterior (LP “Songs Of Praise” on Furthur Records, 1987)

Motorpsycho: Walking On The Water (CD “Angels And Daemons At Play” on Stickman Records, 1997)

The Stone Roses: She Bangs The Drums (LP “The Stone Roses” on Silvertone Records, 1989)

Spunky Onions: How I Lost My Virginity (2xLP “Cease & Desist DIY - Cult Classics From The Post-Punk Era 1978-1982, originally released on 7” in 1979 by Templebeat Records)

Eyeless In Gaza: Seven Years (LP “Photographs As Memories” on Cherry Red Records, 1981)

Move - Still Smoking (LP “Move”, reissue on Mannequin Records, 2015, originally released in 1986 on A&D Records)

Olimpia Splendid: Häpeän Huilut (LP “Olimpia Splendid” on Fonal Records, 2015)

Mount Eerie: Lost Wisdom Pt. 2 (LP “Wind’s Poem” on Tomlab, 2009) - band van Phil Elverum (The Microphones)

Eyes Of The Amaryllis: Walking To The Store (7” “Lunchtime On Earth” on I Dischi Del Barone, 2023) -

Fantasy Sex: Waves Of Skin (LP “Fantasy Sex” on Fördamning Arkiv, 2023)

Arv & Miljö: Høstmørke (LP “Vålnad Av Fornskog” on Discreet Music, 2022)

Brother Theotis Taylor: Stand By Me (LP “Brother Theotis Taylor” on Mississippi Records, 2020)

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Brother Theotis Taylor - Down Home Georgia Music, September 10, 1977

One of the very best things to come out last year was Mississippi Records’ extremely sweet Brother Theotis Taylor collection. If you haven’t checked it out yet, you must! Absolutely perfect folk-gospel that will knock your socks off. I guarantee it! So here’s something cool — a 1977 episode of Down Home Georgia Music showcasing Brother Theotis and hosted by the great field recordist George Mitchell. Amazing. 

Here’s what Taylor had to say about the show many years later: “Boy it made me feel good to sit down and look at my stuff. It made me think about all the way back when I did it. And I pick up the same spirit that I did it in. And you seem me cryin’. It made me feel good because I know I did it and I did it well. Did it well. And I want to see it get out, because if it made me feel good, it make somebody else feel good. Right? It’s the way it is.” 

[theretirementhome]

Brother Theotis Taylor - Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Buy it here. 

[miragestation]

Your Voice Touches My String playlist for September 15th, 2021

1. Adios Nillaway Dispidillaway / Hánkel Bellido 2. Let Nothing Separate Me / Brother Theotis Taylor 3. Crow Jane / Skip James 4. Blues is my Best Friend / Cora Mae Bryant 5. Boz solkyn (Early Morning) / Orozoberova Tumanov 6. Men ashyk (I am in Love) / Kangeldieva Dilshat 7. Alevi Song / Ashiq Faizullah Chinar 8. Sitar Solo / Zamaan 9. Spirits / Van Stiefel 10. The Day is Past and Gone (Variations) / Sarah Louise 11. Wheel in the River / Ian Russell 12. Jongada / Bola Sete 13. Down By the Riverside / Joseph Spence

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A Year in the Life of a Mole: Arthur Krumins’ 2020

What a ridiculous year to try to sum up. The effects of the pandemic continue to be devastating to so many, both the virus itself and the isolation and weirdness of life with its effects. Time became a different element, and left the usual ways I counted the days to one side, in favor of a new routine. As I luckily worked from home, and tried to be a good parent to my one year old for most of the rest of my waking hours, the days took on a new rhythm.

I used to listen to a lot of new music on my hour-plus bus commutes to and from work. But now, I listen to it as background music with my work day at home, and more subdued old favorites in the early morning hours taking care of the baby for the morning shift. As well, because of all the changes and shifting realities I found myself turning to more calming and mostly instrumental works, although tempered with the occasional blast of cathartic noise or a pulse that inspires movement.

I paid more attention to pieces of music that create a sense of direction or flow, as they build on the particular highlights of each smaller moment they contain. I think in a sense, this was the year I truly entered middle age, for the good (reserving judgement a little more) and the bad (more aches and pains and an absolute need for coffee). Some records grew on me that initially seemed too sweet or even tempered to be true favorites. There’s also the pleasure in coming back to things that initially seemed interesting, but that I had left to one side in the course of the year.

Here’s the albums I ended up counting on, occasionally spurring me to write reviews, and often causing me to find a moment to be quietly thankful that they exist.

Records I listened to on the bus pre-shutdown, and that helped pull me through the work week:

Gil Scott-Heron and Makaya McCraven — We’re New Again (XL Recordings)

Earth Cult — NATCH 11 (Black Dirt Studios)

Jeff Parker —  Suite for Max Brown (International Anthem)

The Giving Shapes —  Earth Leaps Up (Elsewhere Music)

Settling into pandemic life, and letting my headspace get blasted and then soothed:

Temple of the Roses by Ash Brooks

Ash Brooks —  Temple of the Roses (Flower Room)

Tough Age - Which Way Am I? (Mint)

White Poppy —  Sound Meditation Vol 2 (Self-released)

Rootless —  Docile Cobras (Flower Room)

Joan Shelley —  Live at the Bomhard (No Quarter)

Matt Lajoie —  Everlasting Spring (Flower Room)

Keeping me grounded as the pandemic just goes on and on:

Between No Things by Suso Sáiz & Suzanne Kraft

Suso Sáiz & Suzanne Kraft — Between No Things (Music from Memory)

Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson — Chicago Waves (International Anthem)

Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers — Get in Union (Alan Lomax Archive)

North Americans —  Roped In (Third Man)

I came to revisit things that I overlooked, or caught on to albums towards the end of the year reading the writing of others and now intend to keep listening to:

Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain by Gwenifer Raymond

Gwenifer Raymond —  Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain (Tompkins Square)

Lisa/Liza —  Shelter of a Song (Orindal)

Arthur Russell —  Sketches for World of Echo: June 25, 1984 live at Ei (Audika)

Brother Theotis Taylor —  s/t (Mississippi)

Benny Yurco —  You Are My Dreams (PIAPTK)

Qu’ran Shaheed —  Process (Preference)

Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection —  s/t (YK)

Nathan Salsburg —  Landwerk No. 2 (No Quarter)

Allysen Callery — Ghost Folk (cosirecords)

Gordon Koang —  Unity (Music in Exile)

Arthur Krumins

[kevindurkiin]

Thank You For The Sunshine :: On the Spiritual Brightness of Brother Theotis Taylor

Mississippi Records' new compilation Brother Theotis Taylor, the mines the private archives of the Georgia minister and singer. These solitary songs of praise and contemplation extend an offer to join Taylor in spiritual reverie.

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[dirtylowdown2]

Brother Theotis Taylor - If I Could Just Hold Out Till Tomorrow Comes

Brother Theotis Taylor - If I Could Just Hold Out Till Tomorrow Comes rec. 1976 or 1977 live at the Georgia Grassroots Music Festival, Atlanta Civic Center, Atlanta, GA by George Mitchell 

... this recording first published on and taken from Grassroots Music Festival Records HY 1346 (US 1978) "Georgia Grassroots Music Festival"; Brother Theotis Taylor, voc, p 

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Somebody's Gone Brother Theotis Taylor In the Storm So Long

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If I Could Just Hold Out Till Tomorrow Comes - Brother Theotis Taylor (Brother Theotis Taylor, 2020)

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Soul Music Discoveries

Five Fantastic Soul Music Discoveries to start the week. Music that is unusual, different, awesome or just great to listen to. Enjoy!

If I Could Just Hold Out Till Tomorrow Comes - Brother Theotis Taylor (Brother Theotis Taylor, 2020). A voice and piano. That's all Brother Theotis Taylor needs for this heavenly song.

Jesus Is On The Mainline - Paul Owens And The Capital City Star Singers (Jesus Is On The Mainline, 1974) Great voice!

Mahlalela (Lazy Bones) - Letta Mbulu ‎(Letta, 1970) Opening vocals are full positive energy from South Africa.

Motherless Child - Rev. Clay Evans And The Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church Choir Of Chicago, Illinois (Silver Anniversary Special, 1976). Beautiful. He makes me cry.....

Who - The Montgomery Express (The Montgomery Movement, 1973). I know you got somebody else......Sweet soul

Listen to more Soul Music Discoveries!

[musicmakesyousmart]

Brother Theotis Taylor - Self-titled

Mississippi Records

2020

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Bandcamp Friday

The Summer of Lou can wait! Bandcamp is waiving its fees today. So in the interest of showcasing some black voices, here are some recommended downloads. Just buy something! (And if you didn’t know, Bandcamp will be donating 100% of its share of sales on June 19th to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.) 

Angel Bat Dawid - Transition East

Just two tunes, but both very awesome. The first is a beguiling drum machine / clarinet duet, showcasing Angel Bat Dawid’s unique instrumental stylings. Sun Ra-ish? The second is a full band track, broodingly beautiful and filled with forward moving momentum. There’s a great interview with Dawid in the most recent Mississippi Records newsletter: “Right Now, I want to teach people how to pray. Not in the religious sense. No. I'm talking about prayer as a natural human technology that keeps us at peace and keeps us connected to each other.” You’re also going to want Angel’s The Oracle. 

Jace Clayton - The Julius Eastman Memory Depot

DJ/writer/artist Jace Clayton (AKA DJ / rupture) lovingly re-imagines and re-frames two Julius Eastman compositions, taking dual pianos (played by David Friend and Emily Manzo) and treating them electronically, taking the listener on an impressive, absorbing sonic journey.  

Anthony Braxton - Solo (Kent) 1979

The mighty Anthony Braxton turned 75 yesterday. He’s got a very deep catalogue on Bandcamp, which is very much worth dipping into. I am far from a Braxton expert, but I am loving this thorny and thought-provoking solo alto sax recital, taped at Kent University in Ohio — a name synonymous with civil unrest and government fuckups. Sound familiar? 

Junius Paul - Ism

Chicago bassist Junius Paul’s double LP Ism came out late last year, but I’m only now digging into its sprawl. Tons of eclectic and excellent work here, with Paul’s playing both wildly adventurous and deeply groovy. The near-20-minute “Spocky Chainsey Has Re-Emerged” is absolutely killer, featuring Paul, Vincent Davis, Justin Dillard and Corey Wilkes all in deep conversation. Definitely some early Electric Miles vibes, but it stretches beyond that influence rather than surrendering to it ... 

Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble - Stay Beautiful

I loved Damon Locks’ Where Future Unfolds last year, and this freshly released track doesn’t disappoint, with a dreamlike spoken word intro leading into a spiritual chant. Stay beautiful, please. 

Brother Theotis Taylor

Here’s what I’m listening to now — a brand-new collection of wonderful folk-gospel by Brother Theotis Taylor, a southern Georgia-based singer/piano player who celebrated his 92nd birthday this year. An amazing voice, often floating into a sublime falsetto, like Sam Cooke singing to you and you alone. Hopeful music, soul-stirring music. For heaven’s sake, get it.