101 strangest records on Spotify
Rob Fitzpatrick journeys to the darkest corners of Spotify to unearth some truly strange sounds
The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Horacee Arnold – Tales of the Exonerated Flea
The last post of the series, ending with jazz drummer Horacee Arnold’s 1974 album
101 Strangest on Spotify: Kesarbai Kerkar - Living Music From The Past
In the penultimate post of the series, here’s a lost treasure from Mumbai – as crackly and muffled as it is mellifluous and magic
The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Moe Koffman – The Swingin’ Shepherd Plays for the Teens
You’d have to be a fantastically introverted stay-at-home teen to embrace this Canadian jazz flautist – but perhaps Moe Koffman’s uncool cash-in LP helped spark the Brit-Beat revolution?
The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Mystic Moods Orchestra – The Awakening
John Cale meets easy listening by way of hazy cosmic jive in an experimental album of mood music from the masters of the art
The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Gordon Mumma – Electronic Music of Theater and Public Activity
Gordon Mumma’s pioneering electronic music – which he first began composing in the 1950s – is showcased on this mesmerising and disquieting compilation
The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Raymond Scott – At Home With Dorothy and Raymond
Raymond Scott was a composer, engineer, recording studio pioneer, an inventor of electronic instruments whose influence lives on
The 101 strangest records on Spotify: The Rejects – Quiet Storm
Rob Fitzpatrick: Unable to tour thanks to their affiliations with West Ham’s ICF crew, Cockney Rejects threw themselves into recording back home – one product of which was this 1984 monstrosity/classic
The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Alix Dobkin – Living With Lavender Jane/Living With Lesbians
This iconoclastic, political and yet open-hearted fixture on the 1960s Greenwich Village scene produced the first out and proud, by-lesbians-for-lesbians folk album
The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Johnny Cash – Bitter Tears
Released with little fanfare in the early 60s, this ‘Indian country’ protest record arrived amid Cash’s pills and whiskey trip
The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Ian William Craig - A Turn Of Breath
Featuring white noise and sepulchral vocals, this album by a classically trained opera singer is as wildly experimental as it is fantastically listenable
The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Leda – Welcome to Joyland
Rob Fitzpatrick: When Tangerine Dream’s Peter Baumann decided to make a cash-in disco record, the result was this odd combo of breathy erotica, high camp and sheer awfulness
The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Somei Satoh - Sun-Moon
Retreat into the minimalist sounds of Japanese composer Satoh. His 1994 creation is full of soothing stillness – and near silence
The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Sopwith Camel – The Miraculous Hump Returns From The Moon
Mixing prog-rock, jazz, showtunes, Krautrock and indian classical music, this San Francisco band’s unloved masterpiece sounds like it was recorded only last week
The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Alvin Lucier – Extended Voices
Sometimes this column just features odd music. Sometimes – and this is one of those occasions – the music is also quite brilliant
The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Valentine
Before they became simply a band that ‘features Sylvester Stallone’s brother’, Valentine were the 70’s drive-time Yacht Rock hopefuls
The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Peter Michael Hamel - Colours of Time / Bardo
Spawning from the 70s Krautrock scene, this visionary composer with an obsession with Indian classical and all things avant-garde penned a skull-bursting symphony of serene synth minimalism
The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Arthur Prysock – All My Life
In the mid-70s, a jazz singer summoned his inner loverman and came up with a set of lubricious proto-disco
The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Juffage – Semicircle
Jeff T Smith, aka Juffage, produces sound-art that splices tape-chopping sonic experimentalism with his smart pop voice. It’s an odd, charming album from this multi-instrumentalist who’s due to release a new album following collaborations with Sky Larkin, Wild Beasts, and Vessels, writes Rob Fitzpatrick
The 101 strangest records on Spotify: The Split Level - Divided We Stand
Back in 1968, the airwaves were a psychedelic paradise, awash with the sounds of softly-grooving, sitar-scented music. Here’s a lost classic from that year
The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Birchville Cat Motel – Driving Bruce Russells Volvo/Stellar Collapse
Fancy a ‘groaning wave of ectoplasmic noise’? Then look no further than Campbell Kneale, bringing you ecstatic power from the southern hemisphere
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