Toots & The Maytals "Slatyam Stoot" (1972)

Slatyam Stoot
release date: 1972
format: digital
[album rate: 4 / 5] [3,84]
producer: Warrick Lyn
label: Dynamic Sounds - nationality: Jamaica

Tracklist: 1. "Louie Louie" - 2. "Pomp & Pride" - 3. "Daddy" (4 / 5) - 4. "If You Act This Way" - 5. "Pressure Drop" (4,5 / 5) - 6. "Redemption Song" (4 / 5) - 7. "Come Reggae" (4 / 5) - 8. "The Same Thing" - 9. "Collie Baby" - 10. "It Was Written Down"

6th studio album by Toots & The Maytals nearly only features compositions written by Frederick 'Toots' Hibbert. The first song is a cover written by Richard Berry. "Pomp & Pride" may be referred to as rocksteady but it fits nicely in the new emerging genre of reggae.
"Daddy" had first been released in '65 on The Sensational Maytals and is here rearranged into a roots reggae version, and "Pressure Drop" was issued in '69 on the album Sweet and Dandy, and is here slightly less tight. Track #7 "Come Reggae", an uptempo soul, rocksteady and reggae composition by Toots Hibbert is another song with the word "reggae" in the title - the first known song with the word was the 'Toots' Hibbert track "Do the Reggay" from 1968, thus giving name to the new genre. The last three tracks on the album are actually the most reggae-styled tracks on the entire album, although I don't find them bettering the first seven.
The album is yet another great release by Toots & The Maytals, and as such highly recommended.

Andrés Segovia - Live

Andrés Segovia
"Sevilla"

[Live performance of Isaac Albeniz's "Sevilla", 1962]

Andrés Segovia Live:

"Live concert" (43:44 min.)
playing "Mozart variations" (3:33 min.)
playing "Gavotte" by J.S. Bach (4:17 min.)
playing Villa-Lobos "Prelude no. 1, e minor", live in Spain (4:36 min.)
playing Luis de Navaez at the age of 86 (2:52 min.)

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Malihini-Kvintetten "Lille sommerfugl" (1966) (single)

Lille sommerfugl, 7'' single

release date: 1966

format: vinyl (45-1130)

[album rate: 2 / 5] [2,18]

producer: ?

label: RCA - nationality: Denmark

Tracklist: A) "Lille sommerfugl" - - B) "Maria Elena"

Single release by Danish song-quintet Malihini-Kvintetten, formerly known as Malihini Hawaiians.

The single was part of my parents' record collection and a single I knew as a kid but never found enjoyful.

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This post is part of MyMusicJourney, which enlists key releases that have shaped my musical taste when growing up and until age 14. Most of these releases come from my parents' and / or my older brother's collection.

Bob Marley and The Wailers "Kaya" (Mar. 1978)

Bob Marley

Kaya (Mar. 1978)

[album rate: 3 / 5]

"Is This Love"
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Felt "The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories" (1984)

The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories
release date: Oct. 26, 1984
format: digital
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,02]
producer: John Leckie
label: Cherry Red Records - nationality: England, UK

Track highlights: 1. "Roman Litter" - 3. "Spanish House" - 5. "Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow" - 6. "Vasco Da Gama" - 9. "Crystal Ball"

3rd studio album by Felt is released only eight months after The Splendour of Fear, which had John A. Rivers in the recording seat, but with John Leckie as producer both sound and style are almost identical to its predecessor. Some tracks are dominated by jangle pop guitars by Lawrence and Maurice Deebank and/or by Lawrence's characteristic vocal and others are more experimental instrumental tracks with classical or art rock inspiration. The predominant style is jangle pop kept in a narrow soundscape held together with two guitars (acoustic and electric jazz guitar), bass and drums. It's not their best nor their worst album. Mostly, I just find it less interesting.

Simple Minds "Life in a Day" (1979)

Life in a Day [debut]
release date: Apr. 1, 1979
format: cd (1993 reissue)
[album rate: 3 / 5] [2,78]
producer: John Leckie
label: Disky - nationality: Scotland, UK

Track highlights: 1. "Someone" - 3. "Sad Affair" - 4. "All for You"

Studio album debut by Scottish quintet Simple Minds originally released on Zoom Records. The band consists of lead vocalist Jim Kerr, guitarist & violinist Charles Burchill, bassist Derek Forbes, keyboardist Michael MacNeil and drummer and percussionist Brian McGee. All tracks are credited Kerr and Burchill and the initial musical style is quite different from the style that later came to be associated with this band. Here at their earliest stage they play a simple power pop new wave style with focus on guitar. Some of the tracks makes me think of XTC and especially Magazine both in melody and the singing style of Jim Kerr, which bears much of the characteristics of Howard Devoto.