Pangea: Pangea Jazz (Jazz Week 4)

Pangea 03.07.21	posting today because i don't have much time tommorow
Trifolium 03.07.21	Oooooh, two more that I don't know! I think I checked Mingus before, and I know Talk Talk, but these two are new for me. Excited!
LeddSledd 03.07.21	hell yes, more jazz
Demon of the Fall 03.07.21	Iâ€™m in full support of the movement, just making this known. P.S. Hi!
Pangea 03.07.21	Hi demon! it's a very fun movement indeed
porcupinetheater 03.07.21	Been meaning to get into earlier Mingus and also holy shit Mark Hollis did a jazz inspired piece? Fucking stoked for these!
Demon of the Fall 03.07.21	I like Mingus, not heard this one though. Hmm, interesting.
dedex 03.08.21	woo woo j/ Already love the Mark Hollis one, but I'm excited to jump on some early Mingus!
rellik009 03.08.21	j-j-j-j-j-j/ also the mingus one slaps me sideways
Pheromone 03.08.21	demon be part of the movement! 2021 is the year of jazz, it even has the same amount of characters! 2 - j 0 - a 2 - z 1 - z great list pang will jam today
dedex 03.08.21	I enjoyed the Mingus one, but damn The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady remains his madafakin pinnacle
Pangea 03.08.21	yeah he has done better, but the clown is hos first excellent album for me. RE your sound-off: the bookends are certainly the showstoppers but i enjoy the middle tracks a lot as well
Trifolium 03.08.21	Checking that ðŸ¤¡ now!
bgillesp 03.09.21	I havenâ€™t listened to The Clown in a while, so I will definitely listen again, but I remember it being a lesser one of his works for me. Hopefully I find something I missed. Never even heard of Mark Hollis so that one will be fun
bgillesp 03.09.21	Also @dedex, did you just start using â€œj/â€œ as the new â€œm/â€œ? If so I like it
dedex 03.09.21	I'm pretty sure I was not the one starting this trend, but yeah now we use "j/" as the new "m/"
rellik009 03.09.21	who knows who invented the j/ a worthy task for our dedextive
Dewinged 03.09.21	Signed up! For some dark doom jazz ;)
Trifolium 03.09.21	Yes the j/ thing makes me so happy omg it's perfect.
dedex 03.09.21	"dedextive" ðŸ˜ also i see you ðŸ•µï¸â€â™‚ï¸
Pangea 03.09.21	rellik started the j/ thing didn't he? anyway j/ j/ j/
rellik009 03.09.21	i got outclassed seen at my window
dedex 03.09.21	according to my dedextive talents, yes j/
Demon of the Fall 03.09.21	j/ displeases me from an aesthetics standpoint. Iâ€™ll have to condition myself. Cool though!
rellik009 03.09.21	that's pretty j/ j/ on folks!
porcupinetheater 03.09.21	j/ all day you trailblazing madman
Pheromone 03.09.21	j/ the revolution will not be televised
bgillesp 03.09.21	Relistening to The Clown now. Haitian Fight Song is so great j/!
Pangea 03.10.21	Haitian Fight Song is amazing for sure
dedex 03.10.21	hell yah will prob listen to Hollis' record today. Last time I heard it was right after he died ðŸ˜ž
Pangea 03.10.21	I checked it for the first time right after he died. Immediately became one of my favourite albums ever
porcupinetheater 03.10.21	Listened to the Clown once through but in a finals manic state and it is not absorbed yet I do not know if the title track is hysterically depressing or depressingly hysterical
Pangea 03.10.21	i think i would go for hysterically depressing
dedex 03.10.21	[2]
Trifolium 03.10.21	Going to pick up where I left The Clown, around 15 minutes in. ~I enjoyed what I heard up to that point! Hope I have the time to finish these today!
bgillesp 03.10.21	T/t is my least favorite on The Clown. I feel like the whole album is one I need to be in the right frame of mind to properly appreciate, but I never have been in the few times Iâ€™ve listened to it.
bgillesp 03.10.21	I still really like it, but I feel like there is more to it that Iâ€™m not getting because it always just sits wrong in my gut for some reason
porcupinetheater 03.10.21	Yeah, can definitely see The Clown clashing with the context the rest of the record sets up for it, but as a standalone piece of musical narrative thought it was potent as Hell
Trifolium 03.11.21	The Clown is nice! I really love his bass playing, man!
dedex 03.11.21	the Mark Hollis is as soothing as I remember
Pangea 03.11.21	Mingus' bass playing is fantastic for sure, especially in the first track here. so good never considerd the mark hollis album soothing personally but i could see it
Trifolium 03.11.21	I like how disjointed The Clown is (eeeeeek, how's that for nightmare fuel!). One moment it's very old school, 50s jazz, the other it kind of explodes in your face. Planning to check the Hollis one later today too. I've never really liked the Talk Talk stuff too much, especially the vox, so I'm kind of hesitant towards it.
Pangea 03.11.21	it is very unsettling for sure! i'm not super huge on his voice in talk talk as well, but i do find that the fragility of his voice works really well on his solo album. hopefully you will feel the same!
Trifolium 03.11.21	It is indeed as I feared, Hollis just isn't my man it seems. Still really like the instrumentation for the most part though! Makes it super hard to rate aah! Thanks for two records I would not have otherwise checked Pangea! Despite them not totally being my thing I really still enjoyed it because I wouldn't ever have made the effort to give them a chance. Best track of the lot: the opener of The Clown! Loved that one!
porcupinetheater 03.14.21	Woah, the Mark Hollis record is absolutely not surprisingly v gorgeous. Cool hearing the reframed context of a lot of the Talk Talk work. Still trying to sort out feelings on the Clown, a week playing with some very nuanced and ambiguous tones. Sweet calls, Pange j/
porcupinetheater 03.14.21	Westward Bound leaves me so powerfully melancholy, and then the playful, even a little goofy horns start off The Daily Planet right after, and the very subtle dissonance of the effect is a little bit exciting tbh
Pangea 03.14.21	Oh yes somewhat of a weird transition but it works really well. The Daily Planet in general is stunning. And yeah i feel like his solo is still very much in spirit of the latter talk talk albums, but in a more jazzy chamber setting rather than a rock one. His use of using space in his song compositions is so good.
bgillesp 03.15.21	I liked the Hollis album. Pretty minimal on the jazz and just overall but I liked Talk Talk so it was still nice for me
Pangea 03.15.21	yeah i used the term 'jazz' very loosely for 2, but the influence is there and i love the album so. i'm glad you liked it!