Loaded To The Gills

I have been trawling through my blogroll over the last couple of days and thought I'd share with you some of my discoveries.

First up - Loaded To The Gills - check out their feature on John Abercrombie's latest work with Natural Food and Birigwa for Porter Records which includes a download of his earlier work. Here's the tracklisting:

1. Souljazz Orchestra "Insurrection" Freedom No Go Die (Do Right Music)

2. Mulatu Astatqe "Netsanet" Ethio Jazz (L'Arome)

3. Dogliotti "Negro en sol menor" Candombe (Vampisoul)

4. Dave Cortez with the Moon Peo "Happy Soul With A Hook" (Fania)

5. Orlando Julius and the Modern Aces "James Brown Ride On" Orlando's Afro Ideas 1969-1972 (Soundway)

6. Birigwa "Yelewa" Birigwa (Porter Records)

7. Dreams "Dream Suite: Asset Stop/Jane/Crunchy Granola" Dreams (Columbia) ***

8. Stark Reality "Dreams" Stark Reality (Stones Throw) ***

9. Eddie Fisher & the Next Hundred Years "Either Or" (Chess)

10. Jesse Gresham Plus 3 "Shootin' The Grease" (Head)

11. Jean-Claude Vannier "Le roi des mouches et la confiture de Rouse" L' Enfant Assasin des Mouches (Finders Keepers)

12. Natural Food "Fair Breeze on Buzzard's Bay" Natural Food (Porter Records) ***
+ Dave Liebman "The Iguana's Ritual" Drum Ode (ECM) ***

John Abercrombie Courtesy of John Abercrombie.com