As you may have noticed I’ve made quite a few 1970’s jazz-themed mixtapes. On Terrestrial Planets all the music presented were recorded sometime in between 1958-1968. My first from this era but probably not the last. With an illustration like this and the matching title - I was certain the cover would end up resembling a long lost Sun Ra release. I was wrong. Misleading art or not, I quite like the visual presentation nevertheless. More importantly here’s fifteen under-the-radar warbles of extraordinary beauty and a sense of mystery for you to immerse yourself in! -Moahaha
1 Soul Flutes - Trust In Me 2 Ahmad Jamal - This Terrible Planet 3 Sabu Martinez - Moon Black 4 Jack Wilson - Most Unsoulful Woman 5 Sahib Shihab - Charade 6 Wlodzimierz Nahorny - Ballada O Dwóch Serduszkach 7 Duke Pearson - Bedouin
8 Jazz in the Classroom - She Came From Afar 9 The Grassella Oliphant Quartette - Haitian Lady 10 Freddie McCoy - Listen Here 11 Mal Waldron - Quiet Temple 12 Joki Freund Sextet - Yogiana 13 Jimmy Giuffre - Space 14 The Three Sounds - Tammy’s Breeze 15 Attila Zoller - Family Bricks
Pure and simple beauty is nice (but nothing pure is ever simple). I’m primarily more interested in an unsettling kind of beauty, though. I’m not sure why. Perhaps I find it more true to life. I do know I respond stronger to it emotionally. Well, that’s just me. Now let’s see if this collection of strangely alluring tunes touches a few kindred spirits out there as well -Moahaha
1 Egisto Macchi - Post-Impressionismo 2 Akiko Yano - リンゴ 3 Adam Wodnicki - Dulcimer Dream 4 Gunter Hampel And His Galaxie Dream Band - no 94 angel 5 Jackie McLean, Michael Carvin - The Crossing 6 Vytautas Juozapaitis, Vilnius Quartet - Kvartetas Nr. 3, Andante 7 Romano Rizzati - Solare
8 Bruce Ditmas - Don’t Wake Me 9 Guglielmo Papararo & Vittorio Montis - Jonosfera 10 Umberto Santucci - Ceylon 11 Fabio Fabor - Contemplatif 12 Ennio Morricone - Non e Un Dramma 13 Algardas Martinaitis - Gyvojo Vandens Klavyras (edit) 14 Hector Zazou - Le Bain Royal 15 Hanns Eisler - Eisler Sonata for Violin and Piano
Btw: If you enjoy these sounds, I think you'll locate all the other mixes of mine that operate within the same soundspaces, by simply pressing the Modern Classical-tag.
Pretty, old, folk, songs. Autumnal music. There’s still wonderful folk music being made and released. But the sound and the lyricism of these songs presented here, feel like a thing of the past. Our voices seem to have lost its wide-eyed innocence on the way from then up till now. Understandable I suppose, but I wish it wasn’t so. Enough of that. Our garden abounds with fruit and vegetables, and we’ve gathered baskets full of mushrooms. Autumn is the season of beautiful colors and my favorite time of year! -Moahaha
1 Anki - Suru On Mennyt Sydämeeni 2 Paternoster - Cue 14 3 Lamb - The Odyssey Of Ehram Spickor 4 Dando Shaft - Kalyope Driver 5 Susan Reed - Irish Famine Song 6 Jaffray School Theatre Workshop - The Seven Sided Dice 7 Justine - See Saw 8 Foreningen Til Livets Beskyttelse - Elverkongen 9 Bonnie Koloc - Rainy Day Lady 10 L'Origine - La Deuxième Aurore
11 Wichita Fall - Night Time Suite 12 Ar-Folk - Armorika - Landet ved havet 13 Gwydion - Lughnasad Dance 14 Caedmon - Caedmon's Hymn 15 Bob and Evelyne Beers - The Little Red Lark of the Mountain 16 Midwinter - Winter Song 17 Frock - Blackleg Miner 18 Judy Collins - King David 19 Alasdair Clayre with Emma Kirkby - Lullaby and Come Afloat 20 Breche - Marianne