Dream Weapons present: SATURDAY AT THE SWEET SPOT C90

As some of you may have noticed, it’s been dead quiet here for a while. Unfortunately I have less time to spend on this blog now - and in the foreseeable future. The good news is that Crazy Monkey has got more guest mixes up his sleeve for us, so there will be some activity here. 

But the other evening I felt like giving you a sign of life. Which had me compiling a follow-up-mix out of a list of various jazz I have collected. Saturdays at the Sweet Spot is busier than Sundays, and this is of course Sunday at the Sweet Spot’s livelier companion piece. A little more grooves, tempo and intensity, but otherwise in the same ballpark as its sibling. Just a little something for you melophiles to enjoy -Moahaha

Btw: While the design is very 1950's, the musical content is about three thirds seventies, two sixties tracks and one from the eighties. I just love the esthetics of that era.  

1 Jimmy Heath - Heritage Hum
2 Enrico Rava - Pupa O Crisalide
3 Neil Ardley - Folk Dance No 2
4 Sadik Hakim - Down by the Ferry Dock
5 John Lee & Gerry Brown - Rise On
6 Phil Upchurch - Sausalito Blues
7 Oregon - Margueritte
8 Donald Byrd - Elijah (version without vocals)
9 Hadley Caliman - Quadrivium

10 Johnny Scott Quintet - Variation 3 - Flute
11 Mal Waldron - Home Again (alt. version)
12 The Descendants Of Mike And Phoebe - Chick Chick
13 Patrice Gelsi - Chant D’Ailleurs
14 Cedric Im Brooks - Africa Calling
15 Richard Davis - Milktrain
16 Afro-Blues Quintet Plus One - South Side Habit/Mirror Image
17 Gunther Fischer Quintett - Erinnerung an Jürgen H.

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Dream Weapons present: Xmas Delights XIV C60

-And I just wrote that I wouldn’t have time for compiling another Xmas Delights:). But I had all of these songs in a longer playlist titled «Christmas 2025», so in record time I compiled this from selecting 22 lovely tunes from those six hours. Once again it’s about 3/4 lighthearted oldies, and 1/4 folksy-early music. 

With this, my fourteenth ever Xmas Delights, I wish you all a wonderful December - and an even better 2026! -Moahaha

1 Jewel Lombardo - Christmas Melody, 1960
2 Keyboard And String Ensemble - Alpine Winter, 1970
3 The Carolers - True Christmas Love, 1970
4 Bill Pursell - Out Winter Love, 1962
5 Anita Bryant - Cold Cold Winter, 1961
6 Phil Upchurch & Tennyson Stephens - Ave Maria, 1975
7 Sammy Davis, Jr. - Here's A Kiss For Christmas (The Christmas Seal Song), 1962
8 Vic Jordon - Little Drummer Boy, 1974
9 Betty Johnson - Winter in Miami, 1957
10 The Xmas Spirits - It’s Christmas, 1961
11 Carla Thomas - Winter Snow (45 Version), 1966

12 Ebenezer Moog - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, 1966
13 Jo Stafford - The Christmas Blues, 1953
14 Al Caiola And Riz Ortolani - Bossa Nova Noel, 1967
15 Gloria Lynne - On Christmas Day, 1964
16 Alan Moorhouse - Glory Shone Around While Shepherds Watched, 1969
17 The Jimmy Joyce Singers - Of Foreign Carols, 1958
18 International Pop Orchestra - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, 1965
19 Flute & Voice - Ecce Navicula, 1971
20 Dorothy Remsen - Two Noels, 1967
21 Banquo Folk Ensemble - Voici La Noel, 2012
22 Ensemble Galilei & Maggie Sansone - Riu, Riu, Chiu, 1993

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Press HERE or the Christmas tag underneath to get all the original posts with text, trackinfo and download option for every Xmas Delight 2012-2024:

Dream Weapons present: SUNDAY AT THE SWEET SPOT VOL. 1 C90

Sunday at the Sweet Spot is a club - or a bar concept I wish I could have hung out at… like today. Sometimes, or maybe often just hanging out while listening to some good-natured jazz-groves is just what the doctor ordered. As I do not have an option like that anywhere nearby, I made this one up. Although you might recognize a couple of names here, it's all pretty much unheard material. As always. Not much more to say really. Try it. It's very nice -Moahaha

1 Pierre-Alain Dahan - Slowrama
2 Walter Bishop, Jr. - Coral Keys
3 Sahib Shihab - Uma Fita de Tres Cores
4 Mario Molino And His Group - For Me
5 Debrecen Jazz Group - Debreceni Séta
6 Simon Park - Soul Food
7 Gary Peacock Trio - Changing
8 Hadley Caliman - Song For My Queen
9 Zenit - Kinderspiele

10 Alex Rodriguez - Quetepe
11 Joe Haider Trio - Muchacha
12 The Harold Land / Blue Mitchell Quintet - Rapture
13 Kathryn Moses - Midmorning
14 Between - Brain Wave
15 Heinz Von Moisy - Las Plantas
16 Bobby Jackson - Bunglers Twist
17 Green Cosmos - Nach dem Sandsturm

Here + for Spaniards and anyone else that can't access to pixeldrain: Here

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Dream Weapons present: OUROBOROS C90

 

There is quite literally an infinite supply of unheard musical treasures of the past to dig for, discover, love and to share. Here’s fourteen highly spirited grooves from the wide world of Jazz, 1967-1984. It’s been quite some time since last I shared one of these, and the gems have been piling up. Although the bulk of my selection originates from the West, many of the tunes are inspired by various folk traditions of the East. As often before, I might add. I’ve always had a soft spot for musical fusions of this sort.  It never fails to lift my spirits -Moahaha

1 Paul Winter Consort - My Horse Knows the Way
2 Jef Gilson - Espagnolade
3 Sadao Watanabe - Pastoral
4 Larry T. and the Family  - Patty
5 Phil Woods - Theme from 'Samson and Delilah'
6 Art Farmer - Art For Lunch
7 Peter Yellin - Mebakush

8 The Lightmen Plus One - On the Road Home
9 Boomerang / Бумеранг - India / Indiya
10 Amancio D'Silva - Jaipur
11 Reggie Andrews & The Fellowship - Chant
12 Grachan Moncur III - Aco Dei de Madrugada
13 Angelo Noce Santoro - Thema Pro Luis
14 McCoy Tyner - Motherland 

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If you enjoyed this (I think you should:), I have quite the bundle of mixes with a similar approach for you to dive into: OBSIDIAN ROCKS, THE TWIN EARTH, INTO BLISS, JAZU KISSA, TEN PORTALS OF INITIATION, TERRESTRIAL PLANETS, SUNSPOTS, THE HOT SPACE, NUMINA, SWAYING VIBES, SELENIAN GARDENS, I AM THE RESURRECTION, CELESTIAL SPACE INN, PER ASPERA AD ASTRA, SUN SPRITES, MUSIC OF THE SPHERES, THE HIGH PRIESTESS and FOURTH WORLD + most of SPIRITS UNKNOWN - 20 in all and more than 24 hours of music:) & if you press the Jazz-tag you'll also find some Avant-Garde/Free Jazz, 1950's Jazz, Easy Listening/Lounge Jazz etc...   

-also while collecting all these links, I noticed I had used Harold Mabern - Alex the Great for both Sunspots & Ten Portals...! Which is why I'm offering Paz - The Buddha as its replacement for the latter mix. Just click on the image underneath and download the song. You'll find the edited cover art attached to the mp3-file (download button on the left). 

+a couple of weeks later I found another one: I've used Hiroshi Sato - Jōdo for both City Lights and A Trip to the Garden. I'm attaching a link to (the much better fit) Okay Temiz & Johnny Dyani - Orient Trip as replacement for the latter mix: 

Dream Weapons present: TWILIGHT IN JAZZVILLE C60

How I would have loved to wander the fictional streets of late 1950’s Jazzville after sunset. On a whim I’d walk into a hip little bar, or a stylish nightclub. While listening to the sound of chattering and clinking glass, a group of musicians enter the stage. The songstress and her small ensemble alternate between Torch Songs, understated Cool Jazz and assorted delights in that ballpark. The deep, slow and haunting Misty and ‘Round Midnight type of repertoire. Yet another obvious case of false nostalgia (see Anemoia), and as always before, music is to blame.

All the talent that has slipped through the cracks has always been Dream Weapons’ raison d'être. But it’s also a little saddening to think about. Maybe you know the names of a couple of the singers or bandleaders here, but they are mostly long forgotten and virtually unheard (Helen Merrill is an exception, but not this song). Yet to me the ten songs presented here are all perfect tens - and every tune sound like a classic -Moahaha 

1 Fran Jeffries - Out of This World, 1960
2 Herb Geller - Silver Rain, 1954
3 Lynn Taylor - Wandering Heart, 1958
4 Bob Cooper - Sunset, 1955
5 Helen Merrill - It's A Lazy Afternoon, 1957
6 Metropolitan Jazz Quartet - Night Song, 1958  
7 Lu Ann Simms - The End of the Line, 1952
8 Johnny Eaton - The Lamp is Low, 1957
9 Cora Lee Day - My Crying Hour, 1960

10 The Marty Paich Octet - Jacqueline, 1956
11 Debby Moore - Come On Home to Me, 1959
12 The Brothers Candoli - It Never Entered My Mind, 1957
13 Dorothy Dandridge - The Touch Of Your Lips, 1958
14 Jack Montrose With Bob Gordon - April's Fool, 1955
15 Donna Brooks - Full Moon and Empty Arms, 1956
16 Paul Quinichette - Tropical Intrigue, 1955
17 The Lewis Sisters - Just Friends, 1959
18 Terry Gibbs - Memories of You, 1957
19 Pinky Winters - Cool Sazerac, 1954

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Dream Weapons present: OBSIDIAN ROCKS C90

No, I’ve not compiled the musical equivalent to a volcanic eruption. It’s closer to the polished rocks or handmade figures made from the volcanic glass that naturally occurs when lava rapidly cools. Yes, it’s another mix of fusions between the Jazz and various styles of music that seemingly everyone was into during the 1970’s. Sometimes resembling World Music, sometimes spiritual, often groovin’, always radiating warmth. Humankind at its very best -Moahaha 

1 The Bridge - Puls
2 Georges Arvanitas - Arc En Ciel
3 Hadley Caliman - The Latin Thing
4 Phil Upchurch & Tennyson Stephens - Black Maybe
5 Frode Thingnaes Quintet - Queen Python
6 Pazop - Mirela
7 Andre Fertier's Clivage - Moving Waves
8 Phrydderichs Phaelda - Zinky

9 Fred Stone - Elissa
10 David Diggs - Elusion
11 White, Green And Reds - Riffs
12 The Awakening - Mode For D.D.
13 Attila Engin Group - Deeply in Love
14 Buki-Yamaz - Your Beauty Is Devine/St. May
15 Pumpkin - Free At Last
16 Don Burrows - Twilight Zone  

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Dream Weapons present: THE WELCOME PUNCH C60:

I threw a party for my birthday not long ago, and on the cover you can see me eagerly awaiting the arrival of my first guests. The idea was to compile music for that first hour at a party - or any kind of festive gathering. There’s a lot of considerations to be taken. It’s basically background music for conversing, but it needs to be fun and hold a semi-danceable beat - although no one’s gonna dance just yet. If you don’t have a party planned sometime in the near future, pour yourself a drink, play this  - and pretend. That’s the magic of music -Moahaha 

-For the four of you that downloaded the mix shortly after I posted it: I had to take down and re-upload everything, as there was a strange "skip-issue" with song no. 4 (White Salt) - now replaced with Sahara

1 Franco Micalizzi - L'ultimo Cacciatore (Seq. 5)
2 Jef Gilson feat. Célia - Le Blanc Coton
3 Jackie DeShannon - Effervescent Blue
4 Hans Stockhold - Sahara
5 Kirsti Sparboe - Hvem Har Sagt Jeg Savner Deg
6 Catherine Spaak - Sogni E Niente Più
7 Jacques Loussier  - Clara's Jerk
8 Ellie Greenwich - You Don't Know
9 Retta Young & The Devotions - The Dawning of Love
10 Orkest Ruud Bos - Sexy Music
11 Maria Creuza - Amor de Mae
12 Etienne Cap and his Orchestra - Luna Di Miele

13 Hagood Hardy & the Montage - I'll Take Love
14 Gino Marinacci - Ostinato
15 Neptunes Empire - Wichita Falls
16 Ian & The Zodiacs - It Ain't Necessarily So
17 Hiroshi Wada - Suzukane No Michi
18 The Darlettes - Lost
19 Ziad Rahbani - Kyrie Eleison (version 2)
20 Silvia Telles - Chora Tua Tristeza
21 Roberto Menescal - Amazonas
22 Caterina Valente - Franqueza
23 George Cates - Chant of the Jungle

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... and if you'd like some more easy listening like this, simply press the Easy Listening-tag (but if it's in combination with say tags such as Experimental or Avantgarde, it't probably not all easy on the ears:)

Dream Weapons present: THE TWIN EARTH C60

 

 -the Twin Earth is just me compiling in easy mode. Meaning another hour of Soul Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Latin Jazz etc...  Music recorded in between 1969-1981 that seamlessly grooves along from one tune to the next. Each new track has something unique to offer but I also feel that they are somewhat unified. Super likable soundscapes of the sort that I’m pretty much always in the mood for. There’s simply an astounding amount of unheard gems (primarily) from the seventies in these genres for me to choose from. Yes, I know I’ve said this before, but that's because it’s true -Moahaha 

Btw: Life is even more complicated than I am used to (but I'm good), and I'm not really in a "music discovery mode" nowadays. Also I have less time to make these mixes as well. Every time I've shared a mix lately, I've been thinking that it will take (quite) a while until I come up with a next one. This time it's no different. But I've been wrong many times before, so who knows:) 

 

1 Young-Holt Unlimited - The Devil Made Me Do Dat
2 Beaver & Krause - Another Part Of Time
3 Trudy Pitts - Organology
4 Nat Adderley - Grey Moss
5 Magog - Lock
6 Moose Loose - Flytende Øye
7 Sonny Fortune - Francisco
 
8 Farlocco - Panamerican High Way
9 Sam Most & Joe Farrell - Samba to Remember You By
10 Kornet - Jojk
11 Phil Upchurch & Tennyson Stephens - Black Gold
12 Cullen Knight - Once You Fall In Love
13 Dom um Romao - Family Talk

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If you enjoyed visiting Twin Earth, just press the jazz or jazz fusion-tag and you’ll find close to 24 hours of finely selected jazz often sharing a similar approach to this one (among many other things) 

Dream Weapons present: (STOP AND) SMELL THE ROSES C60

It’s summer and sunny outside. I feel that it's time for another golden hour of oldies.  Eleven songs and (as often before) eleven matching instrumentals. Like my previous «A Million Dreams Ago» this collection contains nothing but oh so lovely, long forgotten* non-rockin’ delights from the 1950’s. And that’s what the world needs right now. At least here in my world -Moahaha 

*I suppose hardly anyone noticed these back when they were new either.

1 The Browns - Margo (The Ninth of May)
2 Hal McKusick Octet - How Long Has This Been Going On
3 Pearl Bailey - Hit the Road To Dreamland
4 Marty Wilson - Harlem Nocturne
5 Eunice Davis - Get Your Enjoy’s
6 Pernambuco e Seu Conjunto - Kalu
7 The Baton of Andre Brummer - Tumba
8 Don Ralke - Deserted Harem
9 John LaSalle Quartet - Dee Die Doe
10 Muzzy Marcellino - Street-scene
11 The Tarriers - Lonesome Traveler

12 Alain Romans / Aimé Barelli - Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot
13 Herminia Silva - A Nova Tendhina
14 All-Star Orchestra - De Fune
15 Flo Sandon's - Refranes
16 The Jimmy Giuffre 3 - The Green Country (New England Mood)
17 The Diamond Head Beachcombers - Across the Sea
18 The Trumpeteers - Home Don't Seem Like Home
19 Frank Hunter - Lost Plateau
20 Onilda Figueiredo - A Beira Mar
21 Mandolin' Club de Paris - Cinquième danse
22 June Hutton - I Had A Little Too Much To Dream Last Night

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Dream Weapons present: DEEP INSIDE A DREAM C90

We're falling down the rabbit hole. Transporting you into a wonderfully (and troublingly) surreal state. Sweet dreams gently interrupted by waves of unease. Like an adventure taking place inside of your subconscious. Or like someone is trying to tell you a half-remembered tale. A «can’t put my finger on it» sort of vague concept for a trip through the motions. Sounds fun doesn’t it? -Moahaha

                   

1 Panthers of Chastity - Return to Bridmore
2 The Fool - Voice in the Wind
3 Mike Green - Theme From Head Light
4 Antique Doll - Glass Elver
5 Jasper Van't Hof & George Gruntz - Filomeel and Procne / Swallow and Nightingale
6 The Buckinghams - I Know I Think
7 The Ron Grainer Orchestra - No.6 Approaches the Escape Helicopter
8 Julia Blair - Lullaby Two
9 Antonio de Sousa Dias - As Fontes Mágicas De Gerénia
10 J.A. Caesar - Big Dipper
11 John Mills-Cockell - Speedy's Teardown
12 Maple Leaf - Epilogue to Return to Womb - エピローグ ~ 母胎回帰

13 Eric - Von Der Insel
14 Viola Kramer & Heinz Bielefeldt - Teddybär
15 Cristiano Varisco - O Canto do Urutau
16 Toadstone - Moon Song
17 Baba Scholar - She’s an Indian Minor
18 The Cowslips - Night Shift
19 Paz - Horrors
20 Mark McDowell - Message Sent
21 Ananda Shankar - Planet X
22 Linda Hoyle - For My Darling
23 Neil Chotem and his Orchestra - And Now, It’s For Sure
24 Elaine & Derek - Brahms Lullaby

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Dream Weapons present: NOCTURNAL C90

 

 

«Through the darksome forest roam, Luna breaks through oaks and bushes» is a quote from Goethe's poem «The Beautiful Night». I wanted to capture a vibe like that in music somehow. Nocturnal music to me is ambiguous music of light and dark. Slow-footed, jazzy film noir moods, loads of easy, eerie listening and I think... a few surprises underway -Moahaha

 1 Masahiko Satoh and Medical Sugar Bank - Parus Varius
 2 Yusef Lateef - From Within
 3 Emilio Locurcio - La Visione - La Primavera Feroce
 4 The Don Black Orchestra & Singers - Where Did Our Summers Go
 5 Don Elliot And His Choir - Dinah
 6 Silvano D'Auria - Porto Cammelli
 7 Four For Jazz - Ghost And Blood Chant
 8 Academy of Music Ljubljana - Läksin Minä Kesäyönä Käymään
 9 Boastein - En Gresk Western
10 Jac Berrocal - Automne Perdu
11 Albrecht Gündel-vom Hofe, Robin Draganic & Lucía Martínez Alonso - Finden des Ich's
12 Syrinx - Journey Tree
13 Het Pandorra Ensemble - Ritme 7000
14 Jun Fukamachi - From Mishone

15 Svein Finnerud Trio - IDA
16 Frank Comstock & His Orchestra - From Another World
17 Cecil McCartney - Sacrifice  (Collage For Leather Boots, Bread Knife, Voice, Guitars & Electronics)
18 Juan Gelman Juan Cedrón - Madrugada
19 Heinz Von Moisy - Mirage
20 Supersister - In Die Allee
21 Kunihiko Murai  - Goyoukiba - Love Theme
22 Eddie Suzuki - High Tide
23 Wlodzimierz Nahorny - Kotwica / Obserwatorzy
24 Melba Liston - Dark Before the Dawn
25 Martha Elefteriadu - Dvě Kresby Tuší II.
26 Pascoal Meirelles - Juruviara
27 Frank & Jo Byers - Polynesian Fantasy Theme Song (Finale - more waves)

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Dream Weapons present: INTO BLISS C90

 

 

One reason as to why I compile all these jazz-mixes of pure bliss and no atonal blowouts just occurred to me: This is largely how I present jazz to others in real life. Very few people I know are as deeply into all kinds of music as myself. Anything too free, avantgarde or invasive will just get in the way of conversation - and make them uncomfortable. Hell, in regards to my family, even the jazz collected here would give me weird looks. But my friends wouldn’t mind this. And I obviously love it, so «Into Bliss» is an attempt to… please everyone (except for my family) -Moahaha    

 

1 Billy Gault - Aisha
2 Sonny Fortune - Sunshower
3 Heikki Sarmanto Quartet - Jai Guru Dev
4 Lloyd McNeill Quartet - Two-Third's Pleasure
5 Gary Peacock Trio - Nanshi
6 Heinz Von Moisy - La Carretera
7 Michael Naura - Black Pigeon
8 Sunbirds - Fire Dance

9 Arnie Lawrence and Treasure Island - Abdullah and Abraham
10 Fritz Pauer - Terra Samba
11 Gino Marinacci - Sensitive
12 Stan Sukzmann - Sojan
13 Don Rendell / Ian Carr Quintet - Prayer
14 Erich Kleinschuster Sextett - Sunshine In Raindrops
15 Gerald Merceron - Rio Pop
16 Green Cosmos - Über Dem Berg 

 

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Dream Weapons present: JAZU KISSA C90:

 

Unique to Japan, a jazu/jazz kissa are spaces where jazz music is played for dedicated listening rather than as backgrund music. As their "local" vibrant jazz scene feel somewhat overlooked and underappreciated, I thought I'd compile some of my favorite gems from 1970-1977. Quite similar to my previous jazz compilations really, except that’s it’s all originating from the Land of Rising Sun -Moahaha

 

1 Hiromasa Suzuki - 3000 B.C.
2 Ryo Kawasaki - Tane's Dream Part 3
3 Toki Hidefumi Quartet - Let's Get It Together
4 Terumasa Hino - Hohjoh
5 Isao Suzuki Quartet - Blow Up
6 Tohru Aizawa - Dead Letter

7 Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffalos - Speak Under My Breath
8 Mikio Masuda - Add Some
9 Kohsuke Mine - Recollection
10 George Hirota - Sahasurara-Sunrise
11 Masabumi Kikuchi - Circus
12 Takeshi Inomata & Sound L.T.D - Scotland Scene

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...and while I have your attention: George Glass why runs the Groovy Library-blog just wrote about locating a bunch of unpublished or disappeared comments in a spam folder. So I looked around and located more than 30 completely normal comments (seven or eight of them were my own:) in this "spam folder" I had never noticed before. I don't know why this happens but they're all published - or republished now. So if you've commented and you're comments were either never published or seemingly removed - it's certainly not because I didn't appreciate you thanking me for the mix:)

Dream Weapons present: THE TREE HUGGERS C90

 

 

Reading about the origins of the term «tree hugger», I ended up compiling a tribute of sorts to the Chipko Movement in India*. Speaking in musical terms, it’s ninety minutes of instrumental acoustic «eastern-sounding world-vibes» of light and dark. A celebration of the good in mankind while mourning the evil deeds of the wicked, simultaneously. But that’s just me and how I tend to think about these things, I suppose. Music for both meditation and contemplation -Moahaha 

*& the 364 Bishnoi villagers who sacrificed their lives to save trees - whom that movement were originally inspired by

 

1 Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures - Ourobouros
2 Roman Bunka - Egypt Eyes
3 Hossein Farjami - Jahromi
4 Kanguru - Ras Lila
5 Orexis - Anthraxis
6 Lothlorien - Duet for Sarod and Alto Flute
7 Rabih Abou-Khalil - Dawn

8 Giacomo Dell'Orso - La Fame Nel Mondo
9 Om - Aguni
10 Braen - Danse de la Mort
11 Light Rain - Beautiful Friend
12 Turgun Alimatov - Куйгай
13 Nouthong Phimvilayphone - Lam Tanvai
14 Ahmed Abdul-Malik - Magrebi
15 Stenio Mendes - Sonata Perdida
16 Seagram - Night King

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Dream Weapons present: THE FIRST FLUTTERINGS OF THE WING C60

Twenty-one pretty melodies. Every once in a while I need gentle music that’s not out to challenge me - or anyone else. Don’t you? I think you do -Moahaha

1 Massimo e Massimo - L'istituto Al Tramonto
2 Louise Cordet - In a Matter of Moments
3 Horst Wende - Ya Laure Houbbouki
4 Jeannine Otis & Heikki Sarmanto - Flowers In The Water
5 Jan Lindblad - Kojo No Tsuki
6 Catherine Spaak - Penso A Te
7 Stanley Wilson - Zulu Love Magic
8 April Stevens - And So To Sleep Again
9 Keith Mansfield - Swingle Song
10 Tina & David Meltzer  - I’ll Forget You

11 Johnny Eaton - Quite Early One Morning
12 이미자 - 아직은 멀었는데
13 Yoshiki Kinjoh - Sendo Kouta
14 백설희 - 봄날은 간다
15 Mario Robbiani - Grazie Amore Mio
16 Sarah Brightman - On The Nile
17 Arti & Mestieri - Young Man’s Tale
18 Jack Lesmana - Iramaku
19 Lilis Suryani & Orkes Baju - Gendjer Gendjer
20 David Carroll - Dance of the Slave Maidens
21 Mantovani & Tipica Orchestra - I Wished On the Moon

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Press the Easy Listening tag, and discover all my nicest shares.

Dream Weapons present: TEN PORTALS OF INITIATION C90

Ten Portals of Initiation to what? To some spiritual jazz and the likes, originating from some time in between 1970-1980, of course. It’s not as deep as it may appear. I simply kept the cover art’s original title and added a «Ten» in front. I’m afraid to credit the original artist, as I once got in trouble for doing so (but I think it’s public domain). The musical content will probably feel like the natural continuation of a dozen or so previous jazz-themed mixes of mine (to those of you already familiar with Dream Weapons). But the tunes are as exiting and wondrous as ever before -Moahaha

1 Sir Edward - Peace K.D
2 Charles Tolliver - On the Nile
3 Buddy Terry - Stealin’ Gold
4 Solar Plexus - Spanish Sahara
5 Rena Rama - Rumanian Folk Song

6 Billy Robinson - The Family
7 Toshiko Akiyoshi - Notorious Tourist from the East
8 Harold Mabern - Alex the Great
9 Juhani Aaltonen & Otto Donner - Och det går, det går
10 Henry Franklin - Cosmic Dwellers

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If you enjoyed these ten portals, here's thirteen links to over fifteen hours more finely selected jazz in more or less similar modes: Terrestrial Planets, Sunspots, The Hot Space, Numina, Swaying Vibes, Selenian Gardens, I Am the Resurrection, Celestial Space Inn, Per Aspera ad Astra, Sun Sprites, Music of the Spheres, The High Priestess and Fourth World (alternatively press the jazz-tag and you’ll find about twice as much great jazz of all kinds)

Dream Weapons present: TERRESTRIAL PLANETS C90

 

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

 

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Dream Weapons present: MALAISE C60

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

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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.

Dream Weapons present: SUNSPOTS C60

Here’s another hour of mostly laidback 1970’s jazz grooves. Spiritual, funky, eastern tinged, electrified, psychedelic etc... Yes, most of you should know this part of me by now. Seemingly I can discover gems such as these and present them to you for the rest of my life. I’m not gonna do that, but I’ll keep making variations over this theme long as I’m entertained by it myself. If you’ve enjoyed my previous jazz-themed mixes, you’ll enjoy Sunspots too. -Moahaha  

1 The Chitinous Ensemble - Dance
2 A Priori - Σε μια θάλασσα λαστχένιο
3 Kaleidon - Oceano
4 Placebo - S.U.S.
5 Harold Mabern - Alex the Great Paz - The Buddha

6 Perigeo - Genealogia
7 Anthony "Reebop" Kwaku Bah - Funkum
8 Charles Lloyd - Waves
9 Hiromasa Suzuki - Uruwashito Saneshisaneteba
10 Kathryn Moses - Touch Me

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-I noticed I've used Harold Mabern - Alex the Great for both this and Ten Portals of Initiation! Which is why I'm offering Paz - The Buddha as a replacement. Just click on the image underneath and download the song (download button on the left)

Dream Weapons present: THE HOT SPACE C60

 

The concept of space in music is often associated with cold and desolate electronic soundscapes. However The Hot Space calls for far jazzier vibes. More specifically a 1970’s jazzgroove that's electrified with Moogs & stuff. By now you know I love this kind of stuff, and I will never grow tired of discovering yet another unheard gem from that time period. It feels like home somehow. La Vittima is lifted from an Italian giallo and Earl is from a Blaxploitation movie (plus a Library Music trio of tunes) - and I think the remaining tracks would have worked just as well in some movie really -Moahaha

1 Enrico Intra - Preludio in Re min. ("Stoccarda" Caduta di Varsavia)
2 The Equatics - Santana Part I
3 Arakawa Yasuo & Shiji Shiroo - Sudden Rain In Kyo
4 Luther Lane - Gorilla My Dreams
5 Piotr Figiel Ensemble - I Want To Be Your Girl
6 Ed Bogas - Earl
7 Fiorenzo Carpi - La Vittima
8 Sir Edward - Keep On Moving On

9 Katamaran - Poseidon
10 Jakie Mittoo - Groovy Spirit
11 Bobbye Hall - Voyeur
12 Stomu Yamashta - Ishi
13 Alan Hawkshaw - The Speed Of Sound
14 Group Meeting - Loose
15 Band X - Red Cloud
16 Lesiman - Derivazione

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