Dok ([info]cyberinsekt) wrote,
@ 2009-05-03 01:11:00
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Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied
I Can't Be Satisfied is completely insane. It's Muddy Waters playing electric blues from back in 1948. His slide guitar has this rough, raw sound that barks out of whatever sort of primitive amp he was using. If that wasn't enough, he then uses the same sliding technique with his vocals. The words somehow swoop out of his mouth and crashland on the correct note, and if it's exciting even now I cannot imagine what it must have been like to hear this shit 60 years ago. This is ground zero, tabula rasa music, as punk as it gets: you owe it you yourself to get educated and give this a listen.

Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied
(alternate download)

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(Anonymous)
2009-05-04 10:02 pm UTC (link)
I know exactly what you mean. Hearing primitive electric blues send a shiver down my spine. But, listening to some early blues did that for me at one point.

I've had other moments like that. Captain Beefheart, for the first time. Tuvan throat singing. Also, other primitive electric music. I can remember watching a BBC2 documentary - the subject of which I can no longer remember. All I remember is a segment where in the middle of a Papuan jungle, a concert is taking place. One group had electrified their instruments and were using transistor radios as amps. The distortion was incredible.

I saw Konono No. 1 at WOMAD. Admittedly, I was stoned out of my brain, but the recorded stuff did not prepare you for the sonic onslaught. And WOMAD was a crappy format for them beause they played for such a short time. 18 hours combined with entheogens is probably the correct format.

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[info]cyberinsekt
2009-05-05 11:15 pm UTC (link)
I wasn't going to say that this reminded me of Konono, because that would mean that I'd done my listening backwards, that I'd listened to the newer, more fashionable music first, rather than having gone back and given myself a proper education. But, er, it does rather. Vanity is amusing, even if it's my own.

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(Anonymous)
2009-05-10 11:28 pm UTC (link)
isn't backwards better? besides, there's nothing modern about konono.

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