Marina Rock

I know that Yacht Rock has been a burgeoning undercurrent on the musical radar of record diggers for quite sometime, what with Fleetwood Mac and Bread providing soft rock for the ages, but what are the implications, transgressions, and transcendent moments of yacht rock?

Marina Rock. A Marina is a place where a lot of yachts sit tied to docks, bobbing up and down in the waves, glistening in eternal sunset mode. What are the implications of this you may ask? Well, the late seventies had an answer. A plurality of answers. An armada of yachts, anchored, chilling, chilling in the marina with sunsets, caressed and massaged by boat shoes. Marinas are places where you are either arriving or departing, lounging, reflecting or planning. Contemplative, introspective, serene.

Mexican Summer (Who knew they were an imprint of Kemado!?) just reissued this superb example of AM radio pop, soft rock private pressing from Georgia 1976. The album is Music and Dreams by Robert Lester Folsom, and it will sweep you away in a dreamy ocean of acoustic guitar and Californian, Neil Young via the Eagles, singer songwriter waves.

Another gem for you all to keep an eye out for will be sitting in the budget bin at a record store near you. Ian Matthews was in a band called Plainsong whose In Search of Amelia Earhart is a crowning achievement in the annals of soft rock lore.

So keep your eyes peeled to the horizon my brethren, and you too will know peace, love, and yachting for it is summer in winter. All hands on deck.

Album of the Century

Neil Young Archives, Volume 1 [1963-1973]

Album of the Decade

I know that we don't really post on this blog anymore, and that it is now more like those records you bought in high school that are in no way redeemable but you still have to see them at your parents house every time you go home.

Regardless, I'm going to make more and more audacious claims every post I make until someone counters my post with an even MORE audacious post, to which I will only scoff and leave comments about how predictable it was.

So, album of the decade motherfuckers. Group Doueh - Guitar Music From the Western Sahara.

I didn't know there was youtube footage of these guys from the big tour. I mean, I'd seen the SF DVD footage, but not this. Wish I'd been in Europe for that Sublime Frequencies tour, and I wish I didn't have class on Friday so that I could go see Tinariwen in Brooklyn.

I'm just going to stay up all night watching these youtube videos instead.




Supergroup Style:


In Amsterdam (no drug jokes)


In Berlin (Which makes this krautrock, right? Totally Ege Bamyasi inspired Desert Blues Jam)


And some more Souleyman for good measure: