Amazing Sounds Astounding Music
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The podcast is Italy-based but it's in English.
Amazing Sounds Astounding MusicFeb 06, 2020
ASAM #06 - The British Folk Rock Episode
This new episode of Amazing Sounds Astounding Music analyses the rise and fall and survival of British folk rock, from it’s heydays in the early 70s to these days where the legacy of Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Steeleye Span and Albion Band still pushes many musicians to produce great music far away from the commercial limelight, an underground artistic ley line running beneath the mainstream.
In this episode you will hear:
- Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
- Fairport Convention - Tam Lin
- Fairport Convention - A Sailor’s Life
- Pentangle - House Carpenter
- Pentangle - Cruel Sister
- Steeleye Span - Drink Down the Moon/The Cuckoo
- Steeleye Span - Seven Hundred Elves
- Shirley Collins and The Albion Band - The Murder of Maria Martens
- Fotheringay - Banks of the Nile
- Ashley Hutchings - He’s Young but He’s Growing
- Crumbling Ghost - The Good Old Way
- Galley Beggar - The Girl I Left Behind Me
- Mary Jane - Twa Corbies
- The Owl Service - Cruel Mother
- The Owl Service - Sea Song
- Trembling Bells - Adieu, England
- The Shining Levels - Slow Pass the Autumn Clouds
- Rowan Amber Mill - The Hunter
- Eliza Carthy - Worcester City
https://witheredhandrecords.bandcamp.com/album/five-songs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Owl_Service_(band)
https://www.discogs.com/it/label/1575566-Dark-Britannica
https://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/cropredy/
ASAM #05 The Alternative Lemmy Episode
This new episode of our podcast deals with the lesser known work of great rock'n'roll icon Ian "Lemmy" Kilminster, from the beginnings with Rockin Vickers to collaborations with Ozzy and Slash.
Here is what we're playing and discussing:
- The Rockin' Vickers - dandy
- Sam Gopal - Sky is Burning
- Hawkwind - Lost Johnny
- Hawkwind - The Watcher
- Hawkwind - Motorhead
- Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters - Ejection
- The Damned - Ballroom Blitz
- The Young and Moody - Don't do That
- Headgirl - please Don't Touch
- Lemmy and Wendy O' Williams - Stand By Your Man
- Head Cat - Stuck on You
- Head Cat - Big River
- Probot - Shake Your Blood
- Ozzy Osbourne feat. Lemmy and Slash - I Ain't No Nice Guy
ASAM #04 - The Golden Age of Italian Hardcore Punk Episode
In this episode of our podcast we're going to talk about that musical style that Maximum Rock'n'Roll defined "Italian Hardcore". A unique and very distinctive sound that emerged through the early 80s in the Italian peninsula and that gave local bands, which at home performed often for half a dozen friends, worldwide respect and recognition in the lively and exciting anarcho-punk underground movement.
Following the footsteps of iconic bands such as Crass and Discharge were:
- Wretched - Finirà Mai
- Wretched - Troppo Facile Morire
- Indigesti - Mai
- Indigesti - Astratto Concepimento
- Negazione - Tutti Pazzi
- Declino - Inutile Trionfo
- Contrazione - Sbarre
- Peggio Punx - No! Mai
- Underage - Entro Domani
- Raw Power - State Oppression
- Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers - Furious Party
- Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers - Enemy
- Bloody Riot - Naja de Merda
- Impact - Solo Odio
- Kina - Correre Cercare Piangere
- Franti - Il Battito del Cuore
- I Refuse it! - Sogni a Doppie Vie
- Contropotere - Demoni e Dei
- Nerorgasmo - Nerorgasmo
Resources:
- Marco Philopat, Costretti a sanguinare, Shake, 1997, Milano
- Marco Philopat, Lumi di punk. La scena italiani raccontata dai protagonisti, Milano, Agenzia X, 2006.
- v.v.a.a. – International P.E.A.C.E. Benefit Compilation R Radical Records – R.R.R. 1984
- v.v.a.a. - LoveHate80 – 01, SOA Records
- http://www.lovehate80.it/fanzine/TVOR/home.html
ASAM #02 - The Best Metal Of 2019 Episode
This episode of our Podcast offers a selection of what we deemed were the best metal releases of 2019. Here is the playlist:
01 - Amon Amarth: Raven's Flight
02 - Candlemass: Astorolus
03 - PH: Justified
04 - Lingua Ignota: Butcher of the World
05 - Sunn0))): Between Sleipnir's Breath
06 - Crypt Sermon: Christ is Dead
07 - Inter Arma: A Waxen Sea
08 - Obsequiae: The Palms of Sorrowed Kings
09 - Venom Prison: Devoid
10 - Smoulder: Ilian of Garrathorm
11 - Waste of Space Orchestra: Syntheosis
ASAM #01 - Occult Rock Episode
This episode of the podcast Amazing Sounds Astounding Music deals with the birth, decline and revival of underground sub-genre Occult Rock, starting from seminal bands such as Coven and Black Widow to contemporary Sabbath Assembly and Devil's Blood.
Here is the playlist:
1 - Coven: Wicked Woman
2 - Coven: Black Sabbath
3 - Black Sabbath: The Wizard
4 - Black Widow: Sacrifice
5 - Zior: Entrance of the Devil
6 - Pentagram: All Your Sins
7 - Witchfinder General: Witchfinder General
8 - Witchcraft: Witchcraft
9 - Blood Ceremony: Goodbye Gemini
10 - The Devil's Blood: The Anti-Kosmik Magick
11 - The Devil's Blood: A Waxing Moon Over Babylon
12 - Jex Thoth: The Places you Walk
13 - Jex Thoth: Separated at Birth
14 - Lucifer: Dreamer
15 - Jess and the Ancient Ones:Astral Sabbath
16 - Sabbath Assembly: Ascend and Descend
17: Purson: The Contract
18: Black Widow: Come to the Sabbat
ASAM #03 - The birth of Black Metal Episode
In this episode of Astounding Sounds Amazing Music we're talking about all those bands and influences which contributed to the birth of Norwegian and modern black metal. From Venom and Slayer to the infamous events sorrounding the birth of Norwegian black metal but strictly under a musical perspective.
If you are interested in the actual crimes/events connected to the so-called Inner Circle please read: "Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground" by Moynihan and Sonderlind, or watch the movie "Lords of Chaos" by Jonas Akerlund.
On this episode:
- Venom - Welcome to Hell
- Venom - Black Metal
- Merciful Fate - A Corpse Without Soul
- Celtic Frost - Circle of the Tyrants
- Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
- Bathory - Armageddon
- Bathory - Equimanthorn
- Burzum - A Lost Forgotten Sad Spirit
- Burzum - Ea, Lord of the Depths
- Extreme Noise Terror - A Holocaust in your Head
- Electro Hippies - Run, Ronald
- Immortal - Call of the Wintermoon
- Slayer - Black Magic