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PLAYLIST/Dominic Valvona

The blog’s imaginary radio show, the Social is a rummage through Dominic Valvona’s record collection, and an accumulation of music he’s picked up other the decades, plus some newish tracks that didn’t make the Monolith Cocktail’s monthly playlist of brand new releases. With no themes, no lines drawn, choice music comes from across the generations, from across the world, and from any genre you can think of.

As with previous editions Dominic marks certain picky album anniversaries (Dr. John’s Gumbo, and Big Star’s #1 Record albums from ’72, and Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ Henry’s Dream from ’92) and deaths (really in this case, the all too soon loss of experimental electronic innovator Mira Calix, and Bonham incarnated, and here on this track, an incarnation of Dennis Wilson, Taylor Hawkins).

Smattered amongst that lot are 30 other eclectic tracks from Karen Dalton (a Beat Club of ‘One Night Of Love’, recently unearthed and released by Light In The Attic), Jamie Branch, Bruiser Wolf, Gil Trythall, July, Bill Nelson, Yukihiro Takahashi, Donny Hathaway and Clinic. See the full 38-track list after the link below:

IN FULL, THOSE TRACKS ARE::::

Joyce Street  ‘That Man Of Mine’
Karen Dalton  ‘One Night Of Love (Live at the Beat Club, 1971)’
Dr. John  ‘Little Liza Jane’
Jaimie Branch  ‘theme 001’
Caetano Veloso  ‘Alfömega’
Eris Drew  ‘Quivering In Time’
Bruiser Wolf & Danny Brown  ‘I’m An Instrument’
Dead End & Secondson  ‘Let The Music Talk’
Rodney P, DJ Die and Indigo Kid  ‘Holes In The Building’
Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood Of Breath ‘MRA’
Saãda Bonaire  ‘Woman’
Léa Sen  ‘Hyasynth’
Mira Calix  ‘I’m In Love With The End’
Gil Trythall  ‘Last Date’
Marcello Gigante, Aristide Bascerano, Nora Orlandi  ‘Gardenia’
Franco Battiato  ‘Bandiera Bianca’
Krisma  ‘C.Rock’
Stark Reality  ‘Pretty Music’
July  ‘Jolly Mary’
The Stroppies  ‘No Joke’
Ed Dowie  ‘Number Eight wire’
Body/Head  ‘Actress’
Coágul  ‘L’edat de bronze’
Paul Leary  ‘What Are You Gonna Do’
Nick And The Bad Seeds  ‘Brother, My Cup Is Empty’
Bill Nelson  ‘Banal’
Big Star  ‘The Ballad Of El Goodo’
Loose Fur  ‘Laminated Cat’
Willie Dunn  ‘I Pity The Country’
Taylor Hawkins  ‘Holy Man’
Ghost Funk Orchestra & Golden Rules  ‘Asphalt Homeland’
Dashiell Hedayet  ‘Long Song For Zelda’
Yukihiro Takahashi  ‘2021 – Youshinori Sunahara Remaster’
Von Südenfed  ‘The Rhinohead’
Pacho Dávila, Daniel Correa, Hector Marín  ‘Sombras de Siboney’
Donny Hathaway  ‘I Love The Lord, He Heard My Cry (Pts. I & II)’
Clinic  ‘I Can’t Stand The Rain’
The Brothers And Sisters  ‘Just Like A Woman’