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Dominic Valvona




For all our friends and followers alike in the shadow of a second coronavirus lockdown, let the Monolith Cocktail ease some of the doldrums and boredoms of a partial restricted winter with another Social Playlist (the 49th edition in fact). The blog’s imaginary radio show (or podcast if you prefer) brings together tracks from across time, genres and the globe to take the listener on a musical odyssey of discovery; with a few recent reissues and even newish tracks thrown in. Expect to anything or everything between Turkish sirens, troubled troubadours that failed to break through, preposterous hard rawk and kitsch beat band cover versions, diaphanous voices from North Africa, the sounds of liberation, concept prog, moseying cowboy blues and good ol’ gospel veneration.

For those of you without access to Spotify, we’ve chosen a random smattering of tracks from Youtube below the track list.

TRACK LIST FOR VOLUME XLIX:

Kamuran Akkor ‘Yorgun Gozler’
Gina X Performance ‘Strip Tease’
Ilous & Decuyper  ‘Beruk !!!’
Jon English  ‘Laughing At The Guru’
Selda Bagcan  ‘Yaz Gazeteci Yaz’
Peter Ives  ‘In Pursuit Of Treasure’
Zoot  ‘Eleanor Rigby’
Iron Claw  ‘Gonna Be Free’
Guadalcanal Diary  ‘Michael Rockefeller’
The Toms  ‘It’s Needless’
Charanjit Singh  ‘Hey Mujhe Dil De’
Orchestre Regional De Mopti  ‘Boro’
Sounds Of Liberation  ‘Billie One’
Kool Blues  ‘Can We Try Love Again’
Los Teddy’s  ‘Soy Jack Flash’
Kim Tolliver  ‘I Gotta Find A Way’
Derrick Morgan  ‘Never Stop Loving You’
Awate (Ft. Turkish Dcypha)  ‘Austerity’
Haiku D’ Etat  ‘Slower Traffic To The Right’
Nice & Smooth  ‘How To Flow’
Maryn E. Coote  ‘Emotion’
James Reese & The Progressions  ‘You Can Make It If You Try/Love Ain’t Easy’
These Trails  ‘Sowed A Seed’
Nahawa Doumbia  ‘Blonde Yirini’
Emerald Web  ‘Openings’
Good Doom  ‘Multi Level Lounge’
Cut Worms  ‘Every Once In A While’
Front Page Review  ‘FEELS LIKE LOVE’
Julian’s Treatment  ‘Fourth From The Sun’
Blackfeather  ‘Seasons Of Change Pt. 1’
Deux Filles  ‘Shalama’
Rufus Zuphall  ‘Knights Of The 3rd Degree’
Speed, Glue & Shinki  ‘Mr. Walking Drugstore Man’
Cowboy  ‘Use Your Situation’
Washington Phillips  ‘Take Your Burden To The Lord And Leave It There’
Dead Moon  ‘Can’t Help Falling In Love’


And those Youtube versions:

Hi, my name is Dominic Valvona and I’m the Founder of the music/culture blog monolithcocktail.com For the last ten years I’ve featured and supported music, musicians and labels we love across genres from around the world that we think you’ll want to know about. No content on the site is paid for or sponsored and we only feature artists we have genuine respect for /love. If you enjoy our reviews (and we often write long, thoughtful ones), found a new artist you admire or if we have featured you or artists you represent and would like to buy us a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/monolithcocktail to say cheers for spreading the word, then that would be much appreciated.