Playlist/Dominic Valvona/Brian “Bordello” Shea/Matt Oliver
For those of you that have only just joined us as new followers and readers, our former behemoth Quarterly Playlist Revue is now no more! With a massive increase in submissions month-on-month, we’ve decided to go monthly instead in 2020. The June playlist carries on from where the popular quarterly left off; picking out the choice tracks that represent the Monolith Cocktail’s eclectic output – from all the most essential new Hip-Hop cuts to the most dynamic music from across the globe. New releases and the best of reissues have been chosen by me, Dominic Valvona, Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea and Matt Oliver.
Tracklist In Full:
Thiago Nassif ‘Soar Estranho’
Freak Heat Waves ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’
Lithics ‘Hands’
Ammar 808 ft. Susha ‘Marivere Gati’
Bab L’ Bluz ‘Gnawa Beat’
The Koreatown Oddity ft. Taz Arnold ‘Ginkabiloba’
Koma Saxo ‘Koma Mate’
Wish Master ‘Write Pages’
Gee Bag, Illinformed ‘I Can Be (Sam Krats Remix)’
Gorilla Twins ‘Highs & Lows’
Jeffrey Lewis ‘Keep It Chill In The East Village’
Armand Hammer ‘Slew Foot’
Public Enemy ‘State Of The Union’
Run The Jewels ‘Yankee And The Brave (ep.4)’
Gaul Plus ‘Church Of The Motorway’
Tamburi Neri ‘Indio’
Ty, Durrty Goodz ‘The Real Ones’
Fierro Ex Machina ‘A Sail Of All Tears’
Skyzoo ‘Turning 10’
Kahil El’Zabar ft. David Murray ‘Necktar’
Afel Bocoum ‘Avion’
Etienne de la Sayette ‘Safari Kamer’
The Lancashire Hustlers ‘Stuck In The Middle Of A Week’
Scarlet’s Well ‘Sweetmeat’
Campbell Sibthorpe ‘Good Lord’
Westerman ‘Drawbridge’
The Fiery Furnaces ‘Down At The So And So On Somewhere’
Kutiman ‘Copasavana’
Caleb Landry Jones ‘The Great I Am’
Bedd ‘You Have Nice Things’
The Original Magnetic Light Parade ‘Confusion Reigns’
Cosse ‘Sun Forget Me’
Bananagun ‘Modern Day Problems’
Salem Trials ‘Head On Rong’
Lucidvox ‘Runaway’
HighSchool ‘Frosting’
Jon Hassell ‘Fearless’
All our monthly playlists so far in 2020
Monolith Cocktail Social Playlist: #XLVI: Itadi, Chrissy Zebby Tembo, Ludus, Drum Circus…
June 5, 2020
Playlist/Dominic Valvona
For all our friends and followers alike in various states of emergence from a full coronavirus lockdown and the escalating events of George Floyd’s death at the hands of the police, let the Monolith Cocktail ease some of the anxiety, uncertainty and the rage with another volume of Dominic Valvona’s cross-generational, cross-genre Social Playlists (the 46th edition in fact).
Soothing the soul, embracing the eclectic the blog’s imaginary radisohow (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.
For those of you without access to Spotify, we’ve chosen a random smattering of tracks from Youtube.
Tracks In Full:
Mombasa ‘Yenyeri’
Horoya ‘Sete Curvas’
Chrissy Zebby Tembo ‘Coffin Maker’
Colin Hare ‘For Where Have You Been’
Dick Stusso ‘I Am Not The Girl You Used To Know’
Stack Waddy ‘It’s All Over Now’
The Research ‘All These Feelings’
The Weather Prophets ‘The Key To My Love Is Green’
Ludus ‘Little Girls’
Itadi ‘Ye, Ye, Ye’
Kashmere Stage Band ‘Thank You’
Hooksy ‘Flying Market’
Twin Hype ‘Do It To The Crowd’
Neek The Exotic ‘Backs and Necks’
Nolan Porter ‘Iron Out The Rough Spots’
Rob Sonic ‘Jesus Christ Super Tramp’
Tommy McGee ‘The Hatch’
Mike Nyoni and Born Free ‘It’s Only A Dream’
Allen Toussaint And Eldridge Holmes ‘Gone Gone Gone’
Easy Kabaka Brown ‘Belema’
Sola ‘Tu Te Has Ido’
Crystal Syphon ‘Have More Of Everything’
The Pretty Things ‘Baron Saturday’
The Overton Berry Trio ‘Hey Jude’
Shawn Phillips ‘From All Of Us’
Jad Fair ‘Haunted By Frankenstein’
The Dream ‘Four Phone-Calls’
The Youngbloods ‘Faster All The Time’
Quatermass ‘Make Up Your Mind’
Sam Rivers, Anthony Cole, Doug Matthews ‘Spark’
Nate Morgan ‘Mrafu’
Clap! Clap! ‘Southern Dub’
Psychic Ills ‘Never Learn Not To Love’
The Pretty Things ‘Parachute’
Drum Circus ‘Groove Rock’
Thunder And Roses ‘Moon Child’
Goran Kajfes Subtropic Arkestra ‘I’m On My Way/Patch Of Blue’
Sarah Webster Fabio ‘Together/To The Tune Of Coltrane’s ‘Equinox”
Awa Poulo ‘Djara Wilam’
Willis Earl Beal ‘True’
Video Choices
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.
Monolith Cocktail Social (Playlist): Volume #XLV: Little Richard, Tony Allen, Kraftwerk, Embryo, Officer!…
May 13, 2020
Playlist/Dominic Valvona
Cool shit that the Monolith Cocktail founder and instigator Dominic Valvona has pulled together, the Social playlist is a themeless selection of eclectic tracks from across the globe and ages. Representing not only his tastes but the blogs, these regular playlists can be viewed as an imaginary radio show, a taste of Dominic’s DJ sets over 25 plus years. Placed in a way as to ape a listening journey, though feel free to listen to it as you wish, each playlist bridges a myriad of musical treasures to enjoy and also explore – and of course, to dance away the hours to.
The latest volume includes a few tributes to those we’ve lost; a sprinkle of rock deity Little Richard, Afrobeat and Afrojazz doyan Tony Allen, and electronic music progenitor Florian Schneider amongst the unusual usual mix of post-punk, transcendence, psychedelic, electronic, folk, acid country, dreams…blah blah blah. We could go on and on. Just listen and have a whale of a time, even in these most anxious of times.
https://open.spotify.com/user/dominicvalvona/playlist/0EtbufwUYoWJRBU8NffvO7
Tracks in full:
Little Richard ‘King Of Rock And Roll’
Rasputin’s Stash ‘What’s On Your Mind’
Rodian G.A. ‘Nu Tu Vei Fi’
Nat Turner Rebellion ‘Laugh To Keep From Crying’
24 Carat Black ‘Brown-Baggin”
Hieroglyphics ‘All Things’
Faine Jade ‘Ballad Of The Bad Guys’
Joe Byrd & The Field Hippies ‘Nightmare Train’
Blonde On Blonde ‘Circles’
Merrell Fankhauser & H.M.S Bounty ‘Everybody’s Talkin”
Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso ‘Cento Mani e Cento Occhi’
Peter Janes ‘For The Sake Of Time’
Le Orme ‘Summer Calling’
Jeff Simmons ‘Appian Way’
Lula Cortes & Lailson ‘Satwa’
Anandi Bhattacharya ‘Jai Ganesh’
Yusef Lateef ‘Ching Miau’
Tony Allen ‘Cool Cats’
Oliver Nelson ‘Anacrusis’
Embryo ‘Code 7’
yuk. ‘Kulam’
Autechre ‘sinistrailAB air’
Jennifer Touch ‘Chemistry’
Kraftwerk ‘Pocket Calculator’
Lizzy Mercier Descloux ‘Sports Spotnicks’
Jean-Luc Ponty ‘With A Little Help From My Friends’
Allan Wachs ‘The Lord Will Provide’
Delaney & Bonnie ‘Poor Elijah’
Will Boelts ‘Boring’
Dunkelziffer ‘(Do Watch You Can) Prof.’
Officer! ‘Anagrams’
Little Richard ‘Hound Dog’
Essential Logic ‘Quality Crayon Wax O.K.’
Granicus ‘Hollywood Star’
Tony Allen ‘Nepa’
David Sancious ‘further In The Forest Of Feelings’
Damara ‘Mmamamkhabtha’
Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra ‘Salilento’
Boogie Down Productions ‘Remix For P Is Free’
Keith Hudson ‘Man From Shooters Hill’
Julian Koster ‘The Sea Of Tranquility’
Kraftwerk ‘Endless Endless’
And for those without Spotify access, a smattering of video versions:
The Monthly Playlist Revue: April 2020: Nick Cave, Big Thief, Homeboy Sandman, Kahil El’Zabar…
April 30, 2020
Playlist/Dominic Valvona/Matt Oliver/Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea
By now we’ll probably all aware and getting jaded by the constant newsroll of Covid-19 horror stories, and the ominous stench of pandemic armageddon. To return to some sort of normality, the Monolith Cocktail promises to keep finding all the best new music for you to enjoy, dance to, contemplate and mull over. No cheap epidemic cash-ins and no tenuous links to self-promotional lockdowns here. Just great music, which we hope you will all keep supporting during these anxious uncertain times. And remember, if you do find anything on this playlist that you’d love to purchase, please root the artist, band out on Bandcamp tomorrow (Friday 1st May 2020), as the platform is once more waiving their cut of the fees.
For those of you that have only just joined us as new followers and readers, our former behemoth Quarterly Playlist Revue is now no more! With a massive increase in submissions month-on-month, we’ve decided to go monthly instead, in 2020. The April playlist carries on from where the popular quarterly left off; picking out the choice tracks that represent the Monolith Cocktail’s eclectic output – from all the most essential new Hip-Hop cuts to the most dynamic music from across the globe. New releases and the best of reissues have been chosen by me, Dominic Valvona, Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea and Matt Oliver.
Tracks in full are:
Hanni El Khatib ‘ALIVE’
Mashmellow ‘Share It’
3 South & Banana ‘Rush Hour’
Supergombo ‘Alien Felines From Beyond The Galaxy’
iyatraQuartet ‘Chandra’
Santrofi ‘Africa’
Damily ‘Zaho Va’
Holy Hive ‘Didn’t You Say’
Euan Hartley And Friends ’30/1′
Twisted Ankle ‘Landlord Laughs’
Lucidvox ‘Knife’
Pabst ‘Skyline’
Senji Niban ‘Where The Birds Fly Now?’
Higamos Hogamos/Spacerocks ‘Crome Yellow’
Raw Poetic & Damu the Fudgemunk ‘Head On’
Tanya Morgan ‘Resurrection’
Evidence ‘Unlearning’
The Doppelgangaz ‘Cloak Makes The Man’
Antti Lotjonen ‘Pocket Yoga’
R.A. The Rugged Man ft. Chuck D ‘Malice Of Mammon’
Dope Knife ‘Face Fuck’
Cambetta & Apollo Brown ‘Nightmare’
Makoto Kino ‘West Madoka’
Bodyvox ‘Yeah Yeah (D Ramirez Vocal Radio Edit)’
RJD2 ft. Homeboy Sandman ‘One Of A Kind’
Sparks ‘One For The Ages’
Mick Harvey ‘The Journey: Part 1: Conflict’
Alex Stolze ft. Ben Osborn & Anne Muller ‘Babylon’
Chicago Underground Quartet ‘Orgasm’
Aksak Maboul ‘Silent Silhouettes’
Halftribe ‘Subliminal’
Clovvder ‘My Mother Was The Moon’
Nick Cave ‘Cosmic Dancer’
Die Wilde Jagd ‘Himmelfahrten’
David Ahlen ‘If I Have You’
Big Thief ‘Love In Mine’
Yakima ‘It Helped’
Murmur Tooth ‘A Fault In This Machine’
Farezi & Sinan Oktem ‘Dionysian’
So Beast ‘Multiplayer’
Simon McCorry ‘Pieces Of Mind’
Kahil El’Zabar & David Murray ‘In My House’
Roedelius ‘Geruhsam’
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.
Monolith Cocktail Social Playlist: #XLIV: Clothilde, Keef Hartley Band, Finis Africae, Eno & Cale, Haruomi Hosono…
April 6, 2020
PLAYLIST/Dominic Valvona
Cool shit that the Monolith Cocktail founder and instigator Dominic Valvona has pulled together, the Social playlist is a themeless selection of eclectic tracks from across the globe and ages. Representing not only his tastes but the blogs, these regular playlists can be viewed as an imaginary radio show, a taste of Dominic’s DJ sets over 25 plus years. Placed in a way as to ape a listening journey, though feel free to listen to it as you wish, each playlist bridges a myriad of musical treasures to enjoy and also explore – and of course, to dance away the hours to.
For those of you without access to Spotify, we’ve chosen a random smattering of tracks from Youtube.
Tracks
The Lovin’ Spoonful ‘Revelation: Revolution ’69’
Dyke & The Blazers ‘Swamp Walk’
Keef Hartley Band ‘You Can Choose’
Steamhammer ‘Supposed To Be’
Klaus Doldinger’s Passport ‘Schirokko’
Som Tres ‘Eu Já Tenho Você’
Freda Payne ‘Let It Be Me’
Emitt Rhodes ‘Let’s All Sing’
Keyboard ‘I Wish You know’
Clothilde ‘Saperlipopette’
N’Goma Jazz ‘Kupassiala Kuawaba’
Tabou Combo ‘Haiti’
Dick Khoza ‘Zumbwe (Baby Tiger)’
Def Jef ‘Get Up 4 The Get Down’
Souls Of Mischief ‘A Name I Call Myself’
Honey Cone ‘Deaf, Blind, Paralysed’
The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble ‘One For The monica Lingas Band’
Sum Pear ‘Bring Me Home America’
J Scienide & Kev Brown ‘100 Grand’
Paper Garden ‘Lady’s Man’
Brian Eno & John Cale ‘Lay My Love’
Mick Ronson ‘Growing Up And i’m Fine’
David Johansen ‘Here Comes The Night’
Ben Von Wildenhaus ‘The Limping Axeman’
Marconi Notaro ‘Ah Vida Avida’
Alessandro Alessandroni ‘Babylon City’
Between ‘Scatter’
Finis Africae ‘Zoo Zulu’
Gescom ‘C2’
Luke Vibert ‘Funky Acid Stuff’
Cos ‘Video Boma’
Haruomi Hosono ‘Sports Men’
Blurt ‘Let Them Be (Live)’
Essential Logic ‘The Order Form’
Parasites Of The Western World ‘Mo’
Rob Jo star Band ‘Stone Away’
Semi-Colon ‘Ebenebe’
Sam Rivers ‘Crux’
N’Ghare Hi Power Band ‘Campus Rock’
Dr. Alimantado ‘NO Gwaan SOH’
VIDEOS
The Monolith Cocktail Revue Playlist: March 2020: Pozi, Run The Jewels, Cult Of The Damned, Tamikrest…
March 31, 2020
PLAYLIST
Dominic Valvona/Matt Oliver/Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea’
By now we’ll probably all aware and getting jaded by the constant newsroll of Covid-19 horror stories, and the ominous stench of pandemic armageddon. To return to some sort of normality, the Monolith Cocktail promises to keep finding all the best new music for you to enjoy and mull over. No cheap epidemic cash-ins and no tenuous links to self-promotional lockdowns here. Just great music, which we hope you will all keep supporting during these anxious uncertain times.
For those of you that have only just joined us as new followers and readers, our former behemoth Quarterly Playlist Revue is now no more! With a massive increase in submissions month-on-month, we’ve decided to go monthly instead, in 2020. The March playlist carries on from where the popular quarterly left off; picking out the choice tracks that represent the Monolith Cocktail’s eclectic output – from all the most essential new Hip-Hop cuts to the most dynamic music from across the globe. New releases and the best of reissues have been chosen by me, Dominic Valvona, Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea and Matt Oliver.
THE TRACKS IN FULL ARE:
Lunar Bird ‘A Walk’
TrueMendous ‘Hmmm’
Awale Jant Band ‘Just Be Free’
Mdou Moctar ‘Ibitlan’
Collocutor ‘The Angry One’
Superposition ‘Antiplace’
The Stroppies ‘Holes In Everything’
Pozi ‘Whitewashing’
Loose Fit ‘PULL THE LEVER’
The National Honor Society ‘First Among The Last’
Jacqueline Tucci ‘Fear’
Jaga Jazzist ‘Spiral Era (EDit)’
Jennifer Touch ‘Attic’
Bedd ‘Auto Harp’
The Saxophones ‘Flower Spirit’
Schizo Fun Addict ‘Whiskey’
Ploom ‘Swish’
Tamikrest ‘Amidnin Tad Adouniya’
Hifiklub & Roddy Bottum ‘David Says’
Rowland S Howard ‘Pop Crimes’
The Hannah Barbeas ‘No Majesty’
The Proper Ornaments ‘Broken Insect’
Irreversible Entanglements ‘No Mas’
Nduduzo Makhathini ‘Indawu’
Masta Ace ‘GMO’
Riz Ahmed ‘Fast Lava’
Voodoo Black ‘Fizzy’
dug & Hassan el HoBo ‘Electric Sheep’
Harold Nano ‘Menton Train Jump’
Slitty Wrists ‘Su-Mi-Ma-Sen’
Shortwave Research Group ‘Perpetual Midnight’
Cult Of The Damned (Lee Scott, Mikavelli, BeTheGun, Bill Shakes, Sly Moon & Saler) ‘OFFIE’
Run The Jewels Ft. Greg Nice & DJ Premier ‘Ooh LA LA’
Super Inuit ‘Mothering Tongue’
Sebastian Reynolds ‘The Universe Remembers’
Chouk Bwa & The Angstromers ‘Move Ten’
Tom Caruana ‘Dennis The Space Hopper’
Clear Soul Forces ‘Chinese Funk’
Ghostwood Development Project Ft. Kool Keith ‘Gulley’
Bishop Nehru ‘Too Last’
Nomad, Chester P ‘Athens In Mordor (Secondson Remix)’
Cut Beetlez. Nice Guys ‘Cut Ya Ass Up’
Jehst ‘Wild Herb’
Mr Key ‘Kids Story 2’
Pwaz One, DJ Dister, Akrobatik ‘No Contest’
Estee Nack, Superior ft. Daniel Son ‘POPROCKCLASSICS’
And Now, A Word From Our Founder
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.
The Monolith Cocktail Social Playlist: Volume XLIII
March 16, 2020
PLAYLIST
Compiled by Dominic Valvona
Graphics Gianluigi Marsibilio
For all our friends and followers alike in coronavirus lockdown, let the Monolith Cocktail ease some of the doldrums and boredoms of quarantine with another Social Playlist (the 43rd edition in fact). The blog’s imaginary radisohow (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.
For those of you without access to Spotify, we’ve chosen a random smattering of tracks from Youtube.
Tracks:
Evie Sands ‘I’ll Hold Out My Hand’
Clarence Reid ‘Along Came A Woman’
Urbano de Castro ‘Urbanito’
Marva Whitney ‘What Kind Of Man’
The Scruffs ‘Go Faster’
The Cake ‘Ooh Poo Pah Doo’
The Koobas ‘A Little Piece Of My Heart’
Eternity’s Children ‘The Sidewalks Of The Ghetto’
Armando Trovajoli ‘I Love You’
Ziad Rahbani ‘Raksat Tahiat’
Eris Van Bloom ‘Forget Me After’
Yasuaki Shimizu ‘Lebon Lipon’
The Clientele ‘I Had To Say This’
The Plastic Cloud ‘Shadows Of Your Mind’
Grapefruit ‘Yesterday’s Sunshine’
Moses Gunn Collective ‘Mercy Mountain’
3Ds ‘Evocation Of W.C. Fields
The Exploding Hearts ‘Throwaway Style’
Rockin’ Ramrods ‘Willie’s Plastic People Factory’
The Fe-Fi-Four Plus 2 ‘Pick Up Your Head’
The Pazant Brothers ‘Dancing In The Street’
Anthony Braxton ‘G-647 (Opus 23H)’
Sonny Sharrock ‘Bailero’
Crispy Ambulance ‘Chill’
Big L ‘Devil’s Son’
Ramson Badbonez ‘I Got Dat Sting’
Tuff Crew ‘Show Em Hell’
Sonny & The Sunsets ‘Ghost Days’
Moonshake ‘Mugshot Heroine’
Lungleg ‘Punk Pop Travesty’
Thee Headcoats ‘The Messerschmitt Pilot’s Severed Hand’
The Intelligence ‘My Ears Are Dust’
Jeremy Steig ‘Home’
Weldon Irvine ‘Turkish Bath’
Bembeya Jazz National ‘N’Lanyo’
Bongos Ikwue ‘Ella’
Seamajesty ‘Abacat’
Acid Arab ‘Electrique Yarghol’
Pan Ron ‘Pros Reang Yeh Yeh’
Benkadi International ‘Kelou Na’
Dzyan ‘Light Shining Out Of Darkness’
Green On Red ‘Drifter’
For Youtubers
All Selections made by Dominic Valvona
The Monolith Cocktail Playlist Revue: Feb 2020: Chassol, U.S. Girls, Juga-Naut, Pongo…
February 28, 2020
PLAYLIST
Dominic Valvona/Brian Shea/Matt Oliver
The behemoth Quarterly Playlist Revue is now more! With a massive increase in submissions month-on-month, we’ve decided to go monthly in 2020. The February playlist carries on from where the popular quarterly left off; picking out the choice tracks that represent the Monolith Cocktail’s eclectic output. New releases and the best of reissues have been chosen by me, Dominic Valvona, Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea and Matt Oliver.
The full track list is as follows:
A Journey of Giraffes ‘Into The Open Air’
Graham Costello’s Strata ‘Cygnus (Edit)’
Calibro 35 ft. MEI ‘Black Moon’
The Four Owls ‘Honour Codes’
Juga-Naut ‘Jackson Pollock’
Chassol ‘Rollercoaster Pt.2’
Dream Parade ‘Adderall’
U.S. Girls ‘4 American Dollars’
Piney Gir ‘Puppy Love’
November Bees ‘Pot Called Pan’
Joss Cope ‘Indefinite Particles’
Slift ‘Hyperion’
Martin Mansson Sjostrand Trio ‘Overkilghetsflykten’
Bob Destiny ‘Wang Dang’
Dueling Experts ‘Dark Ninjas’
TrueMendous ‘That Don’t Mean’
Confucuis MC ‘Look Deeper’
Lewps Hekla ‘Rose Gold Ruger Pose’
Pulled By Magnets ‘Gold Regime People Die’
The Dream Syndicate ‘The Regulator (Single Edit)’
Mai Mai Mai ft. Maria Violenza ‘Secondo Coro Delle Lavandaie’
Sad Man ‘Door’
Pongo ‘Quem Manda No Mic’
Ranil ‘Cumbia Sin Nombre’
Nordine Staifi ‘Zine Ezzinet’
Adebukonla Ajao And Her Group ‘Aboyin Ile’
Mazzi & Tac ‘Brackets’
Dillion & Batsauce ‘Self Medicated’
Elaquent & Chester Watson ‘Airwalk’
A Journey Of Giraffes ‘Poet’s Muse’
Jimi Tenor ‘Lassi Laggi’
Seu Jorge & Roge ‘Sarava’
John Howard ‘It’s Not All Over Yet’
Birgitta Alida ‘Closely’
Anytime Cowboy ‘Story Of Skin Island’
King Krule ‘Comet Face’
Brian Bordello ‘Liverpool Hipster Set’
Postcards ‘Dead End’
Zinn ‘Diogenes’
Mazeppa ‘The Way In’
Vivienne Eastwood ‘Hanging Gardens’
Village Of The Sun, Binker & Moses ‘Village Of The Sun’
Simon McCorry ‘The Nothing That Is’
The Monthly Playlist Revue: Jan 2020: Les Amazones d’Afrique, Ani Glass, Black Lips, Colin Stetson…
January 31, 2020
PLAYLIST
Dominic Valvona & Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea
The behemoth Quarterly Playlist Revue is now more! With a massive increase in submissions month-on-month, we’ve decided to go monthly. The inaugural playlist carries on from where the popular quarterly left off; picking out the choice tracks that represent the Monolith Cocktail’s eclectic output. New releases and the best of reissues have been chosen by me, Dominic Valvona, and Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea.
JANUARY’S TRACKS ARE:
Les Amazones d’Afrique ‘Love’
Hailu Mergia ‘Abichu Nega Nega’
Dijf Sanders ‘Santoshi Mata’
Penya Na Msafiri Zawose ‘Heyyeh (Guedra Guedra Remix)’
Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela ‘We’ve Landed’
Ani Glass ‘Mirores’
Brainstory ‘Beautyful Beauti’
Syd Nukukluk ft. Monika ‘Plasticene’
Lee Scott ft. Dream McClean, DJ Frost & Sumgii ‘Sainthood’
Leaf Dog ft. Smellington Piff ‘Under The Spell’
Verses Bang ‘The Eagle Has Landed’
O.G. Natal & Kool Keith ‘Crime Don’t Pay’
The Van Allen Belt ‘Let It Goddam Be’
Extradition Order ‘Manhattan’
The Epstein ‘Lay Me Down’
Hallelujah! ‘Your Duck’
Deutsche Ashram ‘Slackjaw’
Sunflowers ‘Oscillations’
Shadow Show ‘Charades’
Black Lips ‘Odelia’
Pintandwefall ‘Ah-Ah-Ah’
Floodlights ‘Backyard’
Seattle Stomp ‘January’
Colin Stetson ‘West Of Arkham’
Lina_Raul Refree ‘Destino’
Brona McVittie ‘The Green Man’
Jonah Parzen-Johnson ‘Stand Still’
Ippu Mitsui ‘Recovery’
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.
Monolith Cocktail Social Playlist #XLII: Mike Nesmith, David Bowie, Eula Cooper, The Shivvers, Rosa Yemen…
January 10, 2020
PLAYLIST
Compiled by Dominic Valvona
Cool shit that the Monolith Cocktail founder and instigator Dominic Valvona has pulled together, the Social playlist is a theme-less selection of eclectic tracks from across the globe and ages. Representing not only his tastes but the blogs, these regular playlists can be viewed as an imaginary radio show, a taste of Dominic’s DJ sets over 25 plus years. Placed in a way as to ape a listening journey, though feel free to listen to it as you wish, each playlist bridges a myriad of musical treasures to enjoy and also explore – and of course, to dance away the hours to.
The first volume of 2020 includes a couple of live ones from the cosmic, country rock doyen Mike Nesmith (taken from his performance with foil Red Rhodes; released as the The McCabe’s Tapes last year, slipping below the radar and just missing our albums of 2020 features), and from that ever exhaustive archive of lost and under wraps David Bowie material, a brassy resonating eastern and ethereal alternative take of ‘The Man Who Sold The World’. There’s also Thai go-go beat nonsense from the Erawan Band; Afrobeat Salsa from Gyedu-Blay Ambolly; rattling garage punk from The Pandoras; 80s nu-soul funk from Konk; House(ing) diva funk collaboration from Kym Mazelle & Robert Howard; a rock steady grooving transformation of a classic from guitar picking Ernest Ranglin; plus the usual unusual mix of jazz, no wave, punk, post punk, power pop, country, avant-garde and whatever else tickles my fancy.
Track List
Erawan Band ‘Khon Muangkhan’
Episode Six ‘Morning Dew’
Eula Cooper ‘Try’
Paolo Ferrara ‘Afrotheme’
Bronx River Parkway ‘Song For Ray’
Gyedu-Blay Ambolly ‘Simigwa-Do’
Rikki Illonga, Musi-O-Tunya ‘Sunshine Love’
Konk ‘Love Attack’
Kym Mazelle & Robert Howard ‘Wait’
Ernest Ranglin ‘Summertime (Rock Steady)’
Eugene McDaniels ‘Tell Me Mr. President’
Josefus ‘America’
The Carpettes ‘Radio Wunderbar’
The Pandoras ‘You Burn Me Up And Down’
Total Control ‘Future Creme’
Rosa Yemen ‘Decryptated’
La Floripondio ‘Dime Que Pasa’
Nat Birchall ‘Ism Schism’
Ted Daniel Quintet ‘Mozambique’
The Lyman Woodard Organization ‘On Your Mind’
Engineers ‘Forgiveness’
Wall Of Voodoo ‘Dark As The Dungeon’
The Shivvers ‘When I Was Younger’
The Velvet Illusions ‘Town Of Fools’
David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights ‘Smoke You Right Out Of Here’
Walter Ghoul’s Lavender Brigade ‘House Of Small’
Emit Rhodes ‘Mary Will You Take My Hand’
Michael Nesmith & Red Rhodes ‘Grand Ennui (Live)’
Michael Nesmith & Red Rhodes ‘Some Of Shelly’s Blues (Live)’
David Bowie ‘The Man Who Sold The World (ChangesNowBowie Version)’
