Always nice to revisit Area... they were really an amazing group, a unique combination of hardcore prog, fusion, and free jazz, propelled by the amazing voice of Demetrio Stratos... A voice not unrelated to that of Thomas Buckner, who appears on both version of Roscoe Mitchell's composition "Distant radio Transmissions"... in my latest listening, the version on Splatter takes the edge...
Playlist 2026-11-09:
*Area: Crac!
*Beatles: Past Masters (selections)
*Beatles: Beatles for Sale (2009 mono remaster)
*Beatles: Help! (2009 mono remaster)
*Beatles: Rubber Soul (Special Edition) (disc 1)
*Christiane Bopp: Rêver, Murmurer, Dire
*Rodger Coleman/Sam Byrd: Eras
*Rodger Coleman & Sam Byrd: 2014-11-25 Nashville (wav) track 9
*D’Angelo and the Vanguard: Black Messiah (sides 2, 3)
*Dark Carpet: Demonstration Record
*Miles Davis: Filles de Kilimanjaro
*Duke Ellington: Black, Brown, & Beige: The 1944-1946 Band Recordings (disc 1)
*Duke Ellington: The Private Collection, Vol. 3: Studio Sessions, New York, 1962
*Duke Ellington: The Private Collection, Vol. 4: Studio Sessions, New York, 1963
*Duke Ellington: Copenhagen 1964 "Harlem"
*Grateful Dead: 1970-06-24 Port Chester NY (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1984-07-13 Berkeley CA (CDR) (disc 2)
*Andrew Hill: Compulsion (side 1)
*Layers of Memory: 2019-12-07 RVA (wav)"Improvisation No. 3"
*Roscoe Mitchell: Splatter "Distant Radio Transmission"
*Roscoe Mitchell with Ostravská Banda: Distant Radio Transmission
*Camila Nebbia's The Hanged One: Limbo
*New Ting: 2026-10-26 Squatters' Dreams (wav)
*Larry Ochs/Joe Morris/Charles Downs: Every Day → All The Way
*Pauline Oliveros: Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 (disc 8)
*OM: Sudpol
*OOIOO: The Horizon Spiral
*Plymouth: Plymouth "Standish"
*Franz Schubert: String Quintet in C (Vellinger Quartet with Bernard Greenhouse, cello)
*Sun Ra: Nothing Is… (side 1)
*Pat Thomas & XT: Strata, Act (Joy Contemporary)* (discs 2, 3)
*UYA: 1995-03-30 Booth Pole Funk Statements (wav)
*Various artists: The Detroit Funk Vaults: Funk and Soul from Dave Hamilton 1968-1979
*Anna Webber: Idiom (disc 1)
*Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life: The EP
