Aashish Khan - Sarod, The Sound of Mughal Court 8/10

Aashish Khan---- Aashish Kabobin' 7/10. Good not great.

Brian Fallon - Painkillers (2016 solo album debut came out today 3/11/2016) 5/5

Ok here is the deal. I know a little bit of Gaslight Anthem stuff but I am not the super fan that knew I was listening to the front man's solo debut album this morning when I put on the new release list on Spotify. This new album just blew me away. I've been through it 3 times already today (and now back cataloging the Gaslight shit)....

Lyrically it has pockets of absolute brilliance where you hear a line that gets right in that sweet spot and you have to say...fuck...that is fucking good.

I say this album is 10% Ryan Adams Alt Country style and 90% good-era Bruce Springsteen sounding..vocally and with some of the instrumentation choices (I heard a damn xylophone a few times)....

I will say it is NOTHING like a Gaslight album minus the growling vocals of course. I love love love this album. It is easy, accessible, perfect for many moods and times of day...basically I am currently over the moon for it.

5/5 - album of the year so far for me.

Zakir Hussain - Selects 8/10

Ram Narayan - Ragas Alhaiya Bilaval and Mishra Bhairavi 8/10
Estrella Morente - My Songs and a Poem 7/10

Emilia Amper - Trollfageln 7.8/10
Grachan Moncur III - Some Other Stuff 7.5/10

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party - Love and Devotion (2CD) 7.8/10

Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals - Call It What It Is (2016)
Grade: B-

M3LL155X by FKA twigs - 7/10

Deftones - Gore 8/10
Gaurav Mazumdar/Jayanthi Kumaresh - Walking Together 7/10

Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope - A-

If you haven't already, check out Regina "Soviet Kitsch" album. For me its her best album; its rawer than "Begin to Hope", so that is something to be mindful of when you first hear it.

I listened to Soviet Kitsch in part today as well as her latest release "cheap seats" ....i'm really getting in to her lately.

N. Rajam - Radiant 7.5/10
Emily Portman - Coracle 7.5/10

I think with both I need to spend more time with them.

Eric Clapton - Pilgrim - 5/10 (not bad but that horrid-dated early 90s sound)
Eric Clapton - Back Home - 8/10
The Fratellis - Costello Music - 9/10

Andrew Hill - Point of Departure 8.3/10
Ajoy Chakrabarty - Raga Khamaj 7/10

Kill the Witch - Single by Radiohead - 8/10

Jean-Louis Matinier/Marco Ambrosini - Inventio 8.5/10

The New Pornographers - Electric Version 7.5/10
I like it, but there is not enough Neko Case for me.

Nils Okland Band - Kjolvatn 8/10
Kalyan Mukherjea - Raga Shuddh Kalyan 7.5/10

A Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead - 10/10

Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi 8/10
Punch brothers - The Wireless (EP) 7.5/10
Zakir Hussain/Alla Rakha - Tabla Duet (Live album) 7.7/10

Wo Fat - The Black Code 8/10
Hariprasad Chaurasia - Rag Ahir Bhairav 7.5/10
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Vrioon 8.3/10
Gopal Shankar Misra - Out of Stillness 7/10
Anouar Brahem - Barzakh 8.5/10

L. Shankar - Who's to know 8.8/10
All Pigs Must Die - Nothing Violates this Nature 7.5/10

Milind Kapil Uppuluri Abhyagni Mukherjee Subhadra Meghashyam Gutala--Baati Days, Curry Nights 3.5/7 not spicy enough

I found a couple of Indian Metal records from ze closet. Might give them a listen in the near future.

Blood Orange ~FREETOWN SOUND~

Recognized a KRS-One sample from the Ghetto Music Blueprint album. I kinda fell asleep during my listen and I don't think I recognized that the Hadron Collider song with Nelly Furtado on it that I got on a cassette at his show was on the album. I was really excited for this because I love everything that Dev Hynes has ever done. The album is long and I feel like I will have to listen to it at least 10 times before I start to "understand" it.

Gorguts - Obscura 7/10
Kaushiki Chakrabarty - Kaushiki 8/10

Lol

John Coltrane - Live at the Village Vanguard: The Master Tapes 8/10
Robert Randolph and his Family Band - Colorblind 6.5/10

New Nonpoint Album is tits. 8/10

Spiro - Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow 6/10
Manilal Nag - Dawn Raga: Lalit 7.5/10

Nails - You'll never be one of us 8/10
20 mins of untempered, unrelenting rage and aggression. Delicious.

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway 9.5/10
Amazing.

Sara Watkins - Young In All The Wrong Ways 7.5/10
Adrian Belew - Lone Rhino 7/10
Adrian Belew - Twang Bar King 7.3/10

Paco De Lucia - Fuente Y Caudal 8.7/10
Arve Henriksen - The Nature of Connections 7.5/10

Gaza - He is never coming back 7.5/10
Tegan and Sara - Love you to death 7.7/10

Kathryn Tickell - Debateable Lands 8/10
Sultan Khan and M.S. Gopalakrishnan - Raga Bhoop and Dhun 8/10

Rokia Traore - Ne So 7.7/10
Seven Sisters of Sleep - Ezekiel's Hags 7.5/10

Pete La Roca - Basra 8/10
Giuliano Carmignola - Haydn: Violin concertos 7/10

Banks & Steelz - Anything But Words
10/10
The lead singer of Interpol and the "head rap guy" from Wu Tang? Together? Fuck. Yes. Such a great album.

Genesis - Selling England by the Pound 9.3/10
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks 9/10

It has been an awesome week of music.