From david turgeon Sent Fri, Aug 20th 1999, 16:15
yesterday i picked up richard thomas' 'what my ears can see' 7" on leaf. wow. how come nobody told me he was so good? :) it seems i've been pretty lucky with my purchases recently; that & mouse on mars' 'instru:mentals' -- anyway, i haven't been so drawn into a record in a long, long time. i recall seeing richard thomas being compared to sun ra ('the welsh sun ra' from what i recall) & for some reason, i kept putting off listening to his stuff because i thought the comparison _had_ to be dodgy. & sure enough, he doesn't sound like sun ra -- but he probably smokes the same stuff. this is basically, er... dsp-conscious jazz? i wouldn't know how to describe it. it's completely nonstandard though. anyway, just buy that 7" when you see it, there's 8 tracks on it & it feels great from start to finish. speaking of which, anyone with some richard thomas recommendations, please forward them this way. hah, & also, i found not one, not two, but THREE old funksto:rung 12"s & ended up buying 'elektromotor' (the one that has the word 'tecno' on it). of course it has no label or catalogue information but i suppose that was an acid planet release. anybody help me here? they also had musik aus strom 11 & funksto:rung 13 (both on acid planet) if anybody's interested. (also saw lp5 on 12", aemic 'beta' 10" & all sorts of other semi-rare goodies on vinyl. if you're craving for them i can go buy them for you & trade them for something.) have a nice day, -- david