Matthew Levinson

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Published on 22/05/08
by matt

Halfway from SF to LA and after a few days in Monterey (sadly not in time for the jazz or artichoke festivals) I have a few more discoveries to note.

  • I have never seen so many limo’s
  • Public transport seems more useful/reliable than Australia (sure to be tipped upside down in LA tomorrow)
  • (good) coffee is hard to come by
  • White guys seem pretty comfortable with hip-hop parlance. For example, they will sign off with “Peace” or sprinkle their sentences with phrases such as “that’s how we do”, etc

I went to SF with a box of Cyclic Defrost mags and traded them (figuratively, guys) for a bunch of records. Plus great mags like Arthur, Mule and even a copy of Lillian Roxon’s Rock Encyclopedia.


Amoeba Records on Haight St, San Francisco

I bought Ornette Coleman’s ‘Twins’, Rahsaan Roland Kirk’s ‘Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata’ and ‘I Talk With the Spirits’, Quarteto Novo’s eponymous LP, Yuseef Lateef’s ‘Eastern Sounds’, Lonnie Liston Smith’s ‘Cosmic Funk’ and Pharoah Sanders’ ‘Journey to the One’ from Amoeba. Some old, some new, but, yes, a lot of jazz. I’m a freak for it at the moment.

At Aquarius Records in the Mission district I picked up Konono No1′s ‘Congotronics’ (finally) and on the way down the coast, in Santa Cruz, I picked up a couple of mariachi and Tex-Mex records – a compilation called Conjunto and a record by El Banderillero.

Now for something to play them on.

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