Amazing Sounds Astounding Music

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Amazing Sounds Astounding Music is a music podcast dedicated to all the music which comes or takes you “to the ends of the earth”, with particular attention to its more radical and experimental aspects. The podcast is Italy-based but it's in English.

Episodes

  1. 02/06/2020

    ASAM #06 - The British Folk Rock Episode

    This new episode of Amazing Sounds Astounding Music analyses the rise and fall and survival of British folk rock, from it’s heydays in the early 70s to these days where the legacy of Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Steeleye Span and Albion Band still pushes many musicians to produce great music far away from the commercial limelight, an underground artistic ley line running beneath the mainstream. In this episode you will hear: Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die Fairport Convention - Tam Lin Fairport Convention - A Sailor’s Life Pentangle - House Carpenter Pentangle - Cruel Sister Steeleye Span - Drink Down the Moon/The Cuckoo Steeleye Span - Seven Hundred Elves Shirley Collins and The Albion Band - The Murder of Maria Martens Fotheringay - Banks of the Nile Ashley Hutchings - He’s Young but He’s Growing Crumbling Ghost - The Good Old Way Galley Beggar - The Girl I Left Behind Me Mary Jane - Twa Corbies The Owl Service - Cruel Mother The Owl Service - Sea Song Trembling Bells - Adieu, England The Shining Levels - Slow Pass the Autumn Clouds Rowan Amber Mill - The Hunter Eliza Carthy - Worcester City https://witheredhandrecords.bandcamp.com/album/five-songs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Owl_Service_(band) https://www.discogs.com/it/label/1575566-Dark-Britannica https://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/cropredy/ https://rowanambermill.bandcamp.com/ https://theshininglevels1.bandcamp.com/

    ASAM #06 - The British Folk Rock Episode

  2. 01/26/2020

    ASAM #05 The Alternative Lemmy Episode

    This new episode of our podcast deals with the lesser known work of great rock'n'roll icon Ian "Lemmy" Kilminster, from the beginnings with Rockin Vickers to collaborations with Ozzy and Slash. Here is what we're playing and discussing: The Rockin' Vickers - dandy Sam Gopal - Sky is Burning Hawkwind - Lost Johnny Hawkwind - The Watcher Hawkwind - Motorhead Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters - Ejection The Damned - Ballroom Blitz The Young and Moody - Don't do That Headgirl - please Don't Touch Lemmy and Wendy O' Williams - Stand By Your Man Head Cat - Stuck on You Head Cat - Big River Probot - Shake Your Blood Ozzy Osbourne feat. Lemmy and Slash - I Ain't No Nice Guy

    ASAM #05 The Alternative Lemmy Episode

  3. 01/17/2020

    ASAM #04 - The Golden Age of Italian Hardcore Punk Episode

    In this episode of our podcast we're going to talk about that musical style that Maximum Rock'n'Roll defined "Italian Hardcore". A unique and very distinctive sound that emerged through the early 80s in the Italian peninsula and that gave local bands, which at home performed often for half a dozen friends, worldwide respect and recognition in the lively and exciting anarcho-punk underground movement. Following the footsteps of iconic bands such as Crass and Discharge were: Wretched - Finirà Mai Wretched - Troppo Facile Morire Indigesti - Mai Indigesti - Astratto Concepimento Negazione - Tutti Pazzi Declino - Inutile Trionfo Contrazione - Sbarre Peggio Punx - No! Mai Underage - Entro Domani Raw Power - State Oppression Cheetah Chrome  M***********s - Furious Party Cheetah Chrome  M***********s - Enemy Bloody Riot - Naja de Merda Impact - Solo Odio Kina - Correre Cercare Piangere Franti - Il Battito del Cuore I Refuse it! - Sogni a Doppie Vie Contropotere - Demoni e Dei Nerorgasmo - Nerorgasmo Resources:  Marco Philopat, Costretti a sanguinare, Shake, 1997, Milano Marco Philopat, Lumi di punk. La scena italiani raccontata dai protagonisti, Milano, Agenzia X, 2006. v.v.a.a. ‎– International P.E.A.C.E. Benefit Compilation R Radical Records ‎– R.R.R. 1984 v.v.a.a. - LoveHate80 ‎– 01, SOA Records http://www.lovehate80.it/fanzine/TVOR/home.html

    ASAM #04 - The Golden Age of Italian Hardcore Punk Episode

  4. 01/17/2020

    ASAM #01 - Occult Rock Episode

    This episode of the podcast Amazing Sounds Astounding Music deals with the birth, decline and revival of underground sub-genre Occult Rock, starting from seminal bands such as Coven and Black Widow to contemporary Sabbath Assembly and Devil's Blood. Here is the playlist: 1 - Coven: Wicked Woman 2 - Coven: Black Sabbath 3 - Black Sabbath: The Wizard 4 - Black Widow: Sacrifice 5 - Zior: Entrance of the Devil 6 - Pentagram: All Your Sins 7 - Witchfinder General: Witchfinder General 8 - Witchcraft: Witchcraft 9 - Blood Ceremony: Goodbye Gemini 10 - The Devil's Blood: The Anti-Kosmik Magick 11 - The Devil's Blood: A Waxing Moon Over Babylon 12 - Jex Thoth: The Places you Walk 13 - Jex Thoth: Separated at Birth 14 - Lucifer: Dreamer 15 - Jess and the Ancient Ones:Astral Sabbath 16 - Sabbath Assembly: Ascend and Descend 17: Purson: The Contract 18: Black Widow: Come to the Sabbat

    ASAM #01 - Occult Rock Episode

  5. 01/17/2020

    ASAM #03 - The birth of Black Metal Episode

    In this episode of Astounding Sounds Amazing Music we're talking about all those bands and influences which contributed to the birth of Norwegian and modern black metal. From Venom and Slayer to the infamous events sorrounding the birth of Norwegian black metal but strictly under a musical perspective. If you are interested in the actual crimes/events connected to the so-called Inner Circle please read: "Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground" by Moynihan and Sonderlind, or watch the movie "Lords of Chaos" by Jonas Akerlund. On this episode: Venom - Welcome to Hell Venom - Black Metal Merciful Fate - A Corpse Without Soul Celtic Frost - Circle of the Tyrants Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales Bathory - Armageddon Bathory - Equimanthorn Burzum - A Lost Forgotten Sad Spirit Burzum - Ea, Lord of the Depths  Extreme Noise Terror - A Holocaust in your Head Electro Hippies - Run, Ronald  Immortal - Call of the Wintermoon Slayer - Black Magic

    ASAM #03 - The birth of Black Metal Episode
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Amazing Sounds Astounding Music is a music podcast dedicated to all the music which comes or takes you “to the ends of the earth”, with particular attention to its more radical and experimental aspects. The podcast is Italy-based but it's in English.

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