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Jon Moller

@anniemo71 @gemlog @Maya @antonio @seninha @anniemo @mnw @stebby @sennomo @claudiom @maperal @screwtape The live 198th episode of the #copaceticmusichour is on #tilderadio (tilderadio.org) today at 10 pm EDT/Saturday 0200 UTC and Saturday night at 8 pm EDT/Sunday 0000 UTC. Tonight we feature Argentine rock pioneer Luis Alberto Spinetta! #internetradio #musicshowcase #rock #rockenespanol #rockargentina #jazzrock #progrock #folk #artrock #pop #psychedelicrock

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Erik

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. – Troubadours From Another Heavenly World

While I haven't listened to all of AMT's records, from what I've heard, this is the most mellow. It does get loud at times, and there are bits of freak-out, but it's all so constrained and laid back. It's the perfect AMT to relax to.

CD cover with a price sticker on it that says $7.99. Purple, with a photo in the middle, with a turquoise border around it. The colours of the photo are altered to be mostly purple and turquoise. It show a group of Japanese people, three women in front, sitting on the ground, the one in the middle dressed in whitte, with flowers in her hair. 3 men, 2 women standing behind them. 1 woman sitting. Two tables between them. One acoustic guitar. Trees behind them. "Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O." abow the photo. "Troubadours From Another Heavenly World" underneath. Text in yellow.
#AcidMothersTemple#psychedelic#psychedelicRock
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1001 Other Albums

Sumé – Sumut (1973, Greenland)

Our next spotlight is on number 383 on The List, submitted by myself. Sumé was the first Greenlandic rock band in Greenland, making this, their debut, the first rock album released in the Greenlandic language. This language choice and the lyrics sung in that language were a revolutionary political statement. Released just 6 years before a referendum that would gain Greenland home rule and therefore greater autonomy from Denmark, the album would become a key part in Greenland’s fight for independence from Danish rule.

Want to read more? See the full spotlight: 1001otheralbums.com/2025/03/16

Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a Songlink: album.link/ca/i/1777802287

Happy listening.

1001 Other Albums · Sumé – Sumut (1973, Greenland)
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1001 Other Albums

Sumé – Sumut (1973, Greenland)

Our next spotlight is on number 383 on The List, submitted by myself (buffyleigh).

As with our last spotlight, I came across this one while specifically searching for cool albums to include in The List. A year later, it remains one of my favourite finds for both the project and, well, ever.

Sumé was the first Greenlandic rock band in Greenland, making Sumut, their debut, to be the first rock album released in the Greenlandic language, i.e., their own language rather than the language of the Danish colonizers. Even without looking into what the lyrics mean, that language choice plus the intense artwork – a reproduction of a 19th century woodcutting by Aron of Kangeq that depicts an Inuit person standing over a Norseman they had just killed – clues the listener into the fact that this album was making a political statement.

In fact the album – released just 6 years before a referendum that would gain Greenland home rule and therefore greater autonomy from Denmark (who had ruled the island since 1814) – would become a key part in Greenland’s fight for independence from Danish rule. The lyrics were revolutionary, presenting the political concerns of the Greenlandic people as well as simply using their own voice and not the skewed (i.e., racist) voice of white colonizers to depict the day-to-day lives of Inuit people. Check out some snippets below:[1]

Track 1 – “Pivfît Nutât” (“New Times”)

I wake up – I’ve been sleeping for a long time
They tell me two and half days have gone by for two and half centuries
I realise that they’re still here
They are here to get rich and to oppress us
Greenland, “The Lands of the People”
You can’t keep sheltering your children from harm
New times have begun
The old days we have left behind

Track 4 – “Tamorassâriat” (“The First Bite of the Seal”)

My father is a great hunter
He arrives with a big catch
Those who want the first bite of the seal rush down to the beach
To get a good treat
The first bite of the seal

Track 7 – “Erĸasûteĸarneĸ” (“Worry”)

Always a colony
Always oppressed
Leadership missing
Makes you blind
Never turn your back and be silent

Track 10 – “Ukiaĸ” (“Spring”)

The Earth, because it’s always spinning
The great day darkens
Nature is transforming
My love is putting on her warm coat
…
The flower is already getting brown
And I learn that’s the way it is
Like my friend
Without hiding, it becomes the soil
…
That poor kayak, it loses its skin
Deteriorated by time
Naked, it becomes a skeleton
Its time has come

Track 11 – “Nalunaerasuartaut Toĸuvoĸ” (“The Telegraph is Dead”)

The telegraph is dead
Connection failed
What is happening in the world?
Is there peace out there?

Apparently 20%(!) of Greenland’s entire population bought Sumut. And it’s not that surprising as, apart from the lyrics that inspired the Greenlandic people to take political action, the album sounds damn good. Sumé’s style, fusing psychedelic/prog rock with some traditional Inuit sounds (particularly from drum dances), would have a great impact on future Greenlandic rock, which remains a huge genre in the country.

The band would release two more albums soon after Sumut (Inuit Nunaat in 1974 and a s/t in 1976), and then reunited in 1994 for one last album, Persersume. Twenty years later, following the first reissue of Sumut, Sumé – Mumisitsinerup Nipaa (“Sumé – The Sound of a Revolution“) was released, a 2014 Greenlandic documentary from director Inuk Silis Høegh that celebrates the band, the album, and their impact on Greenlandic history.

Methinks, given *all of this*, it’s a good time to give this album a spin.

  1. English translations aren’t in the liner notes, so these are from Genius. Hopefully they’re correct. ↩︎
The cover art is a monochromatic reproduction of a 19th century woodcutting by Aron of Kangeq that depicts an Inuit hunter standing over a Norseman they had just killed, bow in one hand and the Norseman's torn off arm in the other. They appear to be in front of water, with a hill or mountain in the background. The band's name is in black font, with the record label name (Demos) plus catalog number (13) below it. The album name is not on the cover.
#1970s#folkRock#Greenland
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1001 Other Albums

Love – Love (1966, US)

As randomly chosen by survey[1] on Mastodon, our next spotlight is on number 1043 on The List, submitted by mark_ohe.

As I had mentioned in our last couple SpaceAce Sundays, after I had finished indexing The List, I discovered that, of the ~1035 albums we had thus far included, none had been released in 1966. When I tooted “was no one pressing records in 1966?”, some lovely Mastodonians promptly named 16 albums from that year that were worthy of adding to The List. This one, Love’s self-titled debut, is one such album.

And how! I was hooked by the music from track 1, a grin-inducing cover of Burt Bacharach’s “My Little Red Book” (a cover which fans of the film High Fidelity may recognize[2]). By the second track, I had to read more about the fabulous singer, Arthur Lee. And by the time I got to the amazing “Signed D.C.” in the middle of side 2, I realized I hadn’t been listening to the album loud enough, and had to restart the album. Given the album cover and that font, I did not expect essentially a proto-punk album. Love it! And if you give it a spin, I bet you’ll love Love’s Love too!

  1. The survey choices that initially led to this spotlight were “I’m not a human, I’m a dove”, “I’m your conscience, I am love”, “All I really need”, and “Is to know that you believe”, following surveys that had “I’m not a woman, I’m not a man”/“I am something that you’ll never understand”/“I’ll never beat you, I never lie”/“And if you’re evil I’ll forgive you by and by cuz”, “You, I would die 4 U, yeah”/”Darling, if you want me to”/”You, I would die 4 U”, “I’m not your lover, I’m not your friend”/“I am something that you’ll never comprehend”/“No need to worry, no need to cry”/“I’m your messiah and you’re the reason why” and “You’re just a sinner, I am told”/“Be your fire when you’re cold”/“Make you happy when you’re sad”/“Make you good when you are bad”. The second option was the winning selection, and so the survey result was translated as picking an album in The List that contained a word in the phrase – in this case, “love”. Usually that would mean I pick the second album in the list with the word, but since there’s a LOT of love in The List, I went with the one that had it twice. The weird thing is, when I was writing this spotlight, “When Doves Cry” came on. So, I think Prince approved of my choice. ↩︎
  2. Two other Love tracks appear in the movie, from their 1969 Four Sail album: “Always See Your Face” and “Your Friend and Mine”. ↩︎
The cover art is a photo of the band 5 people, leaning on a stone monument or ruin of some sort, looking at the camera and giving their best "I couldn't really be bothered, I'm a rock and roll musician" look. The band's name is in large stylized letters written vertically from the top left corner down.
#1960s#ArthurLee#folkRock
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