Joe Chawki: desert island albums... if it was a band he's be doing a lot of cooking!



Joe Chawki who is competing to become a Jamplay instructor, gives you an understanding of his deeper knowledge and eclecticism for the position by listing his top 95 album. You can vote for Joe one the Gear Monsters page It's currently a two horse race between Joe and talented guitar player Ray Suhy.


Joe Chawki

So I was nominated to do a desert island albums list. It said to keep it at 15. That's absolutely impossible, I need a "desert island chest or crate" in which hundreds of albums can fit! Since I can't sleep anyway, here are some in a stream of consciousness...There is still a huge amount missing, but I stopped around 95 because I have no more patience for this LOL

1. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
2. Shakti - A Handful Of Beauty
3. Lane Hellborg Sipe -Time Is The Enemy
4. Lane Hellborg Vinayakrams - Good People In Times Of Evil
5. Trane - A Love Supreme
6. Trane - Interstellar Space
7. Trane Live At The Village Vanguard...Again
8. Jean Luc Ponty - Individual Choice
9. Ozric Tentacles - Erpland
10. Younger Brother - The Last Days of Gravity
11. Steve Hillage - Green
12. Squarepusher - Hello Everything
13. Death - Symbolic
14. Cynic - Focus
15. Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
16. Dream Theater - Change of Seasons
17. Sabri Brothers : Ya Mustapha
18. Anything from Nusrat
19. Kayhan Kalhor and Shujaat Khan - Ghazal
20. L. Subramaniam - Free Your Mind
21. Masters of Persian Music - Faryad
22. Messiaen - Pictures At An Exhibition
23. Ullen playing Sorabji
24. Trane - Meditations
25. Hallucinogen - Twisted
26. Astral Projection - Dancing Galaxy
27. Jean Michelle Jarre Oxygene
28. Periya Melam from Chidambaram Temple
29. Testament New World Order
30. Strapping Young Lad - City
31. Anything by MS Subbulakshmi
32. Anything by Lalgudi Jayaraman
33. Anything by U Srinivas
34. Anything by Kadri Gopalnath
35. Allan Holdsworth with Tony Williams
36. Anything by Ustad Bismillah Khan (Shennai)
37. Anything by Sharam Nazeri
38. Trane - Meditations
39. Stravinsky - The Fire Bird
40. Keith Jarrett Koln Concert
41. Miles Bitches Brew
42. Gong, Gazeuse
43. The entire Queen catalog
44. Shpongle - Nothing Lasts But Nothing Is Lost
45. The Roots - Phrenology
46. Samael - almost anything
47. Tony MacAlpine, Edge of Sanity and Premonition
48. Bill Bruford - One Of A Kind
49. Anything by Srinivas
50. Anything by Seyyed Alinejad
51. Anything by Mamak Khadem
52. Bill Connors Step It
53.Wu Tang Clan Forever
54. Mercyful Fate Don't Break The Oath
55. Behemoth Satanica
56. Pat Martino Baiyina
57. Joey Tafolla Out Of The Sun
58. McCoy Tyner - Expansions
59. Holdsworth IOU, Atavachron, Metal Fatigue, Sand
60. Anything from Ben Monder
61. Anything from Alim Qasimov
62. Anything from Pandit Jasraj
63. Most anything from Nityashree Mahadevan
64. Brand X - Unorthodox Behavior
65. Testament The Garhering
66. Death Human
67. Keith Jarrett Goldberg Variations
68. Keith Jarrett Sacred Hymns of GI Gurdjieff
69. The Music Of Gurdjieff/DeHartmann
70. Penderecki - Threnody For The Victims Of Hiroshima
71. Parliament Funkadelic and George Clinton cause he needs some love here
72. James Motherfucking Brown.
73. Herbie Hancock Headhunters
74. Multiple Jimmy Herring discs
75. Krantz Two Drink Minimum and Krantz Karlock Lefebvre
76. Jens Johannson Fission
77. Greg Howe Introspection
78. Jeff Beck, Jeff, and Blow By Blow
79. Uncle Moes Motherfucking Space Ranch
80. Tribal Tech Illicit
81. Rachmaninov and Chopin
82. Ustad Vilayat Khan
83. Mustafa Kandirali
84. Sivan Perwer
85. L. Shankar
86. Now it's just names
87. UHMMMMMM
88. Earth Wind And Fire
89. Michael Jackson
90.. A touch of Peter Gabriel and a smaller touch of Sting police era
91.The first 3 Yngwie discs.
92. Of course some Meshuggah.
93. Nevermore up until and including Dead Heart. Everything after that MEH
94. Spastic Ink, the Jarzombek thang
95. UHMMMMMMMMMMMM?!!!!

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