what are you listening to 2012

Ray Charles Singular Genius: the Complete ABC Singles

forgot how great this guy is

Schlong, Punk Side Story

'American Don' - Don Caballero

Moebius / Tietchens - 2011-08-12 Dockville Festival (this is fantastic, first time they've collaborated since the 70's and they are not slacking)
David Tudor - 2 hour mp3 playlist of his solo pieces from the Music From Merce box
Pink Floyd - 1967-09-10, Gyllene Cirkeln, Stockholm

how good is that floyd show?! it is so good.
i've been listening to:
hank williams, sandy denny, new john fahey box, numero group boddie recording set, feelies crazy rhythms, miles davis euro 67 tour...

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J.R.Plankton, Neon
Pilvikud, Valgus
Heroin In Tahiti, Death Surf
Christina Vantzou, No. 1 DVD & Remixes
Matt Elliott, The Broken Man
Rella The Woodcutter, The Golden Undertow
Charles Hayward, One Big Atom
Tyme. x Tujiko, GUY
V/A - Eesti Pops2. Kodumaise ulmepopi finess 2010-2011
Matthew Bourne, Mantouk Variations

Tito Rodriguez & His Orchestra - In Puerto Azul, Venezuela

MNDR - "No. 1 In Heaven"
Christian Wolff - Kompositionen 1950 - 1972 (Editions RZ)
Scott Joplin - Treemonisha (Rick Benjamin orchestration)
Toshimaru Nakamura - Maruto
David Tudor - Plays The Music Of Cage and Tudor
Stockhausen - Klaverstucke (1958 first recordings by David Tudor)

various Sonic Sunset mixes

Matthew Bourne, Mantouk Variations

this album is stunning

Sweet Inspiration: The Songs of Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham

some samples here http://soundcloud.com/theleaflabel/matthew-bourne-iv-infinitude

The Bitch Magnet reissues (never heard the band the first time around due to name, which is a stupid reason)

CC Sager [ex-Pop Group] - "Hey Dad, What Do Poets Eat for Tea?"

Been on a soul kick as of late...

The Fame Studio box
George Jackson's Don't Count Me Out
Cold Heat from Then Again
New Amerykah Pt 1 - Erykah Badu

Then there's...

Laser Guided Melodies - Spiritualized
Bird- Dog - the Verlaines
The Free Again Sessions- Alex Chilton
Last Summer - Eleanor Friedberger
Creatures of Light and Darkness - Jackie Leven

Orbital - In Sides
Various - Bangs & Works Vol 1 and Vol 2
The Church Of Synth
Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses
Roly Porter - Aftertime

matador intended play comp 2011-2012
flying burrito bros./byrds - whisky agogo 1970
smile box set
beatles - yellow submarine sdtk (my daughter has fallen for this hard, though it appears she prefers "hey bulldog" to the title track. gives me hope for the future).

matana roberts - coin coin chapter one: gens de couleurs libres
jean ritchie - mountain hearth and home
john fahey - transfig of blind joe death
robert pete williams - free again
bryan ferry - "day for night"

the hollies - first light, romany & s/t (74)
bob welch - french kiss & 3 hearts
phil manzanera/801 - listen now
ashra - blackouts
michael rother - katzenmuzik
hubert laws - in the beginning & morning star

+ randomly selected popol vuh albums

MF Doom - Operation: Doomsday deluxe
Throbbing Gristle - The Second Annual Report
Amon Duul II - Yeti

Coil - Live Amsterdam 2001
Shawn O' Sullivan 12" on WT records
Various live New Order boots c. 81-85

General Strike, Danger In Paradise
Tolouse Low Trax, Jeidem Fall
Christy & Emily, Tic Tac Toe
Breakout, Mira
Freddie Hubbard, A Soul Experiment
Rolling Stones, Some Girls

Lots of Sabah on Spotify. I have only a minimal familiarity with her output.

Search: Marhaba Ya Habayeb

Tony Allen
Sharon Van Etten
Céu new record

Pugwash - Olympus Sound
very cool

NASA Symphony of the Planets box
Suzanne Ciani - lixiviation (the track 'Paris 1971' is all right)
Guillaume Dufay - O gemma lux, Huelgas Ensemble
Mouse On Mars - Parastrophics
R.A.E.D - Straight Through
Play That Beat Mr. Raja - Selected oddities from the Tamil film industry

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Liars-Liars
Alice Cooper-school's out
Lou Reed-The blue mask
New york dolls-Too much too soon

Thomas Fehlmann - Visions of Blah
Bochum Welt - Phial EP
Berlioz - Requiem (Inbal/RSO Frankfurt)
MASK 500 (Skam)
Stockhausen - Inori
Michael Mayer - Immer

'inori'!!!!!

It's really good — I would probably recommend this to people who find him off-putting, it's extremely accessible. Kind of like a western version of gagaku.

Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto - By This River (Phantom)

Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland, Black Is Beautiful
Gareth Dickson, Quite A Way Away
Quartet for the End of Time, Modus Novus
Raoul Björkenheim, Bill Laswell, Morgen Ågren, BLIXT
São Paulo Underground, Três Cabeças
Loucuras
Meta Marie Louise feat. Max & Momo, Sunny Spots
The Clash, Sandinista
Mustonen/ Sooäär/ Remmel/ Ruben, Aria
Van Dyke Parks, Song Cycle

Biber - Harmonia Artificiosa (Musica Antiqua Köln / Reinhard Goebel)
Daphne Oram - The Oram Tapes Volume One (thanks Geeta)
Violeta Parra - Antologia
John Oswald - Concerto for Conductor & Orchestra
Luc Ferrari - Collection 85
Handel - The Triumph of Time and Disillusion (Concerto Italiano / Alessandrini)
Guy Reibel - Granulations-Sillages

Olivier Messiaen: Des Canyons aux étoiles
Olivier Messiaen: La Transfiguration de Notre-Seigneus Jésus-Christ

Claude Vivier - Orion, Siddhartha, Cinq Chansons (Rundel/WDR SO Köln)
Hallucinator - Landlocked
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Akira ST
Detroit Techno Soul compilation
Susumu Hirasawa - Millennium Actress ST
Surgeon - Force + Form
Underground Resistance - World 2 World
Japanese Telecom - Virtual Geisha

Dennis Bovell, Brain Damage
Althea & Donna, Uptown Top Ranking
Pat Metheny, What's It All About

new albums by:
sharon van etten
dr. john
lightships
tindersticks

How's that Dr. John then? "Different", no?

some recent lissnin

Emmanuelle Parrenin Maison Rose
shimmering late 70s folk-prog lp from french previously trad folk player.
Very magical but every time it comes on i'm reminded of a song I'm only half
placing. Is it a Jim O'Rourke track Women Of The World or something like that?
I think this lp may be best known by those not familiar with it in total for the
track Topaze which has a proto-trip hop beat years before that trend. The rest
of the lp has very catching moments emerging from trancey folk based songs. Folk
as in Breton ala Alain Stivell meets Linda Perhacs?

Charles Mingus Pithecanthropus Erectus
lovely monumental late 50s jazz.
I think Mingus has been incorporated as an influence on a lot of mid 60s brit
r'n'b type stuff. Think Ah Um is more recognisable for that though.
There are a lot of classic lps in his ouevre anyway.

feedtime Aberrant years
This does have better sound than the 80s cd I had previously.
Cooper S the covers lp is grade a dunt. Very in your face bass-driven minimalist
rock.
Not heard it all the way through yet though.

Lumerians KEXP live 2008
http://kexp.org/live/liveperformance.aspx?rId=28435
nice spacy psychedelic improvisation. worth hearing. & the rest of that site is
worth checking through, some very interesting sets on there.

Sonic's Rendezvous Band think it was the '78 set from the Easy ACtion box
more great avant dunt based around Fred Smith's guitar and an r'n'b strut
reminiscent of early 70s Stones.
sound was surprisingly muddy, thought the label had shown how well it coul
dclear things like that up on its MC5 releases..

Matching Mole Little Red Record
Love this music and looking forward to hearing the clear version on the Esoteric
cd of it. Liquid jazz meets rock with great instrumental interplay possibly the
last example of Wyatt's drumming showcased before the accident?

Sister Rosetta Tharpe
a lot of her work's been turning up on Demonoid.
I haven't listened to her much before which is a great oversight .
Rousing gospel stuff which had a clear influence on rock.
Pretty infectious feeling throughout. If this wasn't overtly god-orientated it
would be very good getting down music.

Tim Hardin volume 3
The live lp from '68.
Hardin either reinvents his earlier material in a more jazzy-folky-rocky style
or badly slurs vocals as though he's nastily stoned. Sadly too much of the
latter. Otherwise this would be an utterly fantastic lp his band cooks
throughout at least on the tracks they're on. I think first couple of songs may
be him solo.

Chicago Soul
Souljazz compi of late 60s/early 70s gritty-funky soul.
Includes tracks from both Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters' psychedelic cash in lps.
Listening to these tracks just has me wishing I could hear the band left to cook
in that style on an lp without the connection to a blues icon that seems to feel
uncomfortable in their presence. I don't think Rotary Connection who I think
most were connected with get so gritty do they?

loads of other stuff which will probably come back to me later.

Bits of country, jazz, VDGG, Gun Club, Soul, garage etc etc cropping up on my
walkman on random. still getting a load of nice surprises from
that.

Reading
Optical Sounds all 4, discovering some very interesting material from there

Iggy Pop I Need More
Iggy's memoirs make pretty rivetting reading. Wonder if he'll update this or do
another version it did first appear about 30 years ago.

Greil Marcus book on the Doors.
been reading this on the bus in and out of the course. Enjoying it mainly but
should probably sit down with what i have of the tracks as s/trk to that.

Stevo

x-p
re dr. john: i really like it. it's pretty spaced out, i'd say. actually i don't really know dr. john, everythng i had heard before - which was not much - to me was a tad boring, too traditional or something. the new one is crazy and psychedelic, i hear lots of captain beefheart in there.

thanx, alex!

yura yura teikoku - kantsuu

lost my ipod, burnt these albums onto some cd's & aside from records that's all i've been able to listen to since

neil young - everybody knows this is nothing
nirvana (uk) - all of us
13th floor elevators - easter everywhere
nico - chelsea girls

Come - Eleven:Eleven
Come - Gently Down the Stream
Flowerhead - Ka-BLOOM
Czar - Vertical Mass Grave

i forgot lee fields new album, vintage soul/funk.

Skying by The Horrors, because I'm late like that, and MMXII by Killing Joke ... which, I deeply regret to say, is not their best.

This week mostly:

Chunky, Novi and Ernie - Chunky, Novi and Ernie
Chromatics - Kill for Love
MC Miker G & DJ Sven - Holiday Rap
Julia Holter - Ekstasis
Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras & The Congos - FRKWYS Vol. 9
V/A - Bambara Mystic Soul: The Raw Sound of Burkina Faso 1974-1979
Wendy Rene - After Laughter Comes Tears

Imikuzushi - Haino/O'Rourke/Ambarchi
Sipple Out Deh - Lee Perry

Agitation free 2nd
long questing, drifting instrumentals for the most apart plus one with ghostly whispered vocals. Nice early 70s kosmische stuff with echoes of the San Francisco scene. Also some electronics that sounds like the descriptions I've read of Dik Mik etc.
Think I need to check out some more of their stuff. I know Malesch is pretty tasty cos i already have it.

Emmanuelle Parrenin Maison Rose
still Breton folk in Dub, like a cross between Malicorne and Linda Perhacs?
Lovely lp anyway.

Ornette Coleman This Is Our Music.
J Mascis & The Fog from last week or something long live set .
Daturana thopugh i don't think I'm likely to return to this singer isn't very nice listening on this. Band sounds like it started out as Doors worshippers and expanded influence somewhat but singer is way too cod Morrison and tone is just grating. Do wonder if it might be this specific live set but not holding my breath.

some recent lissnin

Mark Fry Dreaming With Alice
HAzy slightly out of focus production on early 70s folk meets rock lp. Record
was recorded in Italy by fry, still a teenager with artistic ambitions and a
Scottish rock band. Not sure if they'd had much contact before the recording but
it does come out pretty well. HAs some nice long instrumental textures that
sound like sitar, also remind me of the Velvets in places. weight of the raga
rumble or something. Other tracks are a lot more ethereal, whoever's writing the
melodies is doing some very atmospheric, beautiful ones.
Fry has a new collaboration out now apparently.

Peter Hammill In Camera
Dark Solo lp by HAmmill joined by some of his VDGG fellows at times. I think the
solo stuff works pretty well, that is the couple of tracks where he is just
accommanied by his own acoustic guitar playing and the 3 Peel session tracks
with him alone at piano. Had wondered if I wanted to get the other nearly
completely solo lps & on this basis most probably.
Anyway the furrow that Hamill was working in the mid 70s does seem to have been
a very productive one whichever instrumental combination he was working in.
Do think I just prefer the fuller band stuff though.
So got Silent Corner on my wants list, also Chameleon, wondering about the later
stuff, already having Nadir & all the 70s VDG(G).

Ornette Coleman Complete Science Fiction sessions disc1
Great avanty jazz stuff from the early 70s by Ornette with various accompanists
including the reunited Atlantic era group. Gets quite psychedelic in places.
Think i'm particularly taken with Rock The Clock
because of the electric sounding bass, plus its the one where Ornette himself is
getting very out there with trumpet and violin.
This being the complete sessions the last 2 tracks on the cd are the first 2
from broken Shadows which wasn't released until a decade later but comes from
the same sessions.
Disc also starts with a pretty cosmic number with female vocals.
The only track i'd been familiar with prior to getting this was the title one
which turned up on a Kevin Martin complied 2cd in the mid 90s.
This seems to be a lot easier to get hold of from the States than this side of
the Atlantic.

Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats Blood lust
Stoner rock concept lp about a Psycho. really enjoyable lp.
This was another thing I heard about through Optical Sound zine. I think their
own website is still selling copies of this on cd
http://www.svartrecords.com/shoppe/cds-free-shipping-worldwide/725-uncle-acid-an\
d-the-deadbeats-blood-lust-cd.html
while Rise Above have sold out of a couple of vinyl pressings

feedtime live set from '86
Very good sound on this set, & band seems to be in fine form. 30 tracks
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=401779
australian heavy blues based dunt. yum yum.
seems to be a live set at an instore appearance.

Bebop Spoken Here Confirmation
one of the 4 discs from the Proper box, not sure which number but it has a green
cover. So is a mix of instrumental and vocal tracks from the height of the bebop
craze in the 40s. has bits of Dizzy Gillespie scatting which is always fun. Plus
Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Dodo Mamorosa, Anita O'Day etc etc
Really got into picking up Proper Box sets about 10 years ago. They put out some
really great stuff and are still doing so. 4 pretty full cds on an artist or
genre/sub-genre in reasonable sound where possible. The remastering has tended
to be pretty well done.

Jane's Addiction Ritual de lo Habitual
Their 3rd lp, upbeat offbeat rock from LA in the late 80s. I somehow didn't get
into their material until years after the fact despite having been at the ICA
show where their dry ice set off the fire alarms and the audience had to traipse
out into the winter cold of the Mall. Think the show itself was pretty
enjoyable.
Is there a deluxe remaster of this around? Might indulge if so.
Can't see a listing for a version of the cd post 1990 though, would think they
would have upgraded since then though.

Tully Sea of Joy
australian hippy folk band from turn of the 70s. I think this might be the
soundtrack for a film, it's interspersed with pretty atmospheric instrumentals.

as per usual, not remembering everything I've listened to over this week. Other
bits may come back to me later.

Plus hours of things cropping up at random through my walkman. SO loads of
Italian prog, zeuhl, jazz, country, rockabilly, blues, r'n'r, Gun Club, Cramps,
psychedelia, Sonic youth, folk etc etc.

Reading
Everybody Loves Our Town by Mark Yarm
oral history of Seattle and grunge. very interesting. Has made me want to check
out some stuff like U-Men, Cat Butt, SOundgarden and possibly Alice iN Chains &
relisten to Mudhoney, Screaming Trees and Tad.
Also wonder why there was so much space given to Candlebox and Courtney Love.

Retromania Simon reynolds
sort of enjoyiing this but have noticed a couple of places where I think he has
his facts wrong. Might make a marked effort to read a lot more of it today,
feeling a bit under the weather.

watching
bits and pieces of various things
Not Going Out
finding this pretty funny, not really been acquainted with it before. But one of
the cable channels is running a lot of it recently.

Man vs Food
again something I've not been acquainted with though I've heard the name. Kind
of fun.
Has me wondering about a few things like the timespace an episode is filmed
over. Continuity has it suggesting that things are happening on the same day per
episode but i can't see that Adam guy being able to undergo challenges without
at least a couple of days between, unless he has a rock iron gut, Even
undergoing a heat challenge on its own would tend to require a day of resting
your gut afterwards surely? On the couple I've seen he's doing a heat challenge
then later a size of portion to consume one.

Geronimo
Drag with this was a lack of subtitles for when they were speaking apache. Might
have something to do with it being shown on the Gaelic channel so they didn't
want to use english subtitles?
Seems an ok film otherwise.

Mallrats
was puzzled by the presence of Stan Lee in a film not based on a Marvel comic.
Otherwise,glad I've finally seen this & hoping I get to see Clerks next week.

Stevo

Biggie Biggie Biggie can't you see
Sometimes your words just hypnotize me
And I just love your flashy ways
Guess that's why they broke, and you're so paid

uh

http://www.factmag.com/2012/05/21/fact-mix-330-evol/

ome recent lissnin
Noah Howard The Black Ark
Legendary Free jazz set from late 60s reissued by Bo'Weevil a couple of years
ago. Tends to be pretty melodic but Arthur Doyle plays fiercely throughout. I
think this has got structured songs being played though so I'm not 100% sure
what it should be categorized as, though maybe if those structured bits are
actually riffs it might change designation?
Think this has made several people's new-thing-jazz top 10s and really should be
heard by anybody into that kind of thing I think.

Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes box
this has some great music in but has been mastered pretty quietly. So I've been
wondering if it was actually remastered or just repackaged.
Would love to hear what Esoteric would do with this material since the sound on
most of their discs has been pretty exemplary.
But nice semi avant prog stuff sung in French which I've been interested in
since Seth Man did reviews on this site
http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/search/?q=ribeiro
some time ago and have wanted to get in decent version since. I think there may
have been another pointer about the same time but can't think what it wa unles
it was lps turning up on Mutant-sounds

Dr John Locked Down
great grooves on this collaboration with the Black Keys guitarist Dan Auerbach.
This really is a great form for Mac, bit of a return to the quality of his early
Night Tripper stuff though the atmosphere is a lot less ghostly. I'm not sure
what his recent lps sound like so I can't compare. I just know that Gris Gris is
one of my all-time favourite lps and this seems worthy of that.
Have also heard that Mac is working on a reissue of Sun, Moon and Stars
including the material that was cut out when the lp was cut down from its
intended original length.
& judging by the quality of this lp I should probably check out the Black Keys
own stuff. I think the band here shines and I think they have more to do with
Dan Auerbach than Mac.

Small Faces Decca s/t disc 2
I think I might actually prefer this 2nd disc of outtakes etc to the first disc
which is the 1st lp. Keeps a heavy groove going throughout, enough to make me
wonder if not getting the From The Beginning set is an oversight. I mainly
wanted to get the 2 s/ts but they haven't been able to get the Immediate one in
locally nor Ogden's & I thought those 2 might be the better sellers.
Anyway, have loved the Small Faces since I discovered them when I was a 14 year
old moddy boy. & nice to finally get good, surviving band member
sanctioned/organised versions of the lps. Or at least it will be when I complete
the set.
The Paolo Hewitt band bio The young Mod's Forgotten Story was reissued last year
by Acid Jazz and is a good read.

Mol Triffid CBGBs 9/2/91
great, pretty other creepy metallic band that was apparently deeply undersung at
the time.

Young Bear Singers live
weird mix of Native American chanting to steady drumbeat interspersed with a
comic book hip dj/MC the mix is pretty funny. Wonder if it makes any more sense
seeing this live. Strikes me that the multi-voiced chanting might make
interesting sampling material.

loads of other stuff that I can't think of right now but will probably come back
to me later. Plus continual revelation as my walkman coughs up tracks that I
haven't heard in ages.

Reading
Flashback!
Richard Morton Jack's zine appeared after some delay and weighs more than
several books I have. Nice read and what reviews it has have been interesting.
I'll be intrigued as to what direction the 2nd edition goes in, hoping there is
one.

new Ugly-Things just out too. Definitive interview with Johnny Echols clearing up some of the mythology of Love. Group 1850, good glam, Electric Eels, a bio of The Craig of I must Be Mad fame and masses of reviews. Great as ever.

Fug You Ed Sanders 60s memoir

Red Cross First Aid manual trying to get through a course on this and blanked
heavily on a spot test last week so hoping that reading through this will get me
better acquainted with the subject.

REx Libris
comic about an action hero ancient, as in thousands of years old, librarian and
his adventures retrieving books from around the universe and falling into
bookworlds. it was supposed to be becoming a film at one point but I can't find
updates on that.
Rex was the librarian at Alexandria but survived the fire and is now in a
smalltown American library that happens to hold copies of pretty much every book
ever.
Pretty funny.

Russell Saga of a Peaceful man
not read this in almost 30 years I don't think. Story of a smalltown ageing
hippy/alternative type and his adventures at festivals etc.

Watching
Adam Richman's progressive bloat through the series of Man vs Food. this series
must create a lot of ethical questions for anybody with world economy or charity
issues at mind. Like if you hold an open challenge over food that's too hot to
be recycled properly or passed onto anybody else to eat you've made it inedible
intentionally and therefore wasted food, presumably you can't feed this to pigs
or goats cos it's too hot? Also the food size challenges, it just can't be
healthy to encourage individuals to gorge themselves to that extent but at least
waste could be recycled. But still the idea that one has enough food to waste in
this way surely has some knock on effect. I'm reminded of the Food not Bombs
project which recycles waste/excess food left over at the end of the week's
sales by business under the principle that food production is one of the central
impetuses for war.
I still find the program curiously watchable.

Buck & The Preacher
Sidney Poitier's directorial debut, a black orientated western about a
trailmaster and a conman. Stars him and Harry Belafonte in those 2 roles
respectively. Wish I'd paid more attention to the film instead of getting
sidetracked by my computer. Film is pretty good.

Vidal Sassoon A Cut Above
bio of the great hair innovator reshown on BBc4 tonight. I think I tried to cut
my dreads in a 5 point or similar when i cut them really short 20 odd years ago,
probably didn't show very well.
My mother used to go and get her hair cut by students at his school for years,
possibly still does so I wondered if she'd ever had it checked by him. But it
was & possibly still is a cheap way to get it done nicely. Assume that would be
true as long as the schools remain open.
Odd hearing the Mark Eitzel credits theme cos I don't think I've ever heard him
sound so commercial

Stevo

Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes box

price is steep for this box. how is the packaging? they throw in a nice book at least?

awesome post stevo :)

fwiw:

my wife was at Matt's Bar in Minneapolis (home of the Jucy Lucy hamburger), and he was taping Man vs Food there (not a challenge, just the part where he checks out cool places in a town)...but anyway, I guess women were throwing themselves all over Adam Richman

last.fm says 2012 has been mostly:

1 James Brown
2 Claude Debussy
3 De La Soul
4 Jungle Brothers
5 Beastie Boys
6 Enya
7 Squarepusher
8 Actress
9 N.W.A
10 Olivier Messiaen
11 Ibrahim Ferrer
12 Dolly Parton
13 Bob Drake
14 Johann Sebastian Bach
15 Bill Withers
16 Maurice Ravel
17 A Tribe Called Quest
18 Duke Ellington
19 Herbie Hancock
20 Thelonious Monk

Except something is up here, because I've listened to the shit out of that new Lone album

cherry picking the james brown singles collections: vol 6 (1969-70) and 7 (1970-72) are ridiculous, sick. prolific ain't the word. promiscuous genius

i liked that new dr john album more than expected but i agree it sounds more like black keys than mac rebbenack

dipping into TANGERINE DREAM. played Edgar Froese's second album this AM alongside Isaac Hayes and Jimmy Smith's Back At The Chicken Shack.

Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes box

price is steep for this box. how is the packaging? they throw in a nice book at least?

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:29 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not really any extra packaging, every disc is in an individual card sleeve replica of its own lp sleeve. But no booklet in mine, I was expecting to have to try to translate from French since I ordered from there, but firstly there wasn't really anything to translate and more oddly the back of the box is in English. I thought t was a French product of a French band so it would be in the native tongue. maybe its cos its on Universal?
I'm really hoping somebody else picks up the music for release elsewhere and it is somebody who is as good as Esoteric. Would even settle for a Sanctuary 2 or 3 cd set as long as the material was remastered at a decent volume. & liner notes were included, Esoteric are very good for those normally.

Price isn't anywhere near so steep when you order directly from France!

http://www.amazon.fr/4-Albums-Originaux-Catherine-Ribeiro/dp/B007FHLTOW/

Moebius + Tietchens
Pauline Oliveros - Modulations 12CD box
Complete Music of Carl Ruggles - 2CD (Michael Tilson Thomas / The Buffalo Philharmonic)
Charles Ives - Old Songs Deranged (James Sinclair / Yale Theatre Orchestra)
Catherine Christer Hennix - Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage
Paul McCartney - RAM 2CD reissue

The Mills Tape Music Center discs of that Oliveros boxset are beauuutiful.

my friend put out this pauline oliveros thing on vinyl recently if you guys are interested:

http://roaratorio.com/21.html

some recent lissnin

Il Baletto di Bronzo Ys
totally 'kin intense Italian prog record which I've been hearing bits of intermittently for way too long on my walkman. Thought I better bung it on the 3 changer for once and immediately asked myself why I'd been neglecting it.
It don't half kick out the jams in its own keyboard heavy way. not sure what other pre-punk stuff hits with similar intensity outside of Detroit which it doesn't really resemble. But pretty essential record which I'd try to hear ifyou haven't already.

Irma Thomas Time is On My side
Kent label compi of New Orleans soulstress. The rolling Stones covered the title track early on though she apparently hated their version. Think it's on their 2nd lp. & I do think I prefer hers.
really like quite a bit of this compi. Not sure if this is the best way to get her stuff or the 2cd thing that came out last year in that series of New Orleans r'n'b/soul compis that included Allen Toussaint's Evrything I do Gonh Be Fonky. This is great anyway.
Did Traci Ullman have an '80s hit with her song Break-a-way? I know I've heard it done by someone else.

Royal Trux s/t
this is their 1st lp. not quite as out there as Twin Infinitives but sounding stoned and damaged veering between some great 60s/70s rock revisitation and them sounding too stoned to be coherent so getting overly repetitive. Not bad for €3 though.

God is my Co-pilot The Peel sessions
another €3 purchase, bought cos i'd been intrigued by comparisons to the band with another group called JOnestown who i got a live set by recently but could find out next to nothing about. Don't think the comparison is quite as clearcut on hearing this.
This is very erratic, veering into the avant and away from the English language quite a bit. Might be something I might explore a bit further though. I don't know.

Amanaz Africa
Zam rock, with weird production presumably because of limited budget. Fuzz guitar often sounds ghostly instead of thick and creamy. I'd heard some comparisons to stoner rock antecedents which I guess is there but the production gives it other elements.
There are a few places here that sound like the Velvets from s/t & Loaded. I assume that is totally a coincidence. Not sure if that band could have even been heard of by these Zambians.

Go Go Get down various artists disc 1
not heard the 2nd disc yet. But this does rerelease one of my alltime favourite tracks War On the Bullshit by Osiris. Some of this does sound a bit glossy which might have to do with it coming form the 80s.
Think what I really need is the grittiness of the live gig sound. This is pretty good though. Glad to see people are remembering the downtown DC sound.
Recent compi compiled by Joey Negro

Velvet Underground Caught Between The Twisted stars
Some long droning early live stuff from '66 and some more rhythmic later stuff. I've been very slowly reading Richie Unterberger's day by day guide recently which is interesting.

various other bits and pieces which will probably come back to me later.
The usual array of surprises from my walkman.

Reading
Umberto Eco the Prague Cemetery
tales of intrigue and anti-semitism from 19th century Europe

Judge Dredd epics
catching up on several stories I hadn't read at the time & revisiting ones I have. Currently reading Tale of the Deadman which I've noticed was preceded by an announcement at the end of the previous Dredd story which I didn't think it was supposed to be. Thought you were only supposed to work out who it was gradually. Not sure if there was an actual Dredd story running in the same comics at the same time.
Also read Cursed Earth & Oz and its preceding stories or at least the introduction of Chopper over several stories.

Watching
a bit of Nazi Robots at The Centre of the Earth
lovely grade z schlock on the Syfy channel. quite gorey. hadn't realised things like this were still being made but the tv guide had it listed as this year.
The nazis discovered Pelucidar or whatever it's called during teh 2nd world war. They need to get new scientists to help those who've survived continue to survive but several of the team who've been lead down there are not pure aryans. Syfy's been showing some really iffy material over the last few months.

The Amazing Spiderman in 3d
enjoyed this new version even with the lack of coloured characters ( except the baddy) and the gnarly machine.

Stevo

Il Baletto di Bronzo Ys

Great record. I was more into their heavy rock first album for a long time, finally came around to this a year or so ago. Got it at the same time as Battiato's Sulle Corde di Aries, also excellent in a different way.

So far today at work:

Jim Ford - Sounds of Our Time
that Ry Cooper record Skot tried to get ILM to like (and he's right, it's awesome)
Roller Ball 45 and Elton Motello's first album
various tracks by Godz (NY), Gift (German heavy rock), Lee Scratch Perry early stuff, some ska
Massenger s/t (cool local band who will probably either move or stay here and be ignored to death)
Rome - Beware Soul Snatchers 12" & Sons of the Sun - Heavenlamp 12"

which ry cooder?

But this does rerelease one of my alltime favourite tracks War On the Bullshit by Osiris

this was on the 'nme does go-go' vinyl release back in '86.

brilliant track.

electric wizard - dopethrone
sleep - dopesmoker
melvins - eggnog, lysol
black sabbath - first 5 records
j dilla - donuts
mf doom - mm food
magma - felicite thosz
annette peacock - I'm the one
philip glass - music in 12 parts
thee satisfaction - awe naturale

which ry cooder?

Ry Cooper aka Rusty Evans - "1983" (futuristic garage folk rock from 1965 with killer snarl/guitar and theremin!)

It's Ry CooPer, though, AKA Rusty Evans from The Deep! Pretty cool pre-psych garage 45.

Sa Dingding - The Coming Ones

Jury is still out but I'm enjoying parts of this immensely.

tangerine dream - force majeure
ellington/roach/mingus - money jungle
lester young/oscar peterson - lester young w/the oscar peterson trio
matthews southern comfort - later that same year
duane allman/various artists - anthology volume 1
contortions - buy
aurra - "when i come home"
pleasure - "let's dance"

But this does rerelease one of my alltime favourite tracks War On the Bullshit by Osiris

this was on the 'nme does go-go' vinyl release back in '86.

brilliant track.

― mark e, Monday, July 16, 2012 10:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, that's where I initially came across it. Loved it, lost way too much vinyl including it in '96. Started running through my head last year or possibly earlier, yeah think it was a while over which I tried to find out where it was available then found out there was a Best of Osiris
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Osiris/dp/B001DGSAKC/ref=sr_1_16?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1342529500&sr=1-16&keywords=osiris

that has some other pretty decent stuff on too.

& odd thing about that new GOgo set is there seems to be more synth on it than actual horns. Odd to hear a hornless Troublefunk when I thought they had several people on brass.

But have been wondering if anybody ever remixed Sister Ray with congas?

It's pretty much Fleetwood Mac and Burzum around these parts lately.

fleetwood mac - bare trees
random mozart stuff
tom rush - the circle game
lena lovich - flex
redman - dare iz a darkside
brief candles - fractured days
bunch of fugazi

Craig Peyton - Be Thankful for What You Got
cover of the william devaughn classic. i love this so much, and my total failure to find an mp3 of it has been killing me today.

the instrumental is easy to find, the vocal version, not so much.

Non-2012 edition:

Butterfly Child - Onomatopoeia
Manuel Gottsching - E2-E4
Long Fin Killie - Amelia
Bobby Kondors - A Lost Era in NYC 87-92
A. R. Kane - 69
Fleetwood Mac - Future Games / Bare Trees
DJ Rolando - The Aztec Mystic Mix
The Comsat Anges - Fiction
Fiona Apple - When the Pawn...

Larry Young Fuel s/t/Spaceball 2cd
great mid 70s electric space funk jazz that's pretty out there.
Bits of the s/t remind me heavily of the Sharrocks' Paradise lp which is from around the same time.
Spaceball seems a bit more glossy while remaining pretty out there.

Dexys One Day I'm Going to Soar
Return of Kevin Rowland, his voice seems to owe less to General Johnson's nasality these days. The music seems to pick up on a lot of the band's earlier influences plus possibly a bit more 50s stuff though more smoothly blended.
I don't think I'm massively into the mid song skits. Would rather have the songs straighter, I fear novelty might wear off pretty fast.
Nice lp though.

Omar Khorshid Guitar El Chark disc 2
not heard disc through yet but this 2nd one i as good as I'd hoped.
Guitar has more bite in places than on the Tribute to El Atrache se t which was the only cd by him I could get my hands on before this appeared in its cd version.
Songs are largely about 5-6mins long, very atmospheric instrumentals. Khorshid's electric guitar, some Arabic hand percussion and possibly some synth.
Think this might appeal to other people into middle eastern psych though it's a bit different to Erkin Koray etc.
Anyway I've been trying to get my hands on his material for years and this is a great starting place, probably more than that. Whole set is 2hrs+ long.

Sun Ra Disco 3000 disc 2
the small size version of Sun Ra's crew in Italy in '78. The electrc rhythm machine seems less dominant here than I thought it was supposed to be.
Art Yard pressed another run of the 2cd set which I think sold out a dark red covered run last year. This has electric orange sleeve.
Might still be some copies if you missed last year's version.

Can The Lost Tapes box
so far only heard disc1, glad to have it and it will take a while to absorb. Some compelling grooves so far anyway.

Pregnant Unnatural Lover
I think I picked this up for about 26p + p+p. Gareth Sager of Pop Group's early 90s band. Think they thought they were being post modern. i don't think this as hit me as well as the e.p. I had of them back then. Think I'll listen to it a bit more though.

Dollar brand live set from 68
Pretty out sound with both Gato Barbieri and John Tchicai in the band.
Really think I need to find out more about the guy's work since i've enjoyed what I've heard of it. he seems to be doing much straighter jazz now with overt township folk influences.
Head other more atmospheric stuff from the mid 70s. All seems to be pretty great.

Skin Yard
various lps by early Seattle band. Some nice psychy touches among the heavy guitar etc. & bits where it sounds like the singer has been singing to the Bunnymen's Mac for vocal influence

Fine Art
Minneapolis based new wave band from early 80s. i enjoyed this set.

various other bits and bobs that will no doubt come back to me later.
Walkman still throwing up the continually surprising melange of sounds, psychedelia, prog, african, jazz, country, rockabilly etc all in a mix worthy of a good dj. Intelligent shuffle is such a good idea, not heard the ipod version does it work as well?

Reading
Judge Dredd epics. getting almost up to date now.
Just been reading through the PJ Maybes, & the Fargo clone family history. Actualy just started Origins which is all about going after Fargo's body.

Still reading Umberto Eco's Prague cemetery.
about 100 pages from the end, Think this has been far less satisfying than I've normally found him.

Richie Unterberger White Light/White Heat The Velvet Underground Day by Day
got this as my bog book at the moment so I'm only as far as '66 but an interesting read. Should have got through it quicker. But does show things like how much r'n'b was getting into the mix of the band's sound as well as other influences.
No mention of Downliner Sect so far though & I think they covered not just one pre-Velvets song but 2. Definitely got Why Don't You Smile Now on Rock Sect's In, but if I read this right I think the song Tiger In Your Tank which is on the The Sect lp is a Reed co-write too.

Stevo

Hot Chip, In Our Heads
Happy Mondays, Pills Thrills and Bellyaches
La Dusseldorf, Viva

La Dusseldorf, Viva

ha! funnily 'nuff i listened to it too the other day. alongside michael rother's first solo alb. and the hosono box, and some takahashi solo cd's.

of nu'er sounds, tho:
marielle v jakobsons, glass canyon
the remote viewers, city of nets
peter cusack's sounds from dangerous places 2cd/book
steve maclean & chris cutler, the year of the dragon
la piramide di sangue, tebe
the fog signals, ghosts of bush house
waves on canvas, into the northsea
tastatur, electric lounge machine

Biota - Cape Flyaway
Laurie Spiegel - The Expanded Universe 2xCD
Bob Drake - Bob's Drive-In
Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds
Ustad Abdul Karim Khan - 1934-1935
Chris Brown w/ William Winant - Iconicities
Tim Story - Untitled

Very immersed in this band at the moment: Company of Thieves.

Actually, would be better to imbed the video in this case, since it's a great capture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y-MHuLAWgw

Patti Smith, Horses
Electricity Mute Records free CD with Mojo
MGMT, Oracular Spectacular

Biota - Cape Flyaway
Laurie Spiegel - The Expanded Universe 2xCD
Bob Drake - Bob's Drive-In
Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds
Ustad Abdul Karim Khan - 1934-1935
Chris Brown w/ William Winant - Iconicities
Tim Story - Untitled
― Milton Parker

O yes! The Biota and the Bob Drake me loveth a whole lotta, too:)

hello t**t fellow ReR customer

that Bob Drake record was worth the crazy wait

how are those maclean/cutler & cusack releases?

RROSE x Bob Ostertag - The Surgeon General
Alice Coltrane - Turiya Sings
Chris Cutler - Probes #1 podcast for Radio Web MACBA

hullooo hullooo, kustomer Milton

Cusack's quite a... mmm... package, to say the least. Really gripping when you get into it, especially the Chernobyl disc.
The MacLean-Cutler I've listened to only once, so far. Will listen again, certainly. Could be a grower:)

*
R. Weis, Excitable Audible
Gilbert Bécaud, Éternal
Cathy Berberian, magnifiCathy
Natacha Atlas, Mounqaliba
Hong Kong in the 60s, Collision/Detection V4

Tim Story - Untitled

― Milton Parker, Friday, August 3, 2012 11:27 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

!! weird i recently got a mint copy of this on vinyl in a dollar bin....it's a really great new age record (i think it's new age, or i think it's new age)

I am still blind-sided by my sudden love for Company of Thieves. It seems to drive home the lesson of not writing off any genre (especially any genre that has ever done anything for me, which is most of them, at least).

My favorite CoT songs are like: everything I like in rock, with everything I don't like filtered out. Crazy. And they do fit the "what band do I listen to now that Tokyo Jihen has broken up?" bill extremely well for me, even if the similarities are limited.

Genevieve's vocals cover so much ground!

Seems you're having really great Company time there, Rudy. Glad for you!:)

Mothers of Invention Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Loud & in your face the more avanty rockin compi lp from just after the original Mothers of Invention split. Been really enjoying this.

Frank Zappa Hot Rats
Zappa's 2nd solo lp inspired by his dissatisfaction with the rhythm section of the recently split MOI. Largely instrumental except for the Don van Vliet sung Willie The Pimp.
Sound is great, & I don't know if I've actually heard the longer version of Gumbo Variations. Pretty satisfied with what's on here.

Zappa various live sets 69,71, 72 & 73
Checked the '71 because of the live sets on the Zappa reissue campaign and realise that I'm not missing anything by not grabbing them.
Don't think I'm that into the Flo and Eddie beginnings of Zappa smut. Do like the Turtles & the Crossfires though.
There si some pretty ok extended instrumental stuff on that set though.
'72 and '73 both have the liquid jazz influenced stuff featured largely. Zappa at his best to me is the Stravinsky/Gamelan/jazz influenced stuff or the earlier garagey Mothers stuff.
Not into the overly smutty stuff

The Pontiacs Bursting
great psych stuff from South America sounds very 60s influenced but does have bits where a more overt Spacemen 3 type influence appears.
Think this was a limited edition of 100 or thereabouts.Gets pretty sublime in places.

Cosmic Dead s/t
Heavy spacey psychy stuff, another limited edition that may be gone by now. Can get lost in those grooves.
Trying to work out if the first track, Black Rabbit has more than nominal connection with Skullflower's track of the same name. Here it's dragged out to 18 minutes in a way somewhat reminiscent of Loop or Spacemen 3 but more rocked up. Skullflower tried to beat it into the mud for 4 and a bit minutes but I think the central riff is somewhat similar.
worth checking out anyway, nice to know there is good stuff currently being made.

Grateful Dead 21/8/80
was struck by how good they sounded at this point. Energetic, could be seen as an update on something like the '68/'69 sound. Probably a bit more mature and less psychedelic than that but great nonetheless.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse 3/8/12
still bringing it on. Nice grungey stuff wish I was going to see this live.

Dead Meadow 12/11/11
Wombadelic heaviosity. I should listen to this band more.

Mothers of Invention Absolutely Free
Great sounding remaster of the Mothers 2nd lp. I can now get into the long instrumental which I don't think I could enjoy anywhere near as much on the old Ryko version.
Really getting into this record anyway.

" We're Only In It For The Money
the old Ryko version. It wasn't one of those remastered in this campaign. I guess it still sounds ok. Zappa was supposed to splash on the electronic reverb on all of the remasters of at least the 60s stuff he did before he died. But at least this no longer has the new rhythm section he grafted on in the mid 80s.

Graham Bond & Pete Brown 6/8/72
just been reading Pete Brown's autobio so heavily coincidental that this live set turns up at the same time. Though Brown has just been doing live readings from the book this week. None anywhere near here so finding this in my 2nd hand/remainder bookshop may or may not have something to do with more copies being circulated.
This was a coupe of years before Graham Bond fell under a train. I think it sounds pretty good. Heavy grooves with Brown singing and Bond playing organ.Last few songs on set get drawn out to around 10 minute + length.

Rotomagus The Sky Turns Red
largely 3 piece heavy stuff almost Stooges like intensity but can have more proggy complexity. This cd consists of a demo lp that the band cut in '71 as a 3 piece, hoping to get a contract to flesh it out properly that never came and it sounds great rough. The rest is singles and other demos.
When I say largely 3 piece, the first single is here and was recorded when the band still had several other members. They had started out as a harmony group an influence that shows here though the band had already begun to get a bit rougher and more complex musically. That first single was the only one recorded for their original label, after that they split up. Then the 2 brothers who had been central to the band returned along with a drummer and the band recorded another, heaver single for a different label CBS.
Anyway this is reccommended proto-punkyness. I think JC himself was extolling them last month.

Fugs Tenderness Junction
The first '68 lp by the East Village scatologists. I thought it sounded better as a psychedelic rock lp than its follow up It Crawled Into My Hand honest. I've just finished Fug You their singer Ed Sanders' 60s memoir which was a great read.
I love The Garden Is Open on here, a song about springtime frolics with youthful women I think.
The band they had at the time was pretty good anyway.

Henry Cow In Praise Of Learning
Love this record but found at least its lead off track War's percussiveness didn't lean too well to quiet listening as I went to sleep.
This is after the band had absorbed Dagmar Krause from Slapp Happy and her harsh teutonic vox are all over it. I really like her singing style but could see how other people might not fully appreciate it.
Lp is alot more avant than they started out being but I think is pretty essential possibly because of that.

some other stuff which will probably come back to me later

the usual surprises from my walkman. Still love the way this segues tracks but I'm now getting worried that the battery may be on its way out & it's supposed to be a tricky job replacing it while keeping the display working.

reading
Strontium Dog & related stories
read up to the death of Johnny Alpha, through the Grant Morrison stories following Feral & the Gronk after JA's death. & through the young Middenface McNulty stories.
Now reading the stories looking back at earlier events throughout JA's life from when the character was brought back later in 2000AD.

Flapper by Joshua Zeitz
the wayward female fashion type in jazz age America. This book has been criticised for being so focused on the white female to such an extent to the almost complete exclusion of other races. Black influence during the jazz age etc would have been interesting.
But it is an interesting read, so far it's been talking a lot about Zelda & Scott Fitzgerald.
Thought I'd missed this book after seeing it on the shelves a couple of weeks back but found a copy on the pile above the bookshelves and managed to get it down.

White Rooms and Imaginary Westerns: Ginsberg, Clapton and Cream an Anarchic Odyssey by Pete Brown
Autobio of 60s/70s poet/singer and Cream lyricist. Been very interesting so far. think I'm up to about 1973.
Started off with him talking about his Jewish upbringing from the 40s - the 60s before he started getting bohemian and hitching around the country. I hadn't realised he was pretty straight from drink/drugs throughout his time with Battered ornaments/Piblokto after stoner days to the mid 60s.

The travels of Ibn Battuta translated by Tim Hodgkinson Smith
the 14th century travels of a Moroccan throughout the known Islamic world. He traveled as far as China at the time and over the course of about 30 years. Hoping to get through the book this time, have been distracted every time I've picked it up over the last number of years.
Looks like he traveled several times as far as Marco Polo, who was the most exotically traveled Westerner in popular thought had done, so if I don't leave the book lying around again this should be very interesting

Stevo

Karoshi - Ruby My Dear

uh oh, i still love idm ... er, breakcore.

recent adds on spotify:

Thelonious Monk - It's Monk's Time
Josephine Foster - All the Leaves are Gone
Laurel Halo - Hour Logic EP
Kitty Wells - Queen of Honky Tonk Angels
Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
Teddy Charles Tentet - Teddy Charles Tentet
Sun Araw/Congos - FRKWYS Vol. 9
Peaking LIghts - 936
Bear In Heaven - I Love You, It's Cool
Moby Grape - Moby Grape 69
Tom Verlaine - Around
Horace Andy Meets Naggo Morris / Wayne Jarrett Mini Showcase
Faraquet - Anthology 97-98

some recent lissnin

Mebusas Blood Brothers
mid 70s african stuff. Funky rocky psychy stuff with a few other influences
bunged in.
Not the biggest fan of their attempt at reggae though the caustic laugh that
punctuates the song need to be heard.
Guitar fuzz snarls in heaps that sound like piles of something looking at you
nasty.
& this is nice when it doesn't get too poppy.
Would love to hear further chinese whispers of the sounds they'reincorporating
from elsewhere. Just reminded of Led Zep doing D'Yer Maker which was based on
reggae but when fed through LZ became something else that would've been
interesting to hear developed inits own right. In a couple of places here the
band picks up on what sound like Latin influences but take them somewhere else
which would be interesting to hear developed similarly.

Rotomagus THe Sky Turns Red
Interesting French take on '71 heaviosity . The first batch of tracks were a
demo of an lp that they never got further financing on. It rocks quite heavily
as well as showing some level of complexity that isn't ramalama.
Recommended to those who like protopunk cos it does have some of that level of
intensity.

Da Demons Contact High
Scuzzy psychy rock stuff from '09. Bought this cos I missed the limited run of
their recent Cardinal Fuzz compi. Good thing I did get to grab this cos it is a
great set. You can hear the major influence of 60s psych on it while they're not
exactly slavish to it.
Plus there is a great deal of efx noise on this which I'd assume was created on
guitar. Gets downright filthy inplaces.
I think the band name may actually be longer but I can never remember it.

Mothers Of Invention Burnt Weeny Sandwich
I think this was supposed to be the more classical of 2 compilations made of the
old Mothers almost immediately after they dissolved.
The title was supposed to be from one of Zappa's favourite dishes, he alludes
further to the idea of sandwich by placing the songs here between 2 doo-wop
covers.
I think this new version sounds a lot more inviting than the old Ryko version,
warmer.

Kiss Alive!
been meaning to buy a copy of this for years but never saw it at the right price
until this week. Raucous 70s r'n'r, one of their best I think. Garage metal
glam.
Still not sure what, if any, of the studio stuff is necessary. But this is their
edition of that essential 70s icon, the double live lp. Wretched excess, oh yes,
well that and beefy riffs.

Loudest whisper Children of Lir
I couldn't get into this previously but now find it quite listenable.
May have been prompted into listening to it because of the connection with the
Corrib Project Tunnel Boring Machine being called Fionnuala after one of the
characters of the title, which has brought the legend up in several
circumstances recently.
I think this was done as the music for an early 70s stage or tv play.
Has been considered to be a psych folk classic by some for years but I think I
found it too stagey. Might get more into it now though.

Gun Club various live sets
People have been torrenting quite a bit of the band(s)over the last few days.
That has meant several different line-ups since it has covered 82-93 so far.
Band sound changes quite a bit depending on line-ups though I guess there is a
great deal of stylistic unity.
I hadn't realised how short Terry Graham's return tenure when he replaced Dee
Pop was until I read notes regarding this series of uploads. I had hoped that
there was more of him with Jim Duckworth since that was a quite formidable
pairing & I tend to find Pop overly frenetic, while Graham's one of my fav
drummers.

Tribal Stomp '78 sets by Big Brother & the Holding Co and Country Joe & the
Fish.
Both of which were closer to the sound they had 10 years earlier than i'd
feared, I think BB&HC was most of the players who'd been in the pre-Janis
version though Peter Albin was definitely also playing with Country Joe. BB&HC
were fronted at this time by a singer called Kathi McDonald who might be too
close to Janis's sound. Nice psychedelic set though.
Country Joe & the Fish were in a line-up pretty much totally different to their
heyday, though Peter ALbin did join the 2nd major line-up the one that played
Woodstock (I think). This '78 line-up doesn't even feature 'The Fish' since that
name was a nickname of Barry Melton the lead guitarist from their heyday.
This band does still make a decent account of itself though.

Sun Ra disco 3000 disc 2
the smaller lineup of the band that toured Italy in '78. Pretty funky throughout
and long expansive pieces. This was a reissue of last year's Art Yard 2cd set,
may still be some copies around. Worth getting if so.

various other bits & pieces taht will no doubt come back to me later

Walkman still throwing up a lot of unexpected segues European Son into Exile's
Happy yesterday. Bits of Buck Owens, Albert Ayler, Charlie Feathers , Fallen
Angels, Roberta Flack, Leonard Cohen, live Gun Club etc etc

Reading
Bob Mould See A little Light
This has been vilified by some who say that Mould comes off looking like a
self-centred idiot.
I've enjoyed it. Still hoping for back catalogue remasters & expanded reissues
but from what he's saying here, not sure how remotely likely that is going to
be.

Flapper Joshua Zeitz
interesting read on sociology of jazz-age female hipsters. Does seem to leave
out non caucasian influences a great deal though, which it has been criticised
for elsewhere.

Stevo

stevo i really like your updates

the last month has been:

Maurice Ravel - mostly piano music. will probably be in my top 10-20 for the rest of my life
Court Music Orchestra Of National Gugak Centre, Korea - CD given to me by willie winant after his trip to S.Korea
J Dilla - Donuts and the new Dillatroit set
Submerse - Tears EP and They Always Come Back EP. some of the best IDM of 2012 imo
Franz Schubert - piano impromptus
Randy Newman - see ravel, never goes out of (my) style
Dennis Wilson - pacific ocean blue
Om Unit - Aeolian EP, post dubstep/IDM. this guy should be famous
The Beach Boys - various tracks
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - various tracks, usually accompanied by whiskey

Finally getting around to listening to some of the several thousand hours of Hibari Misora available on Spotify. Fairly pleasant so far.

made this playlist last night

Vladimir Ussachevsky – Music for Line of Apogee: I.
Ilhan Mimaroglu – La Ruche - An Elegy for Electromagnetic Tape
Stuttgart Vocal Ensemble – Mitternachtsstuk: I. Mitternachtsstuk
Cathy Berberian, Luciano Berio – Visage
Manhattan School of Music Percussion Ensemble – Synchronisms No. 5 for Percussion and Tape
University of Wisconsin Percussion Quartet/University of Wisconsin River Falls Concert Choir – Sound Patterns and Tropes
Alice Shields, Airi Yoshioka – Kyrielle
Elizabeth Brown – Centre Bridge
Milton Babbitt, William Anderson, Oren Fader – Soli e Duettini
David Lang, Bang on a Can All Stars – Cheating, Lying, Stealing
Otto Luening, Ralph Kneeream – Fantasia for Organ
Gerd Zacher – ASLSP (Organ²) (1985)

CTI allstars California Concert
may be too smooth but does have some pretty cool bits in it. Seems to avoid the jagged edges of new thing jazz but interesting to hear George Benson playing guitar and not singing soporific soul. Also odd to hear Billy Cobham not being heavy.

Sylvester Anfang II the '09 s/t set.
pretty heavy guitar stuff with droney bits and folk influence. I think the folk bit had been accentuated at the time of release but I like the psych rockiness.

Jethro Tull Benefit
3rd lp by brit heavy folkrockers. really enjoying this, first bunch by this lot were all pretty decent. as were the ones around '78

Zappa loads, trying to work out what I need from the remasters.

Gun Club loads since there are a lot appearing on torrent sites. & I've loved the band since I first discovered them in late '83.

Stevolende - Heavy Horses by Tull is an underrated gem

Yeah it was one of the ones I was thinking of from around '78. Other one is Songs From The Wood. Both are pretty folky in a way that is very reminiscent of the first wave of britfolkrock

CTI allstars California Concert

I've been playing this too, doesn't quite live up to the billing but yeah the good bits. if you havent heard em Geo Benson's CTI albums Body Talk and Beyond The Blue Horizon are smooth swinging/funky sweet

oh hey Benefit is my favorite Tull album by far

Salsaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

The Knife, Fever Ray, Isolee, Junior Boys, anything else in a digipak between the letters F and P. Because all our CDs are packed away and the only box I can access to open is that one.

going through the tracks i havent heard on the Dance poll, smog -'wild love', deep purple, husker du - 'new day rising', 'flip your wig', neneh cherry and the thing album

dylan

Dinosaur L (etc), 24->24 Music 2CD
Imploded View, Picnic With Pylons
V/A,Laila je t´taime
V/A, Music from Saharan Cellphones
V/A, Estcon 2012 2CD
V/A, Ishilan n-Tenere
Cosmos Laguna, Karma Cleaner

Sulfur Delirium Tremens which just arrived. I think I prefer the male voice on Zambodia to this which is a bit ersatz Lydia.
But musically its still interesting.
lp may grow on me over next while I have had Zambodia since possibly the 90s so am more familiar with it.

i listened to the best stuff today:

The Zeros - 4-3-2-1...The Zeros (Restless - 1991) (such a cool album, why weren't they bigger? great powerpop if you ask me.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVX8_H0gJwM&feature=channel&list=UL

Noisy Mama - Everybody Has One (Atco - 1991) (def lep + ac/dc. i got no problem with that.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJxJBzILhdY&feature=channel&list=UL

Kid Frost - East Side Story (Virgin - 1992)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln7_mx9PTNQ&feature=relmfu

Enuff Znuff - Animals With Human Intelligence (Arista - 1993) (bad production hurts this album. still good though.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpHkHuMNGYk&feature=related

The Awful Truth - S/T (Metal Blade - 1989) (one of those weird cases where i REALLY wish a band now would cover this entire album. because the songs are great - i like the whole thing - but you can hear how a heavier and more modern production could make these songs even better. okay, maybe not "modern" production, just better production. Katatonia should do it. Or someone else suitably sad and heavy. Hardly anyone remembers this record. It's better than most grunge records. even though its not really a grunge record.)

A.M.Q.A. - Mutant Cats From Hell (Medusa - 1988) (dri + dri)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL2NGHDPC_c&feature=channel&list=UL

Weapons - Captive Audience (Metro-America - 1985)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sg4Vj6r7Q4&feature=related

Diamond Rexx - Golden Gates (Red Light - 1991) (the song "Golden Gates" is such a cool song. Someone should cover it. You'd never guess it was on a Diamond Rexx album. They must have been Gene Clark fans.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJr3XNzBE2s

M.Walk Productions Featuring The Union (Capitol - 1989) ( I LOVE this album. essential. nobody owns it, but they just don't know how essential it is. you could probably buy it on amazon for a penny. soooooo much fun. worst record cover EVER. oh well. what are you gonna do?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mp2jp75GBk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruyKZLupW4U&feature=relmfu

i have been listening to the second xx album for the last two weeks. one of the best things i have listened to in the last two or three years. two problems with it. it is too short. the best song, the second one stops right in the middle of it. why did they do this to me? just when i really get into the groove, it is all over. they must be sadistic or something.

Grizzly Bear, Swans, and Divine Fits.

robert johnson - king of the delta blues singers
skip james - the greatest of the delta blues singers

(make up your mind delta blues reissue dorks!)

blind boy fuller – vol 1. 1935-1936

http://subtropics.org/frozen-music/
http://phonophilia.com/cms/frozen_music_ensemble_24hour_performance

Swans The Seer
while this is both intense and heavy it also seems to be a lot more melodic than you might think of the band as being. That might have more to do with associations with the band up to Children of God though.
Anyway a great studio effort based on a few numbers that have evolved live over the last couple of years and will presumably continue to evolve as they are further played live. I'm not sure what they've done about the female vocals live though. Studio sees the return of Jarboe in a guest role on a number of the tracks plus one offs by Karen O and the couple from Low.
I haven't heard the official live lp the limited edition of which helped fund the recording of this lp but on the strength of what's here that is something I want to remedy.

Leonard Cohen Songs From A Room
The 2nd lp by probably the world's most famous maudlin poet. I've heard this isn't liked as much as the lp either side of it. For me it is one that has several tracks that have buzzed through my head quite regularly for the last couple of decades. Could be cos this is the first lp I picked up by him and was the only one I had for years. But things like You Know Who I Am are still favourite songs of mine.
There is some instrument played on several tracks here that almost lays a layer of acoustic fuzz in its drone. Really like the atmosphere on here anyway.
Also been listening to Songs of Love and Hate but not as much as the above.

CTI ALLstars California Concert
especially Red Clay from the first disc.
For me the best parts of this are when you hear the interplay of the electric/rhythm instruments. Here these are George Benson on guitar in a more gritty style than I've heard him before and thankfully not singing; Ron Carter playing an electric bass, I've seen him described here as pretty anonymous but I'm finding him right in the groove; a young Billy Cobham on drums, I don't think he's really showing much recognisable style or powerhousing the drums but what he's doinfg is effective in tandem with the others here; Johnny Hammond is playing the organ which gave him his name & Airto Moreira is on various percussion. There are also several horn players Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Stanley Turrentine on tenor sax and Hubert Laws on flute. While Hubbard and Turrentine do both shine in moments here I do definitely think it is the interlocked rhythm section that is most delectable.

6 Organs of Admittance
Very visceral for several early tracks and pretty atmospheric for more downtempo stuff. Think this is pretty classic. First tracks really have me thinking of ballroom psych though I'm not sure if its as return to mythic era as Howlin Rain who at least one of the players here also play with.
It is a Comets On Fire reunion in all but name though Ethan is listed here as rhythm instead of lead. Chasny is quite a guitarist. Though I don't think any of this shimmers as much as when I first saw the 3piece version of the band live in 2006. Want to hear live versions of this set with the same players as on the record.

James Brown Singles Vols 6, 7 & 8
a run that takes one from 69-73 and finds some of JB's hardest funk mixed in with some other stuff. Some of which might be considered misguided but not as much as later on.
Vol 7's first disc is the one with the Collins brothers featured heavily and is pretty essential music, though one could also consider picking up the Funk Power '70 set for several of the same cuts and some stuff that wasn't considered for single release.
I'm also considering getting hold of Vol 9 which is probably about as late as one can safely go with JB, it sees the last great band he had together falling apart under his control and leaving him. But is great dance music.
Some of these sets can be a tad repetitive as various versions of singles are ordered in succession.

CUlt of Dom kellor e.p. vol 3
nice psych stuff that I think I need to hear more of . The band were recently selling all 3 of their e.ps for £10 plus postage to help them fund a European tour, I'm not sure if that's still available.

Frank Zappa Chunga's Revenge
There is some really great instrumental stuff on here a coupl of ok bluesy tracks with great guitar and the beginning of the puerile sex stuff as ex-Turtles Flo & Eddie appear for the first time.
The new remaster does sound pretty good but I don't love all this lp as much as I might. It was apparently where Lester Bangs gave up on him too. I am interested in hearing some of the later music but I do dislike the puerile smut.

Metallica ... and Justice For All
became interested in hearing some of this stuff because I picked up the Mick Wall Enter Night bio in a sale for 99c last week and couldn't put it down for the first while. He isn't really into the lp because of the lack of echo but I kind of like it, hadn't heard it in years not sure how often I'll revisit it.

Ginger Baker & Salt live Frankfurt 72
interesting set cos this is the band the members of Blo! passed through before they became Blo!. They had been together for years in various guises including the Afrocollection who can be seen playing with him here in Nigeria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YKBUbzQjNg&feature=share
Sound is pretty decent for the time while not being anywhere near studio. Nice psychy-african stuff with plenty of Berkley Jones's guitar on it.

plenty of other stuff which will no doubt come back to me later.
Still hours of surprises on my walkman, today including Lotte lenya, various Echo & the Bunnymen, Johnny Burnette, Jerry Lee Lewis(just after I was thinking about him for another reason too), Vertical Slit, Gun Club, Cramps etc

Reading
Mr Tambourine Man the John Einarson bio of gene Clark who while being a great performer and writer was destroyed by the pressures of fame and a combination of drugs and alcohol.
It was great while reading this to find out that Roadmaster the lp from sessions aborted thanks to sly stone's contributions to the studio bill & only released at the time in a flat sounding mix on a Dutch branch of a U.S. label has finally been released by Sundazed from the original studio tapes.

The Air Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller
Miller having just returned from years in Europe takes a cross the U.S. roadtrip making notes that lead to this book. It';s taken me way too long to read this, I like Miller.

Watching
Crank
Looks like somebody saw the film Speed and thought oh yes, I can make that more adult themed by removing the bus and substituting a human body for the vehicle that can't slow down. Also instead of having him take speed we'll substitute another drug.
Very B but still pretty watchable. Just ridiculous fopr a couple of minor details like if somebody really was running around L.A. in a hospital gown with their ass hanging out surely they'd get stopped way before they stole a police motorbike and especially after they crash it into a sidewalk cafe table and still manage to get away with it again.
I mean I do like my Bmovies to make some concession to reality.

The Bourne Legacy
side events from the time of the last real Bourne film, wondering if this might have been better as a standalone not attaching itself to that franchise.
I enjoyed it as a pretty visceral runaround thriller.
Couldn't place female lead for ages while remembering her face. But thought she was a new actress not somebody who had been in the first couple of Mummy films etc. Thought she was younger than that i this for some reason.

Stevo

Baker Gurvitz Army- Elysian Encounter
I liked this record, it's a pretty good 1975 bluesy rock with some psychedelic and dreamy synths and really groovy drums. I found out about this one after watching a 1971 documentary on Netflix called Ginger Baker in Africa, which is worth searching out both for the awesome clips of Baker playing with musicians in Nigeria and live Fela on tape but I also dug the druggy early 70s part following Baker in his drive across Africa. Anyway...I went to read up to see what all Baker had did after being in Africa and found about this band I had never heard of before.

Casey Burge. One of the best songwriters out there right now.

http://overlandshark.bandcamp.com/album/triumph

Dependent And Happyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

James Brown Singles Vols 6, 7 & 8

agree these are the best, 9 & 10 are good cherry picking actually more better songs on 10 imo

i worked my way thru the whole JB Singles series last summer while reading The One. good god! hit me etc

http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=7532

Bruce Langhorne - Idaho Transfer (original soundtrack)

Cooool!
I was just listening to Nothing People's 2011 record "Tastes Like Metal" that I guess I must have missed. It's good!
New Sic Alps. Best one yet for sure.

yeahh, there is some nice stuff on that idaho transfer sdtk. movie is kind of horrible but interesting. someone just put out langhorne's hired hand sdtk on vinyl for the first time i guess. that thing is the best.
i've been listening to this george cromarty solo Grassroots Guitar LP a bunch, somewhere in between Takoma and Windham Hill (who he later recorded an album for).

Lubomyr Melnyk - Wave-Lox

- can't say I know much about his work, but in the most recent dusted 'Listed' feature, Pete Swanson (RIP Yellow Swans) said:

The fastest piano player in the world who’s got an affinity for the sustain pedal. Wave-Lox is a composition of Melnyk’s for two pianos that consists of what is essentially an hour-long piano wash. The music is simultaneously frenetic and pastoral. The notes are played so quickly that the piece can seem totally static, but if you listen closely, you hear themes weaving in and out of each other. The composition can be listened to on several different levels and is only constructed from piano notes.

that's right, it can be listened to on several different levels! level up! but for real, it's jived nicely with the kind of stuff i've been listening and reading to recently (john cage, morton feldman and earle browne, pretty much), although i can't really say Wave-Lox really has an aleatoric or indeterminate style of composition or performance.

i'm not sure this has ever been officially "released". it appears that Bandura records released a CD-R of a 1985 performance at some point, and it's easily googled if others want to listen.

btw i haven't really dived into most of the other 9 things that Swanson listed in the feature, but dude appears to have very interesting taste in music (relatively obscure stuff (to me, at least), but not obscure-for-obscure's sake)

also continuing to slowly explore the 10 records in Brian Eno's Obscure catalog, though i'm having trouble moving beyond Harold Budd's Pavilion of Dreams (i don't WANT to move on!). on the other side of the musical universe, the new chris cohen - former deerhoof/cass mccombs/ariel pink guitarist - is really growing on me. i imagine it would be perfect for drinking sangria on the porch and reading, if i had a porch, knew how to make sangria and knew how to read.

i had a room full of chimpanzees type my last two posts, and this one. they are doing a great job and certainly deserve lots of extra treats and vacation time!!

- the chimpanzees

Aquarius Records carried most of Melnyk's self-released CDRs when they came out a few years ago, Unseen Worlds reissued his first album around the same time: http://www.unseenworlds.net/uw02/ -- 'Wave-Lox' & 'KMH' are the two I have. Sort of the mid-point between Charlemagne Palestine's 'Strumming Music' and the slow harmonic movement of Steve Reich circa 'Music For 18 Musicians' but a lot looser, more impressionistic and freewheeling. There are moments where the tonality turns into things that you'd almost take for mistakes but then he commits to them.

Roedelius & Story - untitled 4th album
Laurie Spiegel - Unseen Worlds
Date Palms - Of Psalms
Darwin's Bitch - Ore
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
John Cage - Cage Shock vol 1

& I loved Pete's list, especially for the Catherine Ribeiro shoutout. That guy has always had solid taste in music.

MP this is kind of a weird thing to ask but do you have any sort of list or post that describes the music you're into? i've noticed that over the past few months whenever i do ilx searches for the new stuff i'm listening to, you've already weighed in a few years ago!

mike watt - hyphenated man

pretty amazing, crazy prospector vocals remain a hurdle but this band he has now is great

(most minutemenny thing he's done since the minutemen)

Today
Wanderlea - Vamos que eu já vou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D3lpgwmqPc

Con Estilo Colombiano - Volumes 1&2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKHsMXRba_U

Los Angeles Azules 22 Exitos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmQ2bHU9pd8

Wiz Khalifa - Rolling Papers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmP7TYtDVUU

xpost

compliments aren't weird! but there's no master list, just too many posts to ILM.

checking out the things I hadn't heard on Pete's list... kinda can't believe I had never even heard of Regis. This is like everything I liked about Jeff Mills 'Waveform Tranmissions Vol. 1' but sustained for an entire career: http://www.amazon.com/Regis-Complete-Works-1994-1996/dp/B007EMGCWW/ref=sr_shvl_album_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1349725470&sr=301-2

dang, you guys ever listen to medio mutante? gf introduced me to them last night, obtaining many gf bonus points

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY0MnjvJA3w

Messiaen: Complete Organ Works/Hans-Ola Ericsson

like going to mass on sunday morning still feeling a little high or whatever from saturday night

These Immortal Souls 1988-03-19 'Scream' Park Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles
great live set by the band that the Howard Brothers line up of C&CS minus Harvey & Bonney went onto after they left that band. They added RSH's girlfriend Genevieve McGucken to the line-up too.
It's in roughly the same area as their line-up of C&CS though I think the overt delta blues thing is gone, there is still a similar darkness and pretty similar sound. & Lots of luscious RSH opaque lyricism and distortion. RSH singing through his nose too.

A.R. Kane complete singles disc 1
dreampop in excelsis.
I'm not seeing Russell on the cd sleeve though. Not sure what of their stuff he was on, thought it was all the pre-lp e.p material.
Anyway great to finally have this material, never having had it at the time. & closest to getting it being the Americana cd which duplicated a lot of stuff from the lps.
Even disc 2 of this is worth getting since the lps haven't been remastered in so long. that disc tarts with Pop so is largely available on the lps. This goes up to 2 e.ps from '94 so 3rd lp era, which isn't as rewarding as the earlier stuff.

Frank Zappa Waka/Jawaka
Loving Big Swifty in its uncoiling instrumentalism.
Need to get Grand Wazoo but hearing dodgy stuff about a large amount of unplayable discs. Has this been corrected yet? & did it lap over into the European release of the same cd?

Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats Blood Lust
pretty glammy early 70-s hardrock with some surprising influences. There's a track on here that seems to be based on the riff from The Byrds' Why. Concept lp about the biography of a serial killer with really toetapping sensibility.
I caught one of the last copies of the earlier cd version, have now read that Rise Above are going to put it out on cd after a myriad of different coloured vinyl versions have successively sold out.

Tame Impala from Chicago last May
nice live set, didn't check who was in the band. I know that Tame Impala is basically one guy doing the writing and recording, does he always go out with the same band when he plays live?
Anyway loving that lysergic melodicism. Must get the 2nd lp, preferably in the Rough Trade version, had forgotten until last night that I'd got Innerspeaker with its Rough Trade exclusive mini lp accompaniment.

guess no one on ilx likes metz, judging by no one mentioning them (did a quick search just now) but they kinda rule! "Sad Pricks" is crazy good, RIYL The Men's "Think"

Enzo Minarelli, Fame [Pogus, 2012]
dude does all sorts of stuff with his voice; me like

Prefab Sprout, Let's Change The World With Music

Leslie Winer & C, the 2012 comp.
was about bloody time too someone put it out!

Leslie Winer & C, the 2012 comp.
was about bloody time too someone put it out!

huh ?
is this a revisit to her C/snake album, or new stuff ?
i have the original snake album on cd .. but not heard in a long long time ..
time to dig in the archives.

Golden Void! Very Sabbath-y but fresh, new, exciting!

(xpost)
the Leslie Winer & C comp has tracks recorded in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2010. nineteen tracks all in all.

gonna be spending a LOT of time with the new B. O'Cult box that i just got yesterday. only listened to the two rarities discs so far and they flippin' rock. packaging is alright i guess but i've never liked those cardboard sleeves with the disc crammed in v. much

The Pin Group reissue. a lot.

Just ordered the Golden Void record along with the new Eternal Tapestry last night, can't wait to get them.

Z S, I like the Metz record quite a bit, but it took some time to register with me.

yeah the eternal tapestry is killer too. a lot of good new music these days! also listening to this social studies band www.socialstudies-music.com. and daniel bachman! amazing record. and i'm still trying to get my head around this new john cale record.

tyler, it was actually your reviews of both those records that nudged me towards ordering them last night! i've already been into Eternal Tapestry, but your write-up for Golden Void made me toss that into my cart as well.

oh nice! hope you like the golden void.

Allen Toussaint, Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky: The Hit Songs & Productions 1957-1978
Scott Walker, Drift

gonna need to pick that Toussaint up

is it just one disc? dude needs like a 10-CD box set.

that particular collexion is 2cd's. but you're prolly right, tylerw:)

bob dylan - tempest: quite surpised how great that album is. i didn't get into any dylan album after "time out of mind" and that is already 15 years ago, i can't believe it. wasn't he just about to kick the bucket at the time?

joni mitchell - don juan's reckless daughter
gabi delgado - mistress (not what I was expecting -- one of the more commercial & ornate conny plank productions, but still weird and great)
regis 1997-1998
pierre henry - le voyage
richard & linda thompson - first light (hadn't heard this before --the glossy production kind of works more than I thought it would, and the good songs on it are great)
ilhan mimaroglu - coucou bazaar
moebius & ashley
british library - beautiful bird songs from around the world
david monacchi - eco-acoustic compositions
twig harper & rubber-o-cement

buffy sainte-marie - illuminations
harold budd - lovely thunder
jon hassell - earthquake island
leila josefowicz, esa-pekka salonen conducting finnish radio symphony orchestra - salonen: out of nowhere violin concertro - nyx
henry flynt - you are my everlovin'/celestial power
high tide - sea shanties
jessica bailiff - at the down-turned jagged rim of the sky
brainticket - celestial ocean
tim buckley - blue afternoon

stuff from 2012:

matthew friedberger - matricidal sons of bitches (instrumental "soundtrack" to a nonexistent movie; pleasant but not very compositionally varied)
cate le bon - cyrk
the fresh & onlys - long slow dance
darren hayman - lido (instrumental concept album from the former hefner singer, about britain's open-air swimming pools)
roomful of teeth - s/t (a cappella octet who recorded "quizassa," a commissioned work by merrill garbus of tune-yards)

berlioz - romeo et julliet/messiaen - l'ascension (cambreling, sw german rso) [initially listened for the messiaen but the berlioz is stunning]
ives - string quartets 1 & 2 (lydian sq) [1 is pleasant, tuneful; 2 is more typically heterogeneous ives]
tournemire - syms 2 & 4 (almeida/moscow so) [kind of brucknerian but not as focused or wrenching, still quite unusual music]
susumu yokota - sakura [electronic poll got me interested in this, very nice]
bvdub - the art of dying alone [makes me feel less keenly that there aren't more GAS albums]

this is kicking my ass these days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gljj_6eAtLA

(anna meredith - nautilus)

i bought these yesterday and am catching up on listening now:

p. brötzmann group - fuck de boere (from atavistic's unheard music series -- a live version of "machine gun" from '68 and a 36-minute 1970 concert from frankfurt)

alan licht & loren mazzacane connors - mercury (good review here)

(anna meredith - nautilus)

that track is amazing, wish it had better drums when the beat finally drops though.

remix it

Velvet Underground, loads. Just redownloaded alot of live material byu them after having the drive they were on crash earlier in th eyear. I'm stil hoping I can salvage some of the stuff from that drive cos it had a few other great somewhat avant artists on too.
Just listening to the new official version of Columbus '66 & it does sound like there is some improvement. Though Run Run Run sounds a bit less like the flattening of Dresden than the way I've always loved it.

Also bits of Pink Floyd

Been going through some of archive.org's Grateful Dead streaming while at the course while working on things. Wish there was something like that for other artists I'm into. Well I guess there are another load of artists covered on th esame archive but wish the Velvets and a few others had the same resources. Might have to suffice with early dream Syndicate which is no chore.

Have also had a great live set by White Heaven I've got on my walkman turning up large chunks. THis is a set that fits the descriptionof Quicksilver Messenger Service meets Black Sabbath much better than the first lp did which always sounded to me much more like Galaxie 500. Still ok, just not as legendary as early descriptions sounded.

hmmmm i would be interested in hearing that white heaven live thing [hint hint!]

remix it

ha, i was/am planning on it.

hmmmm i would be interested in hearing that white heaven live thing [hint hint!]

Ditto. Did you find it online? Or when you say walkman do you mean old school cassette thing?

THink I got it off Dime back around 2007 when I first started torrenting,
if it's the one I think it is.

Walkman is a 20GB ATrac thing that is constantly on random so comes up with things unexpectedly. Yesterday it managed to play both the Pogues song about chunks of Gold in California and a 30s American recording of an Irish song that the Pogues one seemed to borrow from , though the songs aren't interlinked on there. I was most impressed.

I always liked the way ATRAC random play worked, calls itself 'intelligent shuffle' and it does seem to be almost conscious. Not really sure how the i-pod version compares.

pssst n/a: http://soundcloud.com/chantssound/anna-meredith-nautilus-chants

nice

alva noto - xerrox vol. 2
global goon - plastic orchestra
psyche vs. bfc - elements 1989-1990
snd - tender love
phoenecia - demissions
redshape - the dance paradox
bvdub - i remember
celer - engaged touches

tracey thorn - tinsel and lights: great cosy winter album, her voice is still phantastic. two problems: it is too short & the lasgt two songs are ruined by shitty drum programming.
flowerpornoes - ich liebe menschen wie ihr. okayish, not tom liwa's best.

Roll The Dice meets Pole, In Dubs EP
Barnaby Bennett, Shadows and Reflections: An Anthology
John Martyn, Live at Leeds & more
Galaktlan, "Varjata head ei saa"

morton feldman - three voices for joan la barbara
v/a - monk mix: remixes and interpretations of music by meredith monk, vol. 1

Lots of funhouse/raw power. Feeling the power. Also faves I dug out of the upstairs record room:

Elly Nieman & Rikkert Zuiderveld – De Draad Van Ariadne (Imperial – 1971)

Elly Stone – S/T (Columbia – 1969)

Marc Emory – Listening Music/Anfang (Elwich – 1975)

Jennifer – “…I Can Remember Everything” (Parrot)

Martha Velez – Fiends & Angels (Sire)

Fear Itself – S/T (Dot)

Trini Lopez – The Whole Enchilada (Reprise) (Boyce & Hart production makes me drool its so tight and cracks like a whip)

Here & Now – All Over The Show (Charly – 1979)

Juicy Groove – First Taste (Payola – 1978) (this was a big hit at thanksgiving)

Red Shadow – The Economics Rock & Roll Band – Better Red (Physical Records – 1978)

Prominent Disturbance – S/T (Down And Out Records – 1984)

Shelby Flint – Cast Your Fate To The Wind (Valiant)

Priscilla – Gypsy Queen (A&M)

Chris Swansen – Pulaski Skyway (Badger)

Charles Lloyd – Warm Waters (Kapp – 1971)

Caetano Veloso – Araca Azul (Philips)

Annette Peacock – The Perfect Release (Tomato – 1979)

C.K. Strong – S/T (Epic)

also got 4 awesome original 45 rpm new zealand pressed sex pistols 12 inches and i've been playing them at the store every day really loud before and after i open. they're sooooo loud. booming bass. the way i always wanted the songs on the album to sound. god save the queen/do you no wrong, pretty vacant/no fun, holidays in the sun/satellite. haven't played the my way one yet but i guess i should. was never a big fan of that one but it would probably sound cool anyway. the b-sides in general sound just as great. satellite is awesome.

jackie mclean - one step beyond & demon's dance
michael rother - flammende herzen & sterntaler
klaus schulze - timewind

I also listened to Demon's Dance today

not "out" as some other jackie mac albums from the mid 60s but pretty great eh? lamont johnson is an underrated pianist, at least by me

I am listening to an incredible, incredible record from 1985 by a guy named Dariush Dolat-Shahi, it is modular synth + field recording + Iranian acoustic instruments. Oh god just listen to it I am obsessed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEBKDupzQcQ

^^^ Listening to this album right now...it's lovely alright.

Interview with Mr. Dolat-Shahi + his two stunning Folkways albums to download on UbuWeb. Thanks for the recommendation!

those dolat-shahi records are aging really well

gori women's choir - archaica: modern georgian choir music
beatriz ferreyra - la rivière des oiseaux
date palms - of psalms
brian eno - lux
firesign theatre radio hour hour - episode 4 "I'm not saying they do it, I'm just saying you've seen it"
composers inside electronics - live at the kitchen 1977
chris cutler - probes #1 (fantastic podcast about some of the things that happened to music over the last 8 centuries)
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes1_chris_cutler_/capsula
http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/probes/probes1.mp3

Fuuuck thanks seandalai I always forget to check ubuweb for these things

Think one of the Shahi things has just been reissued on vinyl, and his two Folkways albums came out on CD at some point.

(and yeah he's AWESOME)

He's mad hyped, but indeed pretty cool so far, think I'll check this out:
AUSTIN CITY LIMITS TO LIVE-STREAM GARY CLARK JR.'S ACL TAPING

NOVEMBER 30TH AT 8PM CST

EPISODE AIRS FEBRUARY 16TH ON PBS STATIONS

November 29, 2012 - (Burbank, CA) - Austin's own rising star, rock 'n' soul phenomenon Gary Clark Jr. makes his highly-anticipated return to Austin City Limits (ACL) this week, and ACL announces the taping will be live-streamed on Friday, November 30th at 8pm Central Time. Fans can log-on to ACL's YouTube http://www.youtube.com/AustinCityLimitsTV

Is that the guy that sounds totally like Robin Trower?

cryostasium & thor maillet - twinnings
tujiko noriko + nobukazu takemura - east facing balcony
wire - the ideal copy
darkthrone - transilvanian hunger
v/a - archives grm vol 1: les visiteurs de l'aventure concrète
xasthur - nocturnal poisoning
actress - rip
giacinto scelsi - chamber music for strings (accord)
tim hecker - an imaginary country

also: laurie spiegel - the expanding universe

allah-las - s/t (excellent psychedelic 60s garage rock from the 2010s)
can - the lost tapes (the first cd is ok, i didn't listen to the others yet)

i bet i'm the only person in the world who is listening to oxide and neutrino right now.

which is probably the antithesis of the current love of slo-mo bass heavy sounds.

the uptempo jerky stop-start rhythms, and high-end focus sounds are v. different to the production love of 2012.

in other news 2012 = the soulsavers. dj food. adrian sherwood. chromatics. CREEP. o. children. lana del ray. kindness. jim jones.

Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things
Alabama Shakes - Boys and Girls
Jethro Tull - Stand Up
Zubi Zuva - Jehovah

The 6ths - Wasps' Nests. I am increasingly starting to suspect that this is Stephin Merritt's best album.
New Crystal Castles album. The last track is really mesmerizing. I don't like it as much as their previous album but I think I rate that album more highly than anyone else.
Scott Walker - Tilt. I am having a difficult time getting into Scott Walker's latter day albums, but I am making a sincere effort, starting here.

Shoes compilation ilxor Phil Dellio made
Dinosaur Jr - Youre Living All Over Me
Grimes - Visions
Insides - Euphoria
Goat - World Music
Those Shocking Shaking Days (Indonesian Psych comp)

scott walker - scott 2
negativland - live 81-83
roger winfield - voices of the wind
pierre henry - les années cinquante 1950-1959
environments 7 - intonation
various lang elliott blog posts (I sure do love this guy) - http://musicofnature.org/words_cannot_describe/

that's awesome, milton. is there a way to download his recordings, or do you have to stream them?

streaming is disabled, but he's got a lot of CDs out. my all time favorite is this one (who needs electronic music): http://www.amazon.com/Frog-Concertos-Volume-Lang-Elliott/dp/B002MAPGUK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1355273157&sr=8-1&keywords=lang+elliott+frog+concertos

this is another recent non-Elliott favorite - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qumHHNJ3JMM

meant to say: downloading is disabled. streaming is clearly working.

oh jeez, this one: http://musicofnature.org/magpie-composition/

very nice. amazing how the frogs calm you down. in the botanical garden in berlin-dahlem they have this small pond. in summer i just passed by, heard some noises and then had a closer look. there were dozens of frogs everywhere, the more time i took the more frogs i saw. some were copulating, most of them not moving at all. nature is so unbelievably rich.

who needs electronic music

once in florida i laid in bed hearing what i thought were random quasi-musical bleeps and blurts from somebody's electronic device outside, then realized it was frog ambiance from the local pond

amazing how the frogs calm you down.

i think we all need to remember this, sometimes

Brötzmann/ Bennink, Schwarzwaldfahrt (no frogs I don't think...)
Caravan, s/t 1st alb.
Matlubeh, Yar kelour (Uzbek)
Joe Henderson feat. Alice Coltrane, The Elements
Scott Walker, Bish Bosch

residents - eskimo
holy modal rounders - the moray eels eat the holy modal rounders
ornette coleman - dancing in your head
sonny sharrock - ask the ages
golden palominos - a history (1982-1985)

Donald Fagen, Sunken Condos
Spirit, The Original Potato Land (2CD)
Yoko Ono (& a cast of dozen-plus), Yes, I'm A Witch
Merili Varik, Kas tõesti

Yoko Ono (& a cast of dozen-plus), Yes, I'm A Witch

had this in the archive since release and never listened to it ....

time to give it a spin perhaps ..

My end of year compilation ...

1. Simon Scott - SeaLevel_2
2. Sigur Ros - Valtari
3. Richard Skelton - Of The Sea
4. Sons of Noel and Adrian - Black Side of the River
5. Grizzly Bear - Yet Again
6. Susanna - There's Nothing Funny About This
7. Darren Hayman - London Fields
8. Diagrams - Mills
9. James Yorkston - Sometimes The Act of Giving Love
10. Darren Hayman - London Fields
11. British Sea Power - Cleaning Out The Rooms (Wandering Horn Remix)
12. Towards Green - Last Page (Live Take)
13. Tyneham House - Rookery Wood
14. Snow Palms - Snowlight
15. S. Carey - Two Angles

stevie wonder - it's more than you
david benoit - remembering what you said
pat metheny - au lait

Hadn't really read about the Divine Fits album, but had put it on a Spotify playlist. Mildly, pleasantly, surprised when the Boys Next Door cover came on. Listened to that a bunch of times today.

laurie spiegel - obsolete systems
nav katze - never mind the distorsions
christ. - metamorphic reproduction miracle
burger/ink - las vegas
darkthrone - a blaze in the northern sky
merzbow - suzume (japanese birds vol. 1)
chris & cosey - trance
carpathian forest - through chasm caves and titan woods
yasuaki shimizu - music for commercials (made to measure 13)

arcane device - also sprach zarathustra
david lee myers - ouroboros
laetitia sonami - electronic music 1978-1983
upsetters - blackboard jungle dub
andrew skeoch and sarah koschak - spirit of the outback
michael stearns - lyra
chopin - mazurkas, maryla jonas
bob drake - bob's drive-in

In full Christmas mode:
Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 1: Advent und Weihnachten - Karl Richter
Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas - Ella Fitzgerald
Star of Wonder - Christmas at All Souls with Musica Viva of New York

And for variety:
Six Feet Down - Tuba Skinny
Mozart: Piano Sonatas Vol 2 - András Schiff

bob drake - bob's drive-in

o yeh, that's one fascinating album, the studio and the live part where were both pretty great

Chico Mello ft. Helinho Brandão - Água
Peter Zummo - Zummo with an X
Thomas Leer & Robert Rental - The Bridge

It's the perfect time of year for The Return Of The Durutti Column.

yasuaki shimizu - music for commercials (made to measure 13)

This is really good! Clouds, have you heard Ryuichi Sakamoto's compilation of 80s commercial music? (CM 1, I think it's called). Super rad incidental pieces. also has a few really hot pop tunes w/akikko yano vocals.

no i haven't!

dug out some of my fave classy classical LPs. sound so good on the hi-fi.

karl martin reinthaler - jephta

sibelius - the complete tone poems

ahmed adnan saygun - viola concerto/elgar - overture "in the south" op.50

the complete works of matthijs vermeulen (five stars!)

erik bergman - nox/bim bam bum/faglarna/hathor suite (love...)

brahms - the piano trios - beaux arts trio (i listen to so much brahms. you have no idea...)

prokofiev - 1941/festive poem/dreams/white swan/andante

prokofiev - symphony no.5 in b flat op.100 (lenigrad phil kickin' ass and taking nameskys!)

adrian batten - richard dering - tudor church music

delius - incidental music to james elroy flecker's Hassan

johan halvorsen - air norvefien/tre norske danser/veslemoys sang/danse visionaire/norske eventyrbilleder (norwegian troll gold)

big blood -- dark country magic
kenneth higney -- attic demonstration
rare bird -- electric forest
zelienople -- the world is a house on fire
alexander tucker -- third mouth
richard skelton -- verse of birds

Electric Wizard- Electric Wizard & Come My Fanatics
Graveyard- Lights Out
High on Fire- Blessed Black Wings, & Snakes for the Divine
Pentagram- Relentless
Tygers of Pan Tang- Wild Cat
Kadaver- Kadaver
Saxon- Wheels of Steel
Hanoi Rocks- Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks & Oriental Beat
Earthless- Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky
Acid King- III
Mastodon- Blood Mountain

I've been on a metal kick the last week or two.

grateful dead - tuning '77 - http://archive.org/details/gd1977-12-31_505
ga-in - "bloom"
resonance magazine - feedback CD - http://www.discogs.com/Various-Resonance-Volume-9-Number-2-Feedback/release/633546
osso exotico - musica #1 - (pulled it off the shelf for the first time in years -- all acoustic drone music rarely stays this on target)
staring into the sun - ethiopian music recorded by olivia wyatt
charles ives - third symphony, tilson thomas
alice coltrane - turiya sings (for the last year, this & divine songs have been my go-to alice coltrane records)

cor @ Turiya sings - hunted one of the tracks down.

Will look into Osso exotico and Staring into the Sun.

Don Ellis. Lots and lots of Don Ellis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUYtWvavvYg

redshape - square
v/a - columbia-princeton electronic music center (1961-1973)
shining - within deep dark chambers
frank bretschneider - rhythm
nachtmystium - assassins: black meddle, pt. 1
lutosławski - symphony no. 3, venetian games, cto for orch (rowicki et al)
szymanowski - symphonies no. 2 & 3 (wit
haruomi hosono - medicine compilation

Miles Davis live in '73 around the time of the In Concert lp I think. Doesn't have the typewriter rhythms of the studio versions of the tracks they're playing (On The Corner) & I think this might be looser still than the iN Concert recordings

actually that should have read '72 when he still has tabla and electric sitar in his instrumentation.

Count Basie, The Complete Atomic Basie
The Charles Mingus Quintet + Max Roach (1957)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXm5Ay72N5Q

Feeling clouds list - stuff to investigate there

cool list clouds
I do not know what is Haruomi Hosono
I am listening to new Shining

!!!!!!!!!!!LISTENING TO THIS BANGING TECHNO HAPPENING LIVE RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.dommune.com/

cool list clouds
I do not know what is Haruomi Hosono

here's a good old thread abt him; patrick south and milton are well-versed in his soundworld: Haruomi Hosono

i would get cochin moon first:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0WBYOM4iZs

started making a weird tape. only made one side so far and i keep listening to it so who knows when i'll make the second side:

Shock - Angel Face (1980)

Earth Star - Sonntagsspaziergang (1981)

Units - i-Night (1979)

2i - The Transient/Chinese Circus Defector (1985)

Navastrau - Looking From An Airplane (1980)

Osamu Kitajima - Tengu (A Long-Nosed Goblin) (1975)

Gloria Mundi - The Pack (1978)

Ground Zero - Ground Zero (1979)

Thompson and Latham - Tomorrow Never Knows (1981)

Frank Sinatra, Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back
Dantalian's Chariot, Chariot Rising (1967)
Hatfield & The North (1973 ...yeh, same yeah as the Sinatra:)
Queen, The Miracle (mmmm... nah, not quite the same yeah as Sinatra, alas;)
Philipp Wachsmann & Paul Lytton, Some Other Season

Phil Spector's Christmas album, Discipline by King Crimson and this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfXr8L-iA78

And this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai1sfPKq2gk

this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLfured2ptE

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUYe4MQr0OE

deuter - d
deuter - aum
jorge ben - forca bruta
jorge ben - a tabua de esmeralda
messiaen: trois petites liturgies; couleurs de la cité céleste; hymne au saint-sacrament
blue mitchell - the thing to do

Philip Glass: Another Look at Harmony - Part IV (Choir of the 21st Century, Christopher Bowers-Broadbent on organ, Howard Williams conducting)

today:

schnittke - symphony no. 1 (segerstam/royal stockholm po)
ustvolskaya - composition no. 1, grand duo, 12 preludes (hatart)
matthew herbert - bodily functions
alan braxe - the upper cuts
oneohtrix point never - rifts
victoria - officium defunctorum (tallis scholars)
bayle - erosphère
nørgård - luna, voyage into the golden screen (blomstedt/danish rso)
radulescu - intimate rituals (caussé, royer)
bruckner - symphony no. 5 (herreweghe, orchestre des champs-elysées)
nono - polifonica-monodia-ritmica, canti per 13, etc

laurie spiegel - cavis muris
magma - felicite thosz
bob dylan - tempest (gaargh! his voice!)
scott walker - bish bosch (great but can't take more than 25 consecutive minutes so it's taken me this long to get through it all)
toshimaru nakamura / sachiko m - do
maggi payne - electronic works 1976-1981
tim story - in another country
cameroon - baka pygmy music
arcane device - trout
survival research labs @ extreme futurist festival 2012 (or, one 158 Hz tone @ 140 dB occasionally punctuated by transients from the concussion cannon)

<3 baka pygmies

fred durst needs to get some pygmies involved

vatican shadow, lot of, obviously
listzt's schubert transcriptions (hamelin)
this is happening
untilted
silent servant
lee gamble
shostakovich #7 (mravinsky)

bob dylan - tempest (gaargh! his voice!)

Noisy, innit? Like it, actually - he seems one of the few from the 60s who really kept going.

Beginning to make it my way through the stuff in the Funkystepz thread. D/l my favourites from the ILX top 100 dance/electronic from the 00s poll.

Classical-wise.

A few works by Michael Finnissy - he is one of my favourite composers but I just feel I'm scraping the surface - such savegery on 'ouraa' from '83, even when it settles it doesn't let go fr a sec - more of a way of playing w/extremes of contrast that would come across as desperation from almost anyone else. Re-frames the meaning of intensity.

Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf - 'succolarity' for flute. Play this alongside Hubler's 'Palimpsest'. Mahnkopf comes across as a hack.

Stew on the stove, enjoying some atmospheric EPs
Audision - Up & Away
Burial - Street Halo
Red Stars Over Tokyo - Hits of Sunshine

A few works by Mathias Spahlinger. If you like concrete intrumentale as per Lachenmann then its sometimes like it but he has a knack for not being as straghtforward when you're boxing him into a corner. One piece is for pots and pans...an American would be all playful but this is all incredible serious so he places a piano - no entended techniques as far as I can tell - in the middle. But not Beethoven in the middle of modernism.

'Gegen unendlich' has a section which veers on the middlebrow at times.

Easier to tell what it is not.

Lachenmann - Musik Mit Leonardo

Chaya Czernowin - Lovesong for emsemble, quite a lot drumroll type percussion. V good, tick.

Still skimming a lot of ILM EOY nominations. Checking out Phenomenal Handclap Band right now and into it so far.

In the evening (generally, anyway) I'm finally getting hands on about sorting through the Oum Kalthoum tracks on Spotify. I am working on building a playlist of every unique Oum Kalthoum recording on Spotify. Some appear in Spotify just once, some are on there several times, without much rhyme or reason (though there's some connection to how popular some of them are). I am not going to listen to every second of every track, but I'm trying to pick out the copies with the best sound quality. This could take months.

Today/Tonight...
Karma to Burn- Wild Wonderful Purgatory
Shrinebuilder- s/t
Blue Oyster Cult- Spectres
Cheap Trick - s/t
Judas Priest- Screaming for Vengeance (right now)

v/a - nonesuch explorer: kenya & tanzania
eliane radigue - e=a=b=a+b
apogee & perigee - chojiku colodustan ryokoki
vatican shadow - ghosts of chechnya
bvdub - serenity
andré boucourechliev - les archipels
karl amadeus hartmann - syms 1 & 3 (rieger/bavarian rso)

johannes welsch - sound creation (a deep listening journey through the gong)
tod dockstader - electronic vol. 1 (mordant music reissue of 1979 boosey & hawkes library music)
decembral hymnal 2: deep night (spotify playlist w/ derek bailey, fred frith, david toop, harry partch, chinese/mongolian folk music)

the liars album that came out this year
jessie ware
yo la tengo - i am not afraid of you and will bate the face offa ya yada yada yada
sonic youth - dirty