what are you listening to 2012

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)