what are you listening to 2012

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)