what are you listening to 2012

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