what are you listening to 2012

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