what are you listening to 2012

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

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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!

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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"