what are you listening to 2012

Stew on the stove, enjoying some atmospheric EPs
Audision - Up & Away
Burial - Street Halo
Red Stars Over Tokyo - Hits of Sunshine

A few works by Mathias Spahlinger. If you like concrete intrumentale as per Lachenmann then its sometimes like it but he has a knack for not being as straghtforward when you're boxing him into a corner. One piece is for pots and pans...an American would be all playful but this is all incredible serious so he places a piano - no entended techniques as far as I can tell - in the middle. But not Beethoven in the middle of modernism.

'Gegen unendlich' has a section which veers on the middlebrow at times.

Easier to tell what it is not.

Lachenmann - Musik Mit Leonardo

Chaya Czernowin - Lovesong for emsemble, quite a lot drumroll type percussion. V good, tick.

Still skimming a lot of ILM EOY nominations. Checking out Phenomenal Handclap Band right now and into it so far.

In the evening (generally, anyway) I'm finally getting hands on about sorting through the Oum Kalthoum tracks on Spotify. I am working on building a playlist of every unique Oum Kalthoum recording on Spotify. Some appear in Spotify just once, some are on there several times, without much rhyme or reason (though there's some connection to how popular some of them are). I am not going to listen to every second of every track, but I'm trying to pick out the copies with the best sound quality. This could take months.

Today/Tonight...
Karma to Burn- Wild Wonderful Purgatory
Shrinebuilder- s/t
Blue Oyster Cult- Spectres
Cheap Trick - s/t
Judas Priest- Screaming for Vengeance (right now)

v/a - nonesuch explorer: kenya & tanzania
eliane radigue - e=a=b=a+b
apogee & perigee - chojiku colodustan ryokoki
vatican shadow - ghosts of chechnya
bvdub - serenity
andré boucourechliev - les archipels
karl amadeus hartmann - syms 1 & 3 (rieger/bavarian rso)

johannes welsch - sound creation (a deep listening journey through the gong)
tod dockstader - electronic vol. 1 (mordant music reissue of 1979 boosey & hawkes library music)
decembral hymnal 2: deep night (spotify playlist w/ derek bailey, fred frith, david toop, harry partch, chinese/mongolian folk music)

the liars album that came out this year
jessie ware
yo la tengo - i am not afraid of you and will bate the face offa ya yada yada yada
sonic youth - dirty