Whatcha listening to?

It's alright. The back half drags. "Heart of Hearts" is probably one of my top twenty singles of the year, though.

Why have I listened to this Timbaland/OneRepublic track three times in a row?!?!?!

Eluvium - Copia
Erik Friedlander - Block Ice & Propane
Gonzales - Solo Piano
Henry Mancini - Charade

Strategy - Future Rock (Kranky)

One of my records of the year...defo

Eluvium - Copia
Erik Friedlander - Block Ice & Propane
Gonzales - Solo Piano
Henry Mancini - Charade

I love Eluvium, I didn't realize he had a new record out. What's Erik Friedlander?

If you're into Gonzales you should definitely check out Hauschka, Erik Satie, Swod and Goldmund.

Erik Friedlander's a contemporary cellist. He's worked on some interesting collabs with Sylvie Courvoisier ("Abaton") and more recently with Teho Teardo on an album based on Pasolini. Not crazy about his solo stuff, though.

(He's also worked on hundreds of other collabs which I haven't necessarily found interesting enough to mention)

Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (that's more like it)

Frank Bridge - String Quartet No. 1

Awesome.

Yeah Friedlander's a cellist, I discovered him through his work on Zorn's Masada String Trio stuff (which is also totally great). His first solo record is called Maldorer and it's awesome. He's interesting to me in that he sees the cello as an instrument that can be used for something other than just making you weep. His newest solo disc is the above mentioned Block Ice & Propane and he's mostly finger-picking the cello and kind of approaching American roots music with it. It's a really different sound for the cello, not so much moody as joyful, and I'd really, really recommend it if that sounds like it'd push your buttons.

Oh! And I just learned that apparently the new iPhone ad campaign is using a track off this record too. So look for that, I guess!

J0hn D. might also have some nice things to say about the guy as well.

John Kongos, Lavender Popcorn 1966-1969
Joni Mitchell, Blue
Joni Mitchell, Clouds
Joni Mitchell, Turbulent Indigo

The Korps - Hello World!
Keats Rides a Harley
Budgie - Bandolier
Christmas with Chet Atkins
Free Design - Kites Are Fun
Rain Parade - Emergency Third Rail Power Trip
Frank Gambale - A Present for the Future... (but my gf made me quit it after half a track)

smiling & waving, that 2001 anja garbarek. initially was just gonna check-recheck a couple of songs, but - now i'm listening to it for a secord spin in a row. good record, dammit. and i still like her original "stay tuned" better than wyatt's cover vershion.

Paul Hindemith - Kammermusik Nos. 1-7 (R. Chailly, cond.)
Boredoms - Super Roots 3
Van Morrison - Moondance
Nellie McKay - Obligatory Villagers

Mars Everywhere - <a href="http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html";><i>Industrial Sabotage</i></a>

(Old lost space rock album I've been hoping would be reissued for a while now, but <a href="http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html";>here's</a> a vinyl rip.)

Sigh. Anyway. . .

(Not sure how the semi-colon got in there either.)

"Enchanted Domain" is my favorite.

Bjork, Volta
Calle 13, Residente o Visitante
Camp Lo, Black Hollywood
Charlotte Hatherley, The Deep Blue
Chromeo, Fancy Footwork
Consequence, Don't Quit Your Day Job!

Stravinsky - Petrushka
Tarentel - Ghetto Beats on the Surface of the Sun
Henrix - Electric Ladyland

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Bettye LaVette, I've Got My Own Hell to Raise
Nick Drake, Pink Moon

Thanks for the Friedlander info, is there any definitive CD I should pick up?

Jennifer Gentle - valende

Mars Everywhere - Industrial Sabotage

(Old lost space rock album I've been hoping would be reissued for a while now, but here's a vinyl rip.)

Fixed. That blog looks great.

Fixed. That blog looks great.

Thanks, I was too lazy. I don't think I've seen that blog before, but it does look really good and I'm going to want to spend some time sifting through it.

Opium Flirt, Tehislend (their first "real cd" release, at last)
Zwan, Mary Star of the Sea
UFO, The Best of UFO (those olden rockerers)
Michael Jackson, Off The Wall (yeh, when he was, like, really good)

Songs of the Humpback Whale, which is even better than I was hoping.

brocas helm black death

maybe some orion's beethoven in a minute.

Ra Can Row. More late 70/early 80s space rock heard long ago and rediscoverd on the Mutant Sounds blog. So far, their noodling isn't as satisfying as Mars Everywhere's.

les savy fav 3/5

Is that your rating or the title of their concept album about the compromise of the same name?

I just realized that was a completely failed joke. Please strike from the record.

Dear t**t,

It is Zwan who needs to be excused, not Michael Jackson.

Your homeboy,
The Rev

A Dutch Feast... The Complete Works Of Balthasar Gerards Kommando

the new high on fire, after listening to blessed black wings.

Jimmy Scott; The Mountain Goats ("Idylls of the King" & "Peacocks" me loves); a Bollywood comp of mostly 1950s divas;
Steve Lacy - Roswell Rudd Quartet; Wings's Wild Life;
Hall Willner's Oops!; It's De Lovely: The authentic Cole Porter Collection

P.S.
Dear The Reverend,
Evidently, and rather naturally, my command of this foreign language ain't as nuanced and precice as I'd really like it to be. But I'm trying my best, mostly. Anyway, I'd love to make it clear that whatever and however I wrote in one (or is it two?) of them brackets upthread, next to Off The Wall, "excuse" that was not.
With warmestest overseas regards,
T'

(Oops! Willner ist Hal_, still:)

And Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out, Yo La Tengo. I got it for 3 quid in Fopp today, it's nice enough but I prefer it when they're a bit more energetic.
And Gyrate Plus, Pylon, which is really a polar opposite of And Nothing.., I suppose.

R.E.M., Monster
After catching that little bit of "Kenneth" on a late-night TV rerun of an olden Friends sequence. Monsters's good. And so was Friends.

Don Cherry, Symphony For Improvisors
Some passages here me loves mad crazy. With some others, must try more. (Four spins today obviously weren't enough)

Bruckner Mass In E Minor/Motets

today:

Radiohead - Kid A - forgot how good this was - sorry In Rainbows doesn't touch this or OKC ...
Thin White Rope - Moonhead
XTC - Beeswax-Some B-sides 77-82
The Clientele - God Save the Clientele
Baroness - Red Album
Q and Not U - Different Damage
Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Six Organs of Admittance - dark noontide
Neil Young - Everyone Knows this Is nowhere
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
German Oak - jeez these guys were on something

Thanks for the Friedlander info, is there any definitive CD I should pick up?

His new one, Block Ice & Propane is really, really good.

A Proper Introduction to Johnny Guitar Watson (has "Space Guitar", does travel)
Joni Mitchell, Miles of Aisles
Joni Mitchell, Shadows and Light

Battles - Mirrored
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
Anthony Braxton - Quartet (London) 1985

Braxton family values.

Hmm, yeah, I just noticed that too. That was purely coincidence, I think.

In any case, they don't sound anything alike.