Whatcha listening to?

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.

About as similar as a Peter Brotzmann joint and Caspar Brotzmann's Massaker, I guess.

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

I haven't heard the Braxton album, but I would imagine not.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14564305

i've been listening to this animal collective live on NPR podcast. you can hear two new songs that pwn at

18:00, "House"
59:00, "Daily Routine"

also, the version of "Leaf House" that starts at 1:24:30 is, like, the best thing ever. well, it was when i saw them live last week. acoustics here don't do it justice.

1:32:45 is nice version of "#1" aka the best song on strawberry jam.

Alvin Lee Saguitar (Rainman, 2007)
Bill Nelson The Two-Fold Aspect of Everything (Enigma, 1989; rec. 1980-1984)
Amanda Shaw Pretty Runs Out (Rounder, 2008*)
Xasthur Defective Epitaph (Hydra Head, 2007)
Zs Arms (Planaria, 2007)

* - This is true! I already have a favorite album of next year!

A 16-track Nazareth comp. (has t'cover of "This Flight Tonight", does fly)

sorcery - till death do we part
ainigma - diluvium
maeror tri - the singles
sword heaven - entrance
ash ra tempel - schwingungen/seven up
birchville cat motel - lion of eight thousand generations
simply saucer - cyborgs revisited

oh, and the infest bootleg cd with their 12" and 7"s, demos, etc.

Miles Davis, The Cmplete On the Corner Sessions

Ween - Chocolate and Cheese
Working For a Nuclear Free City - Business Men & Ghosts
!!! - Myth Takes
Jesu - Conqueror

- New Miles On The Corner box
- Thrillpillow, "Buffalo." I wish I could get it out of my head, but I just can't.

nothing 'cause i'm in class, w00t.

most recently: Tori Amos - To Venus and Back

Astrobotnia - Pt. 1
Trelldom - Til Minne...

Wolf. Am. Mozart --Clarinet Concerto in A major (KV 622) & Serenade in B flat major (Gran Partita) (KV 361), performed by Toomas Vavilov & ERSO

& Bruce Haack; Savina Yannatou; Emily Haines

Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children just now.

Ween - Pure Guava
Ween - Shinola, Vol. 1
Field Music - Tones of Town

Henrik Schwarz Live

Robert Plant / Alison Krauss - Raising Sand

How's that album? It was on display in every recordstore I visited yesterday evening (well, except for the 'world-music'store).

Sounds great so far--I'm a little more than half-way through it!

Check out this thread if you're interested:

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Raising Sand

Thanks, will investigate. Never cared much for Krauss but the sheer enthousiasm of that thread really makes me want to check this album.

Talk Talk - London 1986

b.w. stevenson - lead free

http://lonestarmusic.com/artist_images/bwpic.jpg

beck - "the information". i can't make my mind up. i really like 'elevator music', 'cellphone's dead' etc, but then he just drops in things like "strange apparition" and it's just really really... bad.

http://www.oldhandbills.com/images/060915-Albert/Robert_Hunter-Tales_of_the_Great_Rum_Runners-Card.jpg

scott, i need everything you've got on b.w. stevenson.

i only own lead free. i dig it. he had a nice voice. you can buy twofer CDs of his stuff:

http://www.oldies.com/i/boxart/large/28/090431286623.jpg

he had great hats.

is it like raw, stripped-down stuff or lots of strings/orchestration?

it's pretty plush. no strings (i don't think), but pretty singer-songwritery. and then some of it is more straight up country pop stuff. larry carlton on acoustic guitar! red rhodes is on there. it's not ultra-slick, but it's a pro band. i wouldn't think it would be your kind of thing? but maybe it is.

this is my fave find of the week so far:

http://popsike.com/pix/20060131/4829292847.jpg

curt newbury on verve forecast. some awesome psych/folk numbers on there.

Various Artists - I'm Not There Original Soundtrack
Britney Spears - Blackout
Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future

James Blood Ulmer's (guitar, flute)
&
Kevin Breit's (gtr, banjo, mandolin) half-hour solo slots on TV.
With a few comments from the musicians themselves in between playing. Very fine. Cyro Baptista's and particularly Lee Konitz's little gigs in the same series were rgeat also.

Paul Bley - Barrage

Paul Bley's Barrage -from what time is it?

1964. Features Milford Graves, Eddie Gomez, Dewey Johnson, Marshall Allen. Great album.

Uh-uh: judging by that line-up, should be greatness to it alright.

Also it has "Ida Lupino" on it.

"The interplay with Gomez is really the key to the set, and on "Ictus" and "Walking Woman" - the two best tracks - a trio performance would have been preferred" -- sayeth the late Richard Cook and/or Brian Morton in their Penguin Guide To Jazz Recordings.

Haven't heard anything from it myself, alas. Actually the only Paul Bley I have is 1970's Paul Bley with Gary Peacock.

Yeah, I kind of agree that the horns are not as enjoyable as the piano/bass/drums.

I have a trio record from several years ago with Peacock and Motian called "Not Two, Not One." It's on ECM. The sound quality is incredible, and a few of the tracks are stellar. None of it is bad.

I also have Jimmy Giuffre - Free Fall, which I find kind of hard to listen to.

Free Fall I have listened to a few times, a friend has it on CD. Well, a couple of pieces I found really good (nope, no titles does memory hold any more), yet overall... Hah, The Jimmy Giuffre 3 from 1956-57, for instance, certainly is a much smoother listen - but it has no Paul Bley :)

That Bley feature in The Wire a coupla issues back was a good read.

I LOVE that Paul Bley record. Barrage, that is. His other ESP record is some of my favorite piano trio stuff this side of (gasp) bill evans.

listening to these jimjam:
mad river "paradise bar & grill"
richard & linda thompson "bright lights" & "pour down like silver"
v/a - kodiya city council (late sixties to early 70s african stuff in a wide variety of styles)
ken lauber - awakening view
wendell harrison - an evening with the devil
goodnight loving - crooked lake
both bobb trimble reissues
kaleidoscope - tangerine dream
psychedelic horseshit - magic flowers droned
magik markers - boss
music of the waswahili of lamu, kenya vol 3: secular music (this has maybe become my favorite record on folkways.)

why gasp at Bill Evans?

Also I have a weird fondness for the super-inside Giuffre 3 stuff with Jim Hall. It's so... swingin'