Whatcha listening to?

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'

oh, and the new richard youngs is good. it's annoying the comparison to animal collective in the promo blurb that gets repeated everywhere, because it's really nowhere near as manic/bubbly/annoying as they can be. it's much prettier.

xp
because he is so often derided/ignored/misunderstood by (x or y group of people i associate with) as boring dentist office musics.

well fuck those people with a dental drill

the other esp bley is "closer" with barry altschul and steve swallow. it's amazing, as is the soul note "memoirs" with charlie haden and paul motian.

tim berne/michael formanek - ornery people
cline/parkins/rainey - downpour
science friction - sublime and
david torn - prezens
harvey milk - the pleaser

Electronic s/t

(for the first time ever, as luck would have it)

Oh wait, sorry, Ida Lupino is from Closer - I had both up in my iTunes.

as is the soul note "memoirs" with charlie haden and paul motian.

^^
OTM. i picked this up for $3 the same day I picked up Carla Bley's "Musique Mecanique" which is also just fabulous--Roswell Rudd vocals on "At Midnight" are colossal.

And now for something somewhat different-

Hei-hoo, just saw for the first time the video of Paul Maccasir's "Ever Present Past". 'Ey, that was a fun 'un:)

clockcleaner- babylon rules
chromeo- fancy footwork
ghostface- pretty toney album
jens lekman- night falls over kortedala

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51F1Fvo8DGL._AA240_.jpg

(it's not very good thus far)

Moby Grape

gay pidognins mateing

the new crescent, little waves. surprisingly straightforward and folky.

Chromatics - Shining Violence 12"
Happy Mondays - Hallelujah 12"

Ghost - Snuffbox Immanence
Dog Faced Hermans - Mental Blocks for All Ages
Henry Paul Band - Anytime
Focus - Hocus Pocus
Baby Grandmothers
And an album by the Scorpions drummer Herman Ze German. Has a track a called ROCK YOUR BALLS

http://www.blackmetal.com/scans0406/herman_zegerman.jpg

C.C.C.C. ~ Early Works

Rita Lee, 3001
Happy Mondays, The Platinum Collection
Rufus Wainwright, Poses

Victory Acres/Joke Flowers LP, with a guy from the Feederz, some Meat Puppets, Charles Gocher, and a Mighty Sphincter dude.

Who were/are the Mighty Sphincters??

most recently (last night), Pet Shop Boys, Behavior

After digging out the GRLZ compilation of female-fronted postpunk on Crippled Dick Hot Wax again, listening to Nicolle Meyer's "Nowhere By Mir" pretty much nonstop. Fantastic song by an interesting lady- a brief life story is up on the GRLZ release page at Crippled Dick; other than that I can't find too much about her.

The Max Roach Trio featuring the Legendary Hasaan (1965)
&
Max Roach, Drums Unlimited
&
Joni Mitchell, The Hissing of Summer Lawns

("i love these musics!")

The Photon Band— Back Down to Earth
Baby Dee
Tuxedo Moon's new one

john coltrane plays the blues - actually one of my fave coltrane albums -- not as single-minded as its title suggests ...
also, bootlegs of tom verlaine's most recent US tour ...

Wisin y Yandel's new one.

"Sexy Movimiento." Woo.

I haven't posted here in a good while. Backlog:

The Avalanches, Since I Left You
Massive Attack, Blue Lines
Missy Elliott, So Addictive
Ginuwine, The Bachelor
D'Angelo, Voodoo
Prince & the Revolution, 1999
Daddy Yankee, El Cartel: The Big Boss
Sade, Lovers Rock
Girl Talk, Night Ripper
Simian Mobile Disco, Attack Decay Sustain Release
N.W.A, Straight Outta Compton
A Tribe Called Quest, Midnight Marauders
Prince, Sign 'O' the Times
Tropicalia: A Brazilian Revolution in Sound
Prince & the Revolution, Purple Rain
John Legend, Once Again
UGK, Ridin' Dirty
Dizzee Rascal, Maths + English
Aaliyah
Swizz Beatz, One Man Band Man
The Rapture, Echoes
Bjork, Debut
Kanye West, Graduation

Caetano Veloso, Ce (just guitar, bass, drums & voice, with some keyboards; good stuff also, but - a damn long record, uh)
Deela, Mano Mano (occasionally a bit Mano Chao-ish ...mostly not at all, though:)
Rita Lee, Bossa'n Beatles (darn, most of these really are good covers)
Phillip Bimstein, Garland Hirschi's Cows (actually I enjoy "Vox=Dominum" and "The Door" from this collection even somewhat more than "Cows")
Harry Nilsson, Harry /Nilsson Sings Newman (my first ever Nilsson CD, and boy am I thrilled and satisfied, wheeeeeeeeeeew)

lots of Swans/Michael Gira/Angels of Light (New Mother esp. is fantastic)
Six Organs of Admittance, Dust and Chimes
Om's three albums
Growing, Vision Swim
Stereolab, Dots and Loops
Aphex Twin, Drukqs
Burial, s/t
SND, Makesnd Cassette
Ryuichi Sakamoto, Left-Handed Dream

Dethklok, The Dethalbum

Deutsch Nepal - Sombrero LP

Ace German (post?) punk from 1980. No relation to the other Deutsch Nepal, I presume.

Hatebreed

Blackbeard's I Wah Dub, which I got from Amazon for $3.60. The price is still that low if anyone else wants to snatch it up; it's not as good as Strictly Dub Wise but it's still pretty wonderful. And: so cheap! I don't know why!

Hector Lavoe - Hector Lavoe Strikes Back
Andy Harlow - La Musica Brava

my brother crapping his pants

The Max Roach Trio featuring the Legendary Hasaan (1965)
&
Max Roach, Drums Unlimited
&
Joni Mitchell, The Hissing of Summer Lawns

("i love these musics!")

-- t**t, Thursday, November 8, 2007 1:39 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Link

All three of these are so fucking good.

black fucking sabbath

The Long Blondes - Someone to Drive You Home