Whatcha listening to?

"Povo que lavas no rio" --- Amália Rodrigues

(Rockist Scientist, have you heard this?)

Christian Fennesz/Ryuichi Sakamoto - Cendre
Glenn Gould - The Goldberg Variations (1955)
Handsome Furs - Plague Park
Thomas Fehlmann - Honigpumpe
Depeche Mode - Violator

My Teenage Stride - Ears Like Golden Bats
The Pin Group - Siltbreeze compilation
Dizzee Rascal - Maths + English
Part Chimp - Cup

The Dizzee "Bugsy Malone" track is really making me smile...not sure I'd want to hear it in heavy rotation on the radio or anything; luckily that's not likely to be a problem. Modern day Sonic Youth holdouts would do well to change allegiance to Part Chimp, at least on the basis of current output.

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insight from les bains douches. and now shadowplay. god i'd like to have that energy now! where did it go?

The Great Concert of Charles Mingus

Basil Kirchin, Abstractions of the Industrial North
Homosexuals, Astral Glamour

Keith Jarrett - Spheres
Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun

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Turangalila, not that I know of, but I don't really listen to much Brazilian music. (Isn't she Brazilian?) Not that I don't like some of it, but it doesn't make up a big part of my diet.

Nope, Portuguese. Just strikes me as someone whose singing you might dig.

Paraguay/ Guarani Songs & Dances (Nonesuch, 1968)
Peru/ Fiestas: Music of the High Andes (Nonesuch, 1972)
Over the Edge and Back: The Best of Mickey Hart (would 've liked if it'd been more "over the edge", really, but it's in parts quite pleasant nevertheless)
Live @ the Clubhouse, Tom Tom Club

insight from les bains douches. and now shadowplay. god i'd like to have that energy now! where did it go?

if you can still sense it, it may still be around..

this morning:
The Earlies - Morning Chorus (somewhat less subliminal than their first full-length, on first listen. still nice tho)
Liars - s/t (like it a lot. there's much space in the music)

err, Earlies album's called The Enemy Chorus..

Circus Lupus - Solid Brass
Clinic - Visitations
Corrosion Of Conformity - Animosity

Turangalila, oh right, her. I've never heard anything by her that really lived up to her legendary status, but it's possible I haven't heard the right things. (I've primarily heard one greatest hits type compilation.)

Red Harvest - A Greater Darkness
Nadja - Touched (re-issue)
Sunn0))) - oracle
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb

Happy Summer music:
Part Timer
Caribou - Andonna
Mammatus - The Coast Explodes

today:

Can - Future Days
Wzt Hearts
Depeche Mode
Eric B. & Rakim
Oval
Can - Soundtracks
Burnt Friedman / Jaki - Secret Rhythms

the band - stage fright
delaney & bonnie - home
wu-tang - iron flag

John Cage - Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

It feels strangely inappropriate right now, like it'd be better for an icy winter day.

Muddy Waters, His Best, 1947 to 1955
Kraftwerk, Computer World and Electric Cafe
Trans Am, Sex Change

BOAT - let's drag our feet
Fog - Ditherer
Merzbow - Merzbear

right now i just can't get enough of Funkadelic and relations - Let's take it to the Stage, The Cinderella Theory, Electric Spanking of War Babies, Funkentelechy, One nation...., Hardcore Jollies, Motor Booty Affair, Maggot Brain, etc.

Paul Bley Trio - Closer

I will always love Carla Bley for writing Ida Lupino

Today I've got:

Government Issue - Complete History #2
Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill
Fontella Bass - The New Look
Iggy Pop - Soldier
Generation X - s/t

But now outdoor miner's post is making me wonder if there's any Funkadelic or Parliament on my laptop...

Pink Fairies - Kingdom of Oblivion
Gene Clark - White Heat
Wiper Box Set
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Chet Atkins - Hometown Guitar
Fonotone Box Set

Alos, and in my head, constantly, is this snippet of the soundtrack to the Richard Harrison ninja movie SCORPION THUNDERBOLT, which a friend of mine kindly identified as Oxygene 4. Jean Michel Jarre ninja soundtracks!! It's a great track, too.

Willie Nelson, Red Headed Stranger (does sound kinda good but gotta listen more to this mutha)
Various, Glass Onion: Songs of The Beatles ("from the Atlantic and Warner jazz vaults" -- hmm, some versions aren't half bad)
Carlos Nunez, Un Galicien en Bretagne
Carmen Miranda, South American Way: Original Recordings 1939-1945

Whatever it is, it's horrendous.

How is it that the combination of stiff four-four beats, shrill guitars and whiny singing has not gone the way of the dixieland band by now?

Michael Mantler, Review (the 1968-2000 comp. on ECM)
Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico, Terra Nostra, 2003 (beautiful stuff; she's a very good singer and the band's tops too)

I Am The Resurrection: A Tribute to John Fahey (Vanguard, 2006)
Revenge of Blind Joe Death: The John Fahey Tribute Album (Concord, 2006)
Of these two, the former sounds more interesting. The latter has a Nels Cline/ Elliott Sharp duo, tho.

yesterday/today:

John Fahey - Vanguard Visionairies cheap-o comp
Gui Boratto - Chromophobia
Robert Pollard - Fiction Man
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna...
Field Music - Tones of Town

Can - Delay 1968
Chris Kenner - Land Of A Thousand Dances (original version of that song, I think)
Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh (awesome death metal)
Enemy - Last But Not Least (mostly live 2nd album by UK82 punks, studio songs suck, can see why this one wasn't reissued when their 1st - Gateway To Hell - was)

anything by the Band
Sly & The Family Stone -- There's a Riot Goin' On
Muddy Waters -- Woodstock Album
Donato -- A Bad Donato

Turzi.

Gogol Bordello, Art Brut, White Stripes, Os Mutantes, Glenn Mercer.

Janet Jackson - Janet
Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation 1814
Frank Sinatra - September of My Years
Beyonce - B'Day
Wu-Tang Clan - Iron Flag
Os Mutantes - Everything Is Possible: The Best of Os Mutantes
Nas - Illmatic
The Pack - Skateboards 2 Scrapers EP

Asilvsga
VNV Nation
Hop-Frog's Fatwa

past few days:

Beach Boys - Surf's Up
Janacek - Kata Kabanova
Pretty Things - SF Sorrow
Neil Young - Dead Man
Alexander 'Skip' Spence - OAR
Wagner - Die Walkure

today

Hieroglyphics - 3rd Eye Vision
Nina Simone - Legends
Justin Timberlake - FS/LS
Scientist Wins the World Cup - Scientist
Joy Division - Closer
Soft Machine - 5

whoa. i finally burned a CD-R of gene clark's NO Other after letting it sit on my comp for about six months.

HOLY.

QOTSA - Era Vulgaris
WS - Icky Thump
Burial - Burial
Tord Gustavsen Trio - The Ground
Television - Marquee Moon
Carpel Square - This is a Movie

UNKLE - War Stories
its very good if you like that sort of thing, which i do.
and i feel kind of weird how after 3 albums i would prefer to listen to new UNKLE album a lot more than anything by DJ Shadow ..

Jesu - s/t (this is amazing, I'd only heard Silver before which I thought was just OK. Now I'm going to have to look for the new one)

Queen, Hot Space (this's much better than I remembered)
Wigwam, Titans Wheel (from 2002, huh! I didn't even kno' they'd put out anything as recent... ...mm, doesn't sound that good, though)
Nona Hendryx, Rough & Tough (after all teh Betty Davis talk, thought I'd give this a try, too)

I bought a library copy of Hot Space a few years ago - love it quite a bit.
I remember seeing Nona Hendryx open for Bowie on his Glass Spider Tour, how's that album? Speaking of the Glass Spider Tour, anyone here seen/listened to the DVD+CD that just came out? Prob not...

This Rough & Tough cd of Hendryx's is, essentially, all the songs from her Female Trouble alb - the track sequence is messed up, though -- with added "Funkyland" and two remixes (of "Baby Go-Go" and "Why Should I Cry").

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Tito Puente - Para Los Rumberos
a weird "Best of Scott LaFaro" comp that was on emusic
Mal Waldron - The Quest

Oh yeah, and Anton Karas's Third Man theme over and over again. So awesome.

Various, In Love With These Times: A Flying Nun Compilation (from 1986-88, starts wid Teh Chills & ends wid Teh Dead C., that sort of thing)
Mathilde Santing, Sings Randy Newman: Texas Girl and Pretty Boy (I rather like her take on Newmanisms ...which ain't too dissimilar, methinks, from the, mm, tone and mood of the next record)
Rickie Lee Jones, Pop Pop

Rufus Wainwright, Poses and Rufus Wainwright (the Poses are perfectly fine with me, whereas the self-titled platter keeps spinning, vocally speaking, too damn often in some sorta Radiohead-space ...or timbre-land, or samthung)

Various, Bird Up: The Charlie Parker Remix Project (Savoy Jazz, 2003) Before I stumbled upon this, recently, thanks to some net sale, I hadn't even heard of such "project". Now, approx halfway through for a first time - Red Hawk, Me'shell, Hal Willner & Co, Serj Tankian, Donk, Choco and RZA, Dan The automator, Rob Swift & X-cutioners behind me; and Matthew Backer, El-P ahead - I'm reasonably content I got it.

I found that In Love With These Times in a charity shop a few years ago, good stuff.

I'm stuck at work til god knows when, but at least I have beer. And AC/DC.