What Are You Listening to? 2020

It's still worth hearing more than once, duh, but was barely in Voice range at the time, so I was meant to persuade with tourist appeal, and of course at home I'm a tourist, now more than ever.
Only way I got in there was with Toop's Haunted Weather, which incl. some then-rising stara of the artronic margins (names just to drop at the door, because of word limit:
Avantricity's freebirds (Matmos, Autechre, Fennesz, many more) ride the
soundtrack of David Toop's new book, Haunted Weather: Music, Silence, and Memory.
Right channel clusters, left one cloisters, then they hook up, passing through
each other. In time as well as space, when (b) connects with (a) and (x). Disc
2 is mostly ghostly instruments; Disc 1 is more: for inst., the singing
fry and fray of Alvin Lucier's "Sferics." ("Natural radio-frequency emissions
in the ionosphere, radiated from nearby or distant lightning," Toop notes.)
One Weatherbird's ambushed by street sounds, but they're countered by
visionary description; violence gets safely aestheticized. The artist as museum
guard? Where is she later, when I hear a shovel blade in oily gravel, too near a
hypnotic/hypnotized-sounding muezzin? Good book too.

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Yow, that Toop CD is extremely expensive on Amazon US now, maybe uploaded somewhere.

fuck Amazon, $20 on Discogs even w/European shipping

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Awright!

Really impressed so far!
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RLW again: "Störungen"
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Is there a Tool compiled 2cd per each of his books? Ocurred to me a couple of weeks back that I'd lost track of the books after reading a couple in the 90s.
Also picked up a couple of his compiled cds in I think the Virginia Ambient series that I think Kevin Martin was also compiling for.
Just being further reminded of that by talk of Haunted Weather

That was Toop compiled cds until autocorrect had its wicked way.

neil campbell goes tiki?
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You and xyzzzz are on a classicks roll, smoking gold, roll on.

lol, kinda. Actually making my way through the albs -- whereas before I just heard the odd classic track while wondering about or somesuch. Finding Zep a lot of drudgery tbh, enjoying Sabbath a lot more.

But its more like filling in gaps - Pere Ubu beyond Dub Housing. The Fall is re-listening but also had never heard this or that rec from their 'classic' period. 20 Jazz Funk Greats was savage stuff. Gaye and Mitchell were 1 and 2 in the RS best albs of all time.

RS Pantheon hype, but they still sound good.
xxxxpost Stevolende, I wish! But looks like Ocean of Sound is his only other book x listening companion so far...

i can hear the heart beating as one, for the millionth time

like a fine wine

oowee.
xyzzzz, what did you think of xxxxxxxxxxxxxxpost Van Halen's 1984? I've never heard a whole original VH album.

I used to love What's Going On in the cassette sony walkman era. Interesting that someone mentioned his lyrics are both socially conscious and also quite right-wing in the sense he isn't saying poor ppl can't pay their taxes, it's him getting his hard-earned $$$ raided by big state etc..

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Sun Ra - Unity (new on Bandcamp)

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xyzzzz, what did you think of xxxxxxxxxxxxxxpost Van Halen's 1984? I've never heard a whole original VH album.

― dow, Friday, 9 October 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Pretty boring beyond the couple of hits. Could've done something more with the keyboards.

I was gifted a Beatles 2012 stereo vinyl box so have been listening to that... really pumped up bass (at least on my system)

it’s a shame Marcelo Carlin took down most of his Then Play Long blog, some good Beatles entries there.

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I was prompted to dig this out by reading the feature on Szabo in the latest Ugly Things. Bought this a few years ago and should pay more attention to it.
Most groovesome jazz stuff by twin guitar small combo. Reworks a number of pop themes in a really great way.
I think I was first turned onto him by hearing the Insect Trust cover his Walking on Nails.
THis is a great pairing fro a couple of different live recordings.

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Antipodean mid 60s garage and psych. This was the 4th disc from the set and is more psych oriented for the most part.
Has some nice covers of UK and US tracks and more original stuff.
Pretty consistently good i think. I think that's true of the whole 6cd box but has been a while since i went through it.
I see there's a similar set of South African stuff reviewed in that UT I mention above and i heard teh SA sce3ne was supposed to be as savage as the Australian and Texan ones, not sure about the politics though but that is probably true of both of the locations I just mentioned too.

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working backwards through the 3cd set. THis was disc 2 for the last week.
So goes back to the mid 60s, he seems not to have been putting out singles much throughout most o fthe 60s. Not sure how self releasing things worked at the time, was it easier to release a full lp at a time?
Anyway some great stuff on here. He already had a sense of spaciousness on his mid 50s recordings and then it goes into some more doo woppy and r'n'b vocal stuff. Great, looking forward to finding out what the 50s releases are like on here. I should be familiar with taht stuff, had the previous Singles 2cd. But I Think I mainly concentrate on that deep space funk era of teh late 70s/early 80s when I listen to Ra. Do have some earlier stuff too though.

There were some single-disc or LP collections a long time ago. with tracks not on this or the previous round-up, supposedly. I still need to look for those. Yeah, this collection is incredible.
Now listening to Wussy's Ghosts:
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Odds and sods, appropriately for The Who influence that keeps coming back, even on campfire and laundromat songs here (guitars tend to push back against and through woolgathering words, some the vocal levels take getting used to, but yknow studio field recordings, with some odd little ambient sounds---Lisa Gardner's voice always comes right out, even on one of her damn Magic Numbers Radio Shack tracks, where she comes out just enough to pull me in, or close enough to see her slow spin, in the dryer, like.

She also rolls one of the most startling highlights among several: a cover of the Eddie Hinton-Donnie Fritts classy chestnut "Breakfast in Bed," a highlight of the all-highlights Dusty In Memphis, here with guitars from another part of theeeee 60s.

Sorry! Meant to incl. link, you can listen to the whole thing here:
https://wussy.bandcamp.com/album/ghosts
Although the tracks are in a different order in the promo file; play 'em as you please, of course.

Sabbath and Zep - vol4
PJ Harvey - Dry, Rid of Me
Siouxsie and The Banshees - The Scream
Tupac - All Eyez On Me
The Fall - Slates, The Wonderful and Frightening World.., Grotesque
Trick - PMT, Nearly God
Pere Ubu - The Art of Walking, Song of the Bailing Man
Incredible String Band - Wee Tam
Joni Mitchell - For the Roses
Massive Attack - Blue Lines

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^ Vibert, I take it? Under which project name?

Ah, Rhythm under his own name, got it

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gábor lázár - ils

I swear this gets so funky at times, like playing a slap bass that rotates around itself in some non-Euclidean space or something

inspired by the current ilx revive lovefest
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onward
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waking up with Crown Court & I'm Gonna Stab You

Revisiting New Zealand faves, and holy lord, Skeptics:

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That Pan Sonic album cover is cool.

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raw garage psych which first struck me as som ekind of Deniz Tek type Australian Stooges influenced stuff but also seems to add in Dead C level distorto rock stuff. Lo fi visceral noisy rock with what sounds like zero production. I wondered if the mono in the title was part of the aesthetic but its apparently fro vehicle suspension.
Anyway new Cardinal Fuzz reissue of an older compilation frpm like 16 years ago with a new cover

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2 long acoustic jams. I think the tunes change a few times. Quite interesting.
Another recent Cardinal Fuzz release.

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Live set from Walthamstow based folk rockers. Has a very nice version of the 13th Floor Elevators Splash 1 on.
Another recent Cardinal Fuzz release.
Need to catch up with these let things slide a bit over the summer.

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I've now got back to th e1st disc the earlier 50s stuff. Quite interesting but I think I prefer the other 2 discs overall. Has some good stuff on anyway.

Monoshock is great, I thought about selling Walk To The Fire recently, put it on, and within 5 minutes was like "oh yeah right" and put it back in the stacks.

yay Monoshock!