Currently enjoying Dust to Dust very much. Great interview, too.
I want a recommendation engine for 'wide open desert' music - stuff like Dust to Dust, the Hired Hand soundtrack, any Scott Tuma, Eyvind Kang's Live Low to the Ground...
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, March 18, 2017 12:39 PM
Those last three are the biggies, imo, assuming you probably already know the Paris, Texas soundtrack. Do you know a band called Padang Food Tigers? They definitely hit on this vibe quite a bit, despite being about as far from the desert landscape as you can get (UK, iirc). Also, there are a lot of people working this angle from a dronier / noisier angle, like pedal steel guitarist Chas Smith (not to be confused with drummer Ches Smith), William Fowler Collins, and probably a few others.
There are probably people who can direct you to the "right" Calexico records, too (there are instrumental albums that definitely touch on this style) but I'm not really well-versed enough to say
― Wimmels, Saturday, March 18, 2017 1:03 PM
Yes - love the Food Tigers! And, aye, definitely uk based. Paris, Texas is all-time. I'd forgotten Chas Smith. Santa Fe is a hell of a thing. Will check William Fowler Collins, for sure. Cheers.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, March 18, 2017 1:10 PM
I want a recommendation engine for 'wide open desert' music
See also:
Susan Alcorn - And i await the Resurrection (maybe not her best, but its what I have)Barn Owl - anyRy Cooder - Paris, Texas of course, also look for Trespass, Last Man Standing OSTsDead Texan - eponymous debutBruce Kaphan - Slider: Ambient Excursions for Pedal Steel GuitarLong Desert Cowboy - anyRainer (Ptacek) - Nocturnes
― Sanpaku, Saturday, March 18, 2017 11:14 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
if Live Low To The Earth In The Iron Age is part of this genre, I'm starting a thread
― sleeve, Saturday, March 18, 2017 11:19 PM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark
― sleeve, Sunday, 19 March 2017 06:21 (five months ago) Permalink
that Eyvind Kang record is one of my favorite things ever.
does Scenic fit in here? it's been a long tiem since I heard those records.
― sleeve, Sunday, 19 March 2017 06:22 (five months ago) Permalink
thanks in advance thread
― example (crüt), Sunday, 19 March 2017 06:30 (five months ago) Permalink
I forgot to mention the two Slim Westerns albums by A Small, Good, Thing (aka O Yuki Conjugate).
― Sanpaku, Sunday, 19 March 2017 06:48 (five months ago) Permalink
I think of Scenic as more western tinged instrumental rock. There's an omnipresent drum kit, which keeps it out of ambient territory.
― Sanpaku, Sunday, 19 March 2017 06:50 (five months ago) Permalink
Though they include a few songs, the two albums by Maggie Björklund (Coming Home (2010) and Shaken (2014)) may belong here, too.
― Sanpaku, Sunday, 19 March 2017 06:58 (five months ago) Permalink
most calexico, i think?friends of dean martinez
― mookieproof, Sunday, 19 March 2017 06:58 (five months ago) Permalink
thx for the A Small, Good, Thing recommendations, I am a big OYC fan and have always meant to check them out.
― sleeve, Sunday, 19 March 2017 07:04 (five months ago) Permalink
I feel like some specific Dirty Three tracks might fit in here as well, or Tren Brothers?
― sleeve, Sunday, 19 March 2017 07:05 (five months ago) Permalink
Funny somebody mentioning Scenic which I think was intentionally influenced by the local Arizona scenery.I always get images of the long range desert group driving landrovers across the sahara when listening to tracks from Jamahiriya by Licher's earlier Savage Republic. Which was my immediate response to the title question.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 19 March 2017 07:09 (five months ago) Permalink
The most recent Daniel Lanois album, Goodbye to Language - a whole album of droney pedal steel. My favorite album of 2016.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 19 March 2017 07:22 (five months ago) Permalink
surprised no one's mentioned earth this side of hex; or printing in the infernal method. or are they outside the boundaries?
― The sandwiches looked quite dank. (contenderizer), Sunday, 19 March 2017 07:56 (five months ago) Permalink
William Tyler?
― just sayin, Sunday, 19 March 2017 08:27 (five months ago) Permalink
earth - hex was my second thought
my first thought was the track 'despite the roar' by bardo pond
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Sunday, 19 March 2017 09:55 (five months ago) Permalink
black sun ensemble - the self-titled one on reckless with a goldfish flying thru space on the cover
― Benylin Ascent (NickB), Sunday, 19 March 2017 10:09 (five months ago) Permalink
Yeah was going to mention Mr Acedo and folks. 1st lp got a cd reissue a few years ago but not sure fi it's still around.I came in via Lambent Flame and wasn't sure what track was very deserty but since Acedo came from the desert region I think it is heavily reflected in the music.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 19 March 2017 10:14 (five months ago) Permalink
gosh lambent flame, that record was not kind to my ears. 2nd s/t is just lovely the whole way through
― Benylin Ascent (NickB), Sunday, 19 March 2017 10:17 (five months ago) Permalink
Neil Young's Dead Man soundtrack.
― MikoMcha, Sunday, 19 March 2017 11:07 (five months ago) Permalink
This is magnificent. A day imagining the loneliness, the wind a fibrous wall... I keep thinking of a line from the Monkey Wrench Gang: 'the desert eased his vague anger'.
I know vocals and drums wreck the spirit of this kind of stuff, but Whitewater by Kyuss is pure desert.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 19 March 2017 11:10 (five months ago) Permalink
I bought a Scenic record once just because of the impressive brown paper packaging. I didn't go back to the music inside very much though.
The Bruce Kaphan slide guitar thing sounds cool
― calstars, Sunday, 19 March 2017 11:17 (five months ago) Permalink
Probably goes without saying but the new Hired Hand tribute record on Scissor Tail is beautiful and is wide open space music all the way. It's on Spotify if that's your thing.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 19 March 2017 11:30 (five months ago) Permalink
african desert music (made by people who grew up in and live in deserts!) like BARGOU 08, TAMIKREST, TINARIWEN, and BOMBINO isn't half bad, either
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 19 March 2017 15:52 (five months ago) Permalink
Six Organs of Admittance (especially the albums The Sun Awakens and Shelter From the Ash)
― bernard snowy, Sunday, 19 March 2017 16:18 (five months ago) Permalink
Would including Gil Evans's arrangements be too much of a stretch? Sketches of Spain and parts of Out of the Cool and Indvidualism of... always evoke the desert for me.
Western Skies Motel are good at this stuff. Settlers from last year is great.
Cheers for the Slim Westerns recommendation.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 19 March 2017 16:25 (five months ago) Permalink
A couple other aesthetics that are distinct but related: I see Dead Texan has been mentioned already, but I want to put in a plug for "Sun Drugs" off the underrated Stars of the Lid release The Ballasted Orchestra, as it totally nails the feeling of laying in a wide-open field under a cloudless sky listening to the rumble of distant jet aircraft. Also, the recent GYBE album with the title beginning Asunder, Sweet... gives me a very strong out-of-the-blistering-midday-heat, into-the-cool-shade-of-the-suq vibe
― bernard snowy, Sunday, 19 March 2017 16:28 (five months ago) Permalink
Labradford - Mi Media Naranja
^ good twangy morricone vibes, but also twinkly electronics that make me think of satellites flying across a vast starry sky
― Benylin Ascent (NickB), Sunday, 19 March 2017 18:24 (five months ago) Permalink
^ a midway point between eno and morricone, a desert drifter looking up into the night sky and seeing twinkling satellites sailing across the vastness overhead
― Benylin Ascent (NickB), Sunday, 19 March 2017 18:32 (five months ago) Permalink
Lol fucking phone playing tricks on me
― Benylin Ascent (NickB), Sunday, 19 March 2017 18:33 (five months ago) Permalink
― example (crüt), Sunday, March 19, 2017 1:30 AM (twelve hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Sunday, 19 March 2017 18:34 (five months ago) Permalink
Should add for anyone who missed it on the Steve Roach thread that the Dust to Dust mentioned up top which started this is his collaborative album with Roger King:
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dust-to-dust
It is and remains one of my all time favorite albums.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 19 March 2017 18:36 (five months ago) Permalink
If people have mentioned Sketches of Spain the Grateful Dead's lift as Spanish Jam should also fit as should other of their stuff.
I was thinking bits of QMS too especially Calvary.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 19 March 2017 18:41 (five months ago) Permalink
oh yeah and on the QMS tip there are some longer Rangda pieces ("Plain Of Jars", "...Hermetic Museum") that fit in here, and Sun City Girls' Funeral Mariachi album (but not much else of theirs imo)
― sleeve, Sunday, 19 March 2017 19:09 (five months ago) Permalink
this thread was better when it was a little more specialized and not "this drone band used clean guitars and a slide once"
― Wimmels, Sunday, 19 March 2017 19:45 (five months ago) Permalink
ah yes the long 13hr lifespan of this thread
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Sunday, 19 March 2017 19:48 (five months ago) Permalink
Brokeback, Brokeback and the Black Rock
― Wozniak on Kimye's Baby (jaymc), Sunday, 19 March 2017 19:52 (five months ago) Permalink
― just sayin, Sunday, March 19, 2017 4:27 AM (eleven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Absolutely William Tyler!
― Evan, Sunday, 19 March 2017 19:57 (five months ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRGns0huaCM
This is my favorite kind of Calexico and as mentioned above it fits the thread theme very well.
― Evan, Sunday, 19 March 2017 20:01 (five months ago) Permalink
I could certainly recommend the proper instrumental/experimental Calexico stuff if anyone was actually interested.
― Evan, Sunday, 19 March 2017 20:08 (five months ago) Permalink
Train Songs by Two Dollar Guitar.
― heaven parker (anagram), Sunday, 19 March 2017 20:13 (five months ago) Permalink
Brian Grainger – Blue Wheatfield: https://wil-ru.bandcamp.com/album/blue-wheatfieldlots of stuff by Expo '70; e.g., Inaudible Bicoastal Trajectory: https://aguirrerecords.bandcamp.com/album/inaudible-bicoastal-trajectory
― example (crüt), Sunday, 19 March 2017 20:19 (five months ago) Permalink
https://www.discogs.com/Garlo-Vent-De-Guitares/release/1575820
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jjIhVE7ek4
― Milton Parker, Sunday, 19 March 2017 20:29 (five months ago) Permalink
man I had forgotten about that Two Dollar Guitar album
thanks to crut for those last two as well
probably everyone here has heard Brightblack Morning Light but they definitely fit
Brightblack Morning Light ... WTF?
― sleeve, Sunday, 19 March 2017 20:50 (five months ago) Permalink
"Susan Alcorn - And i await the Resurrection (maybe not her best, but its what I have)"
you need to get her extremely lovely Soledad album, Sanpaku or anyone who digs this aesthetic.
― calzino, Sunday, 19 March 2017 20:56 (five months ago) Permalink
I'd take a more desert-focussed Calexcio primer, Evan. Cheers. 'Hot Rail' is fantastic.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 19 March 2017 21:10 (five months ago) Permalink
Date Palms "Dusted Sessions"
― daily growing, Sunday, 19 March 2017 21:39 (five months ago) Permalink
re: Calexico, The Black Light and Spoke are both great for winding/long stretches, southern Utah driving. also, seconding Dirty Three and Tren Brothers. Whatever You Love You Are is a beauty, though it's less propulsive. Bad Timing by Jim O'Rourke is an absolute slam dunk.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 19 March 2017 21:47 (five months ago) Permalink
I recall Lanterna, who incidentally did a split release with Scenic, being described as "atmospheric desert music" or some such
― a but (brimstead), Sunday, 19 March 2017 22:22 (five months ago) Permalink
I loved all the Yo La Tengo music in Old Joy--not sure if that fits your definition, but it does recall the Paris, Texas soundtrack, I think, and they do do a lot of driving in the movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcuXOtwZSiw
― clemenza, Sunday, 19 March 2017 22:27 (five months ago) Permalink
Yawning Man
Meat Puppets debut and second
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Sunday, 19 March 2017 22:58 (five months ago) Permalink
http://www.bendingcorners.com/2005/desert_moments/ is a good mix of this sort of thing
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Sunday, 19 March 2017 23:33 (five months ago) Permalink
*wearily puts on high-vis jacket and gets to work* I can only side-eye the romanticised inhuman aesthetic at work here & wld question the appeal of it, even tho I like some of the music mentioned itt. also I wld humbly suggest that there is quite a bit of music from/indigenous to the desert (or the edge of it, I suppose) which is much better than this stuff *stretches back, sighs heavily, clocks off*
― ogmor, Monday, 20 March 2017 15:30 (five months ago) Permalink
Quit humbly suggesting and actually suggest.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 20 March 2017 16:20 (five months ago) Permalink
I've made a Spotify playlist of sorts, to which I'll add and mess about with the order as and when (Spotify web app is total bumcake).
The desert eased his vague anger
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 20 March 2017 16:35 (five months ago) Permalink
Christ, my tortured syntax: I'll change the order and add a few more tracks when I get the chance - ie when I'm not using the Spotify web app, which is shite.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 20 March 2017 16:37 (five months ago) Permalink
all them sahel string instrumental players, hamza el din most especially
― ogmor, Monday, 20 March 2017 23:50 (five months ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2By_WxnL3AA
― nomar, Monday, 20 March 2017 23:59 (five months ago) Permalink
O the inhumanity of listening to non-indigenous, see-through romance music whlst driving through the american west, ffs
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 01:36 (five months ago) Permalink
unless i'm missing something crucial, the "wide open desert music" under discussion here is, by and large, a genre of contemporary americana, sort of "post-country and western". in its essential form, you get clean, bright, reverb-heavy guitar lines drifting slowly through darkened ambient space. a combination of western twang, blues grit, and surf spaciness drained of vigor to point where it's practically undead, vampire music in cowboy drag (or vice-versa). dragging in hamza el din seems perverse.
― The sandwiches looked quite dank. (contenderizer), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 02:12 (five months ago) Permalink
I was with you until "drained of vigor", basically I started this thread to get more recommendations as to what else sounds like "Binah" from Live Low To The Earth In The Iron Age. the desert has color!
― sleeve, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 02:48 (five months ago) Permalink
edited version, wtf this is supposed to be 27 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cajQehDpbsc
― sleeve, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 02:50 (five months ago) Permalink
i agree that the non-american stuff doesn't fit with this cinematic staring across a (most often imaginary) desert soaking up the atmosphere vibe, hence just alluding to it initially. deserts in this context are a blank inhuman wilderness for the listener to passively inhabit & think/feel/do graphic design
― ogmor, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 08:50 (five months ago) Permalink
I was with you until "drained of vigor"
yeah, that was my prejudice showing. i'm not a big fan of the cinematic slowcore western thing.
― The sandwiches looked quite dank. (contenderizer), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 13:19 (five months ago) Permalink
It doesn't have to be cinematic slowcore western. Sometimes it's a particular style of cinematic instrumental guitar. Or krautrock infused country.
― Evan, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 14:59 (five months ago) Permalink
As far as the original post(s), the thing that makes this sound so special is that there really aren't too many things that hit these specific buttons. Hired Hand, Tuma, "Binah," etc are singular, which is why this thread jumped the shark as soon as people started suggesting every 90s post rock band that liked Morricone
I do really like that Bruce Licher piece mentioned upthread, and that Garlo thing sounds amazing. But even these have almost nothing to do with the Steve Roach album that inspired this thread
― Wimmels, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 15:03 (five months ago) Permalink
i did this a while back was pretty happy w/it but if anything too on the nose
http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/desert-jive
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 15:24 (five months ago) Permalink
Nice! Here's a rough little jam I'd done when I was obsessing over Paris, Texas. Improving a little with messy results.
https://soundcloud.com/factual-1/open
― Evan, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 16:19 (five months ago) Permalink
i like that!
i like this sound but i do get a little suspicious of it, like it's almost too easy to hit those stylistic cues that conjure up desert stuff
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 16:44 (five months ago) Permalink
Thanks!
Yeah I feel like you can say that about solo instrumental music or electronica or ambient... It's helpful to have a unique take and not rely too much on gimmicky flare.
― Evan, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 17:25 (five months ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6YioCO0n8s
― Max Florian, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 18:24 (five months ago) Permalink
https://youtu.be/72csh1Zm38A02 Oren Ambarchi - Knots (Touch)
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 19:15 (five months ago) Permalink
ffs, it's silly to say this thread "jumped the shark" when it's got me listening to that Eyvind Kang record again (I downloaded it last time someone was raving about it on ILM, and liked it well enough, but it's been been a minute since I listened)
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 21:48 (five months ago) Permalink
it's so good. his book of angels entry is fantastic too
― Mordy, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 21:54 (five months ago) Permalink
Maybe the thread title could have been something more like 'music that sounds like the thing it's trying to imitate', or 'landscape music alchemy' or 'Richard Skelton plays quavery strings while ghostly children chant the names of lost Cumbrian villages.'
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 22:02 (five months ago) Permalink
This video I had not seen before, and it is amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYJkH6mdbAY
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 22:09 (five months ago) Permalink
The Harold Budd / Clive Wright albums (3 in all iirc) are all very worthwhile
― Wimmels, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 22:22 (five months ago) Permalink
Does Michael Brooks' HYBRID fit this genre?
― beamish13, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 23:39 (five months ago) Permalink
I know this thread was CONDEMNED for stepping outside some relatively arbitrary parameters, but I'm still off exploring tangents.
My favourite discovery has been the Padang Food Tigers album from last year, Bumblin' Creed. I loved Ready Country Nimbus (from 2012, I think), but this is something else again. We don't really have a tradition of 'landscape music' as such in the UK*, cos we're too hemmed in and our imaginations are too stunted by post-colonial melancholia to allow us to mythologise the landscape or something, but what these guys do is perfect, evocative 'wide open space' stuff.
*OK, some/most local folk music is arguably landscape music, but not in the sense of trying to evoke or transmute landscape into music.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 30 March 2017 15:01 (four months ago) Permalink
And thanks to Evan for the Calexico primer - lots of those I was unaware of.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 30 March 2017 15:02 (four months ago) Permalink
yeah I still need to dig into those
― sleeve, Thursday, 30 March 2017 15:04 (four months ago) Permalink
sorry for condemning the thread! landscape music is a clear and interesting way to put it. I think if anything it's a colonial tradition, that is, relating to a place through the atmosphere/impression offered by its landscape is something of an outsider/touristic approach mb. it seems of a piece with national geographic etc. when you said british landscape music i thought of the excellent chris watson, who has made field recordings all over the place but including in the UK (listening to stepping into the dark now). he did a thing with robert macfarlane which is another parallel seam of landscape-art. the relationship or contrast between this stuff and field recordings is interesting. I'm def more into the latter for whatever reason. they feel lighter.
can't think of much that might fit the "british (or old world in general) landscape music" description though, that is curious
― ogmor, Thursday, 30 March 2017 16:07 (four months ago) Permalink
this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yPnLIwIA1E
― sleeve, Thursday, 30 March 2017 16:08 (four months ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-px60iPueEk
― winnebago taco, Thursday, 30 March 2017 17:01 (four months ago) Permalink
maybe Diamond Mine by King Creosote and Jon Hopkins?
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 30 March 2017 17:31 (four months ago) Permalink
Last year's album Elite Feline by Lotto is a minimalist/mantric guitar trio take. bandcamp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErG7vJ-L5-M
― Sanpaku, Saturday, 8 April 2017 18:44 (four months ago) Permalink
Must be something in the water: Latest Mojo with cover story on The Joshua Tree has an accompanying CD of "desert songs" that seems very, uh, compiled by British rockists who've never been to the desert
― Wimmels, Monday, 17 April 2017 21:09 (four months ago) Permalink
Good to see a mention of Giant Sand upthread---here's a little review of their uncrowded expansion I did several years ago---if you don't mind some company way out yonder, more than the occasional lizard etc., it's agreeable:Giant Giant Sand, Tucson: It's not so uncommon to hear albums inviting comparisons to spaghetti western soundtracks, but few really 'ppreciate the possibilities of American and European give-and-take: Latin in the Southwestern and Transatlantic senses, small room jazz a la Weill, Ellington, Arizona highway lounge; steel guitars and twang bars with nothing left to prove, Giant Sand (many of whom have been Danish for some time) are now momentarily expanding into Giant Giant Sand and offering Tucson---which is billed as a country rock opera, uh-huh---without ever being anythang that can't be hitched to s dustcloud drum kit, usually bouncing through stagecoach ruts. Sometimes swinging a little, though a droll drawl and and a tall tale (of love, y'all--it's all very romantic, in a worldly, wide open spacey way). "You're so much like the river/Beautiful, twisted and blue/You appear to be here forever/Passin' through." And baby, it’s hot outside.
Also you might want to check the Giant Sand/Howe Gelb thread, or maybe not.
― dow, Monday, 17 April 2017 22:08 (four months ago) Permalink
So Floating Points has literally been in the Mojave desert and recorded a load of "wide open desert music" which he is releasing soon.
https://www.floatingpoints.co.uk/
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 13:15 (four months ago) Permalink
Oof - that sounds interesting. The Mojo CD, not so much.
Also thought about Alan Lamb's wire recordings, but I guess once we get into field recordings the whole thing suddenly widens into incomprehensibility.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 21 April 2017 12:16 (four months ago) Permalink
Alan Lamb's recordings don't really evoke the desert for me. They're somewhere in the space between the Voyager probe's electromagnetic recordings, Thomas Köner's glacial atmospheres, and contact-mic'd long-string instruments (Alvin Lucier, Ellen Fullman).
― behavioral sink (Sanpaku), Friday, 21 April 2017 12:59 (four months ago) Permalink
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski)
oh god i thought you meant something else when you said "wire recordings"
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Friday, 21 April 2017 15:52 (four months ago) Permalink
Like what?!
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 21 April 2017 18:28 (four months ago) Permalink
Either wire recording or Wire recordings, I imagine.
― behavioral sink (Sanpaku), Friday, 21 April 2017 19:11 (four months ago) Permalink
assuming the former :)
― sleeve, Friday, 21 April 2017 19:31 (four months ago) Permalink
Found this on an old hard drive: https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/left-in-the-desert/
Couple of missteps, but basically full of excellent desert-y goodness (Earth, Lanois, Six Organs, Roach, Ennio etc)
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 5 June 2017 21:10 (two months ago) Permalink
Ikue Mori w/ Robert Quine and Marc Ribot, "Painted Desert."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjxbU-GlVag
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 June 2017 22:27 (two months ago) Permalink
I nominate the severely underrated Steven R. Smith:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsFD4Drgs3s
― pomenitul, Monday, 5 June 2017 23:03 (two months ago) Permalink
Captain Obvious checking in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPVexT6itPA&list=PLs2o_po-FzbF0Z_P-l4bQUDAllxLlFdry
― SlimAndSlam, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 00:22 (two months ago) Permalink
Tinariwen:https://youtu.be/PItnw3Z7WgY
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 12 June 2017 21:23 (two months ago) Permalink
Harold Budd "The Photo of Santiago McKinn" or pretty much all of Dawn's Early Light
― Hilarity Winner (doo dah), Friday, 16 June 2017 14:35 (two months ago) Permalink
that Mori/Quine/Ribot record is excellent and I had forgotten about it, good call
― sleeve, Friday, 16 June 2017 14:44 (two months ago) Permalink