random stuff rushomancy is listening to

glad to hear it, i know it can be a touchy subject up there

so the good news is that my christmas break is over tomorrow and i can get back to pretending to be a normal human being again. in the meantime i'm still doing crazy amounts of 2018 digging, here, check this j-pop tune out. it even has the obvious last-chorus key change thing, it's so good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEFPNzRGuY8

the good news is that i am back to work, the bad news is that i am possibly not necessarily working very hard

today i was listening to a great raga concert released this year and started questioning whether i really liked raga, as i'd never really heard any bad raga music. so i went out and actively tried to look for shitty raga. i couldn't. nobody on the english web seems to know enough about raga to point out bad ones. the best i could find was a record of hindustani classical music by kenny g, which first off seems like cheating and second off probably isn't even that bad, although i'm certainly not going to listen to it to find out.

anyway i tried every way i could to find shitty ragas but all i came up with was ragas that were hard to sing. which led me to this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmlUbu1Ndl0

it's goddamn great. if any of you find people know of any shitty ragas, either vocal or instrumental, please let me know.

I assume you mean "shitty performances or recordings of Indian classical music based on ragas" as opposed to shitty ragas per se. I listen to significantly more Carnatic music than Hindustani music. For the most part, imo, anyone who makes it to the level of a professional is not going to do a shitty job with the standard repertoire of an old idiom in which they are highly trained. The shittiest performance I ever saw from a pro was by a singer who had caught a bad cold but didn't want to cancel the gig so just faked his way through, hamming it up a little. People may have strong opinions about Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan's unconventional and innovative ideas (as people do wrt Gould's approach to Bach) but I don't think it would be right to say his performances are shitty.

yeah shitty performances mostly, i don't know if it's possible to have an actual bad raga. i guess it makes sense because actual bad performances of western classical compositions are pretty rare - you occasionally have stuff like whoever that asshole is who thinks that beethoven's ninth should take two hours to play, but that's extremely rare.

huh, i thought i bumped this thread? i guess i forgot to actually post or something, or maybe i posted it to the wrong thread, anyway, here's what i was going to bump with:

honestly i like these guys' studio records better - "milk" is on my 2018 longlist (in progress) - but i had to link this live record because of the beautiful promo text. i like some of these slightly imperfect translations because, at least to my mind as a non-speaker, they seem to carry with it something of the original language that would be thrown out in a more formal translation.

https://klanaileen.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-fever

“Live At Fever” is Klan Aileen’s 4th live album. Release in October 2018.
They released “Milk” in May 2018. It is like rock band play “Acid Mt. Fuji” - Susumu Yokota. This live album include all songs of “Milk” There is another excitement from the album by reproducing the feeling of minimal techno incorporated by that work in the form of a rock band. Especially the M5 ??? / Saihousou (Rebroadcast) has become like a magical festival by improvisation performance, played over 10min song "?? / Gantan" It might be a pleasant miscalculation for the audience. "Masturbation" has crazy moment. Coupled with set lists harmonized with past album songs, it is becoming a best live album of them at the moment.

also, this showed up in my subs, some random african dude who posts old jams he likes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkPooA_Zz2w

some of his posts achieve some level of virality, but i have no idea how much of that is from the anglosphere

ok, i made a list of my favorite 2018 music, i don't like long unexplained lists but honestly just making the long unexplained list was utterly exhausting. hope somebody can find something here they like.

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/rushomancy/pathological-listening/

Cool list, rush. It goes without saying that I haven't heard most of it but I like at least 80% of the stuff you listed that I have heard, so I'll slowly check out the rest.

awesome, it's been a good thing for me to get absorbed in, and the best way i can think of to express my gratitude for the people who both made such great sounds and who spread the knowledge.

in the meantime i'm totally tripping out over this old ('79) _10" gmt_ album by kha-ym, just the sort of lo-fi electronics i flip over, really melodically inventive on top of that! much props to holy warbles for the tip-off on this one

man i don't know how this looks when you're sober but it's a real mind-blower if you're drunk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkpt-c54Zo8

so today i started poking around the work of perry robinson. turns out perry played clarinet on the second record by the african american/jewish folk duo "bunky & jake", _l.a.m.f._. this was a number of years before johnny thunders and the heartbreakers. anyway his solo on "oh pearl" is great and is a standout of the record (which is overall a mostly forgettable album), even if it weren't so rare to hear a clarinet solo on a rock-ish record (seriously there's more viola on rock records than clarinet, possibly even once you count out john cale). the whole album is streaming on youtube but i don't have a time code link for you.

i also found out that perry robinson passed away a month ago. r.i.p., perry.

of course i get plenty of music recommendations from just randomly browsing wikipedia to see whose birthday it is, who doesn't?

today i found out it was the centenary of herbie nichols. this is definitely one of the "how have i not heard this guy before" discoveries. all the jazz people i like champion this guy. roswell rudd championed this guy, misha mengelberg and steve lacy (not the steve lacy who produced the newest ravyn lenae ep, though who knows, maybe him too) championed herbie nichols. jesus, how the hell had i not heard of him before? i'm equal parts mollified and mortified to find that nobody else who isn't an actual jazz musician seems to have heard of him either.

anyway, he's great. here's a chicago jazz musician playing new arrangements of the entirety of his last album for blue note.

https://lucasgillan.bandcamp.com/album/chit-chatting-with-herbie

couldn't find a link but i just realized today that clammbon did a sequel to their "lover album" covers record - i don't know how other people feel about cover albums but i think of them the same way i think of standards records. anyway, on this one clammbon do another canterbury tune - this one matching mole's "o caroline". it's a good song, shame about the lyrics. was a little surprised to put it on and find out that clammbon had gone with a reggae arrangement. it's good, though! they make it work for the song. definitely search out the record if it's streaming anywhere - there are lots of other good songs, mostly by japanese artists i don't know the originals of.

i realized today i really enjoy "a night in tunisia" and decided to google to see what people thought were the best version

i eventually wound up on google answers, where a korean guy especially recommended the version by art blakey and george kawaguchi

i found a live video by these two drummers and it is indeed pretty fucking good

if anybody would like to particularly recommend a version of "a night in tunisia" to me i would love to hear it

i know i am mostly talking about jazz here, i guess i could always just be appropriate and move this stuff over to the jazz thread but i don't actually feel like i really know shit about jazz even as much of it as i'm listening to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdoW3_hbc2E

here's a really nice dual-dobro jam, tut taylor is maybe best known for the record he did with a pre-byrds clarence white? anyway, cooking stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aya77mMZtys

in other news i've really been getting into genesis' lamb rehearsals boot. i know the experience was miserable for peter gabriel at least but it's just so great to listen to, six hours of prog jams with gabriel, who hadn't finished the lyrics yet, making all sorts of weird mouth noises over the top. and all of it with that fantastic headley grange sound to it. so absorbing!

ok today i'm trawling the lower reaches of the rym charts for '80s prog and i came across this record by gregorio paniagua.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B-ip1nbUOE

it's kind of strange because the rest of his records seem to be recreations of ancient greek music? which i wouldn't necessarily have known listening to this. anyway it's great and is recommended to anybody who likes bacamarte.

i also recommend herbert f. bairy's "traumspiel". i'd link it here but i think this thread is probably hard to read for people on account of loading the youtube embeds? i'm slow on this sort of thing, if people would prefer i stop the embeds i can

i'm getting around to nomeansno's cover of "bitches brew" and i'm kind of liking it. can anyone recommend any other great non-jazz covers of fusion-era miles tunes? (is that too specific a request?) i've got a nice tape of motorpsycho doing "in a silent way" and another of a band called maschina doing "black satin".

i guess i can expand that to all miles tunes because i do like the byrds' version of "milestones"

came across this randomly, i guess maybe one of those gamelan-y electronic tunes like last year's de leon record? i don't know if it's even on spotify, hopefully this record becomes more available in the west?

https://soundcloud.com/user-372456476/tyme_flare

because i'm not right in the head i decided to throw together an hour of some of my favorite versions of "louie louie". i had to leave off john the postman because his was too long.

tracklist:

rene touzet
phil milstein
the kinks
lassie & the mongrels
the swamp rats
the stooges (metallic ko)
heavy cruiser
motorhead (peel session)
husker du (the stone 1985-03-01)
fucked up (brooklyn masonic temple 2009-11-05)
r. stevie moore
the stupid set (edited cd version)
the pink chunk
two bands and a legend
the silence

i spent this afternoon listening to the works of francesco maria vericini on youtube because it's his birthday today. he was also apparently not right in the head, so it works out.

maybe it's not your thing? but the Toots & the Maytals version of Louie Louis is one of my favorites of theirs: https://youtu.be/SWukBiSn7ZU

oh no this is great! i hadn't heard it before, thanks for the suggestion!

xxpost Pete Townshend's Deep End (80s jam band w David Gilmour and many more) used to do Miles Davis's "Walking," but I don't remember that one specifically---a Deep End show posted on jambase includes it.

That performance of "Walking" is timed at 54 minutes plus!

oh, fortunately not true, it just starts at 54 minutes in the video :) that video was blocked but i found another... i'd heard of deep end before, but hadn't ever heard/seen them before. very g.e. smith. not quite my cup of tea. thanks for the suggestion though!

today i've been into Dzeltenie Pastnieki. Mostly because I heard one of the main guy's solo records and liked it a lot. And then I found out that they started out calling themselves "The New King Crimson" and was sold. I'm not so big on them when they do reggae, as the only Russian Reggae I'm into is Nina Hagen's. They're Latvian and not Russian, but the principle stands. But the first track on their first album is a fantastic "Great Curve" ripoff, and they've got that wonderful home recording appeal to them. Anybody have anything they recommend in particular by Dzeltenie Pastnieki or Ingus Baušķenieks? I've not the time right now to listen to their whole catalogue, I'm busy absorbing Julian Carrillo's microtonal mass for John XXIII.

By the way if you want to hear a song from their first record that isn't an inferior ripoff of "The Great Curve" or slightly dodgy reggae, I recommend Lai tu aizmirstu; it's a good one.

xpost I know what you mean about jazz confidence. I've been listening pretty often since the early 70s, still far from expert. But what the hell, post at will on Rolling Jazz, as I do.

will keep it in mind, thanks!

Glad you like Herbie Nichols, rushomancy! I recently rediscovered him too, after finding "House Party Startin'" on a decaying old mix cd-r I made back in 2002 or so, now tucked away on a shelf in the garage. His harmonies work in weird ways. The Lucas Gillian's Many Blessings album of Nichols covers is pretty great, isn't it?

it is! i also like the mengelberg/lacy/lewis/gorter/bennink record of his tunes and the music of the Herbie Nichols Project. unfortunately roswell rudd's nichols recordings haven't really clicked with me yet, which is a shame because i really like rudd in general.

by the way i'm happy to hear that cecil mcbee has apparently branched out into japanese women's fashion

in honor of the last track on the most recent daphne and celeste album here is an NSF cover posted by someone calling themselves "barismanco", not to be confused with the anatolian rock band, of the captain beefheart song "kandy korn"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=360V-7LW5mQ

i wanted to see if bob dylan had ever released "wiggle wiggle" as a single

he hasn't as far as i know

but this is the b-side to cream de coco's shitty disco song "wiggle wiggle wiggle"

it's fucking great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0AOHtBjjtI

love this thread <3

btw yr presence is requested on the best of ‘70 poll if you can make time :)

thanks! here's some monster funk bass by carol kaye, i'll try and find the '70 poll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcDPbk1ZKAk

OK, I'm gonna open it up to the floor. A song came on my randomizer today called "The Black Knight" by "The Warlord", and the song was basically about how the Black Knight was going to come from space and kill you all and you better fucking be OK with that. I saw "Monty Python And The Holy Grail" and I'm not totally convinced but as a former apocalyptic UFO cultist I still find it cool, though perhaps not PRECISELY as cool as Brian Schmidt's soundtrack to the "Black Knight 2000" pinball game (by the way y'all have heard the "Black Power 2000" Brian Schmidt/Kanye West mashup, right? It's goddamn great, and that's speaking as someone who loves the hell out of King Crimson). So my question is, what are your favorite songs and/or concept albums about death?

ok no responses to that one, moving on

i'm still really into that daphne and celeste record, here is an hour of songs i like with the word "golden" in the title, some of which you may not have been previously familiar with

fovea hex - the golden sun rises upon the world again
david bowie - golden years
goat - golden dawn
kartikeya - the golden blades
marlin wallace - golden dreams
healing force - golden miles
van dyke parks - the all golden
delia derbyshire - blue veils and golden sands
sonic assassins - the golden void
spring - golden fleece
daphne & celeste - golden doldrum
todd rundgren - golden goose
devo - golden energy
my morning jacket - golden
lizzy mercier descloux - no golden throat
shannon shaw - golden frames
syd barrett - golden hair

by the way that's the "opel" version of "golden hair" and not the "madcap laughs" version

here's a disco song promoting the burnley building society with lyrics by salman rushdie, enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIFabOTK-DI

this is indeed a nice vibraphone solo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIxAl-J4rxQ

I'm still looking to put together a full hour's worth of Doors knockoff tunes I like - I think it gets forgotten sometimes how popular and influential they really were and how many people knocked them off. I tend to like a lot these knockoffs better, not because they are better - they're not - but because they're easier to not take seriously.

Anyway, I have at least cobbled together an LP's worth, ten tunes from '68 (where the Doors knockoff scene really starts) all the way through to 1975 - plenty of punk bands were inspired by the Doors but tend to be distinct enough that it doesn't seem right to lump them in with these first wavers.

And no, there's no Phantom's Divine Comedy in here. I don't like them that much, and Jim Morrison didn't have any songs about wizards.

Side A:

The Stooges - Down on the Street (mono single edit)
Children of the Mushroom - You Can't Erase A Mirror
Mystic Siva - Supernatural Mind
Pop Masina - Kiselina
Fraction - Come Out Of Her

Side B:

Crystal Chandelier - Suicidal Flowers
The Loose Enz - The Black Door
Omnibus - The Man Song
One St. Stephen - Dash in the Rocks
The Maze - Armageddon

in memory of peter tork here is 22 seconds of banjo playing he contributed to the film of "wonderwall", though he is absent from the soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-2Lyd-kLY8

take that "5-piece chicken dinner"

here is something else I threw together, an hour of songs with the word "anthem" in the title

DEVO - DEVO Corporate Anthem
Bruce Haack - National Anthem to the Moon
Radiohead - The National Anthem
Gary Burton - The New National Anthem
Max Ochs - Imaginational Anthem
Rocket Surgery - Master Anthem
Henagar-Union Sacred Harp Convention - Farewell Anthem 260
Nobuo Uematsu & Takashi Uno - Cruise Chaser Blassty Anthem
Gwenno - Anthem Y Weriniaeth Newydd
Hammer Screwdriver - Anthem 1
Onra - The Anthem
Sonny Sharrock - Ghost Planet National Anthem
Seven Days of Samsara - New Anthem for the T-Shirt Revolution
Abhorrence - Anthem for the Anthropocene
Ben Esposito - Quack Anthem
However - Anthem
Terry Riley - Anthem of the Trinity
The Millennium - Anthem (Begin)

lack of UGK!

yeah i missed pretty much all music from about '94 to '14, int'l players anthem is a jam tho

i will tell you what i did not realize there was music this good on the soundtrack to "the sidehackers". apparently most of the soundtrack is mike curb bullshit, but the new life heard this african song on a hugh masakela record and did this killer garage take on the b-side of their first single.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD6G9-wb1bM

there's a topic of interest to me: great music in films featured on mst3k. ennio morricone's soundtrack to "diabolik" is one of his best works (sadly no longer extant), of course, but i'm also quite fond of "moon zero two" with don ellis's band fronted by julie driscoll. ok, "the french connection" it isn't, but julie driscoll is a goddamn pro. anyone here have any particular faves?

oh, and the music to phase iv is great and deserves better than that hacked up version by some ex-member of white zombie

memo to greta van fleet: _this_ is how you rip off led zeppelin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yia9pUvfEE

that's jan akkerman from focus doing his best jimmy page imitation

A Marianne Faithfull song I like came on random and I made a mix. I'm actually fairly pleased with this latest hour, enough to do a proper write-up on it.

Loona - Butterfly: The lead track from the just-released debut album by the latest hot K-pop sensations. Not my usual MO for openers, but my primary requirement for an opener is that it immediately grab the listener. This does.

Microbit Project - Song of Space Butterflies: Likewise, I usually don't get this weird this early on. This is a track from the early days of the lobit scene, focused around experimental analog synths. It does get slightly obnoxious, but on the other hand it only lasts a minute and a half, and the ambience is unbeatable.

Smile Down Upon Us - Butterfly Morning: A band I got into in the late '00s - a Japanese lady singing over ukuleles. Perhaps that's hopelessly precious and twee, but I do quite like it. What really sold me on them was the mondegreen in their version of Sandy Denny's "Two Weeks Last Summer" where she sings "laughter from an oven door".

The Four Tops - Elusive Butterfly: I really do believe that _Still Waters Run Deep_ is the best Four Tops album. No, I haven't heard every Four Tops album in its entirety, obviously.

The Toms - Elusive Butterfly: No actual relation to the Bob Lind tune. I am a complete mark for anything Tommy Marolda has done. Admittedly at his worst he can sometimes come off as landfill indie, but this song is definitely not Tommy Marolda at his worst.

Kevin Ayers - Butterfly Dance: Such a fantastic fucking song, isn't it? Considering my deep love of all things Canterbury, I'm a bit abashed at how little of Ayers' work I've absorbed.

When - Butterflies: Another one of those late '00s/early RYM obsessions of mine. I believe the story is something like that When was one of those Scandinavian black metal dudes who got really into the Beach Boys and avant-pop. It happens sometimes. Anyway "Trippy Happy" probably isn't an all-time masterpiece and I confess that I haven't really kept up with When's subsequent work after that fairly underwhelming Sun Ra tribute record, but I do still quite enjoy it on occasion.

Los Brios - Goodbye Madamme Butterfly: One of those overall solid comps I got into either from finding a track from it posted somewhere on Youtube or randomly on RYM. This is actually the closer on a 2005 comp called "The Spanish Trip: 23 Obscure Freak Artifacts From The Spanish Underground Scene". My big regret about the ridiculously fast pace of discovering new great albums over the past year or so is that I haven't had the opportunity to really absorb them the way I'd like.

Paper Fortress - Butterfly High: A failed Tandyn Almer stab at pop success. It's a fucking brilliant single, both sides, goddamn travesty that it wasn't a hit. Not necessarily surprising given how on-the-nose the drug references are for a '68 would-be pop single, mind, but just... am I wasting superlatives by calling it a "masterpiece"? No, I don't care, I'll live in the moment.

Edvard Grieg - Lyric Pieces, Book 3, Op. 43, No. 1, Butterfly: Once I hit the back half of things I do start stretching out a little. I get weird partly because I am weird, but in part because I can't reliably sustain a single mood over the course of an hour. Partly it's the lazy way I put these things together - doing a wildcard song title search on *butterfl* is a superficial grouping method which, predictably, returns superficially similar results - but the trick is no less effective for being cheap.

Anyway, at this point I go back to the lo-fi instrumental mill for four songs. Usually I try not to cluster a bunch of instrumentals together, but these are unusually amenable to being segued. This particular piece is lo-fi because, to the best of my understanding, that's actually the composer at the piano. I also have a very nice version from Ruth White's under-appreciated synthesizer classical record from '72, but this one fits the mood of things better.

Vic Mars - Butterflies, Bees, and Other Insects: I don't actually know who Vic Mars is. This was shamelessly cribbed by a very fine series of mixes put together by an RYM esotericist whose username I didn't write down anywhere. I also can't honestly tell if the opening is being played on actual instruments - it's very reminiscent of the Chamberlin on "Journey through a Thousand Meditations". Anyway it does get a bit repetitive towards the end, but again, we're talking about a two minute atmospheric instrumental.

Coleman Hawkins - Lazy Butterfly (Theme): Just the closing band theme from a Coleman Hawkins radio broadcast on the first Savory Collection archival release. I love the closing announcement, which is extremely "Theme Time Radio Hour": "From the Fiesta Danceteria, the world's first self-service nightclub, at the crossroads of the world, Broadway and 42nd Street in the heart of New York City, Mutual has brought you the music of Coleman Hawkins." Next week: The Butthole Surfers!

Raymond Scott - Beautiful Little Butterfly: An electronic miniature as heard on "Goobers: A Collection of Kids Songs". It's very... I don't actually have the musical vocabulary for it. Chromatic? Is that the word?

A.R. Kane - Butterfly Collector: In which shit gets real heavy, real fast. See my earlier comment about my inability to sustain a single mood. Personally I do like the variety and diversity!

Subvert Blaze - Butterfly: Shit got so heavy, in fact, that this track, which is again new enough that I have no idea where or why I picked it up (probably some RYM list) and which sounds like Guitar Wolf playing 21st Century Schizoid Man, actually lightens the mood up significantly. Not really anywhere else I could've put this song that it wouldn't have stuck out like a sore thumb in the other direction.

Marianne Faithfull - Southern Butterfly: Mix inspiration. I haven't really heard a lot of Faithfull's work outside of Rich Kid Blues (I think it was up on Beware of the Blog at some point). It's such a raw and intense record that I can't imagine listening to anything else she's done. Shit is back to being heavy, in other words.

Bilal - Butterfly: It took me a ridiculously long time and many mentions on ILX for me to come around to Bilal. I think it was the Strother sisters writing a song for him that finally clued me in. Too beautiful for me to meaningfully write about, so I'll only mention that this is keeping with my long-established pattern of sticking the longest track in a mix in the penultimate position.

Bruce Haack - Angel Child: There was that thread about how many lyrics I remember... well, not many, I guess, but some. I started thinking about the theme of "butterflies" and the only one that came to my mind was "Wasn't there a track on the Electric Lucifer about it?" The fact that I could actually remember that gives it a certain pride of place. A very sweet and kind song by a troubled man.

OMISSIONS:

I couldn't throw together an hour of this stuff if I didn't feel free to leave some songs out. Also under consideration, but ultimately excluded, were:

He Zhanhao and Chen Gang - Butterfly Lovers Erhu Concerto: This is fucking great! It's also half an hour long. Nope.

Pauline Oliveros - Bye Bye Butterfly: I like electronic music plenty, but an eight minute piece that starts with the kind of sounds convenience store owners use to keep kids from loitering around their store is not necessarily going to flow well in a mix context.

Pink Floyd - Butterfly: It's by Pink Floyd, which is a plus, and it's an utterly obscure Syd Barrett tune, which is also a plus, but it's also got basically the same theme as the A.R. Kane song except I'm pretty sure Syd isn't being disturbing and creepy here _on purpose_. So yeah this one can fuck right off.

Reading Rainbow Theme: Not actually about butterflies, admittedly, but mentions them in the first line. I love this theme and I omitted it because the only versions I had around are poor quality and riddled with a high-pitched Pauline Oliveros whine.

geez i need to get wifi at my house so i can jump in here more