Raymond Cummings' Home for the Wayward, Nomadic, and Dispossessed

Why? Because I want to.

Today's late morning listening:

https://mikeshiflet.bandcamp.com/album/tetracosa-volume-one

I don't know why it took me so long to get around to this artist, but wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSX7LmESZQ4

A fine idea, this thread.

i really liked telefone, i'm excited to sit down with the new one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVin1y5QZFQ

I'd been thinking about doing a thread like this for a while - others have, and it seems like a solid concept - and for whatever reason, today was the day.

I'm not listening this at the moment, but Facebook coughed it up in the recent past - one of those odd instances of social media algorithms coughing up the right magic somehow. Beats is banging, as the kids say.

https://tonguedepressor.bandcamp.com/album/null-set

You won't need coffee if you've got this:

https://decidetoday.bandcamp.com/album/you-got-a-fist-and-they-got-a-face

I've been aware of Rob Inhuman for a while but hadn't listened to his stuff for a minute. This scratches a certain industrial itch.

From the new Noname album, the opening track ("Self") is my personal favorite.

This band may just be the truth. (If not, maybe just a seductive half-truth. Whatever, though.)

https://soundcloud.com/castle-face-1/exit-group-plastic-coffin

Space-Age Bachelor Pad Muzak (actually better than that)

https://wume.bandcamp.com/album/maintain

This song (and its parent LP, the only one the band ever released) still carries a charge. (Way) back when I still ran a physical zine and was exchanging them with strangers through the mail - 1996, specifically - I wound up with a mixtape featuring "Devil to the Lamb," then spent years seeking Fur's s/t record. (Ultimately got lucky - thank you, Bert's in Newark, Delaware!) Hopefully it's not totally lost to history. Hopefully Holly Ramos is plotting a comeback somewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHDBKAphL7g

that's a really good jam, thanks for sharing

You're welcome, rushomancy. Just for you, here's another:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NjbbNmUIvc

Somehow I never spent quite enough time with this record back in the day, and in memory lump it in with the pre-Painful YLT LPs I didn't care for. It's certainly much better than that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k5rQrJhMtU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-UNmW0dXhQ

Is that the most soothing song he has ever written? Listening to that makes me think that I wouldn't have minded a dad who sang me to sleep with such a sweet song. I haven't listened to the lyrics btw.

:)

It just may be, Alex.

Lord willing, there will never be a time when this LP doesn't somehow make me feel better about things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCn0yTsuwi0

#1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRrJugyk1Yw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_hKjvX3xX0&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR03xHmRAbtwc36rZJRotafvK9lRYHx5VZ6fz7r9tTZs4gp9gi636wGO-bs

That Blur song is indeed good. I like how extremely relaxed and soothing it is. I did not know it before. Is the hoover noise also in the original or has it been added for the video? I find it sounds a little bit out of place in the song.

Unfortunately I cannot play the other video. It might be because of my old Android 4.4.2.

My homie Thom and I made a noise album through the magic of Google Drive and it's free

https://raymondcummings.bandcamp.com/album/east-coast-apple-juice?fbclid=IwAR3XV9GnUr9J_4rgoo9HeSoLdOAglccztKkv2YpgX608MogZzUlYN1CnIrI

Serious 1990s Touch & Go vibes

https://droolusa.bandcamp.com/album/drool-ii

wait, is that ian curtis singing out of his tomb?

https://brendanmurray.bandcamp.com/album/inside-a-square?fbclid=IwAR3_fdEGg9M1pl_Q-ZRnqGR-tOBjo9oS4yC9QeZmcWFdlF2hCCAlyOXQ3As

I'd been meaning to spend some time with this one, and tonight's the night.

https://humanhoodrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/commuter-hhr45

(Howard Stelzer and Brendan Murray, I believe)

I love that Stelzer/Murray "Commuter" recording

WORD. I've gotta carve out extra time for Ambient/drone/new age this year.

Also, enjoying this, which is like being at a house party while one person locks himself in a bedroom for percussive studies

https://marginalfrequency.bandcamp.com/album/mfcs-l-presets-studies

On a different tip: https://jeremyyoung.bandcamp.com/album/dizzy-congested-musick?fbclid=IwAR39HBLhGcREhJ6UR7BanuyzeEeiZN2RcF5-_O4kYSVo2uytoPzlmj_fj7U

One of my favorite noise artists returns after a lengthy absence; I am aglow.

https://tahnzz.bandcamp.com/album/the-citizen-ship?fbclid=IwAR3Y_RDjCf0Y6mpet0lWgJ5wrrf-AmWh78EJGBZWmOtJifky_U0t2eCmW1Y

i remember the title of this thread as 'ray's sad house'

Sometimes it is, j.

: o

Anyway

https://milmin.bandcamp.com/album/durian-brow

Let's all jam out to Swell Maps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg657z--C3E

https://sigerecords.bandcamp.com/album/here-behold-your-own

a soundtrack for the imaginary blizzard we're experiencing here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nogout-Vfys&list=PLfUV806q_Ri69yz8xJwRnlTBu4CgKYTJv&index=6

^Ghostface, Ironman (first listen ever)

This is pretty solid!

Not listening, but I did a thing - http://www.lulu.com/shop/raymond-cummings/whorl-without-end-poems/paperback/product-24381243.html

Damn, RIP.

I didn't keep up with his output beyond a few years, but no one did it quite like Fred the Godson.

https://www.stereogum.com/2082128/fred-the-godson-dead-at-35-from-coronavirus/obit/

This evening it's all about Sightings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8uo9Jrp710

But I'd remiss if I didn't shout out Cave Bares, a sort of bizarre situationalist outfit that struck my fancy. Caroline Bren, a principal member, committed suicide recently.

Here is their bandcamp: https://cavebears.bandcamp.com/?fbclid=IwAR0EyJUff2v7J_0oMpbNbL8-S24sr32nvZldSE_6p9me90sY2I-mzCo7L2I

Here is a message from Nick Williams, member of Cave Bears:

"It feels like a different part of my life but I spent a decade playing in this band with Caroline Bren (aka Carrie, Morgan, Ke and Kyle in other lives) and now she's gone and jumped off the French King Bridge. I've never known anyone else like her and doubt I will again. Listening to this absurd music we made together was somewhat comforting to me. When I look back on Cave Bears it's often to the tune of "what were we thinking?" but sometimes maybe we were onto something. I have some copies of this tape left, which was probably her favorite. All proceeds donated to an as-yet-to-be-determined charity related to suicide and mental health, ideally based in the Pioneer Valley of Western Mass (any recommendations appreciated)"

("Cave Bares"? Yikes. "Cave Bears".)

We are certainly in a Sightings moment. This song is not quite indicative of the typical Sightings experience, but it nevertheless acts as a rallying tonic for me when I need one. I love it to death:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTCL-GkgBKU

That's a great jam, indeed.

Right now I'm revisiting this old favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU-74VXsVAM

Trying to sort out my favorite Wolf Eyes LP. It was a toss up between:

Human Animal
Slicer
Mugger

Human Animal wins

Haven't taken a dive into Wolf Eyes in a long time. Used to really like "Dead Hills" and "Slicer" too, and the "Burned Mind" I remember being pretty fond of and I kind of checked out then other then catching them live when they would come through. Not sure I ever had access to "Mugger" or "Human Mind," maybe I will do some revisiting. Just saw that all of these are on their Bandcamp site (along with TONS of other stuff).

Wow, a lot of typos, sorry. I think you get the idea hah hah. Really enjoyed seeing the Dilloway-era band live, they were great. He brought a great element that I always kinda missed after, though Olson and Nate as a duo I like a lot too.

grandavis, there's a lot of good stuff in their catalogue but there's definitely some chaff. I've enjoyed them the couple times I caught them this decade but envy that you got to catch the wild 00s sets.

It's lame that I never post anything much here. Gotta try to remedy that.

Anyway, brother, here's "Hashish".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au_9H9wW1n0

If you're bored, here is me reading poetry in Pennsylvania on Saturday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14PC_4VkjAw&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1fOaq_gwMO1UwiwZm0c-DicgzIkCbygh7mdlg2p31SmML7uQmtzGKNRmg

Of course - it didn't work.

I made this back in the summer.

https://amplify2020.bandcamp.com/album/indoor-living?fbclid=IwAR0Cz8WDVdCxuBKh24YwehzGH50Hz03tAfhpX1vhpY_h6H7Qeizr0WWc2Js

This came out in September and I literally just learned it existed this week.

https://decimus.bandcamp.com/album/threnody-for-judas-iscariot

I wish there was some definitive way to learn about music by artists I love in real time.

I have it set up where I get emails every time an artist i “follow” on bandcamp releases something. Hoping this helps me snag something next month before it sells out. I have notifications set up on my phone too but they’ve never worked.

need to do this

enjoyed that record too RC!

Thanks you two!

This morning’s listening:

https://chunklet.bandcamp.com/album/sing-the-snow-away-the-chunklet-years

I can wait to devour everything this band had done

https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/scratchcard-lanyard

Has done obv

Hmmmn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkkfjpwCv6E

Godspeed time!

https://godspeedyoublackemperor.bandcamp.com/album/g-d-s-pee-at-state-s-end

I listened to this a lot while making it

https://norentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/modulate-yourself-norent040

Undeniably my favorite of Maria Chavez's releases

https://mariachavez.bandcamp.com/album/asleep-awake-ekawa-peelsa-spring-2021?from=fanpub_fnb

Sweet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcyi3o7L5Gw

great stuff

Whoooooooooo!

https://black-dice.bandcamp.com/album/mod-prog-sic

I admire the heck out of Eric Copeland and his many, many solo releases but THIS is the stuff, right here

thank you!!

👍🏽

Woooo-oooooo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoY9qtHm6vs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri67DWwbL-U

This thing is like a warm bath.

https://flyingaspidistra.bandcamp.com/album/hey-fred

I have some new/recent-ish stuff up here that I'm very proud of, if you like noise, field recordings, abstractions.

https://raymondcummings.bandcamp.com/

What I will say about "Sour Peach," which is long, is this: stick with it. Breathe it in all the two the end, ideally on headphones or in a place/where you won't be interrupted.

"TOO the end", of course. Yikes.

How about that

https://www.musicjournalisminsider.com/archive/raymond-cummings-interview/?fbclid=IwAR13K09J99xwNmsVzs6ey_U9AGJLvfri6WbPQKF-LFPbE_7xyWw4wHvpiBk

Really feeling this one.

https://shadowylines.bandcamp.com/album/x?fbclid=IwAR2umLWTlbZuyYzqmsiDSC4uHZmOe32uqWEH6p7xLYGAJ3jpGYVOqxG5Ql0

love this

This is spectacular

https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/paroxysm-a-benefit-compilation-for-leslie-keffer

If you’re in a bad mood, find the album this appears in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok0thZ36lAk

Body and Soul, specifically

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_and_Soul_(Coleman_Hawkins_album)

One of the pleasures of reading “Ain’t But A Few of Us” is being turned on to all these jazz players I’d never heard of - people who’ve done or did great work but aren’t part of the canon.

This is absolutely hitting the spot this morning.

https://decimus.bandcamp.com/album/school-of-elea?from=fanpub_fnb