please help me parse this fuckin NWW list

oh also that Michael Mantler/Edward Gorey/Robert Wyatt/Carla Bley album is gold.

more love for arzachel pls

maybe ill come by tomorrow afternoon and jam some NWW list shit w u jaxon...

i just bought-it-now a copy of the greaves/blegvad LP the other day, and im very much looking forward to hearing it. i think i used to feel about parson sound the way i feel about taj mahal travelers, but i now enjoy parson sound a lot, so maybe TMT are right around the corner.

hey also, i could be interested in nurse with wound's own records and also throbbing gristle. i know this is now officially thread-abuse, but i dont care on ILV. please feel free to weigh in on that stuff, too, ok?

thread-abuse put out some pretty incredible cassette only releases in the 90s. i think i went to their reunion show, but it might have just been a members-of thing and the main guy wasn't there.

never heard evan parker, jaxon -- i associate his name w like electronicky free improv? i could def be down.

oooh right gong! right now i wish i hadnt given my friend my little-jammed camembert electrique. i feel like im coming to a time where id love to hear it a lot. also, pink floyd. im ready for atom heart mother and meddle and animals and obscured by clouds. harvest records hurrah!

xp LOL SL i was just thinking about that fictional band as i typed that phrase

i like peter brotzmann but i have ZERO interest in last exit

evan parker has definitely done electronicky free improv, but he's also done some some blistering more free jazz-like stuff -- like Topography of the Lungs w/Bennink

also love sharrock, and dont specifically hate laswell, but the whole conceit of last exit bothers me for some reason

xp im into both those idioms!

hahahah A+ sarahel

my NWW LP POX as of today:

Sylvie & Babs (dissected kitsch)
Huffin' Rag Blues (the same but different)
Soliloquy For Lilith (dark & meditative)
Brained/Gyllenskold (spooky)
Rock & Roll Station (trippy)
An Awkward Pause (epic rock psych jamz)
Spiral Insana (perfection, my favorite)
Ostrananie 1913 (best of the early stuff)
Automating Vol. 1 (superb early comp work)
Thunder Perfect Mind (brutal noiz plus long psych jam)

TG, well, you can't go wrong with DOA or 20 Jazz Funk Greats or Heathen Earth or any of the singles (or The Endless Not).

as far as TG goes, I prefer their live recordings to their studio albums

see Pete you just need them all!

sarahel which live ones would you rate in particular? for me it's Psychic Sacrifice and Rafters.

heathen earth is great, as is live at the death factory -- i think the latter was the first TG album i ever bought, though it was actually a cassette.

things i esp like on the list

xenaxis - electronic music, devastating comp inc 'bohor' which is one of the greatest pieces of music ever, monumental and scary and a total inspiration for ppl like double leopards
l. voag - the way out - quirky britishes post-punk, great bass player
ghedalia tazartes - transports - all tazartes is gd and unclassifable, but this might be my fave
ray russell - secret asylum - contains 'stained angel morning', his all-time great gtr skronk-out
airway - live at lace - no other recs sound like this, kinda muffled noize
amm - gotta disagree w/ sleeve here, love their early albs like ammmusic and crypt, really raw free improv stuff before the whole 'thing'/genre totally codified/settled - i jam lots of their later albs too, but they're much more glacial and within a recognisable tradition (i put that down to john tilbury)
steve beresford - bath of surprise - again, 'quirky' brit improv w homemade instruments/electronics, toys etc. big fave of otomo yoshihide, this alb
alvin lucier - i am sitting in a room - well duh
anthony moore - music from the cloudland ballroom - really charmin kinda post-lamonte young vocal droning/chanting (the singers keep collapsing into laughter) plus pre-post-rock and other groundbreaking shit
nihilist spasm band - no record
tony oxley - inchos - all of oxley's late 60s albs are essential brit free improv w/ most of the big names like parker, bailey, rutherford etc - this one has never been reissued on cd and features a great cover shot of oxley's electronically augmented drum kit

keep thinkin the east bionca rec is on the list, but don't see it

so glad i bought that l.voag from my pal bob years and years ago. cuz i ain't seen another one since. love that thing.

I really do need to make more of an effort with this list. Have known some of these names *forever* but have still not got round to listening to half of them.

it takes time. and a lot of downloading unless you are made out of $$$$$. and i don't download.

i take it one day at a time. plus, i like so many kinds of music. i can only do what i can do.

just got a secret oyster album last year! didn't even remember they were on this list. good stuff.

I should clarify that I do like the 2 early AMM recs that I know were on vinyl (Ammusic and The Crypt) a lot more than the two later ones I namechecked up above.

Brainticket - so so so great
Comus - amateurist sent me a cdr of their first record years ago. is he still around? these guys are great.
Flying Lizards - love this one. are these guys like the cool/non nerdy residents? i dunno, never really listened to the residents.
Snatch (Judy Nylon) - post punk group. i heard a rad song on a brian eno comp.

co-sign all these, forgot about Snatch, "All I Want" is the jam

need to hear more Brainticket

I think I played out Flying Lizards "Herstory" at Cake Shop when Pete's band played there. The Roots sampled it on "Water."

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

co-sign all these, forgot about Snatch, "All I Want" is the jam

yes! i have it on a comp - forget the title

Maybe a good way to start with Taj Mahal Travelers is Takehisa Kosugi's "Catch Wave" solo release?
IMO any fan of free drone could fall head over heels for them. I don't listen to them very often just because I feel like they deserve undivided attention.
It's got a "holy drone" vibe, I think.

The first thread I started on ILM (Swedish prog folk) was looking for more bands who do Swedish psych folk prog the way Algarnas Tradgard and Arbete och Fritid do it. I think I like Arbete och Fritid a lot more than most people on the board. "The European Way" is so epic!

Taj Mahal Travellers C/D

It's got a "holy drone" vibe, I think.

ok sold sold sold

playing all nww list rekkerds next 2 hours, www.eastvillageradio.com (til midnight eastern us time.)

AWESOME

ok so far this debris thing is something i should already know about holy shit

as for the NWW the big discovery for me was Smegma, but I went into it repping for This Heat so they are prob my fave

i should prob not get started on NWW album recommends tho because uh ill be here all night.

Yes, ian, you star! Probably should go to bed rather than listening all night, though, it's already almost 4am.

emily the show will be archived and listenable from eastvillageradio.com under the academy records show.
most of this stuff is pretty 'surface' level...

i am putting aside the howling wolf documentary i was going to watch to listen to this. i will try to resist a full on liveblog unless other people show up on this thread tho - but i do want to say this taj mahal travelers thing is def hitting the right chord with me at the moment - also one of the more direct nwwoundy things ive heard off the list

Ah, brilliant ian, thanks. You have a lovely voice, btw.

aw thank you :)

oh and also re: the original thread question - cromagnon is one of the most mindblowing things i have ever heard (which i have to thank the metal alltime poll and emil.y for i think)

ok why the hell dont i listen to comus all the time

i know, i don't think i've pulled this record out in months.. so incredible.

this is so badass

Haha, yeah, I was responsible for getting that Cromagnon on the noms for the metal poll. Was so made up that people voted for it.

And yeah, Comus = serious genius.

ian do you do a show this time every week?

I have heard this International Harvester before, but never really paid much attention - going down a goddamn treat right now, though.

yeah i dl/ed a ton of the list, and this is reminding me why i hate doing that because i have realized that i only actually listen to stuff if i can hold it in my hands - so this is awesome.

i'm listening too! i just heard crazy ian talking!

jjusten, i don't do it EVERY week but maybe 75%-80% of the time. you can look in our show archives and it's pretty easy to figger out which shows are mine.

'crazy ian'

that should be your deejay name. all the best deejays have catchy nicknames.

DJ IJ

man steve reich is the best

seriously, he is. this is a great show to listen to stoned. or so i've heard...

btw when i say i appreciate you guys listening i REALLY do.. we consistently have the lowest number of listeners. i think that means i'm doing something right/ most weeks i play hippie rock & singer songwriter stuff with only occasionally 'weird' records sprinkled in

like i always feel like i should cram him down the throat of all my tape beetles and negativland friends (no offense to either) but he isnt really wacky enough

xpost oh tbf i will happily listen to hippie singer songwritery stuff as well

nww list for the win, if you ask me. you could make several great radio shows just out of this material. it lends itself to good radio. its radiowave music.

wait, are you playing all vinyl?

Chamberpot
Checkpoint Charlie

mentally merged these two as Chamberpot Charlie. if i ever own a racehorse, well...

found a copy of the chamberpot lp a while back, didn't know it was on *the list*

looking through it again now 12(!) years later & given the other swedish entries, whither trad gras och stenar!?

too jammy, not enough quick cuts or weirdness (just guessing though)