what are you listening to 2012

Pugwash - Olympus Sound
very cool

NASA Symphony of the Planets box
Suzanne Ciani - lixiviation (the track 'Paris 1971' is all right)
Guillaume Dufay - O gemma lux, Huelgas Ensemble
Mouse On Mars - Parastrophics
R.A.E.D - Straight Through
Play That Beat Mr. Raja - Selected oddities from the Tamil film industry

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Liars-Liars
Alice Cooper-school's out
Lou Reed-The blue mask
New york dolls-Too much too soon

Thomas Fehlmann - Visions of Blah
Bochum Welt - Phial EP
Berlioz - Requiem (Inbal/RSO Frankfurt)
MASK 500 (Skam)
Stockhausen - Inori
Michael Mayer - Immer

'inori'!!!!!

It's really good — I would probably recommend this to people who find him off-putting, it's extremely accessible. Kind of like a western version of gagaku.

Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto - By This River (Phantom)

Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland, Black Is Beautiful
Gareth Dickson, Quite A Way Away
Quartet for the End of Time, Modus Novus
Raoul Björkenheim, Bill Laswell, Morgen Ågren, BLIXT
São Paulo Underground, Três Cabeças
Loucuras
Meta Marie Louise feat. Max & Momo, Sunny Spots
The Clash, Sandinista
Mustonen/ Sooäär/ Remmel/ Ruben, Aria
Van Dyke Parks, Song Cycle

Biber - Harmonia Artificiosa (Musica Antiqua Köln / Reinhard Goebel)
Daphne Oram - The Oram Tapes Volume One (thanks Geeta)
Violeta Parra - Antologia
John Oswald - Concerto for Conductor & Orchestra
Luc Ferrari - Collection 85
Handel - The Triumph of Time and Disillusion (Concerto Italiano / Alessandrini)
Guy Reibel - Granulations-Sillages

Olivier Messiaen: Des Canyons aux étoiles
Olivier Messiaen: La Transfiguration de Notre-Seigneus Jésus-Christ

Claude Vivier - Orion, Siddhartha, Cinq Chansons (Rundel/WDR SO Köln)
Hallucinator - Landlocked
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Akira ST
Detroit Techno Soul compilation
Susumu Hirasawa - Millennium Actress ST
Surgeon - Force + Form
Underground Resistance - World 2 World
Japanese Telecom - Virtual Geisha

Dennis Bovell, Brain Damage
Althea & Donna, Uptown Top Ranking
Pat Metheny, What's It All About

new albums by:
sharon van etten
dr. john
lightships
tindersticks

How's that Dr. John then? "Different", no?

some recent lissnin

Emmanuelle Parrenin Maison Rose
shimmering late 70s folk-prog lp from french previously trad folk player.
Very magical but every time it comes on i'm reminded of a song I'm only half
placing. Is it a Jim O'Rourke track Women Of The World or something like that?
I think this lp may be best known by those not familiar with it in total for the
track Topaze which has a proto-trip hop beat years before that trend. The rest
of the lp has very catching moments emerging from trancey folk based songs. Folk
as in Breton ala Alain Stivell meets Linda Perhacs?

Charles Mingus Pithecanthropus Erectus
lovely monumental late 50s jazz.
I think Mingus has been incorporated as an influence on a lot of mid 60s brit
r'n'b type stuff. Think Ah Um is more recognisable for that though.
There are a lot of classic lps in his ouevre anyway.

feedtime Aberrant years
This does have better sound than the 80s cd I had previously.
Cooper S the covers lp is grade a dunt. Very in your face bass-driven minimalist
rock.
Not heard it all the way through yet though.

Lumerians KEXP live 2008
http://kexp.org/live/liveperformance.aspx?rId=28435
nice spacy psychedelic improvisation. worth hearing. & the rest of that site is
worth checking through, some very interesting sets on there.

Sonic's Rendezvous Band think it was the '78 set from the Easy ACtion box
more great avant dunt based around Fred Smith's guitar and an r'n'b strut
reminiscent of early 70s Stones.
sound was surprisingly muddy, thought the label had shown how well it coul
dclear things like that up on its MC5 releases..

Matching Mole Little Red Record
Love this music and looking forward to hearing the clear version on the Esoteric
cd of it. Liquid jazz meets rock with great instrumental interplay possibly the
last example of Wyatt's drumming showcased before the accident?

Sister Rosetta Tharpe
a lot of her work's been turning up on Demonoid.
I haven't listened to her much before which is a great oversight .
Rousing gospel stuff which had a clear influence on rock.
Pretty infectious feeling throughout. If this wasn't overtly god-orientated it
would be very good getting down music.

Tim Hardin volume 3
The live lp from '68.
Hardin either reinvents his earlier material in a more jazzy-folky-rocky style
or badly slurs vocals as though he's nastily stoned. Sadly too much of the
latter. Otherwise this would be an utterly fantastic lp his band cooks
throughout at least on the tracks they're on. I think first couple of songs may
be him solo.

Chicago Soul
Souljazz compi of late 60s/early 70s gritty-funky soul.
Includes tracks from both Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters' psychedelic cash in lps.
Listening to these tracks just has me wishing I could hear the band left to cook
in that style on an lp without the connection to a blues icon that seems to feel
uncomfortable in their presence. I don't think Rotary Connection who I think
most were connected with get so gritty do they?

loads of other stuff which will probably come back to me later.

Bits of country, jazz, VDGG, Gun Club, Soul, garage etc etc cropping up on my
walkman on random. still getting a load of nice surprises from
that.

Reading
Optical Sounds all 4, discovering some very interesting material from there

Iggy Pop I Need More
Iggy's memoirs make pretty rivetting reading. Wonder if he'll update this or do
another version it did first appear about 30 years ago.

Greil Marcus book on the Doors.
been reading this on the bus in and out of the course. Enjoying it mainly but
should probably sit down with what i have of the tracks as s/trk to that.

Stevo

x-p
re dr. john: i really like it. it's pretty spaced out, i'd say. actually i don't really know dr. john, everythng i had heard before - which was not much - to me was a tad boring, too traditional or something. the new one is crazy and psychedelic, i hear lots of captain beefheart in there.

thanx, alex!

yura yura teikoku - kantsuu

lost my ipod, burnt these albums onto some cd's & aside from records that's all i've been able to listen to since

neil young - everybody knows this is nothing
nirvana (uk) - all of us
13th floor elevators - easter everywhere
nico - chelsea girls

Come - Eleven:Eleven
Come - Gently Down the Stream
Flowerhead - Ka-BLOOM
Czar - Vertical Mass Grave

i forgot lee fields new album, vintage soul/funk.

Skying by The Horrors, because I'm late like that, and MMXII by Killing Joke ... which, I deeply regret to say, is not their best.

This week mostly:

Chunky, Novi and Ernie - Chunky, Novi and Ernie
Chromatics - Kill for Love
MC Miker G & DJ Sven - Holiday Rap
Julia Holter - Ekstasis
Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras & The Congos - FRKWYS Vol. 9
V/A - Bambara Mystic Soul: The Raw Sound of Burkina Faso 1974-1979
Wendy Rene - After Laughter Comes Tears

Imikuzushi - Haino/O'Rourke/Ambarchi
Sipple Out Deh - Lee Perry

Agitation free 2nd
long questing, drifting instrumentals for the most apart plus one with ghostly whispered vocals. Nice early 70s kosmische stuff with echoes of the San Francisco scene. Also some electronics that sounds like the descriptions I've read of Dik Mik etc.
Think I need to check out some more of their stuff. I know Malesch is pretty tasty cos i already have it.

Emmanuelle Parrenin Maison Rose
still Breton folk in Dub, like a cross between Malicorne and Linda Perhacs?
Lovely lp anyway.

Ornette Coleman This Is Our Music.
J Mascis & The Fog from last week or something long live set .
Daturana thopugh i don't think I'm likely to return to this singer isn't very nice listening on this. Band sounds like it started out as Doors worshippers and expanded influence somewhat but singer is way too cod Morrison and tone is just grating. Do wonder if it might be this specific live set but not holding my breath.

some recent lissnin

Mark Fry Dreaming With Alice
HAzy slightly out of focus production on early 70s folk meets rock lp. Record
was recorded in Italy by fry, still a teenager with artistic ambitions and a
Scottish rock band. Not sure if they'd had much contact before the recording but
it does come out pretty well. HAs some nice long instrumental textures that
sound like sitar, also remind me of the Velvets in places. weight of the raga
rumble or something. Other tracks are a lot more ethereal, whoever's writing the
melodies is doing some very atmospheric, beautiful ones.
Fry has a new collaboration out now apparently.

Peter Hammill In Camera
Dark Solo lp by HAmmill joined by some of his VDGG fellows at times. I think the
solo stuff works pretty well, that is the couple of tracks where he is just
accommanied by his own acoustic guitar playing and the 3 Peel session tracks
with him alone at piano. Had wondered if I wanted to get the other nearly
completely solo lps & on this basis most probably.
Anyway the furrow that Hamill was working in the mid 70s does seem to have been
a very productive one whichever instrumental combination he was working in.
Do think I just prefer the fuller band stuff though.
So got Silent Corner on my wants list, also Chameleon, wondering about the later
stuff, already having Nadir & all the 70s VDG(G).

Ornette Coleman Complete Science Fiction sessions disc1
Great avanty jazz stuff from the early 70s by Ornette with various accompanists
including the reunited Atlantic era group. Gets quite psychedelic in places.
Think i'm particularly taken with Rock The Clock
because of the electric sounding bass, plus its the one where Ornette himself is
getting very out there with trumpet and violin.
This being the complete sessions the last 2 tracks on the cd are the first 2
from broken Shadows which wasn't released until a decade later but comes from
the same sessions.
Disc also starts with a pretty cosmic number with female vocals.
The only track i'd been familiar with prior to getting this was the title one
which turned up on a Kevin Martin complied 2cd in the mid 90s.
This seems to be a lot easier to get hold of from the States than this side of
the Atlantic.

Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats Blood lust
Stoner rock concept lp about a Psycho. really enjoyable lp.
This was another thing I heard about through Optical Sound zine. I think their
own website is still selling copies of this on cd
http://www.svartrecords.com/shoppe/cds-free-shipping-worldwide/725-uncle-acid-an\
d-the-deadbeats-blood-lust-cd.html
while Rise Above have sold out of a couple of vinyl pressings

feedtime live set from '86
Very good sound on this set, & band seems to be in fine form. 30 tracks
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=401779
australian heavy blues based dunt. yum yum.
seems to be a live set at an instore appearance.

Bebop Spoken Here Confirmation
one of the 4 discs from the Proper box, not sure which number but it has a green
cover. So is a mix of instrumental and vocal tracks from the height of the bebop
craze in the 40s. has bits of Dizzy Gillespie scatting which is always fun. Plus
Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Dodo Mamorosa, Anita O'Day etc etc
Really got into picking up Proper Box sets about 10 years ago. They put out some
really great stuff and are still doing so. 4 pretty full cds on an artist or
genre/sub-genre in reasonable sound where possible. The remastering has tended
to be pretty well done.

Jane's Addiction Ritual de lo Habitual
Their 3rd lp, upbeat offbeat rock from LA in the late 80s. I somehow didn't get
into their material until years after the fact despite having been at the ICA
show where their dry ice set off the fire alarms and the audience had to traipse
out into the winter cold of the Mall. Think the show itself was pretty
enjoyable.
Is there a deluxe remaster of this around? Might indulge if so.
Can't see a listing for a version of the cd post 1990 though, would think they
would have upgraded since then though.

Tully Sea of Joy
australian hippy folk band from turn of the 70s. I think this might be the
soundtrack for a film, it's interspersed with pretty atmospheric instrumentals.

as per usual, not remembering everything I've listened to over this week. Other
bits may come back to me later.

Plus hours of things cropping up at random through my walkman. SO loads of
Italian prog, zeuhl, jazz, country, rockabilly, blues, r'n'r, Gun Club, Cramps,
psychedelia, Sonic youth, folk etc etc.

Reading
Everybody Loves Our Town by Mark Yarm
oral history of Seattle and grunge. very interesting. Has made me want to check
out some stuff like U-Men, Cat Butt, SOundgarden and possibly Alice iN Chains &
relisten to Mudhoney, Screaming Trees and Tad.
Also wonder why there was so much space given to Candlebox and Courtney Love.

Retromania Simon reynolds
sort of enjoyiing this but have noticed a couple of places where I think he has
his facts wrong. Might make a marked effort to read a lot more of it today,
feeling a bit under the weather.

watching
bits and pieces of various things
Not Going Out
finding this pretty funny, not really been acquainted with it before. But one of
the cable channels is running a lot of it recently.

Man vs Food
again something I've not been acquainted with though I've heard the name. Kind
of fun.
Has me wondering about a few things like the timespace an episode is filmed
over. Continuity has it suggesting that things are happening on the same day per
episode but i can't see that Adam guy being able to undergo challenges without
at least a couple of days between, unless he has a rock iron gut, Even
undergoing a heat challenge on its own would tend to require a day of resting
your gut afterwards surely? On the couple I've seen he's doing a heat challenge
then later a size of portion to consume one.

Geronimo
Drag with this was a lack of subtitles for when they were speaking apache. Might
have something to do with it being shown on the Gaelic channel so they didn't
want to use english subtitles?
Seems an ok film otherwise.

Mallrats
was puzzled by the presence of Stan Lee in a film not based on a Marvel comic.
Otherwise,glad I've finally seen this & hoping I get to see Clerks next week.

Stevo

Biggie Biggie Biggie can't you see
Sometimes your words just hypnotize me
And I just love your flashy ways
Guess that's why they broke, and you're so paid

uh

http://www.factmag.com/2012/05/21/fact-mix-330-evol/

ome recent lissnin
Noah Howard The Black Ark
Legendary Free jazz set from late 60s reissued by Bo'Weevil a couple of years
ago. Tends to be pretty melodic but Arthur Doyle plays fiercely throughout. I
think this has got structured songs being played though so I'm not 100% sure
what it should be categorized as, though maybe if those structured bits are
actually riffs it might change designation?
Think this has made several people's new-thing-jazz top 10s and really should be
heard by anybody into that kind of thing I think.

Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes box
this has some great music in but has been mastered pretty quietly. So I've been
wondering if it was actually remastered or just repackaged.
Would love to hear what Esoteric would do with this material since the sound on
most of their discs has been pretty exemplary.
But nice semi avant prog stuff sung in French which I've been interested in
since Seth Man did reviews on this site
http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/search/?q=ribeiro
some time ago and have wanted to get in decent version since. I think there may
have been another pointer about the same time but can't think what it wa unles
it was lps turning up on Mutant-sounds

Dr John Locked Down
great grooves on this collaboration with the Black Keys guitarist Dan Auerbach.
This really is a great form for Mac, bit of a return to the quality of his early
Night Tripper stuff though the atmosphere is a lot less ghostly. I'm not sure
what his recent lps sound like so I can't compare. I just know that Gris Gris is
one of my all-time favourite lps and this seems worthy of that.
Have also heard that Mac is working on a reissue of Sun, Moon and Stars
including the material that was cut out when the lp was cut down from its
intended original length.
& judging by the quality of this lp I should probably check out the Black Keys
own stuff. I think the band here shines and I think they have more to do with
Dan Auerbach than Mac.

Small Faces Decca s/t disc 2
I think I might actually prefer this 2nd disc of outtakes etc to the first disc
which is the 1st lp. Keeps a heavy groove going throughout, enough to make me
wonder if not getting the From The Beginning set is an oversight. I mainly
wanted to get the 2 s/ts but they haven't been able to get the Immediate one in
locally nor Ogden's & I thought those 2 might be the better sellers.
Anyway, have loved the Small Faces since I discovered them when I was a 14 year
old moddy boy. & nice to finally get good, surviving band member
sanctioned/organised versions of the lps. Or at least it will be when I complete
the set.
The Paolo Hewitt band bio The young Mod's Forgotten Story was reissued last year
by Acid Jazz and is a good read.

Mol Triffid CBGBs 9/2/91
great, pretty other creepy metallic band that was apparently deeply undersung at
the time.

Young Bear Singers live
weird mix of Native American chanting to steady drumbeat interspersed with a
comic book hip dj/MC the mix is pretty funny. Wonder if it makes any more sense
seeing this live. Strikes me that the multi-voiced chanting might make
interesting sampling material.

loads of other stuff that I can't think of right now but will probably come back
to me later. Plus continual revelation as my walkman coughs up tracks that I
haven't heard in ages.

Reading
Flashback!
Richard Morton Jack's zine appeared after some delay and weighs more than
several books I have. Nice read and what reviews it has have been interesting.
I'll be intrigued as to what direction the 2nd edition goes in, hoping there is
one.

new Ugly-Things just out too. Definitive interview with Johnny Echols clearing up some of the mythology of Love. Group 1850, good glam, Electric Eels, a bio of The Craig of I must Be Mad fame and masses of reviews. Great as ever.

Fug You Ed Sanders 60s memoir

Red Cross First Aid manual trying to get through a course on this and blanked
heavily on a spot test last week so hoping that reading through this will get me
better acquainted with the subject.

REx Libris
comic about an action hero ancient, as in thousands of years old, librarian and
his adventures retrieving books from around the universe and falling into
bookworlds. it was supposed to be becoming a film at one point but I can't find
updates on that.
Rex was the librarian at Alexandria but survived the fire and is now in a
smalltown American library that happens to hold copies of pretty much every book
ever.
Pretty funny.

Russell Saga of a Peaceful man
not read this in almost 30 years I don't think. Story of a smalltown ageing
hippy/alternative type and his adventures at festivals etc.

Watching
Adam Richman's progressive bloat through the series of Man vs Food. this series
must create a lot of ethical questions for anybody with world economy or charity
issues at mind. Like if you hold an open challenge over food that's too hot to
be recycled properly or passed onto anybody else to eat you've made it inedible
intentionally and therefore wasted food, presumably you can't feed this to pigs
or goats cos it's too hot? Also the food size challenges, it just can't be
healthy to encourage individuals to gorge themselves to that extent but at least
waste could be recycled. But still the idea that one has enough food to waste in
this way surely has some knock on effect. I'm reminded of the Food not Bombs
project which recycles waste/excess food left over at the end of the week's
sales by business under the principle that food production is one of the central
impetuses for war.
I still find the program curiously watchable.

Buck & The Preacher
Sidney Poitier's directorial debut, a black orientated western about a
trailmaster and a conman. Stars him and Harry Belafonte in those 2 roles
respectively. Wish I'd paid more attention to the film instead of getting
sidetracked by my computer. Film is pretty good.

Vidal Sassoon A Cut Above
bio of the great hair innovator reshown on BBc4 tonight. I think I tried to cut
my dreads in a 5 point or similar when i cut them really short 20 odd years ago,
probably didn't show very well.
My mother used to go and get her hair cut by students at his school for years,
possibly still does so I wondered if she'd ever had it checked by him. But it
was & possibly still is a cheap way to get it done nicely. Assume that would be
true as long as the schools remain open.
Odd hearing the Mark Eitzel credits theme cos I don't think I've ever heard him
sound so commercial

Stevo

Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes box

price is steep for this box. how is the packaging? they throw in a nice book at least?

awesome post stevo :)

fwiw:

my wife was at Matt's Bar in Minneapolis (home of the Jucy Lucy hamburger), and he was taping Man vs Food there (not a challenge, just the part where he checks out cool places in a town)...but anyway, I guess women were throwing themselves all over Adam Richman

last.fm says 2012 has been mostly:

1 James Brown
2 Claude Debussy
3 De La Soul
4 Jungle Brothers
5 Beastie Boys
6 Enya
7 Squarepusher
8 Actress
9 N.W.A
10 Olivier Messiaen
11 Ibrahim Ferrer
12 Dolly Parton
13 Bob Drake
14 Johann Sebastian Bach
15 Bill Withers
16 Maurice Ravel
17 A Tribe Called Quest
18 Duke Ellington
19 Herbie Hancock
20 Thelonious Monk

Except something is up here, because I've listened to the shit out of that new Lone album

cherry picking the james brown singles collections: vol 6 (1969-70) and 7 (1970-72) are ridiculous, sick. prolific ain't the word. promiscuous genius

i liked that new dr john album more than expected but i agree it sounds more like black keys than mac rebbenack

dipping into TANGERINE DREAM. played Edgar Froese's second album this AM alongside Isaac Hayes and Jimmy Smith's Back At The Chicken Shack.

Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes box

price is steep for this box. how is the packaging? they throw in a nice book at least?

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:29 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not really any extra packaging, every disc is in an individual card sleeve replica of its own lp sleeve. But no booklet in mine, I was expecting to have to try to translate from French since I ordered from there, but firstly there wasn't really anything to translate and more oddly the back of the box is in English. I thought t was a French product of a French band so it would be in the native tongue. maybe its cos its on Universal?
I'm really hoping somebody else picks up the music for release elsewhere and it is somebody who is as good as Esoteric. Would even settle for a Sanctuary 2 or 3 cd set as long as the material was remastered at a decent volume. & liner notes were included, Esoteric are very good for those normally.

Price isn't anywhere near so steep when you order directly from France!

http://www.amazon.fr/4-Albums-Originaux-Catherine-Ribeiro/dp/B007FHLTOW/

Moebius + Tietchens
Pauline Oliveros - Modulations 12CD box
Complete Music of Carl Ruggles - 2CD (Michael Tilson Thomas / The Buffalo Philharmonic)
Charles Ives - Old Songs Deranged (James Sinclair / Yale Theatre Orchestra)
Catherine Christer Hennix - Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage
Paul McCartney - RAM 2CD reissue

The Mills Tape Music Center discs of that Oliveros boxset are beauuutiful.

my friend put out this pauline oliveros thing on vinyl recently if you guys are interested:

http://roaratorio.com/21.html

some recent lissnin

Il Baletto di Bronzo Ys
totally 'kin intense Italian prog record which I've been hearing bits of intermittently for way too long on my walkman. Thought I better bung it on the 3 changer for once and immediately asked myself why I'd been neglecting it.
It don't half kick out the jams in its own keyboard heavy way. not sure what other pre-punk stuff hits with similar intensity outside of Detroit which it doesn't really resemble. But pretty essential record which I'd try to hear ifyou haven't already.

Irma Thomas Time is On My side
Kent label compi of New Orleans soulstress. The rolling Stones covered the title track early on though she apparently hated their version. Think it's on their 2nd lp. & I do think I prefer hers.
really like quite a bit of this compi. Not sure if this is the best way to get her stuff or the 2cd thing that came out last year in that series of New Orleans r'n'b/soul compis that included Allen Toussaint's Evrything I do Gonh Be Fonky. This is great anyway.
Did Traci Ullman have an '80s hit with her song Break-a-way? I know I've heard it done by someone else.

Royal Trux s/t
this is their 1st lp. not quite as out there as Twin Infinitives but sounding stoned and damaged veering between some great 60s/70s rock revisitation and them sounding too stoned to be coherent so getting overly repetitive. Not bad for €3 though.

God is my Co-pilot The Peel sessions
another €3 purchase, bought cos i'd been intrigued by comparisons to the band with another group called JOnestown who i got a live set by recently but could find out next to nothing about. Don't think the comparison is quite as clearcut on hearing this.
This is very erratic, veering into the avant and away from the English language quite a bit. Might be something I might explore a bit further though. I don't know.

Amanaz Africa
Zam rock, with weird production presumably because of limited budget. Fuzz guitar often sounds ghostly instead of thick and creamy. I'd heard some comparisons to stoner rock antecedents which I guess is there but the production gives it other elements.
There are a few places here that sound like the Velvets from s/t & Loaded. I assume that is totally a coincidence. Not sure if that band could have even been heard of by these Zambians.

Go Go Get down various artists disc 1
not heard the 2nd disc yet. But this does rerelease one of my alltime favourite tracks War On the Bullshit by Osiris. Some of this does sound a bit glossy which might have to do with it coming form the 80s.
Think what I really need is the grittiness of the live gig sound. This is pretty good though. Glad to see people are remembering the downtown DC sound.
Recent compi compiled by Joey Negro

Velvet Underground Caught Between The Twisted stars
Some long droning early live stuff from '66 and some more rhythmic later stuff. I've been very slowly reading Richie Unterberger's day by day guide recently which is interesting.

various other bits and pieces which will probably come back to me later.
The usual array of surprises from my walkman.

Reading
Umberto Eco the Prague Cemetery
tales of intrigue and anti-semitism from 19th century Europe

Judge Dredd epics
catching up on several stories I hadn't read at the time & revisiting ones I have. Currently reading Tale of the Deadman which I've noticed was preceded by an announcement at the end of the previous Dredd story which I didn't think it was supposed to be. Thought you were only supposed to work out who it was gradually. Not sure if there was an actual Dredd story running in the same comics at the same time.
Also read Cursed Earth & Oz and its preceding stories or at least the introduction of Chopper over several stories.

Watching
a bit of Nazi Robots at The Centre of the Earth
lovely grade z schlock on the Syfy channel. quite gorey. hadn't realised things like this were still being made but the tv guide had it listed as this year.
The nazis discovered Pelucidar or whatever it's called during teh 2nd world war. They need to get new scientists to help those who've survived continue to survive but several of the team who've been lead down there are not pure aryans. Syfy's been showing some really iffy material over the last few months.

The Amazing Spiderman in 3d
enjoyed this new version even with the lack of coloured characters ( except the baddy) and the gnarly machine.

Stevo

Il Baletto di Bronzo Ys

Great record. I was more into their heavy rock first album for a long time, finally came around to this a year or so ago. Got it at the same time as Battiato's Sulle Corde di Aries, also excellent in a different way.

So far today at work:

Jim Ford - Sounds of Our Time
that Ry Cooper record Skot tried to get ILM to like (and he's right, it's awesome)
Roller Ball 45 and Elton Motello's first album
various tracks by Godz (NY), Gift (German heavy rock), Lee Scratch Perry early stuff, some ska
Massenger s/t (cool local band who will probably either move or stay here and be ignored to death)
Rome - Beware Soul Snatchers 12" & Sons of the Sun - Heavenlamp 12"

which ry cooder?

But this does rerelease one of my alltime favourite tracks War On the Bullshit by Osiris

this was on the 'nme does go-go' vinyl release back in '86.

brilliant track.

electric wizard - dopethrone
sleep - dopesmoker
melvins - eggnog, lysol
black sabbath - first 5 records
j dilla - donuts
mf doom - mm food
magma - felicite thosz
annette peacock - I'm the one
philip glass - music in 12 parts
thee satisfaction - awe naturale

which ry cooder?

Ry Cooper aka Rusty Evans - "1983" (futuristic garage folk rock from 1965 with killer snarl/guitar and theremin!)

It's Ry CooPer, though, AKA Rusty Evans from The Deep! Pretty cool pre-psych garage 45.

Sa Dingding - The Coming Ones

Jury is still out but I'm enjoying parts of this immensely.

Count Basie, The Complete Atomic Basie
The Charles Mingus Quintet + Max Roach (1957)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXm5Ay72N5Q

Feeling clouds list - stuff to investigate there

cool list clouds
I do not know what is Haruomi Hosono
I am listening to new Shining

!!!!!!!!!!!LISTENING TO THIS BANGING TECHNO HAPPENING LIVE RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.dommune.com/

cool list clouds
I do not know what is Haruomi Hosono

here's a good old thread abt him; patrick south and milton are well-versed in his soundworld: Haruomi Hosono

i would get cochin moon first:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0WBYOM4iZs

started making a weird tape. only made one side so far and i keep listening to it so who knows when i'll make the second side:

Shock - Angel Face (1980)

Earth Star - Sonntagsspaziergang (1981)

Units - i-Night (1979)

2i - The Transient/Chinese Circus Defector (1985)

Navastrau - Looking From An Airplane (1980)

Osamu Kitajima - Tengu (A Long-Nosed Goblin) (1975)

Gloria Mundi - The Pack (1978)

Ground Zero - Ground Zero (1979)

Thompson and Latham - Tomorrow Never Knows (1981)

Frank Sinatra, Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back
Dantalian's Chariot, Chariot Rising (1967)
Hatfield & The North (1973 ...yeh, same yeah as the Sinatra:)
Queen, The Miracle (mmmm... nah, not quite the same yeah as Sinatra, alas;)
Philipp Wachsmann & Paul Lytton, Some Other Season

Phil Spector's Christmas album, Discipline by King Crimson and this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfXr8L-iA78

And this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai1sfPKq2gk

this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLfured2ptE

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUYe4MQr0OE

deuter - d
deuter - aum
jorge ben - forca bruta
jorge ben - a tabua de esmeralda
messiaen: trois petites liturgies; couleurs de la cité céleste; hymne au saint-sacrament
blue mitchell - the thing to do

Philip Glass: Another Look at Harmony - Part IV (Choir of the 21st Century, Christopher Bowers-Broadbent on organ, Howard Williams conducting)

today:

schnittke - symphony no. 1 (segerstam/royal stockholm po)
ustvolskaya - composition no. 1, grand duo, 12 preludes (hatart)
matthew herbert - bodily functions
alan braxe - the upper cuts
oneohtrix point never - rifts
victoria - officium defunctorum (tallis scholars)
bayle - erosphère
nørgård - luna, voyage into the golden screen (blomstedt/danish rso)
radulescu - intimate rituals (caussé, royer)
bruckner - symphony no. 5 (herreweghe, orchestre des champs-elysées)
nono - polifonica-monodia-ritmica, canti per 13, etc

laurie spiegel - cavis muris
magma - felicite thosz
bob dylan - tempest (gaargh! his voice!)
scott walker - bish bosch (great but can't take more than 25 consecutive minutes so it's taken me this long to get through it all)
toshimaru nakamura / sachiko m - do
maggi payne - electronic works 1976-1981
tim story - in another country
cameroon - baka pygmy music
arcane device - trout
survival research labs @ extreme futurist festival 2012 (or, one 158 Hz tone @ 140 dB occasionally punctuated by transients from the concussion cannon)

<3 baka pygmies

fred durst needs to get some pygmies involved

vatican shadow, lot of, obviously
listzt's schubert transcriptions (hamelin)
this is happening
untilted
silent servant
lee gamble
shostakovich #7 (mravinsky)

bob dylan - tempest (gaargh! his voice!)

Noisy, innit? Like it, actually - he seems one of the few from the 60s who really kept going.

Beginning to make it my way through the stuff in the Funkystepz thread. D/l my favourites from the ILX top 100 dance/electronic from the 00s poll.

Classical-wise.

A few works by Michael Finnissy - he is one of my favourite composers but I just feel I'm scraping the surface - such savegery on 'ouraa' from '83, even when it settles it doesn't let go fr a sec - more of a way of playing w/extremes of contrast that would come across as desperation from almost anyone else. Re-frames the meaning of intensity.

Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf - 'succolarity' for flute. Play this alongside Hubler's 'Palimpsest'. Mahnkopf comes across as a hack.

Stew on the stove, enjoying some atmospheric EPs
Audision - Up & Away
Burial - Street Halo
Red Stars Over Tokyo - Hits of Sunshine

A few works by Mathias Spahlinger. If you like concrete intrumentale as per Lachenmann then its sometimes like it but he has a knack for not being as straghtforward when you're boxing him into a corner. One piece is for pots and pans...an American would be all playful but this is all incredible serious so he places a piano - no entended techniques as far as I can tell - in the middle. But not Beethoven in the middle of modernism.

'Gegen unendlich' has a section which veers on the middlebrow at times.

Easier to tell what it is not.

Lachenmann - Musik Mit Leonardo

Chaya Czernowin - Lovesong for emsemble, quite a lot drumroll type percussion. V good, tick.

Still skimming a lot of ILM EOY nominations. Checking out Phenomenal Handclap Band right now and into it so far.

In the evening (generally, anyway) I'm finally getting hands on about sorting through the Oum Kalthoum tracks on Spotify. I am working on building a playlist of every unique Oum Kalthoum recording on Spotify. Some appear in Spotify just once, some are on there several times, without much rhyme or reason (though there's some connection to how popular some of them are). I am not going to listen to every second of every track, but I'm trying to pick out the copies with the best sound quality. This could take months.

Today/Tonight...
Karma to Burn- Wild Wonderful Purgatory
Shrinebuilder- s/t
Blue Oyster Cult- Spectres
Cheap Trick - s/t
Judas Priest- Screaming for Vengeance (right now)

v/a - nonesuch explorer: kenya & tanzania
eliane radigue - e=a=b=a+b
apogee & perigee - chojiku colodustan ryokoki
vatican shadow - ghosts of chechnya
bvdub - serenity
andré boucourechliev - les archipels
karl amadeus hartmann - syms 1 & 3 (rieger/bavarian rso)

johannes welsch - sound creation (a deep listening journey through the gong)
tod dockstader - electronic vol. 1 (mordant music reissue of 1979 boosey & hawkes library music)
decembral hymnal 2: deep night (spotify playlist w/ derek bailey, fred frith, david toop, harry partch, chinese/mongolian folk music)

the liars album that came out this year
jessie ware
yo la tengo - i am not afraid of you and will bate the face offa ya yada yada yada
sonic youth - dirty