what are you listening to 2012

stevie wonder - it's more than you
david benoit - remembering what you said
pat metheny - au lait

Hadn't really read about the Divine Fits album, but had put it on a Spotify playlist. Mildly, pleasantly, surprised when the Boys Next Door cover came on. Listened to that a bunch of times today.

laurie spiegel - obsolete systems
nav katze - never mind the distorsions
christ. - metamorphic reproduction miracle
burger/ink - las vegas
darkthrone - a blaze in the northern sky
merzbow - suzume (japanese birds vol. 1)
chris & cosey - trance
carpathian forest - through chasm caves and titan woods
yasuaki shimizu - music for commercials (made to measure 13)

arcane device - also sprach zarathustra
david lee myers - ouroboros
laetitia sonami - electronic music 1978-1983
upsetters - blackboard jungle dub
andrew skeoch and sarah koschak - spirit of the outback
michael stearns - lyra
chopin - mazurkas, maryla jonas
bob drake - bob's drive-in

In full Christmas mode:
Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 1: Advent und Weihnachten - Karl Richter
Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas - Ella Fitzgerald
Star of Wonder - Christmas at All Souls with Musica Viva of New York

And for variety:
Six Feet Down - Tuba Skinny
Mozart: Piano Sonatas Vol 2 - András Schiff

bob drake - bob's drive-in

o yeh, that's one fascinating album, the studio and the live part where were both pretty great

Chico Mello ft. Helinho Brandão - Água
Peter Zummo - Zummo with an X
Thomas Leer & Robert Rental - The Bridge

It's the perfect time of year for The Return Of The Durutti Column.

yasuaki shimizu - music for commercials (made to measure 13)

This is really good! Clouds, have you heard Ryuichi Sakamoto's compilation of 80s commercial music? (CM 1, I think it's called). Super rad incidental pieces. also has a few really hot pop tunes w/akikko yano vocals.

no i haven't!

dug out some of my fave classy classical LPs. sound so good on the hi-fi.

karl martin reinthaler - jephta

sibelius - the complete tone poems

ahmed adnan saygun - viola concerto/elgar - overture "in the south" op.50

the complete works of matthijs vermeulen (five stars!)

erik bergman - nox/bim bam bum/faglarna/hathor suite (love...)

brahms - the piano trios - beaux arts trio (i listen to so much brahms. you have no idea...)

prokofiev - 1941/festive poem/dreams/white swan/andante

prokofiev - symphony no.5 in b flat op.100 (lenigrad phil kickin' ass and taking nameskys!)

adrian batten - richard dering - tudor church music

delius - incidental music to james elroy flecker's Hassan

johan halvorsen - air norvefien/tre norske danser/veslemoys sang/danse visionaire/norske eventyrbilleder (norwegian troll gold)

big blood -- dark country magic
kenneth higney -- attic demonstration
rare bird -- electric forest
zelienople -- the world is a house on fire
alexander tucker -- third mouth
richard skelton -- verse of birds

Electric Wizard- Electric Wizard & Come My Fanatics
Graveyard- Lights Out
High on Fire- Blessed Black Wings, & Snakes for the Divine
Pentagram- Relentless
Tygers of Pan Tang- Wild Cat
Kadaver- Kadaver
Saxon- Wheels of Steel
Hanoi Rocks- Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks & Oriental Beat
Earthless- Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky
Acid King- III
Mastodon- Blood Mountain

I've been on a metal kick the last week or two.

grateful dead - tuning '77 - http://archive.org/details/gd1977-12-31_505
ga-in - "bloom"
resonance magazine - feedback CD - http://www.discogs.com/Various-Resonance-Volume-9-Number-2-Feedback/release/633546
osso exotico - musica #1 - (pulled it off the shelf for the first time in years -- all acoustic drone music rarely stays this on target)
staring into the sun - ethiopian music recorded by olivia wyatt
charles ives - third symphony, tilson thomas
alice coltrane - turiya sings (for the last year, this & divine songs have been my go-to alice coltrane records)

cor @ Turiya sings - hunted one of the tracks down.

Will look into Osso exotico and Staring into the Sun.

Don Ellis. Lots and lots of Don Ellis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUYtWvavvYg

redshape - square
v/a - columbia-princeton electronic music center (1961-1973)
shining - within deep dark chambers
frank bretschneider - rhythm
nachtmystium - assassins: black meddle, pt. 1
lutosławski - symphony no. 3, venetian games, cto for orch (rowicki et al)
szymanowski - symphonies no. 2 & 3 (wit
haruomi hosono - medicine compilation

Miles Davis live in '73 around the time of the In Concert lp I think. Doesn't have the typewriter rhythms of the studio versions of the tracks they're playing (On The Corner) & I think this might be looser still than the iN Concert recordings

actually that should have read '72 when he still has tabla and electric sitar in his instrumentation.

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