what are you currently obsessed with/feeling/digging/exploring (11/17/2017)

Alex Chilton
Orchestra Baobab, particularly the albums Bamba and Pirate's Choice
Sparks Kimono
Hildegaard von Bingen Sequentiae box set

Pomenitul - When I first got into it I did a thread: Chantilly Codex -- A medieval music thread

I found at least half a dozen killer discs of this stuff over the years. I'll try and put a list together before the end of the year.

this stuff = specifically Codex type music, that is...if you have more you should ofc revive sometime.

contemplating the possibility of teaching music appreciation next semester
i should probably use youtube playlists?

I was investigating a lot of medieval music and stuff played on period instrumnets.
the thread on early music has lots of good stuff in it if you are interested in that stuff. i haven't found an ensemble i like better than EMC of London. and i have tried! if there are better ensembles with a more interesting repertoire/interpretation of early music on period instruments, i would like to know about it.

mostly these days i am obsessed with to express my own musical ideas. someone asked me recently at a show if i "have other musical ideas" outside of the duo i played in when he and i played a show together. i had to pause and then i said yes, i do. i have many ideas. this may sound self-involved but under my circumstances i feel that i deserve to feel good about expressing my own ideas.

mostly these days i am obsessed with to express my own musical ideas
*trying to express
the emphasis is important because i am not able to express my musical ideas as well as i would like but i have been obsessed with trying

My jam at the time (thanks to some googling its all coming back to me) was working through the Musica Antiqua Koln's catalogue. I was looking for all the early stuff, and was looking for this record:

Early Italian Violin Music (Gabrieli, Rossi, Fontana, Marini, Farina, Buonamente) [1979]

Then it all went Kaputt for me.

this may sound self-involved but under my circumstances i feel that i deserve to feel good about expressing my own ideas.

If I were making music, or just working out musical ideas, I would never apologize for wanting to focus on that.

Not sure if this is the place, but...

I'd always liked Windy & Carl, but for whatever reason had never heard Drawing of Sound. It turns out it's an ur-text* for a whole bunch of things I really like: gauzy, swooping drones, warm bass tones - even that trilling guitar motif that Godspeed nicked and ran with. It also makes me think of the Verve at their most ecstatic ((Reprise), basically).

That and Talons', who are one of those bands I've loved in the past, but, due to my current listening habits, I'd sort of forgotten I loved. Coming back to that creaking, wheezing misanthropy - sort of a Scott Tuma on downers, or what Will Oldham might burn in his backyard in a dream purge session - has been magnificent.

*this sound must have a more nuanced continuum. Please holler with stuff I've missed.

have you heard the cocteau twins? kidding. but i think i probably thought of robin guthrie when i first heard drawing of sound. i think of it as their best album but i have not heard a lot of later albums. totally true about the godspeed thing!

currently trying to figure out why the only version of righteous brothers' "you've lost that lovin' feelin" on apple music seems to be a shitty stereo mix

have you heard the cocteau twins? kidding. but i think i probably thought of robin guthrie when i first heard drawing of sound.

I totally get the connection but Guthrie seems more baroque and intentionally soothing, somehow. I made that statement about it seeming like an ur-text kinda glibly, but now I'm wondering...

Electric Miles Davis always a constant, but have really been obsessing over the live stuff for the last couple of months - getting it all in chronological order, working out when personnel change etc. Seems like there's lots more radio broadcast dates out there now to supplement the official live discs, too.

I always underestimate how long Gary Bartz was part of the band, and forget how relatively late into proceedings Pete Cosey/Reggie Lucas joined.

I wasn't sure where to ask this but have frequently wondered and it's impossible to search so this is as good a place as any: what are your main sources for finding new/old music? Obviously, this could stretch a long way so maybe your top 3 sources, and if an answer is the 'internet' can you be more precise?

I reckon mine are: (now and increasingly) here, a select few mates, Spotify (with RYM a close 4th). Until 18 months or so ago, it would have been a few specific people on Twitter, but I can't bear the place so have pretty much abandoned it.

My answer would be the same as yours tbh - here, mates with good taste and Spotify

bandcamp daily, resident advisor, my youtube subs, a subreddit called /r/vintageobscura, rym lists and the lower reaches of their genre charts

that's a bunch of it, but sometimes... sometimes i just fucking _wander_. i see something that looks or sounds interesting and i spend a little time exploring to see where it takes me. mostly it's not a question of "where" but "how". it's like a variation on the question all writers seem to hate - "where do you get your ideas?"