random stuff rushomancy is listening to

was doing one of my periodic searches for tommy marolda's 1974 private press prog record "me out for the first time" and found this great power pop song in tribute to him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-0WE_pcUSw

have spent many long hours just trying to hear that '74 TM record :/

me too, i know it's circulating, and i know one day it'll show up and then six months later i'll randomly learn that it's been posted to youtube. in the process of looking i did at least find some unissued stuff by an even earlier group he was involved with called cut glass, so it's definitely been worth the effort.

in the meantime here's a stream of a 2018 concert by the radiophonic workshop. great seeing folks like peter howell getting their day in the sun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ-37tTNQI0

i don't think i listen to that much jazz but it's always jazz i seem to wind up posting here! anyway i was saddened to hear of hamiet bluiett's passing this week. i have a wonderful duo gig by bluiett and the also deceased don pullen, one of my favorites since my uncle gave me a tape of his a few decades back. this is the only song from that gig i could find on youtube - it's mostly pullen playing but bluiett shows up towards the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WmGCRVgQOc

sorry i haven't been updating this thread much lately, last couple of weeks i got too worn down to listen to music and started reading books instead. i've started listening to music again but mostly just old phish bootlegs, which, you know what, i think i'll spare you.

BUT! i will post this record by a side project featuring roly wynne of the ozric tentacles. i would not blame you at all for refusing to listen to this on principle - i would not ordinarily subject myself to a record called "feelin rooti" by a band calling themselves "the cheapsuit oroonies". i mean that is basically worse than phish, linguistically speaking, isn't it?

the thing is, somewhere around the time i got a copy of what was purported to be a demo of roly wynne's last band "escalator" i became convinced that roly was in fact both deeply underappreciated and extremely talented, and since that time i will listen to just about anything with roly wynne on it. this, this i consider to be a pretty nice ethnological forgery series. i recommend it to anybody who would like to hear inauthentic european folk music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2v7pD0O9h8

here's a playlist that showed up in my recs, it might have 500 million views for all i know but it looks good. i mean it's got happy the man on it, so fine by me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sivp99wzzNk&list=PL5gN34OzHyU6vhL4V-kjTI2tkQDKG3m_s

well that didn't work at all. maybe it'll work later? youtube's been super flaky lately. anyway here's a composer from la paz, sounds good, i'd like to hear more of his stuff because he sounds interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4YNHT8q-aI

i'm still mostly focusing on things other than music, but i had a rare slow day and i picked up one of the occasional recommendations i get from wikipedia. i was reading about tritones and from there got to pages about other chords, such as the "petroushka chord", which this late '70s romanian prog instrumental apparently uses extensively. sounds good to me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9ctRmalcns

here's a nice oud jam by a dude who used to play the oud in embryo, i am going to check out his 1980 album "your head is a sleeping car"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVcgtae1wmg

oh my fucking god this is an amazing soul record, gospel choir, fuzz bass, the whole deal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv4lqU08BWU

ok, mostly i stay away from posting modern stuff here, because seriously you can probably hear about the new sleepwalkers record elsewhere, but damn i'm loving this indonesian psych folk record

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

oh hell yeah

an archival cd of the complete recordings by girl group The Paper Dolls has just come out

this interests me because one of their members, tiger sue, released a solo single in '70 or '71, totally flopped, but it turns out to be the first recording of lindsay cooper

she would shortly thereafter go on to join pagan folk band comus, and after they broke up henry cow

there's not a lot of direct continuity between girl groups and overt feminism, but this is one i'd say

anyway, i've been trying to find a copy of "burn burn burn" for years and it was worth the wait. a great song about burning down the school with cooper's bassoon driving the song, who needs alice cooper?

bolo.

Enjoyed hearing Stubblefield and Gardner on the new Mingus live set and wanted to check out what else they'd done. Frankly this veers a little too close to fuzak for my tastes - Reggie Lucas (who I didn't know died this year, RIP) in particular sounds not a damn thing like he did with Miles - but I enjoyed this track anyway. I think I should check out more Cecil McBee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0JLVb33d5g

Well OK. I guess there is a song about Cecil McBee. It's pretty good!

https://pams.bandcamp.com/album/phasers

sick and bored, here's a video of some afro-brazilian group i never heard of before today performing and explaining songs from their latest album on what looks like brazilian pbs or something. i can't speak portuguese so the explanations don't do much for me but the songs are nice!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Minztv3As

oh haha this is great i knew gal costa's version of this song but i'd never heard of "coco" or jackson do pandeiro before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjyYJ6BniS0

I randomly ran across a record by the idol Ichigo Masui called "Electronic Medical Record". Apparently she's the lead singer of a group called Strawberry Painkiller. It's great stuff! I have no idea about any of the lyrics but track titles include "p*d*filia" and "Riding the Carriage of Death (From Hell)". The music is that extremely hyper-spastic/postmodern brand of J-pop I enjoy but don't get to hear a lot of because I'm not connected to that scene.

Anyway it's on Spotify, but I'm not so I can't give you a link to it. Probably your best chance of hearing it though!

here's some shredding pipa by min xiao-fen, i'm not sure how i ran into this one but they've collaborated with derek bailey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgwyp10ncBM

I put together an hour mix of songs with the word "lost" in the title, and for lack of anywhere else to put it I guess I'll just post it here. Feel like it turned out OK.

Mose Allison - Lost Mind
The Lost Generation - This Is The Lost Generation
The Darlettes - Lost
Arthur Russell - A Little Lost
Chris Bell - I Got Kinda Lost
Haru Nemuri - Lostplanet
Black Jungle Squad - Lost and Found
Noir Desir - Lost
Seahawks - Didn't Know I Was Lost
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp - Lost and Found
Jeff Bridges - Lost in Space
Kahimi Karie - Lost in a Paris Nightclub
Hank Williams - Lost Highway
David Axelrod - The Lost Lament
Snowman - Memory Lost
Hurtful Witch - Lost Angel
Wall of Voodoo - Lost Weekend

I've been delving into the catalogue of AB Fable, which is a mid-2000s label run by a British guy named Anthony Barnett, who as far as I can tell is the world's foremost Stuff Smith expert. (That's Stuff Smith the jazz violinist, not Stuff Smith the generic '60s British blues band, which apparently is also a thing that existed.) Anyway, he has some other "jazz violin" recordings, among which is this jazz performance by Jascha Heifetz. Like most classical musicians, he's not very good at playing jazz, but it's fun anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6JBhpA2NaM

Following this trail also brought me to the lone release on the Qabala-Teq label by a free jazz duo calling themselves "Louis Farakhan!" (sic), supposedly released in 1992. I'd kind of like to hear it, but it's LP-only and I don't have a record player.

https://www.discogs.com/Louis-Farakhan-Hotep/release/1678067

Working my way through Ted Gioia's 2018 album list and got as far as Theotis Taylor, which led me to this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9GROh3vN7U

Apparently there was an original 1979 release of the record and this is a track that was left off the reissue. Anyway, it's quite fine. Plenty of other good stuff on Matt Marble's channel - he's a damn fine esotericist (I felt momentarily guilty about describing him as such only to see that he actually describes himself that way).

ok i know i haven't been keeping up with this, it's just like a blog ha ha ha, been busy with year-end, maybe one day i'll dump some stuff that i couldn't fit in my 30 arbitrary noms in here, until then here's a jam featuring the underrated rhythm section of peter cetera and clyde stubblefield, enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez9-tbXxpR0

apparently Renaldo and the Loaf have started playing live gigs, go figure! here's a video from their upcoming live record, "long time coming", and if it doesn't have a crosby stills and nash cover on it i will riot (i will not riot)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLa4HLwS9Z0

maybe i am dumb but i didn't know johann johannsson was in the apparat organ quartet, this is a good old video from the olden days

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

here's an italo song about krishna consciousness by paolo tofani from area

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CXbgtAmkls

i can't tell northumbrian folk music from sussex folk music any more than i can tell a liverpool accent from a leeds accent but this is nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHsZW1pfKR4

this video was linked on said the gramophone's 2018 best of list, #18 to be precise, goddamn it's good, don't know how you would hear about it if you're not canadian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgQv_4NGsKE&t=4516s

ah it looks like youtube links here don't play well with the &t argument? let's try this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgQv_4NGsKE

Heh, that's a local adult movie theatre.

'Premier juin' is a great song.

I assume few Canadians have heard of her outside of Quebec, incidentally. Francophone music doesn't register among anglophones – the two solitudes and all that…

maybe if she starts singing in english she'll get an audience the way marie davidson did

are the quebecois mad at her (= marie davidson)?

yeah i'd definitely nom "premier juin" for eoy if i hadn't used up all my picks

always wondered what the inside of porno theaters looked like in montreal, now i know

Le Devoir, one of Quebec's most separatist-friendly newspapers, interviewed her this year and they point out that while Working Class Woman is her most anglophone album, French is always in the vicinity, so it's all good.

glad to hear it, i know it can be a touchy subject up there

so the good news is that my christmas break is over tomorrow and i can get back to pretending to be a normal human being again. in the meantime i'm still doing crazy amounts of 2018 digging, here, check this j-pop tune out. it even has the obvious last-chorus key change thing, it's so good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEFPNzRGuY8

the good news is that i am back to work, the bad news is that i am possibly not necessarily working very hard

today i was listening to a great raga concert released this year and started questioning whether i really liked raga, as i'd never really heard any bad raga music. so i went out and actively tried to look for shitty raga. i couldn't. nobody on the english web seems to know enough about raga to point out bad ones. the best i could find was a record of hindustani classical music by kenny g, which first off seems like cheating and second off probably isn't even that bad, although i'm certainly not going to listen to it to find out.

anyway i tried every way i could to find shitty ragas but all i came up with was ragas that were hard to sing. which led me to this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmlUbu1Ndl0

it's goddamn great. if any of you find people know of any shitty ragas, either vocal or instrumental, please let me know.

I assume you mean "shitty performances or recordings of Indian classical music based on ragas" as opposed to shitty ragas per se. I listen to significantly more Carnatic music than Hindustani music. For the most part, imo, anyone who makes it to the level of a professional is not going to do a shitty job with the standard repertoire of an old idiom in which they are highly trained. The shittiest performance I ever saw from a pro was by a singer who had caught a bad cold but didn't want to cancel the gig so just faked his way through, hamming it up a little. People may have strong opinions about Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan's unconventional and innovative ideas (as people do wrt Gould's approach to Bach) but I don't think it would be right to say his performances are shitty.

yeah shitty performances mostly, i don't know if it's possible to have an actual bad raga. i guess it makes sense because actual bad performances of western classical compositions are pretty rare - you occasionally have stuff like whoever that asshole is who thinks that beethoven's ninth should take two hours to play, but that's extremely rare.

huh, i thought i bumped this thread? i guess i forgot to actually post or something, or maybe i posted it to the wrong thread, anyway, here's what i was going to bump with:

honestly i like these guys' studio records better - "milk" is on my 2018 longlist (in progress) - but i had to link this live record because of the beautiful promo text. i like some of these slightly imperfect translations because, at least to my mind as a non-speaker, they seem to carry with it something of the original language that would be thrown out in a more formal translation.

https://klanaileen.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-fever

“Live At Fever” is Klan Aileen’s 4th live album. Release in October 2018.
They released “Milk” in May 2018. It is like rock band play “Acid Mt. Fuji” - Susumu Yokota. This live album include all songs of “Milk” There is another excitement from the album by reproducing the feeling of minimal techno incorporated by that work in the form of a rock band. Especially the M5 ??? / Saihousou (Rebroadcast) has become like a magical festival by improvisation performance, played over 10min song "?? / Gantan" It might be a pleasant miscalculation for the audience. "Masturbation" has crazy moment. Coupled with set lists harmonized with past album songs, it is becoming a best live album of them at the moment.

also, this showed up in my subs, some random african dude who posts old jams he likes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkPooA_Zz2w

some of his posts achieve some level of virality, but i have no idea how much of that is from the anglosphere

ok, i made a list of my favorite 2018 music, i don't like long unexplained lists but honestly just making the long unexplained list was utterly exhausting. hope somebody can find something here they like.

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/rushomancy/pathological-listening/

Cool list, rush. It goes without saying that I haven't heard most of it but I like at least 80% of the stuff you listed that I have heard, so I'll slowly check out the rest.

awesome, it's been a good thing for me to get absorbed in, and the best way i can think of to express my gratitude for the people who both made such great sounds and who spread the knowledge.

in the meantime i'm totally tripping out over this old ('79) _10" gmt_ album by kha-ym, just the sort of lo-fi electronics i flip over, really melodically inventive on top of that! much props to holy warbles for the tip-off on this one

man i don't know how this looks when you're sober but it's a real mind-blower if you're drunk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkpt-c54Zo8

so today i started poking around the work of perry robinson. turns out perry played clarinet on the second record by the african american/jewish folk duo "bunky & jake", _l.a.m.f._. this was a number of years before johnny thunders and the heartbreakers. anyway his solo on "oh pearl" is great and is a standout of the record (which is overall a mostly forgettable album), even if it weren't so rare to hear a clarinet solo on a rock-ish record (seriously there's more viola on rock records than clarinet, possibly even once you count out john cale). the whole album is streaming on youtube but i don't have a time code link for you.

i also found out that perry robinson passed away a month ago. r.i.p., perry.

of course i get plenty of music recommendations from just randomly browsing wikipedia to see whose birthday it is, who doesn't?

today i found out it was the centenary of herbie nichols. this is definitely one of the "how have i not heard this guy before" discoveries. all the jazz people i like champion this guy. roswell rudd championed this guy, misha mengelberg and steve lacy (not the steve lacy who produced the newest ravyn lenae ep, though who knows, maybe him too) championed herbie nichols. jesus, how the hell had i not heard of him before? i'm equal parts mollified and mortified to find that nobody else who isn't an actual jazz musician seems to have heard of him either.

anyway, he's great. here's a chicago jazz musician playing new arrangements of the entirety of his last album for blue note.

https://lucasgillan.bandcamp.com/album/chit-chatting-with-herbie

couldn't find a link but i just realized today that clammbon did a sequel to their "lover album" covers record - i don't know how other people feel about cover albums but i think of them the same way i think of standards records. anyway, on this one clammbon do another canterbury tune - this one matching mole's "o caroline". it's a good song, shame about the lyrics. was a little surprised to put it on and find out that clammbon had gone with a reggae arrangement. it's good, though! they make it work for the song. definitely search out the record if it's streaming anywhere - there are lots of other good songs, mostly by japanese artists i don't know the originals of.

i realized today i really enjoy "a night in tunisia" and decided to google to see what people thought were the best version

i eventually wound up on google answers, where a korean guy especially recommended the version by art blakey and george kawaguchi

i found a live video by these two drummers and it is indeed pretty fucking good

if anybody would like to particularly recommend a version of "a night in tunisia" to me i would love to hear it

i know i am mostly talking about jazz here, i guess i could always just be appropriate and move this stuff over to the jazz thread but i don't actually feel like i really know shit about jazz even as much of it as i'm listening to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdoW3_hbc2E

here's a really nice dual-dobro jam, tut taylor is maybe best known for the record he did with a pre-byrds clarence white? anyway, cooking stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aya77mMZtys

in other news i've really been getting into genesis' lamb rehearsals boot. i know the experience was miserable for peter gabriel at least but it's just so great to listen to, six hours of prog jams with gabriel, who hadn't finished the lyrics yet, making all sorts of weird mouth noises over the top. and all of it with that fantastic headley grange sound to it. so absorbing!