random stuff rushomancy is listening to

Today I'm browsing the Vimeo channel I ran across, in the semi-desultory fashion I do, of a Chicago museum I wasn't previously familiar with called "Town and Country".

oh my, was there some ancient ilx drama involving these folks that necessitated an autoreplace to be programmed in?

Finally finished that two minute Youtube playlist, found a lot of stuff I probably wouldn't have gotten around to otherwise! There's this song by an obscure Oi! band named "Skindeep" called "Football Violence", it's as straightforward and obvious as you'd expect but it sounds GOOD! Tremendously catchy. And it's not obviously Nazi. Which is nice.

So I got poking around, and you will hear people talk about Red and Anarchist Black Metal but nobody talks about left-wing Oi! Well, you know what, it exists, and it's better than the RABM I've heard so far. Here's a song from 2011 called "Transsexual Hooligan" by a group called "United Struggle".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDlsQY6pfvg

aside from fun facts about leonardo da vinci today i was reading about child prodigies. apparently the greatest child prodigy of the bagpipe was john d. burgess. personally, i mean, yeah, he shreds, but isn't there really more to piping than just shredding?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W28HVgZG-Jg

i am slowly but surely working away on my listening backlog, maybe at the end of this week i will check out the sub-2 minute poll results. in the meantime i'm trying to explore the brilliant lists put together by somebody on rym who has two reviews, one of which is the definitive statement on "zess" and its relation to fascism and the other of which i haven't read, and i'm also doing quickie playlists for temporary stress relief

my randomizer - itunes, very stupid - got on a hot streak today and once i realized it i added the tunes to a playlist. when it was done i'd gone through twelve songs with a total time length, to the second, of one hour (i've been very into these one-hour mixes for the past year). really uncanny. here's the playlist:

harry roesli - kebo jiro
envelope generator - emasculine
the motions - love won't stop
seka kojadinovic - niko to nece zavoleti (somebody to love)
rush - chain lightning
boards of canada - nothing is real
verma - salted earth
bob & carole pegg - glass of water
seefeel - plainsong
kimmo pohjonen - driving south
koffee - rapture
steve elliott - you touched me

maybe my musical taste is finally getting less shit

nah still as shit as ever

ts: "what love" by the collectors vs. "song of the marching children" by earth and fire

how can you say that your taste is shit? your own musical taste is always the best in the world. that's pretty obvious, isn't it? have you ever met anybody with a better taste than your own? i am still waiting for this encounter and the older i get the smaller the chance i will meet this person.

sorry, i'm trying to self-deprecate less, even if it does get me compliments :) learned reflex, i listen to a lot of weird stuff and in a lot of people's minds that automatically translates to "terrible".

i try not to dunk on easy targets no matter how tempting but i sometimes fail. the upside is that i can sometimes get something productive out of it. my last unprovoked clowning on fred b got me to thinking i should listen to more savage rose, and i found this great tv special from '74. i don't know enough about scandinavian languages to even say what country this is from - did denmark have colour television in '74? yeah i guess so, 1970, all i know about tv broadcasts of music in denmark is that zep was on danish tv in '69.

anyway! this is the rock band format of savage rose, playing lots of stuff from their great '73 record "wild child", shortly before packing it all in and becoming a folk trio for about 20 years. annisette in full flight here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuzX6SYPyLg

the same channel also has a '72 german tv special featuring elis regina flying on a butterfly, quality is not so good but definitely check it out if you're into that sort of thing, man these high-concept '70s television music specials... also, the kinks shredding on "louie louie" in paris 1965. grainy, loud, sweaty. and there's another video of jimmy smith playing it cool on the organ!

here's a rocksteady instrumental about doctor who - apparently the first two william hartnell seasons were broadcast in jamaica in the '60s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRiq71MjVT0

at some point i want to put together an hour mix of "doctor who" themed jams, leaving out the shitty ones like "i wanna spend my christmas with a dalek"

ok, this is a weird one, even by my standards. i was reading about the wikipedia article on trobairitz, which were the distaff equivalent of the troubadors, the oldest surviving secular music documented as being written by women, and someone did a creative commons recording of the only surviving song by a trobairitz, the Comtessa de Dia. i liked the performance so much i followed the metadata to see who recorded it, who turns out to be the (now inactive) administrator Makemi, a specialist in early music with a bachelor's in performance. i'm far from an expert in early music but these recordings are really interesting and really good. some of these songs are fairly well-known - "scarborough fair", "flow my tears", "this land is your land" - others less so - a recording of andrew jackson's 1824 campaign song.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Makemi

here's a song one of my friends shared, "Kiua" by Sexteto Do Beco from 1980, don't know where they came up with it but it's really nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPy0hDaFAYI

Have been taking it easy on the music lately, too much else going on, but I've been enjoying kicking back and spending a lazy Sunday listening to this jazz podcast. This episode is about Wilbur Ware, who I knew from his work with Sun Ra but whose work I never really delved into. It was a great listen. The newest episode is on Mal Waldron, which is also very nice,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4WUCEZd4mI

pretty sure this guy isn't secretly louis farrakhan

as always i'm ready to be corrected though

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

really fucking good "yacht rock" tho, monster synth

Fell into a Robert Wyatt hole after learning, more or less at random, that a demo recording of him singing Paul Weller's "Invisible" came out on one of those landfill Mojo CDs last year. Beautiful as you might expect. Couldn't find it streaming, though, so instead here's a trio called "Beauty is in the Distance" doing the little exercise at the end of the first Soft Machine record. The rhythmic performance is much more fluid here and Dave Newhouse in particular brings a melodic sensibility lacking in the original to this performance. Recommended.

https://soundcloud.com/luciano-margorani/box-254-lid-by-the-soft-machine-ratledge-hopper-arranged-by-beauty-is-in-the-distance

there's phases i go through, there's the exploratory phase and the integrative phase, i'm working on integration lately. random words pop into my head and i try to put together sixty minutes of songs that express my associations with that word. this one was inspired by octo octa and is actually a CDR-80 based on the word "need". ultimately that turns out to be a lot of '60s and '70s classic rock but fuck it, no apologies, you cut to the core of me and you'll find the beach boys, the beatles, the kinks, and the soft machine.

kathy heideman - need
the beach boys - you need a mess of help to stand alone
the four tops - baby i need your loving
the buster browns - i need love
the fall - what you need
24 carat black - what i need
todd rundgren - you need your head
keith hudson - still need you dub
jerry green - i finally found the love i need
metafive - i need you
the kinks - i need you
soft machine - that's how much i need you
the feminine complex - now i need you
alec wilder - they needed no words
the eire apparent - yes i need someone
the stooges - i need somebody
sylvester - i need somebody to love tonight
octo octa - i need you
mondo grosso - everything needs love
john potter - now, o now i needs must part

sylvester - i need somebody to love tonight

if you haven't heard the first song on that mix, please do! that one really cuts to the core imo

keeping the thread alive, here's a noise-rock japanese cover of "james brown is dead"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7PtW1CGrHo

Listened to Kathy Heideman (for real I mean, I’m not counting my earlier casual listen), and yeah, I get what you mean, I think.

how much $ for a monthly cd-r mix subscription

hell i'd love to have somewhere to upload random shit for free but usually what happens with these things is somebody hits it with a copyright strike

also half the cool shit i find is stuff i run across trying to find other cool shit some random person on the internet mentioned offhand, so i'm hoping that by just arbitrarily mentioning random stuff people will find even more than they bargained for in the looking

Here's a fun enough experiment - wanted to see if I could do an hour of songs inspired by sea birds. I did manage it, though some of them are quite long. i feel like i should get credit for leaving off "echoes", though!

fleetwood mac - albatross
alessi brothers - seabird
langford and kerr - seabirds
ride - seagull
kukl - seagull
vespero - seagulls sing
chrissie quayle - the seagulls scream
public image ltd - albatross
iron maiden - rime of the ancient mariner

There's this song by an obscure Oi! band named "Skindeep" called "Football Violence", it's as straightforward and obvious as you'd expect but it sounds GOOD! Tremendously catchy. And it's not obviously Nazi. Which is nice.

So I got poking around, and you will hear people talk about Red and Anarchist Black Metal but nobody talks about left-wing Oi!

The classic left wing Oi! band is The Oppressed from Swansea, who also have a song called Football Violence, which isn't a cover of the Skin Deep song.

To further confuse matters there was another left wing skinhead band called Skin Deep from Yorkshire (the Football Violence band was Scottish) but they were more ska than Oi!

awesome, i will check it out

my latest attempt at stress relief is an hour on the topic of silence

i'm assuming that all those romance words cognate with "silence" mean about the same thing, otherwise i will feel silly

portishead - silence
muna zul - voto de silencio
ceu - sobre o amor e seu trabalho silencioso
laura mvula - silence is the way
stella - le silence
eldritch anisette - dissection of silence
petra haden - silence
marie laforet - le tengo rabia al silencio
wild country - silent village
thinking plague - dead silence
that dog. - silently
ruth copeland - the silent boatman
the revolutionary army of the infant jesus - le monde du silence
tori amos - enjoy the silence
young marble giants - radio silents

i'm pretty happy with how this one turned out

hi rush, i posted this on the hendrix thread but almost immediately realized you wouldn't see it so i'm putting it here, hope that's okay:

just today i have been listening to the archival release from the avandaro festival which has armando molina doing the same thing. wild shit, btw.

― bob lefse (rushomancy), Wednesday, January 3, 2018 7:28 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this appears to be the only mention of the festival on ilx, and also of the soundtrack 2xCD i'm trying to track down. do you actually have the discs or just files ? it's good ?

― budo jeru, Friday, June 28, 2019 1:01 PM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh yeah thanks for putting it here, i haven't been really on top of the board lately too much else going on, i just have the files not the actual cds, also either the recording itself or the files are a little wonky and the track numbering i have is just strange, i don't even know if it's from the actual cds or just some weird bootleg. i think it's good! but you have to be into that whole hippie jam thing, particularly on the tracks by peace & love which is like half of it. lots of flute and drum solos, lots of energetically shouted vocals, horn sections, kind of janis-style soul singing, lots of heavy guitar, not the best quality recording (i think it was recorded by vicente fox for coca cola, the whole scene is just kind of weird. i do authentically love it though, and i say that as someone who is super not into flute and/or drum solos.

i literally have not been listening to any new music all week, just a lot of other stuff going on. last week i thought about posting a song by uncle earl here that i really liked, but i was worried it might be too controversial because of the cross-cultural aspects, i thought it was respectfully done but i recognize other people might feel differently

the other thing i've been doing is the local orchestra sent me the program for their next year so i've been listening to all the stuff i don't know (lots of it, the canon is a little small but there's still a lot of it) for stuff that strikes me, digging more into profokiev and schumann

i should check out the hendrix thread, i like hendrix

i guess one of the things i was listening to last week was "to have done with the judgement of god", the last radio broadcast of artaud. i don't speak a lick of french, but it was cathartic for me, just half an hour of artaud, who was absolutely well and truly crazy, screaming about americans and catholics and semen over occasional xylophones. i'm not that crazy at the moment but i could still relate!

A couple of months ago I was trying to remember the name of a killer psychedelic jam by a late '60s band that otherwise did fairly shitty old-timey music. Happened to run across it when I was consolidating my backups. It's "Jigsaw" by Dr. West's Medicine Show. Apparently Norman Greenbaum was involved, but this is way trippier than "Spirit in the Sky". Now if I can just figure out where I put that fantastic '70s South or Central American oil company jingle...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ_NBj_kI08

By the way I haven't been really listening to a lot of new music lately, been busy with other things, though I did happen to run across a nice version of one of my favorite Velvet Underground songs "Lady Godiva's Operation" by some nice young British men named Ulrika Spacek while fruitlessly looking for the "swan mix" (really just a different master AFAIK) of the song. Today I've just been listening to a bunch of songs that have the word "River" in the title. Most of them are fairly nice. I guess people will always associate that Dennis Wilson song with Doctor Who now...

I have a tradition. Several, actually, like celebrating Earl Warren's birthday. But the relevant one here is that every year, I endeavor to celebrate July 14th by listening to the band Rush, because of the lead track off "Caress of Steel", which is a straight banger. Mostly I believe the '80s were the best decade for Rush, though. Stuff like "Red Lenses", "Chain Lightning", "Sobohla Manyosi", and this one, which straight out brings it. Enjoy "It's My Love". As Noburo, Shigeru, and Kazuo say, "The life was too simple -- we had to get out of there! At least we found our way of life there!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttMu_3ShjJY

Here's some French dude rapping over "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast". Fuck it, why not?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uNKii20OIw

thanks for sharing that dr. west song, it's really great

was reading today about a three-movement jazz symphony by charles stepney called "cohesion" that was performed by the minneapolis symphony orchestra with minnie riperton and ramsey lewis. sounds fascinating but no recording apparently exists. but while looking it up found this song from the unreleased double lp version of "what colour is love" by terry callier, so that's cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73PW91ctgmY

still mostly too busy to spend much time on music unfortunately. can anybody recommend something great with adrian rollini on bass saxophone? he doesn't have to be the leader, it can be bix or whatever, i just want to hear what he could get up to on that thing!

ok i'll be honest with you i haven't been listening to much new music in the past two months, i've had other stuff i'm working on. i did a quick and dirty add of the stuff that stuck with me over the past two months, here it is:

kajia saariaho - private gardens
the oppressed - football violence
avet terterian - symphony 1-8
doss - s/t
fearofdark - motorway
ie - pome
v/a - swedish death metal
octo octa - for lovers
emil gilels - beethoven: piano sonatas 21, 23, 26
jute gyte - birefringence
ulrika spacek - modern english decoration
wilma vritra - burd
yugen blakrok - anima mysterium
tyme. - no one like you and me
optical*8 - all over
david pritchard - nocturnal earthworm stew
charlie parker - one night in birdland
rorschach - protestant
kraftwerk - autobahn
messiaen/latry - la nativite du seigneur
v/a - routes from the jungle
groundwork - today we will not be invisible nor silent
ms. robinson - hip hop tables
north sea radio orchestra - folly bololey
mili - mag mell
lepo sumera - mushroom cantata & other choral works
karajan/berlin philharmonic - prokofiev symphony no. 5
jonny dillon - s/t

lol of recognition at hearing Gilles Peterson's voice at the very end of that Terry Calier, quelle surprise

he apparently owns the only existing copy of the acetate!

like 18 years ago on Audiogalaxy I found this song that sampled orson welles' chartres speech from "f for fake", no artist was given, i finally got around to figuring out who it was yesterday - apparently they're called "beach flea". anyway here is an old ass song i have liked for a long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5etReMPMLA8

starting to slowly come back to listening to music, dropped by bandcamp daily this morning and stumbled into this beat tape, i like it a lot

https://lowleaf.bandcamp.com/album/bakers-dozen-low-leaf

here are some nice videos by guy klucevsek, a long set from 2000 and a very sweet version of lars hollmer's "boeves psalm" from 2015

https://vimeo.com/11313944

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJudrZ-9JvM

September

I first got on the Internet in September of 1993. That month casts a long shadow in Internet lore. Back in the olden days of the Internet, it was so heavily academic that it more or less ran on the school year calendar. Every year, like clockwork, a flood of "newbies" would show up in September and turn things higgeldy-piggeldy.

It was surprising to me when I started seriously engaging with the Internet trans community how much it runs on the same cycle. Every September, it seems, there's a fresh crop of college students in a place where they can deal with gender issues for the first time in their lives.

1993 became known, to those who remember such things, as the year September never ended. My hope is that, for the trans community, this year is the year September never ends.

David Sylvian - September
Willie Nelson - September Song
Gundula Janowitz - September
Camille - Pale Septembre
La Femme - Septembre
The New Sound of Numbers - Luminous September
El Goodo - September
Moonriders - Jellyfish Sea in September
Group Inerane - Awal September
Robert Wyatt - September the Ninth
Cosmic Child - September Coffee (Part 1)
Sumire - September Love
PFM - Impressioni di Settembre
Big Star - September Gurls
Earth, Wind, & Fire - September

The key and longest track here is "September the Ninth" - I think actually the second of these I heard. Listening to it today the lyrics, which I believe are by Alfie, hit me like a ton of bricks. Here they are:

Woman wishing for wings
(Too large a lump to pass for bird)
Hopes that by wishing hard enough
She will cast off the ballast
And the swallows
Will politely accept her waving arms
As wings
And she will join in with them
And she will rise up with them
And she will
Fly

This weekend I came across a link to a random tizita song by ውብሸት ፍስሐ (Wubishet Fisseha). I knew about tizita but I'd never really heard any aside from Mahmoud Ahmed, and it occurred to me that I like tizita music quite a lot, so I checked out RYM's tizita charts. That's how I ran across Kuku Sebsebe's "Munaye Munaye". It's really good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVBRRy3jiWs

I'm also enjoying last year's የኔ አለም (Yene alem) by Eténèsh Wassié, Mathieu Sourisseau & Julie Läderach - this one seems to have maybe flown under the radar a bit? I went out of my way last year to listen to as much 2018 music I could find and don't recall running across it... well there's always more great music than one can possibly listen to or even know about, isn't there?

Was just watching some Vectrex videos, here's a Vectrex visualization of a Buchla thing by Nathan Moody, I don't know why I look for good music when i just run across stuff like this basically at random

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F3EQHm1iU4

OK. I'm trying to finish off my Beatles cover project and I am SO FUCKING CLOSE I will tell you. Somebody let me know that Silverchair covered "Yellow Submarine" and yes I am drunk but I like Silverchair and I like their cover. And THEN I found out that the Godz did "You Won't See Me", and it is so sweet and charming and naive and incompetent I can't resist it.

That leaves "What Goes On". And Sufjan Stevens' version is GOOD but I do not LIKE it. I listened to it again and I am drunk and I like it EVEN LESS.

So I went back to the ones I cheated on, which are "Good Morning", where I took the Kellogg's jingle that inspired Lennon to write the song, and Sun King, where I took Fleetwood Mac's "Albatross".

SO I have an "upgrade" to Albatross, I mean it does not REPLACE Albatross which is an all-time song, but it is an obscure Boston horrorcore group from '93 that did a song sampling Sun King and I like this song. The group are called the Shapeshifters and the song is called Grim Tales. It is VERY OBSCURE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5c0Iu7GITQ

just to tell you that i really enjoy what you are listening to, rusho.

Thanks Alex! I'm enjoying sharing stuff here... I'll try to keep it updated around every week or so... I know my name's on the thread but other contributions are welcome as well :)

New playlist - secret word for this one is "Ghost". Thought about just making it a 20 minute live version of the Phish song combined with Albert Ayler (actually the Yosuke Yamashita Trio playing Ayler) but that might be a little _too_ contrarian I guess, even if it would be good. Here's what came out instead:

The Solitaires - I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance
Dwarr - Ghost Lover
Marlin Wallace - Ghost Train
Farao - The Ghost Ship
Golden Disko Ship - Girl As A Slower Ghostship
The Ilk - A Ghost Story For Summer
Fleetwood Mac - The Ghost
Jay Som - Ghost
Brother Android - Ghost Station
Bent Knee - Holy Ghost
Lonnie Johnson - Blue Ghost Blues
Concretism - Telex Ghosts
Unknown NYC Traveler - When Robots Have Ghosts
Timeless Legend - Ghost of Love
Thumpermonkey - Deckchair For Your Ghost
Sam Amidon - Ghosts
Charlie Parker - I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance (1947-03-02)

No ringers on this one, all deep cuts. Sometimes I just want to be obscure!

Autumn! Here's what came up this time. Lots of oldies this time out.

Jeff Phelps - Excerpts From Autumn
that dog. - Autumn in June
The Kinks - Autumn Almanac
Bing Grosby (yes, that's a typo, I'm leaving it) - Autumn Leaves
Bai Kwong - Autumn Evening
Don Ellis - After an Autumn Rain demo
Gridlink - Constant Autumn
Ved Buens Ende - Autumn Leaves
Peter Hammill - Summer Song (In The Autumn)
Aphex Twin - Autumn Travels
Lee Hazlewood - My Autumn's Done Come
Robyn Hitchcock - Autumn Is Your Last Chance
Horse - Autumn
Onra - Autumn Moon Shining Over the Calm Lake
Captain Beefheart - Autumn's Child
Joanna Newsom - Autumn
Gianni Safred - Autumn 2001

I did another one on the topic of "mirror" but this one I think came out nicer, even though it was less work.

Oh, and for the record I don't think the Bing Crosby and the Ved Buens Ende are the same song.

it could be yours

https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/4771806?ev=rb