random stuff rushomancy is listening to

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

i'm actually tempted! i mean it's cheaper than that fucking pink floyd box set. but ultimately i'm not a "record collector", don't even have a record player... looking it up though i ran into something else that's pretty interesting though so i don't mind still looking.

also still looking for a version of the beatles' "what goes on" i like. this is difficult because it is not a very good song. in fact i am slowly growing to hate this song.

I Wonder If It Will Be Friends With Me?

The White Stripes - Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
The Temptations - Shakey Ground
Janko Nilovic - Black on a White Ground
Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground
Daniel Koestner - Breaking Ground
Bascom Lamar Lunsford - I Wish I Was A Mole in the Ground
Radiohead - Ground
Thingy - Grounded, I Guess
Quinoline Yellow - Off Ground Touch
Christina Pluhar/L'Arpeggiata - Curtain Tune on a Ground (H. Purcell)
Tjupurru - Stompin' Ground
Exploded View - Stand Your Ground
Egg - Wring Out the Ground Loosely Now
Basic Soul Unit - Grounswell
Dreamcast & Burymeinamink - Ground

One hour to the second! I know there are people who are like flawless at that, but I just guesstimate this stuff.

OK, here's an actual video. I found this instrument on a list of words especially beloved by the editors of a particular edition of the Chambers dictionary. Good luck seeing three heckelphones in one place anywhere else but here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBhkaL6z82M

Another mix. This one has Hoobastank on it.

Blaze Foley - My Reasons Why
Roland Kirk - Search For the Reason Why
Adam, Mike, & Tim - You're the Reason Why
Bobby Edwards - You're the Reason
George Aaron - Silly Reason
Lifetones - For a Reason
Shere Khan - No Reason
NNB - 25 Reasons
Hoobastank - The Reason (Bo En Remix)
The Lost - No Reason Why
The Circulatory System - The Reasons Before You Knew
UJ3RK5 - Reason Sleeps Tonight
Toy - The Reasons Why
Stereolab & Nurse With Wound - Animal or Vegetable (A Wonderful Wooden Reason)
The Velvet Underground - I Found a Reason

wow has it been two weeks already, time flies when you need to pee every hour

i have been on a heavy italo disco kick since that thread got bumped, i'm super excited that there's a documentary about the den harrow war, i have Opinions which i will keep to myself

here's a random record i found by browsing bandcamp's italo disco tags

https://hysteric-edits.bandcamp.com/album/oz-wave-edits-83-87

huh, i can't keep track of all the music - i know people here like to rag on ted gioia (and he probably deserves it!) but nobody else told me about this recent release featuring an early 1942 live recording of "barstow" by harry partch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1eVVsXTqWU

The Drift

OK, this is a little bit of a different one. No set length, no hammering and sawing to fit the songs in the right space. The theme is drifting; if you're counting the minutes the effect isn't convincing. I put in what needs to be there and leave out what doesn't. And, I haven't done this in a while, but I'll do a little writing on the songs like I used to.

Jimi Hendrix - Drifting: Starting at the beginning. One of the first records I had was a cassette dub of a comp called "The Essential Jimi Hendrix". I believe this song was on it. I've always had a certain fondness for Jimi's ballads. The up-tempo funk numbers he was doing around these period, you know, I can't tell the difference between Freedom and Earth Blues and Ezy Ryder so good. I guess the ballads have a bit of the same problem. I guess this song sounds a lot like "Angel". I like this one better. The lyrics... OK, they're adolescent poetry, but I was an adolescent when I first heard it, and it's better than that "Angel of the morning" kind of stuff, even if I do like Jimi's singing on that demo. So: The best way to start.

Tim Buckley - Drifting (Escondido 1970): OK, this is a weird one because I did wind up putting this song on this mix twice. I have this bootleg from the Starsailor band, those last gigs before his 18 month sabbatical, and he does "Drifting" on it. It's very different from the official version on "Lorca", shorter, Bunk and Buzz Gardner are very present so it's a lot more jazz. Sound quality is a bit dodge - I don't think there's ever been an official issue of either of the Starsailor band tapes - but it's the kind of rough around the edges that I like; not really worse than The Copenhagen Tapes (I remember reading somewhere that the Copenhagen Tapes was a deliberately degraded listening copy that was released without the taper's permission and it sounds it; I'd like to hear the original for sure), and the weird fades between tracks make it really suitable for mixes.

Snail's House - (snowdrift): This is where things start getting next level for me. I love old music that has been with me so long it's part of my identity, but I also love new music that seems to go with parts of me I've never acknowledged or understood before. This is a video game soundtrack - I'm not sure if the video game actually exists or not. But it encapsulates the things I love about modern-day synthesized game music - a minor key chord progression with chiming notes (would it be gauche or superficial to say that they remind me from falling snow?) that develops, arpeggios, string sounds, intensity, excitement, without ever really losing that melancholy at the root, eventually coming back around to it. It's not sonata allegro, it's basically unchanged, but the melody isn't what needs to change, we are, and I do.

Radiohead - Backdrifts: One of the two "new songs" from Hail to the Thief that weren't played at their 2002 Iberian sojourn, and my two favorite songs from the record; the most electronic, and the least disappointing by comparison with the excitement of the '02 recordings.

Hearts & Minds - Slowly Drifting Outward: Honestly? In 2018 I consumed more new music than I can possibly remember. Honestly? I don't know if I've ever actually heard this song before yesterday. Whatever possessed madman was wantonly expanding my music collection last year, they had pretty decent taste though. This is some sort of progressive jazz, keyboard that sounds like sampled Mellotron flute, good horn playing.

Iceage - Drifting Outward: I really connected with Iceage's 2018 album; I thought it was a big improvement on, refinement of, "You're Nothing". Some good songs on "You're Nothing", though, some songs I liked a lot at the time, and this was one of them, though it didn't grab me like "Simony" did.

Johnny Moore's Three Blazers featuring Charles Brown - Drifting Blues: I cheat a lot, I give the illusion of breadth by just picking up some nice genre comps. Martin Scorcese Presents the Blues? Never seen it, but that CD set has some great blues on it that I'm not otherwise familiar with, not being a Real Blues Head. Don't know when this is from - '50s? '60s? Stark sonic contrast with the Iceage, probably the biggest shock jump cut on the mix, but I feel like it works.

The Wailers - Driftwood: This one the other hand is a more sedate transition. Pretty sure these folks aren't Bob Marley's band _or_ the "Out Of Our Tree" band. Could be wrong on the latter. This came from a web project called "The Exotica Project" which Numero picked up and licensed a bunch of the tunes from. Numero's issue sounds a lot better.

Barbara Moore - Drifting: We have to get around to the library music eventually, don't we? This is an unusual one in that the record is focused on vocals. It's one of the more acclaimed records in the genre. The haunting harmony vocals have a bit of exotica to them, which makes it flow pretty well from the last section.

Dirty Three - Cast Adrift: One of the first MP3s I had was the bonus CD from the Dirty Three's "Ocean Songs" - I seem to recall that I had enjoyed their playing on that Cat Power record and was inspired to delve into them. I don't even think I have the original record anymore but for some reason that bonus CD has stuck with me.

Klan Aileen - Adrift: I think I discovered these folks on the back of their 2018 album and then backtracked to their '16 record. Kind of shoegazey, noisey bits but overall pensive in much the same way as that Dirty Three song was. I like the echoing reverb.

If By Yes - Adrift: It seems like this is a pretty obscure one? I found out about them because a song of theirs was mixed by Cornelius and showed up on CM3... I loved it and then I found out Petra Haden was involved and of course I loved it. I keep getting surprised because I'd forgotten there was so much heavy guitar involved.

Octo Octa - Adrift (Avalon Emerson Furiously Awake Version): Well I guess you all know how I feel about Octo Octa! I actually don't think I have the record this song was originally from... her old stuff is a little too emotionally harrowing for me to really listen to. It was easier to get into Avalon Emerson because there weren't all those ISSUES to deal with. Anyway it's nice. Not the best track on this mix probably but good.

Seahawks - Drifting (feat. Indra Dunis): For some reason Seahawks are my favourite Balearic group. I don't know why. Right place right time I think? Again they have better songs but it's a good come-down from the Octo Octa tune.

Ray Pollard - The Drifter: OK, look, I didn't put Dobie Gray's "Drift Away" on this and some of you may well be pissed at me about that. I just don't like the song very much. I'm not saying that this really good Northern Soul song makes up for it, or even that I know jack shit about Northern Soul beyond this really good comp I have, but it is a fucking great song.

Richard Lockwood - Now I'm Adrift: Oh this must be another one of those 2018 finds. I don't know anything about this person, some folk loner. Really good songs. Reminds me a little bit of Fred Neil, maybe a bit more cerebral.

Tim Buckley - Driftin' (Venice Mating Call): The original live version that was polished up for Lorca. Buckley's vibe was in a very different space in '69 than it would be a year later. These long, long, vibrato-laden notes that John Oswald distilled into their essence on "Anon", instead of jazz the more familiar sound of Lee Underwood and Carter CC Collins. It looks like this was the only song I kept around from Venice Mating Call, so it must have really stood out.

DeWalta - Drift in the Void: So this is a 2019 release, and I know even less about it than I do the 2018 records! Also, it's electronic stuff, which is a genre of music I really enjoy listening to and never have shit that's interesting to say about! Other than that we're clearly in the "long songs" portion of the mix, which is extremely congenial and amenable to, well, drifting, and that this song does actually pair well with Tim Buckley's eight minute legato-folk tune.

Computer Magic - Drift Away: This is one of the things I love about doing mixes. It's a 2018 record which means I didn't listen to it enough and when I pulled a basically arbitrary subset of the songs I like this popped up. The penultimate song in a mix is very often something that is really meaningful to me, something that gives me a sense of culmination... after getting pretty far out there with the last two songs I wanted something that was a little more focused, had direction and especially meaning. Drifting can be a way of letting go of the past.

Brian Eno - Spirits Drifting: A little on the nose as an ending but if it goes anywhere it has to be the ending. It's the long fade. You can't follow it up with anything. Eno's really good at these sorts of pieces - I know others get more press, but Spirits Drifting is, I think, my favourite.

Turned out about 90 minutes. I guess you could fit it on a C90 - those things were really about 47 minutes a side so there'd probably be room - but I don't have a tape deck anymore. It just made for a good listen. It's good to talk about music, to spend some time thinking about why I like what I like rather than just listing off songs other people might enjoy listening to.

Cool concept and a pleasant change of pace from Scott Walker.

This wouldn't have been a good fit at all, but it reminded me of Richard Barrett's adrift, the avant/electroacoustic take on drifting. Here's an excerpt:

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

Very nice! I probably couldn't have fit it in, no. BTW the Iceage song is actually called "Everything Drifts"!

Doing the obsessive listening thing again. Probably shouldn't. Most of the stuff that gets featured on Bandcamp I wind up liking. David Bowlin, Moor Mother, um, I forget what else. Did you know 4mat put out a new record two weeks ago? I've been listening to his stuff since the early '90s. I guess I haven't really "grown up with him", but it kind of feels like it? I liked his stuff when I was a kid who was into MOD files, and I like his stuff even better now.

https://4mat.bandcamp.com/album/modern-closure

I can't walk so I'm just listening to more deep cut Dead boots. Didn't think I liked Scarlet->Fire until I heard the 1979-11-01 performance. Stuff like Barton Hall... it's so TASTEFUL and CLASSY. If I wanted to hear that shit I wouldn't be listening to the Dead.

So here's something that's not entirely tasteful or classy. I never really knew where the old murder ballad "Rain and Snow", what the Dead used to open their shows with, came from... turns out there's this banjo folkie from the Smoky Mountains by the name of Obray Ramsey who brought it to wider knowledge in '61. Guy was apparently fairly well known in the revival scene of the day but seems thoroughly forgotten right now... which is a shame because he seems like he was a big influence on Sam Amidon in particular. Anyway, in the late '60s somebody get the idea, seeing how all the hippies were into that shit, to repackage Ramsay as a "rock musician" so there was a band called White Lightnin'. They appeared on the soundtrack to the misbegotten cult film "Zachariah" in '71. Before then, though, the producer had a guy named Len Novy cut a "rock" version of "Cold Rain and Snow" for his record. Obray Ramsey isn't around but Byard Ray shows up on fiddle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxPzCWwAU0k

this is a really cool comp, opens with the original “rain and snow”:

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