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
― Un Poco Loco Moco (rushomancy), Monday, 15 July 2019 00:56 (four years ago) link
Here's some French dude rapping over "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast". Fuck it, why not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uNKii20OIw
― Un Poco Loco Moco (rushomancy), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 22:53 (four years ago) link
thanks for sharing that dr. west song, it's really great
― budo jeru, Thursday, 18 July 2019 03:08 (four years ago) link
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!
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Saturday, 3 August 2019 01:31 (four years ago) link
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 gardensthe oppressed - football violenceavet terterian - symphony 1-8doss - s/tfearofdark - motorwayie - pomev/a - swedish death metalocto octa - for loversemil gilels - beethoven: piano sonatas 21, 23, 26jute gyte - birefringenceulrika spacek - modern english decorationwilma vritra - burdyugen blakrok - anima mysteriumtyme. - no one like you and meoptical*8 - all overdavid pritchard - nocturnal earthworm stewcharlie parker - one night in birdlandrorschach - protestantkraftwerk - autobahnmessiaen/latry - la nativite du seigneurv/a - routes from the junglegroundwork - today we will not be invisible nor silentms. robinson - hip hop tablesnorth sea radio orchestra - folly bololeymili - mag melllepo sumera - mushroom cantata & other choral workskarajan/berlin philharmonic - prokofiev symphony no. 5jonny dillon - s/t
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Thursday, 8 August 2019 00:45 (four years ago) link
lol of recognition at hearing Gilles Peterson's voice at the very end of that Terry Calier, quelle surprise
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 8 August 2019 10:10 (four years ago) link
he apparently owns the only existing copy of the acetate!
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Thursday, 8 August 2019 10:50 (four years ago) link
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
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Saturday, 10 August 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
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
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Saturday, 17 August 2019 15:30 (four years ago) link
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
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Sunday, 18 August 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
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 - SeptemberWillie Nelson - September SongGundula Janowitz - SeptemberCamille - Pale SeptembreLa Femme - SeptembreThe New Sound of Numbers - Luminous SeptemberEl Goodo - SeptemberMoonriders - Jellyfish Sea in SeptemberGroup Inerane - Awal SeptemberRobert Wyatt - September the NinthCosmic Child - September Coffee (Part 1)Sumire - September LovePFM - Impressioni di SettembreBig Star - September GurlsEarth, 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 enoughShe will cast off the ballastAnd the swallowsWill politely accept her waving armsAs wingsAnd she will join in with themAnd she will rise up with themAnd she willFly
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Friday, 23 August 2019 00:14 (four years ago) link
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
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Monday, 26 August 2019 04:07 (four years ago) link
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?
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Monday, 26 August 2019 04:13 (four years ago) link
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
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Saturday, 31 August 2019 01:05 (four years ago) link
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
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Sunday, 1 September 2019 02:20 (four years ago) link
just to tell you that i really enjoy what you are listening to, rusho.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 7 September 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
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 :)
― sock fingering, baby (rushomancy), Saturday, 7 September 2019 23:58 (four years ago) link
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 ChanceDwarr - Ghost LoverMarlin Wallace - Ghost TrainFarao - The Ghost ShipGolden Disko Ship - Girl As A Slower GhostshipThe Ilk - A Ghost Story For SummerFleetwood Mac - The GhostJay Som - GhostBrother Android - Ghost StationBent Knee - Holy GhostLonnie Johnson - Blue Ghost BluesConcretism - Telex GhostsUnknown NYC Traveler - When Robots Have GhostsTimeless Legend - Ghost of LoveThumpermonkey - Deckchair For Your GhostSam Amidon - GhostsCharlie 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!
― sock fingering, baby (rushomancy), Saturday, 21 September 2019 02:08 (four years ago) link
Autumn! Here's what came up this time. Lots of oldies this time out.
Jeff Phelps - Excerpts From Autumnthat dog. - Autumn in JuneThe Kinks - Autumn AlmanacBing Grosby (yes, that's a typo, I'm leaving it) - Autumn LeavesBai Kwong - Autumn EveningDon Ellis - After an Autumn Rain demoGridlink - Constant AutumnVed Buens Ende - Autumn LeavesPeter Hammill - Summer Song (In The Autumn)Aphex Twin - Autumn TravelsLee Hazlewood - My Autumn's Done ComeRobyn Hitchcock - Autumn Is Your Last ChanceHorse - AutumnOnra - Autumn Moon Shining Over the Calm LakeCaptain Beefheart - Autumn's ChildJoanna Newsom - AutumnGianni 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.
― Poody Mae Bubblebutt, Miss Kumquat of 1947 (rushomancy), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 01:08 (four years ago) link
it could be yours
https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/4771806?ev=rb
― budo jeru, Friday, 27 September 2019 04:56 (four years ago) link
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.
― Poody Mae Bubblebutt, Miss Kumquat of 1947 (rushomancy), Friday, 27 September 2019 09:03 (four years ago) link
I Wonder If It Will Be Friends With Me?
The White Stripes - Dead Leaves and the Dirty GroundThe Temptations - Shakey GroundJanko Nilovic - Black on a White GroundStevie Wonder - Higher GroundDaniel Koestner - Breaking GroundBascom Lamar Lunsford - I Wish I Was A Mole in the GroundRadiohead - GroundThingy - Grounded, I GuessQuinoline Yellow - Off Ground TouchChristina Pluhar/L'Arpeggiata - Curtain Tune on a Ground (H. Purcell)Tjupurru - Stompin' GroundExploded View - Stand Your GroundEgg - Wring Out the Ground Loosely NowBasic Soul Unit - GrounswellDreamcast & Burymeinamink - Ground
One hour to the second! I know there are people who are like flawless at that, but I just guesstimate this stuff.
― Calpico Girlfriend (rushomancy), Thursday, 3 October 2019 01:14 (four years ago) link
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
― Calpico Girlfriend (rushomancy), Sunday, 6 October 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
Another mix. This one has Hoobastank on it.
Blaze Foley - My Reasons WhyRoland Kirk - Search For the Reason WhyAdam, Mike, & Tim - You're the Reason WhyBobby Edwards - You're the ReasonGeorge Aaron - Silly ReasonLifetones - For a ReasonShere Khan - No ReasonNNB - 25 ReasonsHoobastank - The Reason (Bo En Remix)The Lost - No Reason WhyThe Circulatory System - The Reasons Before You KnewUJ3RK5 - Reason Sleeps TonightToy - The Reasons WhyStereolab & Nurse With Wound - Animal or Vegetable (A Wonderful Wooden Reason)The Velvet Underground - I Found a Reason
― Calpico Girlfriend (rushomancy), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 00:06 (four years ago) link
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
― Spironolactone T. Agnew (rushomancy), Thursday, 24 October 2019 00:10 (four years ago) link
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
― Spironolactone T. Agnew (rushomancy), Saturday, 26 October 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
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.
― tantric societal collapse (rushomancy), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
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
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link
Very nice! I probably couldn't have fit it in, no. BTW the Iceage song is actually called "Everything Drifts"!
― tantric societal collapse (rushomancy), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
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
― tantric societal collapse (rushomancy), Friday, 1 November 2019 04:57 (four years ago) link
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
― tantric societal collapse (rushomancy), Sunday, 10 November 2019 23:21 (four years ago) link
this is a really cool comp, opens with the original “rain and snow”:https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71XF9pNXlcL._SY355_.jpg
― brimstead, Monday, 11 November 2019 01:28 (four years ago) link
Cool Robert Crumb cover.
― earlnash, Monday, 11 November 2019 01:43 (four years ago) link
I was looking for copies of the Wheel of Fortune pilots featuring a drunk Edd "Kookie" Byrnes and I ran across Pea Hix's Youtube channel. This is a pretty nice disco acetate he posted. There's also a link to a stylophone trio he wrote on Soundcloud that I recommend heartily, but this up-tempo disco jam is the one that grabs me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy9sb5DTxwE
― tantric societal collapse (rushomancy), Sunday, 17 November 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
i'm listening to this sam vosbikian oud solo from 1950 (it's the first song here, about one minute in https://eastriverstringband.com/radioshow/?p=2314 ) and it strikes me... is that a reggaeton beat? like, did old-time kef bands use reggaeton beats a lot? or am i just dreaming shit here?
― tantric societal collapse (rushomancy), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 01:03 (four years ago) link
You'd have to work very hard to convince me that this version of "Shaft" isn't being recorded by the Portsmouth Sinfonia under a pseudonym.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZy1onGBF_E
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 06:16 (four years ago) link
Here's one I threw together really quick:
You Have Been Warned
Rose Elinor Dougall - Strange WarningsMoving Parts - Anti-Aircraft WarningMac Rebennack - Storm WarningBoreal Network - This is a Tornado WarningDavid Axelrod - Warning Talk, Part ThreeBoards of Canada - Energy WarningKazuki Muraoka - Warning SirenBreakmaster Cylinder - Spill Bass/Tomato WarningThe Armed - Parody WarningGame Theory - Time WarnerSnakefinger - Friendly WarningSoul Camel - Horsehead Nebula (another warning light)Alec Lambert - God is Already Warning UsMonster Magnet - Look To Your Orb For The WarningMacabre (Pentagram) - Be ForewarnedTalking Heads - Warning SignGiant Ant Farm - Eva's WarningCaribou Vibration Ensemble feat. Marshall Allen - A Final Warning
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 23:34 (four years ago) link
my brother is like "maybe one day you will get into hardcore" and honest to god i try but i gave it another shot today and the record that stuck out most to me was a polish christian record with a french horn player on it, which, like, i don't think is what he was hoping i'd get into?
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Thursday, 28 November 2019 00:00 (four years ago) link
Update: I did finally get into some hardcore. Foundation's "When The Smoke Clears" is a good record.
In the meantime... it's Christmas time! I hate Christmas music. I have a significant collection nonetheless, but it's all terrible music that's not at all in the "spirit of the season" and that nobody wants to hear.
This record is not terrible but nobody wants to hear Jimmy "Duck" Holmes (whose latest record was recommended by Ted Gioia on his 2019 longlist) singing "Christmas Alone" in December. Nobody but me.
https://jimmyduckholmes.bandcamp.com/album/christmas-alone-merry-christmas-baby-single
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Thursday, 5 December 2019 01:43 (four years ago) link
I'm just fucking exhausted, I socially transitioned this week and it has been great but I am really tired. Too tired to do anything really but write about music.
My CD of Mellotron demos came in the mail yesterday and I sort of fell into a hole from there. Next thing I knew I was watching this performance by Lisa Bella Donna.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sggSUJI4E8U
I know it's a stereotype for people like me to be into analog synths. I don't mind fitting a stereotype. Honestly I'm lucky to have gotten into the Mellotron first, because there's never been any "entry level" access to those. Under other circumstances I might have a longstanding habit of spending more than I can afford on circuit bending. Also helping: My dyspraxia - doing the craft type stuff, soldering or changing out oscillators or any of that shit, is something I've avoided because doing hardware computer stuff was stressful and difficult enough for me with my dexterity issues.
The issue with this sort of stuff is it's so easy to substitute gear for talent (looking at you, The Edge), and the result of this glut of decent-but-not-great material means that I don't spend a lot of time listening to Berlin School stuff. If I like a piece of music, I want to listen to it more than once, to really absorb myself in it, and most of this stuff, there's no reason to do that. Exceptions are some of the old Tangerine Dream and Redshift's s/t.
I ca see myself doing this with Lisa Bella Donna's stuff. Some of it at least. She's got like five albums out this year and I'm not going to listen to all of them, but she does seem more than usually talented to my ears.
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Saturday, 7 December 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
I've been having a rough time of it so I didn't get to post any music this weekend, even though I have some I wanted to post. Youtube is also half-convinced I am a bot which complicates things somewhat. Anyway here is Angel Witch on East German television in 1981:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4I3_VtGjqs
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
So anyway here's the thing, I got a couple things to tell you about here. Earlier this year I read a book on requiems and there was some really good stuff in there... I paid attention to an offhand mention of Ukrainian Valentin Bibik's piano variations on Dies Irae. It's up on Youtube and so is some of his other stuff... I was taken with this piece, apparently from a longer cycle, "In The White Night".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD5u80b268I
Another thing I've gotten into over the last couple days is Curt Boettcher... I didn't know about the new comp, and listening to it got me off on a rabbit hole. I listened to this extensive career overview fan comp called "I've Got To Love Somebody...". I don't know anything more about it except that while it's not perfect there's some excellent stuff on it. I was particularly taken by this seven-song run at the end of disc 2:
Curt Boettcher - It's a Sad World (solo piano)Tommy Roe - It's Now Winter's DayThe Plastic People - This Life of MineLee Mallory - Many Are the TimesFriar Tuck - A Bit of Gray LostBobby Jameson - See DawnThe Ballroom - Baby, Please Don't Go
Whoever sequenced these did a fantastic job. It's just a completely knockout sequence of downer Boettcher.
Through that comp I also got into some records I hadn't previously heard about, the Eternity's Children LP, which just hits all the right spots for me, and the Moses Lake record. I can see how some people might find the Moses Lake record too "wacky" but to me it's amazing, Boettcher's production at its best applied to a heavier, more rock band rather than his typical sunshine pop metier. Their 15-minute adaptation of the first (I think) creation story from Genesis deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Aphrodite's Child's "666", IMO. And that's followed up with a completely kick-ass adaptation of "The Hollow Men"...
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 00:55 (four years ago) link
ok it is still early but here is my 2019 list as of 2019-12-17, i'll probably find some more stuff after this but i have some time to kill now so. this includes reissues, archival, whatever, just whatever is in my tags.
regal & alien rain - acid affair epAndreas Söderström & Rickard Jäverling - Adelsöalgiers - voideuropa ritrovata - affect is no crimesmallpeople - afterglowr. stevie moore - afterlifevanishing twin - the age of immunologyhermann nitsch - albertina quartettptu - am i who i ammoor mother - analog fluids of solid black holesyugen blakrok - anima mysteriumcraig leon - anthology of interplanetary music vol. 2: the canonv/a - aor global sounds vol. 4death and vanilla - are you a dreamer?sudan archives - athenajohn hartford - backroads, rivers & memories: the rare and unreleased john hartfordlow leaf - baker's dozenilyas ahmed - behold killersupper reality - best of upper realityjards macale - besta feradavid bowlin - bird as prophetjute gyte - birefringencethe black heart death cult - s/tblack market drugs - brain sciencev/a - bulawayo blue yodelvilma vritra - burdcherushii & maria minerva - s/tcheer-accident - chicago xxlucas gillan's many blessings - chit-chatting with herbie田中裕梨 - city lights 2nd seasonkatarra parson - cocoa voyagethe 180 gs - the commercial albumarziv orchestra - complete recordings of a 1940s philadelphia kef bandl'orange & jeremiah jae - complicate your life with violenceshasta culta - configurationsancient pools - cosinefloating points - crushlizzo - cuz i love youjimmy "duck" holmes - cypress grovemiho hazama - dancer in nowherejacques greene - dawn chorusben monder - day after dayde lorians - s/tdisentomb - the decaying lightaldous harding - designerolli hirvonen - displacelingua nada - djinnrustin man - drift codefort romeau - dweller on the thresholdfrank harris & maria marquez - echoesMMMD - egoismoafrosideral - el olimpo de los orishasv/a - electro acholi kaboom from northern ugandaedward bogosian - everything is fake: armenian folk music in nyc in the 1940s96 back - excitable, girlron geesin - expozoomhyper john & muzeumvisitor - falling for youeric le sage - faure: nocturnespapisa - fendajack quartet - filigree: music of hannah lashronin arkestra - first meetingjaimie branch - fly or die ii: bird dogs of paradiseNorth Sea Radio Orchestra;John Greaves;Annie Barbazza - folly bololey: songs from robert wyatt's rock bottomkokoko! - fongolaocto octa - for loversblaquestone - full circlejucifer - futilityv/a - gabberdisco origins 01marie spaemann - gapustad saami - god is not a terroristliniker e os caramelows - goela abaixoliturgy - haqqskander - harakatrodan - the hat factory 93fort romeau - heaven & earthmeara o'reilly - hockets for two voicessevish - horixenshama - houmeissaMax Andrzejewski's HÜTTE - HÜTTE and guests play the music of robert wyattrrose - hymn to moistureshinichiro yokota - i know you like itemerson - if you need me, call meZdeněk Liška - ikarie xb-1toyohiko satoh - ikiill considered - ill considered 6sunwatchers - illegal movesanne leilehua lanzilotti - in manus tuasxoth - interdimensional invocationsarthur russell - iowa dreamotoboke beaver - itekoma hitslifafa - jaagofredfades & jawn rice - jacuzzi boyzraphael saadiq - jimmy leejonny dillon - s/tgianluigi trovesi - la misteriosa musica della regina loanafet.nat - le malgary gritness - the legend of cherenkov bluethe toms - life raftchristopher tignor - a light belowminami deutsch and damo suzuki - live at roadburnoranssi pazuzu - live at roadburn 2017ccr - live at woodstockzeal & ardor - live in londonking crimson - live in newcastle, december 8, 1972curt boettcher - looking for the sunlost crowns - s/tdreamcast & burymeinamink - the lost tape vol. 2white ward - love exchange failureraveena - luciddominique guiot - l'univers de la merWędrowcy~Tułacze~Zbiegi - Marynistyka suchego lądusisso - matesolittle brother - may the lord watchspellling - mazy flypatrick cowley - mechanical fantasy boxdeafkids - Metaprogramaçãothe black egg - mind control losersmonokle & al-90 - mindperfectionradiohead - minidiscs (hacked)4mat - modern closurehoussam gania - mosawi swirithe micky sound - ndege ya mabua peku peku mitaanigrandmaster masese - new african soundz singles no. 1rose elinor dougall - a new illusionkaina - next to the suntyme/tatsuya yamada - no one like you and mev/a - numerous agnomens vol. iiiv/a - nyatiti singles vollume 1Oren Ambarchi, Mark Fell, Will Guthrie & Sam Shalabi - oglon daytc4 - olathat dog. - old lptomeka reid quartet - old newangel bat dawid - the oraclehysteric - oz wave edits 83-87black moth super rainbow - panic fadesbetonkust & palmbomen ii - parallel bcall super - peach 007purple pilgrims - perfumed earthelza soares - planeta fometomb mold - planetary clairvoyanceel irreal veintiuno - poliformowiktor stribog - poradnik usmiechu ostv/a - post now: round one - chicago vs. new yorkv/a - powder in spacego: organic orchestra - ragmalakoffee - raptureocto octa - resonant bodyrick white & eiyn sof - the openingGooooose - rusted siliconfovea hex - the salt garden iiiv/a - seito: in the beginning, woman was the sunnicola cruz - sikustein urheim - simple pieces & paper cut-outspartch - sonata dementiaenvelope generator - songs i hateyosi horikawa - spacesriot ensemble - speak, be silenthiromi - spectrumcarola ortiz - spiralasun ra - the spirit of jazz cosmos arkestra at WUHY 1978behavior - spirits & embellishmentslegowelt - star simulatorshnabubula - super rite of springclipping. - there existed an addiction to bloodseba kaapstad - thinahelado negro - this is how you smilev/a - the time for peace is now: gospel music about ussankara - total liberation of the human raceben ritz - trope insurance"blue" gene tyranny & peter gordon - trust in rockjoe armon-jones - turn to clear viewŠirom - a universe that roasts blossoms for a horsebarker - utilityvagabon - s/treptaliens - valisblackwater holylight - veils of wintermach-hommy - Wap Konn Jòj!guerilla toss - what would the odd do?solange - when i get homeno moon - where do we go from here?krallice - wolfloona - x xwednesday campanella & oorutaichi - yakushima treasurejanan sawa - yemawxyz - yiyapparatus - yonder yawns the universebent knee - you know what they meancharly bliss - young enoughkaisyn holamkhanov - zhuuk baraiym katyngacucina povera - zoom長谷川白紙 - エアににkhana bierbood - strangers from the far eastpolkadot stingray - 有頂天3776 - 歳時記phillip nangle - 2 karimba 3 octavecharlie koffeen presents j dilla's donuts - 2019-02-09 chicago26 bats! - s/tv/a - 30 years of rage part 1-4nkisi - 7 directionssakanaction - 834.194collider - -><-michael robinson - spirit ladyocto octa - i wanna tell you a story about housespanky rogers - racing through timeparis strother - dream catcherdavid briggs - symphonie improvisee on three welsh themesdavila 666 - huesos viejosDerya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - oy oy eminenathan moody - chrysalis
my new year's resolution was to listen to less new music this year than i did last year. i think i've actually accomplished it... though i could still blow it in the next two weeks.
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 03:22 (four years ago) link
i have a hard time finding good mod music because most of the people on the tracker communities right now hate techno! it seems like all they want out of mod files is some fucking hans zimmer fake orchestra shit. for me i feel like a lot of the more innovative stuff is buried under this sort of thing. anyway, i gave it another go and found a good post-peak one, yuki satellites by radix. this one is apparently from '99 and first circulated as a bootleg mp3... it's actually bigger in mp3 than it is in tracker format, because the guy kind of went overboard with the samples. anyway this is quality shit, i'd love to hear more tracker stuff like this and the "speedball 2" theme and "aryx".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef_i-NyMlC8
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Thursday, 19 December 2019 00:31 (four years ago) link
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 20 December 2019 05:53 (four years ago) link
honestly, if i could do ten i would, because that long list... it's not useful, i know it's not useful. too much information, not enough context. i know it's not useful because i see lists like that and they are of no use to me. the ten best? there isn't such a thing, i'd be throwing darts at the list at random. i can give you one record that has meant more to me than anything else, and that is resonant body by octo octa, but beyond that it's just what sort of music you feel like listening to. what i'd like to do, more than a list, is to blurb each and every one of those, give a brief encapsulation of what they're about, so someone looking to explore has more than words that mean nothing to go by. but i don't have the time, or the words, to do any of these records justice, not really. these are all records that have at some point grabbed me before words, they grabbed me, and i can't tell you why they did and the records i've heard that aren't on this list didn't, i can't tell you which of these will grab you, and if you don't have time for it you'll probably wind up skipping it entirely, i know because that's what i do with these sorts of lists when other people make them. i had 45 minutes and i wanted to practice my typing.
how about this. you pick ten and ask me about them and i'll tell you. how's that sound?
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Saturday, 21 December 2019 01:16 (four years ago) link
that is an interesting way to escape the question. i listened to octo octa and it turned out that it is not the kind of music that interests me. electronic music in general i find difficult to love. the problem always being the repetitiveness, the lack of variation especially in the realm of micro-sound. anyways i give you my album of the year. it is an album about instant gratification, a spectacular pop album, voices from the heavens, melodies that totally leave me speechless and kill me. an almost perfect piece of music. Girl by Girl Ray.
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 21 December 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
i wasn't dodging the question, i just didn't give you the answer you were looking for :)
i used to have the same reaction to electronic music - couldn't take the repetition - but as i've listened to more music i come to understand that repetition is at the heart of all music, and the only difference is what the _nature_ of the repetition is. this girl ray record, i am listening to it now, and of course it repeats, like all music repeats, and if you acclimate to it you eventually don't hear it, don't notice it, and hear the change rather than the consistency. it's funny that you say that it's in "micro-sound" that it lacks variation, because to me that's where the variation comes - these are programmed patterns, programmed to be perfect and precise in their individual effect, and it's the combinations that drift, i don't know, maybe in a sort of "in c" sense except more controlled. there's greater economy of language in a lot of the best electronic music, the difference between a poem and a novel, but to get there you have to take the repetition for what it's there for, limbic shit or whatever.
it kind of disappoints me that cis people (and a lot of trans people, for that matter) seem to not hear in "resonant body" what i do, having struggled so long with invisibility to finally hear this record that puts it all out there and affirms and celebrates who we are and it's, i don't know, apparently a fucking dog-whistle or something, people will hear it and just not have any idea what it has to do with being trans.
ah well.
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Saturday, 21 December 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
anyway girl ray is nice but doesn't grab me especially, it strikes me as being one of those records with a terroir to it, like i'd get it more if i was english. there's some records that are like that for me, having spent a long time in the american midwest a band like my morning jacket or wilco means something to me that it probably wouldn't otherwise
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Saturday, 21 December 2019 20:51 (four years ago) link
Lots of great stuff in this thread.
a couple weeks ago i decided to listen to every band i could find named "collage". my favorite was this estonian folk/jazz combo. estonian vocal harmonies and soul jazz, what a combo!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0zVKS6vJes― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Friday, 10 August 2018 02:34 (one year ago)
No way, they're one of my favorite groups.'Kadriko' is even better. hyper.records in Estonia put out a 2CD comp with their entire discography, minus 2 songs, plus a bunch of unreleased stuff. It's a real gem...
― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 21 December 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link