Rolling weird music 2020

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Was thinking about doing a thread for that but didn't want to cause any awkwardness but yes - tremendous job e!

I'm honestly blown away by everyone being so nice about it, makes me all warm and fuzzy, thank you guys.

we've had very limited interactions on here if any but this is awesome.

I'm sure it's due to the name but it does remind me a bit of King Of The Slums who were a Manchester band from the late 80s who had a rumbling Fall-ish sound but with a fiddle player, and they were fab and I've missed them for a long time. Anyway the first track on the SoL album is fucking stunning and I love it

rap thread hasn't claimed Zebra Katz yet, can we

new album is fire

New Patricia Taxxon sounding lovely!

https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/album/rainbow-road

What does track 3, Soaring, remind you of? :)

New Emma Phyzema on Bandcamp (mixed by Bob Drake), just had a quick listen, sounds good, I detect a bit of a Dannielle Dax influence.

https://emmephyzema.bandcamp.com/album/chronic-bronchitis

not to take this back to too much orange milk but this is cool:

https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/diagnostics

http://hausumountain.bandcamp.com/album/coriolis

Interesting sounds...warm and disjointed

imago and tangent: this seemed like something you might dig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghpn99s8I-U
lifted from the k-pop thread

Radio show #7 up on mixcloud, we got some old weird and some new weird for you all: https://www.mixcloud.com/citybeatradio/cryptophasia-007/

https://sidechains.bandcamp.com/track/1-800

reminds me of the old slapp happy song "i got evil"

and of course a little DOOM

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYP-MscXgAAaNFG?format=png&name=small

Perhaps the most astonishing, seductive and compelling of Partch's works, Delusion stands as the Choral Symphony or Ring Cycle do to other composers: a culminating testament to a lifetime of "doing your own thing."

Like composer Conlon Nancarrow, Partch had to wait until late in life for his radical contributions to the arts to receive wide attention. With the 1969 production of Delusion he was "discovered", idolized, and gurufied, as a 43-tone-to-the-octave, ex-hobo, eccentric, maverick, iconoclastic instrument-builder, and a "philosophic music-man seduced into carpentry." Hippy hyperbole notwithstanding, Partch was a genuine far-out radical whose time has come. Again. "Sounds like this have rarely been heard before, at least not on this planet." Delusion of the Fury is a 72' totally-integrated, corporeal, microtonal, elemental work of ritual theater, incorporating almost all of Partch's hand-built orchestra of sculptural instruments. Using mime, dance, music, vocalizations, lighting, and costume, Partch presents two tales concerning reconciliation of life and death, one after a Japanese Noh drama, the other after an Ethiopian folk tale.
streaming:
http://ubu.com/film/partch_delusion.html

Oooooh.

nice

i got to see a full live production of Delusion of the Fury some year ago; it was a singular weird experience and i sorta doubt I'll ever hear a Partch orchestra in concert again
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/06/arts/music/06part.html

More people need to listen and join in on this thread: White Boy Scream

i like this
https://fire-toolz.bandcamp.com/track/ever-widening-rings

Some of this is really lovely but I just can't get comfortable with the vokills and blastbeats in the mix so far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4i2OQc7Gr8

I'm liking the new Cucina Povera album. This one features some nice use of mobile phone interference noise.

huh, that's damaging; will try in a focused listen soon.

Really liked Redundance by Stian Westerhus on first listen: https://stianwesterhus.bandcamp.com/

Makes me think a bit of Robert Fripp playing with Ulver or Toby Driver? He's a very expressive singer. I gather that some of his previous work is just avant-garde guitar composition? I should look deeper into it.

That's great.

Not quite the right thread for it, but – in the deathless spirit of shitty descriptors – Tangram by Material Girl is Endtroducing… for zoomers and it rules.

will check recent additions tomorrow, but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_czBcs7tFtE

taxxon having quite the 2020

the above song is off this, which is on first pass really great

https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/album/gelb

Yeah I wasn't sure what to make of the Westerhus at first but I ended up enjoying it quite a bit xxp

The second in Taxxon's ballet trilogy is out already and somehow after a few years of releasing a lot of albums she has turned her craft into something quite extraordinary

https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/album/rosa

no wave band w new album out that might be of interest to ppl who read this thread: special interest

O hell yes Special Interest's Spriraling was amazing, great to know about new 'un.
Speaking of ballet music as breakthrough/honing of craft, have yall heard this?
https://jlin.bandcamp.com/album/autobiography-music-from-wayne-mcgregors-autobiography

the Special Interest is fairly compelling but it is another album that seems to regard melody as some sort of bourgeois luxury

that is probably more cutting than it needs to be as I am rather enjoying the sonics!

You mean the Sonics band or the sonics of the (latest?) Special Interest album?

the latter!

new emamouse is outstanding

https://emamouse.bandcamp.com/album/--3

^this rules

special interest record is r good for summer humid walks

Would Memnon Sa fit in here? I mean one could put the new record in a lot of different categories, but I think it's tunefully weird and can't stop listening to it?

Newish WaqWaq Kingdom is getting a lot of play at my house these days, this is the single and by far the most "normal" track on the record. Maybe better for deconstructed club, but I think it's a bit too tuneful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uho_3qWJIBw

https://open.spotify.com/track/60fbYOyOnb3FiYdByuF2mT?si=fGn6NqmqTVuxQ0N7NfhtAQ

Sewerslvt
Breakbeats and moody synths

I like this...I don't use Spotify, but is it the "Draining Love Story" record? If so, some of this is Bobbins worthy!

oh yes i have opinions on this record :)

Do tell!

Yes, draining love story
https://geometriclullaby.bandcamp.com/album/draining-love-story

wow @ lexapro delirium

Do tell!

― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table)

ok, here's what i wrote

https://weirdthingsonbetamax.blogspot.com/2020/05/reviews-of-couple-of-2020-albums.html

Thanks Kate! I like how you're able to see the value of the expression while ruing the circumstances that brought it to the fore.

I dig this a lot, downloaded and listened to late last night. Reminds me of a strange mish-mash of the E-Saggila hard techno, near-gabber sound and the Nathan Micay record's queer anime preoccupations.

great review thanks kate

Stan Brakhage, "The Test of Time." A series of twenty half-hour radio shows featuring incredible music and insightful commentary, hosted by Brakhage in 1982 for University of Colorado KAIR radio [MP3]:http://www.ubu.com/sound/brakhage.html

gahhhhhh not sure whether to thank you there or not

pro: amazing
con: timesuck of the highest order

thanks for this
great stuff

Did we ever get a 2021 thread for this?

Start one!

yeh that;'ll be good
a bit under the weather this week but i have a few links to throw in if one gets going

Here we go: Rolling weird music // time travel // unclassifiable 2021