random stuff rushomancy is listening to

because you lot, aside from maybe three of my friends, are probably the only people who will feign interest in the utterly arbitrary stuff i like. last time i was between jobs i tried for a while posting little write-ups on the music i was digging on to facebook. it was a great way of finding new music, strangely enough, because trying to describe what i was listening to kept bringing me to other things i didn't expect to find. but it was time consuming so once i started working again i quit. expect updates to be sporadic.

this is an early side from blue note records that was on a comp with some james p. johnson sides in the '80s. it's interesting because the celeste isn't an instrument one associates with jazz, except maybe for sun ra. on top of that it's also got charlie christian on guitar, though he's not to the fore here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsVhwQsh86c

The Mills Brothers were crazy good. The dude with the vocal bass line and the guitar is funky and amazing at downhill train speed.

https://youtu.be/MtqpyMvI3D4

That Celeste sounds cool its like vibes with more sustain and a bit of a bell like overtone.

that mills brothers song is great, thanks!

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

I really heard the Mills Brothers listening to Blues Before Sunrise radio show out of Chicago. It's on over night Saturday night/early Sunday. It's rare for me to know that many songs on any show, occasionally a track here or there or unless he is doing a set of Chicago blues from the 50s-70s. Even then, the guy plays a pretty deep well of stuff.

There is some other accapella groups out there from same era as Mills Brothers old stuff that is mind boggling. I've heard him do sets of that stuff a couple times over the years. Some of that is like music from another dimension.

god knows, so much great old stuff and the only way it surfaces is if it's just plain weird like the dezurik sisters.

ucla is putting this huge fucking collection of mexican and mexican-american music on youtube. there was this jazz violinist named emilio caceres on vol. 1 of the savory collection, and he's got this amazing performance of "dark eyes". god only knows what the hell else amazing is in this collection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgcscxD2Ccw

a couple months ago i ran across a bandcamp recording by a doctor of something or other, where he asked the clerks at all the record stores in new york city what their favorite scream on record was and put them together. and that had me thinking about what my favorite scream on record was.

i eventually decided it would have to be by slauter xstroyes. i'm a little disappointed, as a zep stan from the age of 14, that the "belching" school of metal is more credible than the "screeching" school of metal these days. slauter xstroyes are firmly in the latter camp and it's exhilarating. singer here has a scream that turns into a laugh that goes about thirty seconds, and knowing full well what the people want, repeats it three times over the course of the song. ladies and gentlemen, i give you... METAL'S NO SIN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh5h35dYgD8

so my goal is to at some point like all music everywhere. it's a stupid goal, but human existence is stupid and absurd so i feel comfortable with it. to the point where i seek out music in genres i particularly hate to find something redeeming in it.

the music i hate more than anything else in the world is zydeco. i don't know why. i love the accordion and the bandoneon, but zydeco just drives me up a fucking wall. so i had to find a zydeco song i loved.

wasn't all that hard. "they call me good rockin'" by herbert "good rockin'" sam. fucking amazing tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zwLYaEKXPQ

oh, cool, here's a slauter xstroyes live video uploaded next than a day ago. it's not the best slauter xstroyes video on youtube but it's FRESH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR6TyENsTOE

here's a free download of a bunch of field recordings of snow and ice. it's a little uneven but i love the sounds of ice and snow, particularly when it's as fucking hot as it has been out here. good stuff to cool down with.

http://www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=107

sometimes i feel like too much of a gringo to listen to afro-cuban jazz. machito is great of course and i have a couple records of descargas but listening to this modern stuff i'm out of my element. "contrapuntistico" by yosvany terry though clicked with me immediately. maybe my avant-prog background; even if i don't have the technical understanding to explain exactly what terry is doing compositionally, i've listened to enough henry cow that it seems intuitive to me somehow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp8x1F1AFIo

Rush all time poster

awww thank you ross

ok, i know it's a novelty cover, but damn this soul jazz organ trio cover of "enter sandman" is some hot shit. i've always liked the song myself, i don't care if it's a "sell-out" record or whatever.

https://cookinon3burners.bandcamp.com/album/real-life-baby-single

That is a cool arrangement on "enter sandman".

a song i wind up listening to a lot, because the artist is alphabetically near the beginning of my collection, is "badonse memela" by abafana bomjovo. i don't know what any of those words mean. but i found my way to an old blog called "electric jive", which points out that the single version of it for some reason starts with an argument between two men where they yell "fuck you, man" at each other. and it's also a good song, i think it's some sort of kwela which is as far as i can tell one of those styles of music better suited to singles than to albums. of course it got played on "give the drummer some" right after it came out but that was six years ago and i figure it's ok to mention it again on the grounds that everyone involved has since forgotten it existed except me. the album version without the cursing is on youtube but to get the single version you have to go to the blog.

http://electricjive.blogspot.com/2012/04/mine-jive-special-1975.html

I first heard South African jazz through Robert Wyatt and his work with folks from that scene, particularly Mongezi Feza. One of my favorite of the recordings I've heard is a BBC session by the Brotherhood of Breath that was uploaded to a Usenet binary group probably decades ago now. Whoever uploaded it had no more information on it than I do - the tape trading scene did not always have superbly high documentation standards - and I'm not aware of any subsequent documentation of the session either. All I can tell you is that it's almost certainly from sometime between 1970 and 1975. Looking around I did find some really nice versions of "You Ain't Gonna Know Me" by Viva la Black and Louis Moholo with Shabaka Hutchings, but I couldn't find this version - I'm not actually sure there are any officially released versions featuring the composer. The announcer, not heard here, notes that the solos were by Mike Osborne, Lol Coxhill, and Mongezi Feza. I like it enough that I feel like a couple more people should hear it before it vanishes forever into the ether, so I went ahead and uploaded it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3idg2nFyuTU

^nice, thanks! have been on a b.o.b (& alumni) kick all this morning.

i'm not a completionist but i've found covers i like well enough of all the beatles' songs except for like three - i think it's "what goes on", "yellow submarine" and one other from that era. (sufjan stevens has a good cover of "what goes on", but i don't like it.) anyway i did manage to find a number of pretty good covers while i was embarked on that project.

i absolutely love this live version of "old brown shoe" by the laughing dogs from around the time of their first album. the laughing dogs apparently appeared on a cbgb comp featuring all the bands nobody in their right mind would want to listen to, but as a power pop band they were pretty alright.

there's actually a u-matic video from this era out on youtube, but it doesn't sound as good, and watching washed-out u-matic video footage isn't necessarily my idea of a good time. your mileage may vary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8CU2Oc7a3c

occasionally youtube will recommend me videos that aren't of SJWs getting OWNED, though i still wish i could turn off its shitty "recommendations" altogether. still, as long as i have them, might as well get what i can from them. so it suggested me this piano sonata by carl vine, who is it turns out an acclaimed australian composer, and i like it, though i the phrasing on benjamin boren's recording is more to my liking. anyway i do think it's a good composition and i like the sense of drama it has.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F89fz09pbHs

i was trying to explain "the white visitation" from one of the parts of "gravity's rainbow" i've read to one of my co-workers and she did a google on it and this guy's bandcamp popped up. apparently he's big in the mexico city electronic music scene, which is something i don't know shit about - i'm arguably really bad with electronic music because i don't dance but i think this sounds really good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01QUdvBCvR4

Fucking hell this is a good one! Apparently a side project of the Diaphanoids? Who maybe I should also listen to? I didn't follow XLR8R or RA in 2010, even now I barely know what the hell is going on over there. It's got an absurd and ridiculously convoluted backstory based around the 1970s, which is also a plus for me, and it just sounds, well, cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41qVUa8n5io

Man I was a big fan of Brainiac in the '90s and have been off-and-on following John Schmersal ever since. I actually had a co-worker point out the Vertical Scratchers record to me after he heard it on NPR in 2014. Now for many people (including me) something being on NPR would be a pretty compelling reason to not listen to something, but nah man Schmersal is fucking good, he's got that sort of GBV thing going on, and he doesn't overstay his welcome. I love the Vertical Scratchers' sole LP and listen to it a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6Ob8Io8i88

courtesy of my youtube subscriptions. i didn't realize rimarimba was putting out new material, but it sure sounds good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zufDLGMY4-w

I was reading about the Peterloo Massacre and Wikipedia mentioned in passing that this band did a prog-rock epic about it. This is the first track on the archival release with that epic. Apparently these folks were championed by John Peel, to little effect, which is unfortunate because he did have some fairly decent taste in music. It's a strange archival record because the band stuck around even after Peel's attempt to promote them flopped and did a fair number of tracks in a more commercial hard rock style, which are also stuck on the record with no indication as to their recording dates - absolute curate's egg. Anyway this reminds me of the better parts of, say, Fresh Maggots, and is ripe for rediscovery. I'll have to check out the record of theirs Peel did get released.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbj3xJWlbEQ

ok, i'm digging deep into jimmie blanton's recordings. i recognize that i might be a slight bit late to the party on this one. good god, though, this version of "bakiff" is spectacular.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMPl1oDA5uk

today i've been hitting the '60s and '70s funk and soul pretty hard. ran across a '72 record by a group called "madhouse" dedicated to telling richard nixon to go fuck himself. frankly a lot of political stuff ages poorly - i listened to a fair bit this morning, including a record by a group called "boscoe" that's _correct_ about everything they say (also, for instance, have been listening to the works of a guy named darrell banks, great soul musician who was shot to death by an off duty detroit cop in 1970, quelle fucking surprise) but not all sermons are created equal. spending ten minutes repeatedly telling the listener "god damn you" for having hope for the future isn't necessarily a good one.

this, on the other hand, this is some good shit (once you get past the parody opening). the message is as relevant today as it was in 1972. i expect it to be about as effective too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOpOVRb2VsA

Somehow found my way to one of Yuzo Koshiro's DJ sets today. I think Magfest is some kind of gamer festival so he starts out with "Actraiser", which you can't even remotely dance to, but shit gets pretty hot pretty quick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z2ujbw1OBA

matchess has a new one! so naturally, i'm listening to this russian space rock band called "vespero". they have a comp with multiple faust covers, but they sound better when they're doing their own thing.

https://raig.bandcamp.com/album/vespero-fitful-slumber-until-5-a-m

i'd never heard of this game before. nice music.

https://soundcloud.com/nitrome-music-nicklen10/lee-nicklen-skywire-main-song?in=nitrome-music-nicklen10/sets/skywire

I did this online radio show. Do. I guess. It's on hiatus. It's just for fun, nobody listens to it, playlists based on certain themes. Title words are easy enough because they're searchable and I have enough to work from that I can get an hour out of just about anything. I did an hour of songs based around kitchen objects once. It wasn't the best hour of music ever but it was fun.

Anyway they're not real "dj mixes" because I could never be bothered with beat matching, continuous play has just never been that important to me, but here's a couple playlists I put together today. The "summer" one turned out way darker than I thought it would. Darker than any mix with "Hot Pants in the Summertime" on it has any right to be.

America

Walt Whitman - America (excerpt)
Bekon - America
Lonnie Holley - I Woke Up In A Fucked-Up America
Stevie Wonder - Jesus Children of America
Simon & Garfunkel - America
Byrne & Eno - America is Waiting
Bruce Haack - The American Eagle
Bill Parsons - The All American Boy
Caetano Veloso - Soy Loco Por Ti, America
La Femme - Welcome America
La Santa Cecilia - Mexico Americano
Haram - American Police
Ideal Free Distribution - The American Myth
The Butthole Surfers - American Woman (alt version)
V3 - American Face
Wilco - Ashes of American Flags
Lucio Battisti - La Nuova America
Vyto B - New America

Summer

Mike Taylor - Summer Sounds, Summer Sights
The Cosmic Rays - Summertime
Les Paul & Mary Ford - In The Good Old Summertime
Kool & The Gang - Summer Madness
Shelleyan Orphan - Midsummer Pearls & Plumes
Michael Giles - Midsummer Day
Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
Nariaki Obukuro - Summer Reminds Me
The Dramatics - Hot Pants in the Summertime
Bertrand Burgalat - This Summer Night
that dog. - One Summer Night
The Doors - Indian Summer (8-19-66)
Mark Eric - Where Do The Girls Of Summer Go?
Margaret Berger - I'm Gonna Stay After Summer
Smile Down Upon Us - Two Weeks Last Summer
Waves - Summer Sunday
Peter Hammill - Summer Song (In the Autumn)
Peter Laughner - Summertime Blues

plate of goddamned shrimp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_-HqcGo5SI

would've hit my "america" mix if i'd heard it twelve hours earlier

That's lovely.

Today I've been feeling shred music of the late renaissance and early baroque. So there was this guy Rognoni who came up with this style of music called "viola bastarda", which was a more shred-oriented variation on the viola da gamba music of the day. Interesting thing about this piece is that he actually wrote it with three different difficulty levels. It feels kind of like a late 16th century equivalent of "Rock Band"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkqCu1P9Qew

here's a band playing a soul jazz arrangement of a "streets of rage" tune in a new york city bar. great atmosphere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxJc4lc6TT4

was digging around in the "freak folk" rym charts and this popped up. it's an '80s proggy avant garde brazilian record but it's not really vanguarda paulista. it's mostly just strange. a smidge tribal, but tribal in a way that doesn't stop them from doing songs in tribute to stravinsky. maybe reminds me a little of el polen? i don't know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No6gtee2tOo

i am not a musician but lately i find myself drawn to videos with titles like "Cadential Diminished Chords are So Dope!", not because i understand it but because i don't. so from there i found my way over to this super-hipster new york big band jazz using irrational time signatures. their album just came out, it's produced by darcy james argue. i'm a total sucker for this kind of shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esppn8m6f0Y

oh, and krock is right, that synth solo is fucking amazing

today i realized that the 5:4 website has recordings of pretty much all the prom premieres from the last nine years out there so i've been delving into it bigtime

which explains why i am listening to a mixtape of enoch light deep cuts

http://5against4.com/2018/08/01/mixtape-48-enoch-light/

i've been meaning to get more into enoch light for some time now, just what i needed.

but that just-premiered daphne oram piece is fucking great too, don't get me wrong

oh, cool, i somehow got youtube to recommend me this random pow-wow record after i spent a couple minutes looking up kyrgyz folk music. intense shit. more of this please and fewer videos attempting to explain to me the TRUE PURPOSE of the pyramids (i mean, we all know it's ufo grain storage, don't we?)

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

this album makes me wish i understood portuguese

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFq3xqHAfNQ

here's a cash-in anonymous cover record of alice cooper circa "billion dollar babies", released on 8-track only, in case you wanted to hear these classic cuts at the wrong speed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdBHFYy06sk

oh hey here's a spanish-language knockoff cover of "i'm not in love"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-17C_RvPc8

:/

fwiw I never really liked that song anyway. Also "Herve" is a name I always find a little funny.

i'm in full agreement with you re: i'm not in love, man alive

i like some stuff by godley and creme, though. not their triple record bloat-fest. well, bits of their triple-record bloat fest. i'm more taken with their music for that benson & hedges ad. (have i posted that here?) it's more _concise_.

"lol" is a funnier name than "herve".

I decided I needed to listen to more Rumba Flamenca. Didn't like most of it. Thin, underproduced. Loved Los Chicos, though. Crazy ultra-'70s late-Franco shit. Up-front, punchy, thoroughly gauche - this is my jam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E1q0uU0sKs

I like that the song's all about she's going to leave him and the background dancers are all "yes, and we shall leave BY BIKE"

yeah it's super-stylin'. the preview screenshot really says it all.

here are 80 minutes or so of my favorite songs with the word "puppet" or "marionette" in the title, in celebration of my finding out that there was a super-expanded reissue of dendo marionette's ep last year

abba - i'm a marionette
raccomandata ricevuta ritorno - un palco di marionette
horacee arnold - puppett of the seasons
charlie looker - puppet
alport astazio and the kwana-moto band - odoli (puppets)
amy x neuberg and men - naked puppets
metallica - master of puppets
sleepytime gorilla museum - puppet show
dendo marionette - dendo marionette
bernard estardy - marionettes club
akina nakamori - marionette
eternal void - pirates puppet
bob drake - funeral march of the marionette
harmonic 33 - marionette

you should check out the metallica track if you haven't heard it, it's one of their better songs, kind of long though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Z2VG-XCoE

here's a song by Herbert Joos from his 1974 album THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FLUEGELHORN. great title, great cover, great music!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

oh hell yeah

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

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

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

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

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

bolo.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Heh, that's a local adult movie theatre.

'Premier juin' is a great song.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ok today i'm trawling the lower reaches of the rym charts for '80s prog and i came across this record by gregorio paniagua.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B-ip1nbUOE

it's kind of strange because the rest of his records seem to be recreations of ancient greek music? which i wouldn't necessarily have known listening to this. anyway it's great and is recommended to anybody who likes bacamarte.

i also recommend herbert f. bairy's "traumspiel". i'd link it here but i think this thread is probably hard to read for people on account of loading the youtube embeds? i'm slow on this sort of thing, if people would prefer i stop the embeds i can

i'm getting around to nomeansno's cover of "bitches brew" and i'm kind of liking it. can anyone recommend any other great non-jazz covers of fusion-era miles tunes? (is that too specific a request?) i've got a nice tape of motorpsycho doing "in a silent way" and another of a band called maschina doing "black satin".

i guess i can expand that to all miles tunes because i do like the byrds' version of "milestones"

came across this randomly, i guess maybe one of those gamelan-y electronic tunes like last year's de leon record? i don't know if it's even on spotify, hopefully this record becomes more available in the west?

https://soundcloud.com/user-372456476/tyme_flare

because i'm not right in the head i decided to throw together an hour of some of my favorite versions of "louie louie". i had to leave off john the postman because his was too long.

tracklist:

rene touzet
phil milstein
the kinks
lassie & the mongrels
the swamp rats
the stooges (metallic ko)
heavy cruiser
motorhead (peel session)
husker du (the stone 1985-03-01)
fucked up (brooklyn masonic temple 2009-11-05)
r. stevie moore
the stupid set (edited cd version)
the pink chunk
two bands and a legend
the silence

i spent this afternoon listening to the works of francesco maria vericini on youtube because it's his birthday today. he was also apparently not right in the head, so it works out.

maybe it's not your thing? but the Toots & the Maytals version of Louie Louis is one of my favorites of theirs: https://youtu.be/SWukBiSn7ZU

oh no this is great! i hadn't heard it before, thanks for the suggestion!

xxpost Pete Townshend's Deep End (80s jam band w David Gilmour and many more) used to do Miles Davis's "Walking," but I don't remember that one specifically---a Deep End show posted on jambase includes it.

That performance of "Walking" is timed at 54 minutes plus!

oh, fortunately not true, it just starts at 54 minutes in the video :) that video was blocked but i found another... i'd heard of deep end before, but hadn't ever heard/seen them before. very g.e. smith. not quite my cup of tea. thanks for the suggestion though!

today i've been into Dzeltenie Pastnieki. Mostly because I heard one of the main guy's solo records and liked it a lot. And then I found out that they started out calling themselves "The New King Crimson" and was sold. I'm not so big on them when they do reggae, as the only Russian Reggae I'm into is Nina Hagen's. They're Latvian and not Russian, but the principle stands. But the first track on their first album is a fantastic "Great Curve" ripoff, and they've got that wonderful home recording appeal to them. Anybody have anything they recommend in particular by Dzeltenie Pastnieki or Ingus Baušķenieks? I've not the time right now to listen to their whole catalogue, I'm busy absorbing Julian Carrillo's microtonal mass for John XXIII.

By the way if you want to hear a song from their first record that isn't an inferior ripoff of "The Great Curve" or slightly dodgy reggae, I recommend Lai tu aizmirstu; it's a good one.

xpost I know what you mean about jazz confidence. I've been listening pretty often since the early 70s, still far from expert. But what the hell, post at will on Rolling Jazz, as I do.

will keep it in mind, thanks!

Glad you like Herbie Nichols, rushomancy! I recently rediscovered him too, after finding "House Party Startin'" on a decaying old mix cd-r I made back in 2002 or so, now tucked away on a shelf in the garage. His harmonies work in weird ways. The Lucas Gillian's Many Blessings album of Nichols covers is pretty great, isn't it?

it is! i also like the mengelberg/lacy/lewis/gorter/bennink record of his tunes and the music of the Herbie Nichols Project. unfortunately roswell rudd's nichols recordings haven't really clicked with me yet, which is a shame because i really like rudd in general.

by the way i'm happy to hear that cecil mcbee has apparently branched out into japanese women's fashion

in honor of the last track on the most recent daphne and celeste album here is an NSF cover posted by someone calling themselves "barismanco", not to be confused with the anatolian rock band, of the captain beefheart song "kandy korn"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=360V-7LW5mQ

i wanted to see if bob dylan had ever released "wiggle wiggle" as a single

he hasn't as far as i know

but this is the b-side to cream de coco's shitty disco song "wiggle wiggle wiggle"

it's fucking great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0AOHtBjjtI

love this thread <3

btw yr presence is requested on the best of ‘70 poll if you can make time :)

thanks! here's some monster funk bass by carol kaye, i'll try and find the '70 poll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcDPbk1ZKAk

OK, I'm gonna open it up to the floor. A song came on my randomizer today called "The Black Knight" by "The Warlord", and the song was basically about how the Black Knight was going to come from space and kill you all and you better fucking be OK with that. I saw "Monty Python And The Holy Grail" and I'm not totally convinced but as a former apocalyptic UFO cultist I still find it cool, though perhaps not PRECISELY as cool as Brian Schmidt's soundtrack to the "Black Knight 2000" pinball game (by the way y'all have heard the "Black Power 2000" Brian Schmidt/Kanye West mashup, right? It's goddamn great, and that's speaking as someone who loves the hell out of King Crimson). So my question is, what are your favorite songs and/or concept albums about death?

ok no responses to that one, moving on

i'm still really into that daphne and celeste record, here is an hour of songs i like with the word "golden" in the title, some of which you may not have been previously familiar with

fovea hex - the golden sun rises upon the world again
david bowie - golden years
goat - golden dawn
kartikeya - the golden blades
marlin wallace - golden dreams
healing force - golden miles
van dyke parks - the all golden
delia derbyshire - blue veils and golden sands
sonic assassins - the golden void
spring - golden fleece
daphne & celeste - golden doldrum
todd rundgren - golden goose
devo - golden energy
my morning jacket - golden
lizzy mercier descloux - no golden throat
shannon shaw - golden frames
syd barrett - golden hair

by the way that's the "opel" version of "golden hair" and not the "madcap laughs" version

here's a disco song promoting the burnley building society with lyrics by salman rushdie, enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIFabOTK-DI

this is indeed a nice vibraphone solo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIxAl-J4rxQ

I'm still looking to put together a full hour's worth of Doors knockoff tunes I like - I think it gets forgotten sometimes how popular and influential they really were and how many people knocked them off. I tend to like a lot these knockoffs better, not because they are better - they're not - but because they're easier to not take seriously.

Anyway, I have at least cobbled together an LP's worth, ten tunes from '68 (where the Doors knockoff scene really starts) all the way through to 1975 - plenty of punk bands were inspired by the Doors but tend to be distinct enough that it doesn't seem right to lump them in with these first wavers.

And no, there's no Phantom's Divine Comedy in here. I don't like them that much, and Jim Morrison didn't have any songs about wizards.

Side A:

The Stooges - Down on the Street (mono single edit)
Children of the Mushroom - You Can't Erase A Mirror
Mystic Siva - Supernatural Mind
Pop Masina - Kiselina
Fraction - Come Out Of Her

Side B:

Crystal Chandelier - Suicidal Flowers
The Loose Enz - The Black Door
Omnibus - The Man Song
One St. Stephen - Dash in the Rocks
The Maze - Armageddon

in memory of peter tork here is 22 seconds of banjo playing he contributed to the film of "wonderwall", though he is absent from the soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-2Lyd-kLY8

take that "5-piece chicken dinner"

here is something else I threw together, an hour of songs with the word "anthem" in the title

DEVO - DEVO Corporate Anthem
Bruce Haack - National Anthem to the Moon
Radiohead - The National Anthem
Gary Burton - The New National Anthem
Max Ochs - Imaginational Anthem
Rocket Surgery - Master Anthem
Henagar-Union Sacred Harp Convention - Farewell Anthem 260
Nobuo Uematsu & Takashi Uno - Cruise Chaser Blassty Anthem
Gwenno - Anthem Y Weriniaeth Newydd
Hammer Screwdriver - Anthem 1
Onra - The Anthem
Sonny Sharrock - Ghost Planet National Anthem
Seven Days of Samsara - New Anthem for the T-Shirt Revolution
Abhorrence - Anthem for the Anthropocene
Ben Esposito - Quack Anthem
However - Anthem
Terry Riley - Anthem of the Trinity
The Millennium - Anthem (Begin)

lack of UGK!

yeah i missed pretty much all music from about '94 to '14, int'l players anthem is a jam tho

i will tell you what i did not realize there was music this good on the soundtrack to "the sidehackers". apparently most of the soundtrack is mike curb bullshit, but the new life heard this african song on a hugh masakela record and did this killer garage take on the b-side of their first single.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD6G9-wb1bM

there's a topic of interest to me: great music in films featured on mst3k. ennio morricone's soundtrack to "diabolik" is one of his best works (sadly no longer extant), of course, but i'm also quite fond of "moon zero two" with don ellis's band fronted by julie driscoll. ok, "the french connection" it isn't, but julie driscoll is a goddamn pro. anyone here have any particular faves?

oh, and the music to phase iv is great and deserves better than that hacked up version by some ex-member of white zombie

memo to greta van fleet: _this_ is how you rip off led zeppelin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yia9pUvfEE

that's jan akkerman from focus doing his best jimmy page imitation

A Marianne Faithfull song I like came on random and I made a mix. I'm actually fairly pleased with this latest hour, enough to do a proper write-up on it.

Loona - Butterfly: The lead track from the just-released debut album by the latest hot K-pop sensations. Not my usual MO for openers, but my primary requirement for an opener is that it immediately grab the listener. This does.

Microbit Project - Song of Space Butterflies: Likewise, I usually don't get this weird this early on. This is a track from the early days of the lobit scene, focused around experimental analog synths. It does get slightly obnoxious, but on the other hand it only lasts a minute and a half, and the ambience is unbeatable.

Smile Down Upon Us - Butterfly Morning: A band I got into in the late '00s - a Japanese lady singing over ukuleles. Perhaps that's hopelessly precious and twee, but I do quite like it. What really sold me on them was the mondegreen in their version of Sandy Denny's "Two Weeks Last Summer" where she sings "laughter from an oven door".

The Four Tops - Elusive Butterfly: I really do believe that _Still Waters Run Deep_ is the best Four Tops album. No, I haven't heard every Four Tops album in its entirety, obviously.

The Toms - Elusive Butterfly: No actual relation to the Bob Lind tune. I am a complete mark for anything Tommy Marolda has done. Admittedly at his worst he can sometimes come off as landfill indie, but this song is definitely not Tommy Marolda at his worst.

Kevin Ayers - Butterfly Dance: Such a fantastic fucking song, isn't it? Considering my deep love of all things Canterbury, I'm a bit abashed at how little of Ayers' work I've absorbed.

When - Butterflies: Another one of those late '00s/early RYM obsessions of mine. I believe the story is something like that When was one of those Scandinavian black metal dudes who got really into the Beach Boys and avant-pop. It happens sometimes. Anyway "Trippy Happy" probably isn't an all-time masterpiece and I confess that I haven't really kept up with When's subsequent work after that fairly underwhelming Sun Ra tribute record, but I do still quite enjoy it on occasion.

Los Brios - Goodbye Madamme Butterfly: One of those overall solid comps I got into either from finding a track from it posted somewhere on Youtube or randomly on RYM. This is actually the closer on a 2005 comp called "The Spanish Trip: 23 Obscure Freak Artifacts From The Spanish Underground Scene". My big regret about the ridiculously fast pace of discovering new great albums over the past year or so is that I haven't had the opportunity to really absorb them the way I'd like.

Paper Fortress - Butterfly High: A failed Tandyn Almer stab at pop success. It's a fucking brilliant single, both sides, goddamn travesty that it wasn't a hit. Not necessarily surprising given how on-the-nose the drug references are for a '68 would-be pop single, mind, but just... am I wasting superlatives by calling it a "masterpiece"? No, I don't care, I'll live in the moment.

Edvard Grieg - Lyric Pieces, Book 3, Op. 43, No. 1, Butterfly: Once I hit the back half of things I do start stretching out a little. I get weird partly because I am weird, but in part because I can't reliably sustain a single mood over the course of an hour. Partly it's the lazy way I put these things together - doing a wildcard song title search on *butterfl* is a superficial grouping method which, predictably, returns superficially similar results - but the trick is no less effective for being cheap.

Anyway, at this point I go back to the lo-fi instrumental mill for four songs. Usually I try not to cluster a bunch of instrumentals together, but these are unusually amenable to being segued. This particular piece is lo-fi because, to the best of my understanding, that's actually the composer at the piano. I also have a very nice version from Ruth White's under-appreciated synthesizer classical record from '72, but this one fits the mood of things better.

Vic Mars - Butterflies, Bees, and Other Insects: I don't actually know who Vic Mars is. This was shamelessly cribbed by a very fine series of mixes put together by an RYM esotericist whose username I didn't write down anywhere. I also can't honestly tell if the opening is being played on actual instruments - it's very reminiscent of the Chamberlin on "Journey through a Thousand Meditations". Anyway it does get a bit repetitive towards the end, but again, we're talking about a two minute atmospheric instrumental.

Coleman Hawkins - Lazy Butterfly (Theme): Just the closing band theme from a Coleman Hawkins radio broadcast on the first Savory Collection archival release. I love the closing announcement, which is extremely "Theme Time Radio Hour": "From the Fiesta Danceteria, the world's first self-service nightclub, at the crossroads of the world, Broadway and 42nd Street in the heart of New York City, Mutual has brought you the music of Coleman Hawkins." Next week: The Butthole Surfers!

Raymond Scott - Beautiful Little Butterfly: An electronic miniature as heard on "Goobers: A Collection of Kids Songs". It's very... I don't actually have the musical vocabulary for it. Chromatic? Is that the word?

A.R. Kane - Butterfly Collector: In which shit gets real heavy, real fast. See my earlier comment about my inability to sustain a single mood. Personally I do like the variety and diversity!

Subvert Blaze - Butterfly: Shit got so heavy, in fact, that this track, which is again new enough that I have no idea where or why I picked it up (probably some RYM list) and which sounds like Guitar Wolf playing 21st Century Schizoid Man, actually lightens the mood up significantly. Not really anywhere else I could've put this song that it wouldn't have stuck out like a sore thumb in the other direction.

Marianne Faithfull - Southern Butterfly: Mix inspiration. I haven't really heard a lot of Faithfull's work outside of Rich Kid Blues (I think it was up on Beware of the Blog at some point). It's such a raw and intense record that I can't imagine listening to anything else she's done. Shit is back to being heavy, in other words.

Bilal - Butterfly: It took me a ridiculously long time and many mentions on ILX for me to come around to Bilal. I think it was the Strother sisters writing a song for him that finally clued me in. Too beautiful for me to meaningfully write about, so I'll only mention that this is keeping with my long-established pattern of sticking the longest track in a mix in the penultimate position.

Bruce Haack - Angel Child: There was that thread about how many lyrics I remember... well, not many, I guess, but some. I started thinking about the theme of "butterflies" and the only one that came to my mind was "Wasn't there a track on the Electric Lucifer about it?" The fact that I could actually remember that gives it a certain pride of place. A very sweet and kind song by a troubled man.

OMISSIONS:

I couldn't throw together an hour of this stuff if I didn't feel free to leave some songs out. Also under consideration, but ultimately excluded, were:

He Zhanhao and Chen Gang - Butterfly Lovers Erhu Concerto: This is fucking great! It's also half an hour long. Nope.

Pauline Oliveros - Bye Bye Butterfly: I like electronic music plenty, but an eight minute piece that starts with the kind of sounds convenience store owners use to keep kids from loitering around their store is not necessarily going to flow well in a mix context.

Pink Floyd - Butterfly: It's by Pink Floyd, which is a plus, and it's an utterly obscure Syd Barrett tune, which is also a plus, but it's also got basically the same theme as the A.R. Kane song except I'm pretty sure Syd isn't being disturbing and creepy here _on purpose_. So yeah this one can fuck right off.

Reading Rainbow Theme: Not actually about butterflies, admittedly, but mentions them in the first line. I love this theme and I omitted it because the only versions I had around are poor quality and riddled with a high-pitched Pauline Oliveros whine.

geez i need to get wifi at my house so i can jump in here more

OK, as threatened here are the tracklists to my two one-hour "lonely" mixes. Had way too much good stuff for one, almost too many for me to wrap my head around at all, so I wound up doing two, with plenty of stuff cut arbitrarily on top of that. Of the two the first one has, generally, the friendlier stuff (though the Prince song is a B-side and the Beach Boys song an outtake), and the second one gets into the strange shit that I really get into.

The Police - So Lonely
Norma Jean - Hold Me Lonely Boy (Long Version)
Earl King - Those Lonely, Lonely Nights
The Fabulaires - Lonely Days, Lonely Nights
The Beach Boys - Lonely Days
Country Comfort - To Be Lonely
Bola Sete - The Lonely Gaucho
Emitt Rhodes - Nights are Lonely
Fortune - Lonely Hunter
Hank Wood and the Hammerheads - It's Lonely In This World All Alone
The Videls - Mister Lonely
Rusty Diamond - The Lonely Sentry
Morita Doji - I Become A Lonely Wind With You
Kim Jung Mi - Lonely Heart
Prince - Another Lonely Christmas
Blue Magic - Just Don't Want To Be Lonely
Zamfir - The Lonely Shepherd

The IVbidden - Sick and Lonely
The Steppes - A Lonely Girl
Eddie Kendricks - Let Me Run Into Your Lonely Heart
A.T.C. - Never Leave You Lonely
Nariaki Obukuro - Lonely One
Kevin Coyne & Dagmar Krause - Lonely Man
Naked City - Lonely Woman
Swamp Dogg - Lonely
Zoo Nee Voo - Lonely Highway
Leatherface - How Lonely
Jake Holmes - Lonely
Bob Drake - The Lonely Manor
Arthur Miles - The Lonely Cowboy, Parts 1 and 2
Yohihito Yano and Saki Kabata - Lonely Rolling Star
UNKLE - Lonely Soul
Petra Haden - The Lonely Man Theme

Double bass solos! I've been really into classical double bass music the past week or so. I can't actually remember why. Anyway here's a nice recording of the eighth of twelve waltzes(!) written for solo double bass by a composer named Domenico Dragonetti, which I believe is Italian for "Daryl Dragon", performed by a gentleman by the name of Tobias Glueckler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhE61Prw1c4

I read a book on requiems this week and have been trying to find some of the more interesting ones, without complete success. The requiem, for instance, of Renaud Gagneux, published in 1982. The introitus and Kyrie are here. The rest of it? Well, a third-party seller has it listed on Amazon for the entirely reasonable price of $600...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyraU4xL1kA

trying to catch up on my regular haunts after my vacation, i learned from ashratom that the french zeuhl band EVOHE reformed and released two of their compositions. this is really interesting, a demo tape of their composition "Ka" (no relation to the Magma tune!) from the late '70s/early '80s circulated on Dime, after a 2014 Magma concert it seems they got back together... Anyway this is not either of those, because one of the composers put up a Soundcloud with some of his new work. It is not "Zeuhl" like the earlier stuff but it is more original I think and very interesting as well.

https://soundcloud.com/user-756452695

ok now this is some pretty interesting '80s hungarian art pop, reminds me a little of maybe family fodder or something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EgSo-lbReE

here's another nice one from my youtube subs, by the japanese band "circadian rhythm", probably would've fit in well on the "soft selection 84" tape, maybe a little bit of clammbon feel to it as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Wiv5a8K4A

This thread is great, thank you for doing this

thanks for reading! i gotta talk about this stuff somewhere and most people don't really care (which is entirely reasonable of them certainly!)

canary records just released a new compilation of the recordings of the arziv orchestra, who were an armenian "kef" band of the 1940s. so recently actually that googling arziv orchestra doesn't put their bandcamp on the search page yet. what i did find was this interesting blog post from 2013 about the arziv orchestra.

http://keftimeusa.blogspot.com/2013/11/

anyway, great blog, those vosbikian band recordings sound very interesting indeed! hopefully some label will reissue those at some point

Sounds cool – I was not aware of this facet of Armenian music, which I'm mostly acquainted with via a handful of classical composers and the ubiquitous duduk. Speaking of the latter, have you heard Djivan Gasparyan's Endless Vision, with Iranian shurangiz player Hossein Alizâdeh? Meltingly beautiful stuff.

nah, i haven't! it's only recently i've heard any armenian music at all beyond, like, system of a down, not familiar with duduk at all really! i've heard those great zabelle panosian records, and there was a chapter on the armenian requiem in that really good requiem book i read a couple weeks ago, starting with the legendary komitas vardapet - i have the three songs he recorded and some other stuff he wrote. the other requiem recommended specifically by that book is the one by LORIS TJEKNAVORIAN (copied and pasted so i don't spell it wrong!)

it's good, obviously their requiem tradition is heavily influenced by the genocide, but it's not one of the ones i kept around. i'm checking out his guitar concerto now, i'd kind of like to hear his percussion concerto since i'm into percussion music but it doesn't seem to be online

thanks for the suggestion!

in the meantime (changing gears...) i ran across this record, "the deep" by soul scream, i'm not a real hip hop head by any means but this seems to me like a real nice japanese boom bap record

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

polka! i think polka has an undeservedly poor reputation. it's no worse than any other kind of folk music, and the accordion is a fantastic instrument. anyway here's a polka from the american midwest, sung in finnish, about a lumberjack. i hope it's not too rude, i don't speak finnish!

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

i know wfmu has a whole show devoted to polka. there's something a little sad about that. it used to be when i was younger that polka wasn't a hipster thing, there were genuine old people from the old country that would spin their favorite polkas on the radio, and most of them were terrible, the kind of stuff pickup bands still will play to this day at midwestern oktoberfests populated largely by trump voters... well, maybe that's the sad part. never mind, wfmu, your hipster polka show is cool.

Vimeo is, I think, an underrated resource. It's particularly good, I've found, for academic and arts groups disseminating their archives. You can find there vintage performances (U-matic type stuff) from Julius Eastman, Hopper Dean Tippett Gallivan, Leroy Jenkins, Lol Coxhill, stuff frequently I'd never expect to look for or know existed. 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". They've got a live set by the underrated group "The Zs" - interesting but they really aren't set up to record rock, a nice accordion jam by someone I don't know named Teodoro Anzelotti, and various musical improvisations in varying degrees of "you had to be there". One performance where you don't, I don't think, have to have been there is the below,a truly splendid solo performance by Frances-Marie Uitti on cello - not surprised that it seems to be one of their more-viewed uploads.

https://vimeo.com/38649952

i've been listening to some late-period chet baker

most of the stuff that gets recommended is his early stuff, and honestly, having heard that live version of "my funny valentine" from the recording registry i feel like everything else from that era is superfluous

mostly i wanted to hear what his "comeback" recordings after having his teeth knocked out would sound like, and they are very different to my ears

what really strikes me is to what extent the sound of these late recordings is influenced by his collaborators. i don't mean to say that his presence is unimportant, but the collaborators often provide the compositions, the instrumentation, the context for chet's playing

so while chet is chet, "no problem", "leaving", and "peace", all from within a three year period, are all very different recordings, with "no problem" and "peace" in particular highlighting his collaborators - the former is a great duke jordan record as well as being a chet baker record, and "peace" is a very good showing for david friedman, who i mostly knew from his work with tim buckley... i will have to check out other works of his to see if any of them are up to this standard!

i grew up on mod files and demoscene shit, but for me it was always a pc with a soundblaster - i never had a commodore of any stripe. so i have tremendous gaps in my knowledge of that music. never heard this set of tunes before, f'rinstance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG4kSGGZoN8

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

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”:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71XF9pNXlcL._SY355_.jpg

Cool Robert Crumb cover.

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

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?

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

Here's one I threw together really quick:

You Have Been Warned

Rose Elinor Dougall - Strange Warnings
Moving Parts - Anti-Aircraft Warning
Mac Rebennack - Storm Warning
Boreal Network - This is a Tornado Warning
David Axelrod - Warning Talk, Part Three
Boards of Canada - Energy Warning
Kazuki Muraoka - Warning Siren
Breakmaster Cylinder - Spill Bass/Tomato Warning
The Armed - Parody Warning
Game Theory - Time Warner
Snakefinger - Friendly Warning
Soul Camel - Horsehead Nebula (another warning light)
Alec Lambert - God is Already Warning Us
Monster Magnet - Look To Your Orb For The Warning
Macabre (Pentagram) - Be Forewarned
Talking Heads - Warning Sign
Giant Ant Farm - Eva's Warning
Caribou Vibration Ensemble feat. Marshall Allen - A Final Warning

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?

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

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.

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

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 Day
The Plastic People - This Life of Mine
Lee Mallory - Many Are the Times
Friar Tuck - A Bit of Gray Lost
Bobby Jameson - See Dawn
The 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"...

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 ep
Andreas Söderström & Rickard Jäverling - Adelsö
algiers - void
europa ritrovata - affect is no crime
smallpeople - afterglow
r. stevie moore - afterlife
vanishing twin - the age of immunology
hermann nitsch - albertina quartett
ptu - am i who i am
moor mother - analog fluids of solid black holes
yugen blakrok - anima mysterium
craig leon - anthology of interplanetary music vol. 2: the canon
v/a - aor global sounds vol. 4
death and vanilla - are you a dreamer?
sudan archives - athena
john hartford - backroads, rivers & memories: the rare and unreleased john hartford
low leaf - baker's dozen
ilyas ahmed - behold killers
upper reality - best of upper reality
jards macale - besta fera
david bowlin - bird as prophet
jute gyte - birefringence
the black heart death cult - s/t
black market drugs - brain science
v/a - bulawayo blue yodel
vilma vritra - burd
cherushii & maria minerva - s/t
cheer-accident - chicago xx
lucas gillan's many blessings - chit-chatting with herbie
田中裕梨 - city lights 2nd season
katarra parson - cocoa voyage
the 180 gs - the commercial album
arziv orchestra - complete recordings of a 1940s philadelphia kef band
l'orange & jeremiah jae - complicate your life with violence
shasta culta - configurations
ancient pools - cosine
floating points - crush
lizzo - cuz i love you
jimmy "duck" holmes - cypress grove
miho hazama - dancer in nowhere
jacques greene - dawn chorus
ben monder - day after day
de lorians - s/t
disentomb - the decaying light
aldous harding - designer
olli hirvonen - displace
lingua nada - djinn
rustin man - drift code
fort romeau - dweller on the threshold
frank harris & maria marquez - echoes
MMMD - egoismo
afrosideral - el olimpo de los orishas
v/a - electro acholi kaboom from northern uganda
edward bogosian - everything is fake: armenian folk music in nyc in the 1940s
96 back - excitable, girl
ron geesin - expozoom
hyper john & muzeumvisitor - falling for you
eric le sage - faure: nocturnes
papisa - fenda
jack quartet - filigree: music of hannah lash
ronin arkestra - first meeting
jaimie branch - fly or die ii: bird dogs of paradise
North Sea Radio Orchestra;John Greaves;Annie Barbazza - folly bololey: songs from robert wyatt's rock bottom
kokoko! - fongola
octo octa - for lovers
blaquestone - full circle
jucifer - futility
v/a - gabberdisco origins 01
marie spaemann - gap
ustad saami - god is not a terrorist
liniker e os caramelows - goela abaixo
liturgy - haqq
skander - harakat
rodan - the hat factory 93
fort romeau - heaven & earth
meara o'reilly - hockets for two voices
sevish - horixens
hama - houmeissa
Max Andrzejewski's HÜTTE - HÜTTE and guests play the music of robert wyatt
rrose - hymn to moisture
shinichiro yokota - i know you like it
emerson - if you need me, call me
Zdeněk Liška - ikarie xb-1
toyohiko satoh - iki
ill considered - ill considered 6
sunwatchers - illegal moves
anne leilehua lanzilotti - in manus tuas
xoth - interdimensional invocations
arthur russell - iowa dream
otoboke beaver - itekoma hits
lifafa - jaago
fredfades & jawn rice - jacuzzi boyz
raphael saadiq - jimmy lee
jonny dillon - s/t
gianluigi trovesi - la misteriosa musica della regina loana
fet.nat - le mal
gary gritness - the legend of cherenkov blue
the toms - life raft
christopher tignor - a light below
minami deutsch and damo suzuki - live at roadburn
oranssi pazuzu - live at roadburn 2017
ccr - live at woodstock
zeal & ardor - live in london
king crimson - live in newcastle, december 8, 1972
curt boettcher - looking for the sun
lost crowns - s/t
dreamcast & burymeinamink - the lost tape vol. 2
white ward - love exchange failure
raveena - lucid
dominique guiot - l'univers de la mer
Wędrowcy~Tułacze~Zbiegi - Marynistyka suchego lądu
sisso - mateso
little brother - may the lord watch
spellling - mazy fly
patrick cowley - mechanical fantasy box
deafkids - Metaprogramação
the black egg - mind control losers
monokle & al-90 - mindperfection
radiohead - minidiscs (hacked)
4mat - modern closure
houssam gania - mosawi swiri
the micky sound - ndege ya mabua peku peku mitaani
grandmaster masese - new african soundz singles no. 1
rose elinor dougall - a new illusion
kaina - next to the sun
tyme/tatsuya yamada - no one like you and me
v/a - numerous agnomens vol. iii
v/a - nyatiti singles vollume 1
Oren Ambarchi, Mark Fell, Will Guthrie & Sam Shalabi - oglon day
tc4 - ola
that dog. - old lp
tomeka reid quartet - old new
angel bat dawid - the oracle
hysteric - oz wave edits 83-87
black moth super rainbow - panic fades
betonkust & palmbomen ii - parallel b
call super - peach 007
purple pilgrims - perfumed earth
elza soares - planeta fome
tomb mold - planetary clairvoyance
el irreal veintiuno - poliformo
wiktor stribog - poradnik usmiechu ost
v/a - post now: round one - chicago vs. new york
v/a - powder in space
go: organic orchestra - ragmala
koffee - rapture
octo octa - resonant body
rick white & eiyn sof - the opening
Gooooose - rusted silicon
fovea hex - the salt garden iii
v/a - seito: in the beginning, woman was the sun
nicola cruz - siku
stein urheim - simple pieces & paper cut-outs
partch - sonata dementia
envelope generator - songs i hate
yosi horikawa - spaces
riot ensemble - speak, be silent
hiromi - spectrum
carola ortiz - spirala
sun ra - the spirit of jazz cosmos arkestra at WUHY 1978
behavior - spirits & embellishments
legowelt - star simulator
shnabubula - super rite of spring
clipping. - there existed an addiction to blood
seba kaapstad - thina
helado negro - this is how you smile
v/a - the time for peace is now: gospel music about us
sankara - total liberation of the human race
ben ritz - trope insurance
"blue" gene tyranny & peter gordon - trust in rock
joe armon-jones - turn to clear view
Širom - a universe that roasts blossoms for a horse
barker - utility
vagabon - s/t
reptaliens - valis
blackwater holylight - veils of winter
mach-hommy - Wap Konn Jòj!
guerilla toss - what would the odd do?
solange - when i get home
no moon - where do we go from here?
krallice - wolf
loona - x x
wednesday campanella & oorutaichi - yakushima treasure
janan sawa - yema
wxyz - yiy
apparatus - yonder yawns the universe
bent knee - you know what they mean
charly bliss - young enough
kaisyn holamkhanov - zhuuk baraiym katynga
cucina povera - zoom
長谷川白紙 - エアにに
khana bierbood - strangers from the far east
polkadot stingray - 有頂天
3776 - 歳時記
phillip nangle - 2 karimba 3 octave
charlie koffeen presents j dilla's donuts - 2019-02-09 chicago
26 bats! - s/t
v/a - 30 years of rage part 1-4
nkisi - 7 directions
sakanaction - 834.194
collider - -><-
michael robinson - spirit lady
octo octa - i wanna tell you a story about house
spanky rogers - racing through time
paris strother - dream catcher
david briggs - symphonie improvisee on three welsh themes
davila 666 - huesos viejos
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - oy oy emine
nathan 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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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...

oh thanks! is that parimad lood? will have to check it out!

That's the one!

thanks for your answer rusho. i think i didn't express myself very well concerning electronic music and repetition. what you say is absolutely true most music relies on repetition of patterns and structures, that is normal and something i do not criticize. what i mean is the nature of electronic sound which to me is like a two dimensional area compared to the three dimensional space acoustic music and natural, untreated voices represent. most electronic sounds, especially the beat patterns are always identical, for me listening to them is a torture almost as if my head was subject to a small hammer hitting the skull at exactly the same position for hundreds of times. a human drummer will never be as "perfect", there will be minimal variations in his drumming, on a micro-tone level every hit on the drum kit will sound slightly different. that is what makes music made by humans so lively and attractive for me. whereas most electronic music to my ears sounds cold and dead and boring. that's probably why i never got house and techno. there are exceptions though, for example boards of canada. the reason might br their use of analog synthesizers and that their tunes are often not very beat orientated.

honestly i think i can relate to what you're saying, i did used to view electronic music that way, and over time i've just found different ways of listening. like when you listen to "peter and the wolf" david bowie introduces all the different instruments to you with their different motifs and sometimes i can sort of shift to hearing the individual performances but sometimes i get overtaken by the gestalt, the interactions, i _stop hearing_ the separate instruments, getting into that, you know, flow state.

that's the point of any repetition to me, it's learning what to ignore, what not to think about or process consciously, it's listening to "time has come today" without being driven crazy by the motherfucking cowbell (i don't think it's "humans" vs. "machines" per se). humans are surprisingly capable of acclimating to all kinds of things. i have personally found serious benefits to acclimating to electronic beats.

Fuck it I'm just gonna go way too deep on this one, or try at least (this all made a lot more sense at 5 AM before I got out of bed).

I used to say that my goal was to like all music, which made people look at me like I was stupid or something, and in truth it was a lazy overgeneralization. It's more that if I care about or respect someone, I want to love what they love. (Back when I said I wanted to like all music I also wanted to care about and respect everyone, which I've kind of given up on.)

When I was really young I used to judge people based on what music they listened to, like I wasn't sure I could date someone who liked Phil Collins or whatever. Now it's the reverse - I judge music based on who loves it.

I know for a lot of people it's not necessarily like that, it's more a "you like what you like (shrug)" thing. For me, ah, I feel like it goes back to Captain Beefheart.

The first time I heard "Trout Mask Replica" I heard about what most people without a thorough grounding in bottleneck blues and free jazz hear in it - some dude yelling over a bunch of noise. I put in a lot of work to hear something else. In retrospect I don't think my motivations for that were good. It was sort of classic troll logic, some clever dudes saying "Oh you probably aren't smart enough to get it", to which the rational and appropriate response is "Oh, fuck you", but at that time I very much wanted to be a Clever Dude and felt the need to prove that I was smart enough to "get it". Also I had paid full price for that CD, fifteen dollars, and I wasn't going to let that money go to waste, and also I had like three other CDs, so it was that, or Dark Side of the Moon, or listen to the radio which played nothing but The Sign and One Of Us on a constant loop - I like The Sign but I don't need to hear it every fifteen minutes.

Eventually after listening to about it 50 times (because my time was cheap back then) I slowly pieced it together that there was, in fact, more to it than some dude yelling over a bunch of noise, and that experience - I guess that trauma, because seriously you have to be kind of a fucked up person to willingly listen to Trout Mask Replica 50 times even though you don't really like it - has colored the way I experience music ever since.

I guess that never means I'll be a true poptimist, because I listen to any pop music as if it was fucking "Trout Mask Replica", as if it's some sort of mysterious puzzle I need to solve, but I'll also, you know, listen to it, because I've moved on from trying to be a Clever Dude. Learning to enjoy Trout Mask Replica was, in large part, a process of unlearning a lot of the unwritten assumptions and beliefs I had about how music was supposed to work. To get what the band was doing I basically had to teach myself Beginner's Mind, and having stumbled my way into some approximation of that skill I do find it a useful one to practice, and I've found it applies to pretty much any kind of music.

I'm limited in a lot of ways in what I can do, in what I can feel, but after decades of work I find that I can, with effort, learn to love pretty much any damn music if I put enough work into it. Other sorts of empathy come a lot harder, but if I can love the music someone else loves, well, it's a start.

And I feel like it works the other way around, as well. That's why I have one album I really recommend from 2019 and not ten, because I feel, rightly or wrongly, that if someone can hear what I hear in "Resonant Body" that they will understand me, understand my experience as a trans woman, in a way that's impossible to communicate any other way.

OK, that's probably enough digging for now.

OK, back to actual music. I don't know how I got here exactly but this Czech song is one of the most aggressively unfunky takes on "You Should Be Dancing" I could possibly imagine. It is at least fairly psychedelic, especially with the way OTT vocal echo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awkjjlVd1R0

The side bar (I am browsing in porn mode, which I do more and more these days just because Google will take anything I say and take it way out of context or completely get its keywords confused and start giving me news about transalpine Gaul or some shit) went on to recommend me something by "100 Monkeys", who I thought I recognized but it turned out I was mixing them up with 100 Flowers.

ok happy new year everybody tell me your favorite songs about WIZARDS

like "good wizard meets naughty wizard"

or "northlands old and toothless wizard" by eno (not that eno)

it's a new year and i need some fucking WIZARD JAMS

fuck it i can't wait any longer, here is my roughly hour-long mix of wizard jams

inside - wizzard king
sorcery - wizard's council
scanner - wizard force
albert ayler - the wizard
lone taxidermist - dribble wizard
shuttah - the wizard
the aquarian age - good wizard meets naughty wizard
the sun also rises - wizard shep
rondellus - magus (the wizard)
jessika kenney & eyvind kang - witch and the wizard
magma - maahnt (wizard's fight vs. the devil)
jake kaufman - the science wizard (explodatorium)
eno - northlands old and toothless wizard

the power metal -> free jazz segue is slightly, uh, daring, but that's one of the hazards of being me

no place for Emperor "i am the black wizards" nor for "We're off to see the wizard"?

"i am the black wizards" is classic for sure but i never got much into first wave black metal, go fig. for "we're off to see the wizard" i was tempted by aunto molly urso's disco version of "over the rainbow" which goes into "we're off to see the wizard" a bit, but i decided against it

i also am enjoying j.d. emmanuel's "wizards" from '82, which is peak new age/berlin school shovelware (the berlin school as a whole is a good argument for the proposition that music should be difficult to make)

OK here's what I've been up to.

1970s TV news themes. I'm a fiend for them. I know it's weird, it's detritus and the kind of people who are into this sort of stuff... like if you think I'm not right in the head, I get that.

Like, here's the thing I am backed up on this by a blog post on CityLab, which is as far as I can tell a reputable site, calling this "The World's Greatest Local TV News Theme". Right here.

https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/08/long-live-the-worlds-greatest-local-tv-news-song/568813/

It's "Move Closer To Your World", and it was written by a guy by the name of Al Ham, who is like a legend in TV news themes, like the TV news equivalent of somebody like Mike Post. Now that's not what I'm posting here today, because bear with me, his wife - his wife was a lady by the name of Mary Mayo, who is famous in certain _other_ circles for working with Dick Hyman on his "Moon Gas" LP. I'll be honest with you it took me a long time to come around to Dick Hyman beyond "boy that's an embarrassing name to have", and even when I did it was just "Moog - The Eclectic Electrics of Dick Hyman", which is the one that's sampled on Beck's "Odelay" and has that avant-garde moog cover of James Brown's "Give It Up Or Turn It Loose".

Anyway God knows this is the sort of music I need way more of in my life.

So here's the stereo version of "Moon Gas" by Dick Hyman and Mary Mayo:

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

Enjoy.

Yesterday I did a list of some of my favorite jazz LPs from 1944-1970 and it was fun to write but I don't know there's enough interest for me to post another long list of random names.

OK wait. So in 1976 somebody decided to get Lesley Gore back together with Quincy Jones for a comeback record, which of course means a disco record. Like, you can tell that's probably not going to turn out well, sure. But did the leadoff single have to be so, well, stalkery? "Sometimes I watch you sleep?" And then there's the cover, for which some brilliant art director took a perfectly ordinary picture of Ms. Gore and decided to go all Diamond Dogs with it. That was not a good idea! That was really not a good idea!

Here is a random record by someone named Iya Khan called "Spaceman". It has never been sold on Discogs, but Discogs says it was released in 1985 and that Iya Khan has not released any other records. The B-side is called "Fat Girls". I have not heard the B-side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exLX08o9Njo

Here's a quick one. Can't remember why I threw it together.

Pylon - Working Is No Problem
Captain Beefheart - Hard Workin' Man
Rush O))) - Working Man Slow Edit
Charming Hostess - Won't You Keep Us Working?
DEVO - Working in a Coalmine (Hardcore)
Fonzi Thornton - I Work For A Living (Nile Rodgers Long Version)
Mr. Airplane Man - I Work Hard
Otoboke Beaver - 6 Day Working Week Is A Pain
Rex Griffin - You Gotta Go To Work
Jesse Gould - Out of Work
The Fall - Fit and Working Again
UJ3rk5 - Uj3rk5 Work For Police
Wild Man Fischer - I'm Working For The Federal Bureau of Narcotics
The Clash - Julie's Been Working For The Drug Squad
Martin King - Working for the KGB (Extended)
Blue Orchids - Work

threw together an hour of cowboy songs a couple days ago but don't feel like posting the playlist, it was reasonably interesting but mostly it was just "oh yeah those are the musicians kate listens to all right".

so here's a musician i don't listen to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPHQiZ5Zzwk

"dreidel" the lead single and leadoff track from don mclean's 1972 (or '73, sources differ) s/t lp, his follow-up to his hit record "american pie". it hit #21 and then dropped like somebody quit paying payola for it. i was surprised at how much i liked this song, considering that i kind of hate "american pie". it's not the best song ever - slightly overproduced, slightly overwritten (particularly the bridge), but genuine effort was put into it and it's under four minutes long.

Trans Playlist #2: "I've Grown So Ugly", Robert Pete Williams

("Trans Playlist #1" was "September the Ninth" by Robert Wyatt and Alfreda Benge, not identified as such at the time)

"I've Grown So Ugly", a 1961 Robert Pete Williams song I first heard as performed by Captain Beefheart on his 1967 album "Safe as Milk", cuts to the heart of my experience with dysphoria. A combination of two things, really. One the one hand, the lyric "Grown so ugly I don't even know myself" perfectly encapsulates my experience of dissociation. On the other, the howling refrain "Baby, this ain't me" carries with it the emotional weight of dysphoria, the acute feeling of wrongness that can strike at any time.

Since I go obscure on these things, here's a live video from 1970 of Robert Pete Williams that turned up when I was looking for a stream of the song.

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

I just decided to randomly google "Action by Havoc" to see what turned up and came across this free jazz group. I'm really enjoying it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg9N1IIPKGc

Today I got a forward of one of those industry update emails. The top story was some undoubtedly splendid fellow from some undoubtedly splendid company talking about how the "silver lining" of the coronavirus was that it had great potential for expanding their customer base. At the bottom of the email was a quote by Wassily Kandinsky:

"An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures."

He also is quoted as saying:

"The more frightening the world becomes ... the more art becomes abstract."

Which I would paraphrase as "When shit gets real, the real gets abstract." But maybe Kandinsky said it better, in whatever language he said it in.

It had me thinking about Kandinsky and my first encounter with the name, the final long track on a compilation of New York downtown jazz from the early '90s called "Live at the Knitting Factory". I bought the CD for the Doctor Nerve and Negativland tracks but the Brandon Ross track, though I seldom listened to it, helped me understand this artist whose pictures I had never seen.

Here is a more recent track by Ross with Stomu Takeishi. It evokes the same sort of mood as I remember that song evoking.

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

So I think I will just say here that my friend Sedric and I have started a blog... my hope is that by having a co-blogger it's not going to go the way of every other blog I've ever started, which is at some point I'm looking at a wall of nothing but my own words, panic, and run away. It's vaguely centered on the things we have in common - weird music, technological imperfections and "mistakes" in old media, breakdown of ludic narrative, and old Doctor Who which is sort of a nexus of all of those things.

https://weirdthingsonbetamax.blogspot.com/

Added to my rss feed!

cool, i went on a bit of a tear yesterday and made three long posts, of which maybe 1 1/2 were music related. i'll try to keep this thread updated as well!

Will check; I always look fwd to your posts on ilx! Speaking of Brandon Ross, do you know his trio Harriet Tubman? Good stuff on youtube, bandcamp, and CDs. This was my gateway:
https://harriettubman.bandcamp.com/album/araminta He's also worked w Henry Threadgill, think this trio may have started as a subset of one of HT's ensembles.

wadada leo smith guests on this? very nice!

i have barely touched ross's work, but i did find an album from '77 by "zenzile featuring marion brown". ross is on guitar, and stephen mccraven (makaya mccraven's dad) is on drums. i like this one a lot.

So the '50s classical thread introduced me to the work of Maurice Ohana... his guitar work was mentioned, specifically his 10-string pieces, which this isn't, but the performance is so captivating I felt like I needed to share.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXd1zqNznIs

ohana was a new discovery for me too, thanks for that video (also: killer outfit on the guitarist)

did you know that the sonny rollins tune “st. thomas” is based on a caribbean nursery song his mom used to sing him as a kid ? either i never knew or forgot, found out cuz i was listening to v/a “junkaboo band key west” (folkways 1964):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ykc5_DcNNE

wow, that is really cool! i think i definitely never knew that. and yeah, i think white tie is just an amazing look and it's too bad that nobody ever wears it in practice (black tie rare enough these days!)

more posts - the first part of a possibly-to-be-completed-much-later ramble about live grateful dead recordings, and a write-up on a video mixtape i did that i thought was super fucking long but it turns out is only 4000 words, so that's not too bad then!

i’ve really been enjoying the blog, thanks for sharing here

glad you've enjoyed it!

i was working on a streaming playlist of old advertisements and in the process i dug up this advertisement for amoco's "nice clean petrol", which i'd lost somewhere in the archive and been trying to find for, i don't know, maybe a year - both a fascinating piece of corporate disinformation and a damn fine song. a double threat!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MbYgpX2svI

Been a while since I've posted here. Mostly it's a sign that I'm listening to less music. Going off on lengthy and quixotic music discovery jaunts is not on my long list of things I try to do daily to keep myself sane.

So it's been weeks and all I have for you is a Stealer's Wheel deep cut. I can't remember why I have been listening to Stealer's Wheel deep cuts. Probably some thread elsewhere on this board because that's really the only place I'm even talking about music. Hell, I didn't even know Gerry Rafferty was in Stealer's Wheel. This isn't one of his songs, though, this is one of Egan's.

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

I was overall surprised by how much I liked the record this was on - it's not great, but there are a lot of second-tier early '70s rock bands that somehow stumble into having some really nice deep cuts. Nice chords on this, nice instrumentation - the bells bridging from the previous song which didn't grab me so much, the harp glissandos, the fairground organ.

That is quite lovely, that.

Persistence pays off! Found a version of "What Goes On" I dig. Flabbergasted me that I couldn't find a good take on it; the original is a decent enough Buck Owens tribute but all the cover versions I heard were just flabby and weak aside from the Sufjan Stevens one, which I just plain didn't like. Knew if I kept looking around long enough I'd dig something up. This is a roughly contemporary version from the "Beatle Country" album by the Charles River Valley Boys, a progressive bluegrass group. These folks are just legit _good_ - I wouldn't be surprised if the Dillards got their "I've Just Seen A Face" arrangement from them.

Anyway, that wraps things up. I guess there are a couple songs I sort of cheated on that I could upgrade, but as it is I'm going to declare the Beatles Covers Project "good enough".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhhFC3Fnw4o

rush maybe i'm projecting but the lyrics to that stealer's wheel song feel extremely pro-trans! :)

i never really know how much to read into lyrics! i've been wrongfooted before. there was this game last year, 16-bit-style rpg, i was really enjoying, and my feeling was that, like, every single character in the game was trans. just the vibe i got from the characters. and then the person who made the game said some really ugly transphobic shit and i had to remove the game from my library, because anybody who says shit like that it's not safe for me to make any room in my life for any of their ideas. that sort of thing is a shame when it happens. part of me hopes that they come out as trans and apologize for saying that stuff, at which point i'd happily buy the game again, but, you know... that's just wishful thinking on my part. person is probably just a super big jerk.

i was listening to the last pink fairies album, from 1973, which i guess has kind of a cult reputation on rym. and the second track is this ten minute heavy rock jam called "i wish i were a girl". and that's what it's about. i don't know what to make of stuff like that. i looked up the guy who wrote it, and he died fairly recently. and i believe in self-determination so i guess he wasn't trans. hell of a song, though.

made a new blog post, kept digging around and looking afterwards and found this iron curtain polish hawaiian-exploitation exotica record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epR1K184NFc

so there's a new streets of rage game out! koshiro and kawashima worked on it. much respect for the originators, but '94 was a long time ago and on first listen it doesn't quite match up to the heights of the insane soundtrack to bare nuckle iii.

here's some guy doing a cover of "happy paradise" from that soundtrack. mixing is a little wonky - the drums get in the way a little bit - but it's got good spirit and energy, and is definitely the best tribute version of it i found doing a quick search; some of the koshiro tributes out there just are not good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay0tDJYP4Ic

plus, this guy also has a cover of the "highway to heaven" theme song on his channel! a weirdo after my own heart.

for whatever reason i'm digging through old zep boots. the people who grade or rate zep boots have different priorities than i do. they talk about what a shame it is about this tape, a recording that sounds like it was made from inside jimmy page's guitar amp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a14EXLG1GiM

and i'm like holy fuck, this is the led zeppelin version of The Legendary Guitar Amp Tapes, this is fucking amazing

you know it's a good "how many more times" when peter grant has been arrested by the end of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTzcJsW4wwE

wow @ san bernardino '69 recording

i'm gonna just post this for the cover art, for a library music record this is absolutely amazing and makes me really want to hear the whole thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5DQZ4EKMLc

the aesthetic on this fucker!

i was looking up Harriet Padberg's work to see if there are any recordings... guy named Anthony Caulkins had made a recording based on her theories. it sounds pretty bad honestly, but i went exploring from there. here's an upload of his MFA thesis recital. this on the other hand i do kind of like, definitely up my alley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctJmw4I66_Y

Hey, this thread is mostly dormant, I've mostly moved on to my blog, but I was just thinking about this song today, and I really think it's a good one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KojUYqEo5t8

You know that ilx needs this thread tho right

I mean. There is a reason why this particular board needs this particular thread.

It's not just because you have exquisite taste. It's because you have the sense to question whether having exquisite taste is a good idea.

This thread is the antidote to so much "classic or dud?" bs

Awww, thanks. I've really grateful that folks have read this thread and gotten something out of it. It's been a great experience doing it. I can't promise to continue to update this thread regularly like I did between August 2018 and May 2020, but I will recommend that anybody who's enjoyed it check out the blog my friend Sedric and I run at:

https://www.alanauch.org/wtob/

which covers a lot of the same territory as the stuff I've posted here.

Help me find a music video please. Someone posted a youtube on ilm 10-11 months ago. It was indie/punk/tronic music. It had two t-girls in a single frame (like a webcam) and the song felt like it was segemented into two distinct parts. The end was heavier and the lighting in the room changed. The girls ended the song singing "you can't understand, you can't understand" (or something like that) in a sort punk/emo way.

Thanks

don't know the video you're talking about, i would prefer that you not use the term "t-girl" in future, it has some unpleasant connotations.

ok, it was about the time you were talking about octa octo in the rym thread so I thought it might of been them.

(urban dictionary said t-girl was a generally accepted "polite" way but it did seem wrong when I posted my question. my cousin started h-therapy this week and I was looking for that video to post on their wall when I tell them that I 100% support them)

that particular term is a complicated and fraught one, i don't want to get into it in detail but i would definitely take urban dictionary's recommendations on trans-affirming language with a grain of salt. :) i've found "trans woman" or "transgender woman" is generally a safe descriptor, but we're a diverse bunch and i can't speak for all trans women!

you might want to check in with imago, the thing you're describing sounds kind of like his scene, there's a thread he curates called "OUT OF FLUX WITH THE UNIVERSE: the canada trans electropop scene".

OUT OF FLUX WITH THE UNIVERSE: the canada trans electropop scene

hopefully the video you're thinking of isn't like black dresses or anything because there's been some, uh, complications going on around that former group. i can't really give you more details because it's not something i'm really informed about and they were never a group i listened to much of.

okay, it is Black Dresses. HERTZ.

Thanks for helping me find it. Maybe I'll skip posting a video.

no worries, hearing a message from you is going to mean more to them than a video anyway :)

revive!

my answering machine message to john paluska above the Great Went: performing acapella rage

https://soundcloud.com/sidedooraudio/jon-fishmans-answering-machine-frankenstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llao7sgI7BI

great revive!! ♥️♥️♥️🧟🎸

I didn't know zoo bombing was an actual thing! I just know that there was a band called the Zoobombs that did an amazing ripping version of "Waiting For the Man" on the a late '90s Rabid Chords Velvets comp. Spent decades looking for an uncut version of Ahh! Folly Jet's waltz-time remake of "Ferryboat Bill", which I did finally turn up.

Anyway, a friend of mine was asking what zoo bombing was, and I don't have an explanation but I _did_ look it up on Youtube and found some awesome live videos of them. Here's a fantastic cover of Television's "See No Evil" from a band called "dip", whose video is on a channel that also has some Zoobombs live videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rkEWzcZyDQ

I always thought it was just some kind of a pun...
Because "zubon" in Japanese means "trousers"...

maybe it is! parallel development of zoobombing

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/step-on-step

oh fuck yes, thank you budo jeru

yw!

The thing I hate most about writing is that I work far too hard at it. After spending most of Monday writing _two_ 3,000 word essays that nobody will ever read instead of doing more important things like cleaning the kitchen or running reports (the reports themselves aren't terribly important but the fact that I'm paid to do it is), I figured I would write some light trivial fluff about an old prog song I like, and instead I wrote _this_:

https://www.alanauch.org/wtob/2022/08/17/my-first-words/

I worked way harder at writing this than I had any reason to.

oh fuck yes apparently lesbian sea shanties are a thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUldplPSHq4

ep by a friend of a friend, "collapsing avant garde country-prog" is how it was described to me and this works. bob drake guests on a cover of his own "what animal".

https://scribewolf.bandcamp.com/album/the-singular-power-of-my-very-own-ep

Ooh I didn’t know you had a blog rush, you’re in all the good music threads so I guess I’d better read it

there's some weird shit about bootlegs and so forth but it's mostly trans shit haha, there _is_ some non-trans shit mixed in and it certainly didn't start out as trans shit but it's kinda slowly taken over the blog

there is some music writing i'm really proud of in there, though. i think my post about mahavishnu orchestra bootlegs is still pretty good music criticism and helped me grow some as a writer:

https://www.alanauch.org/wtob/2020/09/29/the-inner-mounting-flame-in-concert/

i have actually written a _staggering amount_ of shit on that blog over the past two years. that time i ghosted ilx for like 18 months? i pretty much spent it all posting shit to the blog. fortunately there's so much writing there it'll scare damn near anybody who might possibly be interested away from actually reading any of it.

I mean I'm just gonna troll y'all and revive this thread by posting a live Phish jam. I like Phish. I don't care what y'all say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJFUm6Y1Mmw

"you can't say tupperware on television!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czvj0i463wQ

https://deluxebias.bandcamp.com/album/tupperware-american-underbelly-db-9

good shit!

truly! love the stump clip, by the way

happy friday y'all! (what? trans day of what? never heard of it)

i ever post the tracklist to the doors knockoff mix i made? this is kind of like an obsession with mine, i feel like people undersell how influential the doors actually were as a band, and a lot of times i like the knockoffs better than the actual band. i've developed a soft spot for the band by the way. yes jim morrison's poetry is shitty and pretentious and the cult people have of him is obnoxious. also i've come to realize since starting hormones that i don't actually think he's hot. ridiculous pouty skinny boy, even in leather pants he's... i mean i guess the tropey-example is draco malfoy but i'll have nothing to do with that entire franchise thank you very much. anyway there are lots of guys who look better in leather pants than jim morrison. also _most_ girls look better in leather pants than jim morrison, but i guess i'm biased considering i'm a lesbian. i look better in leather pants than jim morrison, i think. BUT i still like the doors, they have some good songs and i'm at the point in my life where jim morrison's bad poetry is funny rather than cringe.

ANYWAY. here's the doors knockoff bands i've heard. i have heard rumor of at least one more called, uh, stickler of the ultramundane or something like that? impossible to find and actually now that i've said their name this thread is probably now the top hit on google for that band. i'm definitely interested in anything more people can recommend on this tip. as you can tell classic period is my preference, latest track here is 1975 and it's kind of an outlier.

the stooges - down on the street (mono single edit)
children of the mushroom - you can't erase a mirror
mystic siva - supernatural mind
pop masine - kiselina
fraction - come out of her
crystal chandelier - suicidal flowers
the loose enz - the black door
omnibus - the man song
one st. stephen - dash in the rocks
the maze - armageddon
allmen joy - walk with me

oh and yeah i know about magma's "morrison in the storm" but i think that song kinda sucks even aside from christian vander being a shitty fascist.

also anybody who has recommendations of doors covers... here's my playlist of those

mission of burma - break on through
robyn hitchcock - the crystal ship (1989-04-28 kroq)
shibusashirazu orchestra - light my fire (2003-05-04 bonus cd)
the feelies - take it as it comes
gaznevada - when the music is over
gnarls barkley - who scared you
john oswald - o'hell
la lupe - touch me
saccharine trust - peace frog
nico - the end

i think wooden shjips - "we ask you to ride" (2007) is doors worship, but some people might not agree.

one of my very fav doors covers is "riders on the storm" by la mecánica popular:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOGe3X2Q6cw

oh this is rad, thanks

y'all quick thread revive to let you know i finally found a rip of tommy marolda's "me... out for the first time", i've been looking for a place to listen to this record for literally like a decade now. i'm so fucking hyped.

hi, wow!

anyway you can try to send it my way? ilx mail works; can't remembered if we've emailed in the past.

in #onethread news, "break from the caravan" is a fucking hilarious parody of toxic masculinity. i think. or else it's just a fucking terrible song. i'm gonna give marolda the benefit of the doubt here, it's like very nearly in pretty things "cause i'm a man" territory.

ok, i was hoping that i would finally be able to let go of my weird tommy marolda obsession but NOPE

so, um, this is one of his

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulJ7VZTFsow

i mean admittedly it's better than you'd expect from... i mean _this_. better than, you know, late-period bruce haack. i'd say.

but it's no "let's be friends again".

i can't think of my 50 favorite albums, so i just put my itunes library on random and picked 50 albums

also i mostly stopped bothering to update my itunes library at the end of 2020

i'm not making it as a poll because people are just going to vote for the ones they've heard of

i'm not proud of having these albums in my library, most of it is third-hand /mu/ shit, they're good records but, idk, music is weird for me these days

music was what i listened to because it was the only way i could emotionally connect with anything, after four years on estrogen i'm trying to kind of turn down the emotions a little bit. i don't know what to do with music when i just cry randomly now and most of my time is spent trying to be a functional human being.

but these are all albums that, at one point in my life between 2009 and roughly 2020, i enjoyed listening to.

DJ QBert - Demolition Pumpkin Squeeze Music: A Preskool Breakmix
Duster - Capsule Losing Contact
The Supremes - Floy Joy
Tigran Hamasyan - Mockroot
Mr Sterile Assembly - It's All Over
Muqata'a - Inkanakuntu
Chakra - Satekoso
Los Jaivas - La Voraigne 5: Que Hacer
Wuja Bin Bin - The Best Planet Ever
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
David Grubbs - The Thicket
Game Theory - The Big Shot Chronicles
V/A - Screamers, Bangers, and Cosmic Synths
V/A - Gabber Gabber Hey! - A Loud and Fast Accelerated Tribute to the Ramones
The Circle Jerks - Wild in the Streets
Clare Fischer - Thesaurus
Wire - Pink Flag
Hammer Screwdriver - s/t
Behavior - Spirits & Embellishments
Christopher Rousset - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Complete Harpsichord Works
Rodrigo Gonzalez - Hurbanistorias
Alex Chilton - Dusted in Memphis (and Elsewhere)
The Simple Carnival - Girls Aliens Food
Dandy Livingstone - Dandy Returns
Boole - The Vital Few
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Duke Ellington - The Chronological Duke Ellington 1932-1933
END - Splinters from an Ever-Changing Face
Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief
Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited
James Brown - Funky Christmas
Fumaca Preta - s/t
Jack Ruby - Hit and Run
Satan's Host - By the Hands of the Devil
Lalo Schifrin - Starsky & Hutch OST
The Work - The Worst of Everywhere
Talking Heads - The Name of This Band is Talking Heads
v/a - Synths from the Sahara
Giuni Russo - Energie
Matt Elliott - Howling Songs
Sviatoslav Richter - The Sofia Recital 1958
Ted Hawkins - Watch Your Step
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Wasteland
Christina Vantzou - No. 4
Arthur Russell - Sketches for World of Echo: June 25 1984
UJ3RK5 - Live from the Commodore Ballroom
Sylvester - Stars
Feu Chatterton - Ici le Jour
Grand Orchestre du Tricot - Atomic Spoutnik
Wanda Sa - Wanda Vagamente

love to see Simply Saucer included - "Illegal Bodies" rips

a really interesting list with lots of stuff i'm looking forward to exploring later. supremes, simply saucer, jack ruby, and sviatoslav richter all jumping out at me -- but i'd probably have to pick "pink flag" if i'm being honest

well, it's not a poll, and you didn't ask me to pick. just saying

picking is allowed! i just didn't make it a poll because the results probably wouldn't say much! personally i'm very fond of the hammer screwdriver.

heh -- cheers :)

fuck it here's an actual list, random-ish, i tried to stay away from

Leak Bros - Waterworld
Octo Octa - Resonant Body
Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies - Complete Recordings
Luiz Eca & Sagrada Familia - Onda Nova do Brasil
Bob Drake - L'Isola dei Lupi
Slauter Xstroyes - Free the Beast
Ted Lucas - The Om Record
Essential Logic - Beat Rhythm News
Zelda - s/t
Bauer - On the Move
Super Freego - Pourquoi Es-Tu Si Mechant?
Nonlocal Forecast - Bubble Universe!
The Great Tyrant - The Trouble With Being Born
Gastr del Sol - Camofleur
The Chrysanthemums - Little Flecks of Foam Around Barking
Alaska y Dinarama - Deseo Carnal
Matia Bazar - Aristocratica
Peter Thomas - Sound Music Album 5 (Golden Ring)
Melt-Banana - Fetch
Josef Hassid - The Complete Recordings
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Bwyd Time
Raging Slab - Black Belt in Boogie
Hammer Screwdriver - s/t
Joe Raposo - Joe Raposo (Fan-Made) Tribute Episode
Maschina - Purple Finger Syndrome
Midday Veil - This Wilderness
Brotherhood of Breath - BBC Session (unreleased w/Mongezi Feza - "You Ain't Gonna Know Me"/"Wood Fire")
Brainiac - Hissing Prigs in Static Couture
Masashi Kageyama - Gimmick!
Presage - s/t
Johann Joseph Fux - Kaiserrequiem
Lyra Pramuk - Fountain
Ben Monder - Day After Day
BPM15Q - All Songs
Christa Lee - Welcome to the Fantasy Zone
Abigail Washburn - City of Refuge
The Toms - Simplicity
Stuff Smith & Robert Crum - The Complete Rosenkrantz Apartment Transcription Duets
Padraig O'Keeffe - The Sliabh Luachra Fiddle Master
Alexandre Reverend - Chansons d'une grande banane alitee
The Lewis Sisters - Way Out Far
Clothilde - s/t
Ramsey Lewis - Mother Nature's Son
Hildegard Knef - Knef
Bill Fay - Time of the Last Persecution
Night Sun - Mournin'
Relatively Clean Rivers - s/t
Winterhawk - There and Back Again
Boris Midney - The Empire Strikes Back
Opus III - Mind Fruit

Difficult to not pick Gastr del Sol, but I wanna single out that Clothilde comp for anyone who bought one late 60s French beat pop album and thought that was enough.

ok i'm gonna do some brief write-ups on these

leak bros - i don't know why i love this hip-hop concept album about pcp so much. i just do.

octo octa - big record for me during my transition year, big fuckin' influence on me. this is my Trans Record.

milton brown & his musical brownies - too-short career, along with bob wills one of the titans of western swing. you don't actually need to hear them all, i just don't know of a comp. bob dunn's steel guitar, fuck yes.

luiz eca - idk i think i just connected with this during the blog era, 2008 or so, and fell in love with it, kind of an mpb supergroup. haven't listened to it in a while. i also recommend the "a tribo" comp but there's no official album of theirs and the sagrada familia record is better.

bob drake - i mean anything of his, i got into his stuff through ths prog-rock connections but bob drake is something else, lovecraftian old-timey furry jon anderson, i can't help but love it

slauter xstroyes - idk mostly metal like this doesn't have a bruce dickinson-style vocalist i don't think? it just clicks with me.

ted lucas - just a sad, homey folk record. the instrumental side is good but the vocal side is better. i don't even get stoned but i love listening to "it's so nice to get stoned".

essential logic - the kind of post-punk that clicks with me

zelda - actually i think that's just an ep? probably just go with 1983's full-length "carnaval". honestly i like their early, punkier live stuff better than their later stuff, but carnaval is a good meeting point.

bauer - somebody posted a bootleg rehearsal of theirs to dime in the early days and it's the kind of chamber pop that clicks with me.

super freego - a holy grail of mine for years, imagine my surprise when i found the album and it turned out to be just as good as i'd built it up to be. kind of a cross between early b-52s and magma.

nonlocal forecast - fire-toolz side project, progged out weather channel vaporwave shit. i haven't heard anything i didn't like by fire-toolz.

the great tyrant - post-_yeti_ after one of their members died. later another member died and they became pinkish black? or something? anyway i dig yeti's "man with the lamp" slightly more but the deathcore influences added to yeti's zeuhl and the cioran namecheck in the title elevate this.

that's kind of all i feel like doing now, i have, like, work to do, if i get to it i'll write up more... figure it's worth it since a lot of people probably haven't heard many of these...

Love your taste, it’s somewhat removed from my own personal taste - safe from a handful of picks which I love - and a whole bunch of albums I have never heard but sound interesting. Hearing nonlocal forecast right now and digging it.

Ted Lucas record would likely make my top 50, and Ramsey Lewis my top 100. Have lots of time for Relatively Clean Rivers and the Toms. Most of this is unknown to me, though.

Lots of excellent stuff, I’m intrigued by all the rest I don’t know - so much to discover

k since we got faint stirrings of interest i'll do some more :)

gastr del sol - for me this record has a terroir to it... louisville, kentucky, late 1990s, a time and a place i remember fondly. great record, too.

the chrysanthemums - most batshit insane concept album ever... no idea what it's supposed to be about but the yes-style mid-section of "god and the dave clark five" hooked me. honestly just the track titles alone would be enough to sell me on this record. they have some connection to r. stevie moore. don't know how tho.

alaska y dinarama - i just learned that alaska was a host of the anarchist spanish children's show "la bola de cristal", which ran from 1984 to 1988 before being cancelled, apparently for excessive anticapitalism. kind of sad that i don't understand either anything that's going on in the tv show (fansubs plz!) or the lyrics of this record. the title track is apparently about necrophilia. anyway, it's a really good synthpop record.

matia bazar - this is an even better synthpop album but i don't know if it has any songs about necrophilia on it. not sure tho coz i don't speak italian either.

peter thomas - i'll be honest side a of this music is the killer, side B is more weird synth squiggles than anything else... they're cool synth squiggles but side a has the actual melodies. god just the _sound_ on this thing, fuzz synth funk for the ages. it's fucking heaven. i've had "astral snow" as my ringtone for probably a decade now. i doubt i'll ever change it at this point.

melt-banana - god dammit it's been ten years and they still haven't released a follow-up to this, are they retired now or something? on this they went from noise to noise-pop. i love noise-pop that puts the noise first, so long as the pop is good too, which it is here!

josef hassid - one of the tragic geniuses of the violin, god _damn_ i have never heard a violin tone like this guy had. well, he left some recordings behind at least.

gorky's zygotic mynci - got a copy of this import from the used bin at ear x-tacy in the '90s... all these years and it still holds up for me. unhinged welsh canterbury-influenced psych, it sold me when they massacred the singing elf chorus. they get mad props for doing a song about kevin ayers _and_ getting john cale to perform on stage with them... i'm assuming he didn't know about the song about kevin ayers...

raging slab - one of those records i feel like i might be one of the two or three fans in the world of... like, if you find someone on the internet talking about how great raging slab's _black belt in boogie_ is, there's pretty good odds it's me... '90s equivalent of black oak arkansas decides to get into the magic band and records this record for rick rubin... who doesn't release it because he thinks it sucks... they record another weird record, _sing monkey sing_, which does get released and which i also like, but it's _black belt in boogie_ i keep coming back to...

hammer screwdriver - i have no idea what the story of this is... seems to be like a guy made these cool home-recordings and then died without recording anything proper, and some friends of his came along and added some overdubs to kind of flesh it out... still a weird lo-fi thing mind you. this was from indianapolis during the decade or so i lived there... i didn't know the guy, didn't get out much, it doesn't have the terroir that camofleur does for me. just a great sound.

joe raposo - there's never been a official release of the songs he wrote for sesame street... so many great songs, soundtrack of my childhood, and all my faves are here... the deep cuts, not the well-known stuff like "sing", which is also great mind you, but this, this absolutely hits the sweet spot for me as far as his sesame street work goes. even stuff i didn't know about, like "rush hour song", a great piece from his second stint with the show in the '80s.

maschina - saw these folks open for magma at martyr's in '99... when they first got on stage i thought they were cringe, by the time they'd finished their 15 minute ode to finger-fucking they were my new gods... i got their lead singer queen maschina to sign the cd i got, i think they thought i was hitting on them... in retrospect i probably should have been... i think the band broke up a month later. i hope queen maschina is doing ok. they (it was 1999, they were queer and femme in a time and place where being queer and femme was _not_ the prevailing standard, i'm not going to even guess at their pronouns now, if they're around...) had a fantastic voice.

midday veil - sometimes things just grow on you, is all i can say... i think they broke up after this on, i don't get the sense that they were ever a huge band or anything, i just kept finding myself listening to the record... kind of synth-rock, i don't know why the synth stuff keeps coming back to me... probably a queer thing, everybody knows synthesizers are the transest instrument... i could rhapsodize about its limitless ability for self-creation but really i don't know why it is, it's just a thing.

brotherhood of breath - this was the first brotherhood of breath i ever heard, from a post to alt.binaries.mp3.bootlegs back in the day... i don't know anything about this recording or when it was recorded. someone uploaded it to youtube as being from "1980"... i doubt this very much, as my copy has a bbc announcer listing the band lineup, which includes mongezi feza... this is the only recording i've heard of feza playing his iconic composition.

that's all for now... more later maybe...

Enjoying your descriptions a lot! Loads of stuff I hadn't heard of

nice to see Midday Veil mentioned....I think I first heard of them on here. I picked up their 3 records very cheaply, I guess they never really caught on outside of Sheboygan, and it's too bad because they're a genuinely psychedelic band who I think channel the spirit of bands like Hawkwind and Gong without really imitating them. there's a band called The Utopia Strong (featuring ex-Cardiac Kavus Torabi and snooker player Steve Davis) which does the same thing, but Midday Veil is unique in that they actually have a really great singer, which even the bands back in the day didn't have. shame they busted up but hey, they gave it a go

Alaska y Dinarama are super iconic in Spain and latinamerica.

First time hearing about the title track being about necrophilia? I don’t quite interpret the lyrics as such or I’m not finding anything concrete in there. They do have a song about necrophilia in their last album called “mi novio es un zombie” (my bf is a zombie) which is one of their most popular songs.

i could be confused on that one, i don't speak the language at all!

little break

i'm just gonna make a list until i get bored of the records i have tagged as "metal"

if any of these are fash lmk and i'll delete them from my library, i'm bad at keeping track of this shit

also note my tags are _extremely imprecise_ and some stuff is just shit that was tagged that way randomly and i never changed

black metal:

abu lahab - as chastened angels descend into the thoracic tombs
ails - the unraveling
anubi - kai pilnaties akis uthmerks mirtis
arkha sva - gloria satanae
batushka - litourgiya
bleeding black - personal hell
damaar - triumph through spears of sacrilege
darkspace - iii
daudadagr - nordanland (i'm sorry that band name looks like someone just smashed the homerow keys)
deathspell omega - paracletus
disguster - split tape
dodheimsgard - a umbra omega
dressed in streams - swaraj: or, "self rule"
the end of six thousand years - isolation
evil - iron and thunder (these are probably fash but it sounds so shitty i can't help it)
feminazgul - no dawn for men
fleurety - min tid skal komme
frozen moon - legend of east dan i and ii
funereal presence - achatius
furia - ksiezyc milczy luty
hail spirit noir - oi magoi
jordablod - the cabinet of numinous song
jute gyte - discontinuities
krallice - s/t, go be forgotten
kvist - for kunsten maa vi evig vike
lugubrum - de ware hond
lurker of chalice - s/t
mastery - valis
mora prokaza - by chance
myrkur - mausoleum (pretty sure she's fash? i should probs delete)
nahvalr - s/t
nargaroth - geliebte des regens
necromantia - scarlet evil witching black
negative plane - et in saecula saeculorum
nutrition - hyperdimensional awakening
oranssi pazuzu - muukalainen puhuu
organium - the rage
punaterrori - the fascists are dead (probably not fash, might be tankies tho)
sabbat - the dwelling
self harm - adapt to self-inflicted chemical torture
skaphe - skaphe squared
stigma diabolicum - luna de nocturnus
stilla - synviljor
strid s/t
svartidau?i - revelations of the red sword
tengger cavalry - ancient call (lol)
thorns - stigma diabolicum
trepasser - (cyrillic title)
vargrav - neverstorm
ved buens ende - written in waters
vermilia - katkyt
white ward - love exchange failure
wmlrd - pentagon
zuriaake - afterimage of autumn

you know what that's enough typing for now, maybe "death metal" next time

so apparently hobbit oi! is a thing, here's "shire skinhead" by fellowship of the force

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ0MMUL8yac

honestly i don't think much of it, but also i'm not super into oi

i preferred "transsexual hooligan" tbh