What are you listening to 2013?

Sister Rosetta Tharpe Shout Sister Shout
1st disc of a Proper 4cd set. Not heard the rest yet. But this is pretty great
sounds very blues based, this disc spans late 30s to early 40s so contemporary
with Robert Johnson etc. Sounds it, not sure how different I'm expecting Gospel
to sound, but I guess the mainstream is pretty different.
She hasn't really got into electric guitar that much yet but is playing very
rhythmically. Think 2nd disc may be even better, looking forward to hearing this
through.

Honky Tonk Heroes
this is a more widespread sampling of 40s/50s country than the title would
suggest for the most part. I'm not sure to what extent the artists on here would
be categorised as Honky Tonk there are bits of bluegrass among other things
here. Anyway it came on the front of the Gram Parsons covered Uncut and hangs
together pretty well.
Would have loved to get something like this back when I was getting into the Gun
Club/Nick Cave etc. Reminds me I'd love to get the text of the Gun Club NME
interview where the writer goes through the list of delta blues/early country
artists that JLP was probably influenced by. Came in the edition with JLP on the
cover with his blond hair blowing in the wind
http://pinterest.com/pin/139400550937438550/ (if that works).

Django Django
art-rock/prog/krautrock/psych stuff from last year.
There are some very interesting instrumental textures on here but so far I'm not
100% convinced by the vocals. Do like the Tiger Mountain era Eno-isms of Hail
Bopp but not so much the Beach Boysish stuff later on. Maybe a few more listens
will get me there more.

Sensation's Fix Music is painting
Krautrock like musical meditations recorded by an Italian partially in Virginia.
Really like bits of this but may take a few more listens to get everything else
to sink in.
A band that I've seen recoomended for years, here in alternative and remixed
form largely. Have been told the 1st 2 studio lps at least are worth checking
out.

Sun Ra Old Waldorf San Francisco 4/4/81 disc2
pretty spaced out set from one of my favourite periods of the band, the turn of
the 80s.
He's covering some of the swingish material in a very spaced out style.
Same could be said for
Nuclear War.
weird that lp being out through Y the label run by Pop Group etc.
That has some really other takes on standards like Charlie Chaplin's Smile with
June Tyson's vocals & whatever keyboard Ra himself was playing.

Grateful Dead Two From The Vault
think I heard pretty much all of the first disc in random order on my walkman as
I came home. Random is supposed to cover a lot of different artists so not sure
why it got stuck on the same one.
Do love this band especially about this time, August '68. Was trying to think
when '69's purple period was but not sure beyond possibly the February run that
most of Live Dead comes from.
In '68 and '70 there are months from which pretty everything electric is
staggering. These being August '68 and May '70 especially.

Fusioon Absolute
this does sound even better on my 3-changer stereo than it did on my portable
cd-player thing at my mother's. Very interesting. Really, not hearing the
Egg/Soft Machine thing that much anymore. Worth hearing anyway.

various other bits & pieces that will probably come back to me later. & the
usual endless surprise of what my walkman throws up at me from the 350 hours it
has stored on it.

Reading
The White Goddess
finally getting around to reading this, though not sure to what extent I can
really read this on puublic transport. think it's too in depth, could be wrong.

Iceberg Slim Pimp
so far only read the introduction but looking forward to reading the rest of
this, been meaning to pick it up for years.Autobiography of Iceberg Slim one
time pimp and the name source for Ices T & Cube.
Also got Trick Baby when I picked this up, which was £2 in HMV whereas Pimp was
a 2 for £10 thing which lead me to buying the Keith Moon bio Dear Boy cos it was
in the same promotion

Dark Star oral history of Jerry Garcia
verry interesting. Finally replacing a copy that was nicked with a box of other
books as I moved out of a shared place just before the turn of the millenium.
I'd moved things into the hallway to load into a taxi that didn't turn up, left
them overnight and then found out that it looked like a box was missing. Wish
I'd numbered them, not been able to replace some of the other contents yet.

Mati Klarwein the new book of 52 covers etc
lp sized book with ability to look at images in great detail. have loved the
guy's art since I first saw it so this was a great thing to get for Xmas. Have
hoped for something similar for years.

TimeMazine 5,6,7
Greek produced psychedelic fanzine of great interest & quality. Some very
revealing interviews with psychedelic artists. Today I read about Gary Duncan's
black ops work in early 60s Vietnam which he thinks may have actually started
the war.
Each edition comes with a full length cd compi, could do with the last 2 of
which having labels cos I think I'm pretty bound to confuse them, both being
white. Anyway great listening.

Ugly-Things #34
as great as usual, not sure if anything stands out quite as much as the Johnny
Echols interview in the previous edition or the multi-part Misunderstood story
of a fw issues back but great nonetheless.
Did really enjoy Cyril Jordan's story of the British Invasion era in San
francisco. Also the article on Detroit's Spikedriver's whose cd I picked up a
couple of years back and is very good, shame they fell apart before they really
got anywhere.
anyway, pick this up and you'll probably enjoy it.

Watching
Jack Reacher
very atmospheric film , visceral, violent and better than I thought it was going
to be. Not sure who I'd rather have than To m Cruise in th etitle role, think he
just about pulls it off but think there may be better candidates.

Inglorious Basterds
in which Tarantino rewrites the history of the demise of one of the great
despots of the 2oth century without apparently caring. Bit of a drag with the
subtitles, think I probably need to get a bigger, normal size tv finally.

Stevo

basically just 'fuck u all the time' I mean yeah

ivan cattaneo - "darling" (10 times in a row)
matmos - in lo fidelity
sci hi - who trusts crucible? crucible trusts no-one
swingle singers - swingling telemann
eliane radigue - feedback works
constance demby - sunborne
f.c. judd - electronics without tears
korzynski / zulawski- the devil OST

oh no, still up

jorge reyes - the flayed god (had this for years, only figured out how tremendous it is this week)
judee sill - heart food
moebius & story
tim perkis - motive
both of these at once left looping on the second monitor: ballet (also starring: ballet on dvd)

Rolling Stones, Between The Buttons
V/A, Psychonavigation sampler 2013
Fleetwood Mac, Tusk (2CD version with some xtra sht (which is good))

Swingle Singers...I didn't know they were French! I just discovered them too via Spotify. Also listened to the Sandpipers...sounds ethereal in 2013 terms.

I didn't know that either. One of my baby boomer bosses used to love to tell me about the Swingle Singers.

Joy Division

tracks:

los angeles master chorale - gorecki: lobgesang, op. 76
erdem helvacioglu - dreaming on a blind saddle
choir of the 21st century - glass: final section - choir and organ with shifting harmonic roots (from another look at harmony pt. IV)
lol coxhill - the calm
haigo - shushtar (from the early virtuoso recordings from the middle east, and new responses comp)
john fahey - red cross, disciple of christ today
choir of new college, oxford - stanford: the bluebird, op. 119, no. 3
hagihara yoshiaki - harajuku station - for terry riley
lucky dragons - what you see is what you mean

and i just bought the matmos/so percussion album from a few years ago, so i will be listening to that soon.

talk talk - spirits of eden
brian protheroe - pinball
the rascals - time peace: greatest hits
black sabbath - vol 4
the saints - stranded
rocket from the tombs - the day the earth met...

Alina Orlova, Laukinis šuo dingo
Alina Orlova, Mutabor
Dave Brubeck, The Very Best

Brokeback, Brokeback and The Black Rock
Mergrin, Intersect Landscape...
Budgie, The Best of
Liisi Koikson ja Vaikne Esmaspäev

going through my "new things to listen to" playlist

chris darrow - artist proof
howling hex - the best of the howling hex
angel olsen - halfway home
amor de dias - the house at sea
william tyler - impossible truth
martin rev - s/t
dawn mccarthy and bonnie prince billy - what the brothers sang
lena hughes - queen of the flat top guitar
alasdair roberts - A Wonder Working Stone
medusa - first step beyond
100 flowers - s/t

stevie wonder - live in london 1974
iron claw - clawstrophobia
jimmy giuffre - free fall
jorge reyes - prehispanic rituals / el costumbre / niérika
darmstadt aural documents box 2: john cage - communication (cage, in 1958, giving a lecture to a small audience while tudor plays various piano works -- it's basically like a room recording of 'interminacy' with a live laugh track)
sa dingding - the coming ones / harmony
faye wong - impatience
flaming lips - zaireeka (all 4 discs at once)

ha, well done re zaireeka, Milton! :)

sandy bull - inventions

Sometimes I listen to Demolition Derby by SB. Weird, wonderful shit!

flaming lips - zaireeka (all 4 discs at once)

wow ...

Getting Inventions right away sir.

endellion string quartet - beethovan complete string quartets

i don't know much about classical but i've been listening to a bit more since i started spotify

and i'm starting to think beethovan is better than mozart, like a lot better imo

listened to six no seven johnny cash albums from the 70s at work today:

ragged old flag/hello i'm johnny cash/any old wind that blows/the last gunfighter ballad/man in black/a thing called love/look at them beans

he's not my all-time favorite country singer by any means in fact i would say, arguably he's more folk than country though that said these were all pretty typical "nashville sound" LPs. short and formulaic, each containing some gothic americana, story songs (his strong suit imo), joek numbers, preachy gospel, straight country, a few cover versions. there's a little strings/sweetening but nothing of billy sherrill proportions. pretty much hit the spot, though his jesus songs are waay too earnest for my taste

"look at them beans" title track is about a hard luck farmer who never grew shit and then after he dies the fields start pumping produce. narrated by his son, it's the kind of outrageously corny but pointed tale that johnny really puts over.

right now i'm listening to waves on my sound machine

Main - Dry Stone Feed
holy moley at this

that transition from pulled from the water into dry stone feed, and then the tuneful hum that turns off and on again.

a lot of music my roomies hate, including

Napalm Death - Enemy of the Music Business, The Code is Red..., Order of the Leech, Smear Campaign
Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness, Necroticism
Benediction - Grind Bastard
Beneath - Enslaved by Fear (slept on!)
Destroyer666 - Phoenix Rising (this is def my wheelhouse)
Hooded Menace - Effigies of Evil
Dim Mak - Intercepting Fist
Cephalic Carnage - Lucid Interval
The-Dream - Love vs Money
Gorguts - Considered Dead, Erosion of Sanity
Cryptopsy - Once was Not, Cryptopsy
General Surgery - Necrology
Haemorrhage - Hospital Carnage
Incantation - Onward Toward Golgotha
Asphyx - Deathhammer
Pessimist - Blood for the Gods
Nevermore - Obsidian Conspiracy
Bolt Thrower - Realms of Chaos

been going through tracks for the next installment of my podcast.

The Free Design – Dorian Benediction
Ars Nova - Konstateringer (composer: Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen)
Convivium Singers – Sleep (composer: Eric Whitacre)
Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares – Messetchinko Lio (You, Little Moon)
David Behrman – Leapday Night Scene 1 (feat. David Behrman, electronics; Takehisa Kosugi, violin; Ben Neill and Rhys Chatham, trumpets)
“Blue” Gene Tyranny – Timing (composer: Phil Harmonic)
Lounge Lizards – A Paper Bag and the Sun
Andre LaFosse – Siren Song/Yawning Abyss/The Turing Test
Last Exit – Enemy Within

joy orbison singles
ford and lopatin - channel pressure
as one - reflections
loscil - endless falls

Andrei Makarevich & Orkestr Kreolskogo Tango, Staraya Mashina
Splin, Altavista
Sonny Rollins, The Bridge
Erik Visser & Silvia Houtzager, Rondo
Lycoriscoris, From Beyond the Horizon
Ametsub, All Is Silence
Jon Rose, Rosin (CD I)

Janet Jackson - "Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814"
Rory Phillips - "Mixed Fortunes" 1-3

some recent lissnin

Copernicus Nothing Exists
cd reissue of the improvisatory performance poet's 1st lp. Been trying to get hold of material by him for years and then saw a review of this in TimeMazine & looked it up on the URL provided. They have reissued most of his stuff over the last couple of years, I think Deeper the lp I was most after came out last October
http://www.copernicusonline.net/discography.html
members of his band went onto form Black 47 though they don't sound much alike. This is more dark improvisatory jazz meets rock.

Alfonso Lovo La Gigantona
Nicaraguan minister's son's psych/dub/latin jazz meets rock late 70s lp. Very recommended, especially if you're into things like Santana or Azteca.
Chepito Areas appears on percussion. Lovo on guitar.

Nancy Priddy You've Been This Way Before
Singer/songwriter psych/MOR. Really pretty lovely.
She provided some of the backing vocals for the 1st Leonard Cohen lp though I'm not sure that gives you much of a pointer.
Think I've also seen comparisons to some of David Axelrod's late 60s work . I really like this anyway.

Sun Ra Sunrise iN different Dimensions
Ra mainly on acoustic piano here but still pretty spacey. There was a longer time-specific descriptionof events I came across on I think Amazon reviews that doesn't show up in the linernotes surprisingly. Something about some of the band not managing to get to Europe where this was recorded in time for the gig this was recorded at. So I think it may lack the bassist who was on the rest of the tour or something.
Anyway pretty great stuff, has a lot of covers of 40s jazz and standards but remains pretty spacey despite lack of electronic play with Ra's keyboards.

Giannis Markopoulos No Mr Johnson
a Greek soundtrack lp that I picked up on Demonoid a while back. It was a recording I'd picked up on vinyl from the miscellaneous section of my local 2nd hand record shop in the late 80s and had missed since I lost most of my vinyl in Dublin about a decade later. Think i picked it up on Demonoid cos I knew the composer's name then heard it and realised it was the same music.
Cadences of trilling stringed instruments bouzoukis etc. Love this stuff and would like to know more about what Greek Soundtrack music was worth checking out. I know a few names Markopoulos, Theodarakis, Hadjikadis but would love to know more, especially if it is this sublime.
Have hoped that Sublime Frequencies compiling Omar Khorshid's music a couple of years ago might lead to them discovering some of this stuff. Could be I'm only making the connection from my having discovered both sets of music in the same section of the same shop and wouldn;t have similar links to other people. But I'm thinking great middle eastern music & hoping that interest develops which might lead to more of this stuff being readily available. Doesn't seem to be turning up easily in google searches.

Goat World Music
Danish stoner rock based explorations into more left-field influences.
I hear bits of East Indian rhythms I'd expect to hear more from tablas amongst the overt african influences etc.
Great lp, which should be in every home. Came with a bonus cd of the first London gig when you bought it in Rough Trade.

Rangda Formerly Extinct
Great 2 guitar & drums instrumental work-outs. I don't know either guitarist's styles well enough to be able to tell them apart by ear, so wonder if it is obvious if you do.
Guitarists are Sir Richard Bishop who was in Sun City Girls and Ben Chasny who shouldn't need introduction.

Cold Sun Dark Shadows
Not listened to this in a while so been great to hear it through. Texan band from the early 70s who didn't have anything released until an acetate was put on disc about 20 years ago. Jagged psych that reminds me of the Fall though i'm not sure they sound that much like them.
Most of the band went onto being Blieb Alien when they teamed up with Roky Erickson in the mid 70s.
Very recommended.

Heartbreakers L.A.M.F remastered
Johnny Thunders guitarist of N.Y.Dolls' next combo playing very r'n'r based rock coincident with punk a scene they crossed the Atlantic to be involved in.(incidentally being followed by Nancy Spungen I think)
This lp was released by The Who's Track record label in a notoriously muddy form which caused drummer Jerry Nolan to spend a lot of time trying to remix it after it came out, this is part of a box set containing 2 discs of those remixes plus another of demoes including 4 dating back to th eoriginal line-up with Richard Hell.
Pretty good music but I'm not sure they got rid of the mud, this was remastered from a pristine copy of the lp since I think mastertapes have disappeared long since.

various bits of the Grateful Dead from archive.org as I sit around in the training centre.

Velvet Underground Quine Tapes disc 3
mainly cos I just read the entries for it in Unterberger's White Light/ White Heat VU chronology. Very interesting, its the disc with the takle on Black angel's death Song & Ride Into The sun and the 38 minute Sister ray/foggy Notion

Catherine Ribeiro & Alpes 9/9/73
nice avanty French prog. worth checking out I think.

Keith Hudson Hudson affair disc 1
heavy bassy dub from a dic I thought i'd lost ages ago but turned up in a cd carry case. Unfortunately I think the last few tracks have ceased to play properly.
This came out as part of a series of Trojan 2cd sets that were very well compiled and could make the basis of an essential reggae collection. Unfortunately Trojan deleted the entire series a couple of years back, which I think leaves a lot of classic stuff OOP. Though Trojan is busy releasing a lot of other stuff. Do think I prefer the old run though.

Fusioon Absolute
Spanish prog utilising a great deal of repetition. think this grows on me with every listen.

various other stuff which will no doubt come back to me later

walkman has been throwing up a lot of Pretty Things' Parachute lp as well as Sylvia Moore. Plus great Rockabilly, postpunk, jazz, funk, Italian prog psych etc etc. had a nasty shock when I realised I was without this one day this week, took it out to recharge then forgot to do so.

Reading
Dark Star Jerry Garcia oral history. Got up to about '73 in this.

Barney Hoskyns Trampled Underfoot
the led zep oral history
just read up to the band formation , about 100 pp in or something. Pretty interesting so far though Jimy Page may not be left looking fully the best

Watching
Gangster squad
comic booklike story about undercover maverick g-men going after a gangster trying to take over L.A. Touches of the old ultraviolence.
Think this is set in 1949 and there are several references to characters time in the army which presumably refers to 2nd world war 4 years earlier. I enjoyed it, but it is pretty escapist.

World Without End
medieval soap about the borough of Kingsbridge. Quite enjoyable.

Utopia
conspiracy theory laced story of search for a clairvoyant comic strip book.

Stevo

Though Trojan is busy releasing a lot of other stuff. Do think I prefer the old run though.

do you mean the reissues that came out when sanctuary were the owners of trojan ?
cos i agree, they did a great job with the catalogue ..

yeah I think so, wasn't sure waht the differentiation was but that was probably it. Hadn't heard som ebody else had taken over. Anyway some pretty classic stuff in that run.
Think there is some interesting stuff in the new one but not as great. Wouldhave liked to just about collect the set of the old run.

hell yes the swingle singers! only the bach stuff though. also:

miguel - adorn
you guys probably know all you need to about this album.

Wobble Baby Wobble V.I.C.
single, not album, but an awesome single. kinda has this gogo feel to it, but it was produced by mr. collipark

wild nothing - nocturne
kinda shoegazey 80ish stuff, but just came out. nice, sounds like autumn

starfucker - reptilian
this is actually pretty chilled and creative and easy on the ears.

twin peaks archives
a HUGE selection of soundtrack bits from the show - basically if you dig around enough you will find everything you heard on the show that you wished was on the soundtrack album, but wasn't. to my ears this stuff has aged really well.

moonrise kingdom ost
i was just diggin the music when i was watching the film, so i downloaded this while i was still in the middle of the film. i feel like there's some stuff from the movie missing from the album, but that said it's a pretty cool little soundtrack. i keep going back to it.

Classic Soft Rock: Summer Breeze, California Dreamin', Ride Like The Wind and Into The Night
just a series of comps of 70's and early 80's soft rock stuff. actually i've never stopped listening to these since i downloaded them like 4 years ago

these could possibly be the only albums i've played more than once in the last 3 months

twin peaks archives
a HUGE selection of soundtrack bits from the show - basically if you dig around enough you will find everything you heard on the show that you wished was on the soundtrack album, but wasn't. to my ears this stuff has aged really well.

where did you get this, or is it a release? i always wanted to get the really bawdy carnival sex music bobby briggs plays in the diner when he whacks the jukebox on and says "see you in my dreams, norma."

Ghana Special: Modern Highlife Afro Sounds 1968-81
Cooly G - Playin Me

Been catching up with some missed '12 stuff like:

Tinashe - In Case We Die
Rebecca Gates and the Consortium - The Float

Plus listening/relistening to some things thanks to ILM polls:
The Waitresses - Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful (new to me, fantastic)
Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual (known this album nearly all my life, still fantastic)

Only 2012 album I've heard so far is A$AP Rocky.

*only 2013 album, duh.

@LocalGarda)

go to http://davidlynch.com/index/ and click explore and you should find loads and loads of stuff, all of it i think. and given the url i assume at least some of the $$$ should find it's way to david, angelo et all... of course if you dig around enough on google (or message me on here with your email?) it is possible to find the whole thing for free...

SO LUSH:

Twin Peaks Theme (Solo Rhodes)
South Sea Dreams
Solo Percussion 1
Dance Of The Dream Man (Solo Sax)
Fire Walk With Me (Saxophone)
Twin Peaks Theme (Nostalgia Version)
Dance Of The Dream Man (Solo Clarinet)

well worth $1 each

"where did you get this, or is it a release? i always wanted to get the really bawdy carnival sex music bobby briggs plays in the diner when he whacks the jukebox on and says "see you in my dreams, norma."

there's no reason you shouldn't be able to find this if you dig around enough (there are ~250 tracks total i think?)

OST Aviator
Neil Young, Lucky Thirteen ...mmm yeah...
The 49 Americans, the pending Staubgold re-release 1979-82 ...ffkck yeh!

Mountains - Centralia
L. Pierre - The Island Come True
Brokeback - Brokeback and the Black Rock
Pantha du Prince and the Bell Laboratory - Elements of Light
ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

do you like the new mountains? haven't heard it yet, but i was a big fan of choral

They haven't really progressed or anything, I just like the sounds they make. Worth checking out imo.

whoa, new Brokeback?

Thanks messiahwannabe, I will have a dig around, prob can buy some of it really.

Brokeback in the past was a little inconsistent, but this is one of my favorite recorded things ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Wr0Crafyg

The Twin Peaks track I wanted (xpost) is "I'm Hurt Bad" - really cool actually. Will be delving into more of this later, brilliant to find.

Anyway, what I am playing heavily lately:

Beach House - Beach House
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Robert Roena - Roberto Roena y su Apollo Sound 5
Franco - Special Mix '83
Chic - Chic
Balam Acab - Wander/Wonder
Duke Ellington - Piano Reflections
Steve Reid/Kieran Hebden/Mats Gustafsson - Live at the South Bank

this brokeback record kind of sucks tbh

I've recently procured a bunch of new vinyl, so some of these are old faves, others are new to me:

Eyvind Kang - 'The Narrow Garden' - I haven't been able to find this on vinyl, but it's an exceptional record. Sort of like a whimsical world tour by way of esoteric reverie. There are beautiful, terrifying moments throughout.

Scott Walker - 'Bish Bosch' / The Drift - Just the best. I can't tell if I've over-listened to Bish Bosch yet or if I'm still just scratching the surface.

Om - 'Advaitic Songs' - Sort of like the Eyvind Kang album, but with sludgy doom guitars.

Wooden Wand - Blood Oaths of The New Blues
Dave Aju - Heirlooms
Small People - Salty Days
Lee Hazlewood - Love and Other Crimes
The Necks - Mindset
Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Monk Trio

Like a dog with 2 dicks over this lot at the moment.

I should check out Monk. Where to start? Is there a primer?

Brilliant Corners was my Monk primer, that and the trio are all I got so far.

Anything off the TM Trio is just ... I don't know his approach to the piano is just so unique.

this brokeback record kind of sucks tbh
― space phwoar (Hurting 2)

and the previous ones didn't?

nah, they're all kind of boring, but I love that track above

Rainbow - Rising
Pentangle - Basket of Light
Blue Oyster Cult - Spectres
Daniel Bachman - Seven Pines
Robust Worlds - Emotional Planet
Peter Lang - Thing At The Nursery Room Window
Nathan Bowles - A Bottle, A Buckeye
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
The Auteurs - New Wave
Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Light
Silkworm - It'll Be Cool
Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue
Cheer-Accident - Introducing Lemon

↑ the first 2 :)

yeah both so good

ilkae - pistachio island
autocreation - mettle
zomby - dedication
iamamiwhoami - kin
pantha du prince & the bell laboratory - elements of light
durutti column - short stories for pauline
sympathy nervous - s/t
mohn - s/t
newworldaquarium - the dead bears
germ - gone
vatican shadow - kneel before religious icons
snd - makesnd cassette
maxmillion dunbar - max trax for world peace ep
tim hecker & daniel lopatin - instrumental tourist
coil - ans

forgot: silent servant - negative fascination

townes van zandt - sunshine boy

the robust worlds record is on de stijl records is really really great i hope people check it out

kind of an odd, minimal cavernous psych pop record, i think if you like kurt vile or skip spence it would appeal but it has a unique vibe

http://soundcloud.com/destijlrecs/robust-worlds-best-wishes

julee cruise - floating into the night

http://eachotherssongs.bandcamp.com/album/heavily-spaced

A friend had Stevie Wonder's "The Woman in Red" OST in his car the other day, and it was incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjhM3BluYfo&list=LLQ0yN_aOFfVZgHUeaUb2o_Q

The Legendary Pink Dots
Severed Heads
Husker Du
cycle through the discography and repeat...

I've only knowingly heard of about 15% of the ILM tracks poll so that's going to be dominating my listening for a while. I had to completely reload my iPhone last night to make way for new tracks. I hope I'm not the only regular ILMer who wonders where he was all year come the time of these polls. Guess I'll just never be a true popist :-\

Catching Up on Pop-Punk I missed in 2012. Suggestions?

Day Of Phoenix Wide Open N-way
Sublime Danish psych-prog veering between U.S. psych-folky vocals reminiscent of Buckley etc, and long guitar expolrations I find heavily reminiscent of Mad River (Something I also hear partially in the vocals at times).
Esoteric just reissued this apparently from mastertapes though there appears to be a skip in the opening track about 2 minutes in which somebody refered to in an Amazon review. I think it's audible but apparently missing from the earlier Repertoire version. Odd since I thought Esoteric were a label that could be pretty much relied on to go to masters where possible.
Anyway, I think this is very good & would reccommend it.
Their other lp The Neighbour's Son loses a lot of the magic, it was recorded after their bassist had o.d.ed and is basixcally a reunion

Alfonso LOvo La Gigantona
more sublimeness, this time in the shape of a latin jazz lp recorded by the Nicaraguan guitarist and a group including the Santana percussionist Cepito Areas. I don't knoew to what extent Santana is a touchstone for the sound here since I think Lovo's guitar sounds pretty different and I haven't listened to Caravensarai in a long time which might be about the closest Sasntana lp to this sound.
This comes with a dubby sheen of electronics too which adds another element to th esound.

Copernicus Deeper
the lp I've been wanting to replace since I lost the vinyl n th emid 80s has recently been reissued on cd by MoonJune records. More improvisatory poetry here including Son Of A Bitch from the NOrth a song about U.S. undercopver incursions into Guatemala.
Edgy stuff and the best of his lps I've so far heard. Still not heard Victim of The Sky though

TimeMazine cds
been ripping cds to my computer over the last few days and been surprised to find out that most of these are already in the EAC database. Not 6 though, not sure why.
Mostly pretty great compilations of psych related music spanning the decades from the 60s to the present day. Some stuff very worth checking out. As is the magazine, wish I'd started looking into it when #1 was still more easily available. Not sure what other similar zines are available internationally, this one's based in Greece which was always a spot of psychedelic fandom.

Son of Gutbucket
the cd that came with Galactic Zoo Dossier #9 and has some good stuff on. Zine/book is always worth a read too

Loop Barbue Copenhagen 22/3/89
been going through the cdrs I burned over the last few years. Looking for music that was on hard-drives that crashed and found 4 or 5 Loops.
Glad to know since annoyed by losing the stuff otherwise.
This has a few tracks from A Gilded Infinity being added among material largely from Fade Out. A rocking good time.

Pere UBu Old Waldorf '79
another disc I had burnt previously and have now ripped back to harddrive.
Had several great live sets from '77-'78 and now only have a couple. Wish it was easier to lay your hands on live Ubu, I think I have all that's easily available on cd.
So hoping that Ubu Projex expands its bootleg series and starts thinking in terms of flacs rather than MP3.
This set covers a lot of the material from New Picnic Time as well as several from Dub Housing. I think they became even more abstract live than in studio.
Actually this is 2 sets , all of an early one and some of a late one. & that only because not all of it fit on a cdr.

Mwandishi Aarhus 71
Spacey electric jazz from the early 70s. Mwandishi was Herbie Hancock's project from the turn of the 70s until about '73 when some of the band continued onto the Head Hunters line-up. Mwandishi later incorporated a lot of electronics as can be heard on the Sextant lp . This is more spacey ala Sun Ra or either of their own 1st 2 lps.
I'd reccommend trying to get hold of the French tv performance from '72 cos it is pretty sublime. But pretty much anything done under the name Mwans=dishi is worth investigating. As are some of the other offshoots, Julian Priester put out some interesting material in a similar vein too.

Arbouretum
not sure the date, but one of the sets from archive.org. Didn't listen right through it but what I heard was great. Heavy droney stuff that touches on Americana too. Pretty psychish too.

Soul Coughing
not listened to these in ages but was checking through the archive.org Live Music collection and found some by them so listened and enjoyed greatly. Didn't note date though.
I think at least one member wound up in Todd A odf Copshootcop's later project Firewater, who are also worth checking out.

various other bits & pieces which will no doubt come back to me later.

& hours of surprises still from the walkman. Still turning up things that I don't think I've heard on there before. Do wish it was easier to edit what was on there thoughsince I've bough a number of things I'd put on if the interface was more user friendly. Last time I tried to change anything it wanted nme to reformat the entire player which would wipe all tracks.

Watching
Django Unchained
Tarantino on form as are mist of the cast. Jamie Foxx's grin towards the end is pretty iconic, had me wondering if there was a poster of the still of it. Christoph Waltz is great throughout too, love the meticulous way he talks and explains things throughout. Kicked myself when I realised I hadn't recognised him from Inglorious Basterds.
Loads of cameos in this including Franco Nero who was the spaghetti western hero of the same name. which might be why he knows how to spell Django?
So, funny, bloody, violent and a pretty good film methinks.

The Quest
rubbish, though somewat enjoyable Van Damme flick from late 80s I think. Don't know why it thinks that there's only one area in the continet of Africa that gets to be represented with a fight style and therefore represents 'Africa' when other continents have individual countries competing.

Green Zone
Matt Damon as a U.S. soldier investigating WMD sites but questioning why there were supposedly sites for Weapons of mass destruction but he never finds any traces of evidence of the WMD's actual existence.
Guess it just about works but not sure about the politics it represents. Though saying why might give away too much of the plot.

reading
Trampled Underfoot the Barney Hoskyns oral history book on Led Zep. Pretty interesting. Doesn't paint Jimmy Page in the greatest of lights though. Think I'm about 1/2 way through at the moment.

Pimp Iceberg Slim
Been meaning to read this for years and so far have only read about the first chapter. He's still talking about childhood experiences and how he regrets other people having made decisions for him that otherwise might have not lead into the life he lead, how he could have gone straight with the right beloved father figure. Anyway, great book and one i'm looking forward to getting further into

Galactic Zoo Dossier #9
Interesting mix of comicbook stories of band histories, interviews , examples of psychedelic aspects of comics. Plus comes with free cd. So very good read. Wish I had the back issues beyond the collected 1-3 .

Stevo

Tusk

Tusk

Good album.

good album.

(Would not let me post a duplicate!)

Yes it is. And I listened to it also on Monday. A lot. It's sort of, huh, one of the very few things I can stand the sound of lately. Which has lots to do with not just music.

Hope you're doing ok.
Listening to Mohn and reading.

Listening to the new reissues on RE: GRM

V/A - Traces Two
Xenakis - GRM Works 1957-1962

And catching up with recent releases on the wonderful PAN records in Berlin http://pan-act.com/

Mostly still listennig to 2012 albums. Stuff I listened to from 2013:

Burial - Truant/Rough Sleeper (awesome)
Wooden Wand - Blood Oaths... (good)
Mountains - Centralia good
Christopher Owens - Lysandre (couldn't get past the first couple of songs)
Toro Y Moi - Anything in Return (not my thing at all)

Still have to check out Yo La Tengo's newest.

also enjoying Mountains - Centralia right now

and still catching up on 2012...

Lee Ranaldo - Between the Times and the Tides (love this and would have voted for it in the poll had I heard it earlier)
Daniel Bachman - Seven Pines
Kowloon Walled City - Container Ships (another one I slept on in '12)
Lower Dens - Nootropics (another good one I missed in '12. Thanks, albums poll!)
Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction (I keep getting more and more into this one. I wish I had voted it #1 in the metal poll instead of Pig Destroyer)
Brian Eno - Another Green World (his rock stuff never sounded good to me, but all of a sudden this album is clicking)

Glen Velez - Internal Combustion
George Cacioppo - Advance of the Fungi (chamber works 1960-66)
Environments 2 - Tintrinnabulation (CD) - "the future of music isn't music"
Max Neuhaus - Fontana-Mix Feed
Doris Hays - Voicings
Tahitian Choir - Rapa Iti
15-hour David Tudor playlist shuffle

uploads of early 80s NYC radio dance mix shows on Soundcloud: Frankie Crocker, Shep Pettibone, Larry Levan, John Morales & Tee Scott

I am listening to :

The Hacker Farm - UHF
Autechre - Exai
East India Youth - Hostel

so the autechre has leaked properly or did you get a promo?

Zero, Zero, Zero, Sam Phillips

(b-b-but also Tusk Bonus CD: Demos, Roughs, and Outtakes)

<3 <3 <3 Sam Phillips

just bought the Cooly G and Young Magic albums; have listened to and loved Cooly G, have not yet played Young Magic but they were fantastic opening for Purity Ring

Tahitian Choir - Rapa Iti

Another amazing discovery, Milton. And this:

Now reissued with one new song, these traditionals, which were recorded in 1991, are so old that they can't even be translated because the island's ancient language is largely forgotten. is quite a factoid. So they're singing something they can't understand?

Guys this Boogaloo album is so fucking dope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2S1OvdVJKk

Zero, Zero, Zero

Horace Parlan - The Complete Blue Note Sessions
Zappa/Mothers - Grand Wazoo, Waka Jawaka

I forgot how much I loved that "Animals on Wheels" song by Phillips.

O yeh. That. And then there's "Flame". And "Strawberry Road". And "Lying". And "Holding On To The Earth". "Cruel Inventions". And "Hole In Time".
And "Hole In Time".
"Hole In Time".
A fkn life saver of a record.

have not yet played Young Magic but they were fantastic opening for Purity Ring

Good to know. I like that record and wondered how it would translate live.

re Sam, I love "Fan Dance" too. And her recent string quartet-y EPs. And her performance in Die Hard With A Vengeance. She is so classic

Haven't heard those EP's, alas.

BIGBANG album is lovely

julio: was clued to Tahitian Choir by http://rwm.macba.cat/en/probes_tag

Lily Greenham - Lingual Music (first half of disc one is great)
Kaija Saariaho - Six Japanese Gardens
ANS - Archive Tapes Synthesizer ANS 1964-1971

Milton, thanks - I'll look into podcast subscription.

Have you listened to the Pisaro/Tsunoda collab on Erstwhile? just in case you haven't, making my way through this last night and now over coffee.

Pressed that too early.

...and I'll say is, you need to.

my bloody valentine - m b v (a mixed bag, some dizzy-making highs, foremost the massive "only tomorrow" but some tracks which don't even qualify as demos like the autopilot "nothing is")

Haven't heard it yet, but who honestly thought they'd be saying "a new My Bloody Valentine album" in answer to this thread's title?

listening to new mbv on repeat (obviously), but before that, listening to my lp haul from the other day:

dead can dance - speen and ideal (this is still the only dead can dance i've ever heard, but i love it)
brian eno - music for films
flipper - album - generic flipper (still not sure how to properly refer to this. album? generic? album generic? album - generic flipper, which appears to be how it's referred to most commonly online? whatever, it's awesome.)
the fall - hip priest and kamerads (it would be cool to own either hex or room to live, but since i never see them this early comp fills the gap nicely)
the kinks - face to face (original mono press, sounds great)

mbv - mbv
shackleton - three eps
atom™ - winterreise
demdike stare - symbiosis
todd terje - it's the arps
gold panda - lucky shiner
lawrence - timeless
luke vibert - yoseph

white light/white heat

Foxygen We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
Shackleton 3 EPs
Ducktails The Flower Lane
Death and Vanilla Death and Vanilla
Pye Corner Audio Sleep Games
Lana Del Rey Born to Die
Bullwackies All-Stars Dub Unlimited
Saschienne Unknown
Lost Animal Ex Tropical
Peaking Lights Lucifer
Don Covay Mercy Mercy

mbv - mbv
mbv - mbv
mbv - mbv
mbv - mbv
mbv - mbv
mbv - mbv
mbv - mbv

Alasdair Roberts & Friends - A Wonder Working Stone now that I'm home

While on short weekend road trip - nothing but greatest driving hits to keep spirits up
GBV - Box
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
Kinks - Sleepwalker
Shirley Collins - Disc 4 of Within Sound
+ new Kendrick Lamar because I can't stop listening to it

and an audiobook with diminishing returns

I always load up on the classics for road trips. I never seem to get to listen to anything old and lovable unless I am stuck in a car for several hours.

Oh I forgot,

John Martyn - Bless the Weather

(this was while there was near whiteout snow through indiana, whatta country)

I don't generally want to listen to anything like that unless I need to rally my spirits in some significant way, and in this circumstance I definitely did.

Queen Latifah - All Hail The Queen

New:
Umberto - Confrontations
Föllakzoid - II
Super Jam presents: Upper Layer Cruisers - Rush Consequence
Darkstar - News From Nowhere
Veronica Falls - Waiting for Something to Happen

Less New:
Manuel Tur - Swans Reflecting Elephants
Chubby Checker - Chequered
V/A - Teranga! Senegal Vol. 1
Nona Hendryx - The Heat
Brenda and the Tabulations - Right on the Tip of my Tongue

The new Ducktails album struck me at first listen. I may just be under its initial spell. More comments to come if necessary.

Yesterday:
Van Der Graaf Generator- The Least We Could Do
Melvins- Ozma, Gluey Porch Treatments & Stag

Right Now:
Alice Cooper- Love It To Death

The Monks - Black Monk Time

Marissa Marchant
Mamoru Fujieda - Obscure Tape Music Of Japan Vol.11: Radiated Falling
Harold Budd - Bandits of Stature (new CD of string quartets! inneresting but needs another spin)
Glenn Gould - The Acoustic Orchestrations (Scriabin / Sibelius)
Kid606 / Mathieu / Electric Company / Ralske / Pimmon / Tim Hecker / Oren Ambarchi - Good Night
Jorge Reyes - Bajo El Sol Jaguar
mbv

i like ur style

Colin Stetson- New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
a bit of Phish - Junta (after reading the Vice vs Phish thread)
The Bad Plus - Prog
Pat Metheny Group - Unity Band
Bill Evans and Jim Hall - Undercurrent

Oh, also Schubert - "Tranenregen" (Fischer-Diskau + Gerald Moore)

Kinks - Sleepwalker

Love this. A sleeper in their catalog, with one of the most beautiful things they ever did ("Full Moon").

spectrum ~ highs, lows, and heavenly blows

four tet - pink
rrose - merchant of salt
cut hands - black mamba
autechre - exai
actress - hazyville
scuba - triangulation
tahitian choir - rapa iti
ekkehard ehlers - plays

main - dry stone feed
main - hydra-calm
main - firmament II

downloads, because i never see their stuff on vinyl.
also loop's A Gilded Eternity, which i was lucky enough to score a few months ago and has been a constant listen ever since.

the loop/main world is new to me, i love it

i feel like they get some respect but not nearly enough

my dick

^

prefer their earlier more experimental material tbh

Oskar Sala - Five Improvisations on Magnetic Tape 1961
Annea Lockwood - A Sound Map of the Danube
Sonification Handbook - Online Media Examples
Voice of Eye / Thomas Dimuzio - The Unveiling of Darkness
Oskar Sala - "Speech Of The Dead Christ From The Universe Saying There Is No God"
Monteverdi - "My Heart, You Do Not Die? Die!"

Oskar Sala - "Speech Of The Dead Christ From The Universe Saying There Is No God"

Wow. Would like to hear this - where's it from? That five improvisations thing is great.

isn't it amazing? every five years I go through the Sala stuff and each time I get more impressed. the range of sounds he could output live was decades ahead.

the "Speech" piece is from the album "My Fascinating Instrument" - http://www.discogs.com/Oskar-Sala-My-Fascinating-Instrument/release/417582

Julia Kent
Nadia Sirota
Ametsub
Pastacas
Masha i Medvedi

Khyam Allami - The Sound of Disquiet EP / Resonance/Dissonance 2 - Oud player who's a friend of a friend, well nice.

Judee Sill - Heart Food - Love her melodies and style

Datenverarbeiter vs Jaki Liebzeit + all the Burnt Friedman/Liebzeit stuff again - Found it too dry first time around, getting more into it this time. Liebzeit.

Third Eye Foundation - Ghost - Dark drones and beats collage but it's not shit. Fairly old I think. I like it.

All the Underground Resistance + related that's on Spotify, shitloads! - Have a love/hate relationship with UR but there was a Slices interview on youtube that turned me on to them again.

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – A Night in Tunisia - Hadn't heard this till recently, quickly becoming one of my fav albums from this era! The title track, FFS, Blakey is killing it, the piano/drums interplay is sublime at one point. I'd always heard drummers raving about Blakey but didn't really get it till recently.

Stereolab – Mars Audiac Quintet - via an ILM thread. Good stuff. So much Stereolab, so little variation in their sound, it'll take me years to get round to hearing it all.

Iggy Pop – Where the Faces Shine, Vol. 2 - The Official Live Experience 1982-1989 - Wanted the track from that film, Repo Man, I like that one. Still haven't really got into Iggy/Stooges stuff. One day.

John Berberian – Ode To An Oud: Artistry Of John Berberian and The Rock Ensemble rec too. Yeah this dude is awesome. Have listened to the album with the Rock Ensemble a few times a week for a few months now. Love it! Check out "the Oud and the fuzz".

heard this on the radio this morning, "no reciprocation" by excuses, i feel like certain ilxors may enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYRdtz8ZGzE

shed - the killer
gold panda - trust
beaumont hannant - textureology
oni ayhun - oar 001
regis - death head said
robert hood - motor: nighttime world 3
apparat - dj kicks
dj rashad - just a taste

some recent lissnin

Rammellzee Bi-conicals of
Deeply weird hip-hop with occasional vocals from very rough voice. So hip hop
but largely not rap.
Sound is very rough which adds to the groove. Think this is great, think
Rammellzee was a pretty early exponent of the genre but not sure if he was
active all the time. Think this dates to 2005 & he had 12"s out in the early
80s.
Rammellzee has a habit of dressing up in weird costumes somewhat reminiscent of
a cross between Rangda and a robot.
Interesting stuff.

Richard & Linda Thompson Live '75
Best parts of this for me are the expansive guitar workouts with John
Kirkpatrick's accordian in the background. Linda Thompson is pretty great
throughout too.
THis finally came out about 5 years ago. Bits of it had previously appeared as
bonus tracks on different releases over the years.
Recorded over various dates on a British tour I think.

Junior Murvin Police & Thieves (Deluxe version)
1st disc is the lp plus several bonus dub versions and a radio ad. 2nd is
singles and various other things.
Murvin sings in a falsetto throughout most of this which he derives influence
from Curtis Mayfield who he covers on the 2nd disc. Always found the falsetto a
strange feature in a macho culture like Jamaican Reggae. Sounds good here when
you get used to it.
Lp was produced by Lee Perry who adds a gossamer sheen to the muscular roots
that makes up the sound here. Anyway, classic lp that is pretty neccessary to
any reggae collection innit? & this is probably the version to go for.

John Cale Paris 1919
Cale backed by Little Feat though you mighty very well not recognise them on
most of this. I think the bonus hidden instrumental may be the most noticeable
LF.
I love the title track which is present here in about 4 different versions since
this is the remaster taht came out 4 years or so ago. Did wonder if it was a
song he was still playing with the more visceral band he had in '79.
Great lp anyway, here bulked out with alternative takes and solo demoes.

Nancy Priddy You've Come this way Before
late 60s MOR/psych stuff reminiscent of a few other artists, David Axelrod,
Deram era David Bowie, possibly Scott Walker from the number lps.
Bits of this really struck me as lovely, think I need to listen to it quite a
bit more.

Noah Howard Black Ark
Classic free jazz. quite melodic in places, out in others.
Again I think I should listen to this more

Neil Young Live at the Fillmore East
Great early live set from '70 by Neil with the original line-up of Crazy Horse.
Nice to have something like this with semi decent sound at least. Does show some
jaggedness to the rhythm section which if used right can be effective, if used
wrong might just seem clunky. Enjoy this quite a bit and wind up wishing it was
longer. Does have pretty decent length jams on 3 or 4 tracks, 10 minute mark
approximated.

various other bits and pieces which will come back to me later

The same endless surprise of what my walkman segues. Prog, jazz, country,
postpunk, heaps of psychedelia, Stravinsky

Watching
Riot at the Rite
didn't see much of a riot happen but did see some of what the BBC has as
Nijinsky's choreography for the first time. Glad to have seen that.
Did wonder how frequently people performed that choreography. Or is it material
that doesn't get passed on and relies on the choreographer to direct people
close up.
This was a BBc4 drama about the debut performance of The Rite of Spring in Pais
in the nineteen teens.
Have meant to check youtube to see if there was any reenactment of that
choreography on it.

World Without End
ended last night don't think I was overly convinced by some of the denouement
but can't say what without it being a spoiler.
Well it was a costume soap weren't it? Might get around to reading some of this
at some point once I get through all the books I've already got set up on the
to-read list.

Reading
Dark Market
procedual(or at least a chronological study ) about a website set up for carders
to communicate on. Sounds like a very dodgy thing to want to do, swap tips on
how to rip off credit cards on an archived website.
Interesting book though.

The Dirt on Clean
a book about the history of bathing.
Apparently public bathing had been reintroduced in the 12th century after
travellers came back from the middle east having used the Turkish bath. Stuck
around until the great plague as apopular activity then it was being portrayed
as something taht had probably spread the disease.
So afterwards it fell ot of practise for several hundred years. & people had to
be talked into washing more than face, hands, occasionally feet.
It took ages for the idea that allover washing was a good idea when it
reappeared in the 19th century.
Think that might be over summarising that a bit. Enjoyable read anyway.

Iceberg Slim Pimp
been meaning to read this for decades and now mainly reading it on buses. But
autobiographical story of how IS set himself up as a pimp in the 40s.
Got his name from his Icy coolness on banging cocaine. Particularly on an
occasion that somebody got shot immediately behind him in a bar, everybody else
ducked and he just stood there as if nothing happened.

The Wire US hardcore primer
interesting read, but I hadn't heard anything about loads of hardcore bands
being aware of the BIrthday Party which it claims.

Stevo

Levon Vincent

Lately been listening to some stuff in a mainly electronic vein:

Air - Talkie Walkie
Sascha Funke - Bravo
Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do
Amon Tobin - Out From Out Where
Lawrence - Absence of Blight
Silent Servant - Negative Fascination

The new Death & Vanilla 45 is great, keeping up the quality of the first album.

"Khyam Allami - The Sound of Disquiet EP"

Cool, I recorded this..!

Every Madonna album plus stray singles, thanks to an ILM poll.

it's a lovely recording, lots of depth in the percussion, nice!

xpost

popol vuh - spirit of peace
bobby hutcherson - total eclipse

Aside from listening to advance streams of records on NPR & Pitchfork etc... (The only records I've gone back to for repeated plays are Mountains, Nick Cave & How To Destroy Angels) it's been a fairly dark start to the year.

Coil
Swans
Skinny Puppy
Legendary Pink Dots
Severed Heads
and a little Pharoah Sanders and John Coltrane to lighten the mood a little.

Gintas K
Félicia Atkinson
Stephan Mathieu
Orera
Locomotiv GT
Illés
Kevin Ayers

Qluster - Lauschen
Autechre - Exai
Martin Bartlett - Burning Water & Zoomorph
Anais Nin - House of Incest (recorded by Louis and Bebe Barron)

Lots of Terry Riley
Oum Kalthoum (trying too hard to sort through her songs on Spotify too quickly, I think I need a break or more randomness)
Bimbo el Encanto feat. Juliana - Con Solo Una Sonrisa

hullooo, Milton!:) hi, Rudy!:)

Buenas tardes, tiit.

David Axelrod - Songs of Experience
Richard Thompson - Electric
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
Lena Hughes - Queen of the Flat Top Guitar
& mostly things from spottie's playlist of stuff mentioned in the ilx brigade thread

Oops forgot some used record scores I got:
John Fahey - The New Possibility: Guitar Soli Christmas Album

Chris Darrow - Artist Proof

A couple of discs of Ars Nova style of music from the 14th century - totally obsorbing, opulent, truly strange at times:
Project Ars Nova - The Island of St. Hylarion: Music of Cyprus, 1413-1422
Boston Camerata / Ensemble P.A.N. [Project Ars Nova] / Joel Cohen - Le Roman de Fauvel.
Mala Putanica - Ars Ytalica

The some Gesualdo but I couldn't find my way in this time:
Gesualso - Tenebrae (Tallis Scholars)
Also some jungle: Routes From The Jungle - Escape Velocity Volume 1 (compiled by Kodwo Eshun)
A few works by Roger Redgate, these concentrated blasts of modernistic chamber.

This has been my current stack the last week to ten days or so.

Mandrill- Mandrill Is, Composite Truth
Melvins- Lysol, The Crybaby, Sugar Daddy Live
Saviours- Into Abbadon, Accelerated Living
Van der Graaf Generator- The Least We Could Do...
Devo- Duty Now for the Future
Funkadelic- Hardcore Jollies

Loads more jungle - via the Jungle Rhythms thread

Couple of others, spent much of the morning on it figuring what I like and don't. Now for like seventh day's worth of rest.

Bits of the Old Hall Manuscript, note to focus on later.

Leo Smith - Ten Freedom Summers. arrgh not enough time!

Schubert lieder stylings
Beethoven string quartet no. 13
The Voyager Golden Record

vladislav delay - multila
konx-om-pax - regional surrealism
mala - mala in cuba
maxmillion dunbar - cool water
rrose - wedge of chastity
chasing voices - acidbathory
v/a - interstellar fugitives
voigt & voigt - die zauberhafte welt der anderen
segue - pacifica

Vulgaari - Vulgaari
Inter Arma - Sky Burial
Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man

I should just post a link to my last.fm account

Deutsche Elektronische Musik vol 2. It's a Soul Jazz compilation of a bunch of German music from the 70s. I don't know much about krautrock but it seems like a good introduction

Ducktails - The Flower Lane
Phoenix - Bankrupt!
Mountains - Centralia
Yozo - Originals Volume 9
Allah-Las - Allah-Las
John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts

I've spent most of this week at work listening to the entire catalog of The Cure on shuffle

nick cave & the bad seeds - push the sky away

Urszula Dudziak, Future Talk
Siouxsie & The Banshees, Through The Looking Glass
Teho Teardo, Music for Wilder Mann
UMA & Iiris Oja, Peidus pool
Teisikud, Pilvede peal on taevas

Mississippi Fred McDowell-I Do Not Play No Rock 'n' Roll
Otis Taylor-White African
Blaze Foley-Clay Pigeons
Dub Trees-Nature Never Did Betray the Heart That Loved Her

This has been my soundtrack today to cooking,washing up,cooking again,watching my football bets die and drinking too much.

Finally listened to the new Hendrix,People, Hell and Angles, which starts well enough and gets much better. Every time I get glazed, he peels me with a startling turn of familiar elements--and some not so familiar, like at least one has me wondering about that studio date w Miles and/or Gil he didn't show up for, on account of fresh deathness--and for inst, having a guest vocalist (with horns) on a couple of tracks frees him for deft,brief fills, like not having to create a setting for his onscreen performer seemed to free Eastwood up for Mystic River---um, anyway, about to be released, so get it for free while you can (unless you, like most other than me, don't mind signing into Spotify via Fecebook)
http://www.npr.org/2013/02/27/172992228/first-listen-jimi-hendrix-people-hell-and-angels"> http://www.npr.org/2013/02/27/172992228/first-listen-jimi-hendrix-people-hell-and-angels

Onscreen *persona* (or performance), I meant.

I love Urszula Dudziak!

Eliane Radigue - Psi 847
Herbert Distel - Die Reise
Woebot - Woebiotic
Metacomet / Andrea Schiavelli split cassette

Siousie singles
Dvorak Mass
assorted spirituals

Sex & Bestiality comp (Mutant Sounds)
Bonnie Hayes
Black Jazz reissues
Really Red
Jim O'Rourke - Old News 7
Chris Darrow

the new david bowie album (i'm reviewing it), played through glitchy proprietary sony music player that freezes up every second song (thanks for nothing, record label)

atoms for peace - amok

New Bowie is streaming on iTunes 'til 3/12 release (Sony's long been a pain re promos)

New Warm Milk album is great.

in 2013 i have mostly been listening to this stuff: http://alexmacpherson.tumblr.com/post/44710469406/january-february-2013-favourite-music-round-up

About to listen to Clinic's Free Reign II.

hilliard ensemble - lassus (phantastic a capella renaissance singing)

The Motown complete singles box sets in anticipation of the upcoming Motown singles poll. The 1959-61 collection has some real wacky stuff on it ("Custer's Last Man" is hilariously WTF).

big big train -- english electric (part two)

Henry Threadgill & Zooid - Tomorrow Sunny/The Revelry, SPP
Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Mesmerised by Sirens
Galaktlan - Second Memory

Richard Skelton - Verse of Birds
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind Control
Iron & Wine - Ghost on Ghost

akron/family - meek warrior
robyn hitchcock and the egyptians - fegmania!, respect
robyn hitchcock - moss elixir
eliane radigue - vice versa, etc.
christina kubisch - mono fluido
robin crutchfield - the hidden folk

Used to work at a bookstore with the last one on that list. Didn't know he was still putting things out. Any good? He got all into fairies and elves at some point...

x - los angeles
chris darrow - artist proof
don bikoff - celestial explosion
lord jamar - the 5% album
la dusseldorf - viva
supergrass - only in it for the money
the verve - a storm in heaven

xp - it's very good, but it's definitely in the fairies-and-elves milieu -- harps and lyres and other ren-faire instruments.

after weeks of it being all slade/t.rex/mott etc, today has at last flipped back over onto machine made music.

the black dog - further vexations
the black dog - the liber 12" trilogy
tim wright - thirst
viewer ep (tim wright under a new guise)
john tejada - where

Echolyn - As the World (pretty much every release is an obsession)
newer Susumu Hirasawa stuff
Magma
Ruins/the zillions of Yoshida collabs or bands
new They Might be Giants
Gentle Giant
Lucio Battisti - Emozioni

lots of Deaf School all day. double disc set with albums and BBC sessions. plus, a live show disc.

runoff from the rolling molly thread
still working through the 77 for 2012, trying to give every album at least three listens if i haven't already. up to niki and the dove.
Zilla Shit I and II
D'Angelo - Voodoo and Brown Sugar
Richard Bishop - The Unrock Tapes
$amhill - the Preface

big big train -- english electric (part two)

how is this band? heard a lot of good things about both releases.

sorry, wrote this a couple of days ago

some recent lissnin

War THe World IS A Ghetto
recent remaster of classic '72 street funk lp firt of several that are worth
investigating if they get the same treatment. Sound is now pretty great,
noticeably so in a couple of places. Comes with 4 bonus tracks that may for the
most part be too blues based. 1st one is fantastic though, jawdropping i've
found it.
Really hoping that the next 4 lps get the same treatment, or am I miscounting
All Day Music as after this when it's actually before?
would definiitely love a remastered Live with the tracks edited back together.
When it was first released on vinyl it meant that long jams were edited so that
they overlapped a couple of sides of vinyl and at least one earlier cd has the
tracks in thta form instead of recombining them so each track is continuous for
its own duration as the same material in the form of the Cisco Kid bootleg does.

Lee Perry Disco Devil
the 12" mixes from the 70s, some of this gets pretty hypnotic. Everything gets
at least a bit extended. Not sure which disc I like more. Been the 2nd one for
the last week anyway.
Actually some of this gets odd for odd reasons, very upbeat takes on downbeat
lyrics and weird pronunciations of Jamaca, the island a lot of this was recorded
on? Didn't think even that accent distorted that name in that way.
Great stuff anyway, must continue my Lee Perry collection or at least listen to
the odd compis I haven't been. Shame the Trojan sets of the last decade are no
more.

Socrates Drank The Conium ON The Wings
weird Greek take on heavy prog I guess, one that includes Beefheart, Television
and Mad River inside its parameters.
Think this is pretty necessary if you're into heavy guitar stuff and you haven't
heard it. Pretty off the wall.

? & The Mysterians Best of, Cameo Parkway 1966-67
Budget price compi that came out in 2005 and compiles the 2 lps by the band
alongside some extra single and unreleased stuff. Sound is pretty great. Soul
influenced Chicano garage with infectious keyboards.
I think this band gets tarred with the same brush as The Seeds in terms of each
track supposedly sounding similar to each other but I think there's quite a bit
of variety once you get used to the trademark sound elements. Very punchy too.
Funny, I noticed that Smokes was a lot faster sounding than i remembered it. I
should listen to this more frequently anyway.

Peter Hammill Chameleon In the Shadow Of The NIght
Just been getting heavily into this after wondering If I'd be into his actual
solo stuff, but since that is mingled throughout the disc with most of VDGG I'm
not sure. The solo acoustic stuff does seem to be as intense anyway.
Think I should be more familiar with this stuff. Th e 2005 remasters did the
material justice pretty much. I don't have the earlier version sto compare with
as I did with some of the VDGG stuff. There you were getting a seriously
distorted picture of what the music was like, they sounded anti-groove in places
cos of bad reproduction.
Anyway, pretty vital material from the early-mid 70s. & I think more people
should be familiar with it too.

Incredible String Band Fillmore East 5/6/68
This is the circulated bootleg version of the lp that's just been reissued on
Hux. This sounds very interesting & reasonably decent for a bootleg. It was
sourced from a soundboard which should count for something, & I don't think this
was too high a generation. But the cd is supposed to sound fantastic, has been
24 bit remastered and royalties go to the band members. So I think it will be
something i'll be getting some time in the future.
This sees the band as a 2 piece, before their girlfriends joined. Also since
it's live it has them more orgaincally approaching material they overdubbed in
the studio or had guests helping them out,. So it has sitar on Very Cellular
Song instead of Dolly Collins portative organ. & I do love that portative organ.
Good set so would recommend getting the cd. I think the only things you miss
are a Krsna based dance piece that doesn't work brilliantly as just audio plus
interminable bouts of tuning up ( 20 minutes worth).

Richard tHompson Liverpool last week I think.
Don't think tyhis has quite the same attack I've been hearing other people refer
to but it does have some good bits in it. This has White Room as its 3-piece
classic rock tribute. Sounded like somebody else was singing it too.
I got one from London too that i haven't heard yet.

Mandrill My Father's Place roslyn NY 1974
still pretty great funk band with plenty of pretty psych guitar, maybe
influenced by Santana. Anyway was pleasantly surprised by how good this was.

various other bits and pieces that will no doubtr come back to me later.

Walkman still throwing up its continual bout of surprises. Psych, blues,
country, prog, rockabilly, swampadelic, jazz etc etc.

Reading
I finished Iceberg Slim's Pimp a couple of days ago. Only taken me 2 or 3
decades to actually get to read that. Startd Trick Baby yesterday another book
by the same author I picked up in the same purchase over Xmas.
Do love the slang in the book.

Pete Townshend Who I Am
been enjoying this memoir by Who's main songwriter. Just getting tio the end of
the 60s at the moment i think. He's been talking about working on Tommy which
takes you to '69.
I really love their mod & psych stuff and maybe whatever they were doing as far
as Quadrophenia in '73, not sure after that.

various things on Autocad which I started a course in a couple of weeks ago.
Might get used to it eventually.

The 50 best Punk lps thing by NME
Interesting zine, but there do seem to be a couple of things that were put in
here by mistake. Like why The Who Sings My Generation the U.S. version of the
first lp? Th ereal powerhouse record is the U.K. one that came out on Brunswick
& there doesn't seem to be any argument for going for the U.S. one, just seems
like shoddy research.
Nice to read th ereprints of articles I long since lost when I lost my
brother's collection of early 80s music press too. But there's al;so
materialhere I hadn't seen like Charles Shaar Murray's '77 review of MC5's KOTJ
and a couple of others.

Watching

Autoluminescent
the Rowland S howard biography documentary. Really great portrayal of one of my
favourite guitarists. Looks like it must have been underway when he died since
it features interviews with him that look like they must be pretty shortly
before he died. Nice also to hear that he had a new romance shortly before he
died.
The extras are well worth watching too.

Cloud Atlas
flawed but watchable film versionof popular novel. THink i'd far prefer it if I
didn't have to see Tom Hanks or Hugh Grant in it. But kept me interested for
nearly 3 hours.
Might be hard to follow for some since it jumps between 6 diofferent stories
that may have been more clearly interelated in the book. But still pretty
watchable.

started watching On The Road last night since I missed it at the cinema. But
didn't get very far into it, will probably give it at least one more go though.
Also We Need To Talk about Kevin which I don't think made it to the cinema here
in town.

James Burke's Connections
thanks to having d/loaded the wrong format of We Need to Talk About Kevin for
the dvd making program I have on my computer. I wound up geting a new dvd
conversion program and that lead me to looking at other material I'd downloaded
a while back and been unable to watch. Dang MKVs. So this has sat on a hard
drive for the last couple of years, after I came across it on a torrent site
then couldn't burn it. Now I can and have watched the first couple of episodes
again for the first time in 34 years or thereabouts. this was initially shown in
1978 on BBC, just as I started 2ary school and had moved into th ehouse my
mother still lives in. Wow.
Very illuminating study of technological change following the connections and
factors that caused development. Lots of things that got new relevance from
other factors emerging etc. Interesting, 10 part series of which i've so far
watched 2. Looking forward to seeing the rest though.

Stevo

i loved connections (the book and the series) in high school, totally loved the EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED angle

didn't know that incredible string band show had been officially released -- it's great, probably my fave live thing by them.

they really do have trouble tuning those incredible strings though, don't they.

Huh- I've been listening to a little ISB lately too (the debut).

Some other odds and ends:
ELO - Out of the Blue
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Action Bronson - Blue Chips
Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold
Royal Headache - Royal Headache

ELO - Out of the Blue

oh no .. the very mention of this may put me in an ELO groove .. and as people know about me, that f*cker takes some shifting

Fleetwood Mac - The Dance

right now, other people place - lifestyles of the laptop cafe (such an amazing record obviously, just so precisely funky)

generally:

carl craig - more songs about food and revolutionary art - dug this out for first time in 5/6 years this week, forgot how great it is.
this magic mountain high set, which is brilliant: http://www.inverted-audio.com/magic-mountain-high/
pharoah sanders - eleveation (again first time in a couple of years, still hear new sides to it every time.)
smallpeople - salty days (i forgot to check this when it came out, they really have a perfect sound)

Can - Tago Mago

cottam - all the untitled EPs, so ridiculously good
late nite tuff guy - everything i can find
peter gabriel - III
vladislav delay - anima

pearson sound singles
black rain - now i'm just a number
efdemin - s/t
v/a - techno kayō vol. 1: lovely singing circuit
celer - nacreous clouds
jeff mills - the purposemaker
prurient - of the memories of friends

Bad cumbia villera mixes
Selma Oxor

Sonic Youth: Bad Moon Rising, Sonic Death boot where they amble along in a contentedly noisy strut round the catwalk. EVOL is just so sharp and great. Will move onto the Hold that Tiger boot later.

Live Skull: Dusted (or Patti Smith w/better backing) and Cloud One, one of the tracks is called I'll Break You. No way I'll take a disliking to this.

you might dig this recent SY live in chigago 1985 thing, catches em right between bad moon rising & evol - peeking at a peak

speaking of peaking I played this Aerosmith in Detroit 1974 full concert on Youtube, a radio broadcast of outstanding quality, you can hear the amps hum and almost smell the weed wafting from the audience. actually it's Aero right before their Toys/Rocks period, still hungry and not (too) fucked up on drugs. Joe Perry just smoking and Tyler in top form. If you wanted to put the mid 70s hard rock arena experience in a time capsule, here tis

Listening now and they should have done an entire bootleg a la Madonna, scrappin' and screechin' along to her hits - might have achieved the kind of 'internet notoriety' to make it in the ILX Madonna poll..

big big train sounds even more like genesis than elbow does. i recommend them pretty highly if you have a taste for prog. if not i would steer clear

Band of Susans - Wired for Sound 2CD comp, just been playing this one till my ears bleed, so good.

Nick Cave & tHe Bad seeds Push The Sky Away
I'm loving this lp each time I hear it so far.
A lot more skeletal than the previous one Dig Lazarus Dig. This is much more ghostly/hazy.
What guitar there is seems to be rhythm or textural. I noticed that there was no longer a designated lead guitarist. I thought Ed Kuepper was with them full time or possibly James Johnson though he may be concentrating more on Gallon Drunk/Big Sexy Noise. & it was running through my head a couple of times over the week was there a chicken and egg situation where the order of amount of guitar diminishing and there being no lead guitarist per se couldn't necessarily be determined. Is that why Blixa left in the first place? The role of guitarist diminishing? Though there does seem to be some great lead or dual guitar on NOcturama and DLD had great guitar and Hammond organ on it.
Anyway do really like this record, had it playing on my 3-changer most times I've been in my room for the last few days
Also picked up a number of Bad Seeds sets from the current tour where they've played the lp through then gone onto play their way through some earlier classics. & I think there is more guitar on those.

Lee Perry Dubstrumentals
2cd set by Trojan that contains 3 lps. I've been playing disc 1 which has all of Kung Fu meets The Dragon on. As the title suggests that's mainly instrumental work with a few vocals bunged in incidentally.
Has me wishing I'd picked up a bass a few years ago or even earliuer. Would be great to be able to play these.
Think I inevitably need more Lee Perry.
Was listening to the 2nd disc of Disco Devil before I put this on the 3-changer and that has a 14 minute track with his voice all over it. That had me thinking what a weird voice it is, can be quite melodic but also seems pinched and nasal, but possibly addictive.

Socrates Drank The Conium On The Wings
More angular and less blues orientated than their earlier 2 lps and quite breathtaking in places. Overdriven guitar coming in from odd directions though it can be a lot more sensitive and subdued.
I recommend this lp wholeheartedly as one that really should be heard. Think I hear connections to Beefheart, Teloevision, & Mad River though I wouldn't know if the band would be likely to come across any of those & definitely not Television who didn't form until after this anyway.
Not sure why the UNiversal Greece reissue gets rid of the Silver on Black negative cover that this first came with and reversed it to black on silver.
NOw just wish somebody like Sunbeam or Esoteric would get behind these guys as a campaign so that more people could get to hear them.

P.I.L Glasgow Barrowland 14/5/86
Seems like a bit of a greatest hits set by the band including John McGeoch and Bruce Smith including Pretty Vacant, and several tracks from Flowers Of Romance. Or maybe that should be more greatest songs since these do seem to be selected with more thought than they moght have been. Performance is great too.
Glasgow audience still seems to be hung up on spitting 10 years after the fact which is a shame and seems to be driving Lydon up the wall.
Might not be quite as good as a Levee/Wobble set when the parameters were first being explored but in comparison to most other stuff out there pretty dashed fine.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse Perth Australia 2/3./13
Great set from 9 days ago down under. Don't think it's quite as heavy as they were a couple of months ago but still has quite a bit of noise in it. Has that trademark sound that he's been tapping into with them since the early 70s. I've been reminded of Live Rust a few times as well as Weld at others though he doesn't get that heavy really.
Seem to be some more understated songs in there too.

Frank Zappa Zoot Allures
This might just be as late as I go with this guy. Band sounds pretty good and there is corruscating guitar in places. Plus an instrumental that sounds like Area.
But I really don't like the smut he pours out. Just seeems to be a bit too 'look at me' & there are tracks here that may be getting too far that way.

probably a number of other things taht aren't cpoming to mind immediately now but will come back later.

Great material still cropping up as surprises on my walkman. Think I had both sides of the Osanna palepoli lp crop up over the weekend. plus the usual mix of psychedelia, prog, postpunk, rockabilly, African ,funk, jazz etc etc.

Watching
an hour of '68 Beat club which I need to get back to. Great early appearances including acouple from before I thought the bands formed.

Limitless
US film about a new drug being circulated that immediately makes the user a lot more organised/able to call on information that they were only momentarily in contact with. Worked ok, it was on Channel 4 last night. Thriller type thing you know.

This is England '88
Finally got to see this, after burning a new disc with the same files that Nero kept burning as silent. Came across a new burning program that handled these well. Probably should have sat through the first episode again but didn't. What i saw was great anyway though.

Economics As if People Mattered
new lecture series being presented to mainly activist audiences across the country. First one was last week and was very interesting, looking forward to seeing more on Wednesday.
Helping to explain what has caused the current econmoic slump through the works of several feminist economists as well as others. Mary Mellor wrotte the core text.

Reading
Marina Warner NOgo The Bogeyman
Taken me way too long to read this investigation into the negative male roles in folklore. Think I got it out Xmas before last and its sat unread for long periods beside my bed when I should have read it more rapidly and got it back to the library.
Surprised to see her suddenly using the term Protopunk in here largely cos she had the Dickies cover of Banana Splits appearing a decade early.
She takes a lot of digressions in the text which can be interesting, but possibly might be why I didn't read it so rapidly. That and having a lot of other books I wanted to read crop up over the duration. I can't resist 99c book sales and really wish i could keep up with what I buy better.

Ursula K Le Guinn The Telling
story about an earth based observer looking into a cult on an alien world that has probably been massively corrupted by the appearance of a supposedly non-intrusive communication with Earth. Interesting book, I haven't read the author before to my knowledge. I really don't know why. Must do so more. So yeah, got even more books being put in my to read list already. But people do say she is deeply worth it.

The Cuckoo's Egg
factual detective work memoir book about an astrophysicist looking after a University computer Network in the late 80s and discovering taht the system's been hacked. I find this kind of book really interesting but also wonder if the fact taht it is automatically 20 years out of date means I should try to read something more recent on similar subjects. He's talking about dial up connections for e.g.
So methodology has probably changed almost infinitely since tactics he's using would be negligible against the much faster speeds that would have been in play even a few years after this. Interesting book anyway.

Shepperton Babylon
The book on the british film industry taht I started a number of years back and didn't finish. So it's become my bog book recently and I'm slowly getting through the unread bit. Has had some very interesting stuff in.
I'm currently reading about the 70s, think Mary Millingto n has just committed suicide and her business partner's made an exploitative biofilm. THere was a lot of sleaze around at the time, probably true throughout this book in fact.

Stevo

lou reed & metallica - lulu
john fahey - the essential
donovan quinn & the 13th month - your wicked man
bill holt - auralgraphic entertainment
x - los angeles

Ex Easter Island Head - a band from Liverpool, for fans of Rhys Chatham/Glenn Branca. Four tuned guitars played with mallets and occasional drums/percussion, it's pretty great stuff.

Luke Abbott - Holkham Drones
holy crap this is good, seems really slept on

Messiaen: Illuminations of the Beyond/Orchestre de l'Opéra Bastille
new Bowie & MBV

Roedelius - Wenn deer Sudwind weht so so beautiful

eddie c - country city country
lord echo - melodies
vincent l. watson - serene

i highly recommend all of them

what kind of stuff is/are it/they

Crappy recent reggaeton Spotify playlist that I'm enjoying.

relatively clean rivers s/t
sid hemphill - the devi's dream
billy charne s/t on sussex
flatt & scruggs - mercury sessions (volumes 1 & 2)
flatlanders - more a legend than a band

AND STUFF

xp to clouds:

eddie c is laid back deep house/disco and other edit-y eclecticism, if you've listened to eddie c before you kinda know what to expect, this LP is more diverse than 'parts unknown', though.

lord echo is blissed out balearic-ish afro/dub vibes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9g21Oh1_Ok

vincent i. watson is incredibly pretty textural ambient interspersed with reich-style minimal piano.

https://soundcloud.com/vincewatson/sets/serene

some Vivaldi (as in Antonio)
some Kristin (as in Hersh)
some Ivan (as in Kupala)
some King (as in Crimson Discipline)
some Phil (as in Collins Face Value)

also some Ronald (as in Binge)

today I'm listening to this: http://open.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/2kxiavi0WSqITjbj2YDL9y

thanks karl will check those out

listening to untold's 'change in a dynamic environment' EPs, thanks matt p

Frank Zappa - Hot Rats - God help me, as wanky as this is at times, it's nice to chill out to.
Olivier Messiaen: Méditations sur le Mystère de la Sainte Trinité - Christopher Bowers-Broadbent - Not sure if I actually like this, but I admire the sheer bloody-mindedness of it.

The next two I picked up used for $3 each (never owned 'em before):
Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (worst opening track ever for a classic album?)
Led Zeppelin - III (looking forward to playing this some more)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsdLn46UXnA

Probably the best diss track behind Ice Cube's No Vaseline (which actually has a brutal verse about Eazy himself) It's ironic how this song is a diss on Dr Dre when it uses the G-Funk sound that Dre popularised.

:zoviet-france: - Gris / Gesture Signal Threat
Beethoven - 9th - Ferenc Fricsay, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (this piece is totally underrated)
Jungle Brothers - Crazy Wisdom Masters
Richie Hawtin - Concept 96:01 through 96:06
Peter Gabriel - Before The Flood (pre-debut demos)
Dominique Leone - "David Lee Roth"
Harmonia & Eno Remixed - Tracks & Traces remixes (if you have racked up more than 20 plays of the original album & of any one Basic Channel 12", chances are you'll just kind of end up liking this even if you aren't sure you want to)

today - chris forsyth - live on wfmu - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Forsyth__The_Paranoid_Cat_Band/Live_on_WFMUs_The_Long_Rally_with_Scott_McDowell_31811
cosmic dead - inner sanctum
who's that man - a tribute to conny plank
source family OST

bok bok - southside ep
channelorange
jean-claude eloy - gaku-no-michi
james ferraro - far side virtual
shifted - crossed paths
perfume - jpn
smallpeople - salty days
maxmillion dunbar - house of woo
earthstar - atomkraft nein danke
gui boratto - chromophobia

British Library - Bird Mimicry
Charles Kellogg - The Nature Singer
John T. Bullitt - Night of a Thousand Songs
Jean C. Roche - African Forests and Savannas
Dan Gibson - Songbirds (Solitudes SACD)
Lang Elliott - Frog Concertos Volume I
Asei Kobayashi & Micky Yoshino - Hausu OST

Heterotic (feat. Gravenhurst), Love & Devotion
Yannis Kyriakides, Resorts & Ruins

Tunnetusüksus /Perception Unit/, Global Mango Free: Live in Tallinn 1992
Tunnetusüksus /Perception Unit/ & Siiri Sisask, Story of Whraktalia: Live in Tartu 1998

listening to a minty (doesn't look like its ever been played) copy of The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound Of Jean Jacques Perrey on Vanguard. it's, uh, demented. kinda debating whether i should keep it or not...easy to sell but when am i ever gonna see a better copy? maybe never. it really is pretty demented. not as demented as that electronic version of the who's tommy i picked up last year, but its up there. sounds grand on the hi-fi.

was listening to the early 70's album by Ben Atkins called Patchouli. on Enterprise, the Stax label. every single copy of the album was scented with patchouli. mine still reeks. not that great a record though. either worth owning for the smell or the huge gatefold photo of Ben going to the bathroom in an outhouse. guess it was good they didn't call the album Outhouse.

Going back through my list for the past couple weeks or so, it's got these and some I have listened to a couple times in that period.

Chrome- Red Exposure
Beck- Steropathic Soulmanure, The Information
David Bowie- Aladdin Sane
Little Feat- The Last Record Album
The Residents- Meet the Residents
Ennio Morricone- Crime & Dissonance
TSOL- Beneath the Shadows
Cream- Wheels of Fire
Wall of Voodoo- Dark Contenent, Call of the West
Stan Ridgway- The Big Heat
Reverend Horton Heat- Laughin' and Cryin'
Captain Beyond- Captain Beyond, Sufficiently Breathless

Kit Clayton (4mod3) - A Translation of Simplicity
Zoviet France - Garista / Hessian / Mohnomishe
Esplendor Geometrico - Sheikh Aljama
Phthalocyanine - Navy Warship

Boulez - Structures, Books one and two
Fushitsusha - marvelling at the 5th track (CD1) on their dbl Live album
Music for Merce - don't think I'll dl eveything, just the cuts from David Tudor and the Maryanne Amacher excerpt. Gordon Mumma next!

structures is great, wish i were in the right headspace to listen to that sensory-overload brand of 50s/early 60s modernism extensively again. all i ever listen to now is techno.

I'm listening to it alongside some Little Richard (lost a boot of his I used to have so only a couple of the hits everyone knows), making sense at the mo.

Julian Lynch Lines Cracked chamber music, with vines and sunshine further texturing and filtering the mellow hairy tightness of a multi-instrumentalist who's always got a way with the bass and drums (incl little percussion x what sounds like toms, tympani, maybe frame drums, never bombastic). Most tracks are about 3 minutes, though the closer, "Shadows", earns its 8:22 sandbox Stonehenge, with bassoons, wah-wah, them drums. Notes mention Michael Hurley fanship, and spiritually that's apt, but stylistically more like Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Robert Wyatt on a primetime play date--or maybe if the Dave Holland Quartet did a whole album like the mellowest tracks on Conference of the Birds, except this is more pop or something. Most of the tracks are interchangeable, but keep me listening. Good way to start a windswept early spring day. Just found it on First Listen, and it comes out tomorrow, so check the free preview while you can:
http://www.npr.org/2013/03/17/174327942/first-listen-julian-lynch-lines#playlist This is the track-by-track link. Can also listen to the whole thing in one continuous stream.

Another first listen: Nomad, solo album by Bombino, one the younger, maybe youngest Tinariwen guitarists. None of their late-night campfire acoustic ruminations, which is okay by me. Electric and maybe acoustic guitars, always plural, over and around bass, drums (usually a full kit), an organ, which is sometimes almost subliminal, but always at least flickering; I'd miss it. First few tracks have a distractingly buzzy, grainy midrange squeeze; whether it's the quality of the source, the stream, my usually okay headphones showing their limitations, I dunno. But then the mix of desert harshness times deftly. sometimes boldly applied fluidity kicks in, the latter taking over quickly enough, but never complacently. Some tracks seem a little, brief, ending abruptly; I'll have to check his concert links from this page too. Closes with maybe a little mellotron on the Garcia/Costello-ish voice, def hand drums and steel guitar, at times like uh T.Rex jamming on "Lively Up Yourself", ha comparisons.
http://www.npr.org/2013/03/24/174857551/first-listen-bombino-nomad?ps=mh_fl#playlist

That stream should be on there til April 1, apparently; release is April 2.

At the moment a live set from Noah Howard from '73 with a 35 minute track and a 12 minute one. I really like the Black Ark and this ounds pretty interesting too, hasn't really taken flight yet but I think it might

Got 2 different Lee Perry sets last week Ape-Ology and Sipple Out Deh, the 2 less well known lps on Ape-ology are both great. These being the Lee Perry vocaled Roast Beef, Collie Weed and Cornbread and the more jazzy spaced out Return of tHe Super Ape, both of which I love and this set has the earlier Ape lp as Scratch the Super Ape which is supposed to be somewhat different to the UK release. Think I heard some diffeerence on a couple of tracks but not 100% sure. I'm somewhat familiar with th euk release version but don't play it that frequently.
Anyway 2 great sets which are well worth looking into if you're into the guy.

VAn Der Graaf Generator H To he
loved this as I spun it quite a biot last week, been too long since I sat down with it and I should make that a far more frequent habit. Same with all the VDGG I have I think. Just wish I knew where my Pawn Hearts was.
The 2005 remasters really made a great difference to th eway I thought about the music. Earlier cd versions gave a pretty distorted picture, actually made them sound disjointed, even anti-groove. Here you can get far more into the grooves.
Do wish Hamill sang more when his voice breaks into strangled shouts, not sure if he'd developed his singing chops fully by this point. Also been picking up his mid 70s solo material over this year which I'd meant to do a couple of years back when I completed the VDGG set. Just think between band and solo there is some awesome work which should be mandatory listening to anybody into decent music at least at some point. & I alway swonder why it took me so long to get into this stuff, should have known it since my teens really.

Ronettes Be My Baby
a remastered best of from a couple of years ago. Been meaning to pick up a compi of theirs for a while and this turned up locally. Fantastic music.

Nick cae and The Bad Seeds Push the sky away
Silvery, hazy set of new material which I guess kind of refrlects the cover imagery or vice versa.

loads of other stuff which will no doubt come back to me later.

78s by:
red patterson's piedmont log rollers
john hammond
shores southern trio
narmour & smith
binkley brothers dixie clodhoppers
red headed fiddlers
da costa woltz's southern broadcasters

LPs:
dennis mcgee & sandy courville
braxton/correa/holland/altschul - circle
paul parrish - garden of my mind
elyse s/t
jack hardy - the cauldron

I may have to request a compilation CD from Milton Parker.

just a bunch of ongoing obsessions: Gilberto Gil, Allison Moorer, Teenage Fanclub, Shooter Jennings, Heart, Jackie Wilson, Pizzicato Five, El Gran Silencio, LaBelle, Astor Piazzolla, Nadia Sirota, the Boo Radleys, Parliament/Funkadelic, Marty Robbins, and Erykah Badu.

oh yeah and I keep falling down the Ike Reilly k-hole too, spent like three days in there last week

Lords Of The Underground and Human Sexual Response all day long.

I remember watching Human Sexual Response do "Land of the Glass Pine Cones" on "Fridays" #old

Caveman, compared here to Shins--well, maybe between them and Hall & Oates, sounds like to me. With nice spacious, but not overbearing stereo, nice spring green synthbank across the quad. I predict hits, or at least lots of play on Big Ten college radio. Light up and listen tonight, or now. http://www.npr.org/2013/03/24/174860769/first-listen-caveman-caveman

Can w Tim Hardin in rehearsal, it says (live rehearsal? Somebody responds favorably at the end). An efficiently semi-funky groove--nice drums, for sure---Hardin shows up about 5 minutes into this 11 minute-plus workout, with surprisingly agile lumberjack vocals. I thought he might just be broody, but he's into it, in a bluesy way. Sound is a bit distanced, whether source or YouTube, but clear enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G_nQQROudw

that is pretty happening, don't think i've heard it before! that's the sum total of the hardin/can collab?

Apparently not quite: see that 'un and another listed here--I haven't tried their 4share stash yet
http://exileonmoanstreet.blogspot.com/2009/11/can-with-tim-hardin.html

cool thanks...how the hell does 4shared work? do i need an account?

Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks vol. 4 and 22. They achieved a pleasant venom (if such a thing is possible) for so much of what they do. 22 is out-and-out amazing so far.

Machaut - Mirror of Narcissus.

Kagel - Variete. Wonder if Astor Piazolla has ever heard this one..

some recent lissnin

Meat Puppets Up On The Sun, live sets from 83, 85 & 90.
I've been reading the Too High To Die Oral history, which is pretty essential and that's been making me want to listen to the lps again. This just happened to be close to hand, being on a shelf near the stereo system. Unfortunately I can't see where the others I have are and I don't have all the lps. Think that might need remedying over the next whatever.
I do have the 3 essential early lps on cd plus the next e.p. Always have been pretty partial to the s/t. The '83 live set hasa lot of that style to it plus also covers tracks from II and even has some of Up On The Sun making early appearances. '85 is the era that Up On The Sun comes from, they're still very inventive but less out of control.
& 'in '90 they were doing 2 hour sets, in a prettty rocked out manner.
Interesting to hear that Curt was into Henry Cow among other bands, the book has people saying that early Meat Puppets could sound like them, something i haven't heard so far. Hope I do at some point.

Ronettes Be My Baby
classic girl group stuff. Not sure if this is quite soul, definitley soulful in places.

David Bowie The Man Who Sold The World
Heavy-guitar-drenched isn't the first thing you think of when you think of Bowie is it? Guess that might depend on your entrance point. Ronson was a pretty well known sideman for him I guess.
Anyway this is pretty great rock stuff and an lp I should know better.
Been turned onto wanting to listen to this by seeing the Jarvis Cocker narrated doc on Ziggy Stardust. Again wish my cds were in better order cos I'd listen to Hunky Dory too.

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats Blood Lust
Heavy glam stomping 70s rock influenced dunt that has other interesting influences appearing at times. Forgot about the intro to one song borrowing heavily from The Byrds' "Why" until I stuck this back on this week. had it on the 3 changer for several days and it is a truly fine lp.
Hoping the new one which is out this week is as good.
Both Terrorizer and Iron Fist have articles on them this month, both feature the same photo so I assume it must be involved in the packaging of the new one.

Family Music In a Doll's House.
Great '68 psych/early prog set which was Family's debut lp. Features quite a bit of studio trickery and Roger Chapman's heavy vibrato.
Every time I stick this on I wonder why it's been so long since I last did. I do have a cd of this somewhere too, which I picked up in the Tower water-damaged sale so was never able to read the liner booklet.
Anyway, classic lp which may also be true for at least a couple of their other sets.

Gun Club Fire of Love
Walkman was acting funny this week which meant that instead of the usual wideranging random picking through however many hours of music are on there, it wound up getting stuck on about 5 different lps and just skipping back through them on alternative or whatever the breakdown was.
Good that it got stuck on this among them cos I haven't listened to the lp itself in quite a while. My favourite lp of theirs has tended to be Miami, their 2nd, where they got more psychedelic.
This was the debut and is very interesting since on initial listening it would probably strike one as a collection of 2 or 3, possibly even one chord ramalama but thanks to the rhythm section this gains a lot of dimensions. I say rhythm section but the bass is notoruiously buried in the mix, not sure if that's ever been fully put right in later remasters. But it has a really great sense of rhythm anyway, borrowing heavily from jazz. I keep hearing Terrry Graham on here as sounding like Gene Krupa but that might be an exaggeration. BUt certainly in their take on Preachin The Blues there is some wild syncopation going on.

Pop Group Y
Again this was among the group of 5 lps that weere continuallly returned to on the day the player was acting up. But since I was sitting listening to the thing while sitting in the training centre all day it was more noticeable.
Anyway, another jazz drenched postpunk lp played by a bunch of players possibly playing to their then current limits. This is a lot more avant garde of course, and heavily enhanced by Dennis Bovell's production.
One of my favourite lps anyway, and pretty unique, though there may have been a few other bands plowing something of the same furrow at the time. The Contortions' Buy seems to come from a similar place but has very different production & Delta 5 touched on some of this too. The Minutemen picked up a lot of influence from this to the point of nicking riffs on a couple of tracks on Double Nickels & the Birthday Party were seen as near plagiarists at one point.

Siouxsie & Banshees Ju Ju
Again one of the lps that the walkman got stuck on, but one of their peaks anyway. I love them at this point when they're getting into their psychedelic era, which sounds like a more abstract update of folkrock among other influences. This was one of the remasters that came out about 5 years ago and sounds all the better for it.
Monitor in particular kept turning up over the week too.

Dna on Dna
New York No Wave group dominated by Arrto LIndsay's weird invented chords and Ikue MOri's self taught drumming though Robin Crutchfield's keyboards contribute quite a bit to the sound
Particularly love Not Moving which I'm surprised nobody's covered as far as I'm aware. In places it sounds like they take an early Pink Floyd influence and severely warp it.
Anyway, this compi probably is all the Dna you really need, there's now a pretty great mArs compiout too, if it's still in print.

Herman's Hermits Blaze
Manchester teenybop band's psychedelic lp which I've loved since I first picked it up for 60p in the very early 80s. Here I think it's nearly doubled inlength by various tracks from the same era, that's the Repertoire version at least.

Lee Perry Sipple Out Deh disc 1
The earlier set from the 2cd compi. II'm particularly taken by the Susan Cadogan tracks on here, helium falsetto female vocals over a Perry rhythm . Some other absolute stonkers on here too, the 3 Blind mice track lovely & Gregory Isaacs telling a cop to be mellower.

My Bloody Valentine EPs disc 2
The compi of e.p. material thatc ame out at the same time as the reissues of the 2 Creation era lps last year. Not been playing this much but thought I'd stick it on again. Surprised taht there seem to be so many programmed beats since Colm always struck me asa great drummer live. Maybe he was tooo much of a Keith Moon so Kevin wasn't so happy with him playing regular repetitive beats or something.
Anyway good to hear this again

Henry Cow '75 live set
This is about my favourite era of the band. Tumbling improvisational material in a lot of places including a 22 minute Ruins. Dagmar's on vocals already which might not be to everybody's taste, certainly is to mine.

a mod/60s compi that was playing over the p.a. at the Food Festival down at the Spanish Arch on Friday. Interesting stuff, had the usual Who/Kinks/Small faces etc. but I noticed The Action who I still don't really expect to turn up on one of those compis though maybe taht has more to me being around when the first compi of them frist appeared, which is admittedly 30 odd years ago now. Also had Crawdaddy Simone on which again took me by surprise, still remember reading JC talking about tahtin the NME garage/psych/ brit stuff article in '83 and thinking of it as an elusive classic, one taht I'm not sure I got to hear for the next few years when I was really hoping to , so possibly wasted on a crowd that was only hearing it casually at an event like that.

various bits and pieces I can't think of offhand and a lot of different stuff cropping up on my walkman once I got that sorted out.

Reading
Too High To Die
Greg Prato's oral history of teh Meat Puppets, essential reading if your're into that type of music. Seems like the copies are being printed to order which is a weird situation but they come out professional enough . Very good read, shame about Cris cos he's a really nice guy or seemed so when I met him on English tours in late 80s, early 90s.
Oh one thing taht i found amusing. The book mentions them having a bit of a jinx as regards gig s they played in LA, coinciding with Earthquakles, riots etc etc. I think that can't have been the only place they had that effect since they played teh Marquee the night of teh famous storm in 1987. I remember walking home in that after leaving the tube,l they apparently went driving out into the west country, possibly looking for Stonehenge or something. Actually I'm semi surprised they don't mention that in the book.

Mary Mellor The Future oF MOney
Feminist economist, the text for a course i'm doing on economics. Probably should have read even more of it over the weekend. Been trying to read it on buses and not getting very far. But did get through 2o r 3 chapters over the weekend.

Tav Falco Ghosts Behind The Sun
Individualistic take on the history of Memphis over a couple of centuries mixed with TAv's own memoirs of being involved in the underground scene in Memphis. & meetings with great Memphis based musicians. I've got as far as him spending a chapter talking about Charlie Feathers so far, love his rockabilly stuff. Previous chapter was about the psych/folk group Insect Trust who opperated between Memphis and Hoboken in the late 60s. Very good group.

Watching
Trance by Dany Boyle
enjoyed this on Thursday. Bit surprised that it got suxch a poor review in Friday's guardian. I think its pretty good though it does have a few loose ends. So hoping other people go and see it.

I, Claudius
Downloaded and created dvdrs of most of this series . So far seen the first 3 episodes aqnd it looks great. loads of very dfamiliar faces cropping up throughout. 1st 3 episodes have had a young Brian Blessed being aged considerably. But keep seeing faces I can't quite pklace and then trying to loook them up on the IMDB cast list which isn't as in depth as one might hope.
Think I remember this being on the tv the first time, which isn't so far fetched this being '76. Just not sure I would have still been up and almost certainly wouldn't have watched it. Not sure how frequently it's been repeated, just wound up wanting to watch it recently when it was being shown but needed to get to bed cos of early morning starts.

Stevo

March Listening

Paint Branch - I Wanna Live
Songs: Ohia - Axxess & Ace
New Alaska - Finer Lines of Tomorrow
We All Inherit the Moon - 月継

dock boggs - s/t comp
mississippi shieks - mississippi shieks vol. 1
REM - reckoning
mothership - s/t (good heavy rock recommended by xhuxk)
ozzy osbourne - the ultimate sin
wavves - afraid of heights
gun outfit - hard coming down
wire - change becomes us
john fahey - the transfiguration of blind joe death
lou rawls - what it was, what it is

btw if y'all are sleeping on the mid to late 60s lou rawls jawns produced by david axelrod they rule!!!

Gene Clark - Here Tonight: The White Light Demos
Steve Gunn - Time Off
Daniel Bachman & Michael Sage - Low In the High Desert (http://thekey.xpn.org/2013/03/21/download-low-desert-a-collaborative-cassette-ep-from-daniel-bachman-and-matthew-sage/)
Imaginational Anthem Vol. 6 : Origins of American Primitive Guitar
The Byrds - Live at the Ash Grove, 1970
Robyn Hitchcock - Love From London

Philip Glass - Glassworks
US Maple - Long Hair in Three Stages
Night Slugs Allstars Vol 2
Bo Diddley - various stuff
Mance Lipscomb - Trouble in Mind
Man Forever - Pansophical Cataract

The Cosimo Matassa Story Volume 2 (4 CD Proper Box) - More well-known-to-me hits than the first box, but still plenty of crazy obscurities.
Roscoe Shelton and Earl Gaines - Let's Work Together
Southern Culture on the Skids - Mojo Box

Recent things I have been listening to:

Mogwai - Les Revenants Soundtrack
Stygian Stride - Stygian Stride
Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety
Dur Dur Band - Volume 5
Romare - Love Songs, Vol. 1
Julian Lynch - Lines

@Stevolende - sometimes i think 'i, claudius' might be the best tv show of all time

I like this thread and often check it out to pick up on random stuff to listen to on spotify, but would be nice if some people (briefly!) described what they were listening to to make it easier or else it can be just random lists

I like this thread and often check it out to pick up on random stuff to listen to on spotify, but would be nice if some people (briefly!) described what they were listening to to make it easier or else it can be just random lists

― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, April 2, 2013 7:32 PM

Fair enough.

Paint Branch - I Wanna Live (indie pop from members of Q and Not U)
Songs: Ohia - Axxess & Ace (indie folk along the lines of Will Oldham)
New Alaska - Finer Lines of Tomorrow (post-hardcore along the lines of Jawbox or Shiner)
We All Inherit the Moon - 月継 (post-rock from members of Indian Summer and Office of Future Plans)

sample tracks

Heterotic (feat. Gravenhurst), Love & Devotion

anyone else listening to this? fucking great record.

trying to think what else recently besides the usual thorough rounds

bunch of jodeci
bunch of lovers rock
todd edwards locked on inside the mix 96
dj ez old skool 88-90 special on freek fm from 1993
bunch of acid i've already forgotten about :/
some mjb unreleased comp i found
an odyssey best of (cos i randomly heard 'if ur looking for a way out' and ;_;)
seani b rare groove mixes
bunch of westwood/flex/riz/evil dee 90s radio rips
scott hardkiss essential mix
a miles davis album cos of the poll, big fun iirc

Bohannon - Stop & Go

all the stuff that gets reissued and this guys vast n funky catalogue languishes out of print and/or offline. is he on spotify? not rhapsody

There's one compilation on Spotify, in the UK at least.

Los Amigos Invisibles, Repeat After Me
The Bright, Estados
Nadia Sirota, Baroque
Graveola, Eu Preciso de um Liquidificador
Meir, Kvertalak
Shooter Jennings, The Other Life
Bongos Ikwue & Double X, Wulu Wulu
DJ Koze, Amygdala

Darkthrone - first 5 or 6 records
Ravel and debussy - duh
Pointer Sisters - first 3 or 4 records
beatles/lennon/mccartney solo
Wagner - das rheingold
liszt - late piano works
jon spencer blues explosion
SBTRKT, Disclosure

Kristin Hersh
- Sky Motel
Kristin Hersh
- Sky Motel
Kristin Hersh
- Sky Motel
Kristin Hersh
- okej, u get teh piktshe, shuely

Led Zeppelin - III
The Ink Spots - The Best of The Ink Spots: 20th Century Masters
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler/Dream

Listening to Stevie Wonder's "Songs in the Key of Life" for the first time properly. Like any double album, its indulgent (prog noodling of "contusion", some songs well outstay their welcome, "isnt she lovely?" will never not be mawkishly sentimental) but the highs ("sir duke", "i wish" and a few others) are very high indeed. Then again, people say this is where the rot started for Stevie despite it being the token album of his that ends up on best of lists.

man, i envy you digging into that album for the first time.
i will ride for everything on that album but saturn.

Lucius released their first EP not too long ago, and the first track, "Don't Just Sit There" is really nice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-r8UKqpI2Q

Magazine "Song From Under the Floorboards"
Red House Painters
Gang of Four's Entertainment!
Some of the new Bettie Serveert
Hannah McCarthy "Get Down"
https://soundcloud.com/hannah-yeun-mccarthy/get-down
Wash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3KfVyWQThs

How's the new Bettie Serveert then?

I definitely like "Shake-her," and Bettie's Oh, Mayhem has a few other guitarish moments. Monogamous is kind of an interesting, soulful interlude. But I don't really like Carol's voice on a lot of the other tracks or the way it's produced/engineered, a little too polished for me.

Julian Lynch Lines Cracked chamber music, with vines and sunshine further texturing and filtering the mellow hairy tightness of a multi-instrumentalist who's always got a way with the bass and drums (incl little percussion x what sounds like toms, tympani, maybe frame drums, never bombastic). Most tracks are about 3 minutes, though the closer, "Shadows", earns its 8:22 sandbox Stonehenge, with bassoons, wah-wah, them drums. Notes mention Michael Hurley fanship, and spiritually that's apt, but stylistically more like Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Robert Wyatt on a primetime play date--or maybe if the Dave Holland Quartet did a whole album like the mellowest tracks on Conference of the Birds, except this is more pop or something. Most of the tracks are interchangeable, but keep me listening. Good way to start a windswept early spring day. Just found it on First Listen, and it comes out tomorrow, so check the free preview while you can:
http://www.npr.org/2013/03/17/174327942/first-listen-julian-lynch-lines#playlist This is the track-by-track link. Can also listen to the whole thing in one continuous stream.

― dow, Monday, March 25, 2013 4:12 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This album is lovely.

Glad you like it, Tim. Another belated discovery: Shuggie Otis, Inspiration Information/Wings of Love. Don't know how the sound quality of this Sony Legacy twofer compares with the 2001 edition of II, but the fabled '74 LP tracks tend to have a dull gloss here, which also applies to the monotonous imagery and medium tempos. Most of it's still okay thrift shop car music, though "Ot Uv Mi Hed", or however he spells it, is a lot better--but several promising tracks end too quickly. The previously unreleased Wings of Love is so much better: vocals now gracefully ride guitar and keyboards, as they earn all the room they need to thrive; tempos are still medium, but with a lot more push and flex. Mostly a late 70s/early 80s radio vibe, but the drums are not too loud, the synths aren't reeking cheese, and "Fawn" even makes use of 60s-imfamous phasing: "psychedelic Bromo-Seltzer", as Beefheart called it. But it's perfectly applied, and in passing, on the fantastic voyage. "Black Belt Sheriff" adds good variety: just voice and acoustic guitar (gutty low E string gravitation), then "Destination You!", with the early 70s funk-rock punch Inspiration Information[ could've used a lot more of. Still streaming here 'til Tuesday, I think:
http://www.npr.org/2013/04/07/176246392/first-listen-shuggie-otis-inspiration-information-wings-of-love

Oh yeah: the 2001 Luaka Bop version of Inspiration Information added four bonus tracks, not incl. here.

the best thing i have discovered this year is margo guryan. it's a cliche, but her 1968 album "take a picture" really is a lost masterpiece. just really beautiful pop music, deepened but nor marred by a faint note of smoky sadness in the singer's voice.

Elgato
Wen
Beneath

shuggie's playing shows in new york over the next few months. I saw him live at the start of the year, there's still some there there.

just discovered Ned Doheny - Hard Candy

it's very Steely Dan in feel and production, which is a great thing. songwriting is a notch or so below that, but it's still awesome.

hard candy been a hepcat fave for a while. sells for a ton now. this is my new hipster fave. rufus made it on the laptop today. took him half an hour to make the whole thing. he's ten! I couldn't do anything when I was ten. fall down on my bike. that's about it.

http://youtu.be/MCXv_sx9FI0

Current stack last week or so.

Mott the Hoople- s/t, Brain Capers, Wildlife (just got last 2)
Flamin' Groovies- Teenage Head, Supersnazz & Supersneakers (all new to me)
Genesis- Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Foxtrot, Trespass, Nursery Cryme (last 2 new to me)
The Kinks- Lola vs. Powerman, Sleepwalker & Kinda Kinks(last 2 new to me & sleepwalker is really good)
Peter Gabriel- 3 x s/t & Security

I'm mostly back on a 70s rock kick again filling in some gaps. I now got all of the Mott studio albums and they are all pretty good. Kinda surprised by how much Mick Ralphs sings on Wildlife and how country rock some of it is. Flamin' Groovies got curious about. Teenage Head is great the other two are an odd mix. I kind of like the live stuff on the Supersneakers better than the studio stuff. Worked on getting a bunch of the Kinks remasters. Kinda Kinks was solid, but the big tunes I already knew. Sleepwalker was a surprise. It's a pretty cool record. I'm going to be listening to that one a bunch in the next couple of weeks.

Hadn't heard those Peter Gabriel records in years and heard a version of "Hear Comes the Flood" on the radio which led me to get the recent CDs. I liked them quite a bit before, but "melted face s/t" and Security are both just really great records and quite unique and kinda timeless. Other than 'the Lamb', I really had not heard the other Genesis Gabriel albums, so I took a dive into checking out the rest out of curiousity.

House of Blondes
The Knife
Matthew E White
Rokia Traore
John Grant
British Sea Power

Want some jazz.

back on a 70s rock kick again filling in some gaps

listened to Dust's Hard Attack for the first time (!) it's heavy sure but also melodic even sweet in spots

Clinic - Free Reign II
Steve Mason - Monkey...
Kiss - Destroyer (Ressurected)

Been really stuck on the Clinic album, which is *way* better than the first version.

SM: I've been on a yusef lateef kick lately, eastern sounds should do you well.

Tale of Us - Renaissance: The Mix Collection (fantastic 2CD mix in the vein of mid-00's Kompakt mixes)
Correspondant Compilation 01 (this is a phenomenal compilation of artists on Jennifer Cardini's label)

the underachievers indigoism

Oh, also been watching this video which I seriously never thought I'd never live to see and which is way better quality than I hoped (not saying it's great, but I expected much worse). Yes, that's Mark Ibold playing bass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7pwMe3eAhi4

listening to this this morning -- http://theworldsamess.blogspot.com/2013/04/stupefied-dean-wareham-playlist.html
pretty groovy soundtrack mix from dean wareham.

MIles Davis Bootleg series vol 2 European Tour '69
got some really great material on here, only got through 1st 2 cds so far but great find on Amazon at 1/2 price.
Think that was just a matter of luck, though I'd been kicking myself for missing a bargain copy on the marketplace. Not sure what determines what & when Amazo0n has sudden price drops on. Just glad I was looking at this when i was.
Pre-electric apart from Chick Corea but swinging between out there, funkyness and a few standards they were still playing. Not listened to In A Siklent Way in a while so not sure how recognisable these versions are of the songs that were heavily edited for that release. It's About That Time retains a classic hook. Also the Bitches brew material is here sans guitar though I don't think it misses it, even if that was Mclaughlin
So great set, very worth getting. 3cds & a dvd if you're not familiar with it.

Nancy Sinatra Lightning's Girl
Been wanting this for ages and stumbled aupon a reasonably cheap copy online. It's been OOP for a few years and I think price has been rising. Anyway I think this is the best cd compi of her work I've come across. Raven put some great compis together.
Surprised from looking at the photos in the booklet that she looks a lot more like her father than I'd previously noticed. May just be I have only seen her from certain angles and its the face on that really has her looking lke a Young Blue Eyes.
Anyway, classic material, contains most of the better duet stuff I'm aware of with Lee Hazlewood in a great big clump 10 or 2 tracks together.

Truth and Janey No Rest For The wicked
overdriven mid 70s psychedelic dunt. Great lp with a pretty great sleeve too.

Vertical Slit UNder the Blood Red Lava Lamp
Think this may be one of my favourite bands of all time, though it's a major shame there isn't more material by them around. Tangible amounts of distortion in the guitar leads are somewhat reminiscent of Chrome I find but this band seems to be as original otherwise.
Not sure if there is in fact anything by these readily available though finding this cheap last year was a knockout. Couldn't find my previous copy and had just been getting into them cos I had dubbed the cd to Sonicstage a few years ago then transferred all that material to my walkman so it was turning up at random and I was going, need to hear all that lp together.

Watching
Dans La Maison
French film about the travails of encouraging promising teenage pupils. Pretty good I thought. Hope it doesn't get taken to Hollywood and dumbed down or anything.

Spring Breakers
not 100% about this, it has some good bits and some that are pushing the bounds of credibility.

Various British tv drama
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, spy
great late 70s version with Alec Guinness, Hywel Bennet, Ian Bannen etc. seems pretty true to the novel though it's been an age since I read that.

The Borgias The 1981 version
Court shenanigans with a rich Spanish fanmily in medieval Italy and elsewhere. Very well done
took me checking who people were on IMDB to recognise who was playing Rodrigo the father figure then it became obvious every time you see him. Think there was a good 13 years or so between the Bond film and this and he seems to be twice his size.
Aloso think I('ve seen the actor who plays Cesare in a number of things though in this he seems especially moody.
People said this was a worthy follow up to I, Caligula which I watched a couple of weeks back. Think it might even feature a couple of the same people in minor roles.

Edge Of Darkness
1985 tv series later made into a film by the same director starring Mel Gibson, which I haven't seen but might check out since it's the same director.
Dark story of a police chief who's either losing his mind or genuinely beinghanted by his daughter who dies at the beginning of the series. She was working on activist work which he starts looking into. Good series.

Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds/Blue Yusef/Golden Flute/Gentle Giant/Cranbrook
Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
Stacey Barthe - In the Inbetween
Brandy - Two Eleven
Jusmoni X Wd4d - Queen Feel
David Bowie - The Next Day
James Blake - Overgrown
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
Disclosure - Control
about 200 Blog rap tracks
Jungle Brothers - Crazy Wisdom Masters
Timbo and Crew - Da Bassment Demo Tape
Ricardo Villalobos - Dependant and Happy
Shackleton - The Drawbar Organ EP
The Underachievers - Indigoism

and the jai paul soundcloud thing

DJ Sprinkles/VA, Where Dancefloors Stand Still
Mano le tough, Changing Days
CW Stoneking, Jungle Blues
Sparks, 2 hands 1 mouth
Wadada Leo Smith, 10 Freedom Summers
Tim Hecker, Ravedeath 1972

had to jam cul de sac's "dust of butterflies": every now & then get one of those peculiar itches that only cul de sac can scratch, this song is a 5 minute intro to a 5 minute outro, so languid, perfect.

Art-pop ballads, slower sometimes than I usually like, and some of this took a while, but each track has elements which engaged me right away (and enough others quickly enough), instrumentally and lyrically, winning me over long before the first spin was over.Early on, she mentions "Tried to write the perfect song/Then I realized/It wasn't mine", just at the right time--it is hers, but a little reminiscent of something or other---maybe just a breezy moment that feels too easy, not quite earned yet. So, on with the show, which risks seeming too absorbed in contemplation of the love object and lessons learned, but hey. She's always got another good line, like "take my heart, but not my soul", and another trace of springtime lightning spilling out of her sleeve. Not quite like anything else I've heard---maybe if Joan Armatrading--oh never mind--just check it out while it's still here:
http://www.npr.org/2013/04/14/176596473/first-listen-laura-mvula-sing-to-the-moon#playlist

It sounds like this looks: straight ahead, just not at us:
http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2013/04/08/lauramvula_nyc_516_rt_hi_res_wide-846b0bf45f7530dbdec5e1317f478314a8e0d389-s40.jpg

(That's her, Laura Mvula)

Mvula's good stuff; i imagine she'll break big in the US this year or next

segue - grey
voices from the lake - s/t
v/a - royal court music of thailand (folkways)
todd terje - ragysh
demdike stare - elemental
atom heart - 1i3835tra3um3
vladislav delay - ele
dj koze - kosi comes around
loscil - coast/range/arc
untold - little things like that/bachelor's delight
theo parrish - parallel dimensions
shinichi atobe - ship-scope

Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement (still into Blackest Ever Black even though it's spring)

some recent lissnin

Sainte Anthony's Fyre s/t
pretty stunningly great early 70s heavily syncopated dunt. Bits of the bass
playing wouldn't be out of place on a Curtis Mayfield lp.
Band was as heavy as the Mc5 or Blue Cheer or pretty much anybody. They were
offered major label deals which they turned down out of loyalty to management
who would have been replaced. Subsequently this is their only extant recording
recorded cheaply and somewhat crudely and it shows, though their playing does
shine through.
I think this is pretty essential if you're into early 70s hard rock at all. Seen
this described as not showing much psychedelic sound which I think I'd tend to
disagree with, can't really hear music like this without thinking of the 'delic.
Rockadrome Vintage reissued it a few months ago in great sound. I think they're
a label worth checking out .

Nancy Sinatra Lightning's Girl
The Raven compi which I've wanted for years but it went OOP & I stupidly didn't
grab when copies were around town. Not sure if that was a price thing or just
procrastination. Thought the price was rising on online copies then recently saw
this at what I would bewilling to pay for a current release new, so grabbed it.
Anyway I think it does have most of the essential material on it including the
Bond theme You ONly LIve Twice; duet with dad Something Stupid and 10 duets with
Lee Hazlewood which I think include all the essential ones plus one or 2 I
didn't previously have. (The original Nancy & Lee lp is about half throw away as
far as I can see, think it did manage to about split that so side 2 was the
essential surreal psyychedelic country stuff and side 1 mainly MOR covers but
it's been a while since I had a copy of the lp)
Anyway if you haven't got the material she cut with Lee Hazlewood I think your
collection has a hole in it that needs remedying, but make sure that is the
Sand/Some Velvet Morning/Ladybird etc etc stuff they cut with Billy Strange
orchestration/guitar playing, not the straighter MOR stuff though you can't miss
Johnny Cash's Jackson which is great by them.

Paul Ngozi Ghetto
Zam-rock superstar's fuzz drenched mid 70s lp

Troyka
a bunch of ex-patriot eastern europeans move to Canada and record this
semi-instrumental heavy lp in the early 70s. Band are great instrumenatlists but
don't seem to be overly confident about their vocals leaving the lp moving
between instrumenat tracks and what seem to be spoof vocals so it was thought
this was a joke lp. Pretty great stoner stuff anyway.

Truth & Janey No Rest For the Wicked
mid 70s primitive power trio heaviosity. Nice sloppy playing makes this more
redolent of mid 60s stuff tahn the era it was recorded in.
Don't think I'm very hot on the vocals though.

Monster Magnet live sets from '91 & '92
Stoner rock precursors from the early 90s. The '91 was a pretty quiet recording,
'92 much better.
Had just read an interview with teh gutarist that was reprinted in the latest
edition of Optical Sounds. Think I should know the band better but what I picked
up on cd so far has been after their psychedelic peak when they'd become more
maionstream sounding cock rock and hadn't really thrilled me. I think the really
interesting stuff is first couple of lps and eps.

Dead Sea Apes Astral House
Atmospheric instrumental band's limited edition ep of which there are about 40
copies left according to one of their members. I got interested in them again
from reading Optical Sounds
http://deadseaapes.bandcamp.com/album/astral-house
looked them up on Bandcamp and was thinking of buying the lp they put out last
year Lupus but then grabbed this.
Astral House just seems to be a lot more in your face and punchy, Lupuis more
creepy.
So far I've only been able to listen to the Astral House set as the fee download
flac yu get when you buy the thing but cd should hopefully arrive this week

Black Flag 2x MId '83 live sets
Just before Chuck Dukowski left, playing material spread between several tracks
better known by the later Kira Roessler line up but demoed by the 5 piece aqlso
including Dez Cadena on 2nd gutar. Spread between tracks from then and ones from
earlier in theri career when thety were more hardcore sounding. Very intense but
probably a bit faster tahn with Roessler, not sure though. Does sound pretty
similar in fact. Maybe basslines will stand out a bit more with repeated
listening.
Some people think that Chuck Dukowski was the band's heart but my favourite
recording of tehm has tended to be the Marquee '84 set my friend recorded.

Grateful Dead 10/12/68
Mickey Hart had been in the band for a bit over a year so the rhythmic
complexity had upped a bit. I love the steamroller heaviosity of a lot of '68
Dead and this is a great set.

Sun Ra live '75
seems to start very jump/swing jazz before Gilmore starts overblowing uite a bit
at the end of tracks and they get progressively out.

Etron Fou Leloublan 2x 80s sets
guitarless French avant group I guess they're RIO.
A buit difficult listening but quite fun.

Far East Family Band Nipponjin
I'm just discovering how good these are and wondering if anybody has a decent
affordable cd version, were they put out by Universal japan or anybody. Don't
really want to touch Phoenix or aanybody from the Radioactive stable with a
bargepole so may just stick with audio files. Wouldn't mind getting decent cds
though.

reading

Joseph Conrad Lord Jim
I've had an omnibus collection of about 5 of his books out of the library for
qu9te a while and keep meaning to get back to it but getting otherwise
distracted. Reading this I'm bombarded with images of Peter O'Toole from the
film version running through my head, so wishing I could disconnect from
pre-scribed images and invent my own. But great writing as is probably true
throughout Conrad.
Lord Jim himself seems to be a somewhat unlucky sailior who is torturing himself
over the memory of a boat he abandoned along with its native passengers when he
thought it was sinking. From what I've read most recently he seems to think he
was judged badly for it but seems to be in the minority in thinking that, but it
is the driving motivation for his moves around the Pacific.

Optical Sounds #5
great psychedelic fanzine out of Manchester ( I think) put out by the same
people who do the Cardinal FUzz label. Has turned me on to a number of newer
psychedelic bands I'm not sure I'd be aware of otherwise.
Seems to come out somewhat intermittently but is wel worth getting when it does.
THinking of psychedelic zines there are new editions of both Flashback! and Ugly
Things coming out over the next month or so.

watching
Elizabeth R
cloassic '71 BBC tv serial tracing the life of Elizabeth I, here played by
Glenda Jackson with a supporting cast of somewhat familiar faces. Not sure if
that just shows my age though. Very well done I thought.

THe Upsetter Life & mUsic of Lee Perry
Very good doc on Jamaican artist and producer showing some footage of and around
the Black Ark. Think this might be a must watch for anybody interested in the
artist. Could do with something similar on other dub pioneers.

Room 237
a documentarty looking into various theories behind the placing of mise en scene
etc objects in Kubrick's The Shining. Since it has been documented elsewhere the
extent to which Kubrick placed items for their hidden meaning it has been
thought taht what is here almost certainly denotes something worth looking into.
So there are theories here about possibility of themes about the genocide of
native Americans, Jews in the Holocaust, the faking of the moonlanding which
Kubrick is supposed to have filmed. Alongside another couple of interpretations.
Interesting film.

Our Friends in the North
So far watched through the 60s episodes, the 1st 3 in the series. Found it very
good. Interesting to see actors possibly better known for other things, Dr Who &
Bond in particular before they were considered for the roles. I still can't
quite place where I know the actress who plays Mary from but her face really
rings a bell from somewhere.
Will be continuing with these very shortly, probably should be revising for CAD
exams this week though

Dans La Maison
nice French film about the travails of mentoring promising students.

Stevo

last night, live:
Michel Portal & Bojan Z
Fabrizio Bosso Quartet (accompanying/ improvising to Dino Risi's 1962 'cult movie' "Il sorpasso“)

tonight, live:
Hedvig Hanson Group
Claudia Aurora

- at Jazzkaar Festival in Tallinn:)

Harvey Milk - Brown Milk
MC Eiht - Where U Goin 2
NHT Boyz - C.A.B.
Prince - Alphabet St
George Benson - Love X Love
Onyx - Throw Ya Gunz
Iman Omari - Worth It
Paramore - Aint It Fun
Fiend - The Have Nots
Uptown XO - Spread Love

June Tabor, Iain Ballamy, Huw Warren - Quercus

i've been listening to promiscuous girl a lot

it was popular when i was in high school but at the time i thought it was stupid. i was into pink floyd back then.

am almost embarrassed how much shoegazer revival I've been into.

Sulk - Graceless (lots of Jesus & Mary Chain on this)
Prince - all the bootlegged material from his stand at the Dakota jazz bar is awesome
Little Green Cars - Absolute Zero
Wire - Change Becomes Us
Ashley Monroe - Like a Rose
Valerie June - Pushin Against a Stone
Dead Leaf Echo
No Joy - Wait To Pleasure

Pretty & Nice - Golden Rules for Golden People (mostly one song, Mummy Jets, over and over)

panzerpappa - astromalist
amor de dias - the house at sea
endless boogie - long island
david grubbs - the plain where the palace stood
motorpsycho - still life with eggplant
bardo pond - rise above it all
stephen malkmus - ege bamyasi
os mutantes - fool metal jacket
steven wilson - the raven that refused to sing
benoit pioulard - hymnal
nadia sirota - baroque
connections - private airplane
kurt vile - wakin on a pretty daze
fleetwood mac - extended play
the kingsbury manx - bronze age
wolf people - fain
thee oh sees - floating coffin

Com Truise -- Decay (totally slept on this guy/lost him in the mix of chillwave bands with dumb 80s names)
Lindstrom - Smallhans
Starker/Sebok -- Prokoviev, Kodaly, Martinu
Eugene McDaniels - Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse
Gal Costa - s/t
the Arik Einstein kids album

I have become a total prog nurd or at least reverted to one in the past week or two. I watched again those BBC4 documentaries on Prog Rock Brittania and Krautrock which with recent listening for the last couple of months primed further interest.

Tangerine Dream- The Virgin Years 74-78 & 77-83 (all but the soundtracks of that time)
Van der graaf Generator- Aerosol Gray Machine, Godbluff, H to He Who Am the Only One
Genesis- Trespass & Selling England by the Pound
ELP- Pictures at an Exhibition & Trilogy
LZ- Coda, IV & I
Dungen- Skit I Allt & 4
Pink Floyd- Atom Heart Mother & David Gilmour's first solo record
Queen- I, II, News of the World & Sheer Heart Attack
Neu!- Neu! & Neu! 2

Grimes - Visions and the one with d'eon
Animal Collective - Centipede HZ... this album is addictive to me
Bob Dylan - At Budokan... most joyful album. it confuses me but i love it.
Dirty Projectors - the newer one and the last one. The clean production is refreshing compared to a lot of the indie i listen to.
Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas, I like to put Blues in Dallas on repeat and cry sometimes
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate, see above but with Famous Blue Raincoat
Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly, I like sad music

2013 LPs I'm digging so far:

Coliseum - Sister Faith
No Joy - Wait To Pleasure
The Deer Tracks - The Archer Trilogy, Pt. 3
Jacco Gardner - Cabinet Of Curiosities
Veronica Falls - Waiting For Something To Happen
Baptists - Bushcraft
Still Corners - Strange Pleasures
Young Galaxy - Ultramarine
Ghost B.C. - Infestissumam
Mazes - Ores & Minerals
Ulrich Schnauss - A Long Way To Fall
Lusine - The Waiting Room
Blue Hawaii - Untogether
Girls Names - The New Life
Rainbow Arabia - F.M. Sushi
Karl Bartos - Off The Record
The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
The Flaming Lips - The Terror
Suede - Bloodsports
Steve Mason - Monkey Minds In Devil's Time
Savages - Silence Yourself
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - English Electric
My Bloody Valentine - m b v
Hookworms - Pearl Mystic
Depeche Mode - Delta Machine
David Bowie - The Next Day

that's a good list turrican. this is a good year for new albums by older/"legacy" artists.

Yeah, I completely agree... it's been a great year for returning "legacy" artists: Suede, Bowie, Depeche, OMD etc. etc. - Wire put out a good record too, and apparently Edwyn Collins has one out too (although I haven't heard it yet). But I think 2013 is shaping up to be a good year for music in general... I've consciously tried to do my research this year and to make an attempt at checking out as much as I possibly can on Spotify etc. and I've been very surprised at the amount of quality that's out there at the moment... and we're not even halfway through the year yet! I suspect my End Of Year ballot is going to be super difficult to put together when it comes to it.

colin stetson - new one, ~let there be light
dedalus, beuger, & frey (potlach)
stephen cornford & samuel rodgers - boring embroidery (cathnor)
bibio - new one
TM404

Okay, add: Youth Lagoon - Wondrous Bughouse to that list.

the art of david tudor 7 CD box
daft punk - live even furthur 1996

Team Spirit - Team Spirit EP (It has a song called Fuck the Beach that almost earns its title)

Natalie Maines--Mother Philosophical/romantic/musical companionship on the fly (as much momentum as a midtempo set is ever gonna get), as she pushes herself out of the nest, finds exhilaration and ongoing inner/outer struggle--that increasingly familiar bed "down at the Silver Bell," around a couple of hairpin turns, sounds like, can be like a prison cell, if you draw the shades down just little too far, and yet maybe that's part of the appeal, the kink of it (thought of this again watching latest Mad Men ep, re Draper finally getting too greedy up at the Sherry-Netherland). "Vein in Vain" is even worse than its title, but otherwise she unerringly selects, sequences and sonically illuminates songs written by singers who don't get to me very often: Vedder, Waters, Jeff Buckley, Jayhawks, her co-composer/producer/accompanist Ben Harper, for that matter, Not that Harper and his crew sail jangle 'n' drone right on through 60s/70s (and Dixie Chicks) nostalgia, almost as unlikely as aforementioned midtempo momentum, in my experience.
"Mother" teaches me not to stumble over somewhat Spinal Tappy verses, on the way to what she makes into a glorious chorus--okay, Waters redeems himself here as a writer, but she sings it as a self-aware mother and daughter "Mother's gonna put all of her fears into you", climbing to "safe and warm", which have never been further, in awestruck, scary beauty (thee sublime, ay), from "comfortably numb." So now it also honors what Waters may have been glossing: Larkin's "They fuck you up, mum and dad/They may not mean to but they do/They fill you up with all the faults they had/And add some just for you/As they were fucked up in their turn/By fools in old-style hats and coats"--get back, Daddy Pink!. "Trained", with Harper as Jagger to Maines' Michael or Janet, doesn't even need a literal cowbell to be an effective answer song. "Lover, You Should Have Come Over" is the swoonworthy extended killer, and she does respect Buckley's original rendition when she should, without imitating his Son of Tim acrobatics. "Come Crying To Me" (which didn't make it onto the last Dixie Chicks album, amazingly enough, so maybe the extended hiatus is well-desserved) here is like the Pretenders covering Tom Petty, in a really great way, though could well imagine it as some kind of "Rollin' In The Deep" radio OD. "Free Life" is another cumulative dazzler.

SHIT! Harper and his crew DO sail jangle 'n' drone right on through 60s/70s (and Dixie Chicks) nostalgia, I meant to say! Sorry!

Also, re illumination respect, etc., several of these could and prob should fit the Dixie Chicks, so not like a rawk-off to them or their still-loyal fans.

Savages--classic or cliche? Both, maybe, but I'd go see 'em. Pref in a club; anything larger would put too much of that old Mercury Prize spotlight heat on simply digging this approach made fresh again, for the moment. The lyrics might indeed be deep, but this hot audio-video mini-set (my first exposure)is all about the perfectly timed ensemble rush:
http://www.npr.org/event/music/184349634/savages-elegant-brutality-rendered-anything-but-silent

okay dow THANK YOU SO MUCH for that link, wow

Just got this link to Source Family documentary soundtrack. Drag City encourages us to post, review, and even listen, which I'm about to do--it'll be streaming 'til May 21 CD release: http://boingboing.net/2013/05/15/free-stream-the-source-family.html

yeah savages sound pretty good

Bumping this to ask if there's anything released in the last week or so that people are listening to that they feel is much cop?

This morning:

REM - Monster
Koreless - tracks on his Soundcloud (Yügen tracks were uploaded 6 days ago)
Milton Babbitt - "Philomel" (always knocks me out)

(Yügen tracks were uploaded 6 days ago)

Plan to buy this when I get my next paycheque.

Love that new Stetson btw.

romanthony - the wanderer
round one through five comp
brock van wey (bvdub) - white clouds float on and on
head high - burning
luke hess - light in the dark
dj rashad - teklife vol 1
tetsu inoue - ambiant otaku
emptyset - medium
shifted - the cold light eps
donato dozzy - acid test 3
model 500 - starlight remixes
omar-s - it can be done, but only i can do it

I have got that Luke Hess one on my shopping list, Keep On was one of my faves from last year.

Is that a new Inoue?

old - his first iirc!

Orjan Sandred - Cracks and Corrosion no 2 (for guitar and live electronics)

Sounding good. Will bring this up on the rolling classical thread.

Benjamin Thigpen
Luke Hess - Ekstrakt Podcast
Dinosaur Jr - "Little Fury Things", "Sludgefeast"
Lightning Bolt - Oblivion Hunter

Daft Punk - Homework / RAM
Distal - Vampire Lightning
Brad Paisley - Wheelhouse
John Coltane - Ole Coltrane
The Woolen Man - s/t
Rhye - Woman
Cameo - Cardiac Arrest
Pistol Annie - Annie Up
Ghetto Brothers - Power Fuerza
John Talabot - Fin, My Old School, Sunshine remixes
Junip - s/t
Beak> - >>
If This Is House I Want My Money Back compilation 1/2
Stacy Barthe - P.S. I Love You
Xenia Rubinos - Magic Trix
Jessie Ware - Devotion
Soema Montenegro - Passionaria
Django Django - s/t
Elle Varner - Perfectly Imperfect
A Hawk and A Hacksaw - Cervantine
Demi Lovato - Demi
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes
Electric Light Orchestra - Flashback
Laura Smith and Virginia Liston - Queens of the Southern Blues

Klaatu's "Dear Christine," the first single from Sir Army Suit. The thing is almost all chorus and beautiful production. (Have a download of, I think, the most recent remaster.)

The Ex & Brass Unbound, Enormous Door

a good 'un.

I got to give it up for (Avila)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn26P7ZDOOo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn26P7ZDOOo

boc - tomorrow's harvest
romanthony - romanworld
geinou yamashirogumi - ecophony rinne
hieroglyphic being - imaginary soundscapes
v.a. - the rough guide to bollywood
grimes - visions
ceephax acid crew - s.t.
bola - fyuti

Ms. Jody
Sista Monica
Buika
Julieta Venegas
Fantasia

Been listening to The Monk Quartet's studio albums and so far the pick of the bunch is Monk's Dream. There are a couple of beautiful solo tracks + Bright Mississippi and Sweet And Lovely are exceptional.

Guitar rock day:
Deafhaven - Sunbather
Deathspell Omega - Paralectum, Drought
Blut Aus Nord - 777: Cosmosophy
Slowdive - Souvlaki, Pygmalion (Getting into these guys 20 years late!)
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating into Space

Every Riad El Sonbaty recording on Spotify. I'm amazed I still have some material of his on CD that is not included here. Amazed because he wasn't primarily a recording artist per se.

stuff for ILM polls

Emergency! Otomo Yoshihide etc in avant metallic jazz meets rock band recorded live in Japan 10 years ago. Interesting that the material that they are playing consists of 50s and 60s jazz. Think it was done really well and I'd love to hear more of it.

Matching mole s/t
Don't know why I didn't pick this up when I was getting into the 2nd lp Little Red Record, has some great chunky work outs in amongst the deconstructionist lyrics.

Cult of Dom Keller
great UK drone psych band who just put out a cd through Cardinal Fuzz.

\
new
old
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woe - withdrawal
cassie - rockabyebaby
deafheaven - sunbather
paysage d'hiver - das tor
magic circle - magic circle
laura marling - i was an eagle
pete swanson - punk authority
beastwars - blood becomes fire
kurt vile - wakin on a pretty daze
josé james - no beginning no end
altar of plagues - teethed glory and injury
kacey musgraves - same trailer, different park
alasdair roberts & friends - a wonder working stone
dexys midnight runners - searching for the young soul rebels
howlin' wolf - the real folk blues / more real folk blues
divine fits - a thing called divine fits
krallice - dimensional bleedthrough
daniel bachman - oh be joyful
rose kemp - golden shroud
weakling - dead as dreams
v/a - philadelphia roots
pan sonic - katodivaihe
christicide - christicide
ebo taylor - life stories
TRU - TRU 2 da game
sam rivers - contours
the breeders - lsxx
yes - fragile

TRU - TRU 2 da game

one of the best no limit releases

http://soundcloud.com/honeysoundsystem/kit-clayton-live-at-honey
art of david tudor
don slepian - sonic perfume
hayato aoki - morning july
charlie parker 47-53
nasa symphonies of the planets
british library - rainforest requiem
bernard fort - nocturnal concerts of the world - 1

Over the next month it will be mostly:

Alison Moyet - The Minutes
Black Sabbath - 13
Boards Of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Surfer Blood - Pythons
Camera Obscura - Desire Lines
Big Deal - June Gloom
Kylesa - Ultraviolet
Blood Ceremony - The Eldritch Dark
Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs - Clarietta
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Saturday Looks Good To Me - One Kiss Ends It All
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Mind Control
ADULT. - The Way Things Fall
Wampire - Curiosity
ASG - Blood Drive

UK dance/pop apparently.

Luke Hess is great Sunday morning, dub techno hangover recovery music, been rotating the hell out of his Light In The Dark and Keep On albums.

Neil young & Crazy horse Secc Glasgow 13th June
great grungey material do wish that word didn't directly connect to th eseattle scene cos it does firt here perfectly. Currently got a long version of Fuckin Up playing, lasts 17 minutes. Shows he/they still has it anyway

17 Pygmies Hatvika/Jedda BY tHe Sea
been wanting the lp for years. Think I already hada version of the e.p. on a late 80s/early 90s cd
The bomptempiesque 3rd track on the e.p. is growing on me.

Toumani Diabate & the Symmetric Orchestra Boulevard de L'independance
love this group, the live stuff I have by them is also very good. I always find something really psychedelic about the music from West Africa, possibly something to do with the tuning.
Got to get the Kenya Special set which is supposed to be as good but from the otherside of the continent. Where my dad comes from.

Rolling Stones Out of Our Heads (U.S.)
their lp most releveant to the garage scene in the mid 60s? & one of the more iconic lps of taht period in those terms. Think I prefer my garage influenced by Them, The Pretty Things & the Yardbirds though. Maybe the Small Faces though not sure to which level they figured then, were certainly a big influence 10 years later.
Still not sure how i feel about the TS Stones Jones vs Taylor eras though. Did grow up through a mod influence which made the earlier stuff more relevant but think I might fall for the later 60s/early 70s stuff now. Anyway the band was good up to Exile so worth listening to.

scorcher after scorcher in my neck of the woods.

right about now:

http://www.soundstagedirect.com/media/gigi_gryce_rat_race.jpg

7-15 to 7-21:
Roadsaw- See You In Hell
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats- Blood Lust
Pink Floyd- Obscurred by Clouds
ZZ Top- Rio Grande Mud
Gov’t Mule- Georgia Bootleg Box (D2)
Pretty Things, The- Savage Eye
UFO- 73 to 79 (D1)
Clutch- Jam Room
Church, The- Priest = Aura
Gov’t Mule- Georgia Bootleg Box (D3)
Can- Unlimited Edition
Prophet, Chuck- Age of Miracles
Spirit Caravan- Dreamwheel
Hawkwind- Live at Lewisham 1980 (D1)
Bloodrock- 2
Blue Cheer- Outsideinside
Hendrix, Jimi- Live at Berkeley
Savoy Brown- Street Corner Talking
Queen- Queen
Kadavar- Kadavar
Small Faces- Small Faces (1967 s/t)
Graveyard- Lights Out

for whatever reason, i have been listening to nothing but demdike stare's triptych and oneohtrix point never's rifts for a couple weeks now. that and NPR.

various kassem mosse
deepchord - vantage isle
sensate focus
octo octa - "I can feel you - dub"
zoviet france - a flock of rotations
boards of canada - tomorrow's harvest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlMrT0HSzY4

nice stuff wolves

oh thanks, I have noticed we have a few things in common. cheers!

in this heat i've gone all easy.

easy access orchestra, aka herbaliser live band - riviera royale
the kaminsky experience - in flight/further in flight (compilations of brilliant off the beaten track loungecore grooves)
birds-n-brass - soundsational
hotel easy - playmates penhouse/pacos poolside bar (bunch of late 90s studio boffs who made retro e-z sounds .. very authentic sounding, and a lot of fun)
hugo montenegro - moog power (cover alone is worth entry price)

perfect to 'glow' along to ..

Thao and the Get Down Stay Down - We The Common
Audacity - Mellow Cruisers
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Black Francis - The Golem

^ audacity album is great, as per

Yeah, I really dig it too. Melodic, catchy pop punk, a bit raw.

not sure i like it quite as much as power drowning (which i've played nearly to death over the last few years), but they're one of my favorite rock bands going atm. hell of fun live.

http://i.imgur.com/f2JgJXe.jpg

almunia - pulsar
mushrooms project - undergrass
club 8 - above the city
after dark 2
jessie ware - devotion
wire - pink flag
young galaxy - ultramarine
django reinhardt
glenn jones - my garden state
chuck johnson - crows in the basilica
nathan salsburg - affirmed
shirley and dolly collins - anthems of eden

The language proved not nearly as much of a barrier as it might have, mainly cos I can tell all the tracks apart right off, not a given to this non-ethnomusicologist, even w that Mali vibe. So, so far this is my guitar album of the year, even though it's generated by little ol' electrified lutes (which also provide sufficient bass), looking like something from the local produce market. Sharp-edged and fluid as wine, elegant yet never pissy, drawing rough-edged male and bold female vocals into further focus, landing and spinning on a dime, at times, but nothing too showy. Wonder if they ever work with drummers? Sneaky grooves anyway. Audio, video etc.:
http://www.outhere.de/homeroots/releases/bassekou-kouyate-ngoni-ba-jama-ko/

bassekou is a badass

Ghaneli Sheway Sheway
Habibi Yes'ed Awqati

Dawn Of Midi - Dysnomia

If you are eagerly awaiting the new Necks album next month you definitely need to check this out.

holydrug couple
andy kaufman

Creedence Clearwater Revival Green River. Classic lp, do wish the bonus tracks were from the same year as the lp instead of 2 years later. They were pretty great live in '69 as several boots I may still have somewhere show. By '71 I think they'd lost a member.
Lp itself is stil most chooglesome even if songs are getting shorter than they had been. Wish I could find my copy of Bayou Country from the same series but not seen it in ages, it may have shacked up under my bed with my old copy of Bo Diddley's rave compi Tales From the funk Dimension.

Butthole Surfers Hairway to Steven
This is the only Latino Bugger veil cd I have by them. I'm wondering if the sound is much improved on other versions? It being the band sanctioned one & all. Think most of the lps are also outon cd by Blast First still. & while with most bands I would tend to go for their own label version I think they had just messed up Touch & Go prior to setting that label up.
Anyway, interesting take on a lotof early 70s influences channeled through a punk and lsd fielled mindset with gibby's amazingly poetic nonsense lyrics over the top. Do the songs all have official English language titles now or is everything still just based on choruses and translations of the pictorial ones?

Sun Ra Sunrise in Different Dimesions
a mostly acoustic set from Switzerland in 1980 with a lot of standards stretched out. Nice lp aklso been grooving on a more electric 1976 live set which I think came from France.

Buzzcocks various bits and pieces. I wanted to have another listen to the more experimental side of their music since I'd just had somebody attempt to tell me it didn't exist. I had thought it had derived influence from Krautrock, possibly bung in bits of beefheart and a few other things to that.
Certainly don't see them as a 2 dimensional pop-punk band. But apparrently Steve Shelley isn't remotely arty an d its very naughty to think of him as anything else than attempting to get on TOTP. Historical revisionism is so enlightening isn't it?

Van Dyke Parks Song Cycle
All 3 of the early solo lps by VDP turned up in a local shop at reduced priceso I picked up the first 2. I kind of like thsi but can also see what the reviews I read of it not actually having tunes are coming from. Seems to be quite melodic in places but it jumps around so erratically that actual possession of memorable tunes you could take away with you isn't realy what it does. I was reminded of Jim O'Rourke while listening to this and wondered if he had taken a cited influence from here while actually doing something about coherency of tunes. Which lead me to wondering if there had been successful covers of any tracks on this record which actually left them somewhat coherent.

Saints Prehistoric Sounds
the lp that had Kuepper most in charge and has him trying out the idea of a horn section which he continued with Laughing Clowns. Great lp, I thin I've heard echoes of it in other music probably also from Australia from the early 80s. The interesting thing may be that the horns that Kuepper was listening to outside the band seem to have been a lot more New Thing Jazz orientated than most rock bands augmented by horns have been and they have a more integral role than others might have used them for. This is on the All Times Through Paradise box set cd so winds up with the live at Paddington Town Hall set following a few songs afterwards, pretty visceral.

Kidnap Kid is so great. It's like, where did he spring up from so fully formed?

been listening to last year's secret circuit album which sounds peculiarly like late 90s cul de sac

Christopher Willits - Tiger Flower Circle Sun
Wayne Shorter - Native Dancer

i listened to that willits some the year it came out, there was something refreshing about it.

Borden, Ferraro, Godin, Halo & Lopatin - FRKWYS Vol. 7
Main - Motion Pool
Otis G Johnson - God is Love '78
Numero 040 - Good God! Aprocryphal Hymns

I was only recently tipped off to Willits. He might be my new favourite artist.

run the jewels
witherscape

Berger Rond - En dehors de tout
Mae Shi Mix Tape
Boards of Canada - Random 35 Track Tape (might be my favorite of theirs)
Stan Kenton plays Bob Graettinger - City of Glass / This Modern World
Ajoy Chakraborty - BBC sessions
Easley Blackwood - Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media
NASA Symphonies of the Planets

digging this franklin the flirt, by porches. hazy, stoner vibe.

Ikonika
M. Geddes Gengras
The National Jazz Trio of Scotland
Silver Sepp
V/A - The Outer Church
Lawrence English
Bombillaz
Danny Kirwan

Wishbone Ash - s/t
Ulver - Childhood's End
Christian Mistress - Agony and Opium
The Band - s/t

Ikonika
M. Geddes Gengras

Also: Julia Holter, Julianna Barwick, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Stax stuff.

M. Geddes Gengras

Saw this guy play recently - he is/was a touring member of Akron/Family and did a solo support slot too. I'm not much of a fan of A/F's jam band thing but Geddes Gengras was absolutely awesome. Totally music for rearranging yr brain but instead of vigorously smashing it to pieces like someone like Container does, he gently stretches and teases it apart like so much hot mozzarella.

I'm using the silly putty model of neurophysiology there obv.

69 - adventures of a filter king
macintosh plus - FLOWER SHOPPE
18 carat affair - 60/40 (prob the best of all the vape-wave related stuff i've heard)
rod modell - little white earbuds mix
muslimgauze - izlamaphobia
cassegrain - tiamat (sandwell district/donato dozzy/ostgut ton-type dub techno)
the first disc from celestial harmonies's "music of islam" series
samuil feinberg playing bach from the "russian piano school" box
julia holter - loud city song
richard pinhas - chronolyse

ive not heard feinberg recordings, i like his own piano sonatas

i think a lot of them are his own transcriptions. i haven't heard his music but i assume it's in the post scriabin roslavets/stanchinsky/virtuosic vein?

yeah roslavets is close i think

#6 is the one that both schoenberg and stravinsky liked

neat, can't slsk it atm but wrote it down for later

radar bros
la otracina
endless boogie
hairy chapter
crumbling ghost
michael chapman

Suuns - Images Du Futur, which may be a Clinic rip, but it's a great one
Clinic - Free Reign II, which may be a Clinic remix, but it's better than the original
The Janitors - First Sign of Delirium, which may be a Spacemen 3/J&MC rip from a few years ago, but it's insanely great

Babi - Botanical
Jessy Lanza - Pull My Hair Back
Meridian Brothers - Devoción

Free Reign II rules. Their best since Internal Wrangler.

Stan Kenton plays Bob Graettinger - City of Glass / This Modern World
Think it was the novelist Robert Stone who mentioned this as an LSD fave for him, Kesey etc in 50s. Can see why, judging by CD I have, The Complete City of Glass: skyscrapers of phosphorescence , etc, even without acid. What did you think, Milton?

Boards of Canada - Random 35 Track Tape (might be my favorite of theirs)

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, August 20, 2013 3:26 PM

what tape is this?

a tape of outtakes from various eras — some of them sound as old as "boc maxima", others sound like dry runs for geogaddi tracks. lots of gorgeous stuff — probably not my favorite by them but it's compulsively listenable.

I decided the other day that I'm going to listen to all of Miles Davis' records, live and studio, in sequence from 1951-1975.

Today I'm up to 1956 (Collectors' Items with Sonny Rollins).

Stephane Grappelli ftw

Stan Kenton plays Bob Graettinger - City of Glass / This Modern World
Think it was the novelist Robert Stone who mentioned this as an LSD fave for him, Kesey etc in 50s. Can see why, judging by CD I have, The Complete City of Glass: skyscrapers of phosphorescence , etc, even without acid. What did you think, Milton?

― dow, Thursday, September 5, 2013 2:01 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I pretty much love this. Noir jazz with the Webern / atonal inputs turned up to surreal levels. Graettinger really knew what he was doing, and it's amazing to hear such a huge band, this well recorded, nailing works this difficult.

George Russell - "A Bird In Igor's House"
Ingram Marshall - The Fragility Cycles
Richard & Linda Thompson - Hokey Pokey
Ocora / Africa Madagascar - Pays Antanosy
Marvin Gaye - Here, My Dear
Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Alone In San Francisco / Live at the It Club
Zoviet-France - Hessian
John Bender

The version of "Everything Happens to Me" on that City of Glass album is an all time favorite

Indeed. Would like to hear that track on Mad Men.

Waylon Jennings The Essential disc 1
Compilation of one time Holly bassist's early years up to the point where he gained control of his music from record company dictate. He had always preferred recording with the same band he played with live - The Waylors but often had the record company insist on who he recorded with.
This first disc runs from '65 to '73 when he won artistic autonomy. He mainly plays electric guitar in a style I think others had picked up on. I think I recognise some of these songs from other people's versions but it may just be similarity of influence apart from Bacharach's You Can have Her which I had by Dionne Warwick with the gender of the individual talked about changed.
I really like this, it is more rooted in honky-tonk than the countrypolitan stuff taht was beginning to prevail around the time that the earliest material here came out. Funny since it was Chet Atkins who produced some of this early material who was one of the main popularists of the style in productions he did for other country artists

Aswad BBC sessions
a late 90s compilation of material recorded by the London based one time roots reggae artists. This runs from tracks recorded in '76 when they were recording for John Peel through several tracks recorded for other Radio 1 DJs as they became more popular up to some sessions recorded in '88 when they had pretty much lost their roots in most of the recordings they were making for release. They actually seem more rootsy on those later tracks here than i remember them from the charts.
I've been looking for some way of getting the early material by the band when they were one of the main underground uk reggae bands so was happy when this turned up locally for a couple of €€. Would prefer to avoid their poppier material which a few of the early 80s tracks veer too close to. Might try to get the Roots Rocking Island Years Anthology which is supposed to have a full disc of the better early stuff on the 1st disc and the less poppy good stuff from their post '84 pop era. Also just seen taht the BBC sessions was majorly expanded for a 2cd set in 2009 ciontaining all the sessions this is picked from.

Flipper Public flipper Ltd disc1
I think this is the more corruscating disc of the 2 in this live compilation. Toetapping tunage about nihilistic despair about man's relationship with man and drugs etc. Walls of sound created by the washes of Ted Falconi's guitar. Yum Yum.

Barbara Mandrell Treat Him Right & The Midnight Oil
2 lps of her early work with Billy Sherrill who was also working with Charlie Rich and Tammy Wynnette. Here she is approaching country soul from the country side of the equation. I've been hearing more of that kind of area approached more form the soul side I think.
Anyway this is great stuff very different to what she went onto when she became more popular, added strings and large doses of schmaltz.
She was originally known as part of her parents' family band where she was a renowned pedal steel guitar player.
I think the change may have come almost straight after the 2nd lp here which had me thinking about a turn-around thread tho the current Horrors one, one in which good material from otherwise frowned o artists is highlighted. I think there was a similar thread from a few years ago.

Devo Hardcore disc2
THis band's early pre 1st lp recordings. There are a number of r'n;b covers here, not sure how expected taht would be. If they had that as a recognised part of their sound or if it was something they were consciously working away from. I'm not familiar with their later material. I did used to have a very scratched up copy of their 1st lp way way back
This material does seem very stiff an awkward but I think taht was part of teh style. Glad this compilation, which has both of the volumes of an older compilation series in one 2cd package, has been reissued. I was hoping to get the old one for a few years.
The same label has also reissued a 2cd package of the 1st MX-80 Sound lp Hard Attack alongside a compi disc of other material from them around teh same time, not sure how much crossover there is between that and their Big Hits compilation e.p. plus possibly their Live in The Library material. That live lp is one of their best.

Jackie Wilson The History of Jackie Wilson Vol. 3: The Chicago Soul of
Nice 2 cd set of later material by the Reet Petite singer. This includes Higher and higher, Whispers (Gettin' Louder), The Who Who song and a version of Light My Fire.
I hadn't realised that Jackie's onstage collapse was as late as it was '75 , I thought it was late 60s. Apparently he was making great music up to just before that including some early 70s lps that are regarded as pretty classic.
He had a great voice and some great backing here from the house band from Motown. Lovely.

Altona s/t
1st lp by a band with ex-members of Thrice Mice playing pretty hard jazz-rock stuff. Sounds pretty good for a German band from the mid 70s, not a couple of years earlier when the Kosmische scene was at its peak.

Umezu Kazutoki KIKI BAND
couple of live sets from a current japanese band that are tagged as jazz-rock but seem to be working on a more primitive non-muso level than that name would imply. Seems to be a lot more gritty,like honking r'n'b but still pretty well played and mixing in some later influences. may verge on prog in places too.

Hangman's Beautiful daughters
a live set from this mid 80s indie band who had some 60s/velvets influence worked pretty well. Sound pretty gritty for a female fronted band from the era. Would like to hear more from them.

Jefferson Starship
There has been a torrent flood of their early material from '74/'75 when they were still playing material from the Grunt era solo lps like Grace's Manhole, Kantner's Blows Against The Empire and I think a couple of tracks from Baron Von TollBooth and The Chrome Nun as well as the early couple of jefferson Starship lps which were actually pretty decent.
Line up for the band at the time was
Johnny Barbata
Craig Chaquico
Papa John Creach
David Freiberg
Paul Kantner
Pete Sears
Grace Slick

who were largely people who'd appeared on that batch of solo lps that appeared on Grunt - Jefferson Airplane's vanity label material.
Freiberg was in Quicksilver Messenger Service at their peak and both Pap JOhn Creach and John Barbata were later-day members of the Airplane. Barbata replaced Joey Covington on the last couple of lps under the Airplane name. I haven't looked into those lps since I can't stand Joey Covington's drumming and haven't taken the opportunity to look them up since i found out about this.
Anyway the band was pretty interesting at this time. Not quite as good as the Airplane but then Jorma, Jack and Spencer were pretty superlative players. Spencer Dryden is one of my alltime favourite drummers. Jorma and Jack had gone off to Hot Tuna who were also very interesting at this point putting out some pretty psychedelic heavy rock lps like Yellow Fever which have recently been reissued. I'm not sure what Spencer Dryden was up to in the mid 70s, probably should be.

Who 's Next
Great heavy early 70s lp with Baba O'Riley and Won't Get Fooled Again as possibly stand out tracks
THis is the 1st disc of the Deluxe set which I found pretty cheap somewhere some years ago. I think I should listen to the band a lot more since they were great. This disc is rounded off with some great tracks from a New York recording session.
Must get around to picking up the most recent version of the Quadrophenia set.

Richard Harris Macarthur Park
This is a budget label compilation of A Tramp Shining followed by RTHe Yard Went On Forever. i.e. the 2 lps Harris cut with Jimmy Webb in 1968. I've always loved his version of Macarthur Park which I think was pretty much the original. Like him as an actor too, & was hoping I'd find my copy of this after reading Robert Sellers' Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down which recounts Harris's 60s experience among about 5 other British actors of his generation.
Found it in a pile of cds somewhere so was listening to this quite heavily last week.

Birthday party The Peel Sessions cd
Great overview of the band from the time of Prayers On Fire to The Bad Seed with great takes on a number of songs also recorded on lps, eps and singles elsewhere as well as a few tracks that are only available elsewhere in live or unmixed form. I love Bully Bones which is here as are both Pleasure Heads and Pleasure Avalanche.
I still haven;t heard about any new releases by the band beyond a reissue of Junkyard and the live 81/82 set which both came as vinyl with a free cd of the same recording. I thought the band had regained the rights to their material so might be reissuing everything in definitive form.

several other bits & pieces which will inevitably come back to me later.
Loads of material on my walkman I think including some tracks i hadn't heard on there before. Do wish that player's contents were easier to edit though.

Reading
The White Goddess
Robert Graves' detective work on the Celtic tree Alphabet and the riddle poems of gwydion. Finally getting seriously into reading this after meaning to for years and picking it up about 4 years back but continually being distracted into other stuff since

Manchild in The Promised Land Claude brown
memoirs of a black childhood in post world war 2 New York by a man who strayed to the wrong side of the law pretty early on. Very readable , so it shouldn't have been sitting on my shelf unread for as long as it has. Not sure how long that is but a few years anyway.
I think I'd recommend this to anybody interested in this type of area of writing. It's not as in your face as Iceberg Slim but still pretty good.

2000Ad
Slaine's reappeared recently and the last couple of issues have had very psychedelic artwork in his pages.

Promethea Alan Moore's tale of the human embodiment/crossover of a goddess who is part story. Not got very far through this so far, only on about #5. But looking great.

Watching
Blake's 7
early episodes are pretty bleak/dark if very low budget. They use a lot of backstairs and carparks of office type buildings as sets. It was interesting hearing them talk about budget restraints and compromises in the 'Cult of Blake's 7' 1/2 hr documentary about the series.
Unfortueately some of the acting verges on pantomime as the story goes on.
Also interesting that Gareth Jones who played Blake agree to come back for the last episode of series 4, on the proviso that the character was permanently killed, after he had initially left at the end of series 2. The concept behind the series on inception was 'Dirty Dozen in Space' though a bit watered-down, everybody was an antihero, with Avon veering on sociopathy. The end of series 4 ends with all of the group being gunned down in a watered down take on Sam Peckinpah. Hope that isn't too much of a spoiler for anybody.

Stevo

maniqui lazer
bill callahan
califone
carrie underwood
chelsea wolfe

Laura Veirs - Troubled by the Fire
Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man
The Radio Dept. - Pet Grief
Bob Dylan - Another Self Portrait
Ulver - Childhood's End

CX Kidtronik - Krak Attak
Exumer - Possessed By Fire
Shocking Blue - At Home
Ray Brown - Jazz Cello
Chico Hamilton Quintet featuring Buddy Collette
Gorguts - Colored Sand
Urinals - Negative Capability
Vince Martin - If the Jasmine Don't Get You, the Bay Breeze Will
His Hero Is Gone - 15 Counts of Arson
Fear Itself - s/t
Run DMC - Tougher Than Leather (this is so fucking great)
Stan Kenton/Robert Graettinger - City of Glass (NUTS)
Waylon Jennings - This Time
Gorillas - Message to the World
Scorched Earth Policy - Going Through A Hole...
Zeke - Dirty Sanchez (terrible bandname/title, great speed-punk)

how's the Scorched Earth Policy? I love the few live promo videos on youtube, but wondered if the whole thing held up

duane pitre - organized pitches occurring in time
hope sandoval & the warm inventions - BFB
the dead C - armed courage
boards of canada - MHTRTC
wu forever

no age
bill callahan

mostly those two the past week or so. also some ariel pink, altahualpa yupanqui, collections of peruvian and tejano music on arhoolie, animal collective a lot this summer but once the weather turned cool i haven't touched them for some reason

how's the Scorched Earth Policy?

It's pretty great. They were a fairly consistent band, if you dig the youtube stuff you'll probably dig the album.

Enjoying the new album from Arp even though it's a big departure from his previous one.

Oooh, must get that.

esoteric - the maniacal vale
nortt - gudsforladt
photek - risc vs. reward
claro intelecto - metanarrative
psychick warriors ov gaia
om - advaitic songs
xasthur - portal of sorrow

ALL CARCASS ALL THE TIME

latest releases from
Sidi Toure
Tal National
Bassekou Kouyate

some recent lissnin

Henry Cow The Road Volume 7: Later and Post-Virgin
With Lindsay Cooper dying this week talk was turned to her and Henry Cow. This lead to me reading a long review of the box set and picking out this disc for reinvestigation. Think I need to go through the whole box again.
But this is superlative and full of the tumbling sound I first fell for when I bought the vinyl copy of Concerts by them about 22 years ago.
I think my favourite era of them is actually a year or 2 earlier around '75/'76 but this is great.

Laughing Clowns Cruel But Fair
the 3cd set by the band that Ed Kuepper formed with old friend Jeffery Wegener after leaving the Saints a band that Wegener had also been in a formative lineup of (as well as Rowland S Howard's 1st band the Young Charlatans in the interim). The reason he'd left had to do with his drumming style not fitting the more primitive r'n'b derived style that band had been pursuing. But since the Laughing Clowns were open to more complex influences he became part of the signature sound.
Kuepper is a great guitarist but seemed to want to take more of a back seat instrumentally in the new band. He still sang and came up with most of the melodic structure of songs but had other instrumentation notably horns and drums taking more of a leading role than was traditionally expected.
The 3cd set Cruel But Fair is not arranged chronologically, I'm not sure exactly what the criteria for the tracklisting is beyond including almost everything. But it does play pretty well and is full of great music.

Burnin' Red Ivanhoe Canal Trip
Danish jazz-prog-psych band from late 60s & early 70s 2cd anthology on Esoteric. Great band featuring horns on most tracks.
Think i need to look further into the Scandinavian scene, have been kicking myself for not picking up the book/encyclopedia of Scandinavian psych/prog when it was still around for a reasonable price, probably about time for a new edition surely?
There seem to be several bands from up there who compare favourably with underground music from around Europe/U.K. so I should be more familiar with that stuff. & seem to avoid pitfalls of complexity for complexity sake and other pretensions that the prog genre is stereotyped with.

Jackie Wilson The Chicago Soul of disc2
This heads into areas of pretty liquid funk rhythm on a few early tracks before becoming more snappily tight rhythmically in a way I'd associate more with Northern Soul before changing again to something maybe more associated with Southern. Covers most of the years from '70 to his coma in '75 so covers quite a bit of ground. mainly chronologically though for some reason at one point it jumps back to a single recorded in '68. Is pretty great throughout anyway. I really want to hear the lps he cut during this period which I think were supposed to be more Deep Soul orientated than Northern stompers.

Waylon Jennings Essential disc 2
the early tracks on this date from the mid 70s which may be his peak. He is mainly associated with Outlaw Country which I think is a continuation in the update of the honky tonk sound he has mainly worked in & suits him well. Think that genre is at least partially named after his 1972 lp Ladies Love Outlaws

King Tubby In Fine Style disc2
great Trojan 2cd compi from a few years back when Sanctuary had the Trojan rights. Unfortunately I think most of the sets from taht time are OOP which is a shame since they were pretty superlative compis.
Heavy dub anyway & pretty essential as are some sets on Blood & fire that I think may also be OOP now. THink there was some overlap with this anyway.

Atomic Rooster 2/2/71
THink this may be the first live set I've had by this line-up of the band with Du Cann still playing guitar/singing. & it is a nice one. 2 lengthy 1/4 hr + takes on songs from around the time of Death WAlks Behind you included.

Matching Mole on French tv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyPNZiFJyS0&feature=share

MX-80 Sound on tv in '78 before they left Bloomington Indiana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtqsjaU3MPI&feature=share

reading
Screwed Eoin Colfer
I thought I'd check out his adult fiction having read a couple of his things like Artemis Fowle and he retains a lot of teh wit and invention he shows in those children's fiction books. Haven't read this through so far but have enjoyed what I've seen so far.

Manchild in the Promised land Claude Brown
Memoir about childhood/teens spent on the wrong side of the law in Harlem post World War 2 & in reform school afterwards.

The Goodman Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ Phillip Pullman
his book about the 2 sides of Jesus as brothers. I think Pullman is a famous atheist which was the subtext of the His Dark Material s books by him. ANyway this is pretty interesting, but I should try to organise teh space around my bed so I'm not reading loads of things at the same time cos I keep picking up different things lying around it.
should be concentrating on

The White Goddess by Robert Graves
which is his investigations into the Celtic tree alphabet through the poems of Gwydion.

Stevo

starting to explore these new jim o'rourke steamroom thangs on bandcamp. "Steamroom 2" (Originally released as tour cd for Christoph Heemann / Will Long / Jim O'Rourke 2013 Japan Tour) is a nice ambient/noise mix. wife asked me if i was meditating just now.
http://steamroom.bandcamp.com

New promos...

Francois Bayle - 'Les Couleurs de la Nuit' reissue [Sub Rosa]
The Stranger (Leyland Kirby) - 'Watching Dead Empires in Decay' [Modern Love]
Evan Parker & Joe McPhee - 'What if They Both Could Fly' [Rune Grammofon]

Arve Henriksen, Places of Worship
Pastacas & Tenniscoats, Yaki-Läki
m b v

Лена Сабининa , Орангутангo
Лена Сабининa , Билет в Ригу

I can't get enough of the new Locrian album

horatiu radulescu - string quartet no. 4
tim hecker - virgins
opn - r plus seven
khanate - s/t
xasthur - to violate the oblivious
perfume - level3

Mazzy Starr
Chelsea Wolfe
Jon Hopkins
Carcass
Pinkish Black
Ulcerate
Gorguts
Machinedrum
Windhand
Esoteric
AUN

Dhrupad music and anthemic, satanic metal (Mercyful Fate, Root, Watain). And Agent Steel and the Long Blondes.

Sons Of Kemet, who are a 4-piece jazz group lead by Shabaka Hutchings; clarinet/sax, two drummers, and tuba (playing wobbly acid-y basslines, mostly). Really awesome.

Darkside, the Nicolas Jaar & his mate Dave project, with groovy post-Balearic krauty goodness.

Disintegration Loops.

Old Dismemberment Plan albums.

Still the Holden album, with its crazy pagan synth madness textures.

Just listened to Labor, the second album by JD Samson & Men: words and voice are good right off; the music gets more involving as it goes along. I'm getting tired of drones, even in art-pop-dance etc., which may be why the flat-out fastest one grabs me first, hardest and longest. I'll def listen some more, but already liked it enough to link. Judge for yourself (a bunch of other recent albums here too) http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/arts/music/pressplay.html
Initially digging Midnight Magic, fervently endorsed by Samson (after she saw 'em live, anyway)
http://midnightmagicsounds.com/music

"flat-out fastest *ones*", I should have said.

new 'TECHRE ep
R plus Seven (eh)
duane pitre (OPOiT)

Oh yeah, and The MC5: A True Testimonial is on YouTube for a minute (applauded in theaters, last-minute cancelled on DVD, re rights issue). Good as it's said to be (damn good for a rock doc, but we need more live albums) Catch it while you can: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1UrP9jxKzOU

Tal National
K. Michelle
Mel Waiters

eprom "halflife"
andrew liles "an unworld" dbl lp
rrose
randomer
slayer
noothgrush
henry lawes
inflatable alterboys EP
deafheaven
tom de leeuw
duke ellington

J.D. Brennan and Gold Fever
Donnie and Joe Emerson
Nadine Jansen Trio
Les Baxter
Dane Sturgeon
The Shangaans
Blossom Dearie
Bob Trimble
Hank Juray Quartet

ENDLESS BUMMER
Charlie Feathers
Julee Cruise

Red Stars Over Tokyo

rock band Connections has put out three great records this year that I can't stop listening to.

Circuit Des Yeux OVERDUE

catalog:
Claude Debussy
Darkthrone
Randy Newman
Miles Davis
Johann Sebastian Bach
Fleetwood Mac
Maurice Ravel
Paul McCartney
Mayhem
Squarepusher
Olivier Messiaen

new (or new 2013 albums):
Zomby
Lee Bannon
DJ Rashad
Traxman
Mark Pritchard
Disclosure
SBTRKT
Rustie
Eagles for Hands
Lone
Archie Pelago

\m/

Autechre - Exai
DeepChord - Sommer
Juan Atkins - The Berlin Sessions
Machinedrum - Room(s)
Paradise Lost - All
Regis - Penetration
Vladislav Delay - Kuopio

Steve Hauschildt - S/H 2xCD
Cotton Museum - Pus Pustules LP
Ricky Nelson - Ricky, Ricky Sings Again, More Songs by Ricky LPs
Machinedrum - Vapor City
Slayer - Haunting the Chapel
Noothgrush - Live for Nothing
Heavy Syrup CDR
Factory Floor
RRose
Illusion of Safety - whole back catalogue pretty much
Arca - Stretch, Stretch 2
Le1f - Tree House

Factory Floor
Lou Reed - The Bells, The Blue Mask, Rock and Roll Heart
Patrick Cowley - School Daze
Tim Hecker - Virgins
Darkthrone - F.O.A.D.
Boris - Akuma No Uta
Mouse on Mars - Autoditacker
Castle Hemmendorff - Count Hemmendorff
Burger/Ink - Las Vegas
Arp - More
Charanjit Singh - Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat
Vakula - You've Never Been to Konotop

SubRosa - More Constant Than the Gods
In Solitude - Sister
Bassekou Kouyaté and Ngoni Ba - Jama ko

The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Beach Boys - Love You
Randy Newman - Sail Away, Good Old Boys
The Spooks - Death From Beyond the Grave
Yellow Magic Orchestra - X Multiplies
Lotte Lenya - Sings Berlin Theatre Songs by Kurt Weill
Pink Floyd - A Nice Pair
Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale
Rolling Stones - Flowers, Her Satanic Majesties Request
Cheap Trick - Budokan
various Hank Williams & classic 60s country comps
various Schubert
Bach harpsichord stuff

all vinyl

Agnes Obel - Aventine
Ryuichi Sakamoto - b-2 Unit
Juicy J - Stay Trippy
The Necks - Open
Ramblin' Jack Elliot - A Stranger Here
Omar Souleyman - Wenu Wenu
Hagen Quiartett - Schubert String Quartet no.14

Schubert's String Quartet no.14 makes everything else sound inadequate.

Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu (this is amazing)
RRose - Monad XVI
Perfume - Level3
Speedy West - There's Gonna Be A Party (For The Old Folks)
Bob Ostertag Plays The Aalto
Illusion of Safety
Les Paul & Mary Ford - The Legend and the Legacy
Marvin Gaye - Here, My Dear
David Tudor

Schubert's String Quartet no.14 makes everything else sound inadequate.

yes.

Right now I have Grand Duo for Piano Four Hands, Oop. 140 by Gold and Fizdale, and Octet in F Major, D. 803 by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. I'll keep my ears open for that, for sure!

Dawn Of Midi - Dysnomia

If you are eagerly awaiting the new Necks album next month you definitely need to check this out.

― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, August 15, 2013 5:18 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^this is fucking amazing!

Noura Mint Seymali (from Mauritania)- e.p.
Brandy Clark 2013 album (country)
Mel Waiters 2013 album (Southern soul)
Bunji Garlin tracks (soca)
"Khona" a South African track by Mafikizolo Ft Uhuru.
"Atomic Bomb" by William Onyeabor (reissue)
K. Michelle 2013 album (r'n'b)
Tal National (from Niger) 2013 album

Marble Sheep etc Tokyo 1988 sounds like it may be pretty much in the red. Blasting psychedelic rock ala hawkwind etc.

Grateful Dead Sunshine Daydream disc 2 so far I think this has been the main one., Has pretty superlative takes on Playing In The Band, Bird Song, nice ones of He's Gone and Greatest Story Ever told. Probably do need to listen to the other 2 discs but this one is spacey throughout.
Disc3 has got a 30 minute plus Dark Star which is a great great version. Can't remember what's on 1 beyond China>Rider
& my dang dvd recorder is still needing to be opened. So not been able to play the dvd so far. may have a go at trying to unscrew the machine sometime pretty soon. Drawer is stuck or something.

Pharoah Sanders the Anthology disc 1 the 10 minute odd edits of half hour tracks from the late 60s lps. Possibly easier to listen to them in the more bite size pieces. Wish I'd had this when I was djing.
Must get the full length versions too. Think he may be the next jazz artist I collect. THink I only got as far as Thembi recently and an old copy of Karma that still has Creator in 2 pieces despite being cd. Which I haven't seen in ages so may be in very bad state.

The Heads the Cardinal fuzz compi thing vol2 disc1 nice heavy repetitive stuff.

Scott Walker Scott 4 from the box set. Not sure how great the sound is on this thing, does seem a tad thin and some of the words seemed a little mushy. Do hope that means my player lens needs cleaning cos otherwise it would be a really bad wasted opportunity to get the sound right.
Do love the lp though.

For the uncut (swirly, not ponderous)Pharoah, try Live At The East. I may be biased, because it was my first, and soft on Tauhid and Izipho Zam because they got Sonny Sharrock, but he's a team player on both. All three are created/withstood by very strong ensembles, ditto Coltrane's Live in Seattle, ft. Pharoah.

Dunno where to post this, but a lotta good musos involved, and a worthy cause:

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb449/shakermakerpr/SFScompilationcover_zps37d7cc9d.jpg

SONGS FOR SLIM - ROCKIN HERE TONIGHT: A BENEFIT COMPILATION FOR SLIM DUNLAP COLLECTS A YEAR'S WORTH

OF TRACKS FROM THE REPLACEMENTS, JEFF TWEEDY,

LUCINDA WILLIAMS, STEVE EARLE, FRANK BLACK AND

MANY MORE FOR TWO-DISC SET DUE NOVEMBER 11

BONUS DISC FEATURES PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED SONGS

FROM SOUL ASYLUM, THE YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS,

PETER HOLSAPPLE AND OTHERS
LOS ANGELES, CA, October 31, 2013 - When guitarist Slim Dunlap suffered a debilitating stroke last year, the music community rallied around him and came to his aid. His former band The Replacements reformed and headed into the studio in support of their old friend. The resulting session, the Songs For Slim EP, consisting of five covers, including two of Slim's songs, was released in January of this year as a limited edition auction-only 10-inch record and propelled a nearly year long project to help pay for Slim's long-term medical care. The initial EP was followed by a monthly auction-only 7-inch series featuring musicians like Jeff Tweedy, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Frank Black, Craig Finn and John Doe covering songs from Slim's two post-Replacements solo records, The Old New Me and Times Like This. Songs For Slim - Rockin Here Tonight: A Benefit Compilation For Slim Dunlap will be released November 11 on New West Records and compiles all the inspired and eclectic Slim covers from the series into a two-disc album with a second disc of previously unreleased bonus material from The Jayhawks' pseudonymous LP.ORG, Soul Asylum, The Young Fresh Fellows, Peter Holsapple (The dB's) and more. The compilation features a cover painted by Slim's former bandmate turned acclaimed artist Chris Mars and a 16-page booklet complete with liner notes by original Replacements manager Peter Jesperson who has spearheaded the project.

Disc one kicks off with the first song from The Replacements' Songs for Slim EP, "Busted Up," and includes all tracks released on the seven limited run double A-side 7-inches as well as the Record Store Day exclusive 7-inch that paired The Minus Five featuring Curtiss A on one side and Tim O'Reagan and Jim Boquist on the other.

The second disc features 10 additional tracks, anchored by seven more Slim covers - including the unreleased "Two By Two," done here by his son Louie, daughter Bee and longtime bandmate Brien Lilja. Also featured are two songs written for Slim - "Slim's Place," a rockin' little ditty the Young Fresh Fellows whipped up in the same session as their other track for Songs For Slim, and "When I Fall Down," written and recorded by Chris Mars shortly after he heard about the stroke. Finally, there's "Love Lost," an obscure James Burton instrumental that was covered by Slim on his first solo record, The Old New Me. Here it's done by The West Saugerties Ale And Quail Club, with their Woodstock neighbor, legendary harmonica player John Sebastian of The Lovin' Spoonful.

On November 1, Slim celebrates one year at home, under the care of his family. Slim's wife Chrissie Dunlap says: "His comfort has been interrupted by many trips to the hospital, but his will to live is strong. His mantra is 'Fight, fight, fight.' All of us who love him are fighting with, and for, him. His strength, along with the love and support of so many wonderful friends and fans, has kept him going. Slim is so grateful for the Songs For Slim project and takes great joy in listening to his songs performed by some of his favorite musicians and friends. The revenue from the project has saved us from financial ruin, enabled us to hire nursing help and therapists, and helped to make him as comfortable as possible. Slim and the family send our love and gratitude to New West and everyone involved in the project, and everyone who bought a song for Slim. Special thanks to our long time friend, Peter Jesperson, who worked tirelessly to produce Songs for Slim, and to whom we are eternally grateful."

To date the non-profit Songs For Slim project has help raise raised nearly $200,000 for Slim who was left bed-ridden by the stroke - paralyzed on his left side, unable to swallow and very frail. All proceeds have gone, and continue to go, towards assisting Slim and his family with the significant expenses related towards his long-term care. Fore more information or to see how you can help, visit SongsForSlim.com

Disc One: The 45s

1. The Replacements - Busted Up

2. Chris Mars - Radio Hook Word Hit

3. Steve Earle - Times Like This

4. Craig Finn & Friends - Isn't It

5. Lucinda Williams - Partners In Crime

6. Tommy Keene - Nowheres Near

7. The Minus 5 Feat. Curtiss A. - Rockin Here Tonight

8. Tim O'Reagan & Jim Boquist - Cozy

9. Jakob Dylan - Ain't No Fair (In A Rock 'N' Roll Love Affair)

10. Joe Henry - Taken On The Chin

11. John Doe - Just For The Hell Of It

12. Deer Tick + Scott Lucas + Vanessa Carlton - From The Git Go

13. Frank Black & The Suicide Commandos - The King & Queen

14. You Am I - Ain't Exactly Good

15. Patterson Hood - Hate This Town

16. The Young Fresh Fellows - Loud Loud Loud Loud Guitars

17. The Ballad Of The Opening Band - Jeff Tweedy

18. From The Git Go - Lucero

Disc Two: Unreleased Bonus Tracks

1. Peter Holsapple - Laugh It Up (it's all a big joke anyway)

2. John Eller - Girlfiend

3. Soul Asylum - Little Shiva's Song

4. The Young Fresh Fellows - Slim's Place

5. Bee, Louie & Brien - Two By Two

6. Chris Mars - When I Fall Down

7. Chan Poling - Chrome Lipstick

8. Frankie Lee - Times Like This

9. LP.ORG - The Ballad Of The Opening Band

10. The West Saugerties Ale & Quail Club Feat. John Sebastian - Love Lost

http://www.songsforslim.com/

newwestrecords.com

GF Fitzgerald Mouseproof
interesting, first side is pretty Brit folk/psych 2nd gets into a lot of experiments with textures. Seems very psychedelic throughout and features vocal contributions by people like Judy Dyble.
Sunbeam reissued this a few years back and I only heard it recently. Dashed great anyway.

Ant-Bee pure Electric Honey
Glad I found a d/load of this cos I lost my vinyl copy far to long ago.
It was reissued at the start of the year and does sound pretty great still. It used to come on electric blue vinyl which seemed to fit the sound. Very trippy Beatlesque melodic experimental stuff, quite delicious.

Mercury Rev Copenhagen 1993
David Baker era incarnation of the band recreating songs from the first couple of lps. The first studio lp wasn't recorded in an ensemble manner but by individuals going in and overdubbing soundtracks to aquatic footage for a college project. So interesting to hear it recreated in ensemble form onstage rather well.
Unfortunately the sound on the recording may be a bit thin, I need to check it on another player.

Grateful Dead Sunshine Superman discs 2 & 3
Not heard the first disc yet. But these later 2 have some great stuff on. I don't particularly like the segue into El Paso from a long trippy Dark Star cos it seems to break the mood somewhat but outside of that this is really good. This is rightly recognised as one of the greatest sets by them possibly ever. Disc 2 is solid has a superlative Playing in the Band and Bird Song and pretty great other tracks.
Haven't checked out the dvd yet cos my dvd player is acting up so can't comment on taht.

Pharoah Sanders Anthology You've Got To Have Freedom disc1
Great compi this is the one that features edits of the songs so there are 10-15 minute versions of tracks that were recorded as 1/2 hour plus. Do wish I'd had my hands on this back when I was djing cos it would have fit a lot better.
Anyway love this psychedelic jazz stuff and think I might try grabbing the lps with the full length versions of the tracks. Yeah might make him the next jazz artist I collect the records of.
I haven't listened to him beyond the early 70s much and wasn't sure what direction he'd taken, or if he'd mellowed up much but sounds from listening to some of the stuff he has on youtube that he remained pretty fierce.
I think this is becoming some of my favourite music ever, there is something about the sound here that just makes me feel at home or something, or like it's part of me being returned..

Marble Sheep Tokyo 88
Great trippy psychedelic guitar rock by ex White Heaven guitarist. Particularly love the track Horizon on here which is one of the 2 bonus tracks. Very trippy melodic greatness this sounds like its either picking up from raga or the Doors The End. I can't tell how authentic they're trying to be (at least in terms of source) hence the differentiation. Very trepanningly trippy anyway. I love the bits where a caustic guitar becomes really melodic that you get here from time to time.
Would love more of this so may look into some other titles by this band.

King Crimson The Road to Red disc 17 and 10
only discs I've heard so far but sounding pretty outstanding.
Good to have a set like this out so that you can see how far improvisations went night to night. & they are very formidable.
Very muscular rhythm section, piercing violin and caustic guitar.