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― jel --, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

I was listening to Bill Brovold and Larval and now am resting my ears.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

The Ataris - Welcome the Night

Sorry, not the most auspicious of starts...

― jel --, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

"walk through this world with me radio" on Pandora

it's on a Lefty Frizell song to be exact.

― tremendoid, Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:56 (eighteen years ago)

yakety sax, powerhouse, & dance of the wooden indians

― Fluffy Bear, Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:03 (eighteen years ago)

bunch of dylan's theme time radio shows. very awesome

the knife - silent shout

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:04 (eighteen years ago)

Stencil

A friend of mine plays trumpet on Marble.

― Jaq, Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:04 (eighteen years ago)

www.wvvy.org, as always

― Maria :D, Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:30 (eighteen years ago)

so, just wondering, what was the hullabaloo about illegal links? Does this work wvvy webstream?

― Maria :D, Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:31 (eighteen years ago)

I never normally post on listening threads but I want to give big props to Curt1s for introducing me to the Chameleons who I've meant to listen to for years and never got round to.

Why did I ever not? They're bloody marvellous, reminiscent of the Bunnymen and Teardrop Explodes and other loveliness.

Also, I have been really getting into ohGr, the Nivek Ogre of Skinny Puppy side project. Somethign of a SP-lite, but in a way I rather like I think.

― Trayce, Friday, 23 February 2007 00:51 (eighteen years ago)

Oh and last.fm is fantabulous for loading up all one's old vinyl new wave stuff for a crackle-free listen. Yay for Ultravox, Visage and Duran Duran!

― Trayce, Friday, 23 February 2007 00:52 (eighteen years ago)

Went to an improv gig last night -- "Primal Fruitcake" were incredible, so much so that by the time we got to Mick Beck the energy ws sucked out of the room, really (other things there but basically..)

Recordings wise listening to bits of Fernehough's "Carceri d'Invenzionne" cycle and Christopher Fox's minimal "A Slice through Translucence".

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 23 February 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

Both for the first time in a long, long time: Joy Division, Heart and Soul, and My Bloody Valentine's Loveless. I mean, I have to hook up my record player for the MBV, and that takes some doing.

― DavidM, Friday, 23 February 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

Chixdiggit
Winger - The Very Best Of (ie Miles Away)

― jel --, Friday, 23 February 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

Some strange old mid-seventies group literally called Anonymous, I think. Found the CD cheap and figured I'd give it a whirl.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 February 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

resonance fm

― t**t, Friday, 23 February 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

Radio Slave Presents Creatures of the Night. It's great! And not what I was expecting at all.

― braveclub, Friday, 23 February 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

Aerosmith - Rocks

Gonna see them in the summer!

― jel --, Friday, 23 February 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

I have that Radio Slave comp, I think -- liked it! Did I review it? I might have done...

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 February 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

Bill Frisell - Unspeakable and a great U. Srinivas mandolin disc.

Julio, do you know of the Montreal composer Jean-François Laporte at all? I saw a concert tonight that featured a couple pieces of his, one where a number of performers make various sounds with balloons (inflating, deflating, rubbing with wet or dry fingers, cutting the ends off and using it like a double reed, etc.) and one where a cellist and violinist play on hairs of their bows.

Rocks is classic!

― Sundar, Sunday, 25 February 2007 06:27 (eighteen years ago)

Sundar - I have heard of him. The first piece you talk about sounds very Kagel-esque to me - will check out if I can get hold of anything.

The last Canadian composer I've enjoyed listening to was Linda Catlin Smith. Very Morton Feldman, a quick google reveals she wrote a cpl of hommages to him. A piece from 1991 is all I've come across so far, therefore I've no idea where her music has moved to since - if anywhere, that is. Know her?

As for me its works by Christopher Fox, who manages to be minimalist and yet quite minimal. Don't know quite how to explain that as I've only thought about it now. He likes Linda's music.

Also, Richard Ayres - again he uses a minimalist template at times, but I think what unifies certain European composers is that their sue of minimalism doesn't seem so thoroughly professionalized as Reich and Glass' music from the mid-70s onwards.

Heinz Holliger - His "String Quartet" is one of my favourites by any composer, he has written a ton of song cycles so I've got round to a cpl. "Beizeit" and "Alb-Chehr", collected on an ECM disc, written for a small Swiss Folk ensemble. The texts are folk tales but I'm enjoying it so far, the vocals aren't all scary classical. I don't feel (as its often the case with music set by text) that you need a deep knowledge of the literature as the instrumental writing is very likeable, managing to be punchy but also display restraint when necessary.

Throwing Muses - just a few tracks so far. Never got round to them before.

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 25 February 2007 11:54 (eighteen years ago)

Hey Julio, LCS is everywhere in Toronto and I know for sure I've seen at least a couple concerts with something by her on it. I remember enjoying her stuff but honestly don't remember anything else about it. I should go listen to some. I just d/l-ed what was on the site you linked. (I expect they're short excerpts, judging by how fast they d/l-ed?)

The other composers you mention sound interesting.

I was just listening to some of Michael Vlatkovich Quartet - ALiveBUQUERQUE, kind of bouncy brassy improv or something.

Also, I was listening to Plaid - Greedy Baby

― Sundar, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:40 (eighteen years ago)

(BTW, your posts always make me feel a little guilty about not keeping up enough with contemporary composition!)

― Sundar, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:41 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, the MVQ tracks are listed as compositions but they have a strong improv element and a clear jazz influence. Pretty out. It's fun, lively, busy stuff - percussion, elec cello, bari sax, trombone.

― Sundar, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 01:21 (eighteen years ago)

Got a couple of very short excerpts from Catlin's site, not much to make an impression either way.

Both Fox and Holliger have several CDs; Ayres has a couple of discs, but try and get the one w/the NONconcerto - a great piece

Last night the Arditti string Quartet - "Spirali" by Marco Stroppa and "Secundo Quartetto" by Alessandro Melchiorre. Well, the former is "for string quartet projected onto space", space as in spatial. Impressions are that it veers between lines that come at you in waves (or spirals), then echoey sounds that kind of provide contrast and 'rest'. Both are quite amplified I think, but its not overdone. There is a clash of the two elements in the end.

Melchiorre is just as impressive although just lots of slowly 'bowed' lines, with plenty of 'action' at the end of each line. This goes on for 15 mins. Not as boring as it sounds actually, in fact I prefer I think I'll end up preferring this to 'spiral', if I'm setting up both against each other.

"(BTW, your posts always make me feel a little guilty about not keeping up enough with contemporary composition!)"

haha well, the other side to all that is that I've never gotten round another LP by Journey! :-)

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

BEFORE THE FLOOD

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

THE UPLIFT MOFO PARTY PLAN :D

― gabbneb, Thursday, 1 March 2007 00:05 (eighteen years ago)

Arditti's coming here in June for the June In Buffalo festival. I'm eager to see them.

I was just listening to Sun Ra - Out There a Minute and will probably fall asleep to Fennesz - Venice (really want to listen to that vocal track). Earlier today I listened to Janet Feder/Fred Frith - Ironic Universe, some Bach organ works, and some Schubert string quartets.

― Sundar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 05:49 (eighteen years ago)

The Fairports Convention

Vashti Bunyan

I am so into the folk-rock movement.

― PJ Miller, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

I saw Arditti once when playing Berio's quartets - a bit underwhelmed by all that, but hopefully it'll be a good programme.

As for me Wieland Hoban (an excellent new discovery) and James Clarke (he has a new-ish CD out). Songs-wise its a few things by Husker Du: "Games" and their cover of "Eight Miles High" on repeat.

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 3 March 2007 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

Helloween - Chameleon

― jel --, Saturday, 3 March 2007 11:29 (eighteen years ago)

For the past 3 hours or so, Resonance FM.
Well, it was a well conducive soundtrack to completing a li'l translation chore I had.
(It's still a soundtrack show that's on on Resonance right now, btw)

― t**t, Saturday, 3 March 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

Variety of stuff; just listened to "Love and Anger" - Kate Bush and "Wicked Game" - Chris Isaak. This week I mean to give the Keane album called _Under the Iron Sea_ a listen.

― Sara R-C, Saturday, 3 March 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

Right now Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Top ones this week:
Sea and Cake - Everything - good but maybe a bit too stripped down for me, I miss McEntire's production.
TV on the Radio - Cookie Mountain - some decent songs, but I'm still trying to understand the hype. A lot of the tracks seem pretty unfocused to me.

I recently got these and a bunch of others and I'm trying to digest them all. A little overwhelmed by lots of new music.

― Moodles, Saturday, 3 March 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

Puffy AmiYumi - Nice

― jel --, Saturday, 3 March 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

Would you believe that I never heard Pet Sounds until now?

― Sundar, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 03:08 (eighteen years ago)

That is strange!

I am listening to Helloween.

Yesterday I listened to Arcade Fire.

― jel --, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

(Yo, Helloween :)

Record Label Records Assorted Artists : Ghost Busters III
(feat. among others Runzelstirn and Gurgelstock, which's such a fab pseudonym)

― t**t, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

Nelson Riddle, The Joy Of Living/ Love Is A Game Of Poker
Randy Newman, Land of Dreams
Frank Tovey, Tyranny And The Hired Hand

All them art 'bsolutely perfect fer drunkin' vodka too, too. Yeps.

― t**t, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

Excerpts from John Carpenter soundtracks -- totally loving "escape from New York" AND also that yuckily fantastic ending theme to "Starman".

Esplendor Geometrico, feeling their noise ok.

Gerhard Stabler is this week's fave on the composition front.

Fave singles this week are "Bette Davis Eyes" and "Not Bite", the latter by unknown band Red Transistor.

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 11 March 2007 23:48 (eighteen years ago)

Therion - Gothic Kabbalah

― jel --, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

a Mozart mix tape

an old tape of my Dad's labelled "Lalgudi Jayraman" that's definitely not LJ, I'm guessing U. Srinivas

Evergreen hits by Yesudas and Kaithapram (thinking about the Indian psych thread)

classic rock and classical radio: highlights include Bach's Orchestral Suite No 2 perf James
Galway et al and Golden Earring - "Radar Love"

Ryoji Ikeda - Dataplex

Mogwai - Young Team (I feel a bit of a chump for not getting this before)

― Sundar, Thursday, 15 March 2007 05:11 (eighteen years ago)

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

― Sundar, Thursday, 15 March 2007 06:16 (eighteen years ago)

Four Tet, Remixes (argh, only now found out that my 12-track promo copy is just one half of teh Four Tet remixes :(
Van Morrison At The Movies - Soundtrack Hits ...Van Man & Roger Waters singing "Comfortably Numb" is, heh, somewhat weird.
Mathura & Kaido Kirikmäe, külaturul paadisadama ääres

― t**t, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures

I'd forgotten how muffled the piano sounds on this. I hope there is a better sounding version of this out there somewhere, but I'm afraid the mistakes were made at the time of the recording.

― o. nate, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

I mean I've heard people talk about the old days of jazz recording where they'd just wrap a microphone in blankets and stuff it down the back of an upright piano, but I always thought they were joking.

― o. nate, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

Hey Julio, I just got Holliger's string quartet out of the library today. I just put it on. It sounds great so far. I was also listening to some of that NZ drone/noise tape you made for me some time ago in the car, the K-Group I believe. Also, Branca's Symphony 6, which seemed unsatisfying somehow, maybe because of the cassette quality. And Frisell's Have a Little Faith and Radian's TG 11 and ABBA's "S. O. S." and some Arcade Fire.

― Sundar, Friday, 16 March 2007 03:03 (eighteen years ago)

This Therion album is so great. Classic lyrics too, "I'm the Auger of Runes, I'm the Lion Man"...Seriously, if you like operatic metal you should get it!

― jel --, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

I'll keep an eye out for it.

Claude Vivier - "Lonely Child" 5 or 6 times before moving on to "Shiraz" and "Pulau Dewata"
Steely Dan - Katy Lied
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
John McLaughlin - Devotion
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
The Smiths - "How Soon Is Now?"
Rush - "Subdivisions"
Sergio and Odair Assad Play Piazzolla

― Sundar, Saturday, 17 March 2007 05:15 (eighteen years ago)

"I just got Holliger's string quartet out of the library today. I just put it on. It sounds great so far. I was also listening to some of that NZ drone/noise tape you made for me some time ago in the car, the K-Group I believe."

Glad you enjoyed the Holliger. There is a beautiful piece of his "Studie Uber Merklange" for Oboe, all short and perfect. I posted a thread about him on ILM last week - did you see it?

I don't remember making you that tape, don't know K-Group, although I did make a tape for you.

Yesterday I ws listening to Harry Pussy - great, great group; who are sadly no more.

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 18 March 2007 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

Bunch of download J-pop, J-rock, J-jazz, J-whatever (and more on the way).

Boredoms: Super Ae (I don't love this as much as most of you do)
U. Srinivas (which is turning into a great: what do I put on now when I'm not sure what I'm in the mood for? type of thing--to my surprise)

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 18 March 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

in order for last 24 hours:

Burzum, The Fall, Wooden Shjips, Television, Tusk, The Jody Grind, Music For Airports, an Eno live recording from some art installation ("Lydian Bells"), Tusk again.

― sleeve, Sunday, 18 March 2007 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

new battles (good, though unsure about the vocals)
new lcd soundsystem (really good so far)
bunch of random dance music that i was trying to mix together

― haitch, Sunday, 18 March 2007 23:05 (eighteen years ago)

Gary Numan - Hybrid. Damn good remix of a lot of his old stuff, done mostly by Flood (so I guess if you dont like that early 2000s gothy NIN/DM/Curve sound you wouldnt like it...)

― Trayce, Sunday, 18 March 2007 23:08 (eighteen years ago)

van man morison, at the mo'. a comp. sounds "uneven", and thus somewhat frustratin'. but then again, ain't van man always that way. occasionally frustratin-tin-tin.

― t**t, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

The CD that came with Metal Hammer - so currently Machine Head.

― jel --, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

I can't get enough of Squeeze lately. Also, The Broken West.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

Pond, their first album.

― jel --, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

Fläskkvartetten, Voice of Eden

― t**t, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

Uh, that's Voices of Eden, actually...

Um, and Ashley Hutching's Human Nature 's also pretty good.

― t**t, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

Metallica - Ride the Lightening
Metallica - Black Album
Therion
Bowling For Soup

― jel --, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

GBV - Propeller

― jel --, Friday, 23 March 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

Glad you enjoyed the Holliger. There is a beautiful piece of his "Studie Uber Merklange" for Oboe, all short and perfect. I posted a thread about him on ILM last week - did you see it?

No! And I couldn't find it using the search either. Could you link to the thread?

That oboe piece is available on Amazon (on a disc with some of HH's other works and a Bach piece!) I'm considering getting it.

― Sundar, Sunday, 25 March 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

Eluvium.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 25 March 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

Sundar - Heinz Holiiger

Spent a bit of yesterday looking at ANAblog, getting some of the Mauricio Kagel available on there.

Janice Giteck "Om shanti" is a pretty good 'postminimalist' piece, then a few songs..

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:08 (eighteen years ago)

Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid

― jel --, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
Muddy Waters - Hard Again

― o. nate, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 01:04 (eighteen years ago)

A bunch of Alvin Lucier pieces played by Charles Curtis and Anthony Burr.

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:13 (eighteen years ago)

Last week:

Toru Takemitsu's soundtrack work - Not as gd as I remember it when I first gave these a spin, they need the images otherwise the pieces on their own sometimes lack that variety, at the pieces play out too predictably for my liking. 'Rikyu' is a marvel tho', and some of the combos are neat.
Giorgio Netti - )Place( for string quartet is this week's discovery. Rocks on the timbral hyper-expressive exploration thingy!
Matthias Spahlinger - colours of spring, or whatev, a great - epochal(!) I think you'd call it - piece for 7 pianos, gets better w/every listen.
Michael Finnissy - Verdi Transcriptions. Not feeling it so far, but I'm sure this will change. Its Finnissy, after all.

Other bits and pieces - exploring more old mid-50s rock n'roll - gene vincent and the BIG BOPPER, etc.

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 April 2007 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

The Sundays

― Mark C, Friday, 6 April 2007 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

Though, the "Soul Britannia" prog on BBC4 last night was pretty cool and has encouraged me to seek out some soul and ska stuff.

― Mark C, Friday, 6 April 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

Oh and of course, last night I went to Peckham to see the group SKIP - Hugh Metcalfe alternating on gtr/violin/poetry reading/chair banging and Veryan Weston on piano playing to home made film sequences lasting half an hour - the greatest half an hour you could wish for. That ws preceded by some alternating Iranian and english songs on mostly lightly played piano and cello. Great evening.

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 April 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

the ropers, ride

― youn, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

― Sara R-C, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

Tõnis Mägi, 2 Teist
Steve Plews Trio, Secret Spaces
David Binney / Jeff Hirshfield, A Small Madness

― t**t, Saturday, 7 April 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

last night: ariel, kate bush; sand in the vaseline vol 2, talking heads; hot rocks, rolling stones; a whole bunch of live joy division stuff on you tube.

― akm, Saturday, 7 April 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

type o negative, dead again
lots of idm junk like secret mommy, boards of canada, venetian snares

― the sir weeze, Saturday, 7 April 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

herbie hancock - headhunters
black moth super rainbow - falling through a field (
the congos - heart of the congos
the stooges - the stooges
the glimmers fabric mix

― Michael B, Saturday, 7 April 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

Money For All, Nine Horses
Sound Body, David Toop

― t**t, Saturday, 7 April 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

Under Marié, "What What?" SP
Jim Messina, Oasis
Ginger Baker & The DJQ2O w/ James Carter, Coward of the County
Edwyn Collins & Orange Juice, A Casual Introduction 1981 / 2001
Paul Maccasir, McCartney
Brigitte Fontaine est...

― t**t, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

T**t will appreciate this -- the new Ans.Andur, which I'm reviewing for the AMG. It's v. good!

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

Ha?! So you like it, don't you? ...I think I've played a couple of tracks from it on the radio myself.

― t**t, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

(over a partly d-d-d-jayin' friday 13th & a full weekend-plus in teh heart o'country)

Hoppy Kamiyama, If I were a piano
Broken Social Scene, You Forgot It In People
James Brown, Dynamite X
Jon Lord, Sarabande
Noir Désir, des Visages des Figures
Clara Moreno feat. Celso Fonseca & Joyce, Meu Samba Torto

― t**t, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Adult. - Why Bother?
Dapayk & Padberg - Closer to Japan
Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
Gui Boratto - Chromophobia
Heinrich Mueller - Remixes and Masterpieces
Add N to (X) - Loud Like Nature
Jurgen Pappe - Nord Nord-West (12")
Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss

...and lots and lots of Motorhead

― kenan, Saturday, 5 May 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

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