Last X records you bought, 4th quarter 2003

you wanna know guilt? I d/l quite a few of those through slsk. 'quatre chants...' and claude vivier (in my defence, this is out of print), kaija saariaho 'private gardens' is terrific, also d/l tristan murail (but haven't got round to it yet) but i bought:

james dillon- helle nacht...
(also braxton quartet: london 1985)

David Bowie - Hunky Dory (1971, RCA)
John Cale - Music for a New Society (1982, Ze/Island)
Can - Moonshake (1989, Marcon Path)
Gang of Four - Solid Gold (1981, EMI)
Green - White Soul (1989, Megadisc)
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express (1977, Capitol)
Kraftwerk - Computerwelt (1981, EMI/Electrola)
Nils Lofgren - s/t (1979, A&M)
Loop - A Gilded Eternity (1990, Beggars Banquet)
Gram Parsons - GP (1973, Reprise)
Gram Parsons - Grievious Angel (1974, Reprise)
Iggy Pop - The Idiot (1977, RCA)
Iggy Pop - Lust for Life (1977, RCA)
Iggy Pop - Zombie Birdhouse (1982, Animal)
Primal Scream - Evil Heat (2002, Sony)
R.E.M. - Reckoning (1984, IRS)
Velvet Underground - VU (1984, Polygram/Verve)
Yung Wu - Shore Leave (1987, Megadisc)

plus a lot of other records all bought the last two weeks. I like England.....

my last purchase:
outkast speakerboxxx/love below
jay-z black album

Got today:

Arthur Russell - WOrld of echo Lp
Arthur Russell - Let´s go swimming 12"
49 Americans - Too young to be ideal LP
49 Americans - E pluribus... LP

Medicine - Shot Forth Self Living
Long Fin Killie - Valentino / Amelia
Levitation - Need For Not
Adorable - Against Perfection
Bardo Pond - Set And Setting
Acetone - Cindy

John Lee Hooker- Hooker n'Heat
I've been thinking about getting this one for years, then I heard the version of "Burning Hell" from it on a blues show and I really wanted to pick it up. It is a good record.

John Lee Hooker- His Best Chess Sides
I've got a couple of compilations of Hooker, but none of these cuts, so it seemed like a good fit.

Black Flag- My War
This is a Black Flag record I never had. It is better than what I had heard and will probably lead me to checking out the couple of other later records I never heard.

Beethoven - Compete String Quartets, The Lindays

Elgar - Symphonies 1+2, cond. by Elgar and Boult

The Essential Sly and the Family Stone

Neil Young - On the Beach

and on lovely vinyl for 50p each (all mint too!) :

OMD Sugar Tax
ABC - How To Be a Zillionaire
Kid Creole - Off The Coast Of Me
Pet Shop Boys - Behavior
Prince - Lovesexy
Prince - Parade
Underworld - Change The Weather

roland kayn- tektra (4 Cds for £25 is not bad at all)
derek bailey- duos 2001
john butcher/ vanessa mackess duo
henri pousseur on the Bvvast label
(those 3 on sale)
rune lindbald (sp?): a Cd of his concrete stuff

* - must have been in a extraordinarily nostalgic mood that day!

Until I took a trip out of town!
So euhh, the X just isn't enough:

Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth
Big Black - The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape
Botch - Unifying Themes Redux
Carter, Betty - The Audience With Betty Carter (2CD)
Coltrane, John - Interstellar Space
Coltrane, John - Olé Coltrane
Coltrane, John - Sun Ship
Davis, Miles - At Newport 1958
Davis, Miles - Complete In Personer At The Blackhawk (4CD)
Davis, Miles - Miles Smiles
Discordance Axis - Original Sound Version (2003 re-release)
Ellington, Duke - Money Jungle
Flying Luttenbachers, the - Infection And Decline
Gordon, Dexter - Go!
Hancock, Herbie - Crossings
Masada - 9: Tet
Necromantia - Cutts Of The Shadow (2CD)
Praxis - Metatron
Repulsion - Horrified (2CD)
Rollins, Sonny - Tenor Madness
Sanders, Pharoah - Thembi
Varathron/Necromantia - Black Arts Lead To Everlasting Sins

Tito Nieves: The Best. . .

The only Tito Nieves best of that I have any real use for, and even this has a fair number of songs I could do without. But it's nice to have the ones. Like a lot of salsa romantica, some of this material goes from very wimpy beginnings to fairly intense later sections. Unfortunately, some has wimpy office radio synthesizer all the way through. But, take the song playing right now: "De Mi Enamorate." The beginning strikes me as ridiculous and melodramatic, then it goes into a kind of blah wimpy section, but it turns into the sort of song that would get me onto the dance floor. There's some English language stuff on here, including a couple house tunes (which I actually don't hate). But of the salsa numbers, I think "Dejame Vivir" is great and "Le Gusta Que La Vean" is also very good, and reminds me of dancing outside in the summer.

The Rough Guide to Greece

I was excited about this based on some audio clips I listened to, but I'm disappointed. Still, it will at least help me get the names of a few performers I'd like to hear more from. Either way, I will be investigating Greek music further in the next few years, money permitting. I am starting to get some clues about what I might like, and I've found a promising looking U.S. distributor.

Gang of Four, Entertainment! (w/ only 3/4 of Yellow appended to it-- whoops)
The Kinks, The Kinks
The Kinks, Kinda Kinks
The Kinks, The Kink Kontroversy
The Kinks, Face to Face (all Castle editions w/ extra tracks)

used CDs:

Cocteau Twins, Head Over Heels/Sunburst and Snowblind
Erase Errata, Other Animals
Essential Logic, Fanfare in the Garden
The Locust, Plague Soundscapes
Solex, Low Kick and Hard Bop
Throwing Muses, The Real Ramona

I JUST FOUND A COPY OF LA MONTE YOUNG'S WELL-TEMPERED PIANO ON CD IN SUPER MINT CONDITION AT MY LOCAL RECORD STORE.

all second hand

joseph jarman: song for

and i get on the train and its school home time cos i've skived off early and i'm surrounded by 13-14 year olds and i keep the cover in my bag as i slip the disc into the walkman and i feel like a kiddy fiddler. and the disc is a bit meh anyway.

i can't remember all of what i passed up. hvratski's swarm & dither, a genesisi p.orridge spoken word thing, a two disc ardkore comp (had cookin' up yer brain on it). fucknows.

= i am an idiot.

This is very good. The worst thing about it is that it end too soon.

Various Artists: Salsa Dura de Cali
Haris Alexiou: Ta Laika Tis Haroulas

The salsa compilation seems pretty good, but I will comment later. (I think "Cali de Rumba" sounds way better loud on a club sound system when I am warmed up than it does on my home CD player, at a moderate volume. And I don't think that makes it weak-ass music, to allude to an old thread I was just taking another look at.)

Now playing Haris Alexiou. I know this song! I think this CD is going to be great. This makes me want to cook garlicky food.

I also ordered the Beginner's Guide to Arabic Music just to see what it's like, since it's on sale at cduniverse.com for a pretty reasonable price (considering it's a 3-CD set).

I think Alexiou is way more instantly accessible than most of the Arab stuff I recommend, and she's quite good.

The Dastan Ensemble with Shahram Nazeri: Through Eternity
Psaratonis: Cretan Music
Marke b03 label compilation

I know nothing about the latter.

Tom Newman - Fine Old Tom (very very silly)
David Bedford - Instructions for Angels (fucking horrible)
LFO - Sheath (already in return pile, confused)
Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons (I'm playing in a band with someone who sourced a loop from the song 'In Particular' which got caught in my head. Not sure about most of the rest of this album but this one song is very addictive)
Musique de la Grece Antique - Atrium Musicae de Madrid - Gregorio Paniagua
Jean-Francois Laporte - Mantra (Zambone Concrete)
Outkast - Aquemini
Dagmar Krause - Tank Battles
Zeek Sheck - Worcriers vs. The Care Company (wonderful, insane. especially track 3 & onward)

Iannis Xenakis - Oresteia
Bernard Parmegiani - La Creation Du Monde
Koji Asano - Spherical Moss Factory
Akiyama / Nakamura / Sugimoto / Wastell - Foldings
Toshimara Nakamura - No-Input Mixing Board (3)
Otomo Yoshihide - Ensemble Cathode
Albert Ayler - The Copenhagen Tapes

No more records this year now! Oh shit, the January sales...