Last X records you bought, 4th quarter 2003

new cd:
Prefuse 73 - "One Word Extinguisher"

used cd:
Alex Von Schlippenbach Trio - "Pakistani Pomade" (reissue)

Radio 4 - Gotham
Filter - The Amalgamut
The Frank and Walters - Trains, Boats and Planes
Headswim - Flood
Enon - Hocus-Pocus
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
Yes - Relayer (the new Rhino remaster)
Poster Children - Daisychain Reaction
Censurados - Confusão
Our Lady Peace - Gravity
Moonspell - The Antidote
Jane's Addiction - Strays

Afro-Cuban covers of Arabic songs, some unfamiliar, some very famliar to me. It's better than it deserves to be considering what a premeditated and staged sort of fusion it is. I will have to listen to the originals again, since I thought at least one of them was a tango (in the original). I don't know whether or not it's easier to go from a tango to son than or from an Arabic song to a son.

Asmahan is probably dancing in her grave, a drink in one hand and a cigarette in the other.

Joseph Ayoub: The Festival of Lebanese Music and Arabic Dabke Vol. 1.

I'd like more Lebanese folks music, and more Arabic instrumental music.

Alice Coltrane - Ptah the El Daoud
Six Organs of Admittance - Dark Noontide
Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages
Archie Shepp - Attica Blues
The Shangri-La's - Best Of (Mercury Years)
Scott Walker - Scott, Scott 3, Tilt
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels - Rev Up!
Faust - Faust / So Far
Can - Unlimited Edition
V/A - Acid Daze
Joe Meek - The Alchemist of Pop

I am not going to buy any more CDs* until my VISA bill is caught up. That's for real for real, this time. After that, I'm going to cut back so I can start saving more for bigger things. Maybe one or two a month.

Also music-related, I just got A. J.** Racy's new book Making Music in the Arab World: The Culture and Artistry of Tarab

Racy is also a pretty good musician, not just an ethnomusicologist/barely-tolerable-musician. I liked a CD he did with Simon Shaheen, despite being skeptical of both of them, after hearing other recordings by each. I've also seen them perform in Brooklyn, which I seem to remember as being good, though I hardly remember the details now.

*(not counting the three that come with the Music of Bahrain book I ordered a couple weeks back, which I'm probably not going to ever see anyhow, since it seems to have been printed in a very small edition)

**That's "Ali Jihad." I wonder if he is going by "A.J." now since it's probably more marketable in the west than having "Jihad" for one's middle name.

aksak maboul - un peu de l'ame des bandits (upgrading to cd, honeymoon killers bonus track is great, who has their album?)
Ami Yoshida - Tiger Thrush
Kaija Saariaho - 6 Japanese Gardens / 3 Rivieres Delta (yawn)
Helmut Lachenmann - Schwankungen am Rand (!!!, !!, !!!!)
Roland Kayn - works for orchestra & ensemble 1957-1974
Michael McNabb - Computer Music
Luc Ferrari - Acoustmatrix 3 Electronic Works
Mike Oldfield - Balm for the Walking Dead (rarities bootleg)

what's this like?

it's not what I expected; some of the instrumentalists actually play notes, on occasion. it's great though. the first thing I'd heard was Gran Torso for string quartet. one of his early goals was live acoustic concrete music, and that's Gran Torso all over, pitchless micro-sounds, intricately interrelated, very quiet and intense. that one would probably make a better first impression, it's the most extreme. but Kairos just put out a bunch of his stuff, so I'm checking that out next.

also just bought:

Heiner Goebbels - Eislermaterial

So, it's more than ten.

Haha so I thought I had all the Bowie I wanted. Somebody sold back ALL those recent Bowie reissues cuz the guy heard they're coming out on SACD. The second I heard "Queen Bitch" I realized I NEED MORE BOWIE.

Damn "Queen Bitch" is great.

I got the ReR mailout today, read the preorder announcement and got all lightheaded.

TOO MUCH MONEY SPENT ON MUSIC :(

Considering the Soul Jazz Britfunk one, 600% Dynamite and the Jehst album.

John Cage: Empty words live 2 CD set on sale!!!

that empty words set is probably the Italian recording that ends in the riot, right? it's a lot of fun.

Agalloch- Mantle
Neurosis- Sovereign
Nebula- Atomic Ritual
Mars Volta- DeLoused in the Comatoreum

Harmonia - Harmonia cd
Harmonia - DeLuxe cd
David Bowie In Bertolt Brecht's Baal ep

It´s pretty cool,have your heard anything by them or are you just interested because of the Jim Jarmusch thing?
I may trade it/sell it

Thanks for the compliment Scott M !

Overwhelming Colorfast - s/t
Doc Wor Mirran - The Music of Blood
Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland