So, what've you bought recently? (May 2004 → edition)

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I do download occasionally but I'm stuck with slow dial up speed up here. Took two hours to download !!! "Me and Giuliani Down by the Schoolyard (a true story)"

I could get a satellite for high speed but I heard those suck.

Jon, you picked up a couple of the greatest records ever made. How do you like Neu '75?

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Polmo Polpo - The Science of Breath

some other stuff I ferget.

Also, I'm going to pick up Einstein on the Beach in a box set of tapes.

Auburn Lull, Alone I Admire
The Coctails, s/t
Morrissey, Vauxhall and I
Some Girls, Feel It

I've been cash strapped, and these are the only one I've picked up in a couple months. Not so hot on the Coctails yet, but the others are lovely.

You seem to be in a pitch-black-album-cover-with-one-single-monolithic-object-on-it-(plus-Stereolab) phase... ;-)

From the last two weekends:

Sven Vath -- The Sound of the First Season
Mistress Barbara -- MB02
Atau -- Biorhythms
Mark Burgess and the Sons of God -- Zima Junction
Geoff White -- Questions and Comments
Timo Maas -- Loud
Applicance -- Are You Earthed?
Sigur Ros -- Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do
King Britt Presents Sylk 130 -- The Remixes
Ekkehard Ehlers, Franz Hautzinger, Joseph Suchy -- Soundchambers [I sprung a bit for this one, compared to the rest at least]

Magnetic Fields - i
Lali Puna - Faking the Books
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

all were $4 canadian used

White Mice EP

Lazy Magnet tape

pauline oliveiros- no mo
alan lamb- archival recordings
terry riley- reed streams*
richard barrett- chamber works*
xenakis- edrZ 15-16 (2Cds, one of electronic works, another of large orchestral works from the 50 and 60s)
futatsu by taku sugimoto and radu malfatti (2CDs
vinko glokobar- oblak semen*
henry cowell- dancing with henry*

*= second hand/sale

as for me,

acid mothers temple: in c
nico: the end (one of my favorite things ive heard all year)
ikue mori: labyrinth
amon düül: para dies warts düül
black dice: beaches & canyons
devendra banhart - oh me oh my...

also, i DLed todd rundgren - a wizard, a true star - thats a psychedelic freakout of an album...

Tied + Tickled Trio, 'Observing Systems'
Junior Boys, 'Last Exit' (I love half the songs anyway)
Jaga Jazzist, 'Day EP' (maybe I don't love this, but the title track and the Herbert remix are great)

his guitar DOES sound great.

hey, besides fahey and derek bailey, whos done creative acoustic guitar stuff? i like some early leo kottke, but thats just basically reinterpreted fahey... anybody? truthfully, i dont even know where to begin with d.bailey... i was similarly disappointed by ballads - just wasnt the entre i was looking for into his work.

I like some Fred Frith, as well (another usual suspect). For purely solo acoustic work, I think I like Clearing best. It alternates between ambient things, repetitive minimalist things, and slightly more song-like pieces ("Theatre").

This is more in a jazz vein, but the Duck Baker album "Spinning Song: The Music of Herbie Nichols" is pretty great - arrangements of Nichols tunes for solo acoustic guitar.

boodely beep boop beedley deedley boodley doop bop skronk!

Ralph Lundsten, Cosmic Love LP

The Vels, Velocity LP
Reinhard Voigt, Sturm 2LP

Dr. John, In the Right Place LP
Double Leopards, Urban Concussion LP
Group Ongaku, Music of Group Ongaku CD
Incredible String Band, The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion LP
(Various), I Remember Syria 2CD
(Various), Revolutions per Minute (The Art Record) 2LP (features Chris Burden, R. Buckminster Fuller, Joseph Beuys)
Alan Shorter, Orgasm CD
Alan Sondheim, Ritual-All-7-70 LP
The Zombies, Odessey & Oracle CD

This has some great stuff on it! I like the Burroughs piece, and the Terri Fox piece for very long piano wire. I don't actually own it, but it was a big hit on WXPN (back when it was interesting) when it came out.

Metal Urbain - Anarchy in Paris (replacing a couple of very played-out singles with this one!).

Baby Fox - Dum Dum Baby (Judging by the cheap price, I must have been the only person in the world looking for this album. But I was, and now I've finally found one.).

BERIO Coro (DG, Gr) from '75/'76,
BERIO Circles BUSSOTTI Frammento CAGE Aria With Fontana Mix (Time Records, US) Three long pieces, Cathy Berberian on vocals.
CHRISTOPHER HOBBS/JOHN ADAMS/GAVIN BRYARS Ensemble Pieces (Obscure)
RUDOLPH GREY Transfixed (New Alliance/EP! US) Mini-LP.
MESSIAEN La Nativite du seigneur/Diptyque (Ducretet-Thompson, Fr) 2LP box.
MESSIAEN Messe de la Pentecote (EMI, Fr). Another LP of organ works.
BORBETOMAGUS & FRIENDS Borbeto Jam (Cadence, US)
THE DEAD C Clyma Est Mort (Siltbreeze, US)
SONIC YOUTH Goodbye 20th Century (SYR, US) 2LP
MORTON SUBOTNICK The Wild Bull (Nonesuch)

CD:

the ex- tumult

That was what I was thinking.

gillian welch, time (the revelator)
louvin brothers, satan is real
black flag, first four years
capleton, in her heart 12"
the la's, s/t

Julio, what is the name of the Christopher Hobbs piece on this? (I think I have something on tape by him that I like, but it's one of those taped off the radio/not sure if I got the right name with the right piece/things.)

rockist- there's two, 'aran' on side one and 'McCrimmon will never return' (essentially a bagpipe duo with gavin bryars, so maybe its by both of them) on side two.

and something I forgot!

!!! - louden up now 2cd
two lone swordsmen - from the double gone chapel cd
black dice - creature comforts lp
black dice - beaches & canyons (2xlp, replacing my cd)
arthur russell - another thought cd
david byrne - feelings cd
roedelius - durch die wüste lp
roedelius - lustwandel lp
roedelius - wenn der südwind weht lp
cluster 71 cd
cluster - sowiesoso cd
the hidden cameras - mississauga goddam cd
joy zipper - american whip cd
serge gainsbourg - histoire de melody nelson cd
boredoms - super are cd
boredoms - visioncreationnewsun cd
lightning bolt - wonderful rainbow cd
nick cave & the bad seeds - the good son cd
the portables - rosegarden cd
the wicker man ost lp
ethiopiques #13: ethiopian groove cd

Not finished a first listen yet, but I already knew I like the piece "Scrapbook."

(1) - saw Anton Barbeau with the Lucky Bishops in Weymouth on Friday and they were great.
(2) - saw Brian Wilson performing Smile at Oxford on Saturday and it was completely and utterly breathtaking.

*this is really good (as seemingly everyone except for me already knows)

Yeah, it has CD-R stamped on the disc. Duh. I don't know where this was made, but I'm not going to complain. Presumably the Iraqi recording industry isn't in real good shape at the moment, so if someone (wherever) is putting together decent quality CD-R mixes of good Iraqi material, I'm willing to pay for it.

Conjunto Guaguanco Matancero is the beginning of the Afro-Cuban rumba group that later became Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, and the other group on the CD is now known as Los Papines. I'm still very new to rumba, but anyway, I like this.

Kako y Azuquita: Union Dinamica. This is pretty good. Unfortunately, the sound is incredibly bad (due to a flaw in the CD or remastering, not the original, I'm sure) on one of the best songs, "Guaguanco Soberano." I also find the bomba (and Kako is supposed to be especially good in that sort of context!) kind of draggy and could do without the merengue cut. I love Puerto Rican salsa, but the folkloric plena and bomba just doesn't hold my attention for very long.

Joe Cuba Sextette: Diggin' the Most. The Cheo Feliciano songs here are just about uniformly great, but that's what I expected based on everything I've heard that these two have collaborated on. I hadn't heard his take on "Oye Como Va" before, and it's very good. He does fast guaguancos, he does boleros. The English language songs sung by Jimmy Sabatier are less impressive and more kitsch sounding at this point. The audio quality is decent (compared to other Latin music reissues from the 60's).

Hector Lavoe: The Fania "Legends Of Salsa", Vol. 2.

Good. I think I like the second disc more than the first (and Vol. 1 more than Vol. 2). There's nothing here that I want to skip over, which isn't always true on the full albums. And I'm really happy to finally have a copy of "Juanito Alimaña."

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misha mengelberg 'two nights in chicago'
dave douglas tiny bell trio 'constellations'
cabalaire voltaire 'voice of america'

and I ordered the Annette Peacock reissue.

Nahj El Borda (live)
National Songs (parts one and three; two was inexplicably unlisted)
Hagartak (This is famous and important, but I forget why)

Fennesz - Venice
Mephista - Entomological Reflection (review forthcoming, RS)
So (Can't get over how good this is)
Oren Ambarchi - Grapes from the estate

And, for class, the 8-CD Norton Recordings (Gregorian Chant to the present)

Last thing I burnt off the library was L Subramanian - En Concert (Ocora, 1985), which may be the best Karnatak disc I've ever heard.

x-post, I look forward to your comments, but I'm not putting pressure on you.

(Oh, this song is better. Probably from the 40s or closer to.)

heat sensor - touch ep
asa-chang and junray - hana
joakim - fantomes
dorau/kohncke - durch die nacht
si-{cut}.db vs scanner - bovine revolver ep
venetian snares vs bong-ra - 4 adaptations of rossz csillag alatt szuletett
black dice - smiling off

most prized being the joakim lp, which i didn't even know existed. first listen indicates that it's typically stunning. outside of ewan pearson, where is the love for this chap?