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Continuing on from Rolling Psych/Drone/Freak 2005 Thread -- all suggestions/references/etc. here. And don't forget Terrastock in April either.

Anyway, Nemo at Time-Lag let me know the other day that the utterly wonderful Visitations have just released their third album through another Portland, ME label, though he's carrying copies for sale. So drop him a line at sinewave23@aol.com if you want to get one; I've already placed my order and am waiting impatiently...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 January 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

PANTHER SKULL!!! you think it's gonna be another one of those guy yelling+lumpy drum machine things, but it's actually quite lovely, hazy drone and tapes.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

you think it's gonna be another one of those guy yelling+lumpy drum machine things

Hahahah, that's one of the best/funniest descriptions I've read of that approach ever.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

MODERN CONTAINMENT.

― c(''c) (Leee), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

I think I must have me that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

can ned or someone remind me why terrastock is such an exciting prospect this year? i remember looking at the list of bands and my first reaction was: "Oh my god, how did they ever get Damon & Naomi to play!!??" Then I fell asleep. But maybe I'm forgetting some once-in-a-lifetime thang.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:48 (nineteen years ago)

i remember looking at the list of bands and my first reaction was: "Oh my god, how did they ever get Damon & Naomi to play!!??" Then I fell asleep.

Hahahahahahaha! I love you.

It's the first Terrastock I'm going to with a sense of comfortable familiarity instead of expected major surprises. But there are a few new bands there I'm going to enjoy checking out, a lot of the returning folks are always great performers, I'm going to meet the legendary Jon and Ian on THEIR HOME TURF and it'll be a chance to visit Boston again as well and see Dan and the crew there. Besides, you're sorta there too! Come over for a visit.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

you never know. sometimes i go somewhere. not often though. we are very close to boston & providence.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:58 (nineteen years ago)

Hopefully my interview with the

BARDO POND.

― c(''c) (Leee), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

terrastock has ghost, charalambides, and tom rapp. that's enough for me. and even if it weren't: black forest/black sea, matt valentine & erika elder, sonic youth, lightning bolt, major stars, jack rose, urdog & cul de sac!

and you should go so we can drink a beer. together.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

maybe i will go with my brudder. we could road trippppp it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

:-D

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

i will try and get some elessdee for those interseted.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 03:52 (nineteen years ago)

: 0

― blunt (blunt), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

slip ned a tab when he's not looking

― DR. O. RLY (eman), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 03:58 (nineteen years ago)

Damned drug fiends.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

maybe you should go to HELLFEST instead of terrastock, ned.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 04:27 (nineteen years ago)

i suppose i best get on with making my terrastock plans...

― bb (bbrz), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Man, here's a treat -- heard about this the other day via the Marc Almond fan service, but I guess if it's appropriate for any thread it's this one (though probably it deserves a thread of its own). Durtro is releasing it -- a 5 CD charity set called Not Alone. Cheap at $25 plus postage, and the tracklisting is kinda mindboggling:

Disc 1: irr.app.ext – Fly Away and Then What? (4:12) • Damon and Naomi – A Song For You (4:09) • John Contreras – Brian (3:48) • Mirror – Forgotten Language of Light (4:58) • Fursaxa – In Lieu Of (2:33) • Baby Dee – When You Found Me (4:04) • Howie B – Yesterday I Was a Cow (4:24) • Tom Recchion – Sea World (3:09) • Matmos – A Song for the Appeal (3:39) • Blue Eyed Black – Sweet Shadow Heart (2:45) • Eric Lanzilotta – An Exploration of a Spacious Yet Enclosed Domain (excerpt) (7:04) • Little Annie – Freddy and Me (4:19) • Colin Potter – It’s Coming (5:06) • Keiji Haino – fleeing panic-stricken shriveled equal temperament (6:04) • Allen Ginsberg – On Another’s Sorrow (4:04) • Devendra Banhart – A Sight to Behold (3:02) • David Surkamp – With Out Borders (4:52)

Disc 2: Jarboe – Mantra (7:10) • L – The First Flower People (6:51) • Richard Buckner – Do You Want to Go Somewhere (2:42) • Cyclobe – Indulge Yourselves With Our Delicious Monster (3:30) • Six Organs of Admittance – You Will Be the Sun (2:46) • Dolly Collins – Poor Sally Sits a Weeping (1:53) • William Basinski – Because (2:43) • Edward Ka-Spel – Sticks & Stones (version) (6:49) • Larsen – Il Sogno Di Momi (4:10) • Vashti Bunyan – The Same But Different (3:20) • Angels of Light – Song For My Father (3:43) • Thighpaulsandra – Star Malloy (6:11) • Suishou no Fune– In the Clouds (4:06) • Pantaleimon – Change My World (Alternative Mix) (5:12) • Aube – Movement (5:03) • Mr Durt – Denial (5:33) • Michael Yonkers – Somebody (3:20)

Disc 3: Bevis Frond – Someone Always Talks (2:40) • Sarah Hallman – Snowballin’ (3:04) • Faun Fables – The Transit Rider (4:21) • Luke Doucet – Unbelievable (3:39) • Jad Fair – Right on the Line (2:17) • Unveiled – Endless (3:19) • Antony – Hole In My Soul (6:38) • Charlemagne Palestine – Espoir Guerison (8:26) • Alex Neilson & Richard Youngs – House of Constant Song (3:42) • Anomoanon – Hit the Road (4:00) • James William Hindle – Back Home Again (3:52) • Isobel Campbell – The Beat Goes On (3:04) • The Bricoleur – Prah Pip Ta (5:01) • Sorrow – Long Dark Shadow (4:32) • Teenage Fanclub – I Need Direction (Alternative Version) (3:40) • Mary 5E – Therapy (4:59) • Sundial – Crazy Horses (2:56)

Disc 4: Jeremy Reed – Helioqabalus (1:54) • NQ Arbuckle – Huntsville Affair (5:06) • Shannon Lyon – No Thing (1:40) • The Hafler Trio – The Work of Washing (5:04) • Marissa Nadler – Judgement Day (4:33) • Max Richter – Flowers for Yulia (6:29) • Bill Fay – It’s the Small Things Now (2:52) • Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Song for Doctors Without Borders (3:17) • Lynn Jackson – Waiting for the Sky to Fall (4:32) • Nurse With Wound – Ubu Noir (3:59) • Clodagh Simonds – The Glacial Lake (3:48) • Shirley Collins – Come My Love (2:49) • 7 Year Rabbit Cycle – Pirates (3:47) • John Terrill – Stoney Mansion (3:39) • Brett Smiley – Our Lady of the Barren Tree (3:38) • Linda Perhacs – Parallelograms (4:35) • Current 93 – Sunset (3:34) • Pearls Before Swine – Our Lady (3:11) • Thurston Moore – Sex Addiction (5:17)

Disc 5: Marc Almond - Our Love My Love (2:46) • Simon Finn – Crow Flies (2:01) • Stephanie Volkmar – The Gate of Polished Horn (3:23) • Small Creatures – City of Dreams (3:54) • Thee Majesty – Thee Seeding Ship (4:42) • Jim O'Rourke – Naoru (2:07) • Scott Stapleton – Shadow Makes a Snow Angel (2:43) • John Maslen – Everything Was Handed Down (3:44) • Jooel – Over the Sea (2:42) • Ghostigital – Bump (4:39) • Amy Curl – The Robin’s Tiny Throat (6:57) • srmeixner – Wild Spaces (excerpt) (4:02) • Mount Vernon Arts Lab – (0:47) • Coil – Broccoli (6:54) • Shock Headed Peters – Aaron’s Rod (Spared) (4:12) • Ghost – Daggma (8:28)

Meanwhile, today has been a good day for listening to the three Visitations albums one after another. (More Visitations-related mysteriousness, I learn from the most recent album, can be found here).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 14 January 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Holy smokes, I was just thinking of posting that! I'd even copied the tracklisting and everything.

― superultramega (superultramarinated), Saturday, 14 January 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, where can I find some Visitations stuff on the web? CD's for sale and sound samples. Googling isn't leading me to anything, and I don't see anything on Time Lag's webpage either.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Saturday, 14 January 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Visitations are, according to Nemo at Time-Lag, almost notoriously private. That link up there -- http://www.kraag.org/ -- is as good as it gets, but it's not even them (as far as I know), more fellow travellers in Portland, Maine who happened to release the newest album. I've joined the Kraageek mailing list, at least.

I've asked Nemo before if Visitations would be interested in an interview and he was discouraging, and they pretty much want to stay off the web otherwise, at least publically. Nothing wrong with that, but as you say, it's pretty hard to keep track of them as a result. Being on the Time-Lag mailing list is about the best way to know what's happening -- Nemo distributed the first CDR in 2004, did a 'formal' CDR release last year as well as the solo project from the dude in the band, then mentioned this new effort plus an upcoming live show in Portland in his last mailout. And that's about it!

(Alas, I've just discovered that said newest album, or at least my copy of it, was a blank or a bum burn, so I've dropped Nemo a line to see what can be done.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 14 January 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

I should also add that I gather the first CDR is long sold out -- the lathe-cut single definitely is -- as is the Time-Lag release.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 14 January 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

MUST HAVE BOX SET OMG

― sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 14 January 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

kraag is run by the id m theft able dude, i think. maybe along with the crank sturgeon guy. both producers of totally amazing surrealist voice collage stuffs.

― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Saturday, 14 January 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

whoa charity boxset must have shockah

who's heard it?

― rizzx (Rizz), Sunday, 15 January 2006 02:34 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, that box looks pretty ill, no doubt.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 15 January 2006 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

and f.. u for posting that link to kraag. i cant c no mo' yo

― rizzx (Rizz), Sunday, 15 January 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

i saw idm theftable in providenceback in the day and it was really BORING.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 15 January 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

I'll post this here, too, because it's so gorgeous:

Of Montreal, "More Noir Blues and Tinnitus"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 15 January 2006 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

I was listening to the Nathan Fake album thinking, this is great modern electronic psychedelic music.
I think Gas is too and to an extent basic channel.
Please tell me more.
Ecstasy Of Saint Theresa's second album is definatly up there for me as well.

― Lurk Me Up, Monday, 6 February 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I'd like to call your attention to this:

super numeri 'the babies'

from the new record 'the welcome table'.

also, the 5-disc jnana/durtro msf comp has shipped to people who pre-ordered.

― superultramega (superultramarinated), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

Noted. And I am anxiously awaiting that comp! :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 01:57 (nineteen years ago)

oh me too yum yum

― sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

I picked up a Visitations cdr from Time-Lag and the shit is completely bonkers. In the best possible way. Total derangement. I'm having trouble finding comparisons or a description, even. Alien folk chants, or something. Like Amon Duul I with less drums and more drugs?

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'm happy that people are discovering Visitations. The initial CD-R is such a terrific terrific bug-fuck of an album.

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Yes yes, and yes to all that. And yes again. (We're talking about the one in the blue felt cover as opposed to the first 'official' one? Both are fantastic, but in different ways.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, the one I've got is in a cardboard sleeve with a photo of a flying squirrel on one side and like a church steeple on the other.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Hm, that might be the new one released by Kraag? I know Time-Lag's selling copies, but I don't remember my cover being like that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, it is on Kraag! There was a piece of construction paper in the package with the Kraag URL written over and over on it. It's good.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that's the newest, then. Extremely excellent but as the Equator Lounge and I agree, the first two also need to be sought out...though they're out of print, alas.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

the box set has arrived in sunny los angeles and it's beautiful. all proceeds go to doctors without borders to fight hiv/aids in africa. buy one now!

― dan (dan), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

Sweet, hopefully mine will be here today too. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

anyone know anything about an australian band called Spores of the Golden Beard? supposed to sound a bit like Angus Maclise, which is exciting (to me, at least).

― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

Loving the GHQ record, Cosmology of The Eye. Sort of a cross between a subdued Double Leopards (Marcia Bassett contributes to GHQ) and raga acoustic a la Six Organs.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

sorta like Pelt

― a, Wednesday, 22 February 2006 23:45 (nineteen years ago)

Where is this Visitations cd/r on Time-Lag? Looking around on Time-Lagrecords.com, I don't see it listed anywhere.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 23 February 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

It might not be in the official catalog, so try it through Kraag -- http://www.kraag.org/

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 February 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

(If you mean the two earlier ones, you're out of luck, as both are very out of print. I've said this up above, so please, new Visitations fans, read the whole thread first! ;-) )

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 February 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

Just ordered the Visitations cd-r from kraag.org. Seemed like a nice guy. I'm looking forward to hearing this after Ned has been spreading the Momussage about it.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 23 February 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

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a lock for my top ten is geoff mullen's "thrysxtrllnmnfstns" on keith whitman's entschuldigen label. guitar, banjo, delay pedals, and i don't know what else. some of it sounds like pre-endless summer fennesz without the computer. some of it sounds like an erstwhile trio. some of it sounds like the other hundred people doing lofi fahey-noise-drone, but with a lot more thought and quality control involved. really beautiful.

― dan (dan), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

A while back, we had a short discussion about which Phil Pearlman project was the best, and I voted for Beat of the Earth. But now I am changing it to the Electronic Hole. What helped me change my view was a recent afternoon party involving lots of California sunshine, this record, and a vaporizer!

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Thursday, 8 June 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

More random goodness down the pike -- I really liked the Ilyas Ahmed stuff I picked up from Time-Lag at T6 and now there's a new CDR which I've schnagged, Speaking of Shadows. Extremely good, so ask Nemo if he has any left. Voice/guitar/shadowy minimal/beautiful weirdness, continuing impact of Six Organs I guess, though I'm trying to remember where the interview was I read with him recently. On Digitalis I think. He doesn't seem to have a web page and I haven't heard back from his e-mail address yet so catch this guy as you can, apparently he regularly wanders and tours.

Meantime, thanks to Dream I got hold of Alela Diane (Menig) -- she's very friendly and her CDR The Pirate's Gospel is keen. She has herself a myspace spot with music if you are so inclined.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

the good stuff house cd-r on time-lag is awesome.

i second ned's recommendation of the ilyas ahmed stuff.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

so much good shit around, it's impossible to keep track of everything. exhausting but awesome. the new Wolf Eyes, River Slaughter kills me, terrific. The Skaters new album as well and i need to hear the triple split between Sunroof! Double Leopards and Mouthus.

― rizzx (Rizz), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

"Strands Formerly Braided" comp with Keenan Lawler, Spiderwebs, Mike Tamburo/Matthew McDowell is beautiful.

Big thanks to Dan up the thread for recommending the Geoff Mullen album. It's a stunner.

Also enjoying the Mark Fosson Lost Takoma Sessions on Drag City.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

the good stuff house cd-r on time-lag is awesome

is this called Same? Cos that is indeed awesome

― rizzx (Rizz), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

Gotta get me that Geoff Mullen album.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Meantime, newest discovery -- the Weird Weeds, via their new album Weird Feelings. Hadn't realized the connections via Jandek, Tom Carter (specifically Spiderwebs) and Deerhoof at all but they make total sense and the album's a treat.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

I think I read this whole thing, so hopefully no duplication: Ned mentioned Sunbeams, and I've got a couple. Really impressed with the remastering, especially on headphones, and they seem to be legit. So far, though, I'm not that crazy about G.F. Fitz-Gerald's Mouseproof (1970), even though he's got good performers, like Judy Dyble, the Fairpost singer before Sandy Denny; Rick Kenton, later of Roxy Music; Geoff Leigh, who played with Gong, Henry Cow, and Kevin Ayers(etc etc). And some thoughtful compositions, but he's also got so much nervous energy, a lot of it seems too harried (and too short, de to speediness)for the intended contemplation. Not all of it ("May Four," a sweet floating ballad with Judy in the canyon, turns out to be about the Kent State shootings). According to the notes, he had meant to do all instrumentals, so the vocal arrangements, incl for his own valiant but overtaxed pipes, might've been a big source of the stress. Still, it might grow on me. But so far, I prefer Wizz Jones' The Legendary Me, also from 1970. He already had a decade of busking under his belt, had travelled with Clive Palmer, for inst. Got over his awe at superior chops of Jansch and Renbourn (doesn't mention Davey Graham or Martin Carthy), insofar as, "I can't do that, but I can do this," with lucid, thoughtful vocals and picking, good trad like "Willie Moore" and "Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning" and he had a source of new material from Alan Tunbridge, who was an artist, not a performer, but wrote cynical lyrics at home in smooth-to-snakey tunes.(The only one that goes too far is "Put A Little Label On It": is that really all those ol' hifalutin scientists and philosophers were doing?) Wizz mellows them out just enough to add a little sugar to the pill, not too much. (Sort of like Loudon Wainwright III in effect, though not in actual sound; I guess that's closer to something Pentangle-related, and he does cover "Needle Of Death," for that matter, but the way he sings it, esp. after Alan's songs, seems a little too sweet, and so are Jansch's lyrics). Good to listen to after the extravangzas of Particle's mostly excellent Transformations, for instance!

― don (dow), Saturday, 22 July 2006 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

Transformations Live For The People, that is.

― don (dow), Saturday, 22 July 2006 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

"extravaganzas" heh. Also sweet but gravitational is Michele's Saturn Rings(1969), on Fallout (guess it's legit too). She was a backup singer for Curt Boettcher, and he contributes about half the songs, she writes several(more erratic than Curt's), with some paranoid lyrics from Bobby Jameson AKA Chris Lucey. Elliott Ingber of the Mothers plays some very strange, strangled and maybe dissected guitar, and some of it may have been recorded in Curt's hall closet, odd sound at times, but mostly effective. Lowell George plays, but not guitar, a guy from the Association does something, and Michele shows off her professional background singer agility just enough for headphonerushes, on occasion.This is more Laurel Canyon smog-pop-acid-folk than anything heavy, though.

― Rudy Wontfail (dow), Saturday, 22 July 2006 03:44 (nineteen years ago)

got a couple new things today, both excellent:
valley of ashes "cavehill hunters association" 3LP (rural improvs sometimes veering into trad gras or amon duul territory. from the kentucky axis of virgin eye blood bros, sapat, etc.)

and the new sun city girls, "djinn funnel" recorded 99-01, instrumental psych jams. good ones, too. french LP.

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Sunday, 23 July 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

there's a couple new anla courtis albums out. anyone heard them? i am interested, especially since i re-realized how fucking great albumina blues is.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 23 July 2006 03:58 (nineteen years ago)

the new dialing in on pseudo arcana is some of the best drone i've heard in ages - well, since the starving weirdos whose praises i believe i have already sung.

― j fail (cenotaph), Sunday, 23 July 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

i haven't heard ANY of courtis's solo stuff. would albumina blues be the one to start with? is it actually warped blues of some sort or is that just a JOEK?

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Sunday, 23 July 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think the 'blues' ever quite registered in the title for me, at least not in the musical sense (made me think of gouache or something). four long drones in his tascam-concrete style and i think they're all based on guitar. dreamy and a bit weird, like his noises in reynols stretched out to earth/sunn proportions (in fact i'd say this kicks ass all over sunn but i'm not really a fan).

i don't know if there's any central YSI-ing station for ilm ppl but i'd be happy to rip and deposit it for anyone that wants to check it out.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 23 July 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

and yeah, it's probably a good starting place. he generally uses the same techniques for his solo stuff (and some of the reynols releases like blank tapes) with different sound sources.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 23 July 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

not really feelin this new Leafcutter John: the kind of guy who nibbles on Anglo-Middle Eastern fFolke routes the better to convey lowkey but not succinct indications of pathos and anxiety. Use of electronics ("post-electronica" re awed Wire quote) not so whelming.Song near the end seems to have post-owls joining in on chorus, should've fed them more, but that might soothe pathetica. But a couple tracks have good sets of changes and might be okay in mixes.

― don (dow), Sunday, 23 July 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

Leafcutter John is way too tame to make an impression.

I like the Stuart Busby double 3" album, North/South a lot. also on pseudo arcana. reminds me of that Johann Johannsson album with the difficult title

― rizzx (Rizz), Sunday, 23 July 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

wow

http://www.michigannoise.com/

also, coming up, a 500th release anniversary boxset by American Tapes. Supposedly with 25 cd's and a dvd!

― rizzx (Rizz), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, Leafcutter John will need to find other employment. Here's some modern zones: http://www.uweekly.com/story.php?iidart=3434

― don (dow), Thursday, 27 July 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

I just got the Taj Mahal Travellers and the Pandit CDs that I mentioned up thread and OMG they are among the best things I've ever heard. Thanks for the recommendations! Now can someone kindly guide me through the Foxglove and Digitalis back catalogs? There is just so much of it. What's good and what should I avoid.

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 03:06 (nineteen years ago)

Er, well, where to begin...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

just start with their latest stuff. Brothers Of The Occult Sisterhood's Goodbye and With Throats As Fine As Needles are both fantastic. So is Kyrgyz, The Christina Carter and We've record and Hush Arbors

― rizzx (Rizz), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Nedpaws...
That new Weird Weeds record – with the possible exception of maybe the third song – is severely underwhelming. The previous album was sorta okay but this one’s like a distillation of everything I hate about this scene: vocals too loud (esp. the dude, omg I hate his voicE), instruments (mostly) too quiet, the music boring, barely existant, on life support.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, you don't appreciate subtlety! Grr!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

who else is psyched on the youngs/galbraith/neilson rekkid just out on time-lag? i know i am.

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

I'd really like to hear that collab.
So so broke, story of my life :(

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

That being said, there is a Foxy Digitalis Sale going on. These are mostly older titles that they haven't sold out of yet, but there is definitely some great stuff in there.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

The new Goslings album on Archive is great. Archive are one of my favourite labels just now. Everything they release is quality. Packaging/Design is always great too. Always in limited quantities though and sell out fast(especially the live Boris, Sunno))),Growing, Earth,Khanate).
I can't wait for the acoustic Bardo Pond live cd which was put back til end of the month.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 6 August 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

it's been a long time. whats new? we gotta keep this on top people!

I love some new stuff. Like the Nmperign/Jason Lescalleet double album, it's very very fascinating.

Also the Flaherty/Corsano/Yeh cd, A Rock in the Snow. Crazy freepunkjazz. Also, Human Animal is tightening its grip around me. Intrigued by the spaces, as always with Wolf Eyes.

So much more....Graveyards' Bare Those Excellent Teeth, Pedestrian Deposit's Fatale, Jazzfinger's Autumn Engines, Geoff Mullen's The Air In Pieces

― rizzx (Rizz), Sunday, 3 September 2006 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

how's the Bardo Pond album?

― rizzx (Rizz), Sunday, 3 September 2006 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

anything new?

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

cc boots snake remus etc 3xlp box set on hp cycle: the zenith of modern 'acid' folk (blatantly by the same folks who brought you terry and jim collins) interspersed with some wanky field recordings.

― a (rslvd), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

but on the whole, dreadfully quiet.

― a (rslvd), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

oh bonus 'on earth'!! beautiful thick drones.

― a (rslvd), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

cc boots snake remus etc 3xlp box set on hp cycle:

uh... what? i saw "terry and jim collins" and that part made sense.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

okay i looked at the HP cycle website... where the fuck do i order it?

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 23:03 (eighteen years ago)

Richard Youngs/Alastair Galbraith/Alex Neilsen record on Time-Lag is fucking fantastic. Better than HP Cycle's Youngs/Neilse record from a year or whenever ago.

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Thursday, 28 September 2006 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

I've been meaning to revive this thread, all sorts of stuff coming around. The new Larkin Grimm is v. v. good.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 28 September 2006 01:11 (eighteen years ago)

ian otm

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Thursday, 28 September 2006 02:12 (eighteen years ago)

Better than HP Cycle's Youngs/Neilse record from a year or whenever ago.

This the Beating Stars record? I loved this one. Will have to check that out.

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 28 September 2006 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

I'm liking the Dream/Aktion Unit record on Volcanic Tongue. Also Keiji Haino/Sitaar Tah! -- Haino vs. sitaar orchestra complete with throat singer. Fantastic.

Also - DUDES - Sandy Bull, Still Valentine's Day, 1969 on Water. Totally essential.

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 28 September 2006 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

I loves me some Sandy Bull. I wish Water did LPs.

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Thursday, 28 September 2006 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

CONTEMPORIZE, MAAAAAAAAN...

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Thursday, 28 September 2006 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

GOD PUNCH knows this from asking me on Rolling Metal Thread Pt. 2, but I'll mention here also that http://anthologyrecordings.com (launching on Oct. 6) will have some good reissued rarities (download-only on this home site, apparently, and via iTunes and others, but also some CDs on Amazon, etc., I think; that's what the press release seems to indicate)(if you opt for download, can get single tracks, make your own Anthology anthology). Most relevant to this thread is Parson Sound, Swedish psyche jams, '66-'89, maybe an influence on Can, I prefer Disc 2, but both got guitar x electric cello, real good drums, good sax, okay vocals. If you want something early 70s (speed and strychnine in the "acid"): My Solid Ground and Saint Anthony's Fyre. Second round will incl Traffic Sound. Also, a fair amount of relevant stuff (MP3s in current reviews, streaming audio in archive): http://www.paperthinwalls.com

― don (dow), Thursday, 28 September 2006 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

Will the Parson Sound have anything in addition to the stuff that was on the anthology that came out a few years ago on subliminal?

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Thursday, 28 September 2006 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

oops: should be " '66-'69" for Parson Sound (although some of those guys were active later, may have something going today)Not familiar with the previous anthology.

― don (dow), Thursday, 28 September 2006 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

The new Xela album caught me very much by surprise this morning, really involving stuff.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 28 September 2006 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

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