Quick! What Are You Listening To In May 2007!

William Basinski Watermusic II
Lubomyr Melnyk KMH: piano music in the continuous mode
Loren MazzaCane Connors Portrait of a Soul

Lubomyr Melnyk KMH: piano music in the continuous mode

Hm! Tomorrow night he'll be performing, mmm, about a two-hour bus-ride from where I live. At a little festival. (Where, I've realized, I cannot go to:(

You live in Estonia? I was looking at that festival. It looks pretty cool.

Yep, it is a cool festival, that "Kumu öö". They've been doing this particular fest just for a couple of years, though the same organizers've done other fine events for musch longer ("HUH" or "Hea uus heli", e.g).

Betty Davis - s/t
DJ Quik - Live at the House of Blues
Ricardo Villalobos - Fizheuer Zieheuer
Sly and the Family Stone - A Whole New Thing
Mistah F.A.B. - The Baydestrian
The Knife - Silent Shout
Tropicalia: A Brazilian Revolution in Sound
Fulanito - Vacaneria!
Prince - Controversy
Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation
Zapp & Roger - All the Greatest Hits
Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Madvillian - Madvilliany

Oh, yeah. And...

Charlotte Hatherley - The Deep Blue
Crime Mob - Hated On Mostly
Ne-Yo - Because of You

Aaron Copland - Organ Symphony (Bernstein, Biggs, NYPhil)
CCR - Willy and the Poor Boys
Aa - gAame
Gary Numan - Pleasure Principle
Smithsonian Folkways Indonesian Music Vol 20 - Indonesian Guitars

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I am absolutely loving this album. It combines everything I love about 70s prog rock with everything I love about modern post-rock. I don't know if it was released in the US (although they've had lots of copies in the dollar bin near me), but you must check it out, Scott.

(It's Pure Reason Revolution - the Dark Third. Didn't realize that the title would be so hard to read.)

In the CD changer:

American Dog - Hard
Crime Mob - Hated On Mostly
Hot Chip - DJ Kicks
Joy of Cooking - Back To Your Heart
New England - Greatest Hits Live

Yep, it is a cool festival, that "Kumu öö". They've been doing this particular fest just for a couple of years, though the same organizers've done other fine events for musch longer ("HUH" or "Hea uus heli", e.g).

-- t**t, Thursday, May 24, 2007 3:14 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

http://moonfolk.blogspot.com/2007/05/kumu-vol2.html

t**t, this seems to be a review of the fest (though I can't find an estonian translator...) what did they think about Melnyk, etc?

listening to: Nu Creative Methods

the proclaimers - liked that one song the radio played back in the day but there's so many great tracks on their 1st 2 albums.

The sound of a CD being burned.

Lily Allen is still the best thing to happen this year.

Until the new White Stripes comes out, probably.

right now its the joakim resident advisor mix - top stuff
solomun & stimming stuff, obviously
hot chip's dj kicks
24 hours blog mix later
joakim's remix of cut copy

das it

That's your opinion, Bimble! ;-------o)

Btw this Charlotte Hatherley (The Deep Blue) album is fucking incredible! I need to rave about it a bit. This is as awful a description as I'll ever come up with, but it's like an underwater dream with periodic punk-pop interruptions (not actual pop-punk, more like if you told someone who'd never actually heard any actual pop-punk of its existence, and they had to work out what that sounds like in their own mind), but not as tuneless as that sounds. The melodies are absolutely wonderful, and her voice is unbelievably sweet. (Sorry, I just woke up.)

conlon nancarrows arrangement for ensemble modern
joni mitchell - court & spark
witthuser & westrupp - lieder von vampiren, nonnen und toten
piano music by nancarrow and antheil
oldham tinkers - for old times sake
deodato - 2
elsie carlisle collection
deep lancashire songs ballads and verse from the industrial northwest of england
flappers vamps and sweet young things 1924-1931
wayfaring strangers - ladies from the canyon
charlie haden - liberation music orchestra

highly recommend the first nancarrow one, only listened to a bit of the witthuser & westrupp so far, seems as good as trips & traume so far

also playing

sofia gubaidulina - musical toys [fourteen piano pieces for children]

oo - that particular blogger who mentions the mini-fest Kumu öö, writes 'bout Lubomyr Melnyk very briefly, saying basically that "the slightly hypnotising" Melnyk was their second favourite performer there -- after Jimi Tenor :)

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SO pissed i didn't know about the rhino handmade version of this when it came out. so i bought a bootleg. the bootleg is badly mastered and three or four tracks have horrible, jarring skips. but apparently water is going to reissue it shortly with EVEN LESS BONUS TRACKS (none, rather than two on the bootleg or five on the rhino). yay...?

way upthread somebody mentioned Mirror's "Visiting Star" and that is so freakin' good, side 2 is my favorite thing they did. Unwavering bliss-drone.

This week I have had a lot of free time b/c my girlfriend is out of town and I am in Peru with few distractions. So I've been catching up on stuff from the iPod that hasn't gotten a proper listen yet:

Day before yesterday:
two Jewelled Antler label comps, "Heat & Birds" and "Windswept Trees And Houses". The first one seems stronger but both are packed to the gills with the label's unique blend of folk/pysch/trance/environmental field recordings. That series of 3" CD-EPs they did is really good too.

V/A "In Fractured Silence" LP old United Dairies comp. One pretty run-of-the-mill side with Un Drame whatever-they-are doing vaguely prog-like improv scrape, and a Helene Sage musique concrete track that was OK at best. Side 2 picks up with a great Sema track (I want to talk about this band more on ILM, may need to start a thread) that is a shorter/different version (or edit, or something) of a track from their "Anatomy Of Aphrodite" album. Then a Nurse With Wound track ("Strange Play Of The Mouth, one of my faves) that of course is different than the version on Automating.

V/A "Hoisting The Black Flag" LP, another early UD comp. GREAT track by Truth Club (Robert Haigh's pre-Sema band), fantastic Lemon Kittens track, and of course another NWW track ("Duelling Banjos") that is totally and utterly different than the "regular" version on Automating #1. Also a very interesting track by David Cross (he was the violinist for mid-period King Crimson and somehow fell in with this scene), a fairly bland Hamilton/Duarte track, and two pretty bad early Whitehouse tracks.

V/A "Live at Target" LP. Never heard this before! Factrix sound way different than their albums, rawer and louder. Nervous Gender were pretty great, don't think I had ever heard 'em before. The Uns tracks were disappointing, I think I prefer his Z'Ev incarnation. And those Flipper tracks, of course, rule over 95% of the records I own. Somebody reissue this!

Yesterday:

Throbbing Gristle - Camber Sands 2002. Getting psyched up for their new album which I will buy the day I get home. This is a resounding return to form, the new stuff sounds great and the old stuff even better.

Sand - Ultrasonic Seraphim. Never gave this a proper listen and I think I could just listen to the first and last tracks all day. Some of the rest strikes an odd note, almost like a wanna-be 70's boogie band.

Amon Duul 2 - Phallus Dei. Fuck Yeah. "Luzifer's Ghilom" still blows my mind. Not as good as "Yeti", but what is?

Shub Niggurath - S/T cassette. I think this came from Noize Board, god damn what a piece of work. What else sounds like this weird dark chamber-prog mutation?

Also Cranioclast's "Lost In Karak" but I fell asleep to it. Today it's been a Sun City Girls day, gave a good listen to the most recent of the Eclipse double LP sets as well as the Piano Bar LP.

Up next: The Fall's Peel Sessions, discs 1-3. Can't wait!

Trouble Funk - Saturday Night Live. This is an mp3 rip from a old cassette recording. The sound isn't the best, but the performance is energetic and raw. Go go bands should only do live recordings. Good stuff.

This Heat - First Album. I'd only heard Deceit which I like well enough. This is rawer, meaner, and more abrasive. Made in an old meat locker. You can almost feel the dank walls closing around you.

OMD - Dazzle Ships. Don't fear the future.

Sun Ra: Janus

(A bunch of you should really get this.)

Yeah I've been listening to This Heat - s/t a fair amount too.

Scott, what's the deal with that Evans/Brookmeyer record? Does Brookmeyer play piano on it too? I thought he played, like, valve trombone or something weird like that. And is it only two pianos, bass and drums?

loren connors/alan licht LP
thomas f browne - wednesday's child
religious knives "luck"/"in the back" 12" (this is immensely killer.)
mark fry - dreaming with alice
blank dogs 7"
charalambides - market square
a lot of popol vuh
junior delahaye - showcase
royal trux - thank you
tom rapp - stardancer
phantom family halo LP (most anything on blackvelvetfuckere is awesome. along with hp cycle and, of course, siltbreeze, it's one of my favorite labels lately.)
the shadow ring - lighthouse

superfine dandelion LP
free design - kites are fun
jimme lunceford 37-39 LP (and a bunch of other prewar jazz LPs and compilations)
satwa LP
steve davis - music
brinsley schwarz - nervous on the road
high mountain hoedown

it's been a long month.

jimmy campbell - half baked
comus - first utterance
that dandelion reissue on guerssen is fucking great.
harry pussy - schoolbus 12"
ian matthews - valley hi
rick nelson - garden party
oblivians - popular favorites
bobby brown - enlightening beam of axonda
contact high with the godz
guided by voices - alien lanes
necros - conquest for death
crime - sf's still doomed
siege reissue LP

"Scott, what's the deal with that Evans/Brookmeyer record? Does Brookmeyer play piano on it too? I thought he played, like, valve trombone or something weird like that. And is it only two pianos, bass and drums?"

great record. and, yes, brookmeyer is well-known as a trombone player, but he played piano too. originally, he was just gonna duet a little in the studio on piano and play trombone as well, but they liked the sound of what they were doing so much, he never played any trombone on the album! and, yeah, they are backed by percy heath on bass and connie kay on drums. great two piano improv. you can tell they were digging it.

An archived music show about Brandon Ross & his music on WNYC (originally broadcast last February, and actually it'll be broadcast again tonight, as I understand...) Interview passages alternating with songs from BR's new alb. Puppet, that kind of thing.

Rush, Snakes & Arrows
Till Brönner,Oceana
James Brown, Dynamite X
Phlox, rebimine + voltimine

mix cds from my brother, "rock you like a hurricane" slamming right into obscure bollywood tunes, x and joe walsh and sugarcubes and a whole bunch of stuff that i never heard before

also: sandra st. victor, andy milne, color guard, bobby hutcherson, lil mama, m.i.a., ll cool j, heart, eilen jewell

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thelonious monk - it's monk's time
the byrds - notorious byrd brothers
joni mitchell - court and spark
bruce springsteen - the wild, the innocent, the e-street shuffle
JC & the microtones - cow people

Thelonious Monk - Criss Cross - I've been reading some of LeRoi Jones's jazz criticism from the 1960s recently, and thinking about his commentary on Monk's band of this period. He talks about Rouse's elegance on sax, and finds himself wishing that perhaps he were willing to be less elegant, that he'd been edgier, more willing to take risks - more like the "new" thing Jones heard in Coltrane, Ornette, and Rollins. As usual though, Monk preferred to chart his own course, in his choice of band-mates as in other things. Though it's interesting to think about what these pieces would have sounded like with a freer horn player, I'm not sure the end result would have been preferable. Rouse keeps the intricate wit and natural abrasiveness of Monk's compositions to the fore, and his elegance holds pleasures of its own. One thinks of the playful elegance of Satie's piano pieces - though Monk was never afraid to lob bombs at the listener as well.

Thelonius Monk - Brilliant Corners
Sly & the Family Stone - Riot & Fresh
Catherine Ribeiro & Alpes - first five albums
Rod Poole - December 96 for microtonal guitar

Thoughts on the Ribeiro? Her intensity and some of the musical turns are interesting, but I remember that material as never quite reaching being memorable or meaningful for me.

Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness
Brightblack Morning Light - s/t
Andy Partridge's Fuzzy Warbles Vol 1-5
early 70s Miles Davis live bootlegs from darkfunk
Pharoah Sanders - Karma

Ringo, Ringo Rama
("Someone's knockin' at the door/ someone's ringing the bell" - indeed!:)

right now i'm listening to the crippled youth 7". bonus tracks on the bold anthology cd. a favorite since 1987 or so.

Snivelling Shits - I Can't Come (comp of fake punks unreleased stuff, mostly not as good as the eponymous single unfortunately)
Cramps - Stay Sick!
Temptations - Psychedelic Shack (downloaded this thanks to ILM thread about it, it is most definitely a classic and I'm getting Cloud Nine now as well!)