What are you listening to 2013?

Sister Rosetta Tharpe Shout Sister Shout
1st disc of a Proper 4cd set. Not heard the rest yet. But this is pretty great
sounds very blues based, this disc spans late 30s to early 40s so contemporary
with Robert Johnson etc. Sounds it, not sure how different I'm expecting Gospel
to sound, but I guess the mainstream is pretty different.
She hasn't really got into electric guitar that much yet but is playing very
rhythmically. Think 2nd disc may be even better, looking forward to hearing this
through.

Honky Tonk Heroes
this is a more widespread sampling of 40s/50s country than the title would
suggest for the most part. I'm not sure to what extent the artists on here would
be categorised as Honky Tonk there are bits of bluegrass among other things
here. Anyway it came on the front of the Gram Parsons covered Uncut and hangs
together pretty well.
Would have loved to get something like this back when I was getting into the Gun
Club/Nick Cave etc. Reminds me I'd love to get the text of the Gun Club NME
interview where the writer goes through the list of delta blues/early country
artists that JLP was probably influenced by. Came in the edition with JLP on the
cover with his blond hair blowing in the wind
http://pinterest.com/pin/139400550937438550/ (if that works).

Django Django
art-rock/prog/krautrock/psych stuff from last year.
There are some very interesting instrumental textures on here but so far I'm not
100% convinced by the vocals. Do like the Tiger Mountain era Eno-isms of Hail
Bopp but not so much the Beach Boysish stuff later on. Maybe a few more listens
will get me there more.

Sensation's Fix Music is painting
Krautrock like musical meditations recorded by an Italian partially in Virginia.
Really like bits of this but may take a few more listens to get everything else
to sink in.
A band that I've seen recoomended for years, here in alternative and remixed
form largely. Have been told the 1st 2 studio lps at least are worth checking
out.

Sun Ra Old Waldorf San Francisco 4/4/81 disc2
pretty spaced out set from one of my favourite periods of the band, the turn of
the 80s.
He's covering some of the swingish material in a very spaced out style.
Same could be said for
Nuclear War.
weird that lp being out through Y the label run by Pop Group etc.
That has some really other takes on standards like Charlie Chaplin's Smile with
June Tyson's vocals & whatever keyboard Ra himself was playing.

Grateful Dead Two From The Vault
think I heard pretty much all of the first disc in random order on my walkman as
I came home. Random is supposed to cover a lot of different artists so not sure
why it got stuck on the same one.
Do love this band especially about this time, August '68. Was trying to think
when '69's purple period was but not sure beyond possibly the February run that
most of Live Dead comes from.
In '68 and '70 there are months from which pretty everything electric is
staggering. These being August '68 and May '70 especially.

Fusioon Absolute
this does sound even better on my 3-changer stereo than it did on my portable
cd-player thing at my mother's. Very interesting. Really, not hearing the
Egg/Soft Machine thing that much anymore. Worth hearing anyway.

various other bits & pieces that will probably come back to me later. & the
usual endless surprise of what my walkman throws up at me from the 350 hours it
has stored on it.

Reading
The White Goddess
finally getting around to reading this, though not sure to what extent I can
really read this on puublic transport. think it's too in depth, could be wrong.

Iceberg Slim Pimp
so far only read the introduction but looking forward to reading the rest of
this, been meaning to pick it up for years.Autobiography of Iceberg Slim one
time pimp and the name source for Ices T & Cube.
Also got Trick Baby when I picked this up, which was £2 in HMV whereas Pimp was
a 2 for £10 thing which lead me to buying the Keith Moon bio Dear Boy cos it was
in the same promotion

Dark Star oral history of Jerry Garcia
verry interesting. Finally replacing a copy that was nicked with a box of other
books as I moved out of a shared place just before the turn of the millenium.
I'd moved things into the hallway to load into a taxi that didn't turn up, left
them overnight and then found out that it looked like a box was missing. Wish
I'd numbered them, not been able to replace some of the other contents yet.

Mati Klarwein the new book of 52 covers etc
lp sized book with ability to look at images in great detail. have loved the
guy's art since I first saw it so this was a great thing to get for Xmas. Have
hoped for something similar for years.

TimeMazine 5,6,7
Greek produced psychedelic fanzine of great interest & quality. Some very
revealing interviews with psychedelic artists. Today I read about Gary Duncan's
black ops work in early 60s Vietnam which he thinks may have actually started
the war.
Each edition comes with a full length cd compi, could do with the last 2 of
which having labels cos I think I'm pretty bound to confuse them, both being
white. Anyway great listening.

Ugly-Things #34
as great as usual, not sure if anything stands out quite as much as the Johnny
Echols interview in the previous edition or the multi-part Misunderstood story
of a fw issues back but great nonetheless.
Did really enjoy Cyril Jordan's story of the British Invasion era in San
francisco. Also the article on Detroit's Spikedriver's whose cd I picked up a
couple of years back and is very good, shame they fell apart before they really
got anywhere.
anyway, pick this up and you'll probably enjoy it.

Watching
Jack Reacher
very atmospheric film , visceral, violent and better than I thought it was going
to be. Not sure who I'd rather have than To m Cruise in th etitle role, think he
just about pulls it off but think there may be better candidates.

Inglorious Basterds
in which Tarantino rewrites the history of the demise of one of the great
despots of the 2oth century without apparently caring. Bit of a drag with the
subtitles, think I probably need to get a bigger, normal size tv finally.

Stevo

basically just 'fuck u all the time' I mean yeah

ivan cattaneo - "darling" (10 times in a row)
matmos - in lo fidelity
sci hi - who trusts crucible? crucible trusts no-one
swingle singers - swingling telemann
eliane radigue - feedback works
constance demby - sunborne
f.c. judd - electronics without tears
korzynski / zulawski- the devil OST

oh no, still up

jorge reyes - the flayed god (had this for years, only figured out how tremendous it is this week)
judee sill - heart food
moebius & story
tim perkis - motive
both of these at once left looping on the second monitor: ballet (also starring: ballet on dvd)

Rolling Stones, Between The Buttons
V/A, Psychonavigation sampler 2013
Fleetwood Mac, Tusk (2CD version with some xtra sht (which is good))

Swingle Singers...I didn't know they were French! I just discovered them too via Spotify. Also listened to the Sandpipers...sounds ethereal in 2013 terms.

I didn't know that either. One of my baby boomer bosses used to love to tell me about the Swingle Singers.

Joy Division

tracks:

los angeles master chorale - gorecki: lobgesang, op. 76
erdem helvacioglu - dreaming on a blind saddle
choir of the 21st century - glass: final section - choir and organ with shifting harmonic roots (from another look at harmony pt. IV)
lol coxhill - the calm
haigo - shushtar (from the early virtuoso recordings from the middle east, and new responses comp)
john fahey - red cross, disciple of christ today
choir of new college, oxford - stanford: the bluebird, op. 119, no. 3
hagihara yoshiaki - harajuku station - for terry riley
lucky dragons - what you see is what you mean

and i just bought the matmos/so percussion album from a few years ago, so i will be listening to that soon.

talk talk - spirits of eden
brian protheroe - pinball
the rascals - time peace: greatest hits
black sabbath - vol 4
the saints - stranded
rocket from the tombs - the day the earth met...

Alina Orlova, Laukinis šuo dingo
Alina Orlova, Mutabor
Dave Brubeck, The Very Best

Brokeback, Brokeback and The Black Rock
Mergrin, Intersect Landscape...
Budgie, The Best of
Liisi Koikson ja Vaikne Esmaspäev

going through my "new things to listen to" playlist

chris darrow - artist proof
howling hex - the best of the howling hex
angel olsen - halfway home
amor de dias - the house at sea
william tyler - impossible truth
martin rev - s/t
dawn mccarthy and bonnie prince billy - what the brothers sang
lena hughes - queen of the flat top guitar
alasdair roberts - A Wonder Working Stone
medusa - first step beyond
100 flowers - s/t

stevie wonder - live in london 1974
iron claw - clawstrophobia
jimmy giuffre - free fall
jorge reyes - prehispanic rituals / el costumbre / niérika
darmstadt aural documents box 2: john cage - communication (cage, in 1958, giving a lecture to a small audience while tudor plays various piano works -- it's basically like a room recording of 'interminacy' with a live laugh track)
sa dingding - the coming ones / harmony
faye wong - impatience
flaming lips - zaireeka (all 4 discs at once)

ha, well done re zaireeka, Milton! :)

sandy bull - inventions

Sometimes I listen to Demolition Derby by SB. Weird, wonderful shit!

flaming lips - zaireeka (all 4 discs at once)

wow ...

Getting Inventions right away sir.

endellion string quartet - beethovan complete string quartets

i don't know much about classical but i've been listening to a bit more since i started spotify

and i'm starting to think beethovan is better than mozart, like a lot better imo

listened to six no seven johnny cash albums from the 70s at work today:

ragged old flag/hello i'm johnny cash/any old wind that blows/the last gunfighter ballad/man in black/a thing called love/look at them beans

he's not my all-time favorite country singer by any means in fact i would say, arguably he's more folk than country though that said these were all pretty typical "nashville sound" LPs. short and formulaic, each containing some gothic americana, story songs (his strong suit imo), joek numbers, preachy gospel, straight country, a few cover versions. there's a little strings/sweetening but nothing of billy sherrill proportions. pretty much hit the spot, though his jesus songs are waay too earnest for my taste

"look at them beans" title track is about a hard luck farmer who never grew shit and then after he dies the fields start pumping produce. narrated by his son, it's the kind of outrageously corny but pointed tale that johnny really puts over.

right now i'm listening to waves on my sound machine

Main - Dry Stone Feed
holy moley at this

that transition from pulled from the water into dry stone feed, and then the tuneful hum that turns off and on again.

a lot of music my roomies hate, including

Napalm Death - Enemy of the Music Business, The Code is Red..., Order of the Leech, Smear Campaign
Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness, Necroticism
Benediction - Grind Bastard
Beneath - Enslaved by Fear (slept on!)
Destroyer666 - Phoenix Rising (this is def my wheelhouse)
Hooded Menace - Effigies of Evil
Dim Mak - Intercepting Fist
Cephalic Carnage - Lucid Interval
The-Dream - Love vs Money
Gorguts - Considered Dead, Erosion of Sanity
Cryptopsy - Once was Not, Cryptopsy
General Surgery - Necrology
Haemorrhage - Hospital Carnage
Incantation - Onward Toward Golgotha
Asphyx - Deathhammer
Pessimist - Blood for the Gods
Nevermore - Obsidian Conspiracy
Bolt Thrower - Realms of Chaos

been going through tracks for the next installment of my podcast.

The Free Design – Dorian Benediction
Ars Nova - Konstateringer (composer: Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen)
Convivium Singers – Sleep (composer: Eric Whitacre)
Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares – Messetchinko Lio (You, Little Moon)
David Behrman – Leapday Night Scene 1 (feat. David Behrman, electronics; Takehisa Kosugi, violin; Ben Neill and Rhys Chatham, trumpets)
“Blue” Gene Tyranny – Timing (composer: Phil Harmonic)
Lounge Lizards – A Paper Bag and the Sun
Andre LaFosse – Siren Song/Yawning Abyss/The Turing Test
Last Exit – Enemy Within

joy orbison singles
ford and lopatin - channel pressure
as one - reflections
loscil - endless falls

Andrei Makarevich & Orkestr Kreolskogo Tango, Staraya Mashina
Splin, Altavista
Sonny Rollins, The Bridge
Erik Visser & Silvia Houtzager, Rondo
Lycoriscoris, From Beyond the Horizon
Ametsub, All Is Silence
Jon Rose, Rosin (CD I)

Janet Jackson - "Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814"
Rory Phillips - "Mixed Fortunes" 1-3

some recent lissnin

Copernicus Nothing Exists
cd reissue of the improvisatory performance poet's 1st lp. Been trying to get hold of material by him for years and then saw a review of this in TimeMazine & looked it up on the URL provided. They have reissued most of his stuff over the last couple of years, I think Deeper the lp I was most after came out last October
http://www.copernicusonline.net/discography.html
members of his band went onto form Black 47 though they don't sound much alike. This is more dark improvisatory jazz meets rock.

Alfonso Lovo La Gigantona
Nicaraguan minister's son's psych/dub/latin jazz meets rock late 70s lp. Very recommended, especially if you're into things like Santana or Azteca.
Chepito Areas appears on percussion. Lovo on guitar.

Nancy Priddy You've Been This Way Before
Singer/songwriter psych/MOR. Really pretty lovely.
She provided some of the backing vocals for the 1st Leonard Cohen lp though I'm not sure that gives you much of a pointer.
Think I've also seen comparisons to some of David Axelrod's late 60s work . I really like this anyway.

Sun Ra Sunrise iN different Dimensions
Ra mainly on acoustic piano here but still pretty spacey. There was a longer time-specific descriptionof events I came across on I think Amazon reviews that doesn't show up in the linernotes surprisingly. Something about some of the band not managing to get to Europe where this was recorded in time for the gig this was recorded at. So I think it may lack the bassist who was on the rest of the tour or something.
Anyway pretty great stuff, has a lot of covers of 40s jazz and standards but remains pretty spacey despite lack of electronic play with Ra's keyboards.

Giannis Markopoulos No Mr Johnson
a Greek soundtrack lp that I picked up on Demonoid a while back. It was a recording I'd picked up on vinyl from the miscellaneous section of my local 2nd hand record shop in the late 80s and had missed since I lost most of my vinyl in Dublin about a decade later. Think i picked it up on Demonoid cos I knew the composer's name then heard it and realised it was the same music.
Cadences of trilling stringed instruments bouzoukis etc. Love this stuff and would like to know more about what Greek Soundtrack music was worth checking out. I know a few names Markopoulos, Theodarakis, Hadjikadis but would love to know more, especially if it is this sublime.
Have hoped that Sublime Frequencies compiling Omar Khorshid's music a couple of years ago might lead to them discovering some of this stuff. Could be I'm only making the connection from my having discovered both sets of music in the same section of the same shop and wouldn;t have similar links to other people. But I'm thinking great middle eastern music & hoping that interest develops which might lead to more of this stuff being readily available. Doesn't seem to be turning up easily in google searches.

Goat World Music
Danish stoner rock based explorations into more left-field influences.
I hear bits of East Indian rhythms I'd expect to hear more from tablas amongst the overt african influences etc.
Great lp, which should be in every home. Came with a bonus cd of the first London gig when you bought it in Rough Trade.

Rangda Formerly Extinct
Great 2 guitar & drums instrumental work-outs. I don't know either guitarist's styles well enough to be able to tell them apart by ear, so wonder if it is obvious if you do.
Guitarists are Sir Richard Bishop who was in Sun City Girls and Ben Chasny who shouldn't need introduction.

Cold Sun Dark Shadows
Not listened to this in a while so been great to hear it through. Texan band from the early 70s who didn't have anything released until an acetate was put on disc about 20 years ago. Jagged psych that reminds me of the Fall though i'm not sure they sound that much like them.
Most of the band went onto being Blieb Alien when they teamed up with Roky Erickson in the mid 70s.
Very recommended.

Heartbreakers L.A.M.F remastered
Johnny Thunders guitarist of N.Y.Dolls' next combo playing very r'n'r based rock coincident with punk a scene they crossed the Atlantic to be involved in.(incidentally being followed by Nancy Spungen I think)
This lp was released by The Who's Track record label in a notoriously muddy form which caused drummer Jerry Nolan to spend a lot of time trying to remix it after it came out, this is part of a box set containing 2 discs of those remixes plus another of demoes including 4 dating back to th eoriginal line-up with Richard Hell.
Pretty good music but I'm not sure they got rid of the mud, this was remastered from a pristine copy of the lp since I think mastertapes have disappeared long since.

various bits of the Grateful Dead from archive.org as I sit around in the training centre.

Velvet Underground Quine Tapes disc 3
mainly cos I just read the entries for it in Unterberger's White Light/ White Heat VU chronology. Very interesting, its the disc with the takle on Black angel's death Song & Ride Into The sun and the 38 minute Sister ray/foggy Notion

Catherine Ribeiro & Alpes 9/9/73
nice avanty French prog. worth checking out I think.

Keith Hudson Hudson affair disc 1
heavy bassy dub from a dic I thought i'd lost ages ago but turned up in a cd carry case. Unfortunately I think the last few tracks have ceased to play properly.
This came out as part of a series of Trojan 2cd sets that were very well compiled and could make the basis of an essential reggae collection. Unfortunately Trojan deleted the entire series a couple of years back, which I think leaves a lot of classic stuff OOP. Though Trojan is busy releasing a lot of other stuff. Do think I prefer the old run though.

Fusioon Absolute
Spanish prog utilising a great deal of repetition. think this grows on me with every listen.

various other stuff which will no doubt come back to me later

walkman has been throwing up a lot of Pretty Things' Parachute lp as well as Sylvia Moore. Plus great Rockabilly, postpunk, jazz, funk, Italian prog psych etc etc. had a nasty shock when I realised I was without this one day this week, took it out to recharge then forgot to do so.

Reading
Dark Star Jerry Garcia oral history. Got up to about '73 in this.

Barney Hoskyns Trampled Underfoot
the led zep oral history
just read up to the band formation , about 100 pp in or something. Pretty interesting so far though Jimy Page may not be left looking fully the best

Watching
Gangster squad
comic booklike story about undercover maverick g-men going after a gangster trying to take over L.A. Touches of the old ultraviolence.
Think this is set in 1949 and there are several references to characters time in the army which presumably refers to 2nd world war 4 years earlier. I enjoyed it, but it is pretty escapist.

World Without End
medieval soap about the borough of Kingsbridge. Quite enjoyable.

Utopia
conspiracy theory laced story of search for a clairvoyant comic strip book.

Stevo

Though Trojan is busy releasing a lot of other stuff. Do think I prefer the old run though.

do you mean the reissues that came out when sanctuary were the owners of trojan ?
cos i agree, they did a great job with the catalogue ..

yeah I think so, wasn't sure waht the differentiation was but that was probably it. Hadn't heard som ebody else had taken over. Anyway some pretty classic stuff in that run.
Think there is some interesting stuff in the new one but not as great. Wouldhave liked to just about collect the set of the old run.

hell yes the swingle singers! only the bach stuff though. also:

miguel - adorn
you guys probably know all you need to about this album.

Wobble Baby Wobble V.I.C.
single, not album, but an awesome single. kinda has this gogo feel to it, but it was produced by mr. collipark

wild nothing - nocturne
kinda shoegazey 80ish stuff, but just came out. nice, sounds like autumn

starfucker - reptilian
this is actually pretty chilled and creative and easy on the ears.

twin peaks archives
a HUGE selection of soundtrack bits from the show - basically if you dig around enough you will find everything you heard on the show that you wished was on the soundtrack album, but wasn't. to my ears this stuff has aged really well.

moonrise kingdom ost
i was just diggin the music when i was watching the film, so i downloaded this while i was still in the middle of the film. i feel like there's some stuff from the movie missing from the album, but that said it's a pretty cool little soundtrack. i keep going back to it.

Classic Soft Rock: Summer Breeze, California Dreamin', Ride Like The Wind and Into The Night
just a series of comps of 70's and early 80's soft rock stuff. actually i've never stopped listening to these since i downloaded them like 4 years ago

these could possibly be the only albums i've played more than once in the last 3 months

twin peaks archives
a HUGE selection of soundtrack bits from the show - basically if you dig around enough you will find everything you heard on the show that you wished was on the soundtrack album, but wasn't. to my ears this stuff has aged really well.

where did you get this, or is it a release? i always wanted to get the really bawdy carnival sex music bobby briggs plays in the diner when he whacks the jukebox on and says "see you in my dreams, norma."

Ghana Special: Modern Highlife Afro Sounds 1968-81
Cooly G - Playin Me

Been catching up with some missed '12 stuff like:

Tinashe - In Case We Die
Rebecca Gates and the Consortium - The Float

Plus listening/relistening to some things thanks to ILM polls:
The Waitresses - Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful (new to me, fantastic)
Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual (known this album nearly all my life, still fantastic)

Only 2012 album I've heard so far is A$AP Rocky.

*only 2013 album, duh.

@LocalGarda)

go to http://davidlynch.com/index/ and click explore and you should find loads and loads of stuff, all of it i think. and given the url i assume at least some of the $$$ should find it's way to david, angelo et all... of course if you dig around enough on google (or message me on here with your email?) it is possible to find the whole thing for free...

SO LUSH:

Twin Peaks Theme (Solo Rhodes)
South Sea Dreams
Solo Percussion 1
Dance Of The Dream Man (Solo Sax)
Fire Walk With Me (Saxophone)
Twin Peaks Theme (Nostalgia Version)
Dance Of The Dream Man (Solo Clarinet)

well worth $1 each

"where did you get this, or is it a release? i always wanted to get the really bawdy carnival sex music bobby briggs plays in the diner when he whacks the jukebox on and says "see you in my dreams, norma."

there's no reason you shouldn't be able to find this if you dig around enough (there are ~250 tracks total i think?)

OST Aviator
Neil Young, Lucky Thirteen ...mmm yeah...
The 49 Americans, the pending Staubgold re-release 1979-82 ...ffkck yeh!

Mountains - Centralia
L. Pierre - The Island Come True
Brokeback - Brokeback and the Black Rock
Pantha du Prince and the Bell Laboratory - Elements of Light
ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

do you like the new mountains? haven't heard it yet, but i was a big fan of choral

They haven't really progressed or anything, I just like the sounds they make. Worth checking out imo.

whoa, new Brokeback?

Thanks messiahwannabe, I will have a dig around, prob can buy some of it really.

Brokeback in the past was a little inconsistent, but this is one of my favorite recorded things ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Wr0Crafyg

The Twin Peaks track I wanted (xpost) is "I'm Hurt Bad" - really cool actually. Will be delving into more of this later, brilliant to find.

Anyway, what I am playing heavily lately:

Beach House - Beach House
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Robert Roena - Roberto Roena y su Apollo Sound 5
Franco - Special Mix '83
Chic - Chic
Balam Acab - Wander/Wonder
Duke Ellington - Piano Reflections
Steve Reid/Kieran Hebden/Mats Gustafsson - Live at the South Bank

composers and bands p much

Was just talking to a young co-worker who just graduated from college, about meeting John Cage. She had no idea who he was. Should I feel old or superior? (I'm sure the answer is: neither.)

he died like 98ishi think? before my time at any rate

i was reading the liner notes to herbert henck's early cage piano music album and trying to remember if merce cunningham is still alive

just checked, there is no point in registering www.ismercecunninghamstillalive.com

and cage has been dead for 21 years

i sort of prefer not thinking about these things

ornstein lived to 108! so cage could still be alive....

laurel halo youtubes (chance of rain)... CD is hard to track down, and fuckin pricey

cage's seasons (piano version) is perfect for this part of autumn

Reissues, some other classics I've finally got around to listening to, and assorted enjoyable stuff I've spent time with over the past few months:

A.R. Kane - Complete Singles Collection
Dif Juz - Extractions
Pale Saints - Comfort of Madness
Various - Lonely is an Eyesore
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Sly and the Family Stone - Higher!
Allen Toussaint - Toussaint
Psyche/BFC - Elements 1989-1990
Mr G - Retrospective
Herbert ‎– Herbert Complete
Various - Terry Farley Presents Acid Rain: Definitive Original Acid & Deep House 1985-1991

that Terry Farley compilation looks great, it has just about every US acid house track you could ever want

Yeah, it definitely verges on too much. I still haven't quite finished it. It can even seem a bit like overkill at times since I've been listening to a lot of 100% Silk and L.I.E.S. stuff as well alongside that compilation. And if I'm distracted, it gets confusing - was this released this year, or back in the 80s? Then I have to go over and check which record I put on.

looks like they're mainly 12" mixes which means some of them are loooong, which is cool, but it must make for 6 or 7hrs of music!

the william onyeabor comp (Who Is William Onyeabor?) just came in the mail. MY GOD it is good. seriously, check this out: https://soundcloud.com/luakabop/william-onyeabor-good-name-1

These are the records I have listened through the past six days.

The Groundhogs- Hogwash
Velvet Underground- Velvet Undergrouns & Nico
Saxon- Denim and Leather
Dinosaur Jr.- Dinosaur & Whatever's Cool With Me
Grand Funk Railroad- Sailin On & Caught In the Act
The Obsessed- Incarnate
Diamond Head- Lightning to the Nations & Borrowed Time
Manowar- Battle Hymns
Humble Pie- Rockin' the Fillmore
Motorhead- Kiss of Death
Rolling Stones Black & Blue, Bridges to Babylon

Agnes Obel is God.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1wgaFJ0750

the william onyeabor comp (Who Is William Onyeabor?) just came in the mail. MY GOD it is good. seriously, check this out: https://soundcloud.com/luakabop/william-onyeabor-good-name-1

― reckless woo (Z S), Thursday, November 14, 2013 7:29 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

damn, this sounds amazing

Yeah, the whole thing is great, but that should be a dance floor jam

La Dusseldorf

This Onyeabor track ATOMIC BOMB is speaking to me this morning.
Whatchu mean u gonna explode?

Big star #1 Record
Love this remastered version in a way that the old 2fer cd didn't connect in. Glimpses of the sounds of acoustic guitar shining through on the edge of the sound picture. & the songwriting is something else too.
MUst pick up the Chris Bell solo lp to see exactly what stands out as his style.
Should have got this years ago, did get the separate Radio City a couple of years back which is now on my walkman. Great band anyway.

Marble Sheep Tokyo '88
Great psychedelic fields of guitar sound. Piercing caustic slivers of guitar pleasure. Wondering what exactly the sources of influence are beyond the obvious Cippolina etc as well as things Like Hawkwind. Does Horizon derive from a view of raga-rock that comes straight from the Doors' The End study or does that go deeper? Anyway need to look further into this group.

Pharoah Sanders Anthology disc 1
some fo my favourite music ever. Need to pick up the individual lps on cd now. TO fully immerse myself in the full pools of sound that this gives edited versions of. Looks like several of these are slipping outof print which realy does need to be recognised as a crime against humanity.

checkin out that phil niblock reissue on superior viaduct with the hilarious title "Nothin To Look At Just A Record"...
tromboooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Love it. My library has a signed copy of it.
TromboneDrone is the best drone.

TROMDRONE
it is pretty amazing, actually -- the sort of thing where i start it up and think okayyyy, am I really going to listen to this? and by the end, it's developed into something magical and powerful.

It's liberating!

my wife came in when i was listening to it and said: "what is this?! is this ... music?"
YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT

posted in various other threads but today's big jams are
https://soundcloud.com/methodrecords/sam-smith-x-nile-rodgers-x
http://www.datpiff.com/Da-Mafia-6ix-6ix-Commandments-mixtape.550198.html

That Mafia 6ix mixtape is proper good.

Troy Ave's New York City has got to be one of the best rap albums of the year, had it on rotation all aft and it is awesome.

i like the Raekwon feature

Cate Le Bon, pretty much non-stop for the past week. The new one and the old ones that are on Spotify.

I notice that a lot of "dance music" tracks I listened to less than a year ago have gotten much better in the intervening time.

Some trombdrone or anyway trombone fans should check dig Albert Mangelsdorff's Tromboneliness, although it's not so droney, which is one reason I like it. Unaccompanied trombone, a whole album of, but it works, and not just for music appreciation class.
Speaking of "dance music", which also may work as dance music, but I haven't yet attempted any steps, I'm totally infatuated with Gay Disco, by Guerrilla Toss, out December 10. I wouldn't have thought to call it disco, but it's certainly festive (gulp your coffee before taking its hand): expanding contracting grooves, generated by young people who evidently have absorbed no wave, maybe Magic Band, Tin Huey, a bit of Last Exit, Don Cabellero; could see them on the same bill with Battles or Death Grips, either one (they're some kind of pop, but also apparently known for shows that can incl. nudity and acid tests, claims press sheet)(blurbs from Keith Fullerton Whitman, Byron Coley and John Zorn also appear). Tempted to invoke Made Out Of Babies, but the female vocalist here is not out front as a given: she drops well-timed punctuation bombs, pushing slivers between big sweaty men. The sounds may all be lyrics too; on "Pink Elephant" she does clearly say, "Pink Elephant." If you get lost, get with the drummer---but I got into most of it on first listening, and the rest on second, which immediately followed. Carry on, my wayward ones---don't you cry no more (unless you want to)
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Joe McPhee, Nation Time: The Complete Recordings. 4CD box containing two previously released albums - Nation Time and Black Magic Man - and two CDs of previously unheard live and studio material. Fucking awesome free-jazz-funk from 1969-70.

Played on a bill with Guerilla Toss a couple months ago. Really fun, doing the Fat Worm Of Error thing in a dancey way.

oren ambarchi - grapes from the estate
laurel halo - chance of rain
kevin drumm - sheer hellish miasma
klaus schulze - irrlicht
kaito - special love/a hundred million love years
pet shop boys - behaviour
merzbow - pulse demon

i made a premature top 30.

1) Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
2) Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
3) Magik Markers - Surrender to the Fantasy
4) Pissed Jeans - Honeys
5) V/A - I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age In America 1950-1990
6) Factory Floor - Factory Floor
7) Holydrug Couple - Noctuary
8) Matana Roberts - COIN COIN Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
9) Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
10) Ekin Fil - Ekin Fil
11) Glasser - Interiors
12) Noveller - No Dreams
13) Wooden Shjips - Back to Land
14) Tim Hecker - Virgins
15) NYMPH - New Millennium Prayer
16) M.I.A. - Matangi
17) Body/Head - Coming Apart
18) William Onyeabor - World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor?
19) Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe
20) Melt-Banana - Fetch
21) Broadcast - Berberian Sound Studio: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
22) Marnie Stern - The Chronicles of Marnia
23) My Bloody Valentine - m b v
24) ADULT. - The Way Things Fall
25) Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - UZU
26) Autechre - Exai
27) Barn Owl - V
28) Forest Swords - Engravings
29) Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
30) Steve Hauschildt - S/H

EPs:

1) The Dead C/Rangda - The Dead C Vs. Rangda
2) Parquet Courts - Tally All the Things That You Broke
3) John Foxx and The Belbury Circle - Empty Avenues

everytime i like an album on spotify, i throw a track in this playlist, so this is almost everything:

http://open.spotify.com/user/matthelgeson/playlist/6FTMZcZZwEc2iZGtkJUGnB

Vangelis - Microneurosurgery with Video Tapes: Spinal Space-Occupying Lesions OST (Tegos Tapes)
Michael Pisaro & Greg Stuart - Closed Categories In Cartesian Worlds
I Am The Center - Private Issue New Age Music In America, 1950-1990
John Cage - The Ten Thousand Things
People Like Us - Don't Think Right, It's All Twice
Alessandro Cortini & Don Buchla - 11th Annual SF Electronic Music Festival
Gunner Moller Pedersen - A Sound Year
Bernard Parmegiani - L'oeil écoute / Chronos
Harold Budd - Perhaps
Juan Blanco - Nuestro Tiempo
Perfume - Level3

bEEdEEgEE, sum/one
cakewalk, wired
connections, body language
everything but the girl, amplified heart
nils frahm, spaces
grumbling fur, glynnaestra
hammock, oblivion hymns
susumu hirasawa, switched-on lotus
miracle, mercury
lou reed/metallica, lulu
rhye, woman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgnfxdZrJ8w
well I just was.

What's on yr "to listen" pile? Mostly collected from EOY lists, ILX and the usual random browsing, and parked on Spotify; some of them I can't remember what they are or why I added them:

Shit and Shine - Shit and Shine EP
Espectrostatic - Espectrostatic
Samantha Glass - Midnight Arrival
Israel Nash Gripka - Israel Nash's Rain Plans
Maston - Shadows
Amor de Días - The House At Sea
Wymond Miles - Cut Yourself Free
Lo Borges - O Trem Azul
Skin Town - The Room
HNNY - Mys/Kela
bEEdEEgEE - SUM/ONE
Jaakko Eino Kalevi - Dreamzone
Melt-Banana - Fetch
Tal National - Kaani
Heterotic - Love & Devotion
Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu
Heatsick - Re-Engineering
Fire! Orchestra - Exit!
Pinkunoizu - The Drop
RP Boo - Legacy
Grumpling Fur - Glynnaestra
C Spencer Yeh/Lasse Marhaug/Okkyung Lee - Wake Up Awesome
Peven Everett - King of Hearts
Hello Skinny - Revolutions
Maurice Deebank - Inner Thought Zone
Woo - Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong
Bert Jansch - Avocet

actual cover of xpost Guerilla Toss Gay Disco, speaking of Top Ten. Good representation of the spaces they shake & bake
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art by Keith Rankin

I just want to say Youth Code sucks.

little feat - "feats dont fail me now" - i love the bouillabaisse of sounds they conjure..."spanish moon" is such a great song
julia holter - "loud city song" - i love her stuff...i could listen to "hello stranger" forever
laraaji - "celestial music" - so this guys stuff has only been discovered now? incredible...music of the spheres indeed
lou reed - "the blue mask" - becoming one of my faves...i love the goofy lyrics tbh, its touching

steve moore - pangaea ultima
levon vincent - rainstorm ii
delano smith - an odyssey
vangelis - spiral
planetary assault systems - the messenger
rene hell - vanilla call option
maurizio
dean blunt - the redeemer
jon hassell - dream theory in malaya
arovane - ve palor
steve hauschildt - s/h
logos - cold mission

we should start a 2014 thread, no?

Somebody do it.

new thread

laraaji - "celestial music" - so this guys stuff has only been discovered now? incredible...music of the spheres indeed

agreed that's it's incredible...but he was discovered by Brian Eno in the late 70s and his music was put out as the third installment of Eno's Ambient series around 79 or 80

ok, never heard of the guy until a couple of weeks ago

My current home play list is made up of over 40 live records mostly from the 70s. I end up sorting it out in the player in different ways and just listening it to a few tracks at the time.

Allman Brothers- Fillmore Concerts (D1)
Allman Brothers- Fillmore Concerts (D2)
Lynyrd Skynyrd- One More from the Road
Little Feat- Waiting for Colombus
Blackfoot- Highway Song Live
Badfinger- BBC In Concert
Bruce, Jack- Spirit Live at the BBC (D3)
Captain Beefheart- I’m Going to Do What I’m Going to Do
Deep Purple- In Concert (D1)
Deep Purple- In Concert (D2)
Black Sabbath- Live Evil (D2)
Humble Pie- Fillmore Box (D4)
Hendrix, Jimi- Live at the Fillmore East (D1)
Hendrix, Jimi- Live at the Fillmore East (D2)
Grand Funk Railroad- Live Album
Trower, Robin- State to State (D1)
Travers, Pat- Live Go For What You Know
Grateful Dead- Dick’s Picks Vol. 33 (D2)
Grateful Dead- Dick’s Picks Vol. 33 (D3)
Grateful Dead- Dick’s Picks Vol. 33 (D4)
Blue Oyster Cult- On Your Feet or On Your Knees
Brown, James- Love Power Peace
Emerson, Lake & Palmer- Pictures at an Exhibition
Yes- Yessongs (D1)
Yes- Yessongs (D2)
Zappa, Frank- Carnegie Hall (D1)
Zappa, Frank- Carnegie Hall (D2)
Zappa, Frank- Carnegie Hall (D3)
Zappa, Frank- Carnegie Hall (D4)
King Crimson- USA
Judas Priest- Unleashed in the East
James Gang- Live In Concert
Hawkwind- At the BBC 1972
Beck, Jeff- With the Jan Hammer Group Live
Led Zeppelin- BBC Sessions (D1)
Led Zeppelin- BBC Sessions (D2)
Rolling Stones- Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out
Pink Floyd- Ummagumma (D1)
Outlaws, The- Bring It Back Alive
Ten Years After- Recorded Live (D2)
Bowie, David- Stage (D1)
Bowie, David- Stage (D2)
Davis, Miles- Dark Magus (D1)
Davis, Miles- Dark Magus (D2)
Mahavishnu- Between Nothingness & Eternity (D1)
Mahavishnu- Between Nothingness & Eternity (D2)
Weather Report- Live in Tokyo (D1)
Weather Report- Live in Tokyo (D2)