what are you listening to in 2014?

It didn't really appeal to me at first, but I've used it as background music at work and it's slowly crept into my brain.

demdike stare tesptressings 04/05/06 ✓✓✓✓✓
sensate focus eps ✓✓
syro ✓✓✓✓
quaristice ✓✓✓
confield ✓✓✓✓✓
ueno masaaki ✓✓✓✓
florent schmitt ombres/mirages/tragedie de salome (larderet pf) ✓✓✓✓
liszt opera transcriptions (lortie) ✓✓✓✓
hs 'verdigris reader' ✓
bach english suites (tureck) ✓✓✓✓

RA gave Syro a 5/5, that puts it in the same esteemed class as Biokinetics, Routes Not Roots and Voices From The Lake and lots of so so stuff as well that never fails to send their comments section into meltdown. As an old git a new AT album makes me think of it in a timescale against older ageing artists; back in my youth in the 90's I recall condescending a 40-ish tech-college tutor who (hip-barber mode)is telling me how nerve net is Eno's best album for years in the pub at lunchtime!

The five tick rating system is a welcome innovation to this thread, I al;ways dig ticks and stars more than folk talking bollocks.

idk how many ✓s it could potentially go up to because i haven't listened to all of the pc music releases yet
✓ is 'just about worthwhile' rather than crap though

chavez - ride the fader -- 32 out of 35 peeled & washed carrots
superchunk - come pick me up -- 14/14 days out of two weeks
olivia block - heave to -- fuck yeah
aphex twin - syro -- *phew*

Pure Reality, the debut from Dark Blue, comes out in a couple weeks on the Jade Tree label; it's streaming in full here:

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/228746/premiere-dark-blue-stream-debut-album-pure-reality-in-full/

Dark Blue is made up of Philly indie rock veterans John Sharkey III (Clockcleaner, Puerto Rico Flowers) Andrew Mackie Nelson (Ceremony, Paint it Black, Puerto Rico Flowers) and Michael Sneeringer (Strand of Oaks, formerly from Purling Hiss, Puerto Rico Flowers).

The debut "Pure Reality" could be the soundtrack to a John Hughes movie provided that Ian Curtis wrote it. It and it reminds me of when I was a teenager in the '80s and I would turn to a then-nascent WHFS. The album is more catchy than twitchy which is fine, and I especially love the darkness that permeates the proceedings, punctuated with slashing guitars and stately baritone vocals.

Missed opportunity to call it Sharkey's Machine.

old Caetano Veloso album-Bicho

I'm on some spirit of '76 today:

Magma- Udu Wudu
Novalis- Sommerabend
JJ Cale- Troubadour
Picchio dal Pozzo (this is great btw)
Sweet- Give Us a Wink
Angel- Helluva Band
Earth, Wind & Fire- Spirit

Magma- Udu Wudu

Referenced in Children of Men IIRC

ligeti -- lontano atmosphere sf polyphony
vatican shadow & function -- games have rules
sean booth kouhei matsunaga mika vainio -- 3 telepathics meh in-sect connection
klara lewis -- ett
katie gately -- s/t
nhk -- dance classic vol3
perc -- the power and the glory
aphex twin -- come to daddy ep
brahms -- theme with variations op18
les vampyrettes -- s/t
swans -- to be kind

magma - udu wudu (mostly just "de futura" over and over)
aphex twin - syro
neneh cherry - raw like sushi
eliane radigue - trio de la morte
wagner - tristan und isolde (bohm/bayreuth 1966)
liszt - transcendental preludes (bolet)
demdike stare - testpressings
conrad schnitzler - auf dem schwarz kanal

(mostly just "de futura" over and over)

I've been there! If you ever need to switch it up, Jannick Top's solo album "Soleil d'Ork" has a demo version with Richard Pinhas playing guitar on it.

aphex twin - syro
autechre - move of ten
bardo pond - refulgo
bob dylan - tell tale signs
cecil taylor - winged serpent (sliding quadrants)
death - leprosy
dj dodger stadium - friend of mine
dj rashad - double cup
electric wizard - time to die
gorguts - obscura
john lee hooker - it serve you right to suffer
jordi savall - j.s. bach - musical offering
lee 'scratch' perry - upsetters 14 dub blackboard jungle
michael pisaro - tombstones
midnight - no mercy for mayhem
origin - omnipresent
pallbearer - foundations of burden
panopticon - roads to the north
the royals - pick up the pieces
the xx - the xx
vince staples - shyne coldchain vol. 2
witch mountain - mobile of angels
wu-tang clan - enter the wu-tang clan (36 chambers)
yes - fragile

Loving this new M Sage record a great deal

http://msage.bandcamp.com/album/a-singular-continent

troy ramey and the soul searchers - try being born again (1977 nashboro gospel = guaranteed to be good)
brazil 2/o samba (1989 luaka bop comp)
ramses III - i could not love you more (on type. still one of my favorite ambient records ever. i was really happy to find a used copy in the store today)
stereolab - the groop played space age batchelor pad music

Kraftwerk - Computer World
King Sunny Adé - Juju Music
Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Swans - To Be Kind

Actually, though, everything is terrible except for Babymetal.

70s hard rock/prog, 80s metal & Khun Narin.

PiL

The Fall

New Alt-J so thin keep wanting 2 brush it away. Look fwd 2 Spotify commercials. Actual bests: Weeny "Left Hand Free," daycare cover art.
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart's's Days of Abandon Deluxe Edition adds five keepers, esp. "Poison Touch," ft. lithe beats & A Sunny Day In Glasgow's Jen Goma, as do all the best tracks, though The Pains' own vocals have grown on me okay (still not great, but they do their bit). Nerf layers accumulate on the three duds, but mostly, this dream pop earns its tag and actually rocks a bit (most of the distinctive instrumental turns come from the rhythm section).

Grateful Dead - Sunshine Daydream
Marc Ribot - The Prosthetic Cubans
Roman Flugel - Happiness is Happening
NTS radio
Yong Marco - Beats in Space mix
Ersen (Finders Keepers)

mostly Beethoven and Cecil Taylor

✓

Addicted to the brilliant Lorenzo Senni 'Superimpositions' album right now, really incredible stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI0r8U6BiYk

masque premiere

Prince: Art etc. so far not in one ear out other, but plectrumelectrum sufficiently rocking and thoughtfully support's Thirdeyegirl's blue sunshine.
Sly's Stone Flower 1969-70 (Light In The Attic) Singles and prev. unreleased, cohesive variety of versions and line-ups; I'm partial to the uncanny funktronic instrumentals--keys, rhythm machine, bass---and "Life & Death in G & A": "If it feeeeeels good, it's al-right!" telling himself and us, urgent but not 2 loud (Must get those Rhino etc sides from '67-? too, and some amazing ones on that '13 box)

"Not" should not be in that first note, really is in one ear out other

also sorry for apostrophe: *supports* not "support's." Dam!

Oh re Prince's Art etc as ho-hum, at least one exception: "Time" is tight.

see, I'd argue for U Know... and Breakfast Can Wait was last year but still.

Still loving skronk-funkateers Guerilla Toss 2013 debut album Gay Disco, and they've got a couple '14 EPs streaming: Smack The Brick, out later this month: https://soundcloud.com/nnatapes/01-smack-the-brick?in=nnatapes/sets/guerilla-toss-smack-the-brick-cassette Current fave: "Billy Blood Idol."
Even better maybe (a little faster, more momentum overall, though they've spoiled me): last summer's 367 Equalizer, ltd. ed., maybe OOP, but still here for now:
https://soundcloud.com/infinity-cat/cookie-guerilla-toss?in=infinity-cat/sets/infinity-cat-cassette-series-guerilla-toss Can't pick one!
Both sets are 4 tracks each, but those are enough to keep the homefries burning while waiting for next alb (get the first)

Also, as mentioned at some length on Robert Wyatt thread, letting the 2-disc comp w same title as new bio, Different Every Time carry meee away. As mentioned at some length on Richard Thompson thread, big news for me re The Thompson Family Album is how good Linda sounds, despite long-reported vocal problems, she's the one on here projecting charisma. RT and others contribute some good songs and playing: no masterpieces, but at least half are keepers, whole thing might be a sleeper.
Both albums still streaming on npr 'til their 11-18 release(better get started on the Wyatt):
http://www.npr.org/2014/11/09/361384516/first-listen-robert-wyatt-different-every-time
http://www.npr.org/2014/11/09/361384683/first-listen-thompson-family

Anybody heard this? Cover makes me woh-woh-wonder:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2XPWhfCMAAUOEY.jpg

dennis johnson's November was composed earlier than almost all minimalist music and is completely perfect, yet it is unknown

this is bullshit

why did i revive the 2014 thread to say that

why

it's not just a historical curiosity, being written years before in C. it's actually perfect. put it on and listen to it throughout a quiet afternoon. i've always appreciated In C as a historical document and as an idea. November explores the ramifications of In C before it was even written

in time and space

but fart fart i have other things to do fart

he was 21 when he wrote this

can you pull me back to 2014 through the time tunnel pls

It’s kind of a Being John Malkovich situation in there. Pretty embarrassed about my solo drunkness on a Wednesday night, slight less embarrassed about my apparent passion for November, which still rules in the sober light of this field, where I am a Cusack

passion for November when

Possible I’m still a bit drunk, jesus