what are you listening to 2018

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i have been listening to a lot of UNIFORM - WAKE IN FRIGHT

https://i.imgur.com/QCoFsDV.jpg

as i walk my dog through the empty suburban streets, it makes me grit my teeth and inwardly snarl in every direction. it came out about a year ago, last january, but they're new to me. i think one time i mentioned on ILM that i had this platonic idea of a 70s punk band in my head, when i was in high school, just before napster and all that stuff hit and it was still kind of difficult to easily research a genre and track down genre highlights. i listened to some old punk bands like the ramones and the buzzcocks but it was very different than what i had imagined. a few years later i heard wire's first three albums for the first time, and it was this odd sensation of finally finding the real version of an idea of what something sounds like. hard to explain. but i haven't had that sensation again until i ran across this Uniform album the other day. they sound like everything i want right now. i would love to see them play live, i bet it's fucking intense.

(sorry if there's already a general what are you listening to thread for this year, i just couldn't find it)

Karl Malone, Sunday, 28 January 2018 21:27 (six years ago) link

if anyone has any recommendations on music that is more knife-edgy than that, please dish them out. i am in the mood

Karl Malone, Sunday, 28 January 2018 21:44 (six years ago) link

LOFT - three settlements four ways

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=472oXxV2ajM

deconstructed club from manchester. the most interesting electronic LP of last year imo. so much going on, yet so much space.

meaulnes, Sunday, 28 January 2018 22:06 (six years ago) link

in the car today it's been:

lee gamble - mnestic pressure
Royal trux - platinum tips + ice cream
Yardbirds - newish '68 double cd thing I borrowed from dad

brimstead, Monday, 29 January 2018 01:54 (six years ago) link

katsumi horii project - hot is cool

Arnold Schoenberg Steals (rushomancy), Monday, 29 January 2018 01:56 (six years ago) link

I've been on a 1960s Dottie West kick most of January. Patsy Cline too.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 29 January 2018 01:57 (six years ago) link

meaulness your description of LOFT has me intrigued

And great post, Karl Malone.

brimstead, Monday, 29 January 2018 01:59 (six years ago) link

Django rheinhardt proper box set.
Kikagaku Moyo Forest of Lost Children.
Fall PeelSessions disc 3 cos disc 2 isn't in the box & I'm not sure when I last played it.

Stevolende, Monday, 29 January 2018 09:13 (six years ago) link

steve kilbey (with martin kennedy) glow and fade

reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 29 January 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link

Young Marco - Biology

It's labeled "deluxe edition" even though there never was a "regular" edition on CD. It has a bonus track that isn't on the LP, though.

brimstead, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 04:02 (six years ago) link

http://www.rushhour.nl/pictures/100/100803.jpg

SUPERSTAR & STAR - MASTERMIND E.P - PORRIDGE BULLET
PB 019 - eu12''
Genre: House

1. Rolling So
2. Any Where in the US is a Party
3. I Want You
4. Kicking at Home
5. No More Sorrow
6. I Ain't Missing You
7. I am Dreaming

i just got Superstar and Star - Mastermind EP. holy shit this rules. noisey dub house & lofi outsider pop. this is wonderful stuff. i got this due to the youtube video for the lovely "I Ain't Missing You". apparently this compilation came out last year but they only just shipped them out. it was a very limited run so i think it quickly sold out. amazing stuff!!!

http://www.rushhour.nl/distribution_detailed.php?item=100803
https://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/superstar-and-star-mastermind-ep-562962

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link

"Any Where in the US is a Party" is 100X better than the new Andrew WK song

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link

if anyone has any recommendations on music that is more knife-edgy than that, please dish them out. i am in the mood

― Karl Malone, Sunday, January 28, 2018 3:44 PM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not quite the same but this comes close imo

https://weepingicon.bandcamp.com/

budo jeru, Thursday, 1 February 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link

hm. re-listened. i take that back big time. nice record tho.

budo jeru, Thursday, 1 February 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/410YA93YYXL.jpg
Milky - Travels With a Donkey (2002)

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 3 February 2018 16:49 (six years ago) link

Hey I like the first Uniform album, Perfect World - I didn't know there was a newer one! Thanks I'll check that out.

Colonel Poo, Saturday, 3 February 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link

i still haven't gotten around to listening to perfect world! i hear it's really good, but i'm still trying to figure out the newest one. i'm trying to take my time with albums recently and give them several good listens before moving on to other things.

Karl Malone, Saturday, 3 February 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link

god this Per Tjernberg record (They Call Me) is so good, listened to it twice last night. really digging the discoveries form this thread (Spotify playlist is in there near the end, recommended)

Chee Shimizu - Obscure Sound (a music book)

sleeve, Saturday, 3 February 2018 17:09 (six years ago) link

somehow i have missed out on Dennis Johnson until now.

November, composed in 1959, as performed by jeroen van veen. i've been sprawled out on my rug transfixed for a couple hours now

Karl Malone, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link

^^ that one's amazing indeed.

I don't want to pull you from your rug ZS, save this for a later date, but have you ever heard dEUS 'Worst Case Scenario'? For some reason I think it could really be up your alley.

Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link

og vinyl copy of Cornelius "69/96" arrived today alongside SSKHKH "17" album. "69/96" is hitting the spot right now, it was doing 90s west coast hip hop style beats a minute ago and now we are in Austin Power electric sitar wonderland. this isn't an album this is a theme park. the record sounds SO GOOD.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 01:28 (six years ago) link

SSKHKH's "17" is a great album as well. if you can find their "Motorhead and Drive" VHS it has videos for all the songs on the album.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 01:30 (six years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fY5u9BW2DM

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 02:13 (six years ago) link

Love that band! ^

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 02:13 (six years ago) link

xpost i will put that next up in the queue, LBI! i still have more of november to go through, which is kind of amazing because it feels like i was listening to it all day already!

there's something really poignant about this:

A few years ago, Johnson told Young that he’d had enough of the 21st century and was going ‘off-grid’. No email, and for long periods his phone remained unanswered. But Mark Harwood, of Penultimate Press, had the number, and got through to Johnson last year. This spring Harwood, in collaboration with the Irritable Hedgehog label, are releasing a 4CD performance of November by pianist R Andrew Lee.

With Harwood’s help, I spoke to Johnson by phone. Now in his mid-seventies, Johnson would be the first to admit his memory is fraying, but in person he’s likeable and generous to a fault. I asked how he feels being hailed as the first composer to write minimalist music. He answered: "That’s interesting. Tell me again, the meaning of minimalist?"


https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/dennis-johnson

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 03:18 (six years ago) link

Thought for a moment this was the noteworthy album covers thread. Most of those belong in a museum.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 05:23 (six years ago) link

gotta love those authentic greasy marmite on toast fingerprints

massaman gai, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 09:28 (six years ago) link

i bought the "watashi dake?" reissue last year and the photo insert is v cool

https://img.discogs.com/YMX7H6NNKQf2cgKQBKBtSwxWsnc=/fit-in/600x824/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-10443838-1501675149-5965.jpeg.jpg

budo jeru, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 09:36 (six years ago) link

always makes me think of that "only me!" harry enfield character

massaman gai, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 09:57 (six years ago) link

didn't spot the ice cream tho. that is cool.

massaman gai, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 09:59 (six years ago) link

That's one of my all-time favorite pictures of a human.

my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 11:20 (six years ago) link

Barnt What Is A Number, That A Man May Know It?

https://i.imgur.com/OZPObQV.jpg?1

Fucking extraordinary "experimental techno"

my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 10:29 (six years ago) link

I never know what subgenre I'm actually listening to with stuff like this, always expecting fifty dudes to run up with fingers raised shouting "ACTUALLY--

my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 10:30 (six years ago) link

American Epic Collection - Amazing 100 songs by 100 artists from the 20s and 30s

Lots of Jazz:
Charles Mingus
John Coltrane
Alice Coltrane
Donald Byrd
ICP Orchestra
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Joseph Jarman
Max Roach
Raymond Scott
Yusef Lateef
Clifford Thorton

Also:
The Books
Blind Willie McTell
Cornelius
Glass Animals
James Holden
Kate Tempest
Lee Scratch Perry
Possessed By Paul James
Son Lux
Yes
Rolling Stones
Richard Kern Sountracks

nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link

not sure what genre this is? I read "left-field house" somewhere. I call everything electronic.
I think it's pretty great though.

Ross From Friends - The Outsiders (2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D74KkoCf93I

nicky lo-fi, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 14:17 (six years ago) link

those jeff mills "the wizard" radio broadcasts. sounding great in the portuguese sunshine. visions of rosie perez frugging frantically

massaman gai, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 13:22 (six years ago) link

first of all, i've been getting re-into the Mariah album from 1983. (long lost impossible to find, reissued a few years back. seems like the "hit" was "Shinzo No Tobira", but there are several songs at least as good. I really love "Sora Ni Mau Maboroshi"). then i got so into that that i did 15 seconds of research and found the Mariah guy (at that point, Yasuaki Shimizu)'s solo album from the year before, Kakashi. like Mariah, it is unclassifiable, timeless, and so good. also, i struggle with design so much, and this is a good reminder of how simple and perfect it can be:

https://i.imgur.com/mfQLTbD.jpg

i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Saturday, 24 February 2018 03:06 (six years ago) link

(standout track on kakashi is "umi no ue kara", i think. the shift at 3:00 is everything i want i music.)

i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Saturday, 24 February 2018 03:19 (six years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBux4AlGQzM

Randy Newman - Rolling (1974)

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 25 February 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link

er, "Rollin'"

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 25 February 2018 02:49 (six years ago) link

Hey Karl Malone, do you know Swedish 'supergroup' Orchestra Of Constant Distress?

Their new album Distress Test may be your thing.

Doran, Monday, 26 February 2018 17:35 (six years ago) link

doran i don't know them! i gave it a listen today but i wasn't in a position to play it at extreme volumes, which i feel like it probably deserves. to be honest i don't regularly listen to a lot of heavy stuff (the uniform album that i posted about above was kind of an exception but i found it during a really weird time when the best noises on earth seemed to be the very loudest) but when i am in the mood, i am in the MOOD. so i'll file it away for the next time the heavy mood descends

i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 04:00 (six years ago) link

i bumped the Francis Bebey thread the other day, but i'm still listening and still very much sucked in so i guess i'll mention it here too. Psychedelic Sanza, a comp of his stuff from 1982-84, is what i'm playing the most, although my choices are pretty limited (it's either that or his comp from 1975-82 on spotify).

Psychedelic Sanza kind of a weird recommendation because on about half the songs he deploys this really really odd and compelling stretched out vocal trick. on some songs it harmonizes and is repetitiously blissful - "Binta Madiallo" is a good example. on about 1/3 of the songs, though, it's the kind of thing that WILL cause a typical person to ask "um....what is this we're listening to?" in that way that makes the heart sink. listen to "Bissau, about 1:18 in, for a relatively brief glimpse of what i'm talking about, and at 2:45 and 3:20 as well. personally, after many listens i find it to be bravely experimental and i'm in awe of someone pushing the limits like that so far into his career (i think he was already past 50 years of age and a dozen albums deep by the time 1982-84 rolled around.

so that vocal trick will alienate some. but it's too bad, because the other 2/3 is just fantastic and ideal for all listening situations imo. RIYL the vibe of can's "Future Days"

i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 04:10 (six years ago) link

nice cover, too
https://i.imgur.com/cWtKLm0.jpg

i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 04:11 (six years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/LivnxHIaw59oxLZHnOBLWf5qEbc=/fit-in/600x587/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6356672-1417253992-7751.jpeg.jpg up there w/ trio roma, full blast, & snakelust for ultra propulsive brötz

massaman gai, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 13:19 (six years ago) link

Bah. Anyway - it was Hiroshi Yoshimura's Music for Nine Postcards.

The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 1 March 2018 09:41 (six years ago) link

https://static.pointculture.be/media/86/a3/5a/cover_ml7861_scale_345x750.jpg
https://img.discogs.com/ZC3zsg2KwX7HoBBLABzBIIqQQx8=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6474480-1428504939-6009.jpeg.jpg how the hell does this sound so good? 20 odd years after the fact cherubs'relentless churn & mewl is an ecstatic flabby low-end grinding tantrum.
& my father in law's steel pan orchestras play the classics comps.

massaman gai, Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:11 (six years ago) link

wish I would've gone to see them at the Am Rep summer bash

It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link

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

All day err'day twenty times a day. It's a virus.

Google Atheist (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:10 (six years ago) link

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Q2zV0otGL._SX425_.jpg

a day of jansch

no lime tangier, Friday, 2 March 2018 02:26 (six years ago) link

Dave Liebman, Adam Rudolph, Tatsuya Nakatani - The Unknowable

I wish my life was as enigmatic and zen as this sounds r/n.

calzino, Friday, 2 March 2018 12:36 (six years ago) link

end of the family visit. peeling potatoes. thunder & lashing rain. readying for a loooong trip back to an icy germany.
https://img.discogs.com/UwdFL46LZjtW5u8716SxPWBBGog=/fit-in/600x592/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1184996-1349067964-6987.jpeg.jpg

massaman gai, Saturday, 3 March 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link

Sitting in the car listening to Agustin Barrios.

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 3 March 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link

I had "What Were Once Vices are Now Habits" by the Doobie Brothers spinning on the turntable this morning. This week has been Screaming Trees, Canned Heat, Jefferson Airplane, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Primus and Motorhead in my playlists or in the truck.

earlnash, Saturday, 3 March 2018 18:42 (six years ago) link

Cover of that Riley album is amazing.

What I've been spinning today:
The Breeders - All Nerve
Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
Sir Richard Bishop/Ava Mendoza - Ivory Tower
Cornelius - Fantasma
Efrim Manuel Menuck - Pissing Stars

willem, Saturday, 3 March 2018 21:27 (six years ago) link

Stevolende with the hits

love that Harlem River Drive album

(and Terry Riley too, obv)

my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:47 (six years ago) link

https://www.popsike.com/pix/20120513/160801083319.jpg

no lime tangier, Sunday, 4 March 2018 03:20 (six years ago) link

I think Toni Arthur was about my first crush when she was on children's tv a few years later.
Still not really heard the folk lps though.

Stevolende, Sunday, 4 March 2018 17:34 (six years ago) link

hearken to... is the only one i've found & is quite good. think the earlier two were compiled on cd at some point.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/518ije2OB-L._SX425_.jpg

no lime tangier, Monday, 5 March 2018 01:10 (six years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/58xkR2M.jpg?1

Anthology of all of their stuff, from the Prae Kraut Pandemonium fave singles from the 60s to the kinda... vaguely punky hard rock 1970s stuff. Contains the line "I've got a prick like a saxophone."

my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 5 March 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link

massaman gai, you are a w.a.y.l.t. treasure

j., Monday, 5 March 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link

1st sweeney's men lp followed by...

https://www.popsike.com/pix/20161117/262722808856.jpg

...& the excellent irvine/gaughan collboration from a few years later

no lime tangier, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 03:14 (six years ago) link

I haven't been really listening to anything in particular lately but right now I'm v much in the mood to be slowly decomposed by mycelia on the forest floor to that koboku senju record

ogmor, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 10:36 (six years ago) link

"lower case" by & large a corny preset these days but ineffable transcendence abounds herein
https://img.discogs.com/up1F4fVMMJYfT9oF_1PgP3Jw_38=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1997995-1257630227.jpeg.jpg

massaman gai, Thursday, 8 March 2018 13:02 (six years ago) link

I've gone back to the heart and soul music: Rock and Roll Over, Rocks, and Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap in this evenings play list.

earlnash, Saturday, 10 March 2018 01:49 (six years ago) link

really enjoying the Mystery Lights 2016 debut.
It's nuggets classic style garage rock, more passionate reverence than derivative I think.
Sort of a slinkier version of the Sonics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqmX3Q4d4ac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5_JumBkq2Q

nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 15 March 2018 16:44 (six years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/Eoj4XGY.jpg
Naka Naka Mundo Harsh

my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 16 March 2018 08:57 (six years ago) link

Rough but beautiful rainy day vibes w/hints of ambient AFX and Kinesthesia.

my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 16 March 2018 08:58 (six years ago) link

read an article on buzzing local bands. i cherry pick fierce. faced with a list of eleven bands i haven't heard of i'll pick the one with the best sounding name. so i listened to brown calculus. i like them! they sound like a hippie THEESatisfaction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbOr70EjKZo

ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Friday, 16 March 2018 23:36 (six years ago) link

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3149456892_10.jpg

I have been listening to a lot of late period Dixon recently, this one is fucking awesome.

calzino, Monday, 19 March 2018 10:14 (six years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSMpIIs5Qa4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot_-B-83Lb0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ82BMdHjQM

quite audible how the MC5 version is based on the Ted taylor. But I do love teh Jerry Lee Lewis version which is the first recording I think. Haven't heard any other Ted Taylor so not sure how prevalent the falsetto is.

Stevolende, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 09:29 (six years ago) link

cover connection.
updated version of that mediaeval sound cover (which i have been playing a lot again recently!) :

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0712071126_10.jpg

mark e, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 18:00 (six years ago) link

interleaving cover connex:

https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/347/MI0003347280.jpg

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link

the Myra melford re-issue is done in the same design format. I think it is the Hatology label house style.

ken hom ad attack (calzino), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 20:13 (six years ago) link

yes i just now realized that as you said it :/

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link

it's classic Swiss taste neutrality, perhaps!

ken hom ad attack (calzino), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 21:06 (six years ago) link

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3580820747_16.jpg

Tyrannosaurus Rex - Live at Brondby 1969-01-25
https://bolan-boogie.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-br-ndby-69

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 29 March 2018 10:57 (six years ago) link

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61cdqvxSshL._SX425_.jpg

featuring some more stellar david munrow shawm action
(& dolly collins! dave swarbrick!! sandy denny!!!)

no lime tangier, Thursday, 29 March 2018 11:15 (six years ago) link

Honey Ltd. - Complete LHI Recordings

Some tracks multiple times

So fucking great

my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 1 April 2018 07:20 (six years ago) link

been meaning to check that out for years now^
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUFwf2plM8A

no lime tangier, Sunday, 1 April 2018 07:39 (six years ago) link

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/Andrew-W.K.-The-Party-All-Goddamn-Night-EP-2011.jpg

Andrew W.K. "The Party All Goddamn Night E.P." (2011)

i've been listening to "You're Not Alone" so much i needed a chaser. never heard this EP but it's very cool! it has an early version of "Ever Again". and the song "Head Bang" is one of the coolest things he has ever done.

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 1 April 2018 10:31 (six years ago) link

https://cdn.smehost.net/milesdaviscom-uslegacyprod/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/171208_miles_coltrane.jpg
this is fucking huge but completely essential imo.

calzino, Sunday, 1 April 2018 10:53 (six years ago) link

That Venezuela 70 comp is rad

my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 2 April 2018 10:39 (six years ago) link

Yeah been meaning to see what is comparable compilationwise. Maybe the Souljazz german electronic compis or something.

Loving that last Mojo covermounted cd too. Got a theme of early mod r'n'b great stuff.

Stevolende, Monday, 2 April 2018 11:41 (six years ago) link

Tamla Motown, Stax/Volt, Early girl groups (Shirelles/Ronettes/Crystals/Cookies etc.), Pre-Beatles rock'n'roll, miscellaneous Northern Soul stuff and some blues (nothing post 1970, though) and some funk and disco.

Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 14:05 (six years ago) link

https://www.popsike.com/pix/20150924/181874724120.jpg

no lime tangier, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 06:11 (six years ago) link

Oasis - "Wonderwall"
Roscoe Mitchell and Montreal-Toronto Art Orchestra - Ride the Wind
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
John Scofield and Pat Metheny - I Can See Your House from Here
James Blackshaw - Apologia
Arnold Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire (Da Capo Chamber Players, Lucy Shelton)

No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link

Also about half of Mary Halvorson - Code Girl

No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link

yo this is my shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCkudi86scM

had (crüt), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 23:50 (six years ago) link

https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/594/MI0000594632.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

ffs! take up vaping pal!

calzino, Thursday, 5 April 2018 10:55 (six years ago) link

That looks like an interesting record, calzino.

No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 5 April 2018 13:39 (six years ago) link

it's not one of his best and is dragged down a bit by the awful vox tracks, but he's such a legend/musical force I'll listen to literally anything he plays on.

calzino, Thursday, 5 April 2018 13:43 (six years ago) link

(Ha, then I went back to the Smashing Pumpkins poll.)

No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 5 April 2018 13:59 (six years ago) link

Grisey represent! I think I like the original Accord recording (with Gérard Caussé on viola) even better. For what it's worth, it's a little faster than the Kairos one and the playing strikes me as a wee bit more idiomatic, though I absolutely adore the ASKO Ensemble (and Garth Knox) as well.

pomenitul, Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:10 (six years ago) link

I'll look for that one.

No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:13 (six years ago) link

I've got to admit when Meades put some Ben Webster in his Architecture of Fascist Italy doc, I was really happy that someone else out there appreciates this genius.

calzino, Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:15 (six years ago) link

oh my that is the one. my first cecil. ;_;

massaman gai, Saturday, 7 April 2018 07:19 (six years ago) link

mine too (rip ct!)

no lime tangier, Saturday, 7 April 2018 07:28 (six years ago) link

poesia sonora

no lime tangier, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 05:35 (six years ago) link

//e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/24a25e762ea0add1b86da4668a467769/1980470.jpg
interesting folk/soul whatever lp by girl with a weird semi-tuneful smokey voice that I find quite compelling.

Stevolende, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 07:37 (six years ago) link

John Gordon Armstrong - Music for Solo Guitar
Yamantaka//Sonic Titan - Dirt
Alvvays - Antisocialites
Itasca - Morning Flower
Planning for Burial - Below the House
Smashing Pumpkins - 1991-06-22
Rush - "Caravan"
Ex Eye - Ex Eye

No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 12 April 2018 02:27 (six years ago) link

i have been listening to so much alvvays, it's been ridiculous

Karl Malone, Thursday, 12 April 2018 04:48 (six years ago) link

Nils Frahm - All Melody
Nortt - Endeligt
Blush Response - Infinite Density

beard papa, Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:39 (six years ago) link

Mostly Brooklyn Raga Massive's version of In C

No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 13 April 2018 01:36 (six years ago) link

but also Band of Gypsys

No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 13 April 2018 01:36 (six years ago) link

add that Planning for Burial album to my list. that’s outstanding.

beard papa, Friday, 13 April 2018 03:17 (six years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/iCp2wtVJHgHu2P4m08a1ZB_JOpk=/fit-in/600x594/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6277526-1415417543-8655.jpeg.jpgif endless boogie were a fruity ny loft scene god is my co pilot spin off playing sleepy grateful dead/"who's crazy" era ornette jams on sax violin bass & drums, o boy should we ever be so lucky. oh we are!https://img.discogs.com/QjhiKoW_bqxt38TJvM-2dbcUvgk=/fit-in/600x601/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7420185-1441158639-6918.jpeg.jpg
also benoit delbecq trio's "ink" is a proper treat. cage's sonatas & interludes reframed as a congolese p bley/ guaraldi workout

massaman gai, Friday, 13 April 2018 08:17 (six years ago) link

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds copenhagen 20/10/17
the concert that is featured in the concert film Distant Sky was circulated via torrent sites presumably before most people had heard of a forthcoming concert film.
This was apparently the first stadium tour by the band. You can see the size of the venue in the film.
Energy/intensity level throughout seems to be pretty high.
Very good performance.

Not sure if the band changed the tracks played much over the tour. Looked like a few of the sets I have from last year have pretty similar setlists.

Stevolende, Friday, 13 April 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqtoAb7tYlo

no lime tangier, Sunday, 15 April 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link

https://assets.boomkat.com/spree/products/74744/large/original.jpg

calzino, Thursday, 19 April 2018 12:02 (five years ago) link

https://www.trussel.com/lyman/relax.jpg

no lime tangier, Friday, 20 April 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link

Runa Laila - "Shahbaz Qalander", off of Showcase South Asia

https://patari.pk/home/album/Runa-Laila-Showcase-South-Asia-Vol-4

very different from the rest of the comp, but it's 24 amazing minutes of not italo-disco

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link

Showcase Southasia, Vol 4, that is

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link

hejira
lijadu sisters

thomasintrouble, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link

anenon - tongues

yes sir

Karl Malone, Thursday, 26 April 2018 05:09 (five years ago) link

https://soundcloud.com/the-black-dog/the-black-dog-live-at-photon-010418

an hour of ambient stuff mixed/edited etc by the black dog.
just what i needed today.

mark e, Thursday, 26 April 2018 08:10 (five years ago) link

Kenny Wheeler - Gnu High and Deer Wan albums back to back. Just what I needed this hungover morning.

calzino, Thursday, 26 April 2018 10:03 (five years ago) link

Got only 3 weeks to make a cool Afrobeat music for my thesis, and boy, have I been on a search roller coaster. Gotta find some African music beats ASAP and then I got hooked to this page popularly called Naija Free Beats. Still on the thesis thing, but everyday, I keep going back for some listening and relaxation pleasure. Also have some cool collections from Soundcloud as well. :)

Jayrise, Thursday, 26 April 2018 13:25 (five years ago) link

https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/197/MI0002197765.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

I'm never not in the mood for this tour de force.

calzino, Sunday, 29 April 2018 11:32 (five years ago) link

Love that record

my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 30 April 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link

https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/506/MI0000506025.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/425/MI0000425750.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
https://www.music-bazaar.com/album-images/vol1014/880/880363/2738850-big/Momentum-cover.jpg

love these albums, this is the only living jazz pianist who makes me think of Mal Waldron. For some strange reason his quite jaunty version of They Say It's Wonderful brings me to the verge of blubbing.

calzino, Friday, 4 May 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link

The note is an excerpt from an essay by George Lewis, btw

Ward Fowler, Friday, 4 May 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link

http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/7357/cover_512092552012_r.jpg

Sadistic Mika Band - Black Ship (1974)

first album also but i can't find a good image of the cover. Roxy Music discovered these guys -- it's good stuff!

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 4 May 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/U6_kfAJjMKWs0di02STn3vDq7Kc=/fit-in/600x531/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-10559023-1499879516-1379.jpeg.jpgawful band name & album title, but jazz keyboardists getting their electronic humcrush on (but w/ more messiaen)is never not going to be my thing

massaman gai, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 10:41 (five years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/jLdR6dt9Jmr846gSMrRUTXp22lw=/fit-in/600x615/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3398179-1395175600-5232.jpeg.jpg noir jazz with math & guimbri patterned bass meanderings. lo-fi. lowe plays bass trombone & tuba, kwaku kwaakye obeng is chippendale "on"

massaman gai, Thursday, 17 May 2018 10:02 (five years ago) link

i received the patrick cowley comp Afternooners last night as a bday present (with excellent liner notes by drew daniel), and now i'm having a very sexy afternoon(er).
https://i.imgur.com/gRtGZlq.jpg

obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Sunday, 20 May 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link

Love Cowley!

I've been listening to the first two Wishbone Ash albums a lot. They're pretty good.

my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 21 May 2018 02:48 (five years ago) link

massaman gai, I'll need to check that out. Taylor Bynum was a classmate of mine back in Brookline, MA. We were both in the HS jazz band, lol.

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 21 May 2018 02:53 (five years ago) link

http://www.lesabattoirs.org/sites/default/files/styles/galleryformatter_slide/public/_taku-530x331.jpg?itok=6-aw5rTE

hope that works. Taku Sugimoto, on a couple recent Another Timbre releases

braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 21 May 2018 03:06 (five years ago) link

xp hey moodles on repated listens ther isn't much mathiness to it but lots of strollin loon pant swagger & parp it's a fun listen. ho bynum's tone beats most.

massaman gai, Monday, 21 May 2018 10:38 (five years ago) link

listening to birdsong & dudes hammering a spock box onto a camper van

massaman gai, Monday, 21 May 2018 10:40 (five years ago) link

https://i.pinimg.com/474x/af/cf/65/afcf65aa71685423c4dc08fcdc8e41ad--music-album-covers-music-albums.jpg
The Fool (1968)

this is an LP by the hip psychedelic English art collective The Fool. the painted the outside of the Apple store in London. they painted John Lennon's rolls royce and Eric Clapton's guitar. they designed the inner sleeve for Sgt. Pepper. their album was produced by Graham Nash. they were very well plugged in.

this is their vanity record. it's pretty good! like the album cover shows they are not as much of a band as they are a Renaissance Festival troupe of gypsies singing fairy tale songs and stuff. the album is psych folk. some electronic noises overdubbed onto simple Fleetwood Mac-style group folk songs. some drones and New Age Cult energy. i like "No One Will Ever Know":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NOPNWnFYYk

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 03:25 (five years ago) link

climax blues band "couldn't get it right"

reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 16:56 (five years ago) link

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Fred Cole apparently started out singing soul fronting a black band when he was 16. Not sure if you can tell that from his yelp.

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One of the titles I was turned onto by the Anadolu Psych book that Daniel Spicer published recently

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turned up while i was doing an Amazon recommendations trawl. Deep Spiritual jazz etc

Stevolende, Thursday, 24 May 2018 09:26 (five years ago) link

Air Canada in-flight audio from today:
Beethoven's 3rd and 5th symphonies (Calgary Philharmonic)
Imarhan - Temet
April Wine - s/t (better than I expected)
Eighth Blackbird/Dan Trueman/Paul Muldoon/Iarla Ó Lionáird - Olagón: A Cantata in Doublespeak (part of the first disc)

Since getting back, Alvvays - Antisocialites and clips from the contemporary music concert at MusCan.

No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 26 May 2018 00:47 (five years ago) link

Air Canada !!! Lol my man

Young N the deathless (Ross), Saturday, 26 May 2018 01:52 (five years ago) link

Their selections were better than I expected.

No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 26 May 2018 02:30 (five years ago) link

https://www.electrobuzz.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/eb-01010120361.jpg

so, in the last few days I got the new GAS album, and both of the new Black Dog albums, which I am still absorbing.
however, this is the one that has impressed the most.
it is absolutely sublime.
organic (not something that's normally associated with KOMPAKT), ethereal, warm, and just fantastic.

mark e, Sunday, 27 May 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link

Girl Band, Scott Walker's Phillips records, Amon Duul 2, New Zealand's Jefferies brothers various projects.

VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Sunday, 27 May 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link

http://danielbromfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/funkentelechy.png

Parliament - Funkentelechy vs. The Placebo Syndrome (1977)

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 28 May 2018 03:32 (five years ago) link

https://www.popsike.com/pix/20150830/171913493566.jpg

no lime tangier, Friday, 1 June 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/pY4LALH.jpg?1

That good Canadian punk

my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 3 June 2018 00:03 (five years ago) link

kinda proto grunge, even a little AmRepy

my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 3 June 2018 00:04 (five years ago) link

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2546984605_10.jpg

reet cracking set is this!

calzino, Sunday, 3 June 2018 12:37 (five years ago) link

I think this is what people hear in the new Charlie Puth? a much better example imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX_NJunvX8w

aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 14:07 (five years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp81MnccTg4

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 7 June 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jrnfKe7rqU

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 7 June 2018 21:51 (five years ago) link

The first Was Not Was lp. It's much better than i anticipated. Though i think it would be better, if the actual singers (Sweet Pea and Harry) sang all of it. Those archly "weird" lyrics throughout the lp, would be infinitely more effective (and subversive)that way. Rather than the spoken, King Missile style vocals that are the alternative here. In general though, it's great stuff!! Out Come the Freaks is a killer opener, a very Chocolate City-era Parliament style jam. In the context of playing the lp for pleasure, i enjoy the spoken bits as well. Just think that my idea is better. Lol.😄

VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Monday, 11 June 2018 05:48 (five years ago) link

the gruffalo in German. thought it was a keijo haino CD, forgot that I'd left it on while doing my emails

massaman gai, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 07:00 (five years ago) link

email schmemail new stearns upload:
http://soundcloud.com/danstearns/dan-stearnssix17originaldemo

massaman gai, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 07:37 (five years ago) link

manfred going easy on the reverb tank in his old age. sam rivers "contrasts" sounds like a thomas köner disc in comparison
https://img.discogs.com/oeDH0yDbO8TmyRfPqt8L_Bh_cUg=/fit-in/600x599/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3859774-1381246549-1392.jpeg.jpg

massaman gai, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 09:37 (five years ago) link

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cos I just read the chapter on him in Anadolu Psych

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Walthamstow based Folk rock band released through Cardinal Fuzz

Stevolende, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 09:47 (five years ago) link

erkin koray rulz

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZdP9CarDL.jpg

no lime tangier, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 12:33 (five years ago) link

mason's children & hundred year hall

no lime tangier, Thursday, 14 June 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link

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great stuff picked it up in Honest johns last year or the year before

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relistening to this for the first time in a while cos i found it on Spotify

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just stuck this on from a soundfile I have on my harddrive and find out it has 2 longish bonus tracks which I haven't seen before.

Stevolende, Thursday, 14 June 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link

That Shub-Niggurath album rules, it's like Univers Zero if they were angry

obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Thursday, 14 June 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link

Great innit.

Stevolende, Thursday, 14 June 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link

this treasure trove of live cassette bootlegs from maxwell's in the 90s

https://www.themckenzietapes.com/tapes/

The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 June 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link

a nice chill phil mison mix, live @ LN-CC 4/5/12. really hitting the spot.

brimstead, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 01:33 (five years ago) link

Somehow I missed that Circle did a more-or-less straightforward death metal album until now

https://i.imgur.com/oIiD4nM.jpg?1

my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 21 June 2018 05:25 (five years ago) link

oh man I gotta check out some later Mouthus

my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 21 June 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link

or mid-period i guess

my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 21 June 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link

Somehow I missed that Circle did a more-or-less straightforward death metal album until now

There's a story with this, you know?

Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Thursday, 21 June 2018 23:26 (five years ago) link

I didn't but I just Googled it. Very Circle thing to do, really, loaning the name to five metal dudes.

my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 22 June 2018 03:53 (five years ago) link

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in the version from here
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among a few other lps by her since I'm most of the way through I Always kept A Unicorn by Mick Houghton which has been a very good read. I think she is just about to die unfortunately.

also
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which I could do with some more info about. Not sure when things come from, seems to have some pretty early beatish stuff on.

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really getting into this now, picked it up in the Rough Trade East sale at Xmas.

& the Kids 1974 demoes set which is part of teh Crypt label Real Kids cd. Really rocking stuff.

Stevolende, Thursday, 28 June 2018 19:24 (five years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWdNiGS1Qtw

Walter Wanderley - Rainforest (1966)

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 29 June 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link

love some WW

Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 30 June 2018 03:04 (five years ago) link

moody blues - days of future past
n.e.r.d. - No One Ever Really Dies
Pretenders - S/T
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
Lily Allen - No Shame

Y'all (Ross), Saturday, 30 June 2018 03:07 (five years ago) link

tons of Black Flag

Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 2 July 2018 09:34 (five years ago) link

https://www.popsike.com/pix/20121019/281003699791.jpg

no lime tangier, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 06:33 (five years ago) link

lilian hak's new project lhispr had one track that was pretty nice in a "Live to Tell" kind of way; now there is a remix and it is great

https://soundcloud.com/lhispr/deja-vu-t-raumschmiere-remix

aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 6 July 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link

recently, drukqs, dougie bowne trio's "one way elevator".
right now: mouthus' "the long salt"
https://img.discogs.com/GPT3mEWjea373O293xJ8sGXhf88=/fit-in/250x252/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-999006-1182458874.jpeg.jpg

massaman gai, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 09:49 (five years ago) link

beach house "dive"

reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 13 July 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link

this morning im listening to records i scored yesterday at Fantasyland Records:

Tommy James "Christian of the World"
The Byrds "Byrdmaniax"
Mark Volman & Howard Kaylan "The Phlorescent Leech & Eddie"
The Gentrys "Keep on Dancing"
Mitch Rider "All Hits!"
George Harrison "Living in the Material World"
Kate Bush "Running Up That Hill Extended Version" 12"

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 15 July 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link

magic fern - solar plexis

Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 15 July 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link

a 1983 Redd Kross set, nice ramshackle rocking stuff.

Stevolende, Sunday, 15 July 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link

Smokescreens "Used To Yesterday"
Bruce Springsteen "Live at the Roxy"

Joe Gargan (dandydonweiner), Monday, 16 July 2018 23:22 (five years ago) link

http://www.john-jacob-niles.com/JJN_Gambling_Songs_LP.jpg

no lime tangier, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 01:25 (five years ago) link

o an o tooo manyo

massaman gai, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link

Jupiter & Okwess- Kin Sonic

Fatoumata Diawara - Fenfo (Something to Say)

Vickie Baker - "Honey Hole"

curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 12:39 (five years ago) link

Hawkwind innit

Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 19 July 2018 04:53 (five years ago) link

Cecil Taylor and lot's of other free jazzers or Great Black Music or whatever you'd like to call it. That wonderful book by Val Wilmer really got me psyched up and now i can't get enough.

VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Thursday, 19 July 2018 05:04 (five years ago) link

memphis jug band & blind lemon jefferson

no lime tangier, Friday, 20 July 2018 05:55 (five years ago) link

https://www.popsike.com/pix/20130530/151054439767.jpg

no lime tangier, Sunday, 22 July 2018 04:19 (five years ago) link

red vinyl too!

niels, Sunday, 22 July 2018 09:27 (five years ago) link

just scored a hard copy of this for pennies - found it on soundcloud originally. 1992 somehow sounds post-everything laubrockesque. some kinda inscrutable befuddled brooding moomin jazz w/ wooden sculpture instruments in the percussion kit
https://img.discogs.com/r04T2gOgUHE7NIYIMaRLfos0zws=/fit-in/600x535/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-10889088-1506004319-2048.jpeg.jpg
http://soundcloud.com/kivspo/tracks

massaman gai, Monday, 23 July 2018 12:22 (five years ago) link

Goat Girl
Madonnatron
Bonnacons of Doom
Lay Llamas
MIEN
Phobophobes
Moonlandingz
Gnod

stillHera, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 02:05 (five years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq7c0VOU1qU

Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 5 August 2018 04:05 (five years ago) link

Now that we're less than a year and a half away from the end of the decade, I've basically been focusing mostly on music released in the '10s - so, re-listening to a lot of favourites released this year, giving several LP's a couple more chances, and seeing what else I can discover. This amounts to quite a fair bit of stuff, obviously.

Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 6 August 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link

was listening to that Glam 2cd set over the weekend.
and yes, it is as good as scott told us it was.

mark e, Monday, 6 August 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0259189475_10.jpg
dimples'' "whimpers"

massaman gai, Monday, 6 August 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link

Man, tangier. I had both of the Matching Mole deluxe edition CDs. Why, oh why, did I trade them in?

(V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Monday, 6 August 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link

for whatever reason have never checked out anything beyond the original two mm lps (& taking a look there have been more retrospective releases than i'd realised!)

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61HwslOpMOL.jpg

no lime tangier, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 06:54 (five years ago) link

Wow, reading about that dude. Seems completely wild.

outside, you're never alone. (Austin), Friday, 10 August 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link

Anyone hear the new Miss Red? Last one was great and free. Sort of dancehall rap ? I’m bad at describing this music cuz it’s not a genre I know

grandaddy of all liars (Ross), Friday, 10 August 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/ZrnYoXAyWkQ5fHON1ySVVghXFYk=/fit-in/200x174/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1207411-1258785307.jpeg.jpgsynapses tickled (might be a bit too "punchy" for nighttime listening above sensitive rockers' boudoir, though)

massaman gai, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/5Z5mZjJAQwyaqwuz3ETuz052oJI=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1455905-1473079982-4105.jpeg.jpgraaaaargh free rock today i am kitted out with one of those blood pressure machines lawks amercy what for an encumbrance

massaman gai, Friday, 24 August 2018 09:17 (five years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/uyZHkN8We53X7WgL69_R77FzyXM=/fit-in/600x596/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-8005360-1453322237-9929.jpeg.jpg giving steve lacy a run for his money these fine fellows squawk with a tone that recalls paul leary circa 1988

massaman gai, Friday, 24 August 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link

My friend's nephew has a great new record out today:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/511yJUlmFOL._SS500.jpg

Indie pop with some Nirvana-ish chord-changes and fun wordplay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSRd9HPh2A

DJI, Friday, 31 August 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/Joe_Walsh_-_Barnstorm.jpg

earlnash, Saturday, 1 September 2018 05:14 (five years ago) link

Wow. That is a cover.

earlnash, Sunday, 2 September 2018 01:18 (five years ago) link

oh, they had some interesting cover concepts

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61jbdDwHGrL._SX425_.jpg

no lime tangier, Sunday, 2 September 2018 03:00 (five years ago) link

Are there a couple of ya Ho wah covers that look very similar set around the white rolls. I thought the one i was familiar with had Father Yod on top of it.

Stevolende, Sunday, 2 September 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/i4mX6pHECP6sG_VZU_AqWsp1GgE=/600x430/smart/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/A-1032415-1239305724.jpeg.jpg

(not sure if it was used as an album cover or not, most of the yod stuff i have is mp3)

no lime tangier, Monday, 3 September 2018 00:57 (five years ago) link

https://www.popsike.com/pix/20170119/192082623613.jpg

no lime tangier, Monday, 3 September 2018 00:58 (five years ago) link

I saw Djin Aquarian play with Plastic Crimewave as his backing band at a art/punk space a few years ago, was pretty awesome heavy psych, he looks like Dumbledore joined Jefferson Airplane

The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 3 September 2018 01:40 (five years ago) link

Xs&Ps I love that you can see Father Yod in the driver's seat in the cover of Savage Sons

Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 6 September 2018 00:46 (five years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/1Zm_CG81An1A1dDTKDg98fAeRM0=/fit-in/308x197/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-622590-1139742040.jpeg.jpg buffle - constrictor - quaint skronky casio pop bedroom clatter & twang

massaman gai, Thursday, 6 September 2018 05:50 (five years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/RZzILCTgyT2e6lDfM-KSUAbzdAE=/fit-in/600x609/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4594166-1369401951-8701.jpeg.jpg no laminal yawnfest, minimal amount of insect scrabble, this SWINGS HARD.

massaman gai, Friday, 7 September 2018 07:57 (five years ago) link

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/40/Journey_self_titled.jpg

earlnash, Saturday, 8 September 2018 02:42 (five years ago) link

swanoxsong records / tapes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycRBk-N3n7E

reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 8 September 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link

live/dead

no lime tangier, Sunday, 9 September 2018 02:39 (five years ago) link

i can't get anyone in my life to listen to this for more than 30 seconds but it is perfect for morning time:

anouar brahem
blue maqam

https://i.imgur.com/ZA8rgnD.jpg

Karl Malone, Sunday, 9 September 2018 02:41 (five years ago) link

love this guy, his Barzakh album is ace as well and Astrakan Cafe (with classic ECM opulence - recorded in an ancient monastery for the acoustic qualities!).

calzino, Sunday, 9 September 2018 09:37 (five years ago) link

There have been a few live sets by Anouar Brahem turned up on Dime over the last year that have been quite good.
His backing band is now known as the Blue Maqams but I think the line up is different.

Stevolende, Sunday, 9 September 2018 09:40 (five years ago) link

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NOt sure what of his I've heard. Was listening to this last night too and very impressed by it but didn't think I'd heard it as it. Think I've heard other things heavily echo it though but wasn't sure exactly what, some of it seems very Beefhearty or at least like it was picked up on by the early magic Band.
Primal earthy stuff

Stevolende, Sunday, 9 September 2018 09:45 (five years ago) link

his "i do not play on rock and roll" album is alltime class!

calzino, Sunday, 9 September 2018 10:05 (five years ago) link

on no

calzino, Sunday, 9 September 2018 10:06 (five years ago) link

xposts: is that comp drawn from the lomax recordings? the blues collection i have from that has some sweet fife + drum action (need to hear more of that!)

https://img.discogs.com/GqfmSNvBL1WOJOzMpK5RSk0HXpM=/fit-in/600x607/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7489846-1442534503-9681.jpeg.jpg

no lime tangier, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 07:55 (five years ago) link

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0032157402_10.jpg

Sudan Archives: 2 eps so far. reminds me of Bjork / Tricky / Badu / Arthur Russell...

fetter, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 11:04 (five years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/IVq2lLRtXLlWAys4DxFKbElh0Xk=/fit-in/335x340/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4412864-1364214445-1981.jpeg.jpgfinnish smegma meets incus business, not the awful canadians of the same name

massaman gai, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/adtgSPdkKzzqalPm9htgGLtwqp8=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-12042720-1527130212-5745.png.jpg holy toledo! polished bittersweet möbius strip pop cubism of the very highest order. jawdropping

massaman gai, Thursday, 13 September 2018 08:26 (five years ago) link

ZZ Top Marquee london 1983
I don't remember this which must have been talked about at the time. I think the band had broken through to the next level at least by then so surprised they played this place. maybe it was only after the mega selling lps o fthe time taht they did become taht popular in the UK. I thought they were playing massive places in the US at least at the time.
This is powerful anyway.

Stevolende, Thursday, 13 September 2018 10:13 (five years ago) link

a lotta early 70s Terje Rypdal, Saxon, the first Corrosion of Conformity album, Magma

Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 13 September 2018 12:18 (five years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/Gkd83nJYQ2c8doCkaV3Rq4MXwh8=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-11322365-1514205192-7902.jpeg.jpg damp bedsit cab voltaire knock-offs with a whiff of the chocolate monk about it

massaman gai, Friday, 14 September 2018 14:03 (five years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgjm9H5u0Q0

no lime tangier, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 08:59 (five years ago) link

Sky Cries mary live set from 2004.
i used to really like the studio lps so should dig them out. Don't remember having live stuff.
Very spacy psychedelic rock for a bunch of people who came together as neubauten fans

Stevolende, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 09:06 (five years ago) link

https://kevindrumm.bandcamp.com/album/second

certainly surprised by the early work of Kevin Drumm.. this is well-engaging, with a strongly varied dynamic range, etc.

braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 15:41 (five years ago) link

https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/khmer-1.jpg
Somehow I missed this at the time which is 20 bloody years ago. What a great mélange of electronic & acoustic music.

Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 20:51 (five years ago) link

https://www.popsike.com/pix/20150618/111698005265.jpg

no lime tangier, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 05:11 (five years ago) link

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61qqrN-x4pL.jpg

no lime tangier, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 07:20 (five years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/II1JGt_fk4_HK3x3vRYwOFcMZ5o=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3170089-1319355056.jpeg.jpgdoes uwe get short schrift for being persistently silly? maybe, but this rules. don't think many come close, rhythmically

massaman gai, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 12:13 (five years ago) link

beautify junkyards the invisible world of

reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 13:36 (five years ago) link

Have been listening to Franco, Tabu Ley Rochereau and Sam Mangwana at ear splitting volume in the car the last few weeks. Incredible stuff.

(Thanks to Global Groove)

millmeister, Saturday, 22 September 2018 08:57 (five years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/zL6viow.jpg

super diamono - star 80s

really good senegalese band with Omar Pene & Ismael Lo, circa late-70s to 80s, although i think this comp only covers stuff from the mid-80s.

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 00:02 (five years ago) link

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

no lime tangier, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/lz_XBphSlpYttjIPQgTWx_f0uRs=/fit-in/470x470/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-860951-1386103560-9606.jpeg.jpg this is some kind of analogue to the merzbow / ladybird split channel thing

massaman gai, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 11:26 (five years ago) link

I have never heard that. Shit.

https://i.imgur.com/m5EVblT.jpg?1

Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 27 September 2018 02:39 (five years ago) link

^^

yes. one of my favorite albums

Karl Malone, Thursday, 27 September 2018 02:40 (five years ago) link

hearing solar winds, that is

Karl Malone, Thursday, 27 September 2018 02:41 (five years ago) link

xp first listen here but it's gorgeous

Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 27 September 2018 04:08 (five years ago) link

xxxxp
8 time sounds like prime _:zoviet*france:_ apart from a couple of silly bits where lewis does silly pompous vocals

massaman gai, Thursday, 27 September 2018 05:35 (five years ago) link

https://img.cdandlp.com/2018/06/imgL/119187529.jpg

I'm through some later period Cecil Taylor, this mother absolutely burns!

calzino, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/OgANNyleDidsYjdcHB28ct9WsDs=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4625769-1370322095-6139.png.jpg inexplicably remaindered NMN / shellac / minutemen w/ full geek appeal. hits it & quits it

massaman gai, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 09:55 (five years ago) link

Really enjoying the twisty progressions in that Locate S,1 album upthread.

jmm, Sunday, 7 October 2018 03:17 (five years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/E34eR6s.jpg?1
Executioner - The Anthology (80s hardcore from San Jose)

DEATH PUPPET (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 7 October 2018 11:09 (five years ago) link

GOTT PUNCH, thanks for mentioning Hearing Solar Winds. I'd never heard of David Hykes or the Harmonic Choir before, but that album is incredibly great.

ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 12:48 (five years ago) link

Cool! It really is, nothing quite like it. Rando thrift store find!

Currently listening to Kinesthesia Empathy Box

DEATH PUPPET (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 01:31 (five years ago) link

love that record!

DEATH PUPPET (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 11 October 2018 13:58 (five years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/yR8aMYF.jpg

millmeister, Thursday, 11 October 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/YgxtQR4.jpg?1

DEATH PUPPET (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 15 October 2018 21:46 (five years ago) link

THere's a recent Sons of Kemet gig just being shared on Tradersden.
10/10/2018 Joe Henderson Lab in San francisco.

JUst in the middle of the first long track.

Stevolende, Monday, 15 October 2018 22:20 (five years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/9H_EhMARlSrBZGrPc7DLn-OdawI=/fit-in/600x597/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-377619-1271825738.jpeg.jpglike Ae NTS sessions but without the ungodly mental spectacle of middle aged guys in tracksuits trying to breakdance

massaman gai, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 12:50 (five years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/ycCf3Npt_d3sAMqi0VV9htNLvas=/fit-in/600x535/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-9941019-1489924420-8926.jpeg.jpg all their stuff is on bandcamp at "name your price" i notice. for the uninitiated they hit a smashing sweet spot somewheres atwixt stretchheads, chapman & chinn, earl brutus, & shellac

massaman gai, Friday, 19 October 2018 10:27 (five years ago) link

or "sounds like wire" to put it another way

massaman gai, Friday, 19 October 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/IA_d73PGGYmLsJgtow6jmHFfT6o=/fit-in/600x561/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5681198-1408035058-4873.jpeg.jpg sam shalabi's "music for arabs" there are some thick as pigshit reviews of this about but it sounds grand to me

massaman gai, Saturday, 20 October 2018 16:59 (five years ago) link

//e.snmc.io/i/300/s/183c7473c212b6d05fe0edc69e60d305/5869925

listened through 3 of the discs earlier now listening to the Amon Duul II live set from 1969 in th eBlow up Club in Munich.

Stevolende, Saturday, 20 October 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link

that looks very cool but i have no idea what it is

xp i feel like a chump for buying the Catherine Ribeiro box set that only had five discs!!

DEATH PUPPET (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 21:31 (five years ago) link

that salzman lp is a real mishmash of then current modern classical/avant practices... kind of a mess, but it has a few nice moments. from what i understand he was something of a mimaroglu protege hence the release on finnidar (he also had an earlier release on nonesuch but haven't heard that one)

https://img.discogs.com/9ljaxwS-ieOjpkiplKPQPfKOU8A=/fit-in/600x610/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-936744-1481520265-8404.jpeg.jpg

no lime tangier, Thursday, 1 November 2018 02:05 (five years ago) link

Beethoven - Piano Concertos #3 and 4 (Mitsuko Uchida)
Mozart - Piano Sonatas (Andras Schiff)
Tuba Skinny - Six Feet Down
Frank Sinatra with the Count Basie Orchestra - Sinatra at the Sands
Bob Dylan - Trouble No More (Bootleg Series Vol. 13)

o. nate, Sunday, 4 November 2018 01:41 (five years ago) link

Hawkwindz I bought both.
I thought the French box set with teh 5 discs was mastered a bit quietly.
This seems to be less so. Seems to be about the same volume as the other discs I have on my 3 changer.
& covers a few more lps.
Looked like price might be rising which is one reason I went ahead and bought it. Think I'd been looking her up on here thanks to the recent lp reissues which is when I first heard about this box set.
I think the lps that are on here and not on the earlier box coincide with the lps that are up on Spotify not sure what the story is there.

But great stuff.

Stevolende, Sunday, 4 November 2018 12:48 (five years ago) link

largely this:
https://img.discogs.com/CWe7ut2qkiUud2Fgfoiqcr4pQqk=/fit-in/599x538/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-618424-1456786574-9675.jpeg.jpg,
but mainly this:
https://img.discogs.com/SncwpS4ebyociholOuk5M3K4e60=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-8902803-1471129284-1351.jpeg.jpg (nick fraser quartet's "starer") which is knotty & itchy yet lyrical. malaby sounds uncharacteristically unhinged, unison/entropy/unison schtick hasn't sounded so vital in donkeys. it is "on"

massaman gai (front tea for two), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link

Dvorak- American String Quartet (Lindsey Quartet)
Pharcyde- Bizarre Ride II

o. nate, Monday, 12 November 2018 22:25 (five years ago) link

//e.snmc.io/i/300/s/af69e444dcbd5be74839a5b3b582ece3/6990039
which is sublime and I just got turned onto by the Rough trade lps of teh year list. May have read a review of it a while back, not sure

Raincrow a live set by the Stacy Sutherland featuring blues band.

//e.snmc.io/i/300/s/7bbadc0ce4198917715e0e4a257079a6/3132799
intelligent sounding turn of the 70s rock. I think I need a physical copy of this so hope somebody does an official version sometime.

Stevolende, Thursday, 15 November 2018 12:50 (five years ago) link

Fleetwood Mac - _Future Games_
Snail Mail - _Lush_

. (Michael B), Thursday, 15 November 2018 12:54 (five years ago) link

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electronic takes on traditional Acholi rhythms from an artist on a Ugandan electronic tape label Nyege Nyege tapes who I came across because the Wire have a feature on a festival they held in September.
Hadn't really taken in that there was electronica going on in East Africa.
This sounds great as did Disco Vumbi both of whom are up on Bandcamp
& there is a longer piece on the label here
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/04/06/nyege-nyege-tapes-feature/

wish I'd known about the label when i was doing a show earlier this year would have made sure i included some of their stuff in it.

//e.snmc.io/i/300/s/107843fe6fd08a08a1bb7309ba45888d/6490679
listened to that earlier too

Stevolende, Friday, 16 November 2018 11:21 (five years ago) link

kinda german language circle-meets-heaven17-on-rephlex vibe

wow

j., Wednesday, 21 November 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link

well, more a hypothetical compromise between those three poles than the extremes of each.
this morning:
https://img.discogs.com/VRFv9Jo7p_r3XMt-ilZBrDdc6VE=/fit-in/600x599/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2335229-1375078200-5142.jpeg.jpg

massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, 22 November 2018 09:25 (five years ago) link

Currently enjoying

Ambarchi/O'Rourke/U-Zaahn : Hence
Julia Holter : Aviary
Kate Bush : Never For Ever 2018 remaster
Szun Waves : New Hymn To Freedom
Jimi Hendrix : Electric Ladyland 2018 remaster disc 2 of early takes

An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 22 November 2018 15:16 (five years ago) link

a new tio me Clock Dva set from the Lyceum in 1981 . I assume it must be in support of thirst having been released cos Adi mentions the lp having just come out.
Sounds pretty great so far.

Wish somebody would reissue clock Dva's material from this era as well as The Box's stuff.

Stevolende, Thursday, 22 November 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link

I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve broken out the Christmas music: starting with Vince Guaraldi and Ella Fitzgerald.

o. nate, Thursday, 22 November 2018 21:47 (five years ago) link

been listening to that brilliant Ben LaMar Gay album: Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun. Not sure which thread it belongs, but he is an AACM member and a Chicagoan.

calzino, Thursday, 22 November 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link

tyshawn sorey - pillars
container - lp (2018)
skee mask - compro
aleksandir - yamaha
tupac - all eyez on me
sonny rollins
will dimaggio - at ease
kacey musgraves - golden hour
ken mode - loved
rosalia - el mal querer, and los angeles

j., Friday, 23 November 2018 01:11 (five years ago) link

pillars is so good. The first part that sounded quite "out there" last month - sounds like a pop record to me in places now!

calzino, Friday, 23 November 2018 01:42 (five years ago) link

smidge of an oliveros/dempster vibe

j., Friday, 23 November 2018 02:08 (five years ago) link

https://s.s-bol.com/imgbase0/imagebase/large/FC/7/5/8/0/9200000023470857.jpg

Insanely gorgeous 90s jangle pop from the Netherlands.
The acoustic 'Here' is the most beautiful song ever.

ArchCarrier, Friday, 23 November 2018 09:26 (five years ago) link

haven't heard that one before. i like the cover.

Karl Malone, Sunday, 25 November 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link

Who's the artist?

DEATH PUPPET (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 05:11 (five years ago) link

oops its a peter brötzmann trio recording. him, p. kowald & pierre courbois.

massaman gai (front tea for two), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 07:23 (five years ago) link

just done a disc of nuslux' home brewed blorpins, rejected an enervatyed sounding yeh/corsano/shiflet disc but now jamming this spectre flux thing which i believe is pete nolan and the blues control folks sounding pretty vital in a half-assed shredding thrum brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr XPQRTZ ??????? to call it drone would do it a disservice
https://img.discogs.com/A1X7pnIAEl90Yh7XdfG2yBPq-ac=/fit-in/600x598/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1201754-1349378213-2613.jpeg.jpg

massaman gai (front tea for two), Friday, 30 November 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/cPfm0SClm-AeTOG3WkwUHP8ahVE=/fit-in/600x596/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-12642830-1539189998-8078.jpeg.jpga grower but still a little underwhelming, formanek goes heavy on the subtlety & ponderous big john barry type plodders. there's a few really good knotty melodies & lurching rhythms, but way too stately.

massaman gai (front tea for two), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link

A chap, possibly a lady, almost certainly a chap up the page mentions Blue Skied an' Clear, a compilation of covers of Slowdive songs with a second disc of original tunes. I have also listened to this record during this year, although only part of it. This is my copy:
https://i.imgur.com/8yEz1xd.jpg

That's my actual copy of the record, touched by my hands. Last year I wrote a blog post about it, which I will copy here so that no-one can accuse me of trying to drive traffic to my blog:

"Let’s have a look at Morr Music's Blue Skied an’ Clear, a compilation album stroke label sampler from 2002. Disc one has covers of songs by top British shoegaze band Slowdive; disc two has original songs inspired by the band. So it was that in 2017 I was moved to write about an album of covers released in 2002 of a band that flourished and faded in the early 1990s, as if descending a staircase into the past. I gazed at translucent figures who could not see me; I studied their ways and surfaced gasping into the present. As I write these words I imagine invisible eyes from the future studying *me*.

Slowdive was a shoegaze band. What was shoegaze? In the gap between C86 and Britpop there emerged a generation of fey, pale teenagers whose guitars broadcast formless, distorted washes of sound to an audience that craved an aural comfort blanket. The genre had a good run but the leading lights split up or ran out of ideas or ground to a halt. Britpop obliterated the traces. Britpop was brash, populist, highly commercial; shoegaze was none of those things. It had an air of passive self-absorption that was at odds with Britpop's extrovert nature.

Slowdive passed me by at the time. I was into electronic music, and in those days it was difficult to become familiar with a wide range of different bands. You either had to borrow lots of records or have a lot of money. There was no Youtube, and Slowdive was never played on the radio. I could only read about them in the music press, except that I continually got them mixed up with Swervedriver, another shoegaze band - Slowdive and Swervedriver are the same colour, both red - so I can't be sure if my memories of the band are correct. From my point of view Slowdive and shoegaze was a blip that came and went between Madchester, ambient house, and then Britpop and drum'n'bass. It was part of the sadly doomed and forgotten pre-Britpop era.

The only shoegaze band that approached a commercial breakthrough was Ride, who managed a couple of top ten albums and a top ten single, although nowadays they tend to be thought of as a pre-Britpop indie band that had a shoegazing phase rather than a fully-fledged shoegazing band. My Bloody Valentine’s second album, Loveless, is generally regarded as the high point of the genre - the loudest, most formless, most diffident of all shoegaze records, the genre’s Kind of Blue. Slowdive never had a commercial heyday, and fan favourite Souvlaki was a victim of unfortunate timing. By 1993 the music press had grown tired of shoegaze and was more interested in the likes of James, The Wonder Stuff, Suede and so forth, and of course a year later the one-two punch of Definitely Maybe and Parklife opened the floodgates that swept Slowdive and shoegaze away forever, or at least it seemed at the time.

For some reason – I know not why – Slowdive became internet-fashionable again in the 2000s. The group recently reformed and has released a new album. Surprisingly, it’s terrific; a moody, floaty ambient indie pop record that manages to be formless and tuneful at the same time. In a just world "Sugar for the Pill" would be a massive radio hit. Judging by Youtube views the band has gained a whole new following, including this blue-haired woman who was moved to tears by the band's cover of Syd Barrett’s "Golden Hair":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTZhG9YSY_c

But what of Blue Skied an' Clear? The covers on Disc One are solid but sound a bit thin, as if the bands were all pushed for time. The problem is that Slowdive's music was inseparable from the production, with the result that shorn of the band's wall of effects pedals the music doesn't have the same impact. The exception is múm's cover of "Machine Gun". The song has a killer melody but Slowdive's production was plodding and unimaginative; múm's take is subtler, and the sound would have fit perfectly on Finally We Are No One.

There's another problem, highlighted by Limp's take on "Souvlaki Space Station". The compilation was released in the wake of Warp Records' glitch-pop heyday and consequently several of the tracks have pointless sub-Squarepusher glitchy treatments that don't fit the material, "Space Station" among them. Disc two's "Fade Out Your Eyes" is a particular bad offender.

Ulrich Schnauss' "Crazy for You" is the second best cover, adding twangy guitars and a shuffling beat to the original, which sounded as if it had been recorded in a tunnel. A few years later Schnauss' version of the song was used in a Lucozade advert, sped-up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWMpzLAAM4Y

I imagine Schnauss earned more from the advert than he did from Blue Skied an' Clear. During their career Slowdive tried to change their sound - they hired Brian Eno, although he didn't stick around for a whole album - but never really managed it. Their most recent album feels like the product of twenty years of gradual evolution rather than a sharp break, which is fine now but would have been disappointing if it was just Slowdive's hypothetical fifteenth studio album. It's fascinating to imagine what might have happened if Slowdive and Eno had hit it off; say what you like about U2, Achtung Baby was a major leap for the band and it did give them a second wind. Solvent's cover of "When the Sun Hits" reimagines Slowdive as Add N to X while Lali Puma's version of "40 Days" has something of Garbage about it but neither of them convincingly reinvent the band. Skanfrom's version of "Here She Comes" sounds like a Brian Eno solo track from one of his non-ambient vocal albums.

Disc two is a lot more variable. Whereas Disc One is listenable throughout, Disc Two has some complete stinkers, although it gets off to a great start with Manual's "Summer Haze" and Isan's "My Last Journey". "House Full of Time" and "Fade Our Your Eyes" aren't very good at all and Solvent's "Discontinued Parts" is godawful. Limp's "Silent Running" is nice - it sounds like an instrumental cover of "40 Days" - but again has tonnes of indifferently-executed, now-badly-dated glitches. I bought the album after hearing Icebreaker International and Manual's "Into Forever", which for me is the standout track. Schnauss' "Wherever You Are" is the other standout. The rest are basically inoffensive filler. That's (counts) four excellent tracks, three bad tracks, seven okay tracks. I find it hard to criticise the bands involved. They probably had six weeks to throw something together for the compilation and no extra money, so I imagine disc two is stuffed with demos that they didn't want to put out as b-sides.

Morr Music still exists. Blue Skied an' Clear was released physically on compact disc and triple vinyl. The vinyl has a poster and some twee stickers that made me smile. It's still on sale today albeit only digitally. It's one really good album of mostly Slowdive covers with a handful of original tunes as a bonus, plus some rubbish that you can skip, the end."

Ashley Pomeroy, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/v6JT5VdfGqlMZqstMwYi8RtlPl0=/fit-in/280x279/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1019965-1228223791.jpeg.jpgjunk shop radiophonic drone of a very high calibre. thankfully no throat singing on this one. just slapback scree & whirr

massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, 6 December 2018 08:43 (five years ago) link

although what is this in the last 5 mins? oh anla, could you leave it just one time?

massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, 6 December 2018 08:49 (five years ago) link

bardo pond volume 8
beach house 7
beak> >>>
the bevis frond we're your friends, man
low double negative
malkmus/jicks sparkle hard
laura marling+ LUMP
orgAAn storkk
the oh sees smote reverser
kamasi washington heaven & earth X3

reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 7 December 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link

Just finished my 2018 year-end mix on Spotify that encompasses most of what I enjoyed this year. Sequencing builds tempo, energy, and loudness over the course of the mix and is intentionally relaxed and introspective in the first half (with exceptions), eventually moving into technicolor pop song territory in the second half.

30 songs /// 1 hr 47 min

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4JcO7BDYtqDfoQrOJZTNu2

ilxor, Friday, 7 December 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link

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― massaman gai (front tea for two), Wednesday, November 7, 2018 4:41 AM (one month ago)

Man, those Live at Yoshi's albums are complete insanity. I used to play them in the store when I worked at Tower Records and needed people to leave.

Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 7 December 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link

https://ring.cdandlp.com/jappress/photo_grande/2936188724.jpg

no lime tangier, Saturday, 8 December 2018 01:26 (five years ago) link

Sam Rivers - live trio sessions
Tom Petty - An American Treasure box

form that slug-like grex (outdoor_miner), Monday, 10 December 2018 16:36 (five years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/HXkfuB9SbbRjdo-E-lEW7pAe3rM=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3069479-1314274128.jpeg.jpgTuusanuuskat ‎– Nääksää Nää Mun Kyyneleet tape echo moogs tangerine dream such a tired formula but somehow this RULES maybe cos it's wilfully goofy & avoids tiresome "imaginary soundtrack"/ reich/glass balderdash

massaman gai (front tea for two), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 06:31 (five years ago) link

although that was very terry in the best way.
doing cassettes this aft:
https://img.discogs.com/-5ZImOF_ytFTnQsrrBPYSAjxW3c=/fit-in/600x353/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1074631-1387329671-2480.jpeg.jpg veritably a wondrous variegated panoply of thankfully pompless derangements

massaman gai (front tea for two), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 11:48 (five years ago) link

sth very AEOC abt the master qsh, too

massaman gai (front tea for two), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 12:46 (five years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/tkuJucfCBmeSa0IRghWeBl1bVIc=/fit-in/314x323/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-972864-1179430179.jpeg.jpg ohohoho wrongfooting with the graphics there, Belgian scamps mollenhauer tootle ominously on recorders, melodica & organ sounding halfway between the clangers & some kinda meredith monk segue

massaman gai (front tea for two), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 13:48 (five years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/yU7fMpWnt6HGZyIJOZn8NWM6o-M=/fit-in/600x592/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1365955-1394234915-7666.jpeg.jpg henriksen does the expected scelsiesque shakahuchi hassellism, delbecq is plangent goth-guaraldi-at church. ably supported

massaman gai (front tea for two), Friday, 21 December 2018 14:06 (five years ago) link

Pat Metheny - New Chautauqua
John Luther Adams & the Crossing - Canticles of the Holy Wind
Probably going to put on the Beths

Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Friday, 28 December 2018 15:31 (five years ago) link

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0867058760_10.jpg love these guys - the nomeansno episode of "Glee" features bruno martelli staging a mario bava adaptation?

massaman gai (front tea for two), Sunday, 30 December 2018 09:56 (five years ago) link

This was my end of year CD:

1. Ian William Craig - Some Absolute Means
2. Stuart A Staples - Memories of Love
3. Bill Seaman - The Epiphanies 1
4. Grouper - Blouse
5. Sophie Hutchings & Julia Kent - Earthbound
6. Alessio Ballerini - Before Flying
7. Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch - Redux
8. Thom Yorke - Susperium
9. S Carey - True North
10. Maarja Nuut & Ruum - Kuud Kuulama
11. Low -Dancing & Blood
12. The Sea & Cake - These Falling Arms
13. Johann Johannsson - Children of the New Dawn
14. Cedric Pin/Glen Johnson - It Was Not Meant To Be
15. Sin Fang/Soley/Orvar Smarson - Random Haiku Generator
16. The Breeders - All Nerve

... but I also had long phases of playing Red House Painters, 4AD stuff generally (I made 4 4AD compilations for the car) and Tindersticks.

djh, Sunday, 30 December 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link


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