What are you listening to? 2011

Balil - Parasight EP
The Black Dog - Temple of Transparent Balls
Isolée - We Are Monster
Cybotron - Techno City 7"
Synergy - Cords
Forgemasters - Track With No Name
Bola - Shapes
Jehan Alain - Organ Works

Destroyer, Lil B, Young Galaxy, new Mountain Goats album, new Isolee (sorta disappointing but I'm warming up to it), assorted Odd Future shit, Clams Casino mixtape, and some random c.2006-08 chart-rap hits that I miss ("Throw Some D's", "Whatever You Like")

right now tho I am listening to The Promise Ring, because I got nostalgic and wanted to hear the part where the dude goes "I'm not as good / As the interstates are / I just can't take you that far" and I can never remember what song it is so I just listen to the whole album

oh okay there it is, guess the song in question is "A Broken Tenor" (ugh what an unappealing title)

Kurt vile - smoke ring for my halo
J mascis - several shades of why
Eternal tapestry - beyond the 4th door
Parts and labor - constant future
Grails - deep politics
D. charles speer - arghiledes

etc.

Kangding Ray, Automne Fold

― willem, Monday, 7 March 2011 13:50 (7 hours ago)

This is a great album and I may listen to it myself tonight.

Currently jamming Cut Copy, Lykke Li, Nicolas Jaar, Young Galaxy, Julianna Barwick and Destroyer. Clearly feeling a bit too summery for March.

Eurythmics - In The Garden (AWESOME!)

Shame their later output doesn't stay in line with this's invention.

Wire, Send (2003)
Roy Harper, Counter Culture (2cd comp)

last night: Granny Zebra / Frith & Ostertag / Yan Jun concert followed immediately after by Thomas Dimuzio + Joseph Hammer / John Wiese concert

today:

Yan Jun - Wormhole Trip (Music for Time-Space Travel)
- Please do not ware earphone or headphone to listen to
- Please plug earphone or headphone, modify the volume to a low level, then leave it alone or hang on your dress
- For better result hide speakers in draw or any place you can not see them
- It is fit for large space or outdoor space
- Please playback on repeat mode
- Please keep in touch with me mentally

Seefeel - Quique
Kate Bush - Never For Ever
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats

are pretty much what I plan to spend the weekend with.

also got The Thrills - So Much For The City but it's a complete bore and is being deleted following this post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bdeizHM9OU&feature=player_embedded#at=25

New albums wise, I playing this lot quite a bit...

Pavan – Holy Volt [Harmönia]
Konx-Om-Pax – Light In Extension [Display Copy]
Ekoplekz – Memowrekz [Mordant Music]
Peaking Lights – 936 [Not Not Fun]
Esben & The Witch – Violet Cries [Matador]
Moritz Von Oswald Trio – Horizontal Structures [Honest Jon’s]
V/A – Dødpop: A’s & B’s [Dødpop]
Egyptrixx – Bible Eyes [Night Slugs]
James Blake – James Blake [Atlas]
The Soft Moon – The Soft Moon [Captured Tracks]
DJ Rashad – Just a Taste [Ghettophiles]
Bill Orcutt – A Way To Play Old Debts [Editions Mego]
Coco Bryce – Boesoek [Fremdtunes]
The Shady Bambino Project – The Shady Bambino Project [Green Ova]
Squadda B – I Smoke Because I Don’t Care About Death [Green Ova]
Daughters of the Sun – Ghost With Chains [Not Not Fun]
Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972 [Kranky]
Lykke Li – Wounded Rhythms [Atlantic]
Wire – Red Barked Tree [Pink Flag]
Young L – Domo-Kun The Mixtape [Self Released]

Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music from South Africa
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Today I've been listening to a smart playlist of the least played stuff on my iPod, which basically amounts to recent adds and has been rotating amongst:

U2 - Achtung Baby
Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering
V/A - Rip It Up and Start Again
V/A - New York Noise Vol. 2

Lots and lots of Nicolas Jaar, whether the new LP or last year's EPs and mixes and podcasts

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart's new LP, Belong.

Zac Brown Band You Get What You Give
Michael Quatro Dancers, Romancers, Dreamers & Schemers
Croon a Roma : Rare Sentimental Vocal Tracks From Italian 60s and 70s Movies
Ron Cornelius Tin Luck
Kid Rock Born Free
Holy Ghost! Holy Ghost!

Peaking Lights – 936 [Not Not Fun]

ive heard a lot of good things about this - i liked the tape they did for not not fun a few years ago

been listening to lots of stuff so far this year:

concern - truth & distance (digitalis)*
sohrab - a hidden place (touch)*
dag rosenqvist & simon scott - conformists (low point)*
kandi - kandi koated (asylum)*
milochondria - EARREADINGS (breakfast of champs)
destroyer - kaputt (merge)
pauline oliveros - to valerie solanas & marilyn monroe in recognition Of their desperation (roaratorio)
fabric - a sort of radiance (spectrum spools)
evil madness - super great love (editions mego)
dawn richard - #ATellTaleHeart (self-released)
earth - angles of darkness demons of light (southern lord)
tim hecker - ravedeath, 1972 (kranky)
deaf centre - owl splinters (type)
moritz von oswald trio - horizontal structures (honest jon's)
julia kent - green + grey (important)
puro instinct - headbangers on ecstasy (mexican summer)
universal swimsuit - i dream of floating... (self-released)

new Extra Life
new Cold Cave
Lindstrom & Christabelle album
DS-13 - Vad Vet Vi Om Kriget?

new cold cave is soooo bad

Om Kriget

Willie Rosario - Viva Rosario (1990). I had never heard this before. It kind of splits the difference between salsa romantica and salsa dura, at least on a song by song basis, if not within each song. I see a lot of people referring to "Anuncio Clasificado" as salsa romantica, but aside from the subject matter, it's not (and from what little I can make out of the Spanish lyrics, they seem more ironic and complex than straightforward romantic salsa romantica).

Now (also for the first time), Cuco Valoy's Tizo (1980). So far I'm not hearing anything else on the album as mind-blowing as "Mariana Engracia."

caetano veloso - transa is now one of my favourite albums of all time

contrastingly, i'm also listening to the new britney album

Bert & John Bert jansch and John renbourn
preceded by a Peel session track by Gilgamesh
& a compi of 70/71 Atomic Rooster tracks
Earlier today got
Habibiyya If Man But knew which has some very nice stuff on it. the remnant of Mighty Baby plus Susan Graubard Archuletta of New age fame plus her husband Conrad on largely acoustic sufi influenced music. The bonus tracks have some electric elements.
also got
the Vagrants I Can't Make a Friend the Light In the attic compi. I've been wanting to get a compi of their material for decades, since I first got Respect on Nuggets. Not sure if this is as good as I'd hoped/expected. It does have some very good tracks on though.
Doors a '68 live set
Kraftwerk 1
Flamin Groovies disc1 of the 2cd Sire records compi
faust 71 minutes of
Plastic People of The universe Egon Bondy

Peaking Lights – 936 [Not Not Fun]

ive heard a lot of good things about this - i liked the tape they did for not not fun a few years ago

This album is great!

Actress - Splazsh
Scriabin - Piano Sonatas 1-4 (Maria Lettberg)
Martinů, Schulhoff - String Sextets (Raphael Ensemble)
Wolf + Lamb - Love Someone
Robert Hood - Internal Empire
Antheil - String Quartets (Mondriaan SQ)

Runt
The Ballad of Todd Rundgren
Faithful
Hermit of Mink Hollow
The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect (aka The Ever Boring Crock of Snot)

Reneé Fleming, Dark Hope (Intrrrrrristinnng... "Intervention", though, sounds to my ears rather grander than Arcade Fire's 'riginal. Which is a good thing.)
Arcade Fire, Neon Bible (a coupla songs excluded, a big glowing crock of snot of an albummm)

cumbia villera mixes

Scriabin - Piano Sonatas 5-10 (Lettberg)
Mountain People compilation made/sent to me by an ilxor
Wolfgang Rihm - Jagden und Formen (Ensemble Modern)
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Elizabeth Maconchy - String Quartets 1-4
Takemitsu - Cassiopeia, Tree Line, other orchestral stuff (Knussen/Ozawa/LSO)

New Feelies
New Britney
A bunch of albums that I've been listening to as mp3s for years, now ripped as flacs or apple lossless. Sadly, there is a difference...

Morena y Clara - s/t (1976)

Just incredible.

Channel In Channel Out, The Author and the Narrator
Derek & The Dominos, Layla and other assorted love songs
V/A, 100% Blaxploitation 5cd box
Multiphonic Rodent, Electric Thoreau in Wired Walden EP
The Osmonds, Crazy Horses/ The Plan

Various Artists - Acid Rumba

What's acid about that rumba?

a new mood has descended upon my groove of late.

laura marling : alas i cannot swim/i speak because i can
stephanie dosen : a lily for the spectre
nick drake : bryter layter/pink moon
sarah nixey : brave tin soldiers (not an electro-pop album !)
kat flint : dirty birds
bobbie gentry : best of the capitol years

Bardo pond - bardo pond
Barn owl - shadowland
Craft spells - idle labor
Efrim manuel menuck - plays "high gospel"
ESG - dance to the best of esg
Jackie-o motherfucker - earth sound system
Jad fair - beautiful songs: the best of jad fair
Kode9 + the spaceape - black sun
Low - c'mon
Mark mcguire - a young person's guide to mark mcguire
Matana roberts - coin coin chapter one: gens de couleur libres
Moon duo - mazes
Rhys chatham - outdoor spell
Richard skelton - landings
Roy montgomery / grouper - split
Taylor swift - speak now

Mark mcguire - a young person's guide to mark mcguire

He sings about steroids?

Is that Efrim any good? GYBE people have fallen way off my radar over the past decade.

What's acid about that rumba?

It's mostly a marketing thing, but there are lots of fuzzy guitars and some of the music is pretty hard-edged in general. If it's rumba at all, it's rumba as in rumba flamenca, incidentally.

Pusha T mixtape
Afel Bocoum
Eva Cassidy

Larry Coryell - Monk, Trane, Miles & Me
The Black Dog - Temple of Transparent Balls

Is that Efrim any good? GYBE people have fallen way off my radar over the past decade.

i've only listened in passing thus far, not sure i'm ready to comment. still processing. if you're looking to get back into gy!be folks, though, you could do worse than the last couple of silver mt. zion records, i suppose. i don't keep up with any of the other offshoots, really... aren't there a bunch?

Max Mathews - YLEM Journal CD Compilation
Woebot - Chunks
Kid 606 - Live @ Ultrahang Festival 25.09.03 (pretty great)
Firesign Theatre - Duke of Madness Motors
Hart / Wolff / Hennings - Yamantaka
Eliane Radigue - Jouet Electronique / Elemental 1

Tyvek- Nothing Fits
Blue Gene Tyranny- The Intermediary
The Descendents- Somery
Earth Wind and Fire- various stuff
and tons of other shit, all the damn time

I had this really weird moment recently when reading the Iggy Pop bio when Blue Gene Tyranny suddenly pops up in it (I didn't know his background). It was about the last thing I would have expected...

Yeah, I looked up the Blue Gene thread last night and saw that. I've only read Iggy's autiobiog, the one where he says Nico taught him how to eat pussy.
I don't know shit about Tyranny at all, but I'm a big fan of his music. What I've heard, anyway. Found The Intermediary at my community radio station, planning on playing excerpts from it on my show this week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxRG7uoFDo4

that tyvek album is gr8 did you like it trip maker

i've scored tons of stuff in the past couple weeks but biggest surprise has been this Sharon Van Etten record that got a small amount of publicity in Spin magazine.
it's typical singer-songwriter/girl-folk and i really can't add a "but" as there's really nothing entirely radical enough about it to differentiate from the 879908320 similar releases this year. but i just dig it immensely.. the girl has a nice croon.

Apart from goon stuff, which has it's own thread, tUne-yarDs-'whokill' is something that I'm really enjoying atm.

Flopson, Nothing Fits has been in heavy rotation ever since I first picked it up. I love it.

V/A - Flipper Psychout: Original Italian Library Music from the Vaults of Flipper
Alan Stivell - Master Serie
V/A - OHM+ The Early Gurus of Electronic Music: 1948-1980