What are you listening to? 2011

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

silver jews - starlite walker
elvis costello - almost blue
sonic youth - dirty bonus disc
bill evans - waltz for debby
bill callahan - apocalypse
art blakey/jazz messengers - three blind mice

http://shop.relapse.com/dbimages/sleeves/escapevelocity_362.jpg

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Andrés Landero Y Su Conjunto - Con Ritmo, Tambores Y Velas
Las Clasicas de la Cumbia Vol.1&2
Pentecostes Vibrations: Spanish Xian Garage Psych and Beyond 1969-1979
Los Angeles Azules 22 Exitos
Those Shocking Shaking Days: Indonesian Hard, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock and Funk 1970-1978
Local Customs: Lone Star Lowlands
Round House - Down To Earth

The Lines - Memory Span (like every day)
Aersomith - Draw the Line
Sic Alps - Napa Asylum
REM on shuffle...still

I should listen to The Lines more. I have a record called Therapy and mp3's of Ultramarine. Is Memory Span the reissue on Acute?

Yes, the first volume. It's ridiculously addictive.
Dan says that there are some unreleased archival tracks getting the vinyl treatment later this year.

for first time ever today i just got the urge :

the stooges : the stooges (2 cd set)
the stooges : funhouse (2 cd set)
iggy pop and the stooges : raw power (david bowie mix + live gig edition)

initial reaction : fuckin' fantastic, and loving the different versions on the extra discs.

after months of hanging out in my usual comfort zones, suspect these will redirect my listening pattern for quite a while.

Man I wish I had all that stooges with me right now tbh

Also I bought this comp called The Roots Of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbias From Peru. Thinking I was getting Psych Cumbia, but I don't hear why they attached Psychedelic to this? Has anyone hear it? It's not a bad compilationat all, really great selection of songs, but it's just Cumbia. I don't know why but it really irks me.

Maybe Los Mirlos have psychedelic elements, but does using a wah-wah pedal make something psych?

Marketing iirc

I actually think a lot of cumbia already sounds a bit psychedelic (in the way it sometimes has a time-bending quality), but I think in this case electric guitars = psychedelic. Or what Trip Maker said, to get to the point.

Yeah, sell records. Not that that stuff's bad, but it does seem a little dishonest.

been busy listening to all the stuff i got at the record show last saturday. re-posted from the vinyl board:

Some Records I Got Yesterday (starred items stuff I was rilly sikkkked to get)

roxanne shante’ – def mix vol.1 (pop art) ****

The damned – s/t (stiff)

b.fats – woppit 12 inch (posse)

gary ogan & bill lamb – portland (Elektra) ****

schoolly d – am I black enough for you? (zomba) **** (um, needed this for 20+ years. Got the tape when it came out instead of the vinyl for some reason.)

raices – s/t (nemperor)

mother’s finest – s/t (cbs)

larry mcneely – s/t capitol)

ben sidran – don’t let go (blue thumb)

art ensemble of chicago – reese and the smooth ones (actuel)

mantronix – bassline 12 inch (sleeping bag) (think I own this actually. If so, will sell.)

kinks – face to face (reprise)

busy bee – running thangs (uni) ****

moses p. - twilight zone 12 inch (logic)

the unknown dj – let’s jam 12 inch (techno hop)

kaotic stylin – don’t waste your time (ray ray)

sunny murray – homage to Africa (actuel) (reissue)

the levitts – we are the levitts (esp disk) (never heard it! Really like it! Gatefold copy also comes with an esp sampler.)

harold ousley – the people’s groove (muse)

final touch – love song (good news)

phil seymour – 2 (boardwalk)

the gringos – s/t (leer)

the moonlighters – s/t (Amherst)

jim gold – hometown hero (tabu)

annette peacock – x-dreams (tomato) (got this last week and was gonna keep it, but thought I should sell it at the show. Sold it at the show and then found a copy for 3 bucks at the show. Win/win!)

annette peacock – the perfect release (tomato)

egy este a metro klubban… (qualiton)

achim reichel – dat shanty alb’m (nova)

amon duul 2 – only human (strand)

barefoot jerry – barefoot jerry’s grocery 2lp (monument)

clarence reid – running water (alston) *****

the round robin monopoly – s/t (truth)

gary bartz ntu troop – home! (milestone) ****

furr – s/t (magna glide) ******************************* (wheeeeeeeeeee!)

free beer – s/t (southwind)

roy harper – when an old cricketer leaves the crease (chrysalis)

les variations – moroccan roll (Buddha) ****

manfred mann’s earth band – get your rocks off (polydor)

Baker gurvitz army – elysian encounter (atco)

roy harper – hq (harvest) (one of my fave roys. Always looking for the perfect copy. This will do.)

down to the resort – v/a (80’s Japanese lounge/ambient electronic comp with water melon group, inoyama land, toshifumi hinata, interior, test pattern) (alfa)

law – s/t (grc)

the grim – face of betrayal (alchemy)

sivuca – s/t (Copacabana)

honey davis – my heart attacked me (life & death)

lebanese folklore – ba’albak international festival 1960 vol. 2 (emi)

tibetan buddhism – the ritual orchestra and chants (nonesuch explorer)

denny brooks – s/t (warner brothers)

muhal richard abrams – things to come from those now gone (delmark)

trans-lux – big apple noise (master mix)

poor righteous teachers – holy intellect 12 inch (profile)

harrison/lee/ranelin – a message from the tribe (tribe) (reissue)

wolfmoon – s/t (fungus) *************** (near mint original pressing!)

Angelic upstarts – blood on the terraces (link)

captain beefheart – bluejeans & moonbeams (mercury)

van der graaf generator – the aerosol grey machine (mercury) (reissue)

paul humphrey – supermellow (blue thumb) ****

larry coryell – lady coryell (vanguard apostolic) (minty! 3 bucks!)

larry coryell – coryell (vanguard apostolic) **** (minty! 3 bucks!)

larry coryell – barefoot boy (flying dutchman)

l.a. express – s/t (caribou)

fagen/becker/diaz – you gotta walk it… (visa)

creative source – s/t (Sussex)

breakout – na drugim brzegu teczy (pronit)

jay berliner – bananas are not created equal (mainstream)

doug e. fresh – the show 12 inch (reality)

sonny sharrock – monkey-pockie-boo (actuel) (reissue)

anthony braxton – uh……….don’t know how to write the title. Vol. 15 (actuel) (reissue)

neal creque – contrast! (cobblestone) ****

Jesus christ, Scott. Please tell me they weren't a quarter each.

Anyway, at work:
13th Floor Elevators - Bull of the Woods reissue
Claudio Gabis y La Pesada
v/a - Studio One Rockers
Geordie - Hope You Like It

Home:
Albert Crabtree - Cold Steel... Metal in the First Degree (the poor man's Roger C. Reale & Rue Morgue)
Die Kreuzen - s/t (awesome)
Michael Moorcock & the Deep Fix
NME - Unholy Death (also awesome but mostly I listen to awesome music so)
Il Balletto di Bronzo - Ys
Lugubrum - De Ware Hond
Sic Alps - Napa Asylum (up next, anyway, if I can stay awake long enough)

no, not a quarter, but pretty cheap for the most part. ESP thing and the Reichel album were the most i paid for anything. gonna sell the Reichel album though. i dig him a bunch, but he had weird impulses. that record is some sorta german country reggae pirate sea shanty thing and i don't really dig it.

Lucky man. The record market out here is kinda killing me, most of the stores in town think $9 is a good starting price point, regardless of condition... and so the book stores, antique stores, etc, all do the same. (Of course, one of those stores put that "Super Rock" box set by the Candy Rock Generation in their 50 cent bins, not to mention some cool heavy metal stuff.)

Pretty sure Reichel solo is supposed to not be so good, it's more the A.R. & Machines stuff... Erholung is the only one I've seen and it's pretty cool, kinda chilled out instrumental jazzy spacy rock.

Erholung is the only one I've seen on vinyl I mean.

echo, obviously, one of my favorite albums. years ago i paid 40 bucks for a copy and i kinda stunned myself because i NEVER paid that much for a record. or almost never.

okay, went to the shop in easthampton finally and got some stuff last night. great stuff there! if you are me.

the hot dogs - say what you mean (ardent - 1973) (more terry manning majik)

willie hutch - havin' a house party (motown - 1977)

dirty tricks - night man (polydor - 1976)

duke & the drivers - cruisin' (abc - 1975)

russell dashiell - elevator (epic - 1978)

danny hollen - s/t (tumbleweed - 1971)

gladstone - s/t (abc - 1972)

canyon - high mountain (columbia)

fishbaugh, fishbaugh, and zorn - s/t (cbs - 1972)

sir robert charles griggs - the legend of sir robert charles griggs (capitol - 1973)

feedtime - cooper s (rough trade - 1988)

christopher cloud - blown away (chelsea - 1973)

centaurus - s/t (azra - 1978)

arthur gee-whizz band - city cowboy (tumbleweed - 1972)

el chicano - viva tirado (kapp)

razmataz - for the first time (united artists)

l.a. getaway - s/t (atco - 1971)

clark-hutchinson - a=mh2 (sire/london - 1969) (clean u.s. pressing. didn't even know this came out in the states. couldn't pass it up for 20 bucks. now i have the cool 2xlp reissue thanks to ian and this copy. want to own all their albums eventually.)

mississippi - s/t (fantasy - 1973)

natchez trace - last time together (avenue - 1972) (this is beautiful. u.k. country rock. so mellow and pretty)

michael lessac - sleep faster, we need the pillow (columbia) (crazy dylan-esque 60's folk-rock. sounds like john hammond spent a zillion dollars on the production. god bless him.)

my three big finds for the month were:

steve drake band album on tiger lily (which sells for a ton but fuggit i'm keeping it its so cool)

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20060520/4883936491.jpg

the terry manning album which is godhead

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20081031/280281454717.jpg

AND the second scruggs brothers album on vanguard which is also godhead if you are me or if you love acid bluegrass rock like me.

scruggs brothers albums sooooooooooooooo slept on. if any two albums deserved deluxe 2xlp vinyl reissue treatment its those two.

centaurus album cover from 1978 looks like it could have come out yesterday on some hepcat doom label. even comes on clear vinyl.

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20090520/360156277866.jpg

plus it's rectangular

roxy music - avalon
bryan ferry - girls & boys
bryan ferry - bete noire
marianne faithfull - a secret life

yeah it does look funny like that. here's a better shot.

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20100108/270512482181.jpg

arthur gee album is so great. really happy to have a copy.

http://www.vinylsearcher.com/largeImages/20901336.jpg

I found some stuff in the stacks at the station last night
George Gerdes - Son of Obituary (WTF?)
Human Switchboard - Who's Landing in My Hangar? (Interesting. looked up some threads...very interesting)
Barbara Keith - s/t (sucks)
Sir Victor Uwaifo - Jackpot! (It is, too)

gary ogan & bill lamb – portland I love this record. Marlin Greene produced it! Kac has gone on a lot of my mixes.

Barbara Keith - s/t (sucks) Which Barbara Keith is this, her first or second album? Neither one sucks in my book, but I do like her second one better.

I don't know, it opens with a cover of All Along the Watchtower and that pretty much killed it for me.
I'm not really a Little Feat fan, either. I noticed their names all over the jacket.
Yeah, "sucks" is a total knee-jerk response, but I'm reviewing it for inclusion on my radio show and I have some standards, I guess.
I mean, the record actually sounds fine, but her voice wasn't really doing it for me, I guess.

Scott that Arthur Gee sleeve is incredible.
I will have to look for that one.

That's her second. The opener isn't the strongest song to start the record with, but The Bramble and The Rose is great.