kate bush - 50 words for snowcoil - the ape of naples / the new backwards / horse rotorvatorzoviet france - mohnomishejourney - original game soundtrack - http://austinwintory.bandcamp.com/album/journey - so new ageyasmus tietchens - fast ohne titel, korrosionde la soul - AOI: mosaic thump / bionixyasuaki shimizu - IQ 179roxy music - strandedeliane radigue - psi 847
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 20 February 2014 19:56 (ten years ago) link
My Aunt is in hospice at the moment and the matter of fact nature of life and death on the new Sun Kil Moon album really resonates.
― Evan, Friday, February 14, 2014 1:36 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Aunt just died this morning. She's had someone else's liver after having failure years ago. She was lucky to have made it through that, but it meant that she was too fragile to fight lymphoma. Sun Kil Moon record(s) are still helpful.
― Evan, Thursday, 20 February 2014 20:21 (ten years ago) link
godspeed
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 February 2014 20:24 (ten years ago) link
sorry for your loss evan
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 20 February 2014 20:56 (ten years ago) link
oh evan ..
thoughts with you man.
adult life sucks.
― mark e, Thursday, 20 February 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
Thanks guys.
― Evan, Thursday, 20 February 2014 21:10 (ten years ago) link
Sorry.
Heard some songs I liked on Aussie Courtney Barnett's effort. Kinda a mixture of Nirvana unplugged and the Go-Betweens and uh, something else. She's doing a short US tour now
― curmudgeon, Friday, 21 February 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
sorry about your loss, evan.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 21 February 2014 14:59 (ten years ago) link
Thank you
― Evan, Friday, 21 February 2014 15:01 (ten years ago) link
new bums - voices in a rented roompye corner audio - black mill tapes volumes 1-4.v/a - radio niger (sublime frequencies)v/a - killed by deathrock vol. 1 (sacred bones)
― kilt by defrock (get bent), Friday, 21 February 2014 20:20 (ten years ago) link
enjoying the first hour or so of this i fell asleep a little
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IAfg_Iy7n8
― cog, Friday, 21 February 2014 20:32 (ten years ago) link
I'm listening to the stuff I'm adding here: http://open.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/5lDWvwFiV72yeLQGjTKfhn
So far we have:
Alcest - ShelterWarpaint - WarpaintToni Braxton & Babyface - Love, Marriage & DivorceLittle Mix - SaluteV/A - Killed By Deathrock, Vol. 1Phantogram - Voices
― sent as gassed to onto rt dominance (DJP), Friday, 21 February 2014 20:35 (ten years ago) link
The Soul of a BellJesus Dread Conquering Lion StyleTubeway Army Replicas
― Liquid Plejades, Friday, 21 February 2014 21:31 (ten years ago) link
Making an effort to develop an appreciation of orchestral/"classical"/whatever music. (There's TONS of it out there!)
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 21 February 2014 22:28 (ten years ago) link
Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Piano NightsE. Parker McDougal – Initial VisitAda - PampaMélanie Laurent - En T'AttendantVA - Man Chest HairBeaumont - A No Time Like The PastAutour de Lucie - S/T & ImmobileBabs Gonzales – Tales Of Manhattan: The Cool Philosophy Of Babs GonzalesPal Joey – Hot Music
― JacobSanders, Monday, 24 February 2014 20:05 (ten years ago) link
roots-reggae and dub, and african jazz. this song, from 1957, is hot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9dk2YlnqTg
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 05:35 (ten years ago) link
Pretty much all new stuff: Embrace, Wild Beasts, St Vincent, Polar Bear, Get The Blessing, Planningtorock, Notwist, East India Youth, Neneh Cherry, Warpaint.
― the drummer is a monster (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 09:19 (ten years ago) link
herbie hancock - mwandishi, sextant, thrustedgar froese - aqua, epsilon in malaysia pale, stuntmanyasuaki shimizu - IQ 178 (fantastic, thanks milton!)
― clouds, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 14:00 (ten years ago) link
http://www.musicfromtheice.blogspot.com/2012/02/sounds-from-yosemites-frozen-lakes.htmlThe Lyrebirds Of TidbinbillaMichelle Bokanowski - L'Étoile Absinthe / Chant D'OmbreFlorian Schneider-Esleben / Eberhard Kranemann – The Origins Of Kraftwerk (Soundcheck 1967) (barely even of historical interest, but it exists)Swingle Singers 64-67
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 19:57 (ten years ago) link
"Talking Transgender Dysphoria Blues" by Against Me!, over and over and over
― sleeve, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 20:04 (ten years ago) link
Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great HighwayKvelertak - s/tFM Knives - Useless & ModernRancid - And Out Come the Wolves...
― o. nate, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 21:09 (ten years ago) link
Actress - R.I.P.Nina Nastasia - OutlasterSun Kil Moon - BenjiPolysics - NeuIsolee - Western ShoreShugo Tokumaru - Night PieceEllen Allien - ThrillsCodeine - When I See The Sun boxsetSerena Maneesh - S/TLoop - Gilded Eternity
Right now: the new Notwist!
― Evan, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 21:17 (ten years ago) link
Mark Kozelek - Tour Documentary Soundtrack is awesome too, especially for me since Admiral Fell Promises is my favorite record and it's heavy on that material
― Evan, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link
really enjoying couple of random new things by artists I haven't really paid too much attention tojosephine foster - i'm a dreamerblank realm - grassed in
― tylerw, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 23:17 (ten years ago) link
~inconsequential list or citation of no note~
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 23:43 (ten years ago) link
Mostly new stuff, plus a few reissues:
Farthest South - Spheres & ConstellationsWesley Matsell - Total Order of BeingJaakko Eino Kalevi - Dreamzone RemixesNeneh Cherry - Blank ProjectValentin Stip - SighMarissa Nadler - JulyKangding Ray - Solens ArcVox Populi & Pacific 231 - Cut Chemist Presents Funk OffJeff Phelps - Magnetic Eyes
― μ thant (seandalai), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 23:45 (ten years ago) link
the hold steady - separation sunday/almost killed medead boys - young,loud snottyst vincent - s/tnew pornographers - mass romantic
― TheMenzies, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 23:45 (ten years ago) link
Shamir - 'If It Wasn't True' - awesome disco/house/funk thing2NE1 - '멘붕 (MTBD) (CL Solo)' - banger off the new albumBABYMETAL - 'Gimme Choko!' - J-Pop teen metal. AmazingAsha Puthli - 'The Whip' - Disco gem from the Gobin/Puthli soundtrack to 'Squadra Antigangsters' from 1979
and lots of Sky Ferreira still. Cooling on the St Vincent after initial enthusiasm.
― Slight damage to cover on top corner (chewed by a kitten) (Craigo Boingo), Monday, 3 March 2014 21:05 (ten years ago) link
Real Estate - AtlasSun Kil Moon - BenjiLeonard Cohen - The Best of Leonard Cohen
― o. nate, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 04:09 (ten years ago) link
DarkthroneIsengardStormCeltic FrostGorgorothBelketreJS BachRobert SchumannFranz Liszt (only late piano pieces)Claude DebussyMaurice RavelBela BartokGyorgy LigetiFleetwood MacRandy Newman
― Dominique, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 04:17 (ten years ago) link
amel larrieuxjeri-jeriprodigy and alchemistbeckschoolboy qmark kozelekmolly drakesharon jonesand still trying to get through that goddam ILM best of 2013 singles nomination spotify list with multiple listens for each track. 733 in, 305 to go
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 04:49 (ten years ago) link
Franz Liszt (only late piano pieces)
then you should listen to
his late symphonic poems
― Thanks in anticipation of your opinions (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 04:56 (ten years ago) link
Kind of haven't been keeping track of new releases in 2014 to be honest. I think the only new stuff I've really listened to are St VIncent and that tepid Malkmus record.
Other than that:Bjork - lots of BjorkBohren Und Der Club Of Goreshitloads of modern jazz: Mingus, Taylor, Davis etc...Weird atonal cello music by Okkyung Lee, Gaspar Claus, Hera and Hamid Drake etcrediscovering King CrimsonActressStuff from the metal poll - Hell, Cloudrat etc...
― inside out trousers (dog latin), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 10:50 (ten years ago) link
I've gone all country, which is... unexpected. AshleyBrandyKacey over and over, plus the latest Rosanne Cash. Also loving the new Hidden Cameras, which is equally unexpected after the last two.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 11:00 (ten years ago) link
Essential Afrobeat triple CDTrentemoller - The Last Resortnew Neneh Cherry albumSleaford Mods - Singles Collection/Austerity DogsWilco - Summerteeth
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 11:51 (ten years ago) link
Some records I've been enjoying lately...
Migos - No Label 2William Onyeabor - World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor?Holly Herndon - ChorusFuture/DJ Esco - No SleepVarious - Hardcore Traxx: Dance Mania Records 1986-1995Jermaine Dupri - Life in 1492Omar S - 1 (FXHE 10 Year Mix)Katie Gately - Katie GatelyNguzunguzu - Perfect Lullaby Vol. IIMatias Aguayo - The VisitorLil Herb - Welcome to FazolandSevyn Streeter - Call Me Crazy, But...Various - Let No One Judge You - Early Recordings From Iran 1906-1933
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 14:04 (ten years ago) link
Really enjoying the repetitive guitar sounding stuff on the Remebetika set I have on my 3 changer. Disc C of Have they Got hashish in Hell. I'm assuming that the instrument is more likely to be a bouzouki or something, this being 1930s Greece. But could be wrong. The box I got didn't come with the extensive booklet taht similar sets I've bought from Proper have, this being the first box I've bought from JSP I don't know if I'm missing something that should have been included or if there is just less attention to detail than their rival historic recordings label. Anyway, really enjoying this and very easy to see comparisons to the contemporary country blues being recorded in the US. I'm assuming there was little or no awareness of either music in the respective music scenes, but there is even some similarity in sound. Not sure how well known things like delta blues were before the blues revival in the 60s. They were marketed as race records though I assume there was some very marginal interest from other parts of society. Even wonder what the people marketing that stuff thought of it since the record companies were presumably to some great extent white. Was it viewed as good music on any other level than that was what was bringing whatever money in?If Lomax was travelling the South recording supposedly pure forms of the folk tradition was it to some extent supposedly Sociological or was there a white audience picking up on this 'primitive' material. Anyway surprising to hear similarities across the Atlantic and then Mediterranean from artists who presumably weren't being marketed outside of very marginalised areas.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 14:54 (ten years ago) link
The new Calle 13 has some good tracks (and some not so good ones)
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 15:11 (ten years ago) link
Remebetika is tasty stuff. Dunno how popular Delta country blues was, but in The Story of the Blues, Paul Oliver says that the massively migratory Mississippi-to-Chicago workforce audience had a certain amount of fondness for sentimental-condescending songs about new arrivals, bumpkins fresh off the bus-turnip-truck-boxcar etc. The country bluesiness of Jimmie Rodgers, who also played the vaudeville etc venues, led The Mississippi Sheiks to try a crossover sound, but dunno how well that worked commercially---creatively, great stuff.John Hammond included a minority of country blues-associated performers, like Sonny Terry, in his Spirituals To Swing concerts at Carnegie Hall, in 1938-'38. He wanted to include Robert Johnson, but RJ was already dead. Most of the blues he used is jazzier, with a predominance of outright jazz, incl. Charlie Christian, first genius of the electric guitar, whom I associate with blues, proto-rock & roll, proto-rock, for that matter, with Goodman's small groups. The box set is worth seeking out, though more affordable on vinyl. I'm told the original late 50s LPs were hits in the UK, around the time that trad jazz and Lonnie Donegan skiffle took off, so may have influenced those trends.
― dow, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 15:52 (ten years ago) link
Anyway, check Oliver's The Story of The Blues and especially Robert Palmer's Deep Blues.
― dow, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 15:54 (ten years ago) link
Can imagine that the electrified downhome-to-Chicago (not as rhythmically idiosyncratic as Delta, but just as bold)blues of formerly acoustic-picker/ plantation worker Muddy Walls was the sound of liberation for Chicago workers (incl. the ones who now worked their asses off in steel mills, as Waters did by day---not in Mississippi shit). Great sound, so glad I got to see him, but also glad Delta blues and its influence got taken up again, by the original performers and later generations (think it influenced the sound of Beefheart and the Magic Band,and Otis Taylor is one of the most creative blues artists of our time, to give two wide-ranging examples).
― dow, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:07 (ten years ago) link
was there a white audience picking up on this 'primitive' material
There were Brits and French folks interested in more citified African-American sounds in the 1920s and '30s, so I am sure there were also some folks into more rural sounds as well
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 17:05 (ten years ago) link
It was very interesting to see the documentary on the blues that BBC4 showed. Not remembering all of it but sticks in the mind that the picture of teh delta that form of the blues is named after seems to have been handed down wrong. Instead of it being a rural area where folk forms were preserved in a pure form as I think it has been thought, that documentary points out that the delta was a new development peopled by a young workforce. & the delta bluesmen had come in as entertainers for them so the sound was unlikely to be traditional per se.
Am wondering what other music that was recorded at that time correlates with blues etc. I know I have heard echoes of Irish stuff recorded then in rock & roll but that probably was an understood influence.I've not heard other folk stuff from that ilk of society the workforce that is just on the borderline with crime and interested in having a good time.Seems to be a theme of Remebetika certainly & I'm not sure what else compares.Klezmer? Anything else? Not sure what was actually getting recorded at the time either. Thinking about immigrant workforces to the US and elsewhere. The big wave of the time was from the Mediterranean parts of Europe, so Italy & France? Might assume that German & Polish working groups might have a similar casual music or at least less formal stuff. Must look into it.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 6 March 2014 00:52 (ten years ago) link
Also check The Blues, documentary series Martin Scorcese produced for PBS. It's pretty thorough, incl. Lonnie Donegan, Jeff Beck, etc., although could've been even more so--still, pretty distinctive, and with music recorded for/during some of these docs ( was also a radio series; don't know if that's available, but the DVDs and CDs are)Feel Like Going Home by Martin ScorseseThe Soul of a Man* by Wim WendersThe Road to Memphis by Richard PearceWarming by the Devil's Fire by Charles BurnettGodfathers and Sons** by Marc LevinRed, White & Blues by Mike FiggisPiano Blues by Clint Eastwood
*This includes J.B. Lenoir, previously known to me only via a couple of 60s John Mayall songs about him. He turns out to be a musical link between Sam Cooke and Bob Marley, a lilting tenor with personal-political lyrics, like Cooke was just getting to before he died--not that any of his songs here are as great as Cooke's and Marley's could be, but they're a find, also the story behind the footage that Wenders found.** Speaking of new sessions, they even got Pete Cosey in there!
― dow, Thursday, 6 March 2014 02:24 (ten years ago) link
I'm thinking mainly about the music of various ethnicities as captured around the time those musics were first widely recorded so roughly 20s & 30s. Mainly the liesure time music of those groups, not sure how else to categorise it. But have been very interested by what I've heard of those musics I've heard which has so far consisted of blues, Rembetika, the Irish stuff recorded in New York & Boston in the 20s & 30s, and a few other bits and bobs, early country, folk etc. Can't think of what is represented somewhere that I'm not aware of. Seems that once the technology was around to record and play back easily there was also an audience to buy it. At least in the 1st world, not sure if people were venturing elsewhere to record widely.
Also been getting into Nico's Desertshore for the first time. THink I still prefer Marble Index so far but it is an interesting record. I found the copy of Frozen Borderlines I had misplaced a while back so been getting into that.
& Neil Young ON The Beach which I should know a lot better having got it in boot form before it was finally officially released & I got that when they did so too.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:58 (ten years ago) link
KraftwerkHarmoniaMartin Rev
― paolo, Friday, 7 March 2014 12:00 (ten years ago) link
death and vanilla's debut ep.
the description on the boomkat site nicely summarizes the sound.
**White vinyl 2nd edition limited to 300 copies. Includes download code redeemable from the label** In case you missed out on the instantly sold-out 1st edition, or have a thing for Stereolab or Broadcast, Hands In The Dark have repressed Death and Vanilla's gorgeous debut album. Hailing from Malmö, Sweden, the duo of Marleen Nilsson and Anders Hansson started recording their ideas in an unheated attic overlooking Malmö's largest and oldest graveyard in fall 2007. Taking inspiration from smooth '60s/'70s psych-pop, library electronics and classic French and Italian film soundtracks, their frame of reference is as righteous as the music they make, and authentically so, using samples, vibraphonette, moog and lots of spring reverb to create haunting, cinematic pop songs. Their eponymous debut features 9 darkly sublime creations already tipped by many and getting much airplay round our way. Highly recommended.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Sunday, 9 March 2014 18:30 (ten years ago) link
metronomy - love letterswarpaint - s/treal estate - atlas
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Sunday, 9 March 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link
Tyree Neal featuring Level-"Get Up Stand Up" (zydeco w/ some autotuned vocals and keys plus trad zydeco instruments)
Avail Hollywood-"Club in da Woods" (southern soul w/ programmed beats plus zydeco accents)
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 9 March 2014 18:37 (ten years ago) link