what are you listening to in 2014?

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

sorry about your loss, evan.

Thank you

new bums - voices in a rented room
pye corner audio - black mill tapes volumes 1-4.
v/a - radio niger (sublime frequencies)
v/a - killed by deathrock vol. 1 (sacred bones)

enjoying the first hour or so of this i fell asleep a little

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IAfg_Iy7n8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IAfg_Iy7n8

I'm listening to the stuff I'm adding here: http://open.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/5lDWvwFiV72yeLQGjTKfhn

So far we have:

Alcest - Shelter
Warpaint - Warpaint
Toni Braxton & Babyface - Love, Marriage & Divorce
Little Mix - Salute
V/A - Killed By Deathrock, Vol. 1
Phantogram - Voices

The Soul of a Bell
Jesus Dread Conquering Lion Style
Tubeway Army Replicas

Making an effort to develop an appreciation of orchestral/"classical"/whatever music. (There's TONS of it out there!)

Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Piano Nights
E. Parker McDougal ‎– Initial Visit
Ada - Pampa
Mélanie Laurent - En T'Attendant
VA - Man Chest Hair
Beaumont - A No Time Like The Past
Autour de Lucie - S/T & Immobile
Babs Gonzales ‎– Tales Of Manhattan: The Cool Philosophy Of Babs Gonzales
Pal Joey ‎– Hot Music

roots-reggae and dub, and african jazz. this song, from 1957, is hot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9dk2YlnqTg

Pretty much all new stuff: Embrace, Wild Beasts, St Vincent, Polar Bear, Get The Blessing, Planningtorock, Notwist, East India Youth, Neneh Cherry, Warpaint.

herbie hancock - mwandishi, sextant, thrust
edgar froese - aqua, epsilon in malaysia pale, stuntman
yasuaki shimizu - IQ 178 (fantastic, thanks milton!)

http://www.musicfromtheice.blogspot.com/2012/02/sounds-from-yosemites-frozen-lakes.html
The Lyrebirds Of Tidbinbilla
Michelle Bokanowski - L'Étoile Absinthe / Chant D'Ombre
Florian Schneider-Esleben / Eberhard Kranemann ‎– The Origins Of Kraftwerk (Soundcheck 1967) (barely even of historical interest, but it exists)
Swingle Singers 64-67

"Talking Transgender Dysphoria Blues" by Against Me!, over and over and over

Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
Kvelertak - s/t
FM Knives - Useless & Modern
Rancid - And Out Come the Wolves...

Actress - R.I.P.
Nina Nastasia - Outlaster
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Polysics - Neu
Isolee - Western Shore
Shugo Tokumaru - Night Piece
Ellen Allien - Thrills
Codeine - When I See The Sun boxset
Serena Maneesh - S/T
Loop - Gilded Eternity

Right now: the new Notwist!

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

really enjoying couple of random new things by artists I haven't really paid too much attention to
josephine foster - i'm a dreamer
blank realm - grassed in

~inconsequential list or citation of no note~

Mostly new stuff, plus a few reissues:

Farthest South - Spheres & Constellations
Wesley Matsell - Total Order of Being
Jaakko Eino Kalevi - Dreamzone Remixes
Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
Valentin Stip - Sigh
Marissa Nadler - July
Kangding Ray - Solens Arc
Vox Populi & Pacific 231 - Cut Chemist Presents Funk Off
Jeff Phelps - Magnetic Eyes

the hold steady - separation sunday/almost killed me
dead boys - young,loud snotty
st vincent - s/t
new pornographers - mass romantic

Shamir - 'If It Wasn't True' - awesome disco/house/funk thing
2NE1 - '멘붕 (MTBD) (CL Solo)' - banger off the new album
BABYMETAL - 'Gimme Choko!' - J-Pop teen metal. Amazing
Asha 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.

Real Estate - Atlas
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Leonard Cohen - The Best of Leonard Cohen

Darkthrone
Isengard
Storm
Celtic Frost
Gorgoroth
Belketre
JS Bach
Robert Schumann
Franz Liszt (only late piano pieces)
Claude Debussy
Maurice Ravel
Bela Bartok
Gyorgy Ligeti
Fleetwood Mac
Randy Newman

amel larrieux
jeri-jeri
prodigy and alchemist
beck
schoolboy q
mark kozelek
molly drake
sharon jones
and 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

Franz Liszt (only late piano pieces)

then you should listen to

his late symphonic poems

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 Bjork
Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore
shitloads of modern jazz: Mingus, Taylor, Davis etc...
Weird atonal cello music by Okkyung Lee, Gaspar Claus, Hera and Hamid Drake etc
rediscovering King Crimson
Actress
Stuff from the metal poll - Hell, Cloudrat etc...

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.

Essential Afrobeat triple CD
Trentemoller - The Last Resort
new Neneh Cherry album
Sleaford Mods - Singles Collection/Austerity Dogs
Wilco - Summerteeth

Some records I've been enjoying lately...

Migos - No Label 2
William Onyeabor - World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor?
Holly Herndon - Chorus
Future/DJ Esco - No Sleep
Various - Hardcore Traxx: Dance Mania Records 1986-1995
Jermaine Dupri - Life in 1492
Omar S - 1 (FXHE 10 Year Mix)
Katie Gately - Katie Gately
Nguzunguzu - Perfect Lullaby Vol. II
Matias Aguayo - The Visitor
Lil Herb - Welcome to Fazoland
Sevyn Streeter - Call Me Crazy, But...
Various - Let No One Judge You - Early Recordings From Iran 1906-1933

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.

The new Calle 13 has some good tracks (and some not so good ones)

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.

Anyway, check Oliver's The Story of The Blues and especially Robert Palmer's Deep Blues.

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).

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

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.

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 Scorsese
The Soul of a Man* by Wim Wenders
The Road to Memphis by Richard Pearce
Warming by the Devil's Fire by Charles Burnett
Godfathers and Sons** by Marc Levin
Red, White & Blues by Mike Figgis
Piano 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!

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.

Kraftwerk
Harmonia
Martin Rev

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.

metronomy - love letters
warpaint - s/t
real estate - atlas

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)

xpost re: death and vanilla

i like this!

yikes, their EP is $37 from their bandcamp page ($20 + $17 shipping)

:-/

let's see, that's $1.23 per minute

Ornette Coleman Birthday Special, 24 hrs. This morning, I checked into "Focus On Sanity," and many more from The Shape of Jazz To Come. Had to go out, came back to a big dipper of Science Ficton, and now--back to "Focus On Sanity," and more from The Shape of Jazz To Come to come. Oh well, I'll stick with it for a while. Tomorrow, The Bix Beiderbecke Birthday Special (is there enough of that for 24 hours?), and this Tuesday's Afternoon New Music showcase is Carl Stone---stream it all here: http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/wkcr/

Really good sound quality, on my def. sub-audiophile headphones even.

yikes, their EP is $37 from their bandcamp page ($20 + $17 shipping)

:-/

― Karl Malone, Sunday, March 9, 2014

cuz label's based in france, i imagine? digital ep is $7.00 from bandcamp. not so pricey.

i like the death & vanilla totebag, for $10.00.