what are you listening to in 2014?

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.

Malmo is the coolest town in the world that I have been to yet. I could see myself living there.

certainly looks nice. check out the architecture!

http://www.archinoah.com/files/architekturfotografie/foto241.jpg

whoops. trying again.

http://www.woonq.com/uploaded_images/TurningTorso11.jpg

Yeah, you can see that from the beach. In the winter people walk out on a long pier, where there is a hot tub/sauna deal inside, and you sit in it and sweat and then go outside and jump in the freezing water. I was too chicken to do it, but it sounds like it would be amazing.

Also, you can buy a train ticket for $20 that takes you over the water straight to Copenhagen in under 30 minutes.

this is the probably a terribly stupid thing to say, but after the malasian airline disaster, i'm not inclined to go -- or support my family going -- anywhere via plane for a while. so don't feel bad about chickening-out of the hot-tub/freezing water combination.

streaming the new war on drugs

kinda taps into this weird alternate version of my childhood memories of 80s albums by classic rock artists

man does this stuff sound like a boomer in the 80s. he should change the band name to Deadhead Sticker on a Cadillac

― mizzell, Monday, March 10, 2014 11:36 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

from the Kurt Vile / War on Drugs thread

yeah def....i dig it a lot
tunnel of love bruce!

Listening to that xpost Bix Beiderbecke Birthday: right now, he sounds like the Fred Astaire of cornet on "Singin' The Blues," Frankie Trambauer's Orchestra, with Eddie Lang on guitar. Now they're adding Joe Venuti on violin. Somebody on bass sax? Haven't got the title yet---something Django and Stephane might've liked---'scuse me folks, getting back to it
http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/wkcr/

Current work stack... I've been loading a ton of records into my player and just sorting through the bunch for the past couple of months. I load about 25-30 records into a playlist and just work my way through it over the next week.

Brown, James- Funk Power 1970
Doors, The- Strange Days
Dr. John- Gris Gris
Rolling Stones- Black and Blue
Flamin Groovies- Flamingo
Guns N’ Roses- Appetite for Destruction
Fleetwood Mac- Mr. Wonderful
Erickson, Roky- The Evil One
Bruce, Jack- Trust Live at the BBC (D1)
Badfinger- Magic Christian Music
Nice, The- Five Bridges
Captain Beefheart- Bat Chain Puller
Cheap Trick- Heaven Tonight
Deep Purple- Fireball
Doobie Brothers- Stampede
Drake, Nick- Five Leaves Left
Diddley, Bo- Go Bo Diddley
Edgar Broughton Group- Harvest Years (D3)
Faces, The- Ooh La La
Funkadelic- US Music
Genesis- And Then There Were Three
Gentle Giant- Free Hand
Santana- Live at Woodstock
Seger, Bob- Against the Wind
T. Rex- Tanx
Ten Years After- Ssssh
Hazel, Eddie- Dames, Games and Guitar Thangs
Hendrix, Jimi- Valleys of Neptune
JB’s, The- Funky Good Time (D2)
Kinks, The- Face to Face
Little Feat- Hoy Hoy
Molly Hatchet- Flirtin with Disaster
Miller, Steve- The Joker

Back to WKCR listening--started in the middle of "Darul Kabap," which the host said had started in "kind of a free jazz vein," what I heard was voices/languages and instruments maybe from different Asian countries, or different parts of the same Asian country, bobbing in the harbor around noon, thoughtful and salty, then rude bursts of bass you learn to wait for, then glitch-pop scythes and cycles---basically speeded up r&b, and/or j-pop? glitch-pop fevah, but off-handed too. This guy:

Afternoon New Music welcomes Carl Stone, pioneer in live computer music. In addition to international recognition in new music and media arts circles, his acclaimed electro-acoustic compositions have run through film, choreography, radio, theater, and all streams in between. Collaborators have included Nels Cline, Min Xiao-Fen, z’ev, Aki Takahashi, and Otomo Yoshihide. He is on the faculty of the Media Department at Chukyo University, Japan.

I love Carl Stone

Carl Stone's own thread

Jorge Reyes - Mort Aux Vaches / Comala / Rituales Prehispanicos
Austin Wintory - Flow (mp3's of gameplay captures, not the official soundtrack)
Harry Bertoia - F/W 1030, 1031
Clancy Eccles All Stars with King Tubby - Sound System International Dub
Gescom - Minidisc
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Ecophony Rinne
Robert Ashley - everything
Lovely Music Limited 1976-1990)

Now one with Japanese female singer, unaccompanied, perfectly at home, unselfconscious; he (eventually)slips in some grainy mirror images, like Tuvan throat singing, then simplifies, just letting his touch linger on some syllables occasionally, then little swoops toward the end of lines, underscoring, kind of like Laurie Anderson's "Oh Superman," but with different effect (maybe because I don't know Japanese), morphing into really sweet, deft strokes of harmony---now arpeggiated notes (somewhat like Robert Wyatt's ladytron) squelch into Japanese-accented "Oops I Did It Again," but underwater cool, darting---hookiness avoiding the shaken pole of the impatient fisherman, but not leaving; in fact, grooving with and through the keys, and
(it was two pieces: the first was actually a Vietnamese singer--not catching the titles, but both from Al-Noor)
Now a couple things he calls acid bop pieces, though he doesn't like acid jazz. Starts good.

Stein Urheim - s/t
Kassem Mosse - Workshop 19
Tinariwen - Emmaar
Donato Dozzy & Nuel - The Auqaplano Sessions
Luciano Cilio - Dell'universo assente
Curren$y - The Drive In Theatre

NPR's SXSW showcase tonight:
http://www.npr.org/event/music/279055940/npr-music-presents-live-from-sxsw-2014
March 12 @ Stubb's
Perfect Pussy
7:50-8:20pm CT
Eagulls
8:40-9:20pm CT
Kelis
9:50-10:30pm CT
St. Vincent
11:00pm-12am CT
Damon Albarn
12:30am CT

SXSW KeynoteMarch 14
Lady Gaga
11:00am CT

Stream the mix
Download MP3s
Tuesday Recap
SXSW Preview

Perfect Pussy's starting---kind of a swaying, chanting, feedback-whistling dragon balloon behind her shouts---briefly. Then a more predictable punky scramble, with police car UFO etc appearing. Anyway, check it out yall (gotta turn it way up, even on headphones)

The keyboard's making the best, ugliest sounds, though the guitar's helping. The more freeform they get the better; otherwise (voice x all instruments) does get--yep--predictable (rammaramaaOhrammmaIDontCareramamamram)

)The keyboard player, Shaun described how he samples the band, then plays it back through tape delay, screwing with the pitch, also tours on his own as The Pretengineer, or something like that. Bloody good. Interviews lasted longer than the set, while Eagulls set up, but worth the wait: a much fuller, deeper, more robust ensemble sound than Perfect Pussy, though just as, ah, vintage--damn, that bass! Get Shaun in there and it would be outrageous.

(although pattern recognition is starting to take its toll, on me and maybe them---seems like they're trying not to turn whatever this is into "I Fought The Law"...)

okay, the vocalist's Johnny One-Yelp, and now it seems his approach fits right in, tipping the scales---should I stay or should I go? Go for now.

in a silent way
thou
ride the lightning
sturgill simpson
charles wright & the watts 103rd st rhythm band

an obscure band called precious-stones, from africa, recorded in 1972.

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

on a loop right now.

oh i almost forgot

TUPAC

Missed Kelis (hope some of these will be posted, as has happened for prev SXSW and other festival sets on NPR), but back as St. Vincent begins with the one about taking off her clothes and walking around in the desert at night, then running from a snake (true story). Twisting her guitar quite a bit.

Yowee. St Vincent w Toko Yasuda, keyboards, vocals, bass; also a drummer and another keyboard player way back there, at least when Yasuda stepped out with her bass, especially for some prog-metal toward the end. Rocking art rock, at times close to warp-toned Zep (with some early King Crimson,also late, no middle). Concise, though. New songs, supposedly more straight-forward, fit with old, as lyrics came off like marginalia, flying notes to self, bits of her self-cited "Joan Didion-esque" persona's elliptical clarity; ditto Marilyn Monroe's writing ("Surgeon" inspired by the latter). Stage show hyper-focused,floaty(rockin').
Albarn can't follow; don't think I'll stay awake for that (maybe they'll post his and hers).
Set List for St. Vincent:

Rattlesnake
Digital Witness
Cruel
Birth In Reverse
Regret
I Prefer Your Love
Surgeon
Cheerleader
Prince Johnny
Year Of The Tiger
Marrow
Huey Newton
Bring Me Your Loves
Krokodil

Think the persona she described is or was meant to be "Joan Didion-esque middle-aged woman on the verge," but on this occasion she also seemed to enjoy being young, eerie (buzzword of our age, after all), hot and dead(pan).

Also, as Houston Press blogger Chris Grey described her show better and earlier this week:
the mechanistic robo-funk of the rhythm section versus the overwhelming omnichords of the synthesizers or the shards of post-punk guitar versus that delicate little dance she yeah, yeah.

Ghana Soundz - Afro-beat, funk and fusion in 70's Ghana

this is sooo good

Hatcham Social - Cutting Up The Present...
Neil Finn - Dizzy Heights
Connections - Body Language
Connections - Private Airplane 2, both of these are really, really good fake GBV.
Sleepy Kitty - Projection Room

Nickb I used to swap tracks with wesley matsell in the early 2000s. He was part of tefosav and I think we even remixed each others tunes. Going back a bit but im really pleased he's doing well and got some music out there. Albums really good too.

xp to karl - that's the same label that put out this, right?
http://kartel.uk.com/images/artists/1471028737-NIGERIA-SPECIAL-COVER-J-PEG-350DPI%5B1%5D_1.jpg
been listening to that a lot lately, so good

yep, Soundway Records. they have so much good stuff, it seems impossible to even start

speaking of african music, ive been listening to this
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/611QHsY6UaL._SY300_.jpg

also listening to warpaint, real estate, a guy called gerald's "black secret technology", the new mac demarco

brace/choir - turning on your double: stereolab meets pale saints in 2014. divine krautrock from berlin.

shakey's blood gonna run mixtape, on the reggae/dub thread, has been playing continuously for a few days now. beyond that, i'm digging this 2014 ep from a band called ''grimm grimm''.

they only have three songs so far, from what i can tell (one a cover of a misfits song). all good.

john tilbury. the just reproach, w/oren ambarchi, is just so understated and sublime. a lot of the (combined) events didn't really register the first few times around.