what are you listening to 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fY5u9BW2DM

Love that band! ^

xpost i will put that next up in the queue, LBI! i still have more of november to go through, which is kind of amazing because it feels like i was listening to it all day already!

there's something really poignant about this:

A few years ago, Johnson told Young that he’d had enough of the 21st century and was going ‘off-grid’. No email, and for long periods his phone remained unanswered. But Mark Harwood, of Penultimate Press, had the number, and got through to Johnson last year. This spring Harwood, in collaboration with the Irritable Hedgehog label, are releasing a 4CD performance of November by pianist R Andrew Lee.

With Harwood’s help, I spoke to Johnson by phone. Now in his mid-seventies, Johnson would be the first to admit his memory is fraying, but in person he’s likeable and generous to a fault. I asked how he feels being hailed as the first composer to write minimalist music. He answered: "That’s interesting. Tell me again, the meaning of minimalist?"

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Thought for a moment this was the noteworthy album covers thread. Most of those belong in a museum.

moritz von oswald trio vertical ascent
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gotta love those authentic greasy marmite on toast fingerprints

i bought the "watashi dake?" reissue last year and the photo insert is v cool

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always makes me think of that "only me!" harry enfield character

didn't spot the ice cream tho. that is cool.

That's one of my all-time favorite pictures of a human.

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Barnt What Is A Number, That A Man May Know It?

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Fucking extraordinary "experimental techno"

I never know what subgenre I'm actually listening to with stuff like this, always expecting fifty dudes to run up with fingers raised shouting "ACTUALLY--

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American Epic Collection - Amazing 100 songs by 100 artists from the 20s and 30s

Lots of Jazz:
Charles Mingus
John Coltrane
Alice Coltrane
Donald Byrd
ICP Orchestra
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Joseph Jarman
Max Roach
Raymond Scott
Yusef Lateef
Clifford Thorton

Also:
The Books
Blind Willie McTell
Cornelius
Glass Animals
James Holden
Kate Tempest
Lee Scratch Perry
Possessed By Paul James
Son Lux
Yes
Rolling Stones
Richard Kern Sountracks

not sure what genre this is? I read "left-field house" somewhere. I call everything electronic.
I think it's pretty great though.

Ross From Friends - The Outsiders (2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D74KkoCf93I

those jeff mills "the wizard" radio broadcasts. sounding great in the portuguese sunshine. visions of rosie perez frugging frantically

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first of all, i've been getting re-into the Mariah album from 1983. (long lost impossible to find, reissued a few years back. seems like the "hit" was "Shinzo No Tobira", but there are several songs at least as good. I really love "Sora Ni Mau Maboroshi"). then i got so into that that i did 15 seconds of research and found the Mariah guy (at that point, Yasuaki Shimizu)'s solo album from the year before, Kakashi. like Mariah, it is unclassifiable, timeless, and so good. also, i struggle with design so much, and this is a good reminder of how simple and perfect it can be:

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(standout track on kakashi is "umi no ue kara", i think. the shift at 3:00 is everything i want i music.)

Eblen Macari - Viento Solar (a youtube comp of the albums Música para Planetarios / Glaciares)

https://blogthehum.wordpress.com/2018/02/20/on-the-long-awaited-reissue-of-eblen-macaris-seminal-musica-para-planetarios-by-seance-centre/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBux4AlGQzM

Randy Newman - Rolling (1974)

er, "Rollin'"

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Hey Karl Malone, do you know Swedish 'supergroup' Orchestra Of Constant Distress?

Their new album Distress Test may be your thing.

doran i don't know them! i gave it a listen today but i wasn't in a position to play it at extreme volumes, which i feel like it probably deserves. to be honest i don't regularly listen to a lot of heavy stuff (the uniform album that i posted about above was kind of an exception but i found it during a really weird time when the best noises on earth seemed to be the very loudest) but when i am in the mood, i am in the MOOD. so i'll file it away for the next time the heavy mood descends

i bumped the Francis Bebey thread the other day, but i'm still listening and still very much sucked in so i guess i'll mention it here too. Psychedelic Sanza, a comp of his stuff from 1982-84, is what i'm playing the most, although my choices are pretty limited (it's either that or his comp from 1975-82 on spotify).

Psychedelic Sanza kind of a weird recommendation because on about half the songs he deploys this really really odd and compelling stretched out vocal trick. on some songs it harmonizes and is repetitiously blissful - "Binta Madiallo" is a good example. on about 1/3 of the songs, though, it's the kind of thing that WILL cause a typical person to ask "um....what is this we're listening to?" in that way that makes the heart sink. listen to "Bissau, about 1:18 in, for a relatively brief glimpse of what i'm talking about, and at 2:45 and 3:20 as well. personally, after many listens i find it to be bravely experimental and i'm in awe of someone pushing the limits like that so far into his career (i think he was already past 50 years of age and a dozen albums deep by the time 1982-84 rolled around.

so that vocal trick will alienate some. but it's too bad, because the other 2/3 is just fantastic and ideal for all listening situations imo. RIYL the vibe of can's "Future Days"

nice cover, too
https://i.imgur.com/cWtKLm0.jpg

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https://www.discogs.com/Hiroshi-Yoshimura-Music-For-Nine-Post-Cards/release/3697479

Music for snow days.

Bah. Anyway - it was Hiroshi Yoshimura's Music for Nine Postcards.

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& my father in law's steel pan orchestras play the classics comps.

wish I would've gone to see them at the Am Rep summer bash

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

All day err'day twenty times a day. It's a virus.

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a day of jansch

Dave Liebman, Adam Rudolph, Tatsuya Nakatani - The Unknowable

I wish my life was as enigmatic and zen as this sounds r/n.

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end of the family visit. peeling potatoes. thunder & lashing rain. readying for a loooong trip back to an icy germany.
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Sitting in the car listening to Agustin Barrios.

I had "What Were Once Vices are Now Habits" by the Doobie Brothers spinning on the turntable this morning. This week has been Screaming Trees, Canned Heat, Jefferson Airplane, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Primus and Motorhead in my playlists or in the truck.

Cover of that Riley album is amazing.

What I've been spinning today:
The Breeders - All Nerve
Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
Sir Richard Bishop/Ava Mendoza - Ivory Tower
Cornelius - Fantasma
Efrim Manuel Menuck - Pissing Stars

Stevolende with the hits

love that Harlem River Drive album

(and Terry Riley too, obv)

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I think Toni Arthur was about my first crush when she was on children's tv a few years later.
Still not really heard the folk lps though.

hearken to... is the only one i've found & is quite good. think the earlier two were compiled on cd at some point.

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Anthology of all of their stuff, from the Prae Kraut Pandemonium fave singles from the 60s to the kinda... vaguely punky hard rock 1970s stuff. Contains the line "I've got a prick like a saxophone."

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― massaman gai (front tea for two), Wednesday, November 7, 2018 4:41 AM (one month ago)

Man, those Live at Yoshi's albums are complete insanity. I used to play them in the store when I worked at Tower Records and needed people to leave.

https://ring.cdandlp.com/jappress/photo_grande/2936188724.jpg

Sam Rivers - live trio sessions
Tom Petty - An American Treasure box

been doing a bunch of ferraro & clark:
this is still an absolute winner:
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tape hiss molten plastic raga

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https://img.discogs.com/HXkfuB9SbbRjdo-E-lEW7pAe3rM=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3069479-1314274128.jpeg.jpgTuusanuuskat ‎– Nääksää Nää Mun Kyyneleet tape echo moogs tangerine dream such a tired formula but somehow this RULES maybe cos it's wilfully goofy & avoids tiresome "imaginary soundtrack"/ reich/glass balderdash

although that was very terry in the best way.
doing cassettes this aft:
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sth very AEOC abt the master qsh, too

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Pat Metheny - New Chautauqua
John Luther Adams & the Crossing - Canticles of the Holy Wind
Probably going to put on the Beths

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0867058760_10.jpg love these guys - the nomeansno episode of "Glee" features bruno martelli staging a mario bava adaptation?

This was my end of year CD:

1. Ian William Craig - Some Absolute Means
2. Stuart A Staples - Memories of Love
3. Bill Seaman - The Epiphanies 1
4. Grouper - Blouse
5. Sophie Hutchings & Julia Kent - Earthbound
6. Alessio Ballerini - Before Flying
7. Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch - Redux
8. Thom Yorke - Susperium
9. S Carey - True North
10. Maarja Nuut & Ruum - Kuud Kuulama
11. Low -Dancing & Blood
12. The Sea & Cake - These Falling Arms
13. Johann Johannsson - Children of the New Dawn
14. Cedric Pin/Glen Johnson - It Was Not Meant To Be
15. Sin Fang/Soley/Orvar Smarson - Random Haiku Generator
16. The Breeders - All Nerve

... but I also had long phases of playing Red House Painters, 4AD stuff generally (I made 4 4AD compilations for the car) and Tindersticks.