what are you listening to 2018

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:

https://i.imgur.com/mfQLTbD.jpg

(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

https://img.discogs.com/LivnxHIaw59oxLZHnOBLWf5qEbc=/fit-in/600x587/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6356672-1417253992-7751.jpeg.jpg up there w/ trio roma, full blast, & snakelust for ultra propulsive brötz

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.

https://static.pointculture.be/media/86/a3/5a/cover_ml7861_scale_345x750.jpg
https://img.discogs.com/ZC3zsg2KwX7HoBBLABzBIIqQQx8=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6474480-1428504939-6009.jpeg.jpg how the hell does this sound so good? 20 odd years after the fact cherubs'relentless churn & mewl is an ecstatic flabby low-end grinding tantrum.
& 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)

https://www.popsike.com/pix/20120513/160801083319.jpg

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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https://i.imgur.com/58xkR2M.jpg?1

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."

massaman gai, you are a w.a.y.l.t. treasure

1st sweeney's men lp followed by...

https://www.popsike.com/pix/20161117/262722808856.jpg

...& the excellent irvine/gaughan collboration from a few years later

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I haven't been really listening to anything in particular lately but right now I'm v much in the mood to be slowly decomposed by mycelia on the forest floor to that koboku senju record

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fillmore east april '71

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"lower case" by & large a corny preset these days but ineffable transcendence abounds herein
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I've gone back to the heart and soul music: Rock and Roll Over, Rocks, and Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap in this evenings play list.

really enjoying the Mystery Lights 2016 debut.
It's nuggets classic style garage rock, more passionate reverence than derivative I think.
Sort of a slinkier version of the Sonics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqmX3Q4d4ac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5_JumBkq2Q

https://i.imgur.com/Eoj4XGY.jpg
Naka Naka Mundo Harsh

Rough but beautiful rainy day vibes w/hints of ambient AFX and Kinesthesia.

read an article on buzzing local bands. i cherry pick fierce. faced with a list of eleven bands i haven't heard of i'll pick the one with the best sounding name. so i listened to brown calculus. i like them! they sound like a hippie THEESatisfaction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbOr70EjKZo

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/arts/music/elektra-review-met-opera.html

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I have been listening to a lot of late period Dixon recently, this one is fucking awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSMpIIs5Qa4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot_-B-83Lb0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ82BMdHjQM

quite audible how the MC5 version is based on the Ted taylor. But I do love teh Jerry Lee Lewis version which is the first recording I think. Haven't heard any other Ted Taylor so not sure how prevalent the falsetto is.

https://img.discogs.com/dL68mHw3755PdP0umHisEMCoL1Y=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-11683298-1520605618-4143.jpeg.jpgplush/sumptuous

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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.