what are you listening to 2018

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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.)

i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Saturday, 24 February 2018 03:19 (six years ago) link

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

Randy Newman - Rolling (1974)

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 25 February 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link

er, "Rollin'"

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 25 February 2018 02:49 (six years ago) link

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

Their new album Distress Test may be your thing.

Doran, Monday, 26 February 2018 17:35 (six years ago) link

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 remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 04:00 (six years ago) link

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"

i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 04:10 (six years ago) link

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

i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 04:11 (six years ago) link

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

massaman gai, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 13:19 (six years ago) link

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

The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 1 March 2018 09:41 (six years ago) link

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.

massaman gai, Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:11 (six years ago) link

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

It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link

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

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

Google Atheist (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:10 (six years ago) link

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Q2zV0otGL._SX425_.jpg

a day of jansch

no lime tangier, Friday, 2 March 2018 02:26 (six years ago) link

Dave Liebman, Adam Rudolph, Tatsuya Nakatani - The Unknowable

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

calzino, Friday, 2 March 2018 12:36 (six years ago) link

end of the family visit. peeling potatoes. thunder & lashing rain. readying for a loooong trip back to an icy germany.
https://img.discogs.com/UwdFL46LZjtW5u8716SxPWBBGog=/fit-in/600x592/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1184996-1349067964-6987.jpeg.jpg

massaman gai, Saturday, 3 March 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link

Sitting in the car listening to Agustin Barrios.

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 3 March 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link

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.

earlnash, Saturday, 3 March 2018 18:42 (six years ago) link

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

willem, Saturday, 3 March 2018 21:27 (six years ago) link

Stevolende with the hits

love that Harlem River Drive album

(and Terry Riley too, obv)

my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:47 (six years ago) link

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

no lime tangier, Sunday, 4 March 2018 03:20 (six years ago) link

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.

Stevolende, Sunday, 4 March 2018 17:34 (six years ago) link

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

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/518ije2OB-L._SX425_.jpg

no lime tangier, Monday, 5 March 2018 01:10 (six years ago) link

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."

my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 5 March 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link

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

j., Monday, 5 March 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link

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

no lime tangier, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 03:14 (six years ago) link

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

ogmor, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 10:36 (six years ago) link

"lower case" by & large a corny preset these days but ineffable transcendence abounds herein
https://img.discogs.com/up1F4fVMMJYfT9oF_1PgP3Jw_38=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1997995-1257630227.jpeg.jpg

massaman gai, Thursday, 8 March 2018 13:02 (six years ago) link

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.

earlnash, Saturday, 10 March 2018 01:49 (six years ago) link

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

nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 15 March 2018 16:44 (six years ago) link

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

my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 16 March 2018 08:57 (six years ago) link

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

my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 16 March 2018 08:58 (six years ago) link

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

ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Friday, 16 March 2018 23:36 (six years ago) link

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3149456892_10.jpg

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

calzino, Monday, 19 March 2018 10:14 (six years ago) link

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.

Stevolende, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 09:29 (six years ago) link

cover connection.
updated version of that mediaeval sound cover (which i have been playing a lot again recently!) :

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0712071126_10.jpg

mark e, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 18:00 (six years ago) link

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

massaman gai (front tea for two), Sunday, 30 December 2018 09:56 (five years ago) link

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.

djh, Sunday, 30 December 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link


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