What Are You Listening to? 2020

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I wish I had a heart of ice

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgyX8WAXNjE

gonna have to check that Coroner out after this

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Tamam Shud - Evolution

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hell yeah

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Lots of social commentary, incl. field reports or simulation of same, and editorialing, as expected---but most of the music pulled me into the whole news-bluesoid alt americana rock experience immediately---and *back* in when distraction of screen beckoned---awright:https://drivebytruckers.bandcamp.com/album/the-unraveling

editor-i-al-izing!

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Under pressure of atmosphere, memories, incl. of present and future, spooky and urgent----music more varied after "Running With Our Eyes Closed," calmer but still insidious, words finding their way in---"St. Peter's Autograph,", hmmm--but I get some of 'em right away, esp the one about sober life incl. dreams about drinking, a couple nights a week now, like, "I had one glass of wine, woke up feelin' fine,and that's how I knew it was a dream," but some are rougher, like the even realer-seeming dream of calling in sick to treat yourself down town--you deserve it, self, you been real good for so long---"It gets easier, but never easy, " why have I never heard a song about this must-be-fairly-common experience before? So far, Reunions seems like one of his most sustained achievements in quite a while:
https://jasonisbell.bandcamp.com/album/reunions

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Hm, never heard of that, interesting.

Thurston Moore - Spirit Counsel
Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings E&F
Allan Holdsworth - "Looking Glass"
Battles - Mirrored
Battles - Juice B Crypt
John Zorn - Virtue

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Gen Pop and BL'AST!

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90s style soft cyberdelic techno

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found a copy of the "complete" recordings of kid prince moore (& shorty bob parker) who did two of my favourite tracks on this excellent yazoo comp

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..<i>.esp the one about sober life incl. dreams about drinking, a couple nights a week now, like, "I had one glass of wine, woke up feelin' fine,and that's how I knew it was a dream," but some are rougher, like the even realer-seeming dream of calling in sick to treat yourself down town--you deserve it, self, you been real good for so long---"It gets easier, but never easy, " why have I never heard a song about this must-be-fairly-common experience before? </i>

Agree about this, you hear a lot of being fucked up in songs. Sobering up and how someone experiences life onwards is something i have never heard someone describe so recognizably, in a simple everyday life way. I love Isbell for that.

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New Candys Bleeding Magenta

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Victory Over the Sun - A Tessitura of Transfiguration
Sevish - Rhythm and Xen
Carpenters - "All I Can Do"
Queen - "Don't Stop Me Now"
John Cage - "The Perilous Night" (perf. Boris Berman)
Chopin - Nocturne, op. 55 no. 1 (arr. for guitar and perf. by Nathan Bredeson)

that Solstice is so great

Went ahead to the next piece on Bredeson's Nocturne - Mertz's "Fantaisie Hongroise"

i gotta go back to that Solstice, it's been a long time

tonight so far:
Loop - Heaven's End
Die Kreuzen - October File
Jaures - Lafcadio Champsai, Whities Dub 05

one of my terrible secrets is that i've only listened to loop's A Gilded Eternity (which i found a great cheap copy of, a while ago!) and Fade Out, but never ever Heaven's End. doing that right now, at 2am, with a nightcap of tequila, thank you and goodnight

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xp sounds like a good gd time to me! The last track (on the original LP) "Carry Me" has to be one of their best tunes.

*holds head in pain*

It was so good, uggggh

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Still haven't heard the original album, or Jamie xx's reworking, but the unmistakable sound and sensibility of classic Gil come through: sharp, reflective glints in the dark, rough-edged a fluid, lyrical and realist, searching and on point, thematic and grooving---jazzwise, yet "blues is a feeling" the overall. Only thing is, some of the originals are really short, like down to 37 seconds: golden kernals of potential and realization---McCraven is def. not showboating, but I wish he extended these--maybe he was required to stick to the original track times? I'd like a bit more---Laswell redoing Marley and Miles? Anyway, it's all good, though faves are mostly because they have longer to make an impression: "New York is Killing Me," "I'll Take Care of You," "Me and the Devil"--yes, Scott-Heron and Robert Johnson and Mr. D. on the Greyhoud, seems natural. Speaking voice is worn but clear, singing voice not that different from 70s.

Glenn Branca - The Third Ascension
Julian Bream - Spanish Guitar Recital
Kyle Gann - Hyperchromatica
Benjamin Dwyer - what is the word

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Wow, didn't know about that one---I like this too:

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Mr. Ra in a stmulating yet relatively normie situation, guest star for co-star duo set, just *this* piano and *these* vibes, that's enough.

ah nice.. haven't explored dickerson's later stuff much but i'm mad about his albums on new jazz/prestige

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not feeling it, too many nostalgia vibes, moving on

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i can't recommend this highly enough if you're into fake instrumental 80s r&b / proto-house

on a ~chill summer night~ tip

Venom-Welcome to Hell

its on the nose but it fits

didn't bbq today cuz of forest fire smoke.. yah pretty much

the pic i posted was the untitled album by Benedek on the Peoples Potential Unlimited label;

money morning - corporate karma

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almost definitely my desert island OPO ambient EP of the 10s