Ida's Sound World

I find myself listening to more CDs because I don't need to get up to change sides. Also, pulling out a record and putting it on the turntable while holding a baby is risky business.

1. Cecil Taylor, One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye (HatHut 2CD): Listened to while Ida played on her "jungle gym," a forest-themed playmat.
2. Morton Feldman, Early Piano Works (Hat Art CD): Enervating for Mom, enthralling for Dad. Baby nonplussed.
3. Dennis Johnson, November (Irritable Hedgehog 4CD): A crowd-pleaser in our household. Sweet dreams, baby.
4. Cecil Taylor, Conquistador (Blue Note CD): Baby immediately stopped crying. Doesn't annoy Mom. Bill Dixon does some great stuff on this session.
5. Various Artists, God's Power (Tabs Out CS): The latest exclusive release from the world's best cassette podcast.
6. Broken Trap Ensemble, Upes (Astral Spirits CS): Some lovely improvisation from Aram Shelton et al. Probably the first time baby heard a cello outside of the womb.
7. Ballister, The Ballister Monologues (Astra Sprits CS): Blistering free-jazz set for a boisterous audience. Very lo-fi and primal. Baby didn't seem displeased. Wonder if this is what free jazz sounds like filtered through the womb?
8. Tashi Dorji, Tashi Doji (Headway CS): Listened to after our email exchange. I still dig this, but Ida started screaming when it came on.
9. Cecil Taylor, The Eighth (HatHut CD): More Cecil for Ida. Helped her to get through Mom's return to part-time work and enabled Dad to get some stuff done.
10. Yo La Tengo, I Can Feel the Heart Beating as One (Matador CD): Didn't engender much of a response.
11. William Cody Watson, Seafoam (No Kings CS): Morning Drone.
12. Coyote Image Classic, Coyote Image Classic (Hooker Vision 2CS): Soothing drones calm baby and allowed Dad to do some work.
13. Ornette Coleman, Complete Science Fiction Sessions (Columbia 2CD): Great variety for baby to enjoy. Baby started crying when first disc ended. Fortunately, there's a second disc for her pleasure.
14. Jimmy Lyons, Push Pull (HatHut 3LP): The Baby Bjorn carrier gives me the power of hands-free listening. The interplay between Borca and Lyons is awesome.
15. Beast Nest, Songs for Puppies (Full Spectrum CS): Excellent soundscapes and compositions. Highly recommended
16. Pierrot Lunaire, This Love of Mine (Sic Sic 2CS): Gauzy parlor music.
17. Glover/Perrault, Freight 1110 through Greensboro (Full Spectrum CS): Spiritual descendants of Henry Flynt.
18. Aaron Dilloway & Jason Lescalleet (Glistening Examples LP): A much different outing than Grapes and Snakes. Also enjoyed this one a lot. Lescalleet has been on fire of late.
19. Mind over Mirrors, The Voice Calling (Immune CS). One of Id'a favorite recordings.
20. Catherine Lamb, Matter/Moving (Winds Measure Recordings 2CS): A favorite from last year.
21.夕方の犬(U ･ｪ･), ʕ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ♡ (Constellation Tatsu CS). Screwed and chopped weirdness. with a bit of a doo-wop vibe.

22. Pavement, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Matador CD): Listened to in the car. Good, but doesn't do much for me these days.
23. Various Artists, Swim Trunks (Space Slave Editions 2CS): Four-way split. The Kyle Landstra and Gunter Schlienz tracks are perfect jams for 80-degree weather.

24. Roscoe Mitchell, Nonaah (Nessa 2CD): So good.

25. Archers of Loaf, Vee Vee (Alias CD): I feel old.

February 2015 Listening

1.       “Cellar Door Sessions” (1974) Miles Davis with John McLaughin, Michael Henderson, Gary Bartz, Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette and Airo Moreira

2.       “Indigo Trio” Hamid Drake with Harrison Bankhead & Nicole Mitchell [Rogue Art ROG-0018] CD

3.       “Patterns in a Chromatic Field” Morton Feldman with Charles Curtis: Cello & Aleck Karis: Piano [Tzadik 8002] CD

4.       “The Music Improvisation Company” Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Jamie Muir, Christine Jeffrey and Hugh Davies [ECM 1005 ST] LP

5.       “Extricate” (1990) The Fall [COG-Sinister Fontana D 143261] CD

6.       “3:Hey!Luciani” The Fall [Beggar s Banquet Bega 176 T] LP

7.       “Calling it the 8^th” Cecil Taylor with Jimmy Lyons, William Parker and Rashid Bahr [hat Musics 3508] LP

8.       “I” (1968) Led Zeppelin [Atlantic R1-536123] LP

9.       “Daydream Nation” Sonic Youth [DGC DGCD-24515] CD

10.   “Alarm” Peter Brotzmann

11.   “For Adolphe Sax” Peter Brotzmann with Peter Kowald, Sven-Ake Johansson and Fred van Hove [Cien Fuegos CF009] LP

12.   “Funny Rat/s 3” (2009) Peter Brotzmann and Shoji Hano [Heart Lord Studio Disc HLSCD-006] CD

13.   “Illusionary Sea” Mary Halvorson with Ingrid Laubrock, Irabagon, Garchik, Hebert, Finlayson, & Ches Smith [Firehouse 12 Records FH12-04-08-017] LP

14.   “Now Is - Ingebrigt Haker Flaten New York Quartet” Joe McPhee, Nate Wooley, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten and Joe Morris [Clean Feed CF263CD] CD

15.   “Journey in Satchidananda” Alice Coltrane with Pharoah Sanders, Rashid Ali, Charlie Haden, and others [Impluse! IMP 12282] CD

16.   “The Other Village Vanguard” John Coltrane with Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison, Workman, Dolphy, Garvin Bushell, Ahmed Abdul-Malik & McCoy Tyner [Impluse! AS-9325] LP

17.   “Cymbals” (1973) Sun Ra [Troglosound ‎ 2000] LP

18.   “Passport to Satori” Greg Kelley & Alex Neilson [Golden Lad Records ROWF6] LP

19.   “Bodies & Soul” Frank Lowe with Charles Moffett & Tom Flood [CIMP 104] CD

20.   “Ege Bamyasi” Can [Spoon] SACD

21.   “Symphony for Improvisers” (1966) Don Cherry with Ed Blackwell, Henry Grimes, Gato Barbieri, Pharoah Sanders, Karl Berger, and Jenny Clark [Blue Note B1 7243 8 28976 1 3] LP

22.   “Sometimes Good Weather Follows Bad People” (2000) Califone [jealous butcher jb100] LP

23.   “Genius of Modern Music - Volume 1” Thelonious Monk [Blue Note BST 81510] LP

24.   “Turn” Roscoe Mitchell with Craig Taborn, Corey Wilkes, Jaribu Shahid, and Tani Tabbal [Rogue Art Rog-0063” CD

25.   “Toc Sine” Jean-Luc Guionnet & Pascal Battus [Cathor Cath011] CD

26.   “My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky” Swans [Young God YG43X] LP

27.   “Marquee Moon” (1977) Television [Rhino R1 1098] LP

28.   “Winterreise” Alexander von Schlippenbach with Evan Parker & Paul Lovens [Psi 06.10] CD

29.   “End of the Century” (1980) Ramones [Sire SRK 6077] LP

30.   “Antiquity” Jackie McLean & Michael Carvin [Inner City 2028] LP

31.   “Regeneration” Steve Lacy, Roswell Rudd, Mengelberg, Kent Carter and Han Bennink [Soul Note SN 1054] LP

32.   “Destiny Street” Richard Hell with Robert Quine & Fred Maher [Celluliod CEL 6619] LP

33.   “Painful” (1993) Yo La Tengo [Matador 92298-2] CD

34.   “Dig Me Out” (1996) Sleater-Kinney [Kill Rock Stars KRS279] LP

35.   “Refulgo” (2009) Bardo Pond [Three Lobed] LP

36.   “The Emerald Tablet” Rhyton [Three Lobed] LP

37.   “Juju” (1981) Sioxsie & the Banshees [PVC 8903] LP

38.   “Bandwidth” (2009) Circulasione Totale Orchestra with Frode Gjerstad [Rune Grammofon RCD 2089] CD

39.   “Compact Snap!” The Jam [Polydor 821 712-2] CD

40.   “Squirrel Bait” Squirrel Bait [Homestead Records HMS028] EP

41.   “The Moon & Antarctica” Modest Mouse [Epic ek83871] CD

42.   “Disallow” High Rise [Squealer Revisted SQLREV 1003] LP

43.   “Terraform” (1998) Shellac with Steve Albini, Bob Weston and Todd Trailor [Touch and Go TG200] LP

44.   “European Echoes” (1969) Manfred Schoof with 16 performers including Evan Parker, Peter Brotzmann, Derek Bailey, Kowald, Van Hove [Cien Fuegos CF 008] LP

45.   “Water Music” Handel  performed by Nicholas McGrehan and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra [Harmonia Mundi HUM 7010] LP

46.   “Not the Spaces You Know, But Between Them” Bardo Pond, Steve Gunn, Sonic Youth, Sun City Girls, Mouthus, Comets on Fire, Wooden Wand and Eternal Tapestry [Three Lobed Recordings TLR-080] LP

47.   “Iorxhscimtor” (2001) Orthrelm -‎ Mick Barr and Josh Blair [Tolotta Records TOL 09V] 12"

48.   “Time for a Witness” (1991) The Feelies [A&M 75021 5344 2] CD

49.   “Jane's Addiction” Jane's Addiction [Triple X Records 51004-2] CD

50.   “Too Much Too Soon” New York Dolls [Mercury SRM-1-1001] LP