Thursday, January 2, 2014

Lately Listening and Best of 2013

Picked up my rehabilitated speakers. Great to have music back in my life.

1. Heinz Riegler, Sleep Health (A Guide to Saints CS): Burbling.
2. Motion Sickness of Time Travel, Remixes (Tabs Out CS): Fine listening. Includes 12-page spiral-bound booklet of cat collages.
3. Noah Howard, Live in Europe Vol. 1 (Sun LP):  Sound is a bit thin, but I can't get enough of Noah Howard's soulful tone.
4. Noah Howard, Patterns (Altsax LP): Jammer. Han Bennink brings a lot to the table on this session.
5. Nate Young, Regression Vol. 3 (Demdike 2LP): The Sammy Davis Jr. of noise kills it on this one.
6. Faint Wild Light, Faint Wild Light (Digitalis LP): Any time a label that puts out mostly experimental stuff releases a pop album, it's usually exceptional. That's the case here.
7. Je Suis le Petit Chevalier, Those Vermilion Sands (NNA CS): Lost in a cistern.
8. Savage Young Taterbug, Syrupy Evenings (Night People CS): Deranged hobo pop music that sounds like its coming from a jack in the box.
9. Marilyn Crispell, Live in Berlin (Soul Note LP): I've always dug Crispell--even the ECM stuff. This one's a burner.
10. Angles 9, In Our Midst (Clean Feed LP): If it's Clean Feed, it's gotta be good.
11. Tamio Shiraishi, Steve Baczkowski and Bill Nace (Open Mouth LP): Only one side, but it's hot!
12. Mortuus Auris & the Black Hand, Transit of Venus (Skell CS): It's a slow and beautiful journey.
13. Tamio Shiraishi & Sean Meehan, In the City (Fusetron LP): Jamming under an overpass.
14. Globe Unity Orchestra, Compositions (Japo LP): There's something about a big band...

Best of 2013 (no particular order)

Je Suis le Petit Chevalier, Those Vermilion Sands (NNA)
http://jesuislepetitchevalier.bandcamp.com/album/those-vermilion-sands-cs
Aaron Dilloway/Jason Lescalleet, Building a Nest (Hanson)
https://soundcloud.com/hansonrecords/dilloway-lescalleet-building-a
Bill Orcutt, A History of Every One (Mego)
Masayoshi Urabe & Fukuoka Rinji, Barcelona Express (8mm)
Attenuated, Deep Opacity (Space Slave)
Steve Baczkowski, Chris Corsano, Greg Kelley, Bill Nace, Live At Spectacle (Open Mouth)
Diamond Terrifier, The Subtled Body Wears a Shadow (Terrible)
Es., Void (PSF)
Cody Yantis, American Surfaces (Digitalis)

Reissues/Archival

Bernard Parmegiani, De Natura Sonorum (Recollections GRM)
https://soundcloud.com/editionsmego/bernard-parmegiani-accident
US Steel Cello Ensemble, Bitter Suites (Holidays)

Evan Parker, Vaincu Va

4 comments:

  1. Remind me what the speakers were please. I recall they were good ones. How did the rehab improve the sound.? Curious how that works, how it sounds now.
    "Hobo pop"??? "Deranged hobo pop"??? Huh? Sounds scary.
    Re: #13. When I was a little kid, my brother and his pals used to practice doo-wop music; they always went under the overpass Some things never change.
    I like how you buried that Crispell admission in the middle of the list
    ;-)

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  2. I think his speakers were the Cantons. I really am on the fence with Crispell. I like her with Braxton and that is it.

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  3. She's done some good, non-ECM things with Barry Guy too.

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  4. Braun 710s. I had them rewired and the bottom speakers on both were replaced.

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