Thursday, July 31, 2014
Pairing #3 - Hardywood Bourbon Cru & Sun City Girls
Hardywood Bourbon Cru & Sun City Girls “Funeral Mariachi” are complex multi-faceted pieces of art that draws from lots of influences. The Bourbon Cru is an abbey quadruples with wild toffee, almond and dried fruit tastes and nose. Funeral Mariachi is album that is a blender full of ancient world rhythms and melodies in a twisted manner. Take a slip and a listen and readjust your mind. Enjoy!
Monday, June 23, 2014
Lately Listening
1. Noah Howard, Live at the Swing Club (seriE.WOC LP): Glad that this ultra-rare record received an estate-sanctioned reissue. Great music. My copy has some whooshing at the start of side 1. Still glad to have this.
2. Ballister, Both Ends (Bocian LP): Kicking ass.
3. Francois Tusques, La Reine des Vampires (Cacophonic LP): Archival soundtrack music. First release.
4. Bill Dixon, Intents and Purposes (RCA Victor LP): Phenomenal album. Scored this for $10 in Fort Lauderdale years ago.
5. Tashi Dorji, Tashi Dorji (Headway CS): Guitar jamage from Asheville. Reminiscent of Bailey and Orcutt. Check it out.
6. Woods, With Light and With Love (Woodsist LP): Every summer brings a new Woods album. Not as excited about this one, but it has its moments.
7. Brigitte Fontaine, Est...Folle (Superior Viaduct LP): Reissue.
8. Jason Lescalleet, Much to My Demise (Kye LP): Sounds like shit hitting the slow-moving fan that is life. I like it.
9. Bill Orcutt, Solo Acoustic Volume Ten (Vin du Select Qaulitite LP): These days, I prefer the shaved version to Harry Pussy. This is a great record.
10. Inez Lightfoot/Je Suis le Petit Chevalier, Split (Stunned CS): The mushrooms are wearing off. A walk in the woods.
11. Zaimph & Yek Koo, L'Interiur de la Vue (Obsolete Units CS): Zoned.
12. Twistycat, Solar Plexus (Obsolete Units CS): Baritone sax and bass clarinet. Plus electronics.
13. Bogan Ghost, Zerfall (Relative Pitch CD): Droner.
14. Bill Orcutt & Chris Corsano, Live at Various (Palilalia CS): Wish I could have witnessed some of this tour in person.
2. Ballister, Both Ends (Bocian LP): Kicking ass.
3. Francois Tusques, La Reine des Vampires (Cacophonic LP): Archival soundtrack music. First release.
4. Bill Dixon, Intents and Purposes (RCA Victor LP): Phenomenal album. Scored this for $10 in Fort Lauderdale years ago.
5. Tashi Dorji, Tashi Dorji (Headway CS): Guitar jamage from Asheville. Reminiscent of Bailey and Orcutt. Check it out.
6. Woods, With Light and With Love (Woodsist LP): Every summer brings a new Woods album. Not as excited about this one, but it has its moments.
7. Brigitte Fontaine, Est...Folle (Superior Viaduct LP): Reissue.
8. Jason Lescalleet, Much to My Demise (Kye LP): Sounds like shit hitting the slow-moving fan that is life. I like it.
9. Bill Orcutt, Solo Acoustic Volume Ten (Vin du Select Qaulitite LP): These days, I prefer the shaved version to Harry Pussy. This is a great record.
10. Inez Lightfoot/Je Suis le Petit Chevalier, Split (Stunned CS): The mushrooms are wearing off. A walk in the woods.
11. Zaimph & Yek Koo, L'Interiur de la Vue (Obsolete Units CS): Zoned.
12. Twistycat, Solar Plexus (Obsolete Units CS): Baritone sax and bass clarinet. Plus electronics.
13. Bogan Ghost, Zerfall (Relative Pitch CD): Droner.
14. Bill Orcutt & Chris Corsano, Live at Various (Palilalia CS): Wish I could have witnessed some of this tour in person.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Lately Listening
1. Pierrot Lunaire/Sleeper, Lesser Invocation (Sic Sic CS): The Pierrot Lunaire piece reminds us that real life underpins music--easy to lose sight of that in consumer/collector culture. Especially when you live in an area where live music of this nature occurs with less frequency.
2. Keir Neuringer, Ceremonies on Air (New Atlantis LP): An incredible statement. This album has been getting a lot of play.
3. Deep Listening Band, Then & Now Now & Then (Taiga 2LP): The wall shelf helps to bring out so much more detail from this release.
4. Sam Rivers, The Live Trio Sessions (Impulse 2LP): Sam Rivers killing it.
5. Steve Lacy, Stamps (HatHut 2LP): I don't mind Irene on this one. Lacy is in fine form on these sides.
6. Mengelberg/Lacy/Lewis/Gorter/Bennink, Change of Season (Soul Note LP): Jamming Herbie Nichols' tunes.
7. Anthony Braxton & Derek Bailey, Moment Precieux (Victo LP): I'll have to dust off the 4-disc box of Braxton duos with Joe Morris. I remember that leaving me a bit cold. This one blows mostly hot.
8. John Carter, Fields (Gramavision LP): Some of the synth work sounds dated, but this is still a very good album.
9. Rova Saxophone Quarter, Beat Kennel (Black Saint LP): Doing their thing
10. Sheldon Siegel, Midden (Sky Lantern CS): Free jazz on cassette.
11. Fushitsusha & Peter Brotzmann, Nothing Changes, No One Can Change Anything, I am Ever-Changing, Only You Can Change Yourself (Utech 3CD): Believe the hype.
12. Wolf Eyes, Six Arms and Sucks (Esquilo CD): Tough to follow a great Def Leopard joke, but the Wolf Eyes pulls it off. Brought me back to seeing them in Buffalo.
13. Art Ensemble of Chicago, Go Home (CD): Dubious reissue of ultra-rare LP on Galloway.
14. Frank Lowe, Black Beings (ESP Disk CD): Such a great album.
15. Bill Lews & Khan Jamal, The River (Philly Jazz LP): Getting out with vibraphone and marimba.
16. MAP, Fever Dream (Taiga 2LP): Lots of scratching, plinking and plunking. Great record.
17. Various Artists, Dynasty at Ghost Town (Bathetic 11 CS): Perfect listening for the dog days of the southern spring. Check it out.
2. Keir Neuringer, Ceremonies on Air (New Atlantis LP): An incredible statement. This album has been getting a lot of play.
3. Deep Listening Band, Then & Now Now & Then (Taiga 2LP): The wall shelf helps to bring out so much more detail from this release.
4. Sam Rivers, The Live Trio Sessions (Impulse 2LP): Sam Rivers killing it.
5. Steve Lacy, Stamps (HatHut 2LP): I don't mind Irene on this one. Lacy is in fine form on these sides.
6. Mengelberg/Lacy/Lewis/Gorter/Bennink, Change of Season (Soul Note LP): Jamming Herbie Nichols' tunes.
7. Anthony Braxton & Derek Bailey, Moment Precieux (Victo LP): I'll have to dust off the 4-disc box of Braxton duos with Joe Morris. I remember that leaving me a bit cold. This one blows mostly hot.
8. John Carter, Fields (Gramavision LP): Some of the synth work sounds dated, but this is still a very good album.
9. Rova Saxophone Quarter, Beat Kennel (Black Saint LP): Doing their thing
10. Sheldon Siegel, Midden (Sky Lantern CS): Free jazz on cassette.
11. Fushitsusha & Peter Brotzmann, Nothing Changes, No One Can Change Anything, I am Ever-Changing, Only You Can Change Yourself (Utech 3CD): Believe the hype.
12. Wolf Eyes, Six Arms and Sucks (Esquilo CD): Tough to follow a great Def Leopard joke, but the Wolf Eyes pulls it off. Brought me back to seeing them in Buffalo.
13. Art Ensemble of Chicago, Go Home (CD): Dubious reissue of ultra-rare LP on Galloway.
14. Frank Lowe, Black Beings (ESP Disk CD): Such a great album.
15. Bill Lews & Khan Jamal, The River (Philly Jazz LP): Getting out with vibraphone and marimba.
16. MAP, Fever Dream (Taiga 2LP): Lots of scratching, plinking and plunking. Great record.
17. Various Artists, Dynasty at Ghost Town (Bathetic 11 CS): Perfect listening for the dog days of the southern spring. Check it out.
Friday, May 16, 2014
Friday, May 2, 2014
April 2014 Listening
1.
“Heaven Up Here” Echo and the Bunnymen (Rhino 2564-61162-2)
CD
2.
“Wrong Shape to be a Story Teller” Nate Wooley (Creative
Sources) CD
3.
“Concentric” John Butcher and Paal Nilssen-Love (Clean
Feed CF067CD) CD
4.
“Flower Head” The Wild Mans Band with Peter
Brotzmann, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Peter Ole Jorgensen & Peter Fris Nielsen (Ninth
World Music NWM036) CD
5.
“For Adolphe Sax” Peter Brotzmann, Peter Kowald,
Sven-Ake Johansson and Fred van Hove (Atavistic UMS/ALP230CD) CD
6.
“More Nipples” Peter Brotzmann, Evan Parker, Derek
Bailey, Fred van Hove, Buschi Niebergall and Han Bennik (Atavistic UMS/ALP236CD)
CD
7.
“Blue Train” John Coltrane, Lee Morgan, Curtis
Fuller, Kenny Drew, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones (Blue Note CDP 7243 8 53428 0 6) CD
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8.
“Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy and Art Forms
of Dimensions Tomorrow” Sun Ra and his myth Science Arkestra (Evidence ECD
22036-2) CD
9.
“Bird Dies” The Ames Room with Jean-Luc Guionnet,
Clayton Thomas & Will Guthrie (Clean Feed CF231) CD
10.
“Struggling in Public” The Ames Room with Jean-Luc
Guionnet, Clayton Thomas & Will Guthrie (Norwegianism Records NOR 009) CD
11.
“Empriicism in the West” Vinny Golia & Urs
Leimgruber (Relative Pitch RPR 1016) CD
12.
“Kaitaitekikoukan” Kaoru Abe & Masayuki
Takayanagi (DIW-415) CD
13.
“Bridges” Akira Sakata, Andrea Centazzo & Kiyoto
Fujiwara (Ictus Records 162) CD
14.
“Zerfall” Bogan Ghost with Liz Allbee & Anthea
Caddy (Relative Pitch RPR1021) CD
15.
“Fear of Music” Talking Heads (Sire 6076-2) CD
16.
“Soulstorm” Ivo Perelman with Daniel Levin and Torbjorn
Zetterberg (Clean Feed CF184CD) CD
17.
“Rumbling - Globe Unity Special '75” Alexander
von Schlippenbach (FMP CD 40) CD
18.
“Pakistani Pomade” Alexander von Schlippenbach, Evan
Parker and Paul Lovens (Atavistic UMS/APLP240CD) CD
19.
“OOO” The Delta 72 (Touch & Go TG212CD) CD
20.
“Pale Horse” Jeremiah Cymerman with Christopher
Hoffman and Brain Chase (5049 Records 5049-003) CD
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Lately Listening
1. Art Ensemble of Chicago, People in Sorrow (Nessa LP): Probably my favorite Art Ensemble record. First thing I listened to after we built the wall shelf.
2. Various Artists, Traces Vol. 1 (Recollections GRM LP): Another phenomenal entry in this reissue series. I think you guys would really enjoy Traces 1 and Traces 2. Glad to see that this release received a second pressing.
3. Aaron Dilloway, Corpse on Horseback (Ergot LP): Solid album. Wonder if this was singled out for vinyl reissue in part because of the bitching cover art.
4. The Thing, Boot! (The Thing Records LP): The Coltrane cover is insane.
5. Joshua Dumas, Rough Matinals (Horror Fiction CS): Short piano pieces made all the more stark by the gauzy drones that wash in and out of the background.
6. Dan Svizeny, Dan Svizeny (Mirror Universe CS): The brains and brawn behind Cough Cool. More lo-fi goodness.
7. Wes Tirey, Home Recordings (Orange Milk CS): Opening droner is a killer track. Followed by American primitive guitar. There's something in the water in Asheville. Lots going on up there. Tony, you consider Asheville as a potential retirement spot?
8. Sun Ra & His Astro-Infinity Arkestra, Other Strange Worlds (Roaratorio LP): Whereas Strange Strings is one of my favorite Ra releases, the plinking and plunking on the A side didn't do much for me--nothing that grabbed my attention. The B side makes up for it.
9. Harry Partch, Bewitched (Cacophonic LP): It's 3:00 am. The spirits are out. You're drunk and sunburned at the Parthenon.
10. D/A/D, The Construct (Hausu Mountain CS): From out of left field. Could be the soundtrack to the imaginary movie, Mannequin 3: Lunar Department Store. We have been wearing this tape out.
11. Bill Orcutt, How the Thing Sings (Editions Mego LP): Orcutt has been on fire over the past several years. Getting psyched for the new LP on Vin du Select Qualitite.
12. Circuit Rider, Culprit (Tabs Out CS): Warble, Warble. Pop.
13. End of the World Championship, In Slow Motion (Umor Rex CS): Drone sounds so much better after having my speakers repaired.
14. Good Stuff House, Good Stuff House (Indian Queen Records LP): Scott Tuma and the dudes from Zelienople.
15. John Sandia, By Candlelight (Revolving Door CS): Blues drone.
16. Strange Mountain, Levitation Mist (Illuminated Paths CS): Damn, this is good.
17. Tony Conrad, Four Violins (Table of Elements LP): Blows my mind that this guy still lives in Buffalo. Saw him in Baltimore when I first moved to DC. A captivating performance.
18. John Fahey, Requia (Terra LP): Love the montage/special effects on the B-Side jammer.
2. Various Artists, Traces Vol. 1 (Recollections GRM LP): Another phenomenal entry in this reissue series. I think you guys would really enjoy Traces 1 and Traces 2. Glad to see that this release received a second pressing.
3. Aaron Dilloway, Corpse on Horseback (Ergot LP): Solid album. Wonder if this was singled out for vinyl reissue in part because of the bitching cover art.
4. The Thing, Boot! (The Thing Records LP): The Coltrane cover is insane.
5. Joshua Dumas, Rough Matinals (Horror Fiction CS): Short piano pieces made all the more stark by the gauzy drones that wash in and out of the background.
6. Dan Svizeny, Dan Svizeny (Mirror Universe CS): The brains and brawn behind Cough Cool. More lo-fi goodness.
7. Wes Tirey, Home Recordings (Orange Milk CS): Opening droner is a killer track. Followed by American primitive guitar. There's something in the water in Asheville. Lots going on up there. Tony, you consider Asheville as a potential retirement spot?
8. Sun Ra & His Astro-Infinity Arkestra, Other Strange Worlds (Roaratorio LP): Whereas Strange Strings is one of my favorite Ra releases, the plinking and plunking on the A side didn't do much for me--nothing that grabbed my attention. The B side makes up for it.
9. Harry Partch, Bewitched (Cacophonic LP): It's 3:00 am. The spirits are out. You're drunk and sunburned at the Parthenon.
10. D/A/D, The Construct (Hausu Mountain CS): From out of left field. Could be the soundtrack to the imaginary movie, Mannequin 3: Lunar Department Store. We have been wearing this tape out.
11. Bill Orcutt, How the Thing Sings (Editions Mego LP): Orcutt has been on fire over the past several years. Getting psyched for the new LP on Vin du Select Qualitite.
12. Circuit Rider, Culprit (Tabs Out CS): Warble, Warble. Pop.
13. End of the World Championship, In Slow Motion (Umor Rex CS): Drone sounds so much better after having my speakers repaired.
14. Good Stuff House, Good Stuff House (Indian Queen Records LP): Scott Tuma and the dudes from Zelienople.
15. John Sandia, By Candlelight (Revolving Door CS): Blues drone.
16. Strange Mountain, Levitation Mist (Illuminated Paths CS): Damn, this is good.
17. Tony Conrad, Four Violins (Table of Elements LP): Blows my mind that this guy still lives in Buffalo. Saw him in Baltimore when I first moved to DC. A captivating performance.
18. John Fahey, Requia (Terra LP): Love the montage/special effects on the B-Side jammer.
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