It doesn't get much better than this:
I'm planning on posting a two-part 2020 Q4 mix super-soon, as well as an overall, parsed-down 2020 mix from an old friend's Spotify year-end playlist... please stay tuned!
Leftovers, bandcamps:
April 2021:
Moss – Moss (Recur) (12k 2049) April 2021
Nikolaienko – Rings (Faitiche 23) April 2021
M. Sage w/ The Spinnaker Ensemble – The Wind of Things (Geographic North 65) April 2021
Alan Licht – A Symphony Strikes the Moment You Arrive
March 2021:
Koen Holtkamp – Atmosfera (Love All Day 22) march 2021
Andrew Weathers/ Hayden Pedigo – Big Tex, Here We Come (Debacle) march 2021
Dialect – Under~Between (Rvng Intl 67) march 2021
Floating Points/ Pharoah Sanders/ The London Symphony Orchestra – Promises (Luaka Bop 97) march 2021
Chris Corsano/ Bill Orcutt – Made Out of Sound (Palilalia 63) march 2021
Lost Girls – Menneskekollektivet (Smalltown Supersound 384) march 2021
Bobby Lee – Origin Myths (self-released / Thompkins Square) march 2021
Willie Dunn – Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: the Willie Dunn Anthology (Light in the Attic 164) March 2021
February 2021:
Byron Westbrook – Distortion Hue (Hands In The Dark 055) February 2021
Black Country, New Road – For The First Time (Ninja Tune 269) February 2021
Thurston Moore – Screen Time (bandcamp, self-released) February 2021
MV/ EE – Alpha Lyrae (Child Of Microtones 41) February 2021
Pauline Anna Strom – Angel Tears In Sunlight (Rvng Intl 69) February 2021
January 2021:
Matt LaJoie – Paraclete Tongue (Flower Room 60) January 2021
Free Dust (M. Sage) – Woo’d Early (mastered by Stephan Mathieu) (Past Inside The Present v13) January 2021
Jon Mueller – Family Secret (American Dreams 14) January 2021
Sleaford Mods – Spare Ribs (Rough Trade 197) January 2021
Speed Stick (Ash Bowie) – Volume One (Don Giovanni Records 213) January 2021
Beachwood Sparks – Beachwood Deluxe (Curation 005) January 2021
Jim O’Rourke – Steamrooms (53)
Andrew Chalk/ Timo van Lujik – Skagafjördur (Faraway Press 35) January 2021
Bitchin Bajas – Live Ateliers Claus (Les Albums Claus) January 2021
2020:
Matthew ‘Doc’ Dunn – Rain, Rain, Rain (Cosmic Range 20) October 2020
Adrianne Lenker – Songs (4AD 0302) October 2020
MV/EE – Cap Trips (Child Of Microtones 58) November 2020
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Love Is A Stream (2020 ed.) (remastered by Stephan Mathieu) (bandcamp, self-released) October 2020
Week 15, 2021:
Crys Cole – Other Meetings (Boomkat Editions Documenting Sound 39) April 2021
Thomas Fehlmann - Böser Herbst (Kompakt 167CD) April 2021
Bill MacKay/ Nathan Bowles – Keys (Drag City 784) April 2021
Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg (4AD 0254) April 2021
Taylor Deupree – Mur (Dauw 017) April 2021
Matt Rösner - No Lasting Form (Room40 96) April 2021
TM404 – Endor Trico (Kontra-Musik white label 11) November 2018
PDP III – Pilled Up on A Couple Of Doves (Shelter Press 125) April 2021
New Bums – Last Time I Saw Grace (Drag City 809) march 2021
Vladislav Delay – Rakka II (Cosmo Rhythmatic 14) April 2021
Week 12, 2021:
Taylor Deupree - Chorus (Dusk_Dawn) (12k 3028) march 2021
Tuluum Shimmering - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (December 2020)
Crys Cole/ Oren Ambarchi – Gallivant (The Black Dot 003) february 2021
Simon Scott – Apart (12k 2048) December 2020
Mark Fell/ Rian Treanor - Last Exit To Chickenley (Boomkat Editions 37) march 2021
Perila – Everything Is Already There (Boomkat Editions 26v) march 2021
Anne Guthrie – Gyropedie (Students of Decay 125) march 2021
Mark Fell/ Will Guthrie – Infoldings Diffractions (Nakid 102) December 2020
Ryley Walker - Course In Fable (Husky Pants) April 2021
Chuck Johnson – The Cinder Grove (Vin Du Select Qualitite 27) February 2021
Mark Templeton – Western Sunset (Superpang 53) march 2021
Four Tet – Parallel (Text 16) December 2020
Ryley Walker – Covers (July 2020)
Week 8, 2021:
Mapstation – My Frequencies, When We (Bureau B) february 2021
Stereolab – Electrically Possessed [Switched On Vol. 4] (Duophonic Ultra High Frequency Disks 42) February 2021
Sam Prekop - Spelling (Longform Editions 69) February 2021
TM404 – Syra (Kontra Musik 58) January 2021
Week 4, 2021:
Loren Connors/ Oren Ambarchi - Leone (Family Vineyard 110) January 2021
Week 52, 2020:
Cleared – They Key (Touch 116) october 2020
Barry Walker Jr. – Shoulda Zenith (Holy Mountain 2000) november 2020
Simon Scott – Apart (12k 2048) December 2020
Maarja Nuut/ Sun Araw – Fantasias For Violin And Guitar (MIDA 01) ocotober 2020
Matt Lajoie – Light Emerging (Trouble In Mind Explorers Series v2) august 2020
Working Men’s Club – Working Men’s Club (Heavenly 179) October 2020
Ilyas Ahmed/ Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Torch Songs EP (shining skull studio bandcamp) December 2020
VA – New Neighborhoods (Freedom To Spend 15) October 2020
Hideki Umezawa Andrew Pekler – Two Views of Amami Oshima (Edicoes Cn 30) December 2020
Peel Dream Magazine – Modern Meta Physic (Slumberland 234) october 2018
Peel Dream Magazine - Agitprop Alterna / Moral Panics EP (Slumberland 251/256) April / december 2020
VA - Pop Ambient 2021 (Kompakt 161CD) November 2020
Andrew Chalk – Incidental Music (Faraway Press) October 2020
Monogoto – Partial Deletion of Everything (Vol 1) (12k 3027) November 2020
Kiln – Astral Welder (Ghostly International 373) November 2020
Tuluum Shimmering – Brown Rice (self-released) December 2020
Week 48:
Emily A. Sprague – Hill, Flower, Fog (Plancha 142) November 2020
VA – Southeast of Saturn (Third Man 629) November 2020
Week 45:
Autechre – Plus JAP (Warp 338) October 2020
Pole – Fading (Mute 457) November 2020
Stephan Mathieu/ Ekkehard Ehlers – Heroin (Keplar Rev03) October 2020
Growing - Tired Tubes Sigh Like Old Men - Humming Amps and Broken Strings Sing Vol. 1 (bandcamp, July 2020)
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Saturday, October 24, 2020
Soldier of Love
A mix of 32 regularly rotating porch/ car jams that span 1998-2019. Dial in...
check:
Julie Byrne & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Love’s Refrain (Mexican Summer Looking Glass 27) october 2020
Stephan Mathieu & Ekkehard Ehlers – Heroin (Brombron 2001, Schwebung) October 2020
Stephan Mathieu - Wurmloch Variationen (Ritornell 2000, Weeding) october 2020
Steve Kilbey – Eleven Women (Foghorn 501) September 2020
Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Samples – Anthology of American Pop Music (faitiche 22) October 2020
Taylor Deupree – Canoe (Longform Editions 62) October 2020
Giuseppe Ielasi – MMXX-10: Untitled, 2020 (Matiere Memoire 10) august 2020
William Basinski – Lamentations (Temporary Residence) October 2020
Yo La Tengo – Sleepless Night (Matador 1509) October 2020
The Wolfgang Press – Unremembered Remembered (4AD 0206) October 2020
Gunn-Truscinski Duo – Soundkeeper (Three Lobed 131) October 2020
Kassel Jaeger - Meith (Black Truffle 69) October 2020
Autechre – Sign (Warp 329) October 2020
Kurt Vile – Speed, Sound, Lonely KV EP (Matador) October 2020
VA – A Little Night Music: Aural Apparitions from the Geographic North (Geographic North) October 2020
Thurston Moore – By The Fire (The Daydream Library Series 10) September 2020
Richard Skelton – These Charms May Be Sung Over A Wound (Phantom Limb) September 2020
Julia Reidy – Vanish (eMego 288) august 2020
Christopher Bissonnette – Wayfinding (12k 2047) September 2020
Sam Prekop – Comma (Thrill Jockey 524) September 2020
Eric Copeland – Dumb It Down (Post Present Medium 65) September 2020
Tuluum Shimmering - Flowers Of Daybreak (self-released, bandcamp) July 2020
Tuluum Shimmering – Happiness Is Drumming Fire On The Mountain Jam (self released, bandcamp) june 2020
Mark Templeton – Ocean Front Property (Senufo Editions 09) july 2020
Bellows – Undercurrent (Black Truffle 67) august 2020
Bill Callahan – Gold Record (Drag City 760) September 2020
Eric Copeland – Dumb It Down (Post Present Medium) September 2020
Minamo – Superscience (901 editions) July 2020
VA – TOTAL 20 (Kompakt) august 2020
Pausal – Melatonia (Past Inside the Present 32) august 2020
This Valley Of Old Mountains – This Valley Of Old Mountains (12k 91) July 2020
Giuseppe Ielasi – Five Wooden Frames (12k 92) July 2020
Gregg Kowalsky – Sunstruck In the Shadows (Mexican Summer Looking Glass 24) July 2020
VA – F Is For Flakes (Thrill Jockey BA 001) may 2020
VA - En el fin del mundo, hasta el fin del mundo (EMA, Chile) august 2020
VA – Touch: Isolation (Touch V33.40) june 2020
Boomkat Documenting Sound series
Sonic Boom – All Things Being Equal JAP (two bonus tracks)
Pausal – Melatonia (vinyl only bonus track)
Yo La Tengo - We Have Amnesia Sometimes (bandcamp) july 2020
Ricardo Villalobos + Oren Ambarchi - Hubris Variation Parts 2 & 3 (bandcamp) July 2020
Kevin Drumm - Double The Room (Boomkat Editions Documenting Sound 08) July 2020
Ryuichi Sakamoto + Taylor Deupree - Live In London (June 5, 2020/ October 2015)
Tuluum Shimmering - Black Satin (April 2020)
Simon Scott – Migrations (Touch Tone 70) june 2020
Tom Carter - A Self Regarded Behind Eyelids (may 2020)
Sonic Boom – All Things Being Equal (Carpark 142) june 2020
Tom James Scott – Mine Is The Heron (Students Of Decay 124) june 2020
Jim O'Rourke - Shutting Down Here (Portraits GRM 001) june 2020
Kyle Bobby Dunn – Selected Ambient Expansion Pack (may 2020)
Rafael Anton Irisarri – Peripeteia (Dais 150) may 2020
Sarah Davachi – Gathers (Boomkat Editions Documenting Sound 01) may 2020
Sarah Davachi – Five Cadences (may 2020)
Sarah Davachi – Horae (march 2020)
Monday, June 1, 2020
"The creator has a master plan, Peace and happiness for every man"
-- Farrell Sanders/ Amos Leon Thomas Jr.
Note to self and everybody else: What to say?
Peace Energy. Mindfulness. Thoughtfulness.
like when our fathers passed--
energy transfer...
Mescaline. LSD. Simplicity.
Sonic Boom. Spiritualized.
Rock 'n' roll. The Blues.
Listen.
Authenticity. Positivity.
Love and Light.
Time is Now. There is no past. There is no future. There is no “they.” Only you. And me. And all of us. Other “yous.” Almost eight billion of us, our brothers and sisters, all borne from the same stuff, all spinning on this same damn *one and only* beautiful blue boat together. Kindness. Vulnerability.
All together now. Just listen.
All uphill from here. A view from space and we’re all just ants, and some greater force is pulling up the roots, destroying our homes, our livelihoods we've worked our whole lives for.
Telling us *something.*
Change is Now. Slow down. Engage. Life is not one hurried news-clip interaction after another. Life is not one too-short appointment after another. Life is not worrying about putting someone else out. Their time is not more important than your time.
Soak it in –-
the sun, the heat, the cold, the breeze, the smells, the colors, the sounds,
the time in someone else’s presence, whether you like that person or not. Soak it up. Learn from it. Teach them something. Walk in their shoes. Have them walk in your shoes. Laugh about it. Laugh at yourself. Laugh with someone else. Life. Laughter. Joy. Humility. Understanding.
A Jewish "proph"et once told me he couldn't wait for us humans to all cross-breed. Til we're all shades of white, yellow, red, brown, black and every shade inbetween.
What color am I, really? What shade are you?
I don't care, do you?
When we can finally get over *this thing* and move on to a more advanced, collective humanity. The *next concerning thing.* "Hey climate change, can you give us just one more century?"
Time is Short. Get over yourself.
Think of all the things we know now that we didn't know just fifty years ago. Think of all the things we still can't explain. Think of all the great ideas still to come.
Remember Pascal's Wager? *just Believe*
Honesty. Love. Understanding. Everything else is distraction. No more room for ignorance or hate. Hate implodes. Compassion grows.
It's not too late.
Live in this moment. Then the next one. Breathe.
I was wrong about 9/11.
You said it would take two years to get out of the Coronavirus? Now it's 20.
The new Zero Zero. Begin, again.
check:
Tuluum Shimmering Sister Ray Meets China Cat Sunflower Uptown (may 2020)
Tuluum Shimmering Air > May The Long Time Sun Shine Upon You (august 2018)
Tuluum Shimmering Linus And Lucy (October 2017)
Tuluum Shimmering New Ghosts, The Creator Has A Master Plan, A Love Supreme (september 2015)
Tuluum Shimmering Dark Star (Tranquility Tapes) September 2014
Minamo & Moskitoo Superstition (12k 2045) may 2020
Federico Durand Alba (12k 2046) may 2020
Kassel Jaeger Jim O’Rourke In Cobalt Aura Sleeps (editions Mego 272) may 2020
Golden Retriever and Chuck Johnson Rain Shadow (Thrill Jockey 512) may 2020
France Jobin Death Is Perfection, Everything Else Is Relative (editions Mego 276) may 2020
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Door With No Sign (Looking Glass 8) may 2020
Field Works Ultrasonic (Temporary Residence Ltd. 342) may 2020
Brett Naucke & Ryley Walker I Am Aware We Do Not Save One Another Very Often (bandcamp) may 2020
Kyle Bobby Dunn Selected Ambient Expansion Pack (bandcamp) may 2020
CV & JAB Landscape Architecture (Editions Basilic 02) may 2020
Tuluum Shimmering Eight Miles High (bandcamp) May 2020
Tuluum Shimmering Bird Song (bandcamp) April 2020
Tuluum Shimmering Black Satin (bandcamp) April 2020
Tuluum Shimmering A Horse With No Name (bandcamp) April 2020
Tuluum Shimmering Five From The Vault (bandcamp) march 2020
Rafael Toral AER 7 G : Instruments (bandcamp) April 2020
Animal Hospital Fatigue (Whited Sepulchre) April 2020
Shy Layers Compositions For Loud Music (Longform Editions 49) April 2020
Penelope Trappers Gnostic State (Longform Editions 50) april 2020
Inoyama Land Fuku-Ura (Longform Editions 51) April 2020
Ruven Nunez Within Dreams, Without Dreams (Longform Editions 52) April 2020
VA Isolation (Touch) April 2020
William Basinski + Richard Chartier Something From the Pink House (bandcamp) April 2020
Also, just finished Tea Obreht's Inland (2019) -- highest recommendation! (I'm not even a fan of historical fiction. I don't think anyway).
Note to self and everybody else: What to say?
Peace Energy. Mindfulness. Thoughtfulness.
like when our fathers passed--
energy transfer...
Mescaline. LSD. Simplicity.
Sonic Boom. Spiritualized.
Rock 'n' roll. The Blues.
Listen.
Authenticity. Positivity.
Love and Light.
Time is Now. There is no past. There is no future. There is no “they.” Only you. And me. And all of us. Other “yous.” Almost eight billion of us, our brothers and sisters, all borne from the same stuff, all spinning on this same damn *one and only* beautiful blue boat together. Kindness. Vulnerability.
All together now. Just listen.
All uphill from here. A view from space and we’re all just ants, and some greater force is pulling up the roots, destroying our homes, our livelihoods we've worked our whole lives for.
Telling us *something.*
Change is Now. Slow down. Engage. Life is not one hurried news-clip interaction after another. Life is not one too-short appointment after another. Life is not worrying about putting someone else out. Their time is not more important than your time.
Soak it in –-
the sun, the heat, the cold, the breeze, the smells, the colors, the sounds,
the time in someone else’s presence, whether you like that person or not. Soak it up. Learn from it. Teach them something. Walk in their shoes. Have them walk in your shoes. Laugh about it. Laugh at yourself. Laugh with someone else. Life. Laughter. Joy. Humility. Understanding.
A Jewish "proph"et once told me he couldn't wait for us humans to all cross-breed. Til we're all shades of white, yellow, red, brown, black and every shade inbetween.
What color am I, really? What shade are you?
I don't care, do you?
When we can finally get over *this thing* and move on to a more advanced, collective humanity. The *next concerning thing.* "Hey climate change, can you give us just one more century?"
Time is Short. Get over yourself.
Think of all the things we know now that we didn't know just fifty years ago. Think of all the things we still can't explain. Think of all the great ideas still to come.
Remember Pascal's Wager? *just Believe*
Honesty. Love. Understanding. Everything else is distraction. No more room for ignorance or hate. Hate implodes. Compassion grows.
It's not too late.
Live in this moment. Then the next one. Breathe.
I was wrong about 9/11.
You said it would take two years to get out of the Coronavirus? Now it's 20.
The new Zero Zero. Begin, again.
check:
Tuluum Shimmering Sister Ray Meets China Cat Sunflower Uptown (may 2020)
Tuluum Shimmering Air > May The Long Time Sun Shine Upon You (august 2018)
Tuluum Shimmering Linus And Lucy (October 2017)
Tuluum Shimmering New Ghosts, The Creator Has A Master Plan, A Love Supreme (september 2015)
Tuluum Shimmering Dark Star (Tranquility Tapes) September 2014
Minamo & Moskitoo Superstition (12k 2045) may 2020
Federico Durand Alba (12k 2046) may 2020
Kassel Jaeger Jim O’Rourke In Cobalt Aura Sleeps (editions Mego 272) may 2020
Golden Retriever and Chuck Johnson Rain Shadow (Thrill Jockey 512) may 2020
France Jobin Death Is Perfection, Everything Else Is Relative (editions Mego 276) may 2020
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Door With No Sign (Looking Glass 8) may 2020
Field Works Ultrasonic (Temporary Residence Ltd. 342) may 2020
Brett Naucke & Ryley Walker I Am Aware We Do Not Save One Another Very Often (bandcamp) may 2020
Kyle Bobby Dunn Selected Ambient Expansion Pack (bandcamp) may 2020
CV & JAB Landscape Architecture (Editions Basilic 02) may 2020
Tuluum Shimmering Eight Miles High (bandcamp) May 2020
Tuluum Shimmering Bird Song (bandcamp) April 2020
Tuluum Shimmering Black Satin (bandcamp) April 2020
Tuluum Shimmering A Horse With No Name (bandcamp) April 2020
Tuluum Shimmering Five From The Vault (bandcamp) march 2020
Rafael Toral AER 7 G : Instruments (bandcamp) April 2020
Animal Hospital Fatigue (Whited Sepulchre) April 2020
Shy Layers Compositions For Loud Music (Longform Editions 49) April 2020
Penelope Trappers Gnostic State (Longform Editions 50) april 2020
Inoyama Land Fuku-Ura (Longform Editions 51) April 2020
Ruven Nunez Within Dreams, Without Dreams (Longform Editions 52) April 2020
VA Isolation (Touch) April 2020
William Basinski + Richard Chartier Something From the Pink House (bandcamp) April 2020
Also, just finished Tea Obreht's Inland (2019) -- highest recommendation! (I'm not even a fan of historical fiction. I don't think anyway).
Monday, May 4, 2020
"It's all up in the air, girl/ it's like a snare, girl/ in all its manifestations"
--Thurston Moore
Spent the majority of April listening to Sonic Youth. Particularly their post Dirty-era, which I largely abandoned at the time—between their side-projects, experimental self-released material and their more accessible Geffen albums—it was tough to keep up. Turns out, their career had a pretty great second half. The jams sound more mature, some in line with their longer-form “verse-chorus, verse-chorus, NOISE shred” pieces of the past while others embraced a new, more concise, albeit still somewhat “anti-pop song” style—both of which maintained the band’s patented anthemic apathy and aggression edge, and totally hit the sweet spot.
BRETT'S PICKS VOLUME ONE (1994-2009: post Dirty-era):
BRETT'S PICKS VOLUME TWO (1994-2009: post Dirty-era):
BRETT'S PICKS VOLUME THREE (1994-2009: post Dirty-era):
Added "to-do" playlist projects: Sun Araw, Tuluum Shimmering and Psychic Ills (and yet, another crucial loss, Tres Warren RIP):
check it out:
Marina Rosenfeld and Ben Vida Vertice (Fridman Gallery 01) april 2020
The Green Kingdom Residence On Earth (Past Inside The Present) April 2020
Home Diaries series (whitelabrecs)
Asuna + Tomoyoshi Date + Federicl Durand In The Open (Dauw) April 2020
Élodie Le Nid D'Ivoire (La Scie Dorée 2419) January 2020
Psychic Ills' "Never Learn Not To Love" b/w "Cease To Exist" (Sacred Bones 248) April 2020
Howling Hex, The Knuckleball Express (Fat Possum 1725) April 2020
Alva Noto's "A Forest" (Noton 48) April 2020
Sun Araw Rock Sutra (Sun Ark 60) April 2020
Felicia Atkinson Everything Evaporate (Shelter Press 121) April 2020
Cornershop England Is A Garden (Ample Play 129) march 2020
Corey Fuller Sanctuary (self-released) march 2020
Maggi Payne Arctic Winds (Innova 2010, reissued by Aguirre) March 2020
Derek Rogers Immersions (We Know Better) march 2020
Portable The Transit of Mercury (Khoikhoi 05) march 2020
Velvet Desert Music Vol. 2 curated by Jorg Burger (Kompakt 416) march 2020
Also finished reading Trust Exercise by Susan Choi and Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa—both pretty good, but if I had to recommend one, I suppose it’d be Yoko Ogawa’s Memory Police, if, for no other reason, than its ability to convey long-arc, many-layered and often frightening themes of loss in such a beautifully simplistic and calming language.
Spent the majority of April listening to Sonic Youth. Particularly their post Dirty-era, which I largely abandoned at the time—between their side-projects, experimental self-released material and their more accessible Geffen albums—it was tough to keep up. Turns out, their career had a pretty great second half. The jams sound more mature, some in line with their longer-form “verse-chorus, verse-chorus, NOISE shred” pieces of the past while others embraced a new, more concise, albeit still somewhat “anti-pop song” style—both of which maintained the band’s patented anthemic apathy and aggression edge, and totally hit the sweet spot.
BRETT'S PICKS VOLUME ONE (1994-2009: post Dirty-era):
BRETT'S PICKS VOLUME TWO (1994-2009: post Dirty-era):
BRETT'S PICKS VOLUME THREE (1994-2009: post Dirty-era):
Added "to-do" playlist projects: Sun Araw, Tuluum Shimmering and Psychic Ills (and yet, another crucial loss, Tres Warren RIP):
check it out:
Marina Rosenfeld and Ben Vida Vertice (Fridman Gallery 01) april 2020
The Green Kingdom Residence On Earth (Past Inside The Present) April 2020
Home Diaries series (whitelabrecs)
Asuna + Tomoyoshi Date + Federicl Durand In The Open (Dauw) April 2020
Élodie Le Nid D'Ivoire (La Scie Dorée 2419) January 2020
Psychic Ills' "Never Learn Not To Love" b/w "Cease To Exist" (Sacred Bones 248) April 2020
Howling Hex, The Knuckleball Express (Fat Possum 1725) April 2020
Alva Noto's "A Forest" (Noton 48) April 2020
Sun Araw Rock Sutra (Sun Ark 60) April 2020
Felicia Atkinson Everything Evaporate (Shelter Press 121) April 2020
Cornershop England Is A Garden (Ample Play 129) march 2020
Corey Fuller Sanctuary (self-released) march 2020
Maggi Payne Arctic Winds (Innova 2010, reissued by Aguirre) March 2020
Derek Rogers Immersions (We Know Better) march 2020
Portable The Transit of Mercury (Khoikhoi 05) march 2020
Velvet Desert Music Vol. 2 curated by Jorg Burger (Kompakt 416) march 2020
Also finished reading Trust Exercise by Susan Choi and Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa—both pretty good, but if I had to recommend one, I suppose it’d be Yoko Ogawa’s Memory Police, if, for no other reason, than its ability to convey long-arc, many-layered and often frightening themes of loss in such a beautifully simplistic and calming language.
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
"Once in a while you get shown the light/ in the strangest of places if you look at it right"
--Jerry Garcia/ Robert Hunter
More projects: the sea & cake, kiln, verve, zelienople…
finished reading Jenny Offill’s Weather (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020)
More projects: the sea & cake, kiln, verve, zelienople…
finished reading Jenny Offill’s Weather (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020)
Sunday, March 1, 2020
"all the blowing themselves up motherfuckers will realize the minute they die that they were suckers"
--Julian Cope.
Unfortunately we lost two good ones this month (title of this blog post in no way related).
First, the passing of Andrew Weatherall,
then David Roback?
Projects still unfolding:
Kompakt Pop Ambient 20 year redux, Autechre, 12k, Longform Editions, Stephan Mathieu, 24 hour playlist…
On the horizon: Zelienople, Sun Araw, Golden Retriever & Chuck Johnson…
Further investigation: somesurprises’ ‘somesurprises,’ Matthew Halsall’s ‘Oneness,’ Califone’s ‘Echo Mine,’ Close Lobsters’ ‘Post Neo Anti: Arte Povera in the Forest of Symbols.’
listening...
Six Organs Of Admittance - Companion Rises (Drag City 777) february 2020
Vladislav Delay - Rakka (Cosmo Rhythmatic 11) February 2020
crys cole – Beside Myself (Students Of Decay 123) february 2020
Chuck Johnson - Balsams (Vin Du Select Qualitite 21) July 2017
Botany - Fourteen 45 Tails (Longform Editions 47) February 2020
Nicola Ratti – Continental (Students Of Decay 121) July 2019
Britton Powell – If Anything Is (Catch Wave Ltd. 005) February 2020
Beatrice Dillon - Workaround (PAN 106) February 2020
Michael Grigoni & Stephen Vitiello – Slow Machines (12k 2044) February 2020
Unfortunately we lost two good ones this month (title of this blog post in no way related).
First, the passing of Andrew Weatherall,
then David Roback?
Projects still unfolding:
Kompakt Pop Ambient 20 year redux, Autechre, 12k, Longform Editions, Stephan Mathieu, 24 hour playlist…
On the horizon: Zelienople, Sun Araw, Golden Retriever & Chuck Johnson…
Further investigation: somesurprises’ ‘somesurprises,’ Matthew Halsall’s ‘Oneness,’ Califone’s ‘Echo Mine,’ Close Lobsters’ ‘Post Neo Anti: Arte Povera in the Forest of Symbols.’
listening...
Six Organs Of Admittance - Companion Rises (Drag City 777) february 2020
Vladislav Delay - Rakka (Cosmo Rhythmatic 11) February 2020
crys cole – Beside Myself (Students Of Decay 123) february 2020
Chuck Johnson - Balsams (Vin Du Select Qualitite 21) July 2017
Botany - Fourteen 45 Tails (Longform Editions 47) February 2020
Nicola Ratti – Continental (Students Of Decay 121) July 2019
Britton Powell – If Anything Is (Catch Wave Ltd. 005) February 2020
Beatrice Dillon - Workaround (PAN 106) February 2020
Michael Grigoni & Stephen Vitiello – Slow Machines (12k 2044) February 2020
Saturday, February 1, 2020
"I'm wrapped up in hope/ I'm wrapped up inside/ You give me the waves/ Oh you give me life and light"
Ahh, an old fave, the legendary Wolfgang Press... (the whole 4AD/ Ae/ Pop Ambient/ January thingy... ;)
Managed to read about a dozen books in 2019, among the favorites?
There, There Tommy Orange
Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead
My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh
Fleishman Is In Trouble Taffy Brodesser-Anker
Where'd You Go Bernadette? Maria Semple
Recursion Blake Crouch
Dopesick Beth Macy
Just Kids Patti Smith
As far as records go... I didn't listen to as much new stuff as usual, I've been trying to sift through the wreckage of a mid-2018 iTunes crash which has me parsing back through my entire collection to try and retrieve old faves and discard stuff that really shouldn't be taking up any more of my time. But these stuck out:
Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? Deerhunter
Soundings Simon Scott
From Here to Eternity Kyle Bobby Dunn
Sunrise, Looking East Danny Paul Grody
Tracing Back the Radiance Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
Constellation in Still Time Rafael Toral
Reducing the Tempo to Zero Ben Vida
Haalea Olli Aarni
Abate Fetel Alex Cobb
Agora Fennesz
Mount Carmel M. Grig
...Stereolab reissues... I left a lot of shit on the table, I hope to return as I try to stay committed to the process.
and, songs? well...
"Courtyard" Mercury Rev feat. Beth Orton
"On the Wall" Chromatics' Jesus & Mary Chain cover
"Suburban Junky Lady" Royal Trux
"New Atlantis" Efdemin
"Dragon Country" Bill MacKay
"No One Here is a Stranger" Bill MacKay & Katinka Kleijn
not enough... I know.
other faves in 2019: humility, sincerity, humor, love, empathy.
My January, 2020 (not much):
Simon Scott "Emergency Exit" (Touch)
Pale Saints The Comforts of Madness 30th Anniversary Re:Masters (4AD 0159 CDX)
Oval "Eksploio" (Thrill Jockey 515)
Oval Scis (Thrill Jockey 514)
Jeff Parker & The New Breed Suite For Max Brown (International Anthem 29)
and reading Maria Gainza's Optic Nerve (Catapult, 2019, orig. 2014)
Managed to read about a dozen books in 2019, among the favorites?
There, There Tommy Orange
Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead
My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh
Fleishman Is In Trouble Taffy Brodesser-Anker
Where'd You Go Bernadette? Maria Semple
Recursion Blake Crouch
Dopesick Beth Macy
Just Kids Patti Smith
As far as records go... I didn't listen to as much new stuff as usual, I've been trying to sift through the wreckage of a mid-2018 iTunes crash which has me parsing back through my entire collection to try and retrieve old faves and discard stuff that really shouldn't be taking up any more of my time. But these stuck out:
Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? Deerhunter
Soundings Simon Scott
From Here to Eternity Kyle Bobby Dunn
Sunrise, Looking East Danny Paul Grody
Tracing Back the Radiance Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
Constellation in Still Time Rafael Toral
Reducing the Tempo to Zero Ben Vida
Haalea Olli Aarni
Abate Fetel Alex Cobb
Agora Fennesz
Mount Carmel M. Grig
...Stereolab reissues... I left a lot of shit on the table, I hope to return as I try to stay committed to the process.
and, songs? well...
"Courtyard" Mercury Rev feat. Beth Orton
"On the Wall" Chromatics' Jesus & Mary Chain cover
"Suburban Junky Lady" Royal Trux
"New Atlantis" Efdemin
"Dragon Country" Bill MacKay
"No One Here is a Stranger" Bill MacKay & Katinka Kleijn
not enough... I know.
other faves in 2019: humility, sincerity, humor, love, empathy.
My January, 2020 (not much):
Simon Scott "Emergency Exit" (Touch)
Pale Saints The Comforts of Madness 30th Anniversary Re:Masters (4AD 0159 CDX)
Oval "Eksploio" (Thrill Jockey 515)
Oval Scis (Thrill Jockey 514)
Jeff Parker & The New Breed Suite For Max Brown (International Anthem 29)
and reading Maria Gainza's Optic Nerve (Catapult, 2019, orig. 2014)
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