Tendencies

The original is timeless, but this is Pye Corner Audio Uptown remix is pretty fantastic too:



A full on effort this year to be up-to-date and somewhat relevant -- at least in some musical spheres -- while still catching up on "older" stuff. Putting a lot of energy and effort into providing a streamlined experience for upcoming playlists/ mixes. All love.

January 2023:

Nighttime - Keeper Is The Heart (Ba Da Bing! 177)
Strategy - Graffiti In Space (Constellation Tatsu)
Glyders - Maria's Hunt (Country Thyme 102)
Wolf Eyes - Difficult Messages (Disciples 14/ Lower Floor 009)
R. Ring - War Poems, We Rested (Don Giovanni)
Meg Baird - Furling (Drag City 782)
Tujiko Noriko - Crepuscule I & II (Editions Mego 307)
Groupshow - Greatest Hits (Faitiche 29)
Romeo Poirier - Eli Keszler Remix +1 (Faitiche)
Bianca Scout - The Heart Of The Anchoress (First Terrace 09)
Kali Malone ft. Stephen O'Malley & Lucy Railton - Does Spring Hide Its Joy (Ideologic Organ 50)
Rian Treanor & Ocen James - Saccades (Nyege Nyege Tapes 41)
Simon Scott - Long Drove (Room40)
Dancefloor Classics - Dancefloor Classics Vol. 1 (Rajaton)
Vladislav Delay - Hide Behind The Silence EP 1 (Rajaton)
Billow Observatory - Calque EP (self-released)
Thomas Brinkmann - Fair Game (self-released)
Peel Dream Magazine - Magic Is Pocketed (Slumberland)
Deathprod - Compositions (Smalltown Supersound 415)
The Tubs - Dead Meat (Trouble In Mind 173)
Mozart Estate - Pop-Up! Ker-ching! and The Possibilities Of Modern Shopping (West Midlands 6)

Older items:

Simon Scott – “Under Crumbling Skies” (Live 2022) October 2022
Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt - Made Out Of Sound (Palilalia 63) march 2021
Lids – Furniture b/w Half Twin (Sub Pop 1427, Singles Club Vol. 6) june 2021
Jeff Tweedy – C’mon America b/w UR-60 Unsent (Sub Pop 1429, Singles Club Vol. 6) October 2021
Celer – Sunspots (Oscarson 38) November 2021
Duane Pitre – Omniscient Voices (Important 501) November 2021
Body/ Dilloway/ Head – Body/Dilloway/Head (Three Lobed 135) November 2021
Richard Skelton – Talus (Aeolian Editions Moraine Sequence 02) may 2021
Richard Skelton – A Guidonian Hand (Corbel Stone Press 09) November 2021
Chime School – Chime School (Slumberland 260) November 2021
One Eleven Heavy – Open Up The Watergate (Let The Sunshine In) (self-released) march 2021
Hayden Pedigo – Letting Go (Mexican Summer 319) September 2021
Alex Somers, Aska Matsumiya – Light Past Blue (Krunk) December 2021
Playback Head – First Sounds (Hotham Sound 24) December 2021
Asa Tone – Live At New Forms (Leaving) November 2021
Helm – Axis (Dais 177) December 2021
Oval – Ovidono (Uovooo 04) December 2021
SiP/ Prezzano - SiP/Prezzano (Moon Glyph 117) october 2021
The Reds, Pinks & Purples – Uncommon Weather & Everything You Ever Loved (Slumberland 257/ Tough Love136) April 2021
Sons Of Kemet – Black To The Future (Impulse!) may 2021
Andy Bell – Another View (Sonic Cathedral 125, Ever Decreasing Circles Series pt. 4) june 2021
Matthew Dear – Preacher’s Sigh & Potion: Lost Album (Ghostly International 382) june 2021
Perila – How Much Time It Is Between You And Me? (Smalltown Supersound 383) june 2021
Skee Mask – Pool (Ilian Tape 09) may 2021
Seefeel – Succor (Redux) (Warp 28R) may 2021
Lucid Express – Lucid Express (Kanine 267) October 2021
Tirzah – Colourgrade (Domino 476) October 2021
L’Rain – Fatigue (Mexican Summer 309) june 2021
Space Afrika – Honest Labour (Dais 181) august 2021
Richard Skelton – Four Workings (Aeolian Editions) june 2021
Nala Sinephro – Space 1.8 (Warp 324) September 2021
Maarja Nuut – Hinged (self-released) October 2021
Kassel Jaeger – Fragments IV: Collected Waves From Surrogate Memories (self-released) November 2021
HTRK – Rhinestones (N&J Blueberries 001) December 2021
Honey Radar – Play-Box Relay (self-released) December 2021
Michel Banabila – Echo Transformations (Knekelhuis 42) December 2021
Mogwai – As The Love Continues (Rock Action) February 2021
Cassandra Jenkins – An Overview On Phenomenal Nature (Ba Da Bing!) February 2021
Teenage Fanclub – Endless Arcade (Merge) April 2021
Sun Araw Band Ensemble – Live At Zebulon (self-released) February 2021
Lost Girls – Menneskekollektive (Smalltown Supersound 384) march 2021
Bobby Lee – Origin Myths (Tompkins Square 5821) march 2021
Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (Rock Action 137) march 2021
Floatie – Voyage Out (Exploding In Sound 109) march 2021
Andrew Weathers & Hayden Pedigo – Big Tex, Here We Come (Debacle 113) march 2021
Eight Point Star – Eight Point Star (VHF 154) July 2021
Rose City Band – Earth Trip (Thrill Jockey 540) june 2021
Blue Ocean – Blue Ocean (Dandy Boy 15) april 2021
Golden Retriever – Sense Of Place (Longform Editions 78) june 2021
William Tyler & Luke Schneider – Understand (Leaving 199) July 2021
Dialect – Under ~ Between (Rvng Intl. 67) march 2021
Nikolaienko – Rings (Faitiche 23) April 2021
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra – Promises (Luaka Bop) march 2021
Andrew Chalk – Paradise Lost (Faraway Press 36) April 2021
Index (Simon Scott) – Kainos (iDEAL 197) march 2020
Si-{cut}.db – Offices At Night: Volume 2 (Versions) 2005

Brand New, You're Retro

Stuff I listened to or maybe not (yet):

Sam Prekop – The Sparrow (TAL 27) September 2022
Olli Aarni - Koko Maailma (Students Of Decay 131) December 2022
VA - Southeast of Saturn, Vol. 2 (Third Man 750) December 2022
Galán / Vogt - All The Time In the World (Akira Rabelais Remixes) (self-released) november 2022
VA - A Tribute To Ryuichi Sakamoto - To The Moon And Back (Milan) november 2022
Alva Noto feat. Martin L. Gore & William Basinski – Subterraneans (Noton 57) December 2022
VA - Pop Ambient 2023 (Kompakt 173) november 2022
Michael Grigoni & Bill Seaman - The Long Sky (Longform Editions 116) November 2022
Andy Bell - Untitled Film Stills (self-released) November 2022
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - Reset [Expanded Edition] (Domino) November 2022
Pole - Tempus (Mute 476) November 2022
Andrew Chalk – The End Times (ICR 96) October 2022
Pye Corner Audio - Let's Remerge! (self-released) november 2022
Arovane & Taylor Deupree – Skal_Ghost (12k 98) November 2022
Sawako – Stella Epoca (12k 97) November 2022
Taylor Deupree & Marcus Fischer – Februarys (Dauw 48) September 2022
Jeff Parker, Eric Revis, Nasheet Waits - Eastside Romp (Rogueart 113) September 2022
Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork (4AD 0504) October 2022
Peel Dream Magazine – Up & Up 12” (Tough Love 125) November 2019
M. Sage with the Spinnaker Ensemble - The Wind Of Things (Geographic North 65) April 2021
Ben Bondy - Glans Intercum (OUEST 90) July 2021
Bill Callahan - YTI⅃AƎЯ (Drag City 859) October 2022
Peel Dream Magazine - Pad (Slumberland) October 2022
Preoccupations - Arrangements (Factor 001) September 2022
Jeff Parker – Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy (Eremite) October 2022
James Devane – Beauty Is Useless (Umeboshi 1) September 2022
Angelo Harmsworth - Singe (Students Of Decay 129) September 2022
Oren Ambarchi - Shebang (Drag City 853) august 2022
Bitchin Bajas – Bajascillators (Drag City 781) september 2022
Christina Vantzou, Michael Harrison and John Also Bennett – s/t (Séance Centre 33) September 2022
Chris Forsyth - Evolution Here We Come (No Quarter 82) august 2022
Jake Muir & Evan Caminiti – Talisman (Dust Editions 8) august 2022
Monster Rally - Botanica Dream (self-released, bandcamp) July 2022
Sun's Signature - Sun's Signature (Partisan) june 2022
Stereolab - Pulse Of The Early Brain [Switched On Volume 5] (Duophonic 43) september 2022
KILN – “Bvlb [Campfire]” (self-released) January 2022
Taylor Deupree – “Belong” (For Ukraine (Volume 3)) (Headphone Commute) September 2022
Simon Scott – “Ember” (For Ukraine (Volume 2)) (Headphone Commute) april 2022
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom – Reset (Domino 513) august 2022
Vanessa Rossetto - The Actress (Erstwhile Solo 008-2) august 2022
Sam Prekop & John McEntire - Sons Of (Thrill Jockey 578) july 2022
Felicia Atkinson – Image Language (Shelter Press 140) june 2022
Working Men’s Club – Fear Fear (Heavenly 203) July 2022
Julia Reidy – World In World (Black Truffle 88) may 2022
Minamo - Wakka (bandcamp self-released) July 2021 (orig. 1999/ 2001)
Minamo & Asuna - Tail of Diffraction (12k 95) june 2022
Taylor Deupree - Small Winters (Puremagnetik 13) june 2022
Giuseppe Ielasi - The Prospect (12k 1096) june 2022
Sam Prekop - Saturday Sunday (Longform Editions 101) june 2022
Taylor Deupree & Marcus Fischer - Proem (Dauw 45) December 2021
Ekin Fil – Being Held (Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Rework) (Vaagner/ A Sunken Mall) may 2022
Taylor Deupree – Harbor (Laapse 20) may 2022

The Lonely Word

Playing catch-up:

Between - Prelude (00.00) (Longform Editions 99) April 2022
Kurt Vile – (watch my moves) (Verve) April 2022
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin – Ghosted (Drag City 838) April 2022
Flower-Corsano Duo – The Halcyon (VHF 155) february 2022
Matt LaJoie - Trine (Longform Editions 98) April 2022
Wet Tuna - Warping All By Yourself (Three Lobed Recordings 139) April 2022
Destroyer - Labyrinthitis (Merge 789) march 2022
Melchior Productions Ltd. - Vulnerabilities (Perlon 130) February 2022
Billow Observatory - Stareside (Felte 67) april 2022
Aldous Harding - Warm Chris (4AD 0391) march 2022
The Boo Radleys - A Full Syringe And Memories Of You EP (BooSTR 001) November 2021
Andy Bell - World Of Echo (Sonic Cathedral 202) march 2022
Pavement - Terror Twilight; Farewell Horizontal (Matador 1799) April 2022
Crys Cole - A Piece Of Work (Second Editions 10) march 2022
Beispiel - Muster (Faitiche 26) march 2022
Tomasz Bednarczyk – Windy Weather Always Makes Me Think Of You (12k 93) January 2022
Pjusk - Salt og Vind (12k 1094) january 2022
Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful (Fat Possum 1716) April 2022
Andy Bell - Flicker (Sonic Cathedral 200) February 2022
Raum - Daughter (Yellow Electric 21) February 2022
Pan•American - The Patience Fader (Kranky) february 2022
Eyes Of The Amaryllis – Sift (Horn Of Plenty Beach House - Modern Love Stories - Once Twice Melody Chapter 4 (Bella Union)
Sonic Youth – In/ Out/ In (Three Lobed Recordings 134) march 2022
Portable - My Sentient Shadow (Circus Company 120) march 2022
Loop - Sonancy (Reactor 06) march 2022
Olli Aarni - Loput (LAAPS 17) January 2022
Boris – W (Sacred Bones 287) January 2022
Biosphere - Shortwave Memories (Biophon 36) January 2022
Akira Rabelais - À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu (Argeïphontes) October 2021
Akira Rabelais - 図書館 (bandcamp, self-released) October 2021
Beach House - Once Twice Melody Chapter 3 (Sub Pop) January 2022
Marja Ahti – Still Lives (Students Of Decay 127) October 2021
William Ryan Fritch - Built Upon a Fearful Void (Lost Tribe Sound 60) November 2021
The Pop Group – Y In Dub (Mute) October 2021
Saint Etienne – I’ve Been Trying To Tell You (Heavenly 196) September 2021
Saint Etienne – Xmas 21 (Heavenly 626) December 2021
Beach House - Once Twice Melody Chapter 2 (Bella Union) December 2021
Bill Callahan & Bonnie Prince Billy – Blind Date Party (Drag City 803) December 2021
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – Greenvale, NY 1975 (December 2021)
VA – Pop Ambient 2022 (Kompakt CD 169) November 2021
Julia Reidy – Gardening (Longform Editions 092) December 2021
Oren Ambarchi – Live Hubris (Black Truffle 83) December 2021
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle (Impulse!) October 2021
Jeff Parker – Forfolks (International Anthem 52) December 2021
Felicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Un Hiver En Plein Été (Shelter Press 129) December 2021
Eli Keszler – The Scary of Sixty-First OST (Deeper Into Movies) december 2021
William Basinski – Music For Abandoned Airports: Tegel (bandcamp, self-released) August 2021
GAS - Der Lange Marsch (Kompakt CD166) December 2021
Shuttle358 – Chessa (Keplar 06) September 2021
Seaworthy & Matt Rösner - Snowmelt (12k 2052) November 2021

More Than I Had In Mind

Gibbs' Picks Vol. 1 (2020 redux):



A cherry-picked selection from RxGibbs' 2020 Spotify Best Of list -- a mix of new nostalgia and wheelhouse ambient as well as unexpectedly queer new pleasures. Still fresh. looking forward...



Only the good stuff:

Growing - HUMMING AMPS VOL. 4 Melodies In Dilapidated States (self released bandcamp) august 2021
Growing + Mary Lattimore - GAINER (self released bandcamp) November 2021
VA - Touch Displacing Series (Touch V33.50) november 2021
Shuttle358 – Frame (20th Anniversary Vinyl Edition) (12k 2051) june 2021
Moss – Moss (Recur) (12k 2049) march 2021
Arovane – Reihen (12k 2053) November 2021
Delmer Darion – “Genoa (Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Remix)” november 2021
Lightning Bug – “A Color of the Sky (Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Remix)” September 2021
Eli Keszler – Icons+ (LuckyMe 82) November 2021
Sarah Davachi & Sean McCann – Mother Of Pearl (Recital 92) November 2021
Beach House - Once Twice Melody Chapter 1 (Bella Union) November 2021
Ben Chasny - The Intimate Landscape (Drag City 810) november 2021
Twenty One Pilots - Scaled and Icy (Fueled By Ramen 2-659072) may 2021
Pelt – Reticence/ Resistance (Three Lobed Recordings 137) October 2021
Bitchin Bajas – Switched On Ra (Drag City 851) October 2021
Andrew Pekler & Giuseppe Ielasi - Palimpsests (Shelter Press 135) October 2021
VA – I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to The Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve) September 2021
VA - The Velvet Underground: A Documentary Film By Todd Haynes (Polydor) October 2021
Jan Jelinek - The Raw and the Cooked (Faitiche 24) September 2021
Byron Westbrook - Mirror Views (Ash International 13.8) September 2021
Black Dice - Mod Prog Sic (Four Four 441) October 2021
Primal Scream – Demodelica (Columbia EU) October 2021
Kiln – Tungsten (Ghostly International) october 2021
David Grubbs & Ryley Walker - A Tap On the Shoulder (Husky Pants) September 2021
Steve Gunn – Other You (matador) august 2021
Grouper - Shade (Kranky) august 2021
Ben Vida – Rhythm Fields (Dasa Tapes 04) august 2021
Ora Clementi – Sylva Sylvarum (Black Truffle 77) July 2021
VA - The Harmonic Series Volume 2 (Important Records 500DI) august 2021
Alice Coltrane - Kirtan; Turiya Sings (Impluse 1982) july 2021
Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime (Matador 1614) may 2021
Low - Hey What (Sub Pop) September 2021
Spiritualized – Pure Phase (Dedicated, 1995/ Fat Possum July 2021)
Six Organs of Admittance - The Veiled Sea (Three Lobed 132) june 2021
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Ilyas Ahmed – You Can See Your Own Way Out (Devotion 02) may 2021
Growing – Diptych (Silver Current 44) may 2021
Spiritualized – Lazer Guided Melodies (Fat Possum 1751) april 2021
Sonic Boom – Almost Nothing Is Nearly Enough (Carpark 151) April 2021
Iceage – Seek Shelter (Mexican Summer 290) may 2021
Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Superwolves (Drag City 1121/ Palace 71) April 2021

Psychic angels spread on the top of her head

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)

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)

"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).