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Old 09-06-2019, 02:58 AM   #1081 (permalink)
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*sigh* Guess I'll have to add a whole lot of stuff to my already overlong listening list. I hate you. Thanks.
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Old 09-07-2019, 06:56 PM   #1082 (permalink)
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*sigh* Guess I'll have to add a whole lot of stuff to my already overlong listening list. I hate you. Thanks.
Let me know if anything shines or especially stinks to you.

Preciate your interest.
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Old 09-13-2019, 09:23 AM   #1083 (permalink)
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Let me know if anything shines or especially stinks to you.

Preciate your interest.
Over half of your list is already known to me.
Tried to check the rest out but pretty hurriedly.
Can already say that I'm gonna love A New Kind of Water by Jessica Ackerley, 我們從明天來 / We Come From Tomorrow by Melting Bridge 融化橋, The Gratitude Principle by The Cosmic Range, Scattered Memories by Saba Alizadeh, konoha by obijuan x philanthrope, Slavic Spirits by EABS.

Music is so frustratingly awesome these days.
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Over half of your list is already known to me.
Tried to check the rest out but pretty hurriedly.
Can already say that I'm gonna love A New Kind of Water by Jessica Ackerley, 我們從明天來 / We Come From Tomorrow by Melting Bridge 融化橋, The Gratitude Principle by The Cosmic Range, Scattered Memories by Saba Alizadeh, konoha by obijuan x philanthrope, Slavic Spirits by EABS.

Music is so frustratingly awesome these days.
It really is. Purple Mountains is supposed to be on my list somewhere but it got lost in my head. It’s going to be somewhere near Raw Honey.
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Heart of the Congos


Wiki lists this as a roots record but I’ve always thought of it as dub. It’s among the greatest albums ever recorded any genre period. It’s deeply connected to island life and is thematically related to themes you find in the arts from Hawaii to Japan. A connection to the sea and an isolated stretch of land that reaches above it. It’s the sound of soil enriched with the nutrients of fish guts. It’s a protest against hunger and all the other indignities and sufferings. It’s the sound of perseverance and love and justice. It’s a beautiful empowering record.
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Stian Westerhus
Pitch Black Star Spangled


PBSS is a slow paced avant garde solo electric guitar record released in 2010 on Rune Grammofon. I can’t say for sure but I think the title is a nod to Hendrix and a comment on this soulless void we call America. Or perhaps it’s a nod to Starless and Bible Black or both or all three. It’s also the frozen sound of empty nothingness of outer space.

I know it’s a super cold winter for many of you now that we’ve broken the polar vortex. Today was around 45 here and an intense thunderstorm rolled in which is rare when it’s that cool. The point is, PBSS is cold weather music. The colder it gets the more important it becomes to listen to this record.
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Fandango! by ZZ Top

Side A is live. The first track is from memorial stadium in Austin where the Longhorns still play. The introduction with the 80,000 plus fans starting to roar and the MC saying, “Get ready for ZZ Top. Ladies and gentlemen, the fantastic ZZ Top!” is one of my favorite live album non-musical moments up there with Ted Nugent’s intro into Hibernation on Double Live Gonzo and Cheap Trick’s “This is the first song on our new album” and slightly under (ok maybe way under) The MC5’s “Brothers and sisters!!!” and Public Enemy’s “Everybody who loves the queen be quiet!”

The live tracks include covers by Elvis, Willie Dixon, and John Lee Hooker.

The first lyrics implore everyone to get high and then later this interlude takes place

He thinks he’s real bad
He thinks he’s badder than Shaft, Superfly, James Bond and Kung Fu
All put together tonight.
But I got news for him
They don’t call me the Texas homewrecker and Heartbreaker for nothing.

Got to mellow down (Repeat over and over)
If you wanna blow your top.

Well, I might not have no top to blow
Then you better blow what you got baby


I got this album shortly after it came out so I think I was around 8 years old maybe older, maybe 10 I’m not sure. But I had this routine where I did the same act and dance moves and recited the lyrics and changed spots for each line and I used to act that out like it was Georgia Championship Wrestling and I used to pretend it was my teachers fighting.

Side B has six studio tracks. All under five minutes and 4 of the tracks clocking in under three minutes. It’s white boy electric blues but very brilliantly they never overstay their welcome. It’s all meat and no filler. Personally I love every track but Heard It on the X and Tush are the classic fan favorites. The guitar riffs all through both sides of this album are a furious blast.

This album has been with me my entire life and I still love it.
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Nostalgia for a Past Future by Dean Granros




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First off, this guy is a damn fine jazz guitarist but on this recording he’s playing a Moog "Grandmother" semi modular analog synth. The title appears to me to be a homage to the futuristic electroacoustic music of the late fifties and 1960’s. Free jazz has clearly seen a resurgence, even shockingly rivaling the original masters. If such a thing is happening with electroacoustic music either it’s a part of something that has redefined itself artistically or I simply haven’t heard it. Granros is revisiting the unordered unpatterned unpredictable nature of the electroacoustic giants. Frankly, it’s a very tall order and this is a bold and successful attempt. Since these things are almost never appreciated this will probably just be out there for us very few who take an interest.

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Winners Don​`​t Do Vapor by Beta_Disc


This is a genre that’s really holding up well with me. You never really know what the artists are thinking especially with this stuff but I find the music here to be very sincere interpretations of the genres that are melted. Also, non-abrasive genuinely experimental avant-grade music is something we need more of even if it’s within an agreed upon consensus that’s up around a decade old. The props given to DJ Screw probably impress me the most. It’s such a strange way to reinterpret such comforting sounds and it’s incredibly effective. I still find this stuff fantastically surreal. This particular recording has a lot of abrupt stops and changes that remind me of the canyons of GBV.

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Anne Guthrie ‎– Codiaeum Variegatum




It would be out of character for me not to mention that she’s beautiful so there’s that. Usually I shun attaching narrative like meaning to instrumental works but here perhaps the album and song titles provide enough guidance.

Branching Low And Spreading 6:28
Strongly Leaning, With Irregular Crown 6:44
Unlike More Slender And Graceful 5:20
Long, Pendulous 6:30
Rough Above With Uneven Base 9:00
Persists Into Winter

Plantlife is a given obvs but it seems to reach out further. Plant sentience perhaps. The organism as an allegory for social structures. Or you know just songs about a plant. Probably one she waters herself.

This is great avant-garde experimental music. Field recordings, the beautiful and sorely under untilized French Horn. It’s great.

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