from freak fighter to lamp lighter

grindy · 09-13-2019, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

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.

OccultHawk · 09-13-2019, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by grindy

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.

OccultHawk · 10-24-2019, 11:10 AM

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.

OccultHawk · 12-12-2019, 09:38 PM

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.

OccultHawk · 12-15-2019, 10:24 PM

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.

OccultHawk · 03-19-2020, 02:41 PM

Nostalgia for a Past Future by Dean Granros

https://deangranrosartbunkerrecordin...-a-past-future

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.

4/5

OccultHawk · 03-19-2020, 04:04 PM

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.

4/5

OccultHawk · 03-20-2020, 09:42 PM

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.

5/5

OccultHawk · 04-11-2020, 09:46 AM

I’m going to share a travel story.

During a lot of my time in college I worked two part time jobs. I was a janitor in the morning and a dishwasher at night. One summer, the university was still open but I wasn’t taking any classes so I upped my restaurant hours. Toward the end of summer I had enough extra money to buy something or go somewhere so I decided to go to London.

I had a friend who went there and he told me about a youth hostel. I called information in England and got their number, called them, made a reservation and got directions from a specific stop on the tube. For some reason I thought it was funny that an automated voice with an English accent said, “The number you require is...”.

I can’t remember what airport I arrived at but the train ride to get to the underground was pretty long. I enjoyed looking out the window. Some old man tried to talk to me but I didn’t want to talk or seem rude either. I had this go-to gesture back then of putting a peace sign over my heart that was meant to be friendly - I didn’t know back then that a backhanded peace sign was the British bird. It didn’t get me in any trouble.

My underground line was a big loop. It was just one stop but after one stop I realized I was going the wrong way. Instead of switching off I decided to just ride through the entire loop which took over an hour I think. Then when I put my ticket through it beeped. I started to explain what I had done but the cop or subway worker or whoever it was just waved me through.

The desk at the hostel praised me for having so little luggage. I had a couple change of clothes and a walkman, some cassettes, and toiletries. Just a small bag. They joked about how much **** most Americans bring.

Right away in the hostel, I met a beautiful college girl from the midwest and we hit it off. We even slept together in the same single bed that first night. She told me right away that she had been raped and asked if we could just sleep in our clothes and if I would hold her. I was so honored she wanted to do that.

It turned out she was on some kind of exchange deal where she already had a flat arranged and she offered me to stay with her for free. That night she asked if I would masturbate in front of her so she could watch. I went to the end of the bed and started up a very well-known routine and she took her shirt off. After that night we feel into a pattern of soft kisses and above the waist caresses. It never went any further.

Some of the shows we saw were The Pixies at Brixton Academy, Half Man Half Biscuit at a punk venue, and Flux of Pink Indians at a matinee show in a bar. At the Flux show a punk rock girl tore the pocket off my shirt and punched me in the jaw.

One time my temporary girlfriend and I climbed over a fence to sneak into a park that was closed for the night. Some passing drivers saw us and honked their horns and shouted cheers of approval from their windows. We just sat in the park and talked though.

On the flight home an engine blew out and we had to return to London. They had me set up for the next flight but I was scared to get back on because when that engine blew out it was scary and the landing was real bumpy. So I got really ****ing drunk during the wait. The next flight was uneventful.

Oh there was one thing that happened in the airport. Security asked me about my trip and where I stayed and I said I stayed with a woman I met. Then they asked where I got my walkman and I said my girlfriend gave it to me. I meant my American girlfriend like a year ago but they thought I met a woman who planted a potential explosive on me. A long flight without my own music was becoming a very real possibility but in the end they let me keep it.

That was my first trip overseas.

OccultHawk · 04-18-2020, 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Spoiler for fantastic cover art:

Breadwoman & Other Tales by Anna Homler and Steve Moshier

Among the best of 2016

I should’ve read more on this. It’s actually a reissue from 1985

Anyway... this is so ****ing top tier

10-24-2019, 11:10 AM	#1083 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	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. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

12-12-2019, 09:38 PM	#1084 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	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. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

12-15-2019, 10:24 PM	#1085 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	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. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

03-19-2020, 02:41 PM	#1086 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Nostalgia for a Past Future by Dean Granros https://deangranrosartbunkerrecordin...-a-past-future 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. 4/5 __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

03-19-2020, 04:04 PM	#1087 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	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. 4/5 __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

03-20-2020, 09:42 PM	#1088 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	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. 5/5 __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

04-11-2020, 09:46 AM	#1089 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	I’m going to share a travel story. During a lot of my time in college I worked two part time jobs. I was a janitor in the morning and a dishwasher at night. One summer, the university was still open but I wasn’t taking any classes so I upped my restaurant hours. Toward the end of summer I had enough extra money to buy something or go somewhere so I decided to go to London. I had a friend who went there and he told me about a youth hostel. I called information in England and got their number, called them, made a reservation and got directions from a specific stop on the tube. For some reason I thought it was funny that an automated voice with an English accent said, “The number you require is...”. I can’t remember what airport I arrived at but the train ride to get to the underground was pretty long. I enjoyed looking out the window. Some old man tried to talk to me but I didn’t want to talk or seem rude either. I had this go-to gesture back then of putting a peace sign over my heart that was meant to be friendly - I didn’t know back then that a backhanded peace sign was the British bird. It didn’t get me in any trouble. My underground line was a big loop. It was just one stop but after one stop I realized I was going the wrong way. Instead of switching off I decided to just ride through the entire loop which took over an hour I think. Then when I put my ticket through it beeped. I started to explain what I had done but the cop or subway worker or whoever it was just waved me through. The desk at the hostel praised me for having so little luggage. I had a couple change of clothes and a walkman, some cassettes, and toiletries. Just a small bag. They joked about how much ** most Americans bring. Right away in the hostel, I met a beautiful college girl from the midwest and we hit it off. We even slept together in the same single bed that first night. She told me right away that she had been raped and asked if we could just sleep in our clothes and if I would hold her. I was so honored she wanted to do that. It turned out she was on some kind of exchange deal where she already had a flat arranged and she offered me to stay with her for free. That night she asked if I would masturbate in front of her so she could watch. I went to the end of the bed and started up a very well-known routine and she took her shirt off. After that night we feel into a pattern of soft kisses and above the waist caresses. It never went any further. Some of the shows we saw were The Pixies at Brixton Academy, Half Man Half Biscuit at a punk venue, and Flux of Pink Indians at a matinee show in a bar. At the Flux show a punk rock girl tore the pocket off my shirt and punched me in the jaw. One time my temporary girlfriend and I climbed over a fence to sneak into a park that was closed for the night. Some passing drivers saw us and honked their horns and shouted cheers of approval from their windows. We just sat in the park and talked though. On the flight home an engine blew out and we had to return to London. They had me set up for the next flight but I was scared to get back on because when that engine blew out it was scary and the landing was real bumpy. So I got really **ing drunk during the wait. The next flight was uneventful. Oh there was one thing that happened in the airport. Security asked me about my trip and where I stayed and I said I stayed with a woman I met. Then they asked where I got my walkman and I said my girlfriend gave it to me. I meant my American girlfriend like a year ago but they thought I met a woman who planted a potential explosive on me. A long flight without my own music was becoming a very real possibility but in the end they let me keep it. That was my first trip overseas. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html