May 2009
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April 2009
43 posts
ListenRobert Lippok and Beatrice Matrini,...
Apr 30th
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ListenA Broken Consort, “A Sundering Path,”...
Apr 28th
ListenJohn Fahey, “Dalhart, Texas, 1967,”...
Apr 27th
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ListenPandit Kamalesh Maitra, “Raag Deen...
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ListenHallock Hill, “Spring,” unreleased. ...
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ListenGrouper, “Cover the Windows and the...
Apr 21st
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ListenGunter Schickert, “Kriegsmaschinen Fahrt zur...
Apr 19th
ListenHeratius, “Track 2,” Gwendolyne (1978)...
Apr 19th
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ListenBill Callahan, “Too Many Birds,”...
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Thanks to Duffy for posting this video of Bill Callahan playing “Rococo Zephyr” from his upcoming Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle at Used Kids in Columbus. And to You Ain’t No Picasso for giving me the opportunity to find it. Watch his arm to see what looks like his working the subtle vibrato throughout the song.
Apr 15th
ListenAngel, “Bones in the Sand,” Kalmukia...
Apr 15th
ListenBon Iver, “Babys,” Blood Bank EP...
Apr 15th
ListenAngel with Strings of Consciousness Mapsadaisical...
Apr 14th
ListenKonntinent, “My Shoulders Are as Wide as...
Apr 13th
Bring Out the Dead: Ben Ratliff in the New York...
Ben Ratliff writes some of the most consistently perceptive and penetrating music journalism. His book on John Coltrane, Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (New York 2007) provided one of the most interesting portraits of any musician in print by detailing what it is a musician does, i.e. make music, and not merely take drugs, give interesting interviews, etc. etc. Ratliff writes about what gets...
Apr 13th
ListenMary Halvorson and Weasel Walter, “Rare...
Apr 12th
ListenKurt Vile, “Space Forklift,” live at...
Apr 12th
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ListenKurt Vile, “Classic Rock in Spring,”...
Apr 11th
ListenHildur Gudnadóttir, “Erupting Light,”...
Apr 11th
Krautrocksampler / Krautrock Kompendium / Tarot →
Swan Fungus provides this excellent post on Julian Cope’s work on Krautrock, complete with a full .pdf version of his Krautrocksampler and Krautrock Kompendium. In addition, there is a link to download Walter Wegmüller’s Tarot, a meditative Krautrock masterpiece from this Swiss mystic.
Apr 10th
ListenHallock Hill, “Sand in My Eyes,”...
Apr 9th
The Geological Origins of Hallock Hill →
Go read about where all this began.
Apr 9th
ListenInternational Harvester, “The Runcorn Report...
Apr 9th
ListenSteve Reich, Music for 18 Musicians, opening...
Apr 8th
ListenKadri Gopalath, “Sevikka Vendumaiyya,”...
Apr 8th
“Blurry the distinction and uneven the border between notes and sound. Music has...”
– Susan Alcorn, performance notes from August 2003. Listen to Susan Alcorn on MySpace.
Apr 7th
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My new long-distance best friend Sven Fröberg of Greek Theatre has recommended Anna Järvinen to me, and three cheers to Sven. Listen to this absolutely gorgeous song. Järvinen has worked extensively with the mad-scientist-geniuses in Dungen: Gustav Estes even produced her second album. The block chords of the piano, 25% Brill Building 75% heavenly, give this song a perfect cloud on which her voice...
Apr 6th
Listen“My Bathroom,” American Standard, The...
Apr 5th
LP Cover Lover | The Bathrooms are Coming! →
Another gem from LP Cover Lover.
Apr 4th
Apr 4th
ListenSun Araw, “Harken Sawshine,” The Phynx...
Apr 4th
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ListenSun Araw, “Leaves Like These,” Leaves...
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