What you been listening to this week? (3 Viewers)

[Cornu Ammonis]

Keiji Haino The 21st Century Hard-y Guide-y Man – Even Now, Still I Think
Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet
Ben Frost Aurora
Steve Earle Copperhead Road
Fushitsusha Withdrawe, This Sable Disclosure Ere Devot'd
Vajra Sravaka
Coil Horse Rotorvator
Sightings City of Lights
Arvo Pärt Tabula Rasa
The Cure Pornography
Keiji Haino with Boris Black: Implication Flooding
Amiina Seoul
Kraftwerk Trans Europe Express
Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited
Keiji Haino/Greg Cohen/Joey Baron An Unclear Trial: More Than This
Purple Trap Decided... Already The Motionless Heart Of Tranquility, Tangling The Prayer Called "I"
Albert Ayler Bells
Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home
David Sylvian Sleepwalkers
Tindersticks Ypres
Bob Dylan The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
Keiji Haino/Jean-François Pauvros/François Causse Y
Saint Vitus Heavier Than Thou
Peter Christopherson Time Machines 2
Fushitsusha I Saw It! That Which Before I Could Only Sense...

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Divine Styler - Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light
Joni Mitchell - Court & Spark
Josephine Foster - I'm A Dreamer
Solid Eye - Live at Anomalous Records
Borbetomagus - Buncha Hair That Long
Mohammad Reza Shadjarian - Mahur
Nico - The End
Loren Connors - Airs
Miles Davis - Nefertiti
Primož Ramovš - Popoldnevi stare in sodobne glasbe na Repentaboru (performed by Dina Slama, Irena Pahor, Miloš Pahor, Primož Ramovš)
Richard Youngs - Nerston Surface
Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There?

Now playing:
Tanita Tikaram - Ancient Heart

 

[Jerry Twig]

Early Captain Beefheart. You cannae beat it.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Suzanne Vega -Tales From The Realm Of The Queen Of Pentacles
'Blue' Gene Tyranny - Out of the Blue
The Flaming Lips - Hit to the Death in the Future Head
The Flaming Lips - The Terror
The Flaming Lips - Peace Sword
Farrah Abraham - My Teenage Dream Ended
Lefty Frizzell - The Sad Side of Love
Mohammad Reza Shajarian - Night Silence Desert
D'Angelo - Black Messiah
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
Keiji Haino - Black Blues
Violent Onsen Geisha - U.S. Tour '95
Misantropical Painforest - Firm Grip Of The Roots
Merle Haggard - Ramblin' Fever

Now playing:
Richard Wright - Wet Dream

 

[Jerry Twig]

100 Flowers
REM
Sannhet
Orange Juice
The Brothers Johnson
Nomeansno
Giuda

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Saint Vitus Live
Swans Oxygen EP
Saint Vitus Lillie: F-65
Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull
The The Soul Mining
The The Infected
Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet
Aihiyo Live
The The Mind Bomb
Shoji Hano & Keiji Haino The Strange Face
The The Dusk
The The Nakedself
Can Soundtracks
Brötzmann + Haino + Hano Shadows
Keiji Haino & Coa You Should Draw Out the Billion and First Prayer
Keiji Haino & Derek Bailey Songs
Keiji Haino Abandon All Words at a Stroke, So that Prayer Can Come Spilling Out
Fushitsusha Origin’s Hesitation
Julia Wolfe Steel Hammer [Bang on a Can/Trio Mediaeval]
Swans Oxygen EP
Brian Eno Music for Airports [Bang on a Can]
Tindersticks Ypres
Bob Dylan The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home
Boduf Songs This Alone Above All Else In Spite Of Everything
Einstuerzende Neubauten Lament
Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
Swans Look at Me Go
Swans The Seer

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Neil Finn - Dizzy heights
Oval - 94diskont
The Flaming Lips - The Terror
Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, Thomas Dimuzio - Golden State
Current 93 - Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starr
Gentle Giant - In A Glass House
Suede - Dog Man Star
Suede - Coming Up
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
Abruptum - Obscuritatem Advoco Amplectere Me
Fushitsusha - I Saw It! That Which Before I Could Only Sense
Jandek - Follow Your Footsteps
Suede - Suede

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Stillife - Live At Al's Bar 1983/1984
Fushitsusha - The Caution Appears
Richard Youngs - Long White Cloud
John Greaves / Peter Blegvad / Lisa Herman ‎– Kew. Rhone.
Double Leopards - Halve Maen
Kate Bush - Never For Ever
Zee - Identity
Van der Graaf Generator - Still Life
Van der Graaf Generator - The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome
The Flaming Lips - In A Priest Driven Ambulance
Blue Hummingbird on the Left - BloodFlower
Dick Gaughan - Handful of Earth
The Incredible String Band - The Big Huge

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Loads of dub Reggae
Oasis
Rickie Lee Jones
John Maus
The Unthanks
Siouxsie & the banshees

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Keiji Haino & Tatsuya Yoshida Until Water Grasps Flame
Julia Wolfe Steel Hammer [Bang on a Can/Trio Mediaeval]
Knead 1st
Vajra Mandala Cat Last
Doo-Dooettes + Keiji Haino + Rick Potts Free Rock
Keiji Haino To Start With, Let’s Remove the Colour!
Swans Not Here/Not Now
Keiji Haino "C'est Parfait" Endoctriné Tu Tombes la Tête la Première
Fushitsusha Eien No Ho Ga, Saki Ni Te O Dashita No Sa
Knead This Melting Happiness - I Want You to Realize That It Is Another Trap
Keiji Haino Hikari Yami Uchitokeaishi Kono Hibiki
Keiji Haino Koko
Brian Eno Music for Airports [Bang on a Can]
Keiji Haino Next Let’s Try Changing the Shape
Keiji Haino Black Blues (Soft Version)
Guano Padano Guano Padano
Bailey’s Nervous Kats Get Nervous!
Keiji Haino Black Blues (Violent Version)
Keiji Haino & Michihiro Sato Tayu Tayu To Tadayoitamae Kono Furue
Keiji Haino Uchu Ni Karami Tsuite Iru Waga Itami
Keiji Haino Reveal'd to None as Yet - An Expedience to Utterly Vanish Consciousness While Still Alive
Sanhedolin Manjoicchi Wa Muko
Keiji Haino Global Ancient Atmosphere
Keiji Haino & Tatsuya Yoshida New Rap
Swans To Be Kind
Lou Reed Transformer
The Jimmy Cake Brains
The Jimmy Cake Dublin Gone. Everybody Dead.
The Jimmy Cake Superlady
The Jimmy Cake random downloads
Keiji Haino and Sitaar Tah! Animamima
Keiji Haino Yaranai Ga Dekinai Ni Natte Yuku

 

[george mcfly]

Listening by rail & sea

Rail
As The Crow Flies - The Advisory Circle
The Belbury Tales - Belbury Poly
Black Mills Tapes. Vol 1: Avant Shards - Pye Corner Audio
Spiral - Vangelis
The Duke Of Burgundy - Cat's Eyes
Shapwick - Jon Brooks

Port & Sea
Beaubourg - Vangelis
Opera Savage - Vangelis
China - Vangelis
The Fog - John Carpenter
Village Of The Damned - John Carpenter & Dave Davies

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Kath Bloom & Loren Mazzacane Connors - Restless Faithless Desperate
Caroliner - Strike Them Hard, Drag Them To Church
Roxy Music - Avalon
Nico - Desertshore
Prince - Come
Jandek - I Woke Up
Martin Carthy - Byker Hill
Crowded House - Together Alone
Crowded House - Temple of Low Men
Christina Carter - Living Contact
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Abandoned Luncheonette
Robert Wyatt - A Short Break
Robert Wyatt - Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard
Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
Thin Lizzy - Fighting
Fred Frith - Guitar Solos
The Mothers of Invention - Burnt Weeny Sandwich
Kazuki Tomokawa - Muzan No Bi

Tonight's saturday night party music:
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

 

[Lili Marlene]

I'm Just Like You - Sly Stone's Flower 1969-1970

Prince - Crystal Ball - (this is the original 1987 triple album version of Sign 'O' The Times. A tape of it that was rejected by Warner Bros. at the time leaked recently. Amazing.)

Sparks - Interior Design

Bonnie Hayes & the Wild Combo - Good Clean Fun

Lady Lamb - After

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly

Cameo - Single Life

Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit

Beirut - The Flying Club Cup

Neutral Milk Hotel - THAT album

Bo Diddley - Chess Box

David Bowie - Nothing has Changed


I still say this thread was better when people said something about each album.

probably go listen to that Lonelady album now

 

[george mcfly]

I'm Just Like You - Sly Stone's Flower 1969-1970

Prince - Crystal Ball - (this is the original 1987 triple album version of Sign 'O' The Times. A tape of it that was rejected by Warner Bros. at the time leaked recently. Amazing.)

Sparks - Interior Design

Bonnie Hayes & the Wild Combo - Good Clean Fun

Lady Lamb - After

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly

Cameo - Single Life

Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit

Beirut - The Flying Club Cup

Neutral Milk Hotel - THAT album

Bo Diddley - Chess Box

David Bowie - Nothing has Changed


I still say this thread was better when people said something about each album.

probably go listen to that Lonelady album now

I'd agree with that. I was thinking when I posted my list that it's a bit pointless if you don't write something about each album.

also, send me Crystal Ball!

 

[Lili Marlene]

I'd agree with that. I was thinking when I posted my list that it's a bit pointless if you don't write something about each album.

also, send me Crystal Ball!

i'll upload it for you tonight sure!

here's the tracklist

Album: Crystal Ball 1986 - Prince Vault

Almost all of it was released in some way or another but it's cool to hear it with all the segues and stuff in place correctly. I don't really believe he would have ever actually gone through with it, it's waayy too esoteric and weird.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I still say this thread was better when people said something about each album.

I'll bite.

Keiji Haino & KK Null Mamono - Generic Japanese noise, not great.
Einstuerzende Neubauten Total Eclipse of the Sun - For the day that was in it.
My Cat Is An Alien/Keiji Haino Cosmic Debris, Vol.III - Another forgettable release.
Vajra Live 2007 - Haino's folk-inclined heavy psychedelic rock trio do an explosive live album. Brilliant.
Fovea Hex “The Slow Slow Air" - Track released for Paddy's day. Beautiful minimalist trad with field recordings, hard to pin down.

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The Jimmy Cake Spectre & Crown - I think they have a new album coming out?
Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun - Scorchio stoner rock.
Keiji Haino and Tatsuya Yoshida Hauenfiomiume - Mad shit from Haino and your man from Ruins. Sounds like Magma on ecstasy.
LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver - Inspired by watching the movie of their last gig. I need to get the releases that came after this.
Kikuri Pulverized Purple - Haino and Merbow. Intense but terrific.
Keiji Haino and Tatsuya Yoshida Uhrfasudhasdd - More mad shit.
Keiji Haino Twenty-first Century Hard-y Guide-y Man: Koitsukara Usetaitameno Hakarigoto - Over an hour of hurdy gurdy drones and squeals.
John Coltrane Ascension - JOYOUS CATHARSIS! The CD reissue with both versions of the original album.
Zeitkratzer & Keiji Haino Electronics - I like both of these separately but this was a bit of a non-entity for me.
Sanhedrin Sun Head Ring - Haino and your man from Ruins and Mitsuru Nasuno (Ground Zero/Fushisusha) on bass. Fun Japanese psych.
Keiji Haino & Masataka Fujikake Ashita Arufabetto Ga, Kiete Shimaimasu Yo Ni
Keiji Haino & Masataka Fujikake Iitsukusarerarenai Arawarekata - Haino on guitar and Fujikake on drums, don't know much about the latter but he's some force on the kit. These two releases are pretty great. Same sort of headspace as the Coltrane above.
Pan Sonic vs Keiji Haino Shall I Download a Black Hole and Offer It to You - A bit boring, live album.
Ambarchi/O'Rourke/Haino Tima Formosa - A bit interesting.
PanSonic & Keiji Haino Synergy Between Mercy and Self-Annihilation Overturned - Studio album but seems more alive than the live album above.
Seijaku Mail from Fushitsusha - Angular and abstract rock. MC Esher meets post punk.
Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley - The best Kyuss album. Dat riff on "Demon Cleaner".
Kyuss …And the Circus Leaves Town - Good but doesn't grab me as much as the previous two.
Coil Frisk [OST] - Fan-created compilation of a soundtrack to an arty 90s film. Fine but nothing startling. Also includes Lee Renaldo.
Seijaku You Should Prepare to Survive Through Even Anything Happens - More of the same.
Keiji Haino/Jim O'Rourke/Oren Ambarchi In a Flash Everything Comes Together as One There is No Need for a Subject - Another live album from this trio, probably my least favourite of theirs but still interesting.
Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home - Kid's got potential, one to watch in 2015.
Keiji Haino/Jim O'Rourke/Oren Ambarchi Imikuzushi - Probably their best, pretty wild in places.
Keiji Haino Un Autre Chemin Vers l'Ultime - Haino stands in a cave in France and wails for over an hour. Occasionally makes farting noises with his mouth. Not recommended.
Culver he Witches Ladder - 20 minutes of sexy drone.
Coil How to Destroy Angels - CD of remixes and re-recordings of their classic 1984 EP. Only picked it up this week, beautiful and strange ambient music. I'm convinced the soundtrack to the new Hannibal series is based on the original How to Destroy Angels.
Nico The Frozen Borderline - Compilation of The Marble Index and Desertshore with bonus tracks. Possibly the most beautiful and saddest music in the world.
John Coltrane Live at Birdland and The Half Note - Scratchy live recordings but Trane and the band are in full flow.
Ulver Lyckantropen Themes - Soundtrack to a film I never saw but great nonetheless. I much prefer electronic and melodic Ulver to black metal Ulver.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I think writing something about each album will quickly become tiresome but here goes....

Georges Delvallee - Tournemire: L'Orgue Mystique (disc 12)
This is a massive work for organ, based on all the sundays of the catholic year or something like that. Amazing. I particularly like the more sedate pieces, they remind me a bit of richard wright's early pink floyd playing.

Iris Dement - Sing The Delta
Probably Iris's best album. Amazing.

Henry Cow - Unrest
It's a good thing they got Dagmar Kraus into sing shortly after this and then either left the singing to her (or sometimes to robert wyatt) or didn't bother with singing at all. Still, there's only a tiny bit of singing here and the rest deadly. They make lovin prog fun.

Volahn - Aq'Ab'Al
I dunno, it's just not as catchy and memorable as the previous Volahn album and it's too long (double lp)

Ruins - Stonehenge
Silly singing, whatever. I happened upon this in my "For sale" stash

Smegma & Jozef Van Wissem - Suite The Hen's Teeth
low key smegma with yer man doodling on his lute

Sam Larner - Now Is The Time For Fishing
Topic records, an old english fisherman singing and babbling about his days on the sea

Richard Youngs - South Voyager
One of my favorite RY albums - long, blissful songs of electronic bleeps and buzzing with shakahuchi (i think) and reflective singing.

OMD - English Electronics
recent album, not bad, not amazing.

Miles Davis - Sorcerer
70s Miles (in fact, In A Silent Way and everything that came after it) can fuck off. Still, this is probably one of his lesser albums of the period.

Neil Finn - Dizzy Heights
This is great, been listening to it a lot lately. There are a few naff, mediocre songs, a few very good ones and a few deadly ones. Classic Neil Finn.

Josef Matthias Hauer - Das Zwölftonspiel
The internet tells me that "This disc features a selection of Zwölftonspiele, mostly played on harpsichord, or Cembalo, by Viktor Sokolowski (1911-82), a student of Hauer.". I love it.

Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
Loretta and Jack White - nice, rockin

Tortoise - TNT
I gave up altogether on Tortoise when Standards came out and they played a boring gig in the olympia but I've gone back to this and Millions Now Living in recent times and rediscovered the goodness. I was slightly disappointed with this when it came out but now I can just listen and enjoy it.

Crowded House - Together Alone
If they had left a few songs off this it'd have been close to perfect but there's no ignoring rubbish like Pineapple Head and Walking on the Spot. Still, it's deadly. Classic Crowded House

Crowded House - Crowded House
Classic Crowded House

Conlon Nancarrow - Studies for Player Piano (vol 1)
Completely headwrecking music for those paper rolls that you can use to trigger the piano keys. I love it, I find it surprisingly enjoyable.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Neil Finn - One Nil
Probably the most consistantly strong album he has made

Finn Brothers - Everyone is Here
Finally they start to live up to their reputation as mum-rockers.

Finn Brothers - Finn
Pretty good, not too much mum rock.

Peter Hammill - Thin Air
A pretty bleak album from 2009, his first excellent album since early/mid 80s (apart from the reformed Van Der Graaf Generator albums which are mostly pretty decent). The fucking tambourine though, jesus. Someone should take it off him.

Current 93 - The Starres are Marching Sadly Home
Tibet's vocals at their best/least-silly and Stapelton's sound-scaping at it's best. Contender for favorite C93 release.

Sonic Youth / Jim O'Rourke - SYR3 Invito Al Ĉielo
The SYR EPs were the first new things that Sonic Youth put out during my time as a fan. I was so excited going to the shop to buy it with my busking money, then I put it on and was nonplussed by it. I've grown fond of it by now.

Caroliner - I'm Armed With Quarts Of Blood.
Fairly bonkers 'industrial bluegrass', fantastic band even with silly voices and banjo.

Ari Solus - Caveman EP
Catchy, odd-ish pop. Just saw a reference to it on the internet earlier today and downloaded it.

Roxy Music - Avalon
More than this, you know there's nothing

Pauline Oliveros - Accordion & Voice
Two long pieces of accordion and moaning. Lovely.

Sun Ra - Cymbals
Not very memorable. Noodly norm jazz

Haco - Happiness Proof
First listen to this, it's ok, some good songs, proggy elements. Sounds a bit 90s, a bit more style than substance on first listen

Ossatura & Tim Hodgkinson - Dentro
First listen to this too, didn't pay much attention. Sounded like creaky clanky improv stuff

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young in good album shocker. I actually like a few of them from around this time.

Misantropical Painforest - Winds Saturate With Inhumane Longing
Metal of some genre (I'm unqualified to identify which one). Swaggers like fuck, it sounds like someone swaggering around with a club clubbing stuff. Deadly.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Keiji Haino Experimental Mixture - "DJ" album from Haino. Basically he plays two songs at the same time with a delay pedal. It's fun in its own way.
Fushitsusha Hikari To Nazukeyou - Reboot of Haino's defnitive heavy psych band. This isn't as good as the older incarnation, less rocking and more stripped down.
Nazoranai Nazoranai - Haino with Oren Ambarchi and Stephen O'Malley (from Sunn O))), Khanate, etc.). Absolute scorcher, everything I would want from a trio like this. If you buy one rock album that flings itself into a pitch black abyss, make it this one.
Fushitsusha/Keiji Haino A Document Film of Keiji Haino - Soundtrack to a documentary that hasn't been released outside of Japan. Haino's most accessible recording yet but peversely one of the hardest to track down.
Fushitsusha Mabushii Itazura Na Inori - The second of the rebooted Fushitsusha albums. More of the same.
A Winged Victory for the Sullen Atomos - Second album from the Stars of the Lid spin off. Not quite as SotLsy as the first one but very beautiful. Feels like there's a lot more going on here, definitely recommended.
Seijaku 2010-2011 - CD-R given out at their final show in Japan. Grand but forgettable overall.
Fushitsusha Live at Freedommune 0 (Zero) A New Zero 2012 - Nice download only live album for charity. Way better than the new studio stuff.
Keiji Haino/Jim O'Rourke/Oren Ambarchi Now While It's Still Warm Let Us Pour in All the Mystery - Quite diverse showing from this trio, it opens up with the sound of wine glasses being played (including an appearance by legendary minimalist composer Charlemagne Palestine) and goes through all sorts of moods.
Fushitsusha Namaewo Tsukenaide Hosii Namaewo Tsuketeshimauto Subetede Nakunattesimaukara - The third of the rebooted Fushitsusha albums. More of the same.
Fushitsusha Madaatatakaiuchino Konoimani Subetenonazowo Sosogikondeshimaou - The fourth of the rebooted Fushitsusha albums. More of the same.
Sanhedrin Sukino Godaburyu Ichieichi (Sukino 5 W 1 H) - This was a surprise as I thought this group was gone but this was a good reminder as to how exciting and fun Haino and Yoshida can be together.
Keiji Haino Experimental Mixture – In the World - The second "DJ" abum is more diverse and a lot longer. This is a 3CD set that covers pretty much every style of music mashed together. Some of it is really interesting, some of it is barmy.
Kraftwerk Tour de France - Pre-cycling psyching up.
John Coltrane ”Live” at The Village Vanguard - Classic recording, some of Coltrane's finest playing.
John Coltrane My Favorite Things - Perfection. The title track (and it is the song from The Sound of Music for those of you not into jazz) is sublime.
John Coltrane A Love Supreme - The 2CD version with the live concert and alternative takes. If you don't own this, you either don't like music or you're on your way to buy it.
Keiji Haino & Masataka Fujikake Hard O Nanjujo Sasetara Hikari No Tsubo Ga Oritsugu No Ka? - Blistering second album from this duo. Kind of reminds me of The Melvins in places.
Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement of the Decline - Post-cycling come down. This was the soundtrack to a two hour massage, as close to heaven as you'll get.
La Monte Young/Marian Zazeela The Tamburas of Pandit Pran Nath - 70-odd minutes of two tamburas playing the same three notes. It sounds like it should be monotonous but it's deep, mesmerising stuff. When you turn it off, you get a weird after effect where everything else sounds like it's underwater.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

You're COMPLETELY WRONG about those Fushitsusha albums, they're way better than nazorani