What records did you listen to today? (1 Viewer)

[Unknown Convict]

anna jarvinen - jag fick feeling
tape - luminarium
(both new on hapna)
ferial confine - first, second and third drop
organum - submission
surface of the earth - s/t
fallout boy - take this to your grave
tarun bhattacharya - art of indian santoor
erik friedlander - volac & maldoror (volac live was better than on disc)

 

[Jerry Twig]

Yeah that's a sweet album

 

[BC]

Brian
There is a letter in this month's Record Collector about a guy who bought Nurse With Wound's - A Chance Meeting... LP in a church jumble sale.
He bought it out of curiosity and was shocked by the sleeve and found the music unlistenable.

He wrote in wondering how much it was worth.
£110 quoted - unless it's a bootleg (of which there are a few)

i was just listening to it yesterday morning...
yeah, it usually fetches a good deal higher than that on ebay. the original LP edition of "drunk with the old man of the mountains" is worth double, and the 1990 3LP "psilotripitaka" release is worth at least £500.
i was amazed to see the limited edition version of "shipwreck radio volume 1" from 2004 sell for over $300 on ebay a couple of years ago.

"chance meeting..." is one of the last albums someone new to nww should listen to, it being three people who have never picked up an instrument before in their lives going mental in a studio. i really love it for the attitude though, and it does come together well in parts. the cover is amazing : reckoning that no-one would be interested in buying it, stapleton put that cover on it assuming places would never sell it. he was stunned when virgin records bought most of them to sell. rough trade would only sell it if it was in a brown paper bag, as they were offended by it. when it was released in 1979, sounds magazine gave it a five question marks rating rather than a five star one.

lee ranaldo also did some recordings in the kif of him sitting in with the jajouka. pretty raw.

oh, which one is that?

how's that ferial confine album by the way? haven't got it yet. i enjoyed the "the full use of nothing" cassette. quite unnerving and nothing like chalk's later work. certainly one of the best things to come from broken flag at the time...

that's rich

is that supposed to mean anything, or are you yet again just trying to start a pointless argument with me over nothing?

 

[ddmurph]

is that the brian jones one? a travesty that one, he fucked it up totally by putting tacky flanger effects all over it. as if the original music isn't "psychedelic" enough.

the only one you need is "apocalypse across the sky". dont let the fact that its produced by the mediocre bill laswell put you off, he doesn't fuck around with the original music.

talvin singh, on the other hand, completely fucked around - and fucked up - jajouka music on the abysmal descrecration he produced, buyer beware.

yeah, it's the brian jones one. i really like it. i haven't heard any other recordings though so i don't have much of a frame of reference. parts of it sound like it was recorded in a wind tunnel alright, although there's something about the "inauthenticity", whether intended or not, that i find kinda interesting in its own right


last night and today ...

sun city girls - folk songs of the rich & evil/exotica on $5 a day 2xLP
pauline oliveros & reynols - the minexcio connection: live! at the rosendale cafe LP
more merzbow - pornoise tapes
due process - combine I-XVIII CD
skullflower - IIIrd gatekeeper CD
parliament live, p funk earth tour CD

 

[robitusson]

Watain

Rabid Death's Curse

New Torche

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Awesome Color - Electric Aborigines. I'm liking this a lot. Can't find it on record though. Anyone (Gary?) know if it's going to get the vinyl treatment?

Not seen it myself,but I would presume so. The first one did.

 

[Unknown Convict]

Originally Posted by Unknown Convict
lee ranaldo also did some recordings in the kif of him sitting in with the jajouka. pretty raw.

oh, which one is that?

how's that ferial confine album by the way? haven't got it yet. i enjoyed the "the full use of nothing" cassette. quite unnerving and nothing like chalk's later work. certainly one of the best things to come from broken flag at the time...

there was a track on a cool beans comp cd years ago. not sure if he released any more of it, but he recorded hours.

http://coolbeans.com/cb8/an_evening_of_music_in_fes_by_le.htm

the ferial confine is great. similar to some of the organum stuff i know (e.g. made me play o's submission straight after). not as harsh as i had expected bet certainly edgier than the normal amniotic drones. it's a robot release so i think a.c. only has limited copies from f.p. - here's hoping this might be the start of a basinski-esque archive trawl.


today: victrola favorites 2cd

 

[Jerry Twig]

is that supposed to mean anything, or are you yet again just trying to start a pointless argument with me over nothing?

ah now Brian, don't get your knickers in a twist. I think it's a bit flippant to say Bill Laswell is mediocre, that's all.

 

[Froog]

wagon christ - musipal

The Infesticons - gun hill road

Various - Ragga Jungle Dubs

 

[BC]

there was a track on a cool beans comp cd years ago. not sure if he released any more of it, but he recorded hours.

http://coolbeans.com/cb8/an_evening_of_music_in_fes_by_le.htm

excellent, thanks very much for that.

the ferial confine is great. similar to some of the organum stuff i know (e.g. made me play o's submission straight after). not as harsh as i had expected bet certainly edgier than the normal amniotic drones. it's a robot release so i think a.c. only has limited copies from f.p. - here's hoping this might be the start of a basinski-esque archive trawl.

i was surpised that there was no ferial confine on the broken flag retrospective box set that vinyl on demand put out. perhaps chalk doesn't want to be associated with the excessive use of offensive imagery that bf were into in their early years, or more likely that there is his own reissue plans: or hopefully - wishful thinking perhaps - there is some chance that v.o.d. might put out an LP box set of chalk's early stuff.

i never got into organum all that much, the endless scrapping, scratching and grinding sounds dont really do it for me. i do absolutely love the "vacant lights" and "desola" releases though. nurse with wound did a long spacious floaty piece based on david jackman's shakuhatchi playing called "funeral music for perez prado" which is well worth checking out if you aren't familiar with it.

 

[theoootini]

oasis.
bloor.

 

[ddmurph]

i was surpised that there was no ferial confine on the broken flag retrospective box set that vinyl on demand put out. perhaps chalk doesn't want to be associated with the excessive use of offensive imagery that bf were into in their early years, or more likely that there is his own reissue plans: or hopefully - wishful thinking perhaps - there is some chance that v.o.d. might put out an LP box set of chalk's early stuff.

i think meiosis (at least) is getting a reissue soon. i don't know if v.o.d. are doing it or not, or whether it's part of a box set or a more complete reissue programme or whatever. i think that's the reason there was no ferial confine on the box set though

today ...
v/a - violence: a japanese hardcore compilation 8" flexi
dystopia - s/t LP
v/a - possessed to skate vol 1 LP
crom - cocaine wars 1974-1989 LP
monarch - debut, aka 666 2xCD
coil - ANS 3xCD

 

[BC]

oh excellent... i really do hope more of his old stuff is reissued. a fair few of chalk's projects would be top of my list of "crying shame its not available" / "deserves a cd reissue" albums: mirror's "mirror of the sea" + "visiting star" and ora's "auruem" (though they could do with ditching the godawful cover that LP had) especially.

v.o.d. are due to do a consumer electronics LP retrospective box-set, schoolboy shortwave stuff and the zines he put out that his parents stopped giving him pocket money because of. sweet!

listened today:

current 93: nature unveiled, dawn, dogs blood rising (andrew liles remix), in menstrual night (steve stapleton remix), in a foreign town in a foreign land, i have a special plan for this world ...i'm suitably creeped out now.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Rappresaglia-1982-1983 lp
Motley Crue-too fast for love lp
Possessed-exploration lp
Nightmare-scatterraw lp
The Wednesdays-you will gasp and they will breathe cd
New Bomb turks-nightmare scenario cd
The Who-odds & sods lp

 

[robitusson]

1st Mistress album

New Cult Of Luna

 

[Unknown Convict]

ora's "auruem" (though they could do with ditching the godawful cover that LP had) especially.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Impact/Eu's Arse-split 7"
Logical Nonsense-deadtime lp
Flower Travellin Band-satori lp

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

World Burns To Death-totalitarian Sodomy lp
Thin Lizzy-black rose demos lp
Tranzmitors -lp
Flower Travellin Band-satori lp
The Moondogs-getting off in amsterdam cdep

 

[robitusson]

Mastodon

 

[ddmurph]

graveyards - harmm's way CD

skaters - gambling in ohpa's shadow CD

church universal and triumphant inc. feat. elizabeth clare prophet - sounds of american doomsday cults CD


... + fushitsusha - double live CD + pathetique CD