buying one record reviewed in The Wire each month

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I was listening to Bjork and John Butcher this morning Statto. 

Well technically, it might be another Bjork (Bork Bork) side project. Or it could be another. 

If you go to www.bandcamp.com you will see what I see. 

I am referring to the two Unknown Artist albums with Bjork collaborating on them.
#444 shortlist:

Georg Graewe & Sonic Fiction Orchestra - Fortschritt und Vergnügen (Random Acoustics)
https://trostrecords.bandcamp.com/album/...-vergn-gen

Alexander Hawkins - Togetherness Music for Sixteen Musicians featuring Evan Parker & Riot Ensemble (Intakt)
https://intaktrec.bandcamp.com/album/tog...4bit-96khz

My Heart, An Inverted Flame - Plague Notes, Unnamed, Unknown, A Finger Dragged Through Dust (Zum Audio / Deathbomb Arc / tUMUL)
https://zumaudio.bandcamp.com/album/plag...rough-dust

Venus Ex Machina - Lux (AD 93)
https://venusexmachina.com/album/lux

Chin
I h a v e n ' t ea t e n. Half bag salad. 

Makes wevvy gd writing technoidafunkamibob. 

Anyways...

Hahaha 

Lots of good things on Resonance FM archives recently. 

Having fun l i s te nin g to Derek Walm sley and Anne Hildur Neset. 

DJ Muttley
This is entertainingly silly... Smiley Bluesmiley

https://louisianaredhotrecords.bandcamp....th-century
#445 (long) shortlist:

AGF & Various - Arachnesound (AGF Producktion)
https://agf-poemproducer.bandcamp.com/al...achnesound

Alexandre Bazin - Oceans / Dream-Land (Cassauna)
https://soundcloud.com/importantrecords/...d-cassette

Binker & Moses - Escape the Flames (Gearbox)
https://binkerandmoses.bandcamp.com/albu...the-flames

Futari - Beyond (Libra)
https://satokofujii.bandcamp.com/album/beyond

Roscoe Mitchell / Jerzy Mazzoll / Sławek Janicki / Qba Janicki - Four Sure: Live at the 11th Mozg Festival 2015 (Muzika Z Mózgu / Bocian)
https://bocian.bandcamp.com/album/four-sure

Dr Matthew Welch - A New Compleat Theory for the Highland Bagpipe (Kotekan)
https://kotekanrecords.com/album/a-new-c...nd-bagpipe

Chin
#446 shortlist:

Aki Onda & Nao Nishihara - Kouya-e-to (Ftarri)
https://akionda.bandcamp.com/album/kouya-e-to

Pat Thomas & The Locals - Play the Music of Anthony Braxton (Discus)
https://discusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/t...xton-103cd

Samba Touré - Binga (Glitterbeat)
https://samba-toure.bandcamp.com/album/binga

various - Miniatures 2020 (The 62nd Gramophone Company)
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/miniatur...817485-01/

Chin
Lovely flowery vignettes

https://halleylabs.com/album/winter-agai...-vignettes
#447 shortlist:

Yuko Araki - End of Trilogy (Room40)
https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/end-of-trilogy

Can - Live in Stuttgart 1975 (Mute / Spoon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da6bXpkbwzs

Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Ding Dong. You’re Dead (Rune Grammofon)
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/hedvig-m...813495-01/

Paranoise - Noizu / The 2nd Act (Skank Bloc)
https://skankblocrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sb28-noizu

Phicus - Solid (Astral Spirits)
https://astralphicus.bandcamp.com/album/solid

Chin
Carry on pretending I'm dead
(21st May 2021, 20:48)Muttley Wrote: Carry on pretending I'm dead

Hugs
In upward of essences, The Wire latest is a radio-themed babbling on about 100 different, rated radio stations
Dredge - Meteorology - exclusive 8 minute weather forecast of early Summer - for Peter Van Cooten - www.soundcloud.com private stream (respond if interest)
www.ambientblog.net


Regardless of how taken you are with meteorology (the study of weather systems), this new track by Dredge, the alias Mick of Foci's Left label and FL uses for drawn-out basic drones, is at least something to attempt questioning. Mick saw a heavenly axis approach the end of Summer last year (2020) and wanted to capture one year (then) to Summer anew (now).

With lighter reverberation, mainly banded by succulence in insomniac synthesiser territory, Mick sent this out when the piece was at least audible - and unpredictable enough - to be repeated six times its saved length. It is an idea Mick coined off Peter van C of Dutchconzertender -
the author of www.ambientblog.net - for Peter's collection of advanced mix tapes that layer many tracks together in a time-logged, asteroid-crumbling fusion of parts. To the track's credit, it's achingly audible, but it's key to be very critical of, as such termed-"basic" by its writer, ambient and drone such as this.

The general arc of "Meteorology" appears, sonically at best, to describe weather in a similar way to the diseased pandemic; that written, it's different, as Dredge does in the way it handles the memory of Summer itself - just see one of Dredge's key music inspirations: the dragged-out inflecting of Leyland James Kirby and, to its end, the sometimes aptly classed "new age Muzak" of Robert Rich from around 1989 onward. Mike Buckingham, the maker of the Dredge alias and the Foci Left flashback repository of releases, narrows his artistic vision (Buckingham is 33, figuring the smaller influence belt) to somewhere similar to the Ryuichi Sakamoto and Christopher Willits sound of 12k Records. For all it explains about weather, it's simplistically whether or not, there is a parting shot at stargazing fiction, each feedback layer.

- Ask for an upload, this is unsigned Xyxthumbs
I'm well behind in this again Oops

#448 shortlist:

Dummy Plug Conspiracy - The First 30 Years (Dummy Plug Conspiracy)
https://dxpxcx.bandcamp.com/album/the-first-30-years

Lauren Sarah Hayes - Embrace (Superpang)
https://laurensarahhayes.bandcamp.com/album/embrace

Dave Holland / Kevin Eubanks / Obed Calvaire - Another Land (Edition)
https://daveholland.bandcamp.com/album/another-land

Sana Nagano - Smashing Humans (577)
https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/smashing-humans

Chin
#449 shortlist:

Avant Joik - Live in Bergen (Bergen Kunsthall)
https://avantjoik.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-bergen

Kevin Richard Martin - Return to Solaris (Phantom Limb)
https://phantomlimblabel.bandcamp.com/al...to-solaris

Gráinne Mulvey - Great Women (Métier)
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Rq0tKzvfo35QHhfBK9JuN

Emma-Jean Thackray - Yellow (Movementt)
https://ejthackray.bandcamp.com/album/yellow

Chin
#450 shortlist:

Dal:um - Similar & Different (tak:til)
https://dalum.bandcamp.com/album/similar-different

Datkid & Illinformed - Wakmo (High Focus)
https://datkid.bandcamp.com/album/wakmo

Jim Haynes - When the Sky Burned (SIGE)
https://sigerecords.bandcamp.com/album/w...sky-burned

Siderean - Lost on Void’s Horizon (Edged Circle)
https://edgedcircleproductions.bandcamp....ds-horizon

Thov G Wetterhus - Stålslått (Mottvind)
https://thovgwetterhus.bandcamp.com/album/st-lsl-tt

Chin
#451 shortlist:

Consorts - Distinctions (Spoonhunt)
https://dominiclash.bandcamp.com/album/distinctions

Jana Rush - Painful Enlightenment (Planet Mu)
https://jaru.bandcamp.com/album/painful-enlightenment

Télémaque - The King’s Hall Concert (New Jazz and Improvised Music)
https://johnpope.bandcamp.com/album/the-...ll-concert

Alex Ward - Gated (Discus)
https://discusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/gated-114cd-2021

Chin
#452 shortlist:

John Cage - Number Pieces (Another Timbre)
https://anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/number-pieces

Keiji Haino / Jim O’Rourke / Oren Ambarchi - Each side has a depth of 5 seconds · A polka dot pattern in horizontal array · A flickering that moves vertically (Black Truffle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulJRpu-_xjI

Costin Miereanu - Luna Cinese (Dialogo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXEQjtCOPwI

Stylucipher x Sooncrazy - Stylucipher x Sooncrazy (Bandcamp)
https://stylucipher.bandcamp.com/album/s...-sooncrazy

Chin
https://succumb.bandcamp.com/album/xxi

Worth bothering with
Heavyweight thrash metal
No fairies allowed Mutley-ani1

;Wave:
Of course, I recommend "Apollo: Atmospheres And Soundtracks Extended 2CD Edition", from Eno, Eno & Lanois (Brian, Roger, Daniel)

As well as the best 80s ambience in "Always Returning"

There is the funniest ambient air, "An Ending (Ascent)

On light, "For All Mankind", a softer non-dischordance. 
Decent value for money in your local record store

Hypno
#453 shortlist:

Christoph de Babalon - 044 (Hilf Dir Selbst) (AD 93)
https://christophdebabalon.bandcamp.com/...dir-selbst

Phew - New Decade (Mute)
https://phewjapan.bandcamp.com/album/new-decade

Planetary Assault Systems - Sky Scraping (Token)
https://planetary-assault-systems.bandcamp.com/

Threshing Floor - Threshing Floor (El Studio 444 / Reboot)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjHOYRjAq0g

Chin
(2nd November 2021, 16:10)Statto Wrote: #453 shortlist:

Christoph de Babalon - 044 (Hilf Dir Selbst) (AD 93)
https://christophdebabalon.bandcamp.com/...dir-selbst


Chin

Xyxthumbs
(2nd November 2021, 17:17)+ToRMeNT+ Wrote:
(2nd November 2021, 16:10)Statto Wrote: #453 shortlist:

Christoph de Babalon - 044 (Hilf Dir Selbst) (AD 93)
https://christophdebabalon.bandcamp.com/...dir-selbst


Chin

Xyxthumbs

shortlisted Xyxthumbs

but I went for...

Phew - New Decade (Mute)
https://phewjapan.bandcamp.com/album/new-decade
this is pretty good too...

https://fperecs.bandcamp.com/album/bass-dreams-minus-b
#454 shortlist:

Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber - Angels Over Oakanda (Avant Groidd Musica)
https://burntsugarthearkestrachamber.ban...al-edition

Gordan - Down in the Meadow (Morphine)
https://gordanband.bandcamp.com/album/do...the-meadow

Monobox - Regenerate (M-Plant)
https://m-plant.bandcamp.com/album/regenerate

Philip Samartzis & Eugene Ughetti - Array (Room40)
https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/array

Chin
the yearly round-up;

https://subvertcentral.blogspot.com/2021...-2021.html

Kingstatto

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