buying one record reviewed in The Wire each month

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I want the "Ganzfield" track for definite, hope they'll sell Mp3s.

The Tricky album was okay, but wasn't ecstatic on it or anything like when I heard "Vulnerable".
Just read the Trevor Wishart interview in the St Vincent issue (#366). This for me has been the most poignant piece of the year so far, and his 'music' ain't half bad either going by the "Fanfare And Contrapunctus, Imago" EP on Spotify (not on YouTube). Music in inverted commas as it's really just a chain of sound effects.

I was dubious of his "sonic art" analogy to begin with. But when he explains it - thinking of sound as absent from the context of art if you think about walking around an installation, and the temporal processes created by focusing on a melody of a track, for example - it's quite interesting as a context in itself. "...people identify themselves with a particular style of popular music, dress, and so on - musical taste becomes, for a few years, a badge of identity. This is exploited by market forces and so it becomes very difficult to promulgate any new kind of music - much more difficult than persuading people to buy a new kind of book, or eat a new kind of food, he declares".
yes, interesting guy

I have a few of his things... Machine, Red Bird, Anticredos... must get them out and lsiten to them again Xyxthumbs
"And send Muttley digital versions"...or was that me thinking you said that? Chin Wink

I wanted to hear "Anticredos" the most from the article.
we'll see :P
:P

This made me Lol in #367 - in the Dean Blunt interview by David Keenan:

"Look, I got arrested when I was 16 for buying a bunch of motorbikes for my friends. I worked at a chemical company and they were arseholes so I cloned a credit card and bought all my boys R1s but I didn't get myself one because I got arrested just before".
Reading the Pharoah Sanders Primer now. Starting with John Coltrane - "Ascension".
Statto Wrote:Robert Curgenven - Sirène (Recorded Fields)

is pretty damn good

http://www.juno.co.uk/products/robert-cu...542228-01/

Falcon
Muttley Wrote:Reading the Pharoah Sanders Primer now. Starting with John Coltrane - "Ascension".

Listening. This is a right damn convoluted racket to start with.
It's getting less wanky now past 20 minutes.
Didn't like it very much in the end. Sounded like none of the players really gave a shit what the other was doing.
it's an acquired taste for sure Wink
Is that your way of saying "you can grow to like shit"?

Well, I don't think it's shit. There were some really good moments in it. But generally, as is the case with a lot of jazz, it's just aimless noodling down a dark alleyway instrumentally only for the instruments to get shagged by each other at various intervals.
Muttley Wrote:Is that your way of saying "you can grow to like shit"?

No, I meant that it's an acquired taste. For instance, it took me over 20 years to appreciate A Love Supreme.
#nowplaying Pharaoh Sanders - Karma on Spotify. Much better than that Coltrane cobblers.
okay, a shortlist for #367:

Robert Curgenven - Sirène (Recorded Fields)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/robert-cu...542228-01/

Dead Days Beyond Help - Severance Pay (Believer's Roast)
http://deaddaysbeyondhelp.bandcamp.com/a...erance-pay

Paul Panhuysen - Pendulum Change Ringing (Edition Telemark)
http://www.edition-telemark.de/

Sarah Peebles - Delicate Paths: Music for Shô (Unsounds)
http://unsounds.com/shop/delicate-paths

Population One - A Mind of His Own (Metroplex)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/populatio...531833-01/

Tarbaby with Oliver Lake & Marc Ducret - Fanon (RogueArt)
http://web.roguart.com/shop/album/id/80

and I've already bought this:

Dopplereffekt / Objekt - Hypnagogia (Leisure System)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/doppleref...541221-01/

Falcon
I also listened to extracts from these:

Ginger Baker - Why? (Motema)
Boxhead Ensemble - The Unseen Hand: Music for Documentary Film (Hired Hand)
Mark Browne - Genial Decay (Confront)
Vashti Bunyan - Heartleap (Fat Cat)
Caustic Window - Caustic Window (Kickstarter / YouTube)
Adam Coney - The Fall of the Flamingo Gardens (Trestle)
Tashi Dorji - Blue Twelve (Blue Tapes)
Kali Z Fasteau - Piano Rapture: New Works on Piano (Flying Note)
Ikonika - Position (Hyperdub)
King Ayisoba - Wicked Leaders (Makkum)
The Machine Gun Co with Mike Cooper - Places I Know (Paradise of Bachelors)
Miriam - My Love Has Gone (Norton)
Keir Neuringer - Ceremonies Out of the Air (New Altantis)
Nisennenmondai - N (Blast First Petite)
Pere Ubu - Carnival of Souls (Fire)
Severed Heads - Since the Accident (Medical)
Severed Heads - City Slab Horror (Medical)
Shackleton - Beat His Command / Vor und Zurück (Deliverance Series)
The Shitty Listener - Area Women (3 Acre Floor)
Thee Majesty - Live at the Pezner (Dais)
Girma Yifrashewa - Love & Peace (Unseen Worlds)
Young L & Metran0me - MVP (Been Based)
various - Music from the Mountain Provinces (Numero)
various - The Search for Surf (Righteous)
various - Tliltic Tlapoyauak (The Ajna Offensive)
various - Tropicalia: Ou Panis et Circensis (Soul Jazz)

Willynilly
Kisskiss

#nowplaying Rustie - Green Language

Thought "Glass Swords" was a bit naff, this sounds better.
Hmm, the vocal tracks are quite naff this time too. Calls to "bitches suck my dick" from the juvenile MC etc.
The LP gets better as it progresses. But those two vocal tracks (feat. D Double E and Danny Brown) are indeed naffness personified, a somnambulating inspiration jettisoned in favour of bland machismo and under-produced, dumbfounded lyrical squalor.
Did you put the "I" back in that sentence after I edited it out, Statto? Wink

keir neuringer - ceremonies out of the air (new atlantis)

Is what I'm listening to after an errand to the shops.
Muttley Wrote:Did you put the "I" back in that sentence after I edited it out, Statto? Wink

which sentence?
the one ending with this: " and under-produced,l dumbfounded lyrical squalor. "
Muttley Wrote:the one ending with this: " and under-produced,l dumbfounded lyrical squalor. "

Fairy
The "Japanese Maples" track on the Keir Neuringer starts out as pretty annoying in its saxophone splits across a hot tin roof, but gets gradually more palatable. Liked the first track, "Okay We Can Go Now".

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