New Music
Witch on Horseback – Jumand (Difficult Arts and Music)
Mendoza Hoff Revels – Echolocation (AUM Fidelity) / Sick electric psycho jazz-rock quartet for the ages – Jake Saunders
Feeling Figures – Migration Magic / There is a 100% chance this upcoming Feeling Figures album tops my list of 2023 favorites – Courtesy Desk
Tat Songs – Western Promises / this is so good – Joel Berk
Sonic Youth – Live in Brooklyn 2011 (Silver Current Records) / aka the last show (h/t Nathan Walker)
Violet Nox – Vortices & Voices (Somewherecold Records)
Galan/Vogt – All The Time In the World (Alpha & Madeleine Cocolas Remixes)
FaltyDL – Splat EP (h/t Big Voyage)
Quicksails – Surface (Hausu Mountain)
Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) (Intl Anthem) (via gordoid)
tarotplane – Murmuration / The A side features perhaps one of my most composed outings since Horizontology, while the B side is maybe my most “kosmische” side ever
Jeff Tobias – Music from Milky Way Underground / Super spacey jazz, cosmic – Island House Recordings
Indianna Hale – Yesterday’s Glitter (Perpetual Doom)
Autumna – Ghosts (Frosti) – just 1(!) copy left
Temp-Illusion – Failsafe (PTP)
Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society – Dynamic Maximum Tension (Nonesuch) / New one from @darcyjamesargue – played through disc one and my wife liked it too! It may be a hit – russjazz
Tiger Village – Cat Chew (Hausu Mountain) / Stream “Cat Chew” to turn your existence into a bubbling goo as the puzzle pieces of reality unattach
Jeremiah Chiu – In Electric Time (International Anthem) / On June 29th, 2023, 𝗝𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗮𝗵 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝘂 walked into the Vintage Synthesizer Museum (VSM) in Highland Park, Los Angeles, with no plan more specific than …
Ben Winter – Victims of the Ether (Woodford Halse)
Cougars – COUGS (Expert Work) / Just got my tape. Looking to pass along the digital copy. First come, first served – this machine is learning
Simon McCorry – I the Storm / Trailer for ‘I the Storm’ by Simon McCorry, four beatless compositions of varying length based around asynchronous live looping with the cello – Matthew Duffield
Tengger – Eunhasu / New TENNGER track if that’s a need for you. Seems likely for a few of you – B. Brillo
Oneohtrix Point Never – A Barely Lit Path (Warp) (via this machine is learning)
Sulk Rooms – Transmissions : Live At Windy Hill / SR is Thomas Ragsdale
Natalia Beylis – Mermaids (Touch Sensitive) (via Christopher Whitby)
VA – Heiladans 8 (Moatun 7) (via A Remote View / FRBH)
VA – El Teatro Esta Cerrado (The Theater is Closed) (Dead Currencies)
Listening Recommendations
Deadly Avenger – Ghost X Ghost (uSuper! Records) / Super scuzzy #electro #hiphop beats with a dark #80s #soundtrack vibe – David Soulscorch
Scorn – Sunstroke / One of the greatest ambient tracks of the ’90s was made by two guys from Napalm Death – Dave Segal
The Implicit Order – Against Sleep And Nightmare
TWGX – Separate Slowly (via David Soulscorch)
Espers – II (Drag City) / Stunning – Dillon
Urges – Look Away, Gone (Start-Track) / Darkwave / post-punk / shoegaze
Windy & Carl – The Eternal Struggle (h/t Solilians)
Brian McBride – The Effective Disconnect / This album’s been on my mind for 13 years. Rest well BM. – Geographic North
Ringfinger – Decimal / Featuring members of Cave In, OMG, Denali, Film School, Oneida, Jessamine, Dalek, and Engine Down – Courtesy Desk
Oropendola – Waiting for the Sky to Speak (Spirit House Records / Wilbur & Moore Records) / This is one of my go to morning albums lately
Prairiewolf – S/T / Thrilled to be distributing this incredible slice of Rocky Mountain Kosmiche from Colorado’s Prairiewolf. Honestly one of the records of the year. Drum machines, synths, lap steel and pulsing bass lifting off to the real Rocky Mountain High – Worried Songs
Alva ‘Reggie’ Lewis – Suicide (Hang My Head & Cry) (Pressure Sounds) / New favorite subgenre: emotional blackmail rocksteady – James Toth
Air Miami – World Cup Fever (via Sean Walters)
Peter King – Watusi / Nigerian Afrobeat multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Peter King has died at age 84. His seminal 1974 Shango LP mixed JB-style funk, Nigerian high life horn arrangements and political chants & messages – “Watusi” was the closing cut from it – Sean Walters
Felbm – cycli infini (Soundway Records) / I have been behind in my listening in the past 2 months, but this will definitely be one of my faves of the year. A beautiful continuously evolving single track. I’m not an ECM guy but i feel like this would appeal to those of you who are – Tarotplane
Reading
Lily E. Hirsch – Can’t Stop the Grrrls / Reading Lily E. Hirsch’s Can’t Stop the Grrrls, a damning indictment of the media’s treatment of female musicians. There’s a running theme of mental instability being considered creative genius for men while women are mocked and sexualized, e.g., Britney Spears & Sinéad O’Connor – Andy Mascola
Brian McBride: the Stars of the Lid musician who lit up the ambient firmament (via Dillon)
My 50 Favorite Guitar Solos (via Alfred Soto / Humanizing the Vacuum)
Kathy Acker – Empire Senseless (via Comeawaywithemd)
Misc
Few copies of Koppen by Whettman Chelmets left in the vaults.
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