buying one record reviewed in The Wire each month

Found The Heliocentrics download to purchase on there. Listening again now. It's obscurely fitting the broken beat / nu jazz fusion genreification, in that it sounds new-fangled but is ultimately psychedelic downbeat. Check those burring synth transmissions there.

(Dammit ski of shortbread getting me to buy records again )

Try these - from Wood And Wire

http://newweirdaustralia.com/projects/ne...olume-one/

http://newweirdaustralia.com/projects/ne...olume-two/

http://newweirdaustralia.com/projects/ne...ume-three/

Free compilation downloads

http://woodandwire.com.au/project/ww37-v...undtracks/

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okay, so...

#371 shortlist:

Francis Bebey - Psychedelic Sanza 1982-84 (Born Bad)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/francis-b...547314-01/

Phil Julian - Trace (Harbinger Sound) LP
https://soundcloud.com/philjulian

Heather Leigh - Nightingale (Golden Lab)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/heather-l...557289-01/

Rie Nakajima - Four Forms (Consumer Waste)
http://consumerwaste.org.uk/releases



I want to check this as well...
Peter Brötzmann & Jason Adasiewicz - Mollie's in the Mood (Bro)
but there aren't any clips up anywhere yet...

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Free compilation downloads

I like free things

but what sort of stuff is it? "New Weird Australia" doesn't sound very promising (given that I think New Weird America is mostly garbage)

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fwiw I've just realized that three of the four records in my #371 shortlist are from Frances Morgan's column

Free compilation downloads

I like free things

but what sort of stuff is it? "New Weird Australia" doesn't sound very promising (given that I think New Weird America is mostly garbage)

Best not to go by names anyway

It's all ambient/drone/experimental kinda stuff from deaf knowledge. I reviewed Invisible Prism and Ill Professor from Wood And Wire and it's connected to the same group of labels. The second compilation got changed on my download sends but has Pimmon in it, so should be a good compilation.

Just had a quick look at the site...

""The marketing narratives laid down by the likes of Red Bull and similar have helped beckon forth an enveloping haze of meaningless positivity, creating a world that’s happy yet contentless, adult but toothless."

Sounds good

Robert Fripp: "What are the characteristics of a creative endeavour? It's play; it's positive; it embraces joy. What are the characteristics of a legal dispute with highly paid lawyers and the world's largest record company? Endless grief".

#nowplayingfomthewire Laura Cannell - Quick Sparrows Over The Black Earth (Brawl CD)

That above album is pretty damn good. Recommended if you like Anne Hytta - Draumsyn, and I actually think it's better - it's more orchestrally poised without as much wilt.

Cannell has another release which came on after on Spotify - "Feathered Swing Of The Raven", and like a feather, it doesn't hold much weight.

"The overall thing is: why catalogue this?' asks Fripp rhetorically. "Well, if live shows were hot dates and albums were love letters, Crimson was always better in the clinches. So to present an accurate view of King Crimson you present the live performances. There are key albums, but they are always superseded by the band performing live, although the record of a live performance is clearly not the live performance. Nevertheless it gives a better sense of what the band is. My view is that King Crimson is an important band in its field, and a band which has a very unusual trajectory and process, which is continuing".

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That above album is pretty damn good. Recommended if you like Anne Hytta - Draumsyn, and I actually think it's better - it's more orchestrally poised without as much wilt.

I liked it – especially the double recorder tunes – but not enough to make my short list

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working on #372 now

it'll probably be this...

Morton Feldman - Two Pianos and Other Pieces (Another Timbre)
http://www.anothertimbre.com/feldmanpiano.html

...which I'd already bought

but this is jolly...

Asuna - 100 Keyboards (Meeuw Musik)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/asuna-100...560395-01/

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a load of good stuff reviewed in #372

current longlist...

Asuna - 100 Keyboards (Meeuw Musik)
Blind Idiot God - Before After Ever (Indivisible Music)
Michael Francis Duch - Tomba Emmanuelle (Sofa)
Morton Feldman - Two Pianos and Other Pieces (Another Timbre)
Runhild Gammelsaeter & Lasse Marhaug - Quantum Entanglement (Utech)
Micachu - Feeling Romantic Feeling Tropical Feeling Ill (DDS)
Microtub - Star System (Sofa)
Napalm Death - Apex Predator: Easy Meat (Century Media)
Razen - Rare Undressed Mare (House of Alchemy)
Schlippenbach Trio - First Recordings (Trost)
Six Organs of Admittance - Hexadic (Drag City)
Ueno - Variations of Weeds (Room40)
Zs- Xe (Northern Spy)

need to cut this down

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I should mention these represses as well, which are quite excellent:

Heldon - Soutien à la RAF (SouffleContinu)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/heldon-so...539847-01/

Heldon - Perspectives (SouffleContinu)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/heldon-pe...539850-01/

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ok, so #372 shortlist (a bit shorter anyway)...

Blind Idiot God - Before After Ever (Indivisible Music)
https://soundcloud.com/blindidiotgod

Morton Feldman - Two Pianos and Other Pieces (Another Timbre)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQHPyMm5ldY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyXWBHTtgME

Runhild Gammelsaeter & Lasse Marhaug - Quantum Entanglement (Utech)
http://utechrecords.bandcamp.com/album/q...tanglement

Razen - Rare Undressed Mare (House of Alchemy)
https://soundcloud.com/brlaab/rare-undressed-mare-live

Schlippenbach Trio - First Recordings (Trost)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/schlippen...556643-01/

Six Organs of Admittance - Hexadic (Drag City)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/six-organ...558185-01/

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this one for #372...

Runhild Gammelsaeter & Lasse Marhaug - Quantum Entanglement (Utech)
http://utechrecords.bandcamp.com/album/q...tanglement




now on to #373

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now on to #373

god, there's some dross in this one...

Marc Almond - The Velvet Trail (Cherry Red)
Eyeless in Gaza - Mythic Language (A-Scale)

terrible, terrible records

Just read about http://www.5049records.com/podcast improv music show.

#374; Illuminated Manuscripts; Holly Herndon; Moondog; Lightning Bolt; Noise Poets; Wire Tapper Vol. 37 - issue came through this Monday morning, 09.03.15.

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#373 shortlist:

Africa Express - Terry Riley’s in C Mali (Transgressive)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FXQ68ZkWVw

Björk - Vulnicura (One Little Indian)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/bjork-vul...561307-01/

David Borden - Music for Amplified Keyboard Instruments (Spectrum Spools)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/david-bor...564240-01/

Felix K - Tragedy of the Commons (Blackest Ever Black)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/felix-k-t...560618-01/

Joe McPhee - As Serious as Your Life (HatOLOGY)
http://www.squidco.com/miva/merchant.mvc...Code=19726

Else Marie Pade - Electronic Works 1958-1995 (Important)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/else-mari...535657-01/



it'll probably be the Bj̦rk Р"probably" because I bought it last week and haven't got round to listening to it yet

I met Bjork last month ()

anyway, i've been doing some historical cross-referencing this morning and afternoon between #367 (Dean Blunt - dear god that front cover is garish) and #374 on pages 59-62 specifically. i picked out a possibly steadfast tangentiality this section of the maggazine has: introducing a sub theme (because after that comes the columns) but in terms of metacognition, actual passage to forgetfulness. This narrative understructuring had lots of signifiers which is likely a cornerstone of Wire's editorial policy - in order to conclude things well in that section at least - and so it flows as well as possible between modes of reference.

Stat zee skit, have a deaf recommendation (seeing as you mentioned 'Karakany' in 2008 int.) Paal Nilsen-Love - http://boomkat.com/vinyl/1230837-paal-ni...rean-gongs