buying one record reviewed in The Wire each month

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(23rd July 2017, 00:00)Muttley Wrote: What aspect. Slurred cool temporal song poetry, or abrasive fuck everything antiestablishmentarianism.

both Smile

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alan-Vega/dp/B071GX16VF/
#402 shortlist:

Marcia Bassett & Samara Lubelski - Live, NYC (Feeding Tube)
http://feedingtuberecords.com/releases/live-nyc/

Thomas Leer - 1979 (Dark Entries)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/thomas-le...650879-01/

Madison Washington - Code Switchin’ (Def Presse)
https://defpresse.bandcamp.com/album/mad...witchin-ep

Bill Orcutt - Bill Orcutt (Palilalia)
https://billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/bill-orcutt

Jo Thomas - Sunshine Over Nimbus (Bandcamp)
https://jothomas.bandcamp.com/album/suns...ver-nimbus

Alan Vega - It (Fader Label)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alan-Vega/dp/B071GX16VF/

Chin
belatedly busy on #403

Fauxpas
Kshatriy on Spotify. 
Drone muzak
just found in November 98's version of the wire online in the archive with the Bjork cover a review of a dom release!
(30th September 2017, 08:43)Statto Wrote: belatedly busy on #403

just started that one again
and then I have four more issues to go through

Fauxpas
I only stopped my subs because I could not keep up.
If I could firmly keep up with every Wire released regardless of time tackled I'd still fund them.
(15th January 2018, 11:07)Statto Wrote: and then I have four more issues to go through

make that five now

Willynilly
#403 shortlist:

Ryoko Akama - Places and Pages (Another Timbre)
http://www.anothertimbre.com/placesandpages.html

Broken English Club - The English Beach (LIES)
https://www.junodownload.com/products/br...508744-02/

Kemper Norton - Hungan (Bandcamp)
http://music.kempernorton.com/album/hungan

Maggi Payne - Crystal (Aguirre)
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/maggie-p...651209-01/

Reverorum Ib Malacht - Ter Agios Numini (The Ajna Offensive)
http://echoesanddust.com/2017/08/reveror...os-numini/

Chin
#404 shortlist:

AnD - Social Decay (Electric Deluxe)
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/and-soci...658056-01/

Fossil Aerosol Mining Project - The Unlistening Place (The Helen Scarsdale Agency)
https://fossilaerosol.bandcamp.com/album...ning-place

Kepla & DeForrest Brown Jr - Absent Personae (PTP)
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/kepla-de...661254-01/

Myra Melford Trio - Alive in the House of Saints Part 1 (hatART)
http://www.squidco.com/miva/merchant.mvc...Code=20327

Sit Fast - Dowland & Benjamin: Seven Tears Upon Silence (Evidence)
https://soundcloud.com/sitfast/sets/dowl...even-tears

James Blood Ulmer & The Thing - Baby Talk (Trost)
https://trostrecords.bandcamp.com/album/baby-talk

Chin
starting on #405 tomorrow, but I can say already that something is going to have to be astounding to top this...

Melaine Dalibert - Ressac (Another Timbre)
#405 shortlist:

Anji Cheung - Spirit as Creature (Utech)
https://anjicheung.bandcamp.com/album/sp...s-creature

Coma Cluster Void - Thoughts from a Stone (Translation Loss)
https://comaclustervoid.bandcamp.com/alb...om-a-stone

Melaine Dalibert - Ressac (Another Timbre)
http://www.anothertimbre.com/melainedalibert.html

Nona Hendryx & Gary Lucas - The World of Captain Beefheart (Knitting Factory)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zo8xhegQTg

Raskovich - Science & Technology (Dead Cert) - Giuliano Sorgini
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/raskovic...660954-01/

Chin
now working on #406 and then I'll be able to do my (belated) yearlong subversion 15 list Smiley
Thanks friend. You always have interesting observations. Btw, If you are confused about the Sound Cloud access by I, it's because I was thinking of paying for Pro again, but in the end just Band Camp.

Hmm hm. I'm back on the Lichens issue. 403. I am also planning to revisit the Mono/Poly album I bought at boomkat.com in 2014.
There's an interesting letter sent in by someone who liked a Mike Barnes review, and calling the generalised view of column reviews insipid because of length.
#406 shortlist:

Irreversible Entanglements - Irreversible Entanglements (International Anthem)
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/ir...anglements

Roland Kayn - A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound (Frozen Reeds)
https://boomkat.com/products/a-little-el...y-of-sound

Mashkoor Ali Khan - Transcendence Darbari (Nimbus Alliance)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFzVNi-Kho4

Wadada Leo Smith - Najwa (TUM)
http://www.squidco.com/miva/merchant.mvc...Code=24968

Chin
okay, my 2017 selection / Wire chart is now up here:
http://subvertcentral.blogspot.co.uk/201...-2017.html

Lisa Wave Wave Rainbow
#407 shortlist:

Ariadne - Stabat Mater (Auris Apothecary)
https://ariadne-music.bandcamp.com/album/stabat-mater

GGR Betong - Electronic Music for Chamber Orchestra Vol 1 (GEIGER Grammofon)
https://www.ggrbetong.nu/music/

Godflesh - Post Self (Avalanche / Hospital Productions)
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/godflesh...666094-01/

Hans Hassler - Wie Die Zeit Hinter Mir Her (Intakt)
https://hanshassler.bandcamp.com/album/w...er-mir-her

Lisa Mezzacappa - Glorious Ravage (New World)
https://gloriousravage.com/

Tomoko Sauvage - Musique Hydromantique (Shelter Press)
https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/...romantique

Chin
Listening to Musique Hydromantique. Very calm, absolute, and still. I liked it. I don't buy much these days.
#408 shortlist:

Marisa Anderson - Traditional and Public Domain Songs (Mississippi)
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/marisa-a...672270-01/

Joan La Barbara - The Early Immersive Music of Joan La Barbara (Mode)
https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/classi...sive-music

Gnaw - Cutting Pieces (Translation Loss)
https://gnaw-tl.bandcamp.com/album/cutting-pieces

Terre Thaemlitz - Deproduction (Comatonse)
https://boomkat.com/products/deproduction

Jo Thomas - Random Feathers (Soft Apple)
https://jothomas.bandcamp.com/album/random-feathers

Chin
Thx for shortlist. Loads of good news.
What particularly excites you from a Wire review?
all sorts of things really...

— if it's by someone I already know and like
— reference to stuff I already like
— a strongly positive assessment
— unusual instrumention or tuning
— if there's a woman involved
— if it's of historical interest
— random stuff

for instance, in the Size Matters section of The Wire #409, I've already noted to listen to (more than usual here):

Rudolf Eb.er — seen him
Valentina Magaletti — "ceramic sculpture in the shape of several drums"
Thurston Moore & John Wiese — seen both them
Noisepoetnobody — "struck prayer bowl sequences and clanging of many hues"
Onion Engine — "lopsided percussion" "maybe electronic in nature"
Secluded Bronte — "somewhere between avant garde musical theatre and Doggerel Bank"
Suburban Homes — "another great gasp of 1978 Small Wonder gas" (since I have quite a few SW records of that era)

Chin
Many reasons why people are excited about life love and music and Wire
"...without quite finding the need to record it. For a second i thought this meant there wasn't transparency in recording. But that's, wrong. 

The maddening of the situation, is that i just don't understand it".
I liked the Jo Thomas - Sunshine Over Nimbus from 27th July post by you Statto, too.

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