Ugh! I didn't find much time to keep posting songs on here. Maybe I'll have some more up before the year officially ends. Anyway, here's the list I made for the station of my favorite things we received this year.
Here it goes (the bottom 20 aren't really in any particular order):
1) Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
2) Sunn O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
3) The Clientele -Bonfires on the Heath
4) Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
5) Talibam! - Boogie in the Breeze Blocks
6) OOIOO - Armonico Hewa
7) Gary War - New Raytheonport
8) James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game
9) Zu - Carboniferous
10) Lotus Plaza - The Floodlight Collective
11) The Gaslamp Killer - All Killer...
12) Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
13) Black Dice - Repo
14) 400 Lonely Things - Tonight of the Living Dead
15) Boredoms - Super Roots 10
16) David S. Ware - Shakti
17) Buraka Som Sistema - Black Diamond
18) David Sylvian - Manafon
19) Gui Boratto - Take My Breath Away
20) Ducktails - Landscapes
21) Valerio Cosi - Heavy Electronic Pacific Rock
22) Jandek - Portland Thursday
23) Arrington de Dionyso - Malaikat dan Singa
24) Brian Harnetty & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Silent City
25) Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
26) Hudson Mohawke - Butter
27) Steve Lehman Octet - Travail, Transformation and Flow
28) Nomo - Invisible Cities
29) Julianna Barwick - Florine
30) Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Dolores
Monday, December 21, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Best of 2009 part 9
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1) Jack Rose & the Black Twig Pickers - Revolt
2) Jack Rose & the Black Twig Pickers - Kensington Blues
Famed fingerstyle guitar player Jack Rose passed away at the age of 38 on the 5th, so I feel it's appropriate to include tracks from one of his recent discs, Jack Rose & the Black Twig Pickers. His music will be missed.
3) OOIOO - Uda Ha
Yoshimi P-We's project OOIOO is sorely underrated. Sure, they're not the cosmic psych-out music of the Boredoms, but that's no reason to hate them. I found their latest record, Armonico Hewa to be one of the most interesting records I've heard this year. Check it out if you like polyrhythmic drums, chanting, weird guitar lines, et cetera.
4) Steve Lehman Octet - Echoes
Steve Lehman is sorely underrated in the jazz world. His latest record, Travail, Transformation and Flow claims to be the first jazz recording to utilize Spectralist composition methods. The Octet's music creates this really weird floating sound, feeling as if the horns' presence is still lingering like a phantom after they've played. Plus, the drumming on this record is amazing, and there is a GZA cover.
1) Jack Rose & the Black Twig Pickers - Revolt
2) Jack Rose & the Black Twig Pickers - Kensington Blues
Famed fingerstyle guitar player Jack Rose passed away at the age of 38 on the 5th, so I feel it's appropriate to include tracks from one of his recent discs, Jack Rose & the Black Twig Pickers. His music will be missed.
3) OOIOO - Uda Ha
Yoshimi P-We's project OOIOO is sorely underrated. Sure, they're not the cosmic psych-out music of the Boredoms, but that's no reason to hate them. I found their latest record, Armonico Hewa to be one of the most interesting records I've heard this year. Check it out if you like polyrhythmic drums, chanting, weird guitar lines, et cetera.
4) Steve Lehman Octet - Echoes
Steve Lehman is sorely underrated in the jazz world. His latest record, Travail, Transformation and Flow claims to be the first jazz recording to utilize Spectralist composition methods. The Octet's music creates this really weird floating sound, feeling as if the horns' presence is still lingering like a phantom after they've played. Plus, the drumming on this record is amazing, and there is a GZA cover.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Station Record Reviews: November part 1
This covers everything I did for the first week of November.
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1) Arrington de Dionyso - Mani Malaikat
Ever since the first time I heard Old Time Relijun, I knew I would always love the music of frontman Arrington de Dionyso. Even lately, when he's been incorporating reed instruments and throat singing into his music, the utter eccentricity of it keeps me absolutely riveted. His latest album might be among his best. Malaikat dan Singa is sung entirely in Indonesian, and de Dionyso plays every instrument himself. The resulting album is a bizarre fusion of the angular, primitive rock of Old Time Relijun with his later weird tendencies; it's probably the best summation of his works in general (but not his best album).
2) Jimi Tenor/Tony Allen - Darker Side of Night
Strut Record's Inspiration Information series brings together two artists who have never collaborated before to create a one-off album. This is volume four of it, and a classic. Tony Allen is one of the founding members of Fela Kuti's Africa 70 band, and one of the best drummers I've ever heard. Jimi Tenor is a Finnish multi-instrumentalist who has put out records with a range of sounds, from industrial, to lounge, to afro-beat (with his group Kabu Kabu). On this disc, members of both of their bands collaborate to do a slight twist on the afro-beat genre; the main difference being that Jimi Tenor sometimes uses his electronics to create some odd sounds within the mix.
3) Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - The Sound
MBAR represents everything that's wrong with singer/songwriters in general. The lyrics are overtly direct in a way that's incredibly banal. So banal, in fact, that it just emphasizes the perfectly bored "tragedies" that happened in his life. Oooooh, he got drunk alot and had some relationship problems. So did Dylan (whom this asshole is often claimed to be the next version of), but instead of straightforwardly describing his angst, he'd at least have a variety of images, use some metaphors, and in general sing in a way that didn't sound like he had some sort of constipation. MBAR's latest album, Summer of Fear, is fucking terrible, and probably the worst thing I've had to review for the radio station.
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1) Arrington de Dionyso - Mani Malaikat
Ever since the first time I heard Old Time Relijun, I knew I would always love the music of frontman Arrington de Dionyso. Even lately, when he's been incorporating reed instruments and throat singing into his music, the utter eccentricity of it keeps me absolutely riveted. His latest album might be among his best. Malaikat dan Singa is sung entirely in Indonesian, and de Dionyso plays every instrument himself. The resulting album is a bizarre fusion of the angular, primitive rock of Old Time Relijun with his later weird tendencies; it's probably the best summation of his works in general (but not his best album).
2) Jimi Tenor/Tony Allen - Darker Side of Night
Strut Record's Inspiration Information series brings together two artists who have never collaborated before to create a one-off album. This is volume four of it, and a classic. Tony Allen is one of the founding members of Fela Kuti's Africa 70 band, and one of the best drummers I've ever heard. Jimi Tenor is a Finnish multi-instrumentalist who has put out records with a range of sounds, from industrial, to lounge, to afro-beat (with his group Kabu Kabu). On this disc, members of both of their bands collaborate to do a slight twist on the afro-beat genre; the main difference being that Jimi Tenor sometimes uses his electronics to create some odd sounds within the mix.
3) Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - The Sound
MBAR represents everything that's wrong with singer/songwriters in general. The lyrics are overtly direct in a way that's incredibly banal. So banal, in fact, that it just emphasizes the perfectly bored "tragedies" that happened in his life. Oooooh, he got drunk alot and had some relationship problems. So did Dylan (whom this asshole is often claimed to be the next version of), but instead of straightforwardly describing his angst, he'd at least have a variety of images, use some metaphors, and in general sing in a way that didn't sound like he had some sort of constipation. MBAR's latest album, Summer of Fear, is fucking terrible, and probably the worst thing I've had to review for the radio station.
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