May 2011
3 posts
Petrels – Haeligewielle →
Artist: Petrels
Album: Haeligewielle
Label: Tartaruga Alone I work
All around me darkness swirls
Of sinking stone
I will not stop ‘til all these walls
Have found their cause
To…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-22) →
The Caretaker (29)
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Grouper (20)
Primordial (18)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-15) →
Demdike Stare (20)
Sleepingdog (15)
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Dinah Washington (12)
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April 2011
7 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-24) →
Sly & The Family Stone (32)
Jenny Hval (27)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (19)
The Jayhawks (17)
Relatively Clean Rivers (16)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-17) →
Gang Gang Dance (22)
Spirit (21)
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Rene Hell (18)
Gang Starr (17)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-10) →
Arthur Russell (35)
John McLaughlin (28)
Ekoplekz (24)
All Tiny Creatures (21)
Evan Caminiti (21)
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Philip Jeck - Ark for the Listener Live at ADF →
ADF - Philip Jeck from Ignite Creative TV on Vimeo.
Tim Noble - Diffaith →
Artist: Tim Noble
Album: Diffaith
Label: Hundred Acre Recordings
I recently reviewed Tim Noble’s superb Diffaith for The Liminal. I’ve reprinted the whole thing here as it fits in…
Kehlvin & Rorcal - Ascension →
This 28-minute brutal symphony of a record is currently available as a free download over at last.fm. It’s IMMENSE. That is all. Go and get it.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-3) →
Burial (20)
The Durutti Column (16)
Grouper (15)
Brian Eno (14)
The Jayhawks (14)
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March 2011
9 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-27) →
Low (22)
Willie Nelson (18)
Nick Jonah Davis (15)
Current 93 (15)
Tool (14)
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Benefit for the Recovery in Japan Compilation →
A frankly dazzling line up on this 64 track digital compilation - all proceeds from which go to helping recovery in Japan. The compilation (put together by David Daniell, James Elliott and…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-20) →
Willie Wright (24)
Harald Grosskopf (24)
Tim Noble (23)
John Phillips (18)
Belle and Sebastian (16)
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Julianna Barwick – The Magic Place →
Artist: Julianna Barwick
Album: The Magic Place
Label: Asthmatic Kitty Space as musical as all the sound – Elizabeth Bishop
There has been an interesting dialogue going on between…
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Autechre – 12 Hour Radio Broadcast [2010.03.02] «... →
Rose & Sandy - Play Cat's Cradle →
Artist: Rose & Sandy
Album: Play Cat’s Cradle
Label: Moving Furniture
Rose & Sandy is a new coupling of Ruaridh Law and Dave Donnelly, two denizens of the fecund Scottish…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-6) →
Six Organs of Admittance (36)
Nick Jonah Davis (21)
Melvins (17)
Spirit Spine (17)
Earl Sweatshirt (17)
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SUPER RECEPTOR: Bvdub →
superreceptor:
Bvdub (who I last wrote about here) has just made available a previously unreleased album…
“3 years ago I made an album titled “One Last Look at the Sea”… As many of you know, it was supposed to be released on Somnia, but the label closed. Then it was supposed to come out on 2 other…
February 2011
8 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-27) →
Shackleton (25)
The Memory Band (24)
The Besnard Lakes (17)
Sidi Touré (16)
Konntinent (16)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-20) →
Kode9 & the Spaceape (25)
The Incredible String Band (23)
Broadcast & The Focus Group (20)
Willie Wright (19)
Rome pays off (18)
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Mamuthones - Mamuthones →
Artist: Mamuthones
Album: Mamuthones
Label: Boring Machines
The mamuthones are ritualistic figures in a 2000 year old tradition that still takes place three times in year in the…
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Ogden Nash - Everybody Tells Me Everything
I find it very difficult to enthuse
Over the current news.
Just when you think that at least the outlook is
so black that it can grow no blacker, it worsens,
And that is why I do not like the news, because
there has never been an era when so many things
were going so right for so many of the wrong
persons.
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WatchHorseback - “Invokation” and “Tyrant Symmetry” (by Mann’s World)
(spotted at the ace NFR Blog)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-30) →
The Jesus Lizard (23)
Pela (22)
Megafaun (17)
Æthenor (14)
The Mountain Goats (13)
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Latest addition to dawn songs…
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James Fenton - The Vapour Trail →
Now through the grating of my cell I look up at a strip of autumn sky And often, chalked across the blue, There’s a vapour trail, A vapour trail… And then, I don’t know why, I start to think…
January 2011
13 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23) →
Tim Hecker (13)
Wooden Wand (12)
Cory Allen (11)
Hype Williams (10)
Deaf Center (10)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-16) →
Willie Nelson (28)
Djivan Gasparyan (26)
Teebs (18)
Miles Davis (15)
Mississippi John Hurt (12)
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Free Music Archive: Barn Owl - Live on WFMU's Long... →
Amazing live piece from Barn Owl.
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“I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the...”
– Molly Bloom’s soliloquy from Ulysses
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-9) →
Alastair Galbraith (22)
Helios (16)
A Tribe Called Quest (14)
Mississippi John Hurt (12)
British Sea Power (12)
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The Place for No Story by Robinson Jeffers
lumpy-pudding:
The Place for No Story by Robinson Jeffers The coast hills at Sovranes Creek; No trees, but dark scant pasture drawn thin Over rock shaped like flame; The old ocean at the land’s foot, the vast Gray extension beyond the long white violence; A herd of cows and the bull Far distant, hardly apparent up the dark slope; And the gray air haunted with hawks: This place is the...
Jenks Miller and Nicholas Szczepanik – American... →
My review of the excellent new album from Jenks Miller and Nicholas Szczepanik, partly a meditation on the new ruins of America is now up at The Liminal.
I’ve previously reviewed two…
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Tortoise Live at London, England @ Maida Vale -... →
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December 2010
17 posts
Wallace Stevens - The Snow Man →
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces…
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dawnsongs:
‘Inherent Song’ by Lullaby for the...
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The Necks: Live in Sydney →
Two live sets from The Necks from February 2010 over at Root Strata.
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Hallock Hill: Hallock Hill - 'The Union' →
hallockhill:
Today officially announces the forthcoming release of my album The Union, due early 2011 from Hundred Acre Recordings:
The nine pieces on The Union contain voices both near and distant, still and shivering. With sounds made entirely on a variety of guitars, these pieces contain…
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SUPER RECEPTOR: LIBRA by hedia Before I started... →
superreceptor:
LIBRA by hedia
Before I started this blog Hedia were one of the bands I first planned to write about. Clearly I got distracted, but anyhow.
I think I stumbled upon them via the Digitalis Twitter, which spoke highly of their Libra tape. I tracked down a copy and…
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Victory Rose: Godspeed You! Black Emperor -... →
FLAC recording of a the recent GY!BE at the Glasgow Barrowlands.
Red River Dialect - White Diamonds →
Artist: Red River Dialect
Album: White Diamonds
Label: Self Released (available at Bandcamp)
I’ve written about Red River Dialect on here before and the band have now released a…
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WatchTexture/Fragile presents Grouper - Sun Circle - 전자양 (by Reverse Retro)
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Found Objects Podcast →