Igor Olestra

One of the problems of Scavengers Reign as a piece of "capitalist realism," aside from its depiction of the cosmos as hostile, is that its characters are insufferable and boring, ignoring wonders as though their old careers hold any meaning any longer. It's The Office meets Lost In Space.

Interested in hearing your take on the deliberate inflation of captive user bases in the form of universities who are forcing "AI" into their curriculum.

Album covers displayed in four IKEA kallax squares.

A small but mighty haul of records from the Ex-YU: BOA- S/T & Ritam Strasti, funky art rock; Max & Intro- Return to the Future, a newly released reissue compilation from Discom; Autopark- La Reunion, a comeback masterpiece of alt rock.
#discom #autopark #exyu

T. Takahashi & Tokyo Union: Maiden Voyage, Robin Hitchcock: Queen Elvis, Bill Nelson: The Love that Whirls, Front 242: Front by Front, Wire Train: 3 album comp., Muhal Richard Abrams: Things to Come from Those Now Gone

A hodgepodge of new CDs.

YouTube video by Terminal Passage Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffalo ‎– Okinawa (1976)

So tight, so perfectly hot and symphonic. Percussionist Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffalo with a mid- '70s disco-funk escape masterpiece. Okinawa (1976)

YouTube video by diegodobini2 Isao Suzuki Trio – Black Orpheus Full Album (1976)

A very Morphine "Manha de Carnaval" From the J-jazz master precursor to "low music" Isao Suzuki opens this set.

YouTube video by 24 minuta sa Zoranom Kesićem - Zvanični kanal Autopark - La Reunion | ep166deo09

Vratili su se Autopark.

Forever, Ya Girl - YouTube

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Album cover of KeiyaA: Forever, Ya Girl. Record is leaning up against shelves of record spines in the background.

I am late on this, but it is very good. KeiyaA: Forever, Ya Girl. Like Autre ne Veut meets D'Angelo under a Burial shroud.

Ryo Kawasaki - Sometime [Japan, Jazz/Fusion/Funk] (1976)

Ryo Kawasaki - Sometime [Japan, Jazz/Fusion/Funk] (1976)
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Mirzino Jato - Apsolutno Tvoj (Bosnia & Herzegovina, Disco-Pop) (1979)

Mirzino Jato - Apsolutno Tvoj (Bosnia & Herzegovina, Disco-Pop) (1979)
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YouTube video by Miguel Patrício Nobuo Hara and His Sharps & Flats - White Heron (1979)

This is the music in the anteroom of my mind when I wake up the past few weeks. Nobuo Hara and his Sharps and Flats: White Heron. #jazz #bigband

YouTube video by Melatonin Soul Connection - Rough & Ready (1988)

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Cover of soul connection's rough and ready, featuring two dudes in dapper late 80s style, polo shirts and nylon jackets, sunglasses and caps.

Soul Connection: Rough & Ready. 1988, Intrigue Records. A bit of a grail record for me. Still on the lookout for their other one. UK street soul, spare, quantized, and sincere. The kind of thing that Erlend Øye must have been going for on his first solo album. #SoulConnection #UKstreetsoul

YouTube video by diegodobini2 Isao Suzuki Trio – Black Orpheus Full Album (1976)

This rips. The recording is red hot, and it sounds like Suzuki is tearing thuds out of suspension bridge cables rather than coaxing them from a bass. Suzuki here is on bass and cello on this release for the no-misses jazz label Three Blind Mice #IsaoSuzuki #ThreeBlindMice

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat | Kino Lorber - Experience Cinema The incredible story of how jazz music and soft power were used on both fronts of America's ideological battles during the Cold War - including in the Congo. An epic, original and supremely stylish tr...

Finally, a jazz doc that hits.

YouTube video by Réjean Emond May Dance 1977

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Terumasa Hino runs in jeans and a tucked button down against a verdant wall of leafy trees.

I wanna go back to the 70s, when jazz musicians frolicked in the green fields & madding verdant gestalt. Genius trumpeter Hino is backed by an American band with bass maestro Ron Carter, drummer Tony Williams, and guitarist John Scofield. A little inside, but with funky modal energy & BIG drums.

A pile of objectively great CDs. DMX Kee Nu Romantix Eric Dolphy Iron Man Scott Walker Climate of Hunter Machine Girl MG Ultra Donald Byrd Places and Spaces Scott Walker Scott 3 Herbie Hancock Head Hunters The Roches Silver Jews The Natural Bridge Deodato 2 Youssou N'Dour Rokku Mi Rekla Midnight Star No Parking/Planetary Invasion / Headlines

Listening to seedeez.

Abstract album cover for Donald Byrd: Stepping into Tomorrow.

Picked this up over the holidays. This and Street Lady are probably my favorite Mizell Brothers-produced Byrd collaborations. #DonaldByrd #jazz

Ffressshh! CD cover depicting Ed Upton of DMX Krew.

Glad to add this sophomore release on Rephlex, replete with Apex Twin remix, to the collection. DMX Krew: Ffressshh!

Album cover for Dollar Brand'a Children of Africa belt in front of a playing turntable.

Dollar Brand: Children of Africa. Beautiful.

Tokyo Godfather's, sir. Satoshi Kon cover image.

Inglorious Basterds sir. Tarantino cover image.

Xmas viewing sorted.

Got my authorized reissue of the first EKV/Katarina II album today. Srećan Božić.

Album cover for Kowloon Walled City's Container Ships, depicting the rotting hulks of massive beached container ships in some forsaken maritime graveyard.

Wrong side of history. We are already there.

Album cover featuring a grey sky and the featureless expanse of a harvested field in snowless winter, of a depilated prairie, of endless grief without respite or cover.

Wonderful first-time-on-vinyl reissue of this missed off-ramp to a dreamier and more beautiful today, the death of the dream, maximalist indie-rock days, 1998. Antarctica: 23:03, out on Solid Brass Records.