A spectacularly Out mail day yesterday that's gonna keep me warm for a long time
Perfect music, don't really want to say it's better than the studio record but it's close to it!!
It sure is!! Was also at the last stop for a price that was low enough that I couldn't say no!
...and, god, here's the rest of the spoils (both mine and my wife's, try and guess whose is who's!). Used up all of my karmic record good will today I think, not to mention my money! (2/2)
Went on a record store crawl and, in the last few minutes that the last store was open, I found this and immediately said "oh my god" out loud twenty times. Still kinda shaking, still kinda feel like throwing up, one of those sets I assumed I'd never see let alone own (1/2)
Hi again, here's some things I've been listening to. They're all particularly beautiful and have been great companions over the last harrowing few days
I'm trying to slip over here more!!
Gonna keep trying to move over here more. Been listening to the Graham Lambkin Solos box set over the last few days and I've been having a really beautiful time doing so!
insane mail day today
Hi all, popping back in to share my ridiculous haul from the local record fair today. A store I never am able to get to often gets scary collections and it just so happens the collection this time was pristine ECMs, including the genuine shocker at the end
Hell yeah, I'm going to a screening of it Saturday night, so stoked
Gonna once again (again, again) try to transfer over here. Any ECM/jazz/"music"/movie buds from over there I might not be following, please raise yr hand!
I had an uninterrupted chunk for the first two pieces, but it does work wonderfully as three individual discs/four individual works as well
Reminder that Necks fans should check out our Other Light Ensemble release, featuring Necks drummer Tony Buck and Patrick Shiroishi!
Oh word??????
Definitely!! Second track reminds me a lot of Drive By and Sex in that it sticks to it's core theme while all sorts of things ebb and flow around it, but it has a particularly beautiful swell towards the middle
popping back on here to let everybody know that the new Necks album is absolutely incredible and continues to reveal more of itself with every listen
poking in to this JAPO Joint that I've been curious about for a while, another in the long line of "lets just play some songs written by Carla Bley" records. This one shifts between prickly amorphous shred and subtle, spacious ambiance. Good stuff!!
Oh hell yeah, will peep
Love Love rips but Polarization is also on ECM!
(maybe I should come post here some more?)
now Swooning; I had a real burst of Steve Kuhn energy ages ago but I haven't dug back in to any of his work since then - deftly ebbing/flowing between new age cascades and string-snapping force. Almost Cecil Taylor-esque in glances! A stunner!
now digging; despite everything I've never really done a deep dive into Sun Ra's discog, so now I'm gonna! What's yr favorite Sun Ra record?
kinda big part of why I can't hang on this site too much is this extreme almost giddy doomer mindset people have. it's bad for you! believe a better world is possible!!!!
if you're thinking like this you're just kinda letting them win already
"Being able to hold a twisted, distorted visage in ones own two hands and mold it into relentless kindness is the only currency that will matter in the near and distant future. The electric guitar offers us an opportunity to learn how"
Thank you guitar, thank you Cyrus Pireh
God one can only dream of such a glory
🚨🚨🚨NEW NECKS TRIPLE ALBUM IN OCTOBER THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨🚨🚨
I've been thinking similar things since the other morning when I was on the subway and I saw a guy clearly on drugs (he made it clear by saying so) in dockers and a gingham shirt telling two strangers that their baby was so beautiful it made him want to be a father.
An absolute must listen; can only wonder the kind of music they'd be making together, here, now, in this moment.
