Realm of Dusk

Saw them do a very loud quadrophonic set in Seattle, many moons ago.

Recent vinyl reissue of ‘Gravity’ by Monolake.

#nowplaying #idm #vinyl
Monolake — ‘Gravity’
Great to see the Monolake discography gradually getting reissued on vinyl. Can we have ‘Silence’ next, please?

#nowplaying #ecm #improv #vinyl
The Music Improvisation Company — self-titled
Step 3 on my #ecmodyssey skips ahead to the label’s 5th release. Somehow still don’t have ‘Afternoon of a Georgia Faun’. Guess I’m about to answer the Guardian’s question: Is it physically possible to listen to free jazz?

Album cover with a portrait of Shirley Collins MBE.

#nowplaying #folkmusic #vinyl
Shirley Collins — ‘The Sweet Primroses’
Def getting to be that time of year. Beautiful original copy on Topic, in exceptional condition. Bought at the Oxfam shop in Hereford.

It had a slightly weird ending. Different from the book, to leave things open for a second season, I guess. But it’s certainly a fun watch, if a bit humourless. Chloë Grace Moretz is amazing, as she always is.

It’s one of my least favourite Gibson books so maybe I’m not tied to it enough to be bothered. Like I wasn’t crazy about The Peripheral either but my partner persuaded me to watch the show and it was really great.

The one that blows me away is The Fabulous Stains. Partly it’s just finding out that film exists. But also seeing how different Vancouver was back then.

While I did love this album in 1989, De La Soul was robbed.

I live in Vancouver, so I'm used to seeing where I live standing in for another city entirely. Although I guess that's probably true of LA too.

Yeah, the last AE show here had some technical issues. Way too little overall volume, most of which was bass. But they managed to blast through it.

Had no idea AE did bad shows. I’ve only ‘seen’ them twice (compared to, I think, 10 MBV shows) but both were extraordinary.

I’ve also seen Sunny Ade (huge disappointment on that occasion) and Jandek (pretty cool). Wish I was at the Sunny Ade show you saw! But I’m mainly jealous about Fushitsusha. I’ve seen Keiji Haino three times but never with that band. I did recently see Suisho No Fune in Tokyo, which was awesome.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:

Autechre
Kate Bush
Datblygu
The Fall
My Bloody Valentine

Same question!

#nowplaying #ecm #jazz #vinyl
Alfred Harth’s Just Music — ‘Just Music’
Step two on my #ecmodyssey. And the second ECM album ever. This is actually a German original in nice shape, and it wasn’t expensive. You can tell it’s legit because there’s annoying plastic peeling off the cover.

I hate to discuss politics on social media, but the hypocrisy and injustice here is staggering. Someone from a religion with a long history of killing children, specifically Indigenous children, falsely accusing Indigenous Peoples of child sacrifice. Just so maddening.

Dooo iiit!!!!

Particularly outrageous given how many Indigenous children the Catholic Church has killed in Canada.

A vinyl reissue of the first ever album released on the ECM label.

#nowplaying #ecm #jazz #vinyl
Mal Waldron — ‘Free at Last’
Gonna try listening to every ECM LP I own in chronological order. Please join me on my #ecmodyssey and feel free to launch one of your own. This is the first ECM release. Obviously, it is the recent extended reissue, not an original.

The Four Tet meme but it’s Kevin Shields’ guitar rig.

I will keep posting My Bloody Valentine memes until someone else finds them funny.

My parents’ TV was hardcore broken for like a year. My brother and I kept pointing out that everything was a shade of purple. They claimed not to be able to see it. They *liked* the way it looked. (And don’t even get me started on aspect ratios.)

You could say "ambient jazz album of the year" and start even more and more stupid fights (which is what the internet is for, after all).

The cover is maybe a long-exposure photograph of an aeroplane taking off.

#nowplaying #ambient #vinyl
Rafael Toral — ‘Travelling Light’
Think this might be album of the year two years in a row for Toral. Gorgeous experimental interpretations of old jazz standards.

Right, I'd forgotten that America was still a thing.

Original copy. Not sure if it’s ever been reissued.

#nowplaying #vinyl
Keith LeBlanc — ‘Major Malfunction’
This seems to be a somewhat lesser-known On-U Sound adjacent album. But, evidently, a bunch of people who went on to be famous producers got into sampling specifically because of it.

Oh, wow! (To the Giménez artwork, not the adaptation. Glad as heck that didn't happen, tbh.)

I def feel all these ways about shopping in Japan. Every shop feels like home (and is likely to have an English speaker on staff). But the choice is overwhelming.

The Best Album of 1989 Round 7 Match #128 - The Final Match: Pixies vs. De La Soul This is the Best Album of 1989 match for Wednesday, November 25th, 10am CST. It will be open for 24 hours, and the winner will be declared The Best Album of 1989. The losing album will be named The Se...

The Best Album of 1989 Round 7 Match #128 - THE FINAL MATCH TO DETERMINE THE BEST ALBUM OF 1989

#1 Pixies, DOOLITTLE
vs.
#3 De La Soul, 3 FEET HIGH AND RISING

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Okay, this one is reference to what the bloke from My Bloody Valentine looks like when he wears a cowboy hat and an unbuttoned dress shirt.

Kevin Shields: THIS IS YOUR HAT