Andy Bieman

Rangda - Formerly Extinct CD with CD shelving unit and stacks of CDs in background.

Tonight’s listening: Rangda - Formerly Extinct (Drag City, 2012)

Blurred Wires, by Upright Forms 10 track album

Recent listening: Upright Forms - Blurred Wires (Skin Graft, 2024)

New project from Nick Sakes (Dazzling Killmen, Colossamite, Sicbay)!

YouTube video by Pavement - Topic Greenlander

Pavement - Greenlander

The cover for my upcoming album, Jiaogulan. The album cover is a photo I took in April 2025. Photo description: blue labradorite stone placed on tree with tree trunk, green foliage/leaves growing near a connected tree stump, and dirt in background.

I'm super excited about the mastering/production sound Andrew Weathers has created for my new album, Jiaogulan! It's 3 hours and 54 minutes of 189 short piano pieces recorded earlier this year. 100% improvised, direct signal from my keyboard.

I now have the first 100 tracks back! Album cover below:

YouTube video by Dave Rick Phantom Tollbooth "Over the Pipes"

Phantom Tollbooth - Over the Pipes [live at Atak, Enschede, Netherlands, 2/15/1988]

Since Time Is Gravity - Album by Natural Information Society Listen to Since Time Is Gravity by Natural Information Society on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.

Today’s listening: Natural Information Society - Since Time is Gravity (Eremite Records, 2023)

YouTube video by Subsumed Subsumed - Ruins

Subsumed - Ruins

From my 2023 album Palimpsest. I've always liked it when bands/artists used bits of live performances in their studio work, like This Heat on Deceit. The first half of this is from a live performance at East Village Coffee Lounge in Monterey from either 2014 or '15.

It's Bandcamp Friday again! Here's my album Palimpsest from 2023!

Welfare / Practice, by Lucy Liyou 12 track album

Recent listening: Lucy Liyou - Welfare / Practice (American Dreams, 2022)

Compilation of two albums from 2020 and 2021.

Keiji Haino & Sumac - Into this juvenile apocalypse our golden blood to pour let us never CD with CD stand and stacks of CDs in background.

Recent listening: Keiji Haino & Sumac - Into this juvenile apocalypse our golden blood to pour let us never (Thrill Jockey, 2022)

Selfie in forest with trees, blue sky, and playground in background. I’m wearing a Don Slepian - Sea of Bliss shirt and a Blue Note Records baseball cap.

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Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass paperback on patio table alongside a ceramic pot and glass coffee mug. Concrete and stone patio flooring in background.

Currently reading Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz, translated by Celina Wieniewska.

(1979 Penguin edition pictured. Originally published by Wydawnictwo Literackie in 1937.)

Divine Days by Leon Forrest on patio table with ceramic pot, tea glass, and concrete/stone patio flooring in background.

Just finished Divine Days! That was a wild ride. It was one of those books that “taught” me how to read it as it evaded narrative conventions for a more meta and conversational approach, interweaving stories about stories. The frenetic yet measured flow of the sentences is nonpareil!

Klaus Schulze - X - YouTube

Recent listening: Klaus Schulze - X (Brain Records, 1978)

YouTube video by remhq R.E.M. - Bad Day (Video)

R.E.M. - Bad Day

YouTube video by The Church - Topic Just For You (2002 Digital Remaster)

The Church - Just For You

ICE detains Des Moines Superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts Iowa's largest school district had "no confirmed information" on why ICE detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent since 2023.

Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district.
The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps."
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

This morning, Benjamin Netanyahu will address the United Nations — an institution which has concluded his government is committing a genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. He arrived in New York after a flight that added hours to its path to circumvent the airspace of countries which might enforce the International Criminal Court's warrant for his arrest. During the course of his speech, another Palestinian child will undoubtedly be killed by the Israeli military in Gaza, as they have been every single hour for nearly two years. Eric Adams will greet Netanyahu as a friend. Andrew Cuomo proudly served on his legal defense team. Both have jockeyed for the approval of Donald Trump, who has sent billions of our taxpayer dollars to support these war crimes. A Mayor cannot end these atrocities. But they can speak for the values of this city: a commitment to human rights for all people, including Palestinians, and a yearning for peace and justice. Even if those values are anathema to those in power now, they will endure.

As Netanyahu addresses the United Nations in New York City this morning, the world recoils in horror at the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

YouTube video by Beauty Pill - Topic Instant Night

Beauty Pill - Instant Night

Shalabi Effect - S/T 2CD with stacks of CDs and CD shelving unit in background.

Recent listening: Shalabi Effect - S/T (Alien8 Recordings, 2000)

YouTube video by Ripeminute NOMEANSNO - Now

NoMeansNo - Now

YouTube video by Kayo Dot - Topic Crown-In-The-Muck

Kayo Dot - Crown-in-the-Muck

Thanks for supporting my music!!

Eno • Hyde - High Life CD with CD shelving unit and stacks or CDs in background.

Now playing: Eno • Hyde - High Life (Warp Records, 2014)

Dead Fish - Album by The Ex Listen to Dead Fish by The Ex on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.

Now playing: The Ex - Dead Fish (Ex Records, 1990)

Wendy Eisenberg - Bloodletting 2CD with CD shelving unit and stacks of CDs in background.

Weekend listening: Wendy Eisenberg - Bloodletting (Out of Your Head Records, 2021)

YouTube video by Moving Targets - Topic Carcrash

Moving Targets - Carcrash

Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"