Recent purchases redux

[free math]

from erstdist:
keith rowe & sachiko m -- contact (erstwhile)
keith rowe & oren ambarchi -- treatise page 53, 58, 168, 169 (planam)
vanessa rossetto -- dogs in english porcelain (music appreciation)
taku unami -- malignitat (skiti)

from reckless:
daniel fandiño & aaron zarzutzki (trust lost)
otomo yoshihide -- cathode (tzadik)
les mccann presents: roberta flack -- first take (atlantic)

[gordon]

eleh - homage to the square wave

i'm getting totally lost in this. is one of my speakers blown? my ears are turning inside out...

[grisha]

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[Zeno Marx]

keith rowe & oren ambarchi -- treatise page 53, 58, 168, 169 (planam)

Knowing this pairing exists saddens me. A possible genius with an assured hack. Here's to hoping the hack is barely noticeable in the mix.

[fearandpanic]

Come on, I don't think Ambarchi is exactly a genius.

[jon abbey]

keith rowe & oren ambarchi -- treatise page 53, 58, 168, 169 (planam)

Knowing this pairing exists saddens me. A possible genius with an assured hack. Here's to hoping the hack is barely noticeable in the mix.

leaving aside the unnecessarily inflammatory part of this, Keith likes playing with Oren because 1) he supports and deepens his drones and 2) they're good friends. it will bear watching how this partnership continues now that Keith isn't so drone-focused, and I haven't heard the Treatise LP yet. but I do think that their working together in 4g brought out what I think is some of Oren's best work, on the set captured on disc 2 of that project, the one from Victo.

along similar lines, are you aware of the briefly lived guitar quartet from a couple of years ago involving Keith, Nick Didkovsky, Hans Tammen and Erhard Hirt? yikes is all I'll say there.

[Zeno Marx]

Come on, I don't think Ambarchi is exactly a genius.

Joking or not, just to be clear(er), Rowe isn't the hack.

[mudd]

i thought it was funny.

m

[Jesse]

Setting aside the emptiness in the word "genius", I dig both Rowe and Ambarchi greatly (earlier Ambarchi projects, say 2000-2006).
Their collaborations on Erst (Seven Guitars, cloud) are potent.
Amusing backlash against drone artists here in this fin-de-siecle decade of EAI/drone works.

[Stephen]

I'm curious as to why your thoughts are on this one?
I've heard this a couple of times a month ago or more but it didn't really leave a lasting impression on me....

I was really disappointed on first listen. I have a 7" by him which I really like, but there's something really lacking here, possibly simple composition. I found the rhythmic loops enforced by the turntables rotation to be really frustrating.

just purchased:


which is one half Joseph Hammer

and the new Chris Corsano solo LP


and a bunch of tapes.

[orangettecoleman]

Marcin Czubala - "Chronicles of Never"
On - "Your Naked Ghost..."
Oren Ambarchi - "Persona"
Skepticism - "Alloy"
Blut Aus Nord - "Memoria Vetusta II"
Ekkehard Ehlers - "Ballads"
Elegi - "Varde"
Yoshio Machida - "Steelpan Improvisations"
Rafael Toral - "Space Elements"
Pop Ambient 2009
Dawid Szczesny - "Luxated Symmetry"

A lot of these are reviewed on my blog if anyone wants to find out more about them. I try to review everything I buy.

[jkudler]

for those that don't know, mike parker (aka MAP) moved away, semi-mysteriously. he left behind soooooo much crap. i'm sure i missed a bunch, and i didn't even look at the books, but this is what i bought today for $25. nuts.

[sic] on any spelling; i just typed these out enough to job my memory later and didn't put full info.

colossamite
some guitar comp on alchemy of all women i never heard of
alatai, ielasi, radael, sciajno
gorge trio
oswald/kaiser
gustfasson/lovens/guy
jaworzyn/wilkinson
tv power electric
anla courtis on pogus
chris dodge/dave witte
kapotte muziek and lethe
steelwool trio
morphogenesis - charivari music
masyoshi urabe solo
rst
flying luttenbachers
frith/reichel
henry kaiser - lemon fish tweezer
melt-banana charlie
melt-banana cell-scape
cheer-accident
reichel - lower lurum
phil minton quartet (with butcher, weston, turner)
roel meelkop - 5 ambiances
lionel marchetti - knud un nom. . .
joji hiroshige solo
melt-banana - speak squeek creek
french/frith/kaiser/thompson
baghdassarians/baltschun
kaiser - five heavenly truths
rst
luttenbachers - infection and decline
nerve net noise - meteor circuit (already owned this one, but it's SO good!)
max nagl (with burkhard stangl)
casppar brotzmann massakar

[jon abbey]

wow. no one knows where he went, and he owed rent money or something?

[jkudler]

hahahhah no, not that i know of! people know where he went, but he was deliberately very opaque and vague in the email he sent out and only told a few people where he was going. he's doing "different projects, free from distraction," i'm told. he left behind a ton of books, cd's, junk, and compost buckets at a friend's house, and i think they are just trying to get rid of it all. i paid less than a buck/cd!

-jesse

[Jesse]

Great story (the MAP one).
He went from the improbably prolix contributor to internet fora, to a near disappearing act.
It's attractive, more of us should do it.

[jon abbey]

I talked to him for a while at the Lambkin/Lescalleet show in April, glad he's OK.

[jkudler]

i think he dropped off the internet (the portion we frequent) a while ago. he only moved away a couple of months ago, i think. for anyone who knows him personally, it's oddly completely surprising and not surprising at all. guy has a lot of interests.

-jesse

[jkudler]

yeah, the email took pains to say he was totally happy and fine

[jkudler]

daniel fandiño & aaron zarzutzki (trust lost)

what's up with this label? did he get it going finally? any other releases?

-j.

[free math]

who's "he"? i don't know anything other than the name is vaguely familiar, and discogs has catalog numbers up to like 6 with maybe 3 assigned. http://www.discogs.com/label/Trust+Lost
seeing aaron tomorrow, i'll see if he knows.
good cd though.. a solo or two from each of them and a handful of shortish duos. modular synth and maybe other electronics (dan) and no-output turntable (aaron).