Recent purchases redux

[simon reynell]

Yeah, I sometimes get stuck in a Derek Bailey mood too.
I don't know the Shoji Hano disc, and it's probably not my thing, but of the others my favourite would be The Advocate which I think is tremendous.

[grisha]

vinyl:



cassettes:

[grisha]

[grisha]

cd:

Baden Powell & Vinícius de Moraes - Os Afro-Sambas de Baden e Vinícius

tapes:

Marvin Gaye - 18 Greatest Hits
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
Charlie Parker - Verve Walkman Jazz: Charlie Parker
P-Funk All Stars - Live at the Beverly Theater
Davie Allan and the Arrows - The Wild Angels and Other Themes

[grisha]

lps:



and

The Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble - Russian Folk Polyphony (dunno if this is an accurate translation, but it's their debut, much better than the Real World one). should be long OOP, maybe i'll up the mp3s some point).

[kangaroo?]

what's this grisha? saw a copy at a store today but didnt bother to check it

[(<oo>)]

what's this grisha? saw a copy at a store today but didnt bother to check it

A R Kane: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_R_Kane

[Chaney]

Available from ErstDist:

manual modules - [ RELAY : Archive 2007 - 2008 ]



Selected poems with clockworks
RELAY : Archive 2007 - 2008

Ryu Hankil, Jin Sangtae, Choi Joonyong, Hong Chulki, Park Seungjun, Joe Foster, Noid, Klaus Fliip, Dieb13, Kai Fagaschinski, Bonnie Jones,Mats Gustafsson,Taku Sugimoto, Taku Unami, Iida Katsuaki, Toshimaru Nakamura.

CD_1
1: Choi Joonyong, Joe Foster, Hong Chulki,Jin Sangtae & Ryu Hankil
2: Choi Joonyong, Kai Fagaschinski & Hong Chulki
3: Toshimaru Nakamura & ParkSeungjun
4: Klaus Filip, Jin Sangtae & Taku Uanmi
5: Choi Joonyong, Dieb13 & Joe Foster

total 72:28

CD_2
1: Choi Joonyong, Iida Katsuaki & Ryu Hankil
2: English ( Joe Foster & Bonnie Jones)
3: Choi Joonyong, Mats Gustafsson & Jin Sangtae
4: Noid, Park Seungjun & Ryu Hankil
5: Choi Joonyong, Joe Foster, Hong Chulki, Jin Sangtae, Iida Katsuaki, Toshimaru Nakamura,
Park Seungjun, Ryu Hankill, Taku Sugimoto & Taku Unami.

total 70:27

http://www.erstwhilerecords.com/distro.html

[schiksalgemeinschaft]

I had a vocal Bach (& Herreweghe) spree the last couple of weeks:





The albums that are just collections of cantates are actually my favourites. Weinen, Klagen... & Christus, der ist mein leben in particular.

and also on Harmonia Mundi, a bargain package in the local cd-megastore:
Carlo Gesualdo - Madrigals
Josquin Desprez - Missa Pange Lingua
Soeur Marie Keyrouz - Chant Byzantin
... - Orthodox Chant of the 17th & 18th Centuries

[Yii]

i just paypaled 2400 yen for new kaeru-moku cd & song book @ lilmag store!

[faster]

i just paypaled 2400 yen for new kaeru-moku cd & song book @ lilmag store!

Yikes, that's a lot of won these days, especially with the Paypal exchange rate...scary...

[the_mission]

just paypal'd for

Esther Venrooy - "The spiral staircase" LP
Steve Roden - "Stars of ice" CDR

[grisha]

vinyl reissues:

[AlbionMoonlight]

Are the re-issues remastered grisha?

[grisha]

dunno. it's one of these:

http://www.forcedexposure.com/labels/li ... ation.html (LP version, 180 gram virgin vinyl.)

[kangaroo?]

the Veloso reissue lps sound absolutely fine fwiw, remastered or not. At least the white one & araca azul which i have (a little more blue i've scored on a brazilian copy and let me tell you the reissue must be a bit better than that)

an interesting detail is that all these reissues come from Lilith, which is an EMI label, and are published in Russia. Having heard how there were tons of legal complications in issuing many of the tropicalia recordings outside latin america, and also knowing a bit about the free-spiritedness of russian copyright laws, i wondered if indeed the particular major label has used this legal opening that in the past (online mp3 sales) has done it much damage, to find a way to make these records available again

[grisha]

i haven't heard them myself yet (i'm not home, i'm visiting my folks), but if they are good (so far, they feel and look good), i'll definitely consider ordering all the other tropicalia stuff they reissued (which is two more caetanos, the first mutantes and the tropicalia one).

[free math]

picked up from jon at EI:
radu malfatti / taku unami — kushikushism (slub)
the shadow ring — live review (1993-2003) (kye)
ferran fages — al voltant d'un paral.lel (etude)
relay archive 2007-2008 (manual)
john tilbury — triadic memories / notti stellati a vagli (atopos)
tetuzi akiyama / jeffrey allport — LP (simple geometry)

and on the street in williamsburg:
prince — "if i was your girlfriend" 12" b/w "shockadelica"

oh and at academy in manhattan:
bonny billy — little lost blues

[jelle]

Yeah, those Lilith reissues sure sound fine. Fwiw, there are now also two vinyl reissues of the first self titled Gal Costa from '69 (one of them by 4 men with beards). Still screamin' for an 'Africa Brasil' reissue though..

LP
Spiritual Singers - Ntsamina
La Düsseldorf s/t

sales
Miles Davis - Complete Jack Johnson sessions

[schiksalgemeinschaft]

Night Control : Death Control

The raving reviews below hold some truth, definetly worth checking out if your interested in twisted rock/pop.

A few months ago, a mysterious disc showed up in the mail. Or more accurately, discs. Four cd-r albums of fucked up fractured outsider pop. No information anywhere on the discs, or the packaging, other than the words Crystal Shards. Which seemed pretty perfect. That's exactly what that stuff sounded like. Jagged and fragmented and crystalline and shimmery and totally bizarre and beautiful. So of course, as is our way, we become a little obsessed, and decided we had to track more down, so we could share these sounds with the aQ faithfulŠ But searches for Crystal Shards revealed almost nothing, and the label was sold out, and there were at that time no plans to make more Crystal Shards. SO we hd all but given up, until the label got in touch, and mentioned plans to release a proper cd, collecting various tracks from the Crystal Shards cd-r's, and we were thrilled, anxiously waiting its arrival, knowing that it would have to be a Record Of The Week.

And so here it is, but strangely enough, the band is no longer called Crystal Shards. In fact, there is no mention anywhere of Crystal Shards, instead, the band (actually, the man) is now called Night Control, and this disc, Death Control, collects some of our favorite Shards from those previous discs, and weaves them into a perfectly imperfect album of minimal murkiness, moody shimmer and lo-fi pop, generously dappled with effects and feedback and distortion, hooks and jangle buried in buzz and hiss. Woozy, dizzy, druggy, tripped out, and catchy as fuck. Think Ariel Pink, Gary War, John Maus, Ty Segall, Wavves, Blank Dogs, Kurt Vile, Night Control definitely fits pretty comfortably amongst those lo-fi fractured pop denizens, but definitely brings his own vibe to the party, offering up something folkier and prettier, more classically poppy, even Beatles-esque at times, but still plenty murky and freaked out and fucked up, and deliriously off kilter. We also hear some Grifters in there as well, which is never a bad thing.

Where as a lot of those other bands seem willfully obscure, the weirdness in Night Control's music seems more like a natural byproduct. As if the creation of these hauntingly perfect little pop fragments, invariably resulted in the sonic cast offs that litter the record, be they sheets of gauzy buzz, or jagged slivers of feedback, the songs at their very core, are pure pop, but that core is protected by layer after layer of noise and hiss and shimmer. Yet unlike many artists who make their pop 'weird' by adding random crap on top, or record on the shittiest equipment possible, the two sides of Night Control's sound, the jangly pop, and the lo-fi buzz, seem to meld into something totally new, a sound that couldn't exist with both those elements. The guitars jangle and strum, but often explode into blow out leads, or super crunchy textures, the bas burbles below the surface, but it too can sometimes crumble into a cloud of swirling buzz, the drums are simple and spare, but hold the whole thing together, along with the lilting vocals, always wreathed in reverb and delay. Every song here is a gem. And every song manages to reference classic pop, while filtering it through the new fractured noisepop style. Sebadoh covering Tom Petty, Cheap Trick as envisioned by Strapping Fieldhands, or imagine the Beatles or Kinks, if they were growing up today, and released handmade cd-r's. There may be noise and distortion and grit and buzz and hiss, but this stuff is way too poppy to really appeal to the noiseniks, instead this takes the sort of lo-fi pop of early Pavement records and Shrimper cassettes, and re-imagines it as some sort of alternate reality top 40, not like the bizarre alien FM radio of Ariel Pink, but something much more earnest and heartfelt. Total sad boy, late night mix tape nirvana for sure.

Hard to pick favorites, as this is a sort of greatest hits, culled from a catalog that as far as we're concerned is ALL hits, but two of our favorites are "Two Hard", with its lilting jangle, rubbery underwater bass, and some incendiary lead guitars, weaving lush sun dappled textures over a sort of repetitive post rocky drift, and "No Making", a woozy, drifty torch song, the bass driving the song, the whole thing warped and warbly, the tape speed subtly shifting throughout, causing the whole song to subtly shift and twist and making it feel like your speakers are melting, and as if that weren't enough, then there's an awesome soaring bridge / chorus, with some incredible lush guitar harmonies that could go on forever (and you'll wish they would).

Hopefully some of the other Crystal Shards stuff will surface in one form or another, but for now, there's plenty here to get lost in, a fantastic and phantasmagorical document of blissed out hallucinatory outsider noise pop. ESSENTIAL! -- Aquarius Records Record of the week review 2/20/09

Night Control is the home recording project of long time KS friend Christopher Curtis Smith, the post-pop genius of this era. Mixing ambient and found sounds, electronic drum machines, analog synthesizers, upright pianos, guitars, bass, drums and effects, Night Control bring all that is good in the world onto his first official CD release. Imagine the pop brilliance of David Byrne or Brian Eno mixed with the destrucive dirge of analog noise and found sounds all built into a brilliant little pacakge that keeps you tapping your toes. Chaos theory built around tight pop strucutres is what Night Control does. This is the best thing we've heard all year. Seriously.