Recent purchases redux

[mono tony]

c-schulz & hajsch s/t
toshimaru nakamura - maruto

th c-schulz is great.. tonal, varied, affecting. the nakamura has a weird, loaded pressure. there are glassy, laser-like frequencies that singe the hair cells in my ears. gotta keep distance between myself and the speakers. there are nice subtleties to it

[grisha]

not technically purchases:

Sister Overdrive - Honey
Simon Whetham - Beneath the Swinging Bridge
Stephen Cornford / Patrick Farmer / Sarah Hughes / Kostis Kilymis - No Islands

and a bunch of cassettes:

two cassettes of Carlos Gardel
Duke Ellington - Live at the Newport Jazz Festival '59
Earl Hooker - 2 Bugs and a Roach / Hooker and Steve
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Kicking Against the Pricks
Muddy Waters - Hard Again
Prince - Love Symbol Album
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Antonio Carlos Jobim e Convidados
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom

[labrat]

bit of a mixed bag with your cassettes.
the Nick Cave is fabulous in places
the Prince album is a belter as is the Grace Jones but why the fuck did you buy They Might Be Giants - Lincoln? they are really offensive.
Not heard that Beastie Boys album since it came out but seem to remember it were good.
Elvis Costello,yes Elvis Costello.

Jazz is okay

[grisha]

thanks you for enlightening me dear sir. i don't know what i'd do without you.
what makes you think i didn't know what i were buying, though?
and it's always hit or miss when i am buying cassettes, they cost next to nothing so i have some fun. i don't really need that Ellington.

[labrat]

the fact that you shelled out on a They Might Be Giants tape.

here to help sweetie

[grisha]

i like it actually, it's fun. too much fun to argue about, actually. and cost me what, 4 shekels? but nice fit of superb logical thinking there.
btw, did i hallucianate about that B&S post, or you're really on a roll today?

[mudd]

lincoln is a good tmbg album.

m

[labrat]

did i hallucianate about that B&S post,
no, i love them

[negative potential]

I pretty much only buy CDs at shows nowadays, so I used the occasion of the Just Not Cricket festival to nab a lot of stuff:

From Matchless:

Alexander von Schlippenbach with Eddie Prevost duo disc
AMM w/ John Butcher
AMM - Uncovered Correspondence (already one of my favorites. I'm such a shameless Tilbury fan)
Eddie Prevost, Alan Wilkinson, and Joe Williamson

And Prevosts new book, The First Concert. Did Prevost inadvertantly (or intentionally?) reveal what AMM stands for on the cover, or is that just clever wordplay? Probably the latter I guess.

Also a nice disc from Tony Bevan, with Mark Sanders on Drums, John Edwards on bass, Ashley Wales on electronics, and my new favorite vibes player Orphy Robinson, called "We Packed Are Bags"

And finally two discs from Rhodrie Davies, the duo with John Butcher on Ftarri, and the solo disc on Confront.

But the best thing I got from this festival was the lo-fi recording on my MP3 player of a Lol Coxhill and Eddie Prevost duo. Hopefully this will see a proper CD release someday.

[labrat]

Lol Coxhill is a hero in Wigan, when the Wigan Jazz Festival was on he used to busk in front of the Bricklayers Arms (ruff as fuck)
recon he gave as good as he got -fine,fine feller.

[patois]

Charles Barrington - Agua Sagrada
Oil on Canvas 760 mm x 760 mm

[grisha]

[Yii]

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[grisha]

Italo Calvino - Mr. Palomar
Italo Calvino - The Road to San Giovanni
Italo Calvino - Hermit in Paris
Bruno Schulz - The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories
Richard Thompson - Cul de Sac Golden Treasury

[grisha]

cassettes:

Djimo Kouyate - Djimo: West African Kora Music
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
Billie Holiday - God Bless the Child
Toquinho e Vinícius - Um Pouco de Ilusão
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Art Davis Quartet - Life

CDs:

Lieutenant Caramel - Early Tape Works
Anne Guthrie - Perhaps a Favorable Organic Moment
Joe Panzner - Clearing, Polluted

[notoriousd]

Tim Barnes and Glenn Kotche - Music for Traps, Percussion, and Electroacoustics (Quakebasket)

thanks I didn't know about this one.. just picked it up on discogs

[J.F.]

last few CDs I bought recently:

KIT: Broken Voyage
KIT: Invocation
AIDS Wolf vs. Athletic Automation: Clash of the Life-force Warriors
AIDS Wolf: Dustin' Off the Sphinx
Half Japanese: Loud/Horrible
Half Japanese: Our Solar System

Didn't listen to any Half Japanese yet, except for snippets on the internet which sounded like a lot of fun. Already love KIT a lot. Still "on the fence" about AIDS Wolf, maybe these two new ones change that in some way.

It's nice to explore new stuff, and thereby finding things I really enjoy totally brightens my November-days.

[Tanner]

Is this worth it? I know it's not a lot of money ultimately, but I've read some middling reviews of the actual presentation.

Anyway in the spirit of massive American consumption I bought some used stuff yesterday:

Cultes Des Ghoules "Haxan"
Mournful Congregation "The June Frost"
Acid Witch "Stoned"
The Atlas Moth's new one
And a random Turkish black metal album that I can't remember the name of off hand, but actually is very good Ajna Offensive type stuff.

[Wombatz]

Is this worth it? I know it's not a lot of money ultimately, but I've read some middling reviews of the actual presentation.

Presentation is awful. Music is glorious (8 great to killer cds, only one weaker to these ears (Son of Sisyphus)). What a run. (I had good mp3s of the Vade Mecums, but not least because of instrumentation the upgrade was definitely worth it.)

[e-Miel]

Technics SL-1200mk2