My musical year in a nutshell (in no particular order):
Moniek Darge - Soundies (KYE)
Lonesummer/Marsh - split cassette (Starlight Temple Society)
Edan - Echo Party (Traffic)
Bill Orcutt - A New Way To Pay Old Debts (Palilalia)
Tropa Macaca - Sansacao Do Principio (Siltbreeze)
Times New Viking - Born Again Revisited (Matador)
Rusted Shut - Dead (Load)
Chopstick - Forgiveness Please (Love Earth Music)
Spill - Where You Aren't (Blackest Rainbow)
Hochman & Hopkins - Bent Broom Rehearsal Tapes (Near Tapes)
Blues Control - Local Flavor (Siltbreeze)
Liturgy - Renihilation (20 Buck Spin)
Purling Hiss (pic right) - Purling Hiss (Archive)
Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans (Sub Pop)
William Basinski - 98982 (2062)
Mayyors - Deads 12" (Hurling Man)
Madalyn Merkey (pic right) - Goddess of the Horizon (Irmavep Tapes)
David Sylvian - Manafon (Samadhisound)
Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy (Matador) Puffy Areolas - Lutzko Lives 7" (Columbus Discount)
Sonny & the Sunsets - Death Cream 7" (Soft Abuse)
Warm Climate - Edible Houses cassette (Stunned)
Sissy Spacek - Fortune 7" (Gilgongo)
Reissues/Reduxes:
Bondage-T - Les Bouchers de Verdun 7" (Memoire Neuv)
Sun Ra - R&B Reissues (Norton)
Crash Course In Science -s/t (Vinyl On Demand)
The Ex - 30 (Ex)
Robert Wyatt - Radio Experiment Rome 1981 (Rai Trade)
Pekka Streng - Kesamaa (Love)
Various - Dirty French Psychedelics (Discograph)
39 Clocks - reissues on DeStijl, Bureau B
Best live show by oldsters (old guy tie)
The Axemen @ Union Pool, Throbbing Gristle @ Le Poisson Rouge, Neil Young @ Primavera
Had a mighty good time at WFMU Fest Oct 1-3, and our SXSW show w/Aquarius in March. And a big shout to all the bands that stopped by the show this year: TV Ghost, Airway, Gnaw, the Axemen, Graveyards, Kurt Vile & the Violators, Billy Bao, Pink Noise, Total Abuse, Afterparty, Group Doueh (from a remote in Paris we did), the Necks, Puffy Areolas, Pulse Emitter, Skullflower, Prince Rama of Ayodhya. A fine year ideed for sounds.
Check out other WFMU staffers' year end lists here.
Hopefully will find his way to the studio in 2010:
Is that some sort of corn weenie in Madalyn Merkey's mouth?
Posted by: Ralphine | December 15, 2009 at 11:19 AM
Is that a nutshell, or a nutsack?
Posted by: Stuart Page | December 20, 2009 at 05:46 AM