Fabio's Favorites of 2010

MUSIC:
•       Akira Kurosawa's Movie Soundtracks 1950-1958  - 4xLP FUMIO HAYASAKA &
MASARU SATO,  (DOXY records)
•       Pärson Sound -  Pärson Sound - 3xLP box (SUBLIMINAL SOUNDS)
•       Masahiko Satoh & Sound Breakers  - Amalgamation CD re-issue (DRONE
SYNDICATE)
•       Barn Owl & the Infinite Strings Ensemble -   The Headlands LP (IMPORTANT
RECORDS)
•       Circle X  - Circle X  EP/12" (1979, 2010 re-issue)
•       Bjørn Fongaard: Elektrofoni 3CD/1DVD Box-Set. (Prisma Records)
•       Gnod/White Hills - Gnod Drop Out With White Hills II. 2xLP (Rocket
Recordings)
•       Catherine Christer Hennix - The Electric Harpsichord CD (DIE SCHACHTEL)
•       Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi LP (Abduction)
•       Love Cry Want - s/t  - 2xlp re-issue (Weird Forest)
•       Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky LP (Young God)
•       Luc Ferrari - Éphémère I & II CD (Alga Marghen)

FILMS:
•       Valhalla Rising - Nicolas Winding Refn
•       Exit Through the Gift Shop: A Banksy Film
•       Stone screening at Lincoln Center
•       Enter the Void - Gaspar Noe
•       On the Bowery - LIONEL ROGOSIN
•       Bubble - Steven Soderbergh (released in 2006)
•       The Outfit - John Flynn  - 1973 (screening at Anthology)
•       Kurosawa Retrospective at Film Forum
•       The Ghost Writer by Roman Polanski
•       I am Love  - Luca Guadagnino


OTHER STUFF:
•       Getting married
•       Oaxaca, Mexico - Abastos Market, Tlacolula Market, Monte Alba Ruins &
local Mescal in Oaxaca.
•       Paul McDonough: New York Photographs 1968-1978 by Paul McDonough
(Umbrage Editions)
•       Leon Levinstein's photographs "Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players" at the Met
•       Miroslav Tichy exhibit at I.C.P.
•       Mark E. Smith - Renegade (Penguin books)
•       Anthony Bourdain - Kitchen Confidential  (Ecco Books)
•       J.G. Thirlwell Plays & Conducts Steroid Maximus with  20 piece orchestra
in Prospect Park
•       Swans play at Brooklyn Masonic Temple
•       Gundecha Brothers concert at Asia Society
•       Brion Gysin exhibit at New Museum
•       John Baldessari  retrospective at the Met

Comments

[Jim]

Oh NO!!! I saw Swans once live in the mid-80s. I really was growing to sort of get comfortable with their dirge (having never heard them before), but then someone put a guitar on an amp stack, adding a feedback element; OK. Then someone else gradually pushed the volume up to unbearable levels, really annoyingly bad distortion and the hall cleared right out. This was, please note, a sympathetic audience, up to that point. I thought it really masochistic and sadistic for any group to do this sort of thing, and even today, it makes no sense. You're receiving this comment from someone who used to crank up early Boredoms CDs until the books literally flew off his bookshelves (fun effect there, and Boredoms are still rulers of the planet), so it's not like I was opposed to volume or distortion, per se, but Swans put on a very "unprofessional" fart in the face of the paying customers that night, and I'm sure they had no repeat victims the next time they returned to Detroit, which is known for its rich history of much better music.

[Mad Dog]

Call themselves bloody professionals??

[Cheri]

jim is an asshole.

[lo-fi jr.]

About half of these I already loved and the rest blew my mind. Thanks, and I saw Swans both pre and post Children of God and thought they were astonishing, feedback included.

[Alan Moore]

I was at that show, too, and it's true, the place cleared out and people were complaining and left. So, I guess it was a shared opinion of about 1000 people.