A smattering of our sound slab selections for the slid-away '12:
SCOTT McDOWELL (The Long Rally, Fridays 9-Noon)
C S Yeh - Transitions (De Stijl)
Muscles of Joy - Muscles of Joy (Watts of Goodwill)
Vanessa Rossetto - Exotic Exit (Kye)
The Trypes - Music for Neighbors (Acute)
Agali Ag Amoumine - Takamba (Sahel Sounds)
Mark Fell - Periodic Orbits of a Dynamic System Related to a Knot (Editions Mego)
Jason Lescalleet - Songs About Nothing (Erstwhile)
Various - Time To Go - The Southern Psychedelic Moment: 1981-86 (Flying Nun)
Rev. Charlie Jackson - Lord You’re So Good (50 Miles of Elbow Room)
Helm - Impossible Symmetry (Pan)
Morton Feldman - Crippled Symmetry (Frozen Reeds)
Eric Lanham - The Sincere Interruption (Spectrum Spools)
Sean McCann & Matthew Sullivan - Jackpot (Ekhein)
Andy Stott - Luxury Problems (Modern Love)
Mary Halvorson Quintet - Bending Bridges (Firehouse 12)
Lewlewal De Podor - Yiilo Jaam (Sahel Sounds)
Various - Fanafody: A Collection of Recordings and Photography from Madagasikara Volume II (Mississippi/Cultural Knot)
David Kilgour - Here Come the Cars (De Stijl)
Various - Laila Je T'aime (Sahel Sounds)
Eli Keszler - Cold Pin (Pan)
TROUBLE (This Is the Modern World, Tuesdays 9-Noon)
Peaking Lights - Lucifer
Pure Bathing Culture - s/t
Allah-las - s/t
Tia Blake and her folk group - Folksongs and Ballads
Angel Olsen - Halfway Home
Melody's Echo Chamber - s/t
Personal Space: Electronic Soul 74-84 - v/a
Just Tell Me What You Want - v/a tribute to Fleetwood Mac
Josephine Foster - Blood rushing
Brenda Ray - D'Ya hear me: Naffi years 1979-83
Julia Holter - Extasis
FAYE (Hello Children, Thursdays 9-Noon)
Maxine Funke- Felt LP
Pheromoans- Does This Guy Stack Up? LP
Boomgates- Double Natural LP
Swearin'- Swearin' LP
Thee Ahs - Thee AHs AHttack! 7"
V/A - Songs On Conceptual Art Compilation LP
Scott & Charlene's Wedding- Para Vista Social Club LP
Evening Meetings- Evening Meetings LP
Tennis- Young & Old LP
Novella- Novella EP
BRIAN TURNER (WFMU Music Director, Tuesdays 3-6pm)
Divorce s/t (Night School)
Lee Ranaldo - Between the Times and the Tides (Matador)
Tropa Macaca - Ectoplasma (Software)
Solid Attitude - BB Gun Picnic (Rotted Tooth)
Maxine Funke - Felt (Epic Sweep)
Peter Hammill - Consequences (Fie)
Blues Control - Valley Tangents (Drag City)
Frank Rosaly - Centering and Displacement (Utech)
Joshua Abrams - Represencing (Eremite)
Letha Rodman Melchior/Tretetam - Moon Mountain (Robert & Leopold)
BB Jr - How To Fuck All Your Coworkers in One Sitting (Captcha)
Mohel - The Second Temple (Verdura)
Arnaldo Antunes / Edgard Scandurra / Toumani Diabate
- A Curva Da Cintura
(Mais Um Discos)
Crazy Spirit - s/t (Toxic State)
Thomas Koner - Novaya Zemlya (Touch)
Spectre Folk - Ancient Storm (Vampire Blues)
FNU Ronnies - Saddle Up (Load)
Willie Lane - Guitar Army of One (Cord-Art)
Ali Ag Amoumine - Takamba (Mississippi)
Seven That Spells - The Death and Resurrection of Krautrock (Beta-Lactam Ring)
7"
Hot Lunch, Satanic Rockers, Circle X, Secret Museum of Kind Men, IV Eyes/Schiller Killer split, Manateees, Orgone Toilet label stuff
Old But New:
Sedition Ensemble - Regeneration Report (S-S)
Wicked Lady - The Axeman Cometh (Guersen)
Noh Mercy - Noh Mercy (Superior Viaduct)
Null and Void - Possibilities (Bunker Pop)
Coven - Worship New Gods (Shadow Kingdom)
Francis Bebey - African Electronic Music (Born Bad)
Metz - Metz (Ossining)
Rev. Charlie Jackson - Lord You're So Good: Live Recordings Vol. 2 (50 Miles of Elbow Room)
The Max Block - Air Ache In the Belly of the Leech (Siltbreeze)
Northern Haze - Sinnaktuq (Supreme Echo)
Sonic Youth - Smart Bar Chicago 1985 (Goofin)
Can - The Lost Tapes (Mute/Spoon)
Jim Shaw & Mike Kelley - Duets 1975-76 (Compound Annex)
Various - Time To Go: The Southern Psychedelic Movement 1981-86 (Flying Nun)
Live:
Pussy Galore, Maxwells, Hoboken
Van Halen, Cafe Wha? (David Lee Roth's uncle's place!) NYC
ZZ Top - Beacon Theater, NYC
Watery Love, Cake Shop NYC
Bone Awl - St Vitus, Brooklyn
Leonard Cohen, Barclays, Brooklyn
The Pop Group - Primavera, Barcelona
Les Morts Vont Bien - La Cantine de Belleville, Paris
Michael Chapman - The Captain's, Glasgow
Sightings/Gnaw - Littlefield, Brooklyn
Supreme Dicks - Beerland, Austin
Gay Witch Abortion/Hammerhead/Melvins/Seawhore - Lit Lounge NYC
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Barclays, Brooklyn
Alvarius B - Union Pool, Brooklyn
Peter Brotzmann/Jason Adasiewicz & Joshua Abrams - Le Poisson Rouge
Live radio sessions on the show w/feedtime, Lee Ranaldo Band, Suzuki Junzo, Blues Control, Black Dice, Michael Chapman, +DOG+, Jandek, Twerps, Gay Witch Abortion.
DAN BODAH (Airborne Event, Mondays 9PM-Midnight)
Swans -- The Seer (Young God)
Colin L. Orchestra -- Col (Northern-Spy)
Lonnie Holley -- Just Before Music (Dust-to-Digital)
Om -- Advaitic Songs (Drag City)
Pauline Oliveros -- Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 12xCD (Important)
Jim Coleman -- Trees (Wax & Wane)
Blues Control -- Valley Tangents (Drag City)
Sabbath Assembly -- Ye Are Gods (Ajna Offensive)
Date Palms / Expo 70 / Pulse Emitter / Faceplant -- untitled split 2xLP (Immune)
Hildur Guðnadóttir -- Leyfdu Ljosinu (Touch)
William Basinski -- The Disintegration Loops 9xLP + 5xCD + DVD + book (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
Samara Lubelski -- Wavelength (De Stijl)
BILLY JAM (Put the Needle on the Record, Fridays 7-8pm)
1) El-P "Cancer 4 Cure" (Fat Possum)
2) Kid Koala "12 Bit Blues" (Ninja Tune)
3) Aesop Rock "Skelethon" (Rhymesayers Ent)
4) Homeboy Sandman "First of A Living Breed" (Stones Throw)
5) JJ Doom "Key To The Kuffs" (Lex Records)
6) Casual & J-Rawls "Respect Game Or Expect Flames" (Nature Sounds)
7) Lushlife "Plateau Vision" (Western Vinyl)
8) Killer Mike "R.A.P. Music" (Williams Street)
9) Serengeti "C.A.R." (Anticon)
10) E-40 & Too $hort "History: Mob Music" (Heavy On the Grind)
THOMAS STORCK (Dangerous For the Brain, Sundays 6-9am)
NEW:
1. HANK WOOD AND THE HAMMERHEADS // Go Home LP (Toxic State)
2. WATERY LOVE // Die With Dignity 7" (Siltbreeze)
3. LAMPS // Under The Water Under The Ground LP (In The Red)
4. HAMMERING THE CRAMPS // S/T LP (Wormwood Grasshopper)
5. "Coming Back + Coming Over" by MOLE HOUSE from their 7" (Quemada)
6. FNU RONNIES // Saddle Up LP (Load)
7. LLOYD PACK // Know Your Lloyd Pack 7" (Siltbreeze)
8. JASON LESCALLEET // Songs About Nothing 2xCD (Erstwhile)
9. MULTICULT // Spaces Tangled LP (Sleeping Giant Glossolalia)
10. XWAVE // Cities On Flame LP (Little Big Chief)
11. "Walk Like A Giant" by NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE from Psychedelic Pill (Reprise)
REISSUES:
1. fEEDTIME // The Aberrant Years 4xLP (Sub Pop)
2. CIRCLE X // Heartbreaker 7" (Poutre Apparente)
3. THE PHILOSOPHIC COLLAGE // Genius 7" (BDR)
4. GARETH WILLIAMS & MARY CURRIE // Flaming Tunes LP (Blackest Ever Black)
5. VOM // Live At Surf City 7" (Rerun)
6. SILVER JEWS // Early Times LP (Drag City)
7. VARIOUS // Time To Go 2xLP (Flying Nun)
8. THE PIN GROUP // Ambivalence LP (Flying Nun)
9. BRIAN CROOK // Bathysphere LP (Meds)
10. MARKS AND LEBZELTER // Rock And Other Four Letter Words LP (Paradigm Discs)
11. JACK RUBY // Hit and Run 7" (Saturday)
IRENE TRUDEL (Mondays 12-3pm)
Top 10 albums:
1. Clare
& the Reasons – KR-51 / Un Disque Frogstand
2. Becca
Stevens Band – Weightless / Sunnyside
3. Sharon Van Etten's Tramp / JagJaguar
4. Daniel Bachman – Seven Pines / Tompkins Square
5. Kemp
& Eden – Black Hole Lace / Chimera Music
6. Lee
Feldman – Album No. 4: Trying to Put Things Together That Never Been Together
Before / Bug Music
7. Bill
Frisell – All We Are Saying / Savoy Jazz
8. Milk
Carton Kids – Prologue / Milk Carton Kids
(Free download @ http://www.themilkcartonkids.com/
9. The
Verlaines – Untimely Meditations / Flying Nun
10. World Famous Headliners (w/Big Al
Anderson) – The World Famous Headliners / Big Yellow Dog Music
TONY COULTER (Give the Drummer Some webstream)
Absent Music
- Absent EP (EE Tapes 7”)
Bene Gesserit – Still Insane After All These Years (Ultramarine LP)
Déficit des Années Antérieures - Jet Over Kashima Airport Include the Hit
Miss Vandann (Illusion Production CD)
Enzo Minarelli - Fame (Pogus CD)
Pseudo Code - With Helpful Hands (Plinkity Plonk CD)
Rascal Reporters - Psychlops (Complete) (Hebbardesque digital file)
Tom Recchion - Proscenium (Elevator Bath LP)
SIC - Thought
Noises (Dark Entries LP)
Toupidek Limonade - Il y a des vies qui dévient (InPolySons LP)
Various Artists - 4 in 1 Volume 3 (EE Tapes CD) w/ Pseudo Code, Bene Gesserit, Messy
Goes Insane, & Human Flesh
Various Artists - Tensions at the Vanguard: New Music from Peru (1948–1979) (Pogus 2CD) w/ César Bolaños, Edgar Valcárcel, Enrique
Pinilla, Alejandro Nuñez Allauca, Arturo Ruiz del Pozo, a.o.
CHRIS M (Imaginary Radio, Sundays 3-6am)
Best New Albums of 2012:
Bee And Flower - Suspension
Busy Signal - Reggae Music Again
Cannibal Corpse - Torture
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
Cutty Ranks - Full Blast
Funky DL - Nights in Nippon Jazzstrumentals
Goatwhore - Blood For The Master
Kool Keith - Love And Danger
Longmont Potion Castle - Volume 9
Major Stars - Decibels Of Gratitude
Multicult - Spaces Tangled
Mutilation Rites - Empyrean
Robert Pollard - Jack Sells The Cow
Six Organs Of Admittance - Ascent
White Hills - Frying On This Rock
Worst New Albums of 2012:
Architecture Undergrads - Everything I Do Is Important, Dad!
Chelsea Lancaster - Plays Feist
cool, - Indie Pop
Death By Instagram - Crystal Crystals
dntl.Flo$s - A 4ew Soundcloud Choons
Fox Wolfs - Untitled
Gulrot Blod* - Toalett Sult
Tyler Chase Jr - iPhone 5 Field Recordings In Nigeria, Vol. 3
Van Buren Family Band - Season Of Changes
Wiiires - No Future: The Punk Rock Symphony
* the Ohio band; not to be confused with the UK Gulrot Blod, which is excellent.
JEFFREY DAVISON (Saturdays 6-9am)
(alphabetical order)
Daniel Bachman Oh Be Joyful (Debacle)
The Baird Sisters Until You Find Your Green (Grapefruit)
Allysen Callery The Summer Place (Woodland Recordings)
Luther Dickinson Hambone's Meditations (Songs of the South)
Maxine Funke Felt (Epic Sweep)
Hallock Hill The Union/A Hem of Evening (Mie)
Stephanie Hladowski & C Joynes The Wild Wild Berry (Bo' Weavil)
Hope For Agoldensummer Life Inside the Body (Mazarine)
Willie Lane Guitar Army of One (Cord-Art)
Lora-Faye Beards (no label)
Tift Merritt Traveling Alone (Yep Roc)
Nina Nielsen Love and Terror in the Wilderness (Biophon)
Angel Olsen Half Way Home (Bathetic)
Jessica Pratt Jessica Pratt (Birth)
Luke Roberts The Iron Gates at Throop and Newport (Thrill Jockey)
Ember Schrag The Sewing Room (Edible Onion and Single Girl/Married Girl)
Mariee Sioux Gift for the End (Whale Watch/Almost Musique)
Richard Skelton Verse of Birds (Corbel Stone)
Sharon Van Etten Tramp (Jagjaguwar)
Mirel Wagner Mirel Wagner (Friendly Fire)
Chelsea Wolfe Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs (Sargent House)
(Various Artists) Eight Trails, One Path (Three Lobed)
2011 or prior releases only discovered in 2012
Anonymous Bells Ringing in the Dells of Haunted Hours (Time-Lag), 2011
Olof Arnalds (several recordings)
Bill Baird Goodbye Vibrations (Editions BB), 2011
Anna Coogan The Wasted Ocean (no label), 2011
The Diamond Family Archive (several)
Grey Reverend Of the Days (Motion Audio), 2011
Hope For Agoldensummer Ariadne Thread (no label), 2007
Chuck Johnson A Struggle Not a Thought (Strange Attractors), 2011
C Joynes The Running Board (The Great Pop Supplement), 2008
Sam Moss (several)
Rachel Ries (several)
St. Claire Everyone Lives Here (no label), 2010
She Keeps Bees Dig On (no label), 2011
Christine Shields In the Sun (Awesome Vistas), 2010
Six Organs of Admittance Maria Kapel (Pavilion), 2011
Virgil Caine The Great Lunar Oil Strike (Fulcrum, 1976/Time-Lag, 2011)
The Weather Station All of It Was Mine (You've Changed), 2011
Bonnie White Suite From the Other End (Carousel), 1971
Christine Zacher Spirituals, Folk Songs, Blues (CBS Germany), 1965
Reissues and the like:
Robbie Basho Twilight Peaks (Smeradina-Rima)
The Be Good Tanyas A Collection (Nettwerk)
Sandy Bull & The Rhythm Ace Live 1976 (Galactic Zoo/Drag City)
The Flatlanders The Odessa Tapes (New West)
Michael Hurley Back Home With Drifting Woods (Mississippi/Nero's Neptune)
Ray Stinnett A Fire Somewhere (Light In the Attic)
M. Ward Duet For Guitars #2 (Jealous Butcher)
BOB BRAINEN (Saturdays 9-11am)
"New/New" (in aphabetical order)
-Beach Boys-That's Why God Made The Radio (Capitol)
-Beachwood Sparks-The Tarnished Gold (Sub Pop)
-Andrew Bird-Hands of Glory (Mom and Pop Music)
-dBs-Falling Off The Sky (Bar None)
-Pete Donnelly-When You Come Home (petedonnellymusic.com)
-Chilly Gonzalez-Piano Solos II (Gentle Threat/Arts & Crafts)
-David Greenberger & Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound-They Like Me Around Here (Pel Pel)
-NRBQ-We Travel The Spaceways (Clang!)
-Beth Orton-Sugaring Season (Anti)
-Alec K. Redfearn & The Eyesores_Sister Death (Cunieform)
"Old/New" (in alphabetical order)
-Association-The Complete Warner Bros. & Valiant Singles Collection [2 CD] (Now Sounds)
-Daughters of Albion-Daughters of Albion (Now Sounds)
-Dreamscape-La-Di-Da Recordings (Krank)
-Doug Dillard and Gene Clark-Why Not Your Baby / Lyin’ Down The Middle [7" Pic Sleeve] (Sundazed-Record Store Day 2012)
-Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited-Plays Lost TV Themes [Vinyl Album] (Dionysus Records)
-Juma Sultan's Aboriginal Music Society-Whispers From The Archive (Porter)
-Sun Ra-Supersonic Jazz / Fate In A Pleasant Mood (Solar)
-Traffic-Heaven Is In Your Mind / Mr. Fantasy (Mono) (Sundazed)
-Various-Mr. Joe's Jambalaya & Loaded Down With The Blues [2 CD] (Charly)
-Various-The Red Bird Girls Very First Time In Real Stereo (Real Gone Music)
JASON SIGAL (Talk's Cheap)
Traxman - Da Mind of Traxman (Planet Mu)
Ed Schrader’s Music Beat - Jazz Mind (Load)
Lonnie Holley - Just Before Music (Dust-to-Digital)
Maga Bo - Quilombo Do Futuro (Post World Industries)
Alaclair Ensemble - America / Dans L’South du Bass (alaclair.com / Free Music Archive)
Noh Mercy - Noh Mercy (Superior Viaduct)
Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-1984 (Chocolate Industries)
Infinite Livez - Glockenbachwerkstatt CS (Tapeworm)
Blake Fleming - Time's Up (Blood Dirt / Free Music Archive)
Dikes of Holland - S/T (Screamers Records)
Time To Go: The Southern Psychedelic Moment: 1981-86 (Flying Nun)
Smersh - Cassette Pets (Dark Entries)
Bazooka / Present Tense Demos / Black Vinyl Shoes / One In Versailles [reissues] (Numero Group)...and lots more. My favorite live performance was Sudden Infant at Ende Tymes Festival, and the best a capella interpretation of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' album Blood Sugar Sex Magik goes to Phil Blankenship
DEED RUNLEA (Distort Jersey City, Wednesdays 3-6am)
Hank Wood & The Hammerheads- Hank Wood & The Hammerheads LP (Toxic State)
Merchandise- Children of Desire LP (Katorga Works)
Crazy Spirit- Crazy Spirit LP (Toxic State)
Who Killed Spikey Jacket? 12" EP (Total Fucker)
Neon Piss- Neon Piss LP (Deranged)
Confines- Some Sick Joke EP (Side Two)
Goosebumps- I Hate My Body EP (Burn Books)
Kremlin- Will You Feed Me? EP (Hardware Records)
Warthog- Chain Wallet Demo
Twerps- I'm Stupid EP (Feeble Minds/ Karmic Swamp)
BILL KELLY (Teenage Wasteland, Sundays 3-5pm)
The Teenage Wasteland (s)hit parade for 2012
Top 10 albums/ep’s
The Allah Las “Allah Las” (Innovative Leisure)
The Setting Son “Before I Eat My Eyes And Ears” (Bad Afro)
The Brixton Riot “Palace Amusements” (Modern Hymnal)
The Doughboys “Shakin’ Our Souls” (Ram)
Ash Gray & the Girls “Born In The Summer” (LuvRock)
The Bevis Frond “The Leaving Of London” (Woronzow)
Thee Outlets “1st” (Moody Monkey)
Joey Ramone “Ya Know” (BMG)
The Hives “Lex Hives” (Disques Hives)
Midnight Woolf “I’ll Be A Dog” (Off The Hip)
Top singles:
The Alarm Clocks “Ramona” (My Mind’s Eye)
The New Piccadillys “Misery” (All Tore Up)
The Launderettes “Marks On My Map” (Wicked Cool)
Superchunk “Cruel Summer” (Merge)
Palmyra Delran “You’re My Brian Jones” (Apex East)
Honorable Mention, in no particular order: Davila 666 “03-06-2011” (Third Man), Thee Vicars “I Wanna Be Your Vicar” (Dirty Water), Shonen Knife “Pop Tune” (Good Charamel), The Basements “I’m Dead” (Lost In Tyme), The Evil Streaks “Talk To The Dead” (Necro-Tone), Gar Francis “Shine On” (Bongo Boy), The Nevermores “Now More Than Never” (TIRC), Les Terribles “Quelque Chose Comme Ca” (Screaming Apple), The Hi-Risers “Hang Around With You” (R&R Inc.)
JACK MELLO
X-TG -- Desertshore/The Final Report (Industrial Records)
Jam City -- Classic Curves (Night Slugs)
Bass Clef -- Reeling Skullways (Punch Drunk)
LHF -- Keepers of the Light (Keysound)
Flosstradamus/Baauer -- Rollup (Fool's Gold), Harlem Shake (Jeffree's)
The 2 Bears -- Be Strong (Southern Fried)
Andy Stott -- Luxury Problems (Modern Love)
Ruff Sqwad -- White Label Classics (No Hats No Hood)
Swindle -- Do the Jazz (Deep Medi), Pineapple (Butterz)
Blawan-- He His She She (Hinge Finger)
Rollo Jean -- San Tropez, Cellar of Love (bandcamp)
10. Raoul K-“Bardot” (Still music)
9. Ex-Cops-“The Millionaire” (Other Music recording co)
8.Nite Jewel-“One Second of love” (Secretly Candian)
7.Omar S. –“Here’s your Trance Now Dance (Shadow ray remix) FXHE
6. Toy-“left Myself Behind” (Heavenly)
5. Adrian Younge-“1969 Organ” (Wax Poetics)
4. Twilite Tone-“Mean Machine” (Uno NYC)
3.Frank Ocean-Thinkin ‘bout you” (Motown/Universal)
2. Bear In Heaven-“Reflection of You” (Dead Oceans)
1. Miguel-“Adorn” (RCA)
Top 10 albums/reissues of 2012:
10. Wild Nothing-“Nocturne” (Captured Tracks)
9. Jackson 5- Come and get it:Rare Pearls (Motown/Universal)
8.Quakers-S/T (Now Again/Stones Throw)
7. Jessica Pratt-S/T (Birth)
6. V/A-Soul/Cal: Disco and Modern Soul Masterpeices (Now Again)
5. V/A-Personal Space (Electronic Soul 1974-1984) (Chocolate Industries)
4. Vanilla-“Soft Focus” (Self-released)
3. Jackie Deshannon-“Keep Me in Mind” (Ace)
2. Can-“Lost tapes” (Mute)
1.Carole King-“The Legendary Demos” (Universal)
MICHAEL SHELLEY (Saturdays 11am-1pm)
This year there is a tie for the number one new release #1 hit song of the year:
The Explorers Club "Run Run Run"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZKNP10qMyY
and
Redd Kross "Stay Away From Downtown"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6teoeHq6pig
Both are amazing!
To round out the top ten, here are some others (some old, some new) that got their first airplay in 2012, every one is a #1 hit:
The New Piccadillys "Judy Is A Punk"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gl-HEUo-Js
The Beach Boys "That's Why God Made the Radio"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGke6pnT1d0
Junior Wells "It's A Man Down There"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXnluYCTK0Y
Kenny Vaughan "Hot Like That"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzTsrYaky3k
The Leopards "I Wonder If I'll Ever See You Again"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXyY0J5I1bk&list=UUGYnO2CPlhoZZ3S3Yk3MDag&index=15
5th Avenue Busses "Fantastic Voyage"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tla9v47e6fM
The Herd "Our Fairy Tale"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiEch8QZ_jE
The tenth slot is a tie - all of the songs from "Super Hits of the Seventies"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugCIWENzdY0&feature=player_embedded
HENRY LOWENGARD (WFMU Webhamster)
2012 List here
JESSE JARNOW (The Frow Show, Tuesdays 3-6am)
New:
1. Lambchop, Mr. M (Merge)
2. Aaron Freeman, Marvelous Clouds (Partisan)
3. Tall Firs, Out of It & Into It (All Tomorrow’s Parties)
4. Grass Widow, Internal Logic (HLR)
5. Man Forever, Pansophical Cataract (Thrill Jockey)
6. Leonard Cohen, Old Ideas (Columbia)
7. Dustin Wong, Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads (Thrill Jockey)
8. Talibam! & Sam Kulik, Discover AtlantASS (Belly Kids)
9. Cate Le Bon, Cyrk (The Control Group)
10. Swans, The Seer (Young God)
Reissues:
1. Karen Dalton, 1966 (Delmore)
2. Francis Bebey, African Electronic Music, 1975-1982 (Born Bad)
3. Grateful Dead, Dark Star (Rhino)
4. Lee Hazlewood, The LHI Years (Light In the Attic)
5. v/a, Soft Sounds For Gentle People, vol. 3 (no label)
6. Sonic Youth, Smart Bar 1985 (Goofin’)
7. Taj Mahal Travelers, Live at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, 1st July 1971 (Klimst)
8. Toy Love, Live at the Gluepot 1980 (Goner)
9. The Trypes, Music For Neighbors (Acute)
10. The Flatlanders, The Odessa Tapes (New West)
LIZ BERG (Mondays 9-Noon) posted here
RICH HAZELTON (Inflatable Squirrel Carcass, Friday nights/Sat morn 12-3am)
1. Life with Tamar - Successful relationships are
built on the time that one can offer to one's partner. Sometimes you
want to be selfish, sometimes you wish to be magnanimous. This year I
felt more the latter as we went through a difficult couple of months
where we lost our cat, Quin, and then Tamar's mom, Judy, a few weeks
later. When you're there for a person you realize why you're here so
this was a good defining year for us. After 10 years of marriage we are
still getting closer and I like that, the sense of discovery still
exists and it fills my mind with NSFW thoughts when the commute is too
crowded to open the book.
2. Crossing the Mississippi - I hit the age of 50 this year and for the
first time stood by the Pacific Ocean. Part of me (the intelligent part)
realizes how much I haven't seen and how little time there is to not
see it in. But I am satisfied that I have seen the Mendocino Headlands,
watched river otters play a few feet away from my vantage point in a
solar powered boat, driven on Highway 1 in California from Mendocino to
Jenner (that is one beautiful, dangerous road; sorry BQE but you're not
beautiful), taken a mud bath in Calistoga. This vacation made me feel
particularly old because I remember some of the food we ate (veggie
paella at Ravens Restaurant, tuna at Revival in Berkeley) which is
something that always used to drive me crazy about my parents (when you
asked them what they did on vacation they would start talking about the
breakfasts). There was really good wine (Philips Hill 2010
Gewurtztraminer) and beautiful places to stay (Stanford Inn, Timber Cove
Inn, Berkeley Women's Club), City Lights and Lombard Street in San
Francisco, and Julia Morgan's work at the Berkeley Women's Club. Also,
two places where I had a sudden flash of potential villainy: the cliffs
surrounding the Timber Cove Inn and the Sutro Baths in San Francisco.
But best of all I was surrounded by redwoods.
3. Can - The Lost Tapes (Mute) - I imagine that the excitement when you
first put this on is similar to how it felt when the original albums
were coming out, minus the chemicals (congratulations if this does not
describe your experience). “Milliononenspiel” starts it off, something
from one of the soundtracks they did (a two week series showing the
films that Can and members of the band did soundtracks for should be on
some repertory theater's radar). This is followed by the immediate
sing-along jam “Waiting for the Streetcar” with Malcolm Mooney giving
voice to the commuters of the world. Then it's another direction and
another and the compass is going crazy for three discs of unreleased
tracks from one of the bands that define freeform.
4 Han Bennink 70th Birthday (w/Michael Moore, Thomas Heberer, Mary
Oliver, Uri Caine, Ray Anderson, Mark Dresser, Richard Teitelbaum),
April 21, Italian Academy, Columbia University - It's always interesting
to attend a show that when it's over you have a pretty good idea that
it's the best show you're going to see all year. Since this performance
happened in April it doesn't necessarily mean that it was a year of bad
performances and missed opportunities (though your mind . . . your mind
plays tricks on you sometimes and I think to meself that's it, that's
all she wrote), instead it reminds me of how much fun the show was. This
was a celebration of a great talent with a contingent of his ICP
Orchestra cohorts and previous playing partners doing what they do best.
I do wish they had invited George Lewis onstage to join in, however.
5. Shackleton - Music for the Quiet Hour/Drawbar Organ EPs (Woe to the
Septic Heart) - Exotica for the artificial intelligence. Listen to the
0s and 1s absentmindedly playing with the little umbrellas that arrived
in their source code.
6. Brandon Graham - King City (Image); Prophet (Image); Multiple
Warheads (Image) - Of all the artists working in comics at the moment,
Brandon Graham is the one that makes my third eye smile the most. It's
the combination Moebius (RIP)/Paul Pope/street art look, the atrocious
puns that would make Doug Schulkind blush, the criss-crossing
narratives, the world building, that make these books fun.
7. Anna Homler/Sylvia Hallett: The Many Moods of Bread and Shed
(Orchestra Pit) - Thank you for sharing the continuing development of
your languages.
8. Dan Melchior: The Backward Path (Northern Spy) - This is call and
response to the obstacles. This is the anger of acceptance, the
acceptance of anger. This is the sound of love. And it contains the best
songs that I've heard this year.
9. Joshua Abrams: Represencing (Eremite) - Music in search of a ceremony. Provide one for it.
10. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings/Antibalas - Williamsburg Park,
August 18 - What a beautiful day August 18 was this year. It was warm,
sun was shining, we missed the opening act, Antibalas came on, sounded
good but there was a little bit of a spark missing compared to the last
time I saw them, and then Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings came on and
one of my favorite days of the year occurred.
11. This Is Not A Film: Dir. Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb - This
is the film that may have topped “8 1/2’ as my favorite film about not
making a film because it involves real-life consequences. For many years
there have been several Iranian filmmakers working along the borders of
fiction and reality. The "powers that be" (a term that should always be
written in lowercase; if there is a way to make it smaller please do
so) recognize that these films do not have the powers' best interests in
mind and this can lead to the censoring or banning of the film, the
official taking away of the filmakers' rights to film and from leaving
the country, oppression. In this film Panahi comes up with an ingenious
method to get around the ban placed on him. Partially shot on an iPhone,
the film documents his concept for a film that cannot be realized,
conversations with his lawyer as he appeals his ban, the family's
iguana; nothing really happens in this film but it is a pretty amazing
nothing. The stifling of imagination via threat of imprisonment or worse
is something that I will never understand, it's like fearing life.
Whenever someone talks about bombing Iran, show them films like this or
some of the art that's being done in the country or videos from the
underground rock scene that's going on over there to remind them that
these are the people who would be killed.
12. Akio Suzuki/Gozo Yoshimasu & Otomo Yoshihide - Abrons Art Center
- September 27; Akio Suzuki, 1st St. between 1st and 2nd Ave. People's
Park, October 13: Akio Suzuki is a puppeteer among musicians. With the
barest of manipulations he can cause inanimate objects to sing their
dreams before they settle back into their long slumber. It's not just
anybody who can hold your attention while banging two small rocks
together. At People's Park he entertained with wood, hammer, nails, and
dancer. Sometimes simple can light the most complex world.
13. Orphan Fairytale: Comets Come Alive (Blackest Rainbow) - This is the
sound of a music box in a hall of mirrors. It would be nice if someone
could develop a modern Regina style music box with discs designed by the
likes of Orphan Fairytale, Joanna Newsom, Laetitia Sadier, Julie
Tippets, Vicki Bennett, etc. That would be a wondrous object; something
to have in every booth of your dream diner.
14. *Bjork: Biophilia - NY Hall of Science, February 12 - Incredible
building, circular stage in the center of the audience, latest
technology, top musicians, choir, and Bjork in a dress best described as
mylar balloon on steroids, all wrapped in crisp, clear sound. This was a
great show; I just wish Matthew Barney had decorated the hall.
15. MEV, The Kitchen, October 6 - While the individuals in this
collective age gracefully, the collective does not. Chaos holds court
and carnival. At some point an order, in the barest of ways, emerges.
This gives name to the moment as the feelings of satisfaction and
confusion suffer collision and a tentative grin opens on my face like a
wound. I wish I had been able to see them when they played with Steve
Lacy.
16. Ann Hamilton: the event of a thread - Park Avenue Armory, Sunday,
December 30 - Large billowing curtains are controlled by the audience
sitting on swings that can hold one to three people. A song is performed
at the beginning of each day, recorded, and played back at the end of
the day, layered over the previous recordings. Lying beneath the
curtain, looking up at the ceiling, one is reminded of a maritime
disaster. There are desk lamps attached to various seats in the balcony.
What is the meaning of this? There seems to be a narrative but . . .
who cares? Because it turns out that the paper bags that are lying
around are speaking. Talking inanimate objects are one of those things
that tweak me in the right direction. I can walk around in public
holding a bag that is reciting the history of Rome, Medusa, repeating
numbers, everything is obscure. And I am experiencing a Philip K. Dick
moment, an Orpheus via Cocteau moment, and, best of all, a Zippy moment.
Philip K. Dick/Orpheus/Zippy, an Inflatable Squirrel Carcass trinity if
there ever was one. Pardon me while I go dip a cracker in some wine.
Music - 2012 was another fine year for music; several of these could
have been in the above list very easily depending on the time of day.
The Don Cherry, Lonnie Holley and Hafez Modirzadeh in particular can
easily be slipped into the above.
Amen Dunes - Ethio Covers 7"
Animal Collective - Centipede Hz (Domino)
Belbury Poly - The Belbury Tales (Ghost Box)
Han Bennink Trio - Bennink # Co. (ILK)
Big Blood - Old Time Primitives (Don't Trust The Ruin)
Chicago Underground Duo - Age of Energy (Northern Spy)
Morton Feldman - Piano and String Quartet (Bridge)
Nelson Gastaldi - Symphony No. 3: Siddhartha Gautama O El Poder De La Nada (Roaratorio)
Heiner Goebbels - Stifter's Dinge (ECM)
Hilda Guldanottir - Leyfou Ljosinu (Touch)
Lonnie Holley - Before the Music (Dust-to-Digital)
Francois Houle 5+1 - Genera (Songlines)
Keuhkot - Laskeutumisalusastia (Ektro)
Ernie Kovacs - Percy Dovetonsils ...thpeaks (Omnivore)
Willie Lane - Guitar Army of One (Cord Art)
Les Momies du Palerme - Brulez Ce Coeur (Constellation)
The Liminanas - Crystal Anis (Hozac)
The Mad Scene - Blip (Siltbreeze)
Ernesto Martinez - Sincronario (Tzadik)
Theo May/Julie Tippetts/Keith Tippett - Theo Trio (South West Music School)
Getatchew Mekuria & The Ex & Friends - Y'Anbessaw Tezeta (Terp)
Hafez Modirzadeh - Post-Chromodal Out! (Pi)
Nurse With Wound/Graham Bowers - Rupture (United Dirter)
Daniel Padden - Ship Chop (Dekorder)
Paradoxical Frog - Union (Clean Feed)
Ergo Phizmiz - Eleven Songs (Care in the Community)
Rayon Beach - This Looks Serious (HoZac)
Terry Riley - Aleph (Tzadik)
Fausto Romitelli - Anamorphosis (Tzadik)
Philip Sanderson - Hollow Gravity (Puer Gravy)
Admir Shkurtaj Trio - Gestures and Zoom (Slam)
Ian Sinclair - Stone Tape Shuffle (Test Centre)
Sun Araw - The Inner Treaty (Sun Ark)
Sunwalker - Yoncalla (Don't Trust The Ruin)
Henry Threadgill Zooid - Tomorrow Sunny/The Revelry, Spp (Pi Recordings)
Watershed - Watershed (Rogue Art)
Stian Westerhus - The Matriarch and the Wrong Kind of Flowers (Rune Grammofon)
Reissues
Urf Arsin - Murille (Robot)
Don Cherry - Organic Music Society (Caprice)
Gregor Curten & Anselm Rogmans - Planes (Entr'acte)
Ronald Duncan/David Cain - The Seasons (Trunk)
Lee Hazlewood - A House Safe For Tigers (Light In The Attic)
Il Grupo - Niente (The Roundtable/Omni Recording Corp.)
Egisto Macchi - i futurubili (The Roundtable/Omni Recording Corp.)
Marks and Lebzelter - Rock and Other Four Letter Words (Paradigm)
Mighty Sparrow - Sparromania! (Strut)
Maria Monti - Il Bestiario (Unseen Worlds)
Andre Popp - Le Coeur En Fete (Wah Wah)
Teisco - Tuscan Castle and Country Seat (Roundtable)
Various Artists - Touch 33: Islands In-Between (Touch)
Books: the following made the commute something to look forward to.
Atlas - Dung Kai-Cheung (Columbia University Press)
Cockfighter - Charles Willeford (PictureBox)
Conversations - William Parker (Rogue Art)
Duke Ellington's America - Harvey G. Cohen (University of Chicago Press)
In Search of a Concrete Music - Pierre Schaeffer (University of California Press): Finally translated into English.
Love Goes To Buildings On Fire - Will Hermes (Faber & Faber)
Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life - Kenneth Gross (Chicago University Press)
Sergio Leone: Something To Do With Death - Christopher Frayling (University of Minnesota Press)
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll - Alvaro Mutis (NYRB): This is a great book.
The Information - James Gleick (Vintage): And so is this.
The Tango Singer - Thomas Eloy Martinez (Bloomsbury)
These Dreams of You - Steve Erickson (Europa Editions)
Film - not necessarily released this year but necessarily seen this year
Beasts of the Southern Wild - Dir: Behn Zeitlin
Beware of Mr. Baker - Dir: Jay Bulger
Branded To Kill - Dir: Seijun Suzuki (Criterion DVD)
Chico & Rita - Dir: Fernando Trueba
Gerhard Richter Painting - Dir: Corinna Belz
Giants and Toys - Dir: Yasuzo Masumura (Fantoma DVD) -
Lincoln - Dir: Steven Spielberg
Looper - Dir: Rian Johnson
Moonrise Kingdom - Dir: Wes Anderson
Pearls of the Czech New Wave - Eclipse Series 12 (Criterion DVD)
Skidoo - Dir: Otto Preminger (Olive Films DVD)
Tabu - Dir: Miguel Gomes
Tokyo Drifter - Dir: Seijun Suzuki (Criterion DVD)
Art
Quay Brothers: "On Deciphering the Pharmacist's Prescription for
Lip-Reading Puppets" - Museum of Modern Art - I was very happy to see
several films I had never seen before, the design work, drawings. I wish
there was less leakage of sound from the extremely loud "Street of
Crocodiles" and more of the dioramas that got shoved downstairs outside
the movie theaters. Still, I was amazed that this ended up at MOMA. Jan
Svankmajer and Terry Gilliam please.
The Murder of Crows - Janet Cardiff/George Bures Miller, Park Avenue Armory, August 13
The Ghost In The Machine, New Museum - Emma Kunz, Stan VanDerBeek,
Gianni Colombo's “Spazio Elastico,” the life-size model of the machine
from Kafka's “In the Penal Colony," J.G. Ballard collages
The Clock (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm) - Christian Marclay - David Robertson Atrium, Lincoln Center, July 22
Dust and Dirt; Maria De Patta - Museum of Arts & Design
Sarah Sze - Infinite Line - Asia Society
Performance
Yo La Tengo, El-P, John Oliver - Maxwell's - December 12
Heiner Goebbels/Hilliard Ensemble - I went to the house but did not enter - November 13, Rose Room, Lincoln Center
Einstein on the Beach - BAM - September 23
Philip Jeck - Issue Project Room, Septermber 13
Alarm Will Sound - Song Books by John Cage, July 15, Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University
Composing with Patterns: Music at Mid-Century, July 10, Guggenheim Museum
NY Philharmonic 360 (Stockhausen's Gruppen, et. al) Park Avenue Armory, June 30
In Camera (Christoph Heeman/Timo Van Lujik)/Al Margolis/Andrew Peklar - Issue Project Room, June 5
Mephista - Roulette, April 15
JACK Quartet with Steve Mackey - Abrons Art Center, March 25
Rhys Chatham and Oneida - Merkin Concert Hall, March 17
Ensemble MAE - Issue Project Room, January 28
Comics: most, but not all, published in 2012
Arne Bellstorf - Baby's In Black (First Second)
Charles Burns - The Hive (Pantheon)
Mike Carey/Peter Gross - The Unwritten (Vertigo)
Dupuy & Berberian - Monsieur Jean: The Singles Theory (Humanoids)
Hunt Emerson/Kevin Jackson - Dante's Inferno (Knockabout)
Jean-Pierre Filiu/David B. - Best of Enemies: A History of US and Middle East Relations Part One: 1783-1953 (Self Made Hero)
Walt Kelly - Pogo Vol 2 (Fantagraphics)
Lorenzo Mattoti/Jorge Zentner - The Crackle of the Frost (Fantagraphics)
Alan Moore/Kevin O'Neill - League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 2009 (Top Shelf)
E.C. Segar - Popeye Vol. 6 (Fantagraphics)
Joost Swarte - Is That All There Is? (Fantagraphics)
Tin Can Forest - Wax Cross (Koyama Press)
Frank M. Young/David Lasky - The Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song (Abrams)
Various - A Graphic Cosmogony (Nobrow)
Various - Nobrow 7 (Nobrow)
A really strong year. Popeye came to an end but Pogo has 8 more years to
go. The Carter Family book could have found a place in the top 10 in
other years. The Tin Can Forest, Mattoti and the Nobrow books are
beautiful. And any year that provides new Hunt Emerson is a good year.
2012: Ten years of marriage, I turned 50, got run over by some guy
riding his bicycle in his very own private Tour de France, great
vacation, two deaths of integral members of our small family . . . To
quote Arthur Lee: "This is the time of life that I am living."
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