the last act this time

This might verily be the last playlist I post here. wprb now has live real-time playlist software that has lots of nice goodies. I highly encourage you all (all 5 of you that have looked here...) to check it out.

Noise to Annihilate a Few Seconds
Playlist for January 22, 2004

Background - Tornados - Telsar, The Complete Recordings

N - Douglas Ewart - Dancing inside of Soul - Songs of Sunlife - Innova

N - Oneida - The Last Act, Every Time - Secret Wars - Jagjaguwar
C - Prince La La - She Put the Hurt on Me - Itchy Twitchy Feelings - Sue Records
C - The Three Suns - Colonel Bogey March - Space Age Pop v.2: Mallets in Wonderland - RCA
N - Babbletron - Space Tech Banana Clip - Mechhanical Royalty - Embedded
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Moonlight on Vermont - I'm Going to Do What I Wanna Do - Rhino Handmade - live in 1978
Bastro - Demons Begone - Sing the Troubled Beast - Homestead
N, C - Johnn X and the Groadies - Blood Burning (With Serpents) - Untitled Compilation - Omnibus
Spunk - Strom - den overste toppen pa en blamalt flaggstang - Rune Grammofon
N, C - Rhythm and Sound - Music Hit You feat Jah Battle - With the Artist - Asphodel

Tin Hat Trio - Beverly's March - Helium - Angel
N - Mountain Goats - The Young Thousands - We Shall All Be Healed - 4AD
Pearls Before Swine - Ring Thing - One Nation Underground/Balakava - ESP
Larsen - Akin - Rever - Young God
N - The Homosexuals - Neutron Lover - The Homosexuals' Cd - Morphius
Lightning Bolt - On Fire - Wonderful Rainbow - Load
Igor Stravinsky - The Infernal Dance of King Kashchei from the Firebird Suite - Berstein Century - Sony Classical - New York Philharmonic
N - Diamanda Galas - Frenzy - La Serpenta Canta - Mute

Mars - 3-E - 78+ - Atavistic
The American Psycho Band - My War - 7" - Sub Pop
N - Eltro - Motorboat - Past & Present Futurists - Absolutely Kosher - nice
N - Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf - Here's A Smirk - Big Shots - Stones Throw
Safety Scissors vs. Kit Clayton - 0-1, 0-2, 1-2, 1-3, 4-1 - Ping Pong - Carpark
Fridge - Sample and Clicks - Happiness - Temporary Residence
N - Non-Prophets - The Cure - Hope - Lex

N - Hella - The Mother - The Devil Isn't Red - 5RC/Kill Rock Stars
Come - String - 10" - Matador
R - Tom Waits - Such a Scream - Bone Machine - Island
N - Metal Urbain - Cle de Contact - Anarchy In Paris! - Acute
Plasmatics - Squirm (live) - New Hope for the Wretched - Stiff America
N, C - Columbian Neckties - She's on my Radar - Greaseball Melodrama - Gearhead
The Devil Dogs - Death of Mighty Joe - Choad Blast EP - Empty
The Ashley Stove - Slow - 7" - Karf
Cheap Trick - He's a Whore - s/t - Epic
The Tight Brothers from Way Back When - Rip it Up - Runnin' Through my Bones - Kill Rock Stars

N - The Dipers - Shake - How to Plan Successful Parties - Omnibus
Neutral Mute - Engine - 7" - Run Roc
C - Flux Information Sciences - Punish or Be Damned - The Necessary Effect - Xeriod
Microwaves - The Bad American - System 2 - Version City
The Seconds - Mommy Mommy Mommy - Split with Ex - Models - My Pal God
Ammer Einheit - 02.07.1967, Fernsehen - Deutsche Kreiger - Invisible

Henry Flynt - A Portrait - Graduation and Other New Country and Blues Music - Ampersand

notes:

- for my in-show thoughts on stuff, click here.

- the new oneida record is awesome. to see my thoughts on it in dusted click here.

- captain beefheart was recorded somewhere in new york in 1978 shortly after the release of Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller). the magic band and the captain are all in fine form. the album was just given a full issue (as opposed to the limited rhino handmade edition) on rhino.

- the title of the spunk record means "the very top of a blue-painted flagpole" in norweigian. spunk=fe-mail plus 2 other women. a very nice wash of electronics.

-homosexuals reissue=best reissue of 2004.

-I can never get enough of henry flynt no matter how much I try. this track was a veritable hoe-down of almost bluegrass fiddle work with a backing band. yeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-haw! 
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small ensembles, big sounds

Jazz Sub
Playlist for January 21, 2004

N - Stone House - Turning - Likewise - Riti

William Parker Violin Trio - Urban - Scrapbook - Thirsty Ear
World Bass Violin Ensemble - A Lease and a Line - Bass-ically Yours - Black Saint

N - Assif Tsahar, Mat Maneri, Jim Black - Part 1 - Jam - Hopscotch
N - Susie Ibarra and Mark Dresser - The Weaver - Tone Time - Wobbly Rail
N - Bjork Godmundsdottir and trio Gudmundar Ingolfssonar - Kata Rokar - Gling-Glo - One Little Indian

Frank Wright - Train Stop - Your Prayer - ESP DIsk
What We Live - Strength in Numbers - Never Was - Black Saint

Derek Bailey - An Echo in Another's Mind - Aida - Dexter's Cigar
N - Baby Dodds - Spooky Drums no. 2/Tom Tom Workout - Talking & Drum Solos - Atavistic Unheard Music Series
N - Exias-J - Broadening DIstribution Variation 2 - Electric Conception "Avant Garde" - PSF

Sunny Murray - Phase 1, 2, 3, 4 - s/t - ESP

Cecil Taylor - Tales (8 Whisps) - Unit Structures - Blue Note
 
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playing behind the keys

Spotlight on Prepared Pianos
January 18, 2004

Ferrante and Teicher - Orchids in the Moonlight - Soundblast: The Sound of Tomorrow - Westminster

Henry Cowell - Aeolian Harp and Sinister Resonance/The Banshee - Piano Music - Smithsonian Folkways - performed by Cowell
C - Henry Cowell - Ostinato Pianissimo - Concert Percussion for Orchestra - Mainstream

John Cage - Sonatas XIV, XV, XVI - Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano - CRI - performed by Maro Ajemain
John Cage - Dance 3 for 2 prepared pianos - 3 Dances and 4 Organs - Angel - Michael Tilson Thomas and Ralph Grierson, pianos

John Cage - A Book of Music pt. 1 - Sonatas and Interludes and A Book of Music - Tomato - Joshua Pierce and Maro Ajemain, pianos
John Cage - Bacchanale - Music for Keyboard 1935 - 48 - Columbia - Jeanne Kirstein, piano
John Cage - Primitive - Pianos and Voices - Koch - Anthony De Mare, piano
John Cage - The Perilous Night pt. 1 - The Perilous Night and Four Walls - New Albion - Margaret Leng Tan, piano

C - Lou Harrison - May Rain - Prepared Piano: The First Four Decades - MHS - Joan La Barbara, voice; Richard Bunger, piano
Arthur Berger - Three Pieces for Two Pianos - Music of Arthur Berger - CRI - Paul Jacobs and Gilbert Kalish, piano
Francois Tusques - Hon - dat - Le Piano Prepare - Le Chant du Monde - Francois Tusques
C - Ge Gan-ru - Gu Yue (Ancient Music) I, II, and III - Sonic Encounters: The New Piano - Mode - Margaret Leng Tan, piano

C - August Wegner - Something for Flute and Piano - Prepared Piano: The First Four Decades - MHS - John Heitmann, flute; Delores Stevens, piano
Frederick Lesemann - Nataraja - for Ralp Grierson - TownHall - Ralph Grierson, piano
David Macbride - From Without (Conundrum 2) - In Common - Innova - Davide Macbride, piano; Benjamin Toth, timbrack

C - Denman Maroney - Par 3 - Absolution - Enja
David Maranha - Piano Suspenso (excerpt) - Piano Suspenso - Sonoris
Stephen Scott - Rainbows 2 - New Music for Bowed Piano - New Albion

Roger Miller with Larry Dersch - Binary Mechanics (Oct. 4, 10:37pm) - The Binary System Live at the Idea Room - SST
Aphex Twin - Taking Control - Druqks - Warp/Sire
Flying Lizards - Money - mp3
C - Ferrante and Teicher - African Echoes - The Ernie Kovacs Record Collection
Ferrante and Teicher - Brazil - Soundblast - Westminster
Ferrante and Teicher - Mississippi Boogie - Soundproof - Westminster

Francois Tusques - N'oubliez pas la basse - Le Piano Prepare

notes:

-this was inspired by seeing margaret leng tan perform the john cage sonatas and interludes in october 2003.

-interesting finds of the day: francois tusques, stephen scott, gen ge-ru

-thanks to thomas of the worried waltz for providing many of these recordings 
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