May 2012

1. d'Eon - #109 A great Popol Vuh/Cluster-esque kettle of swirling keyboard goo that will restore your faith in komische.   Pick it up, because it's both good and free.
2. Sly And The Family Stone - Luv N' Haight Sly Stone's career has been an amazing trainwreck, which is a real pity.  Perhaps it's time for a Rick Rubin/Daman Albarn intervention?
3. Fields Of The Nephilim - Submission Two (The Dub Posture) If you don't own Dawnrazor, The Nephilim, Elizium, Earth Inferno, and Revelations, then pick them up and we can talk afterwards.
4. Earth - Sigil of Brass If you are unfamiliar with Earth, I personally recommend everything from Hex onward.  If you are familiar with Earth, then check out Dylan Carlson's Kickstarter project (I'm a backer). 
5. Belbury Poly - Cantalus I meant to pick the album up when it came out, but somehow it slipped through the cracks.  I guess I'll have to fix that now. 
6. Gerard Doulssane - Evening News I'm not sure where I got this particular album from, and the interent is feeling particularly unhelpful right now. 
7. Tom Waits - Paris Mood (Un De Fromage) Tom Waits is the greatest living American songwriter.  The Island albums were the best ones and Marc Ribot was his best guitarist.  That is all.
8. Igor Wakhevitch - Twilight And Call Of The Ascending Spirit I recently got turned on to Wakhevitch, even through he apparently had a renaissance in the late 90's.  It's modern composition that doesn't play into Minimalism or Serialism, but pulls from the rock vernacular without going all "Switched On," prog, or ELO.
9. Trial Of The Bow - Inverloch This is here in celebration of half of the most underrated doom band ever naming their new project after this song.
10. Gil Melle - Hex (Continued) This is from the Andromeda Strain soundtrack.  Check out more about the Creel Pone label that this was released on here. 
11. Scorn - Night Tide You know that Scorn album that you haven't listened to in years and is gathering dust in a plie of CD's that won't fit in the rack?  Pull it out and listen to it again.
12. Demdike Stare - Shade Phenomenally dark dub that is still burning up the internet.  Completely worth picking up.

April 2012

1. John Lennon/Paul McCartney - A Toot And A Snore A bit of dialog from the A Toot And A Snore In '74 Lennon/McCartney bootleg.  Just because.
2. Coil - Sex With Sun Ra A great track (and a great song title) from the 2006 Black Antlers  re-release.  The fact that there will never be another Coil album saddens me greatly. 
3. Sala-Arhimo - Ilmestys Some of the Finnish freak-folk (or whatever it was called) that was all the rage with the kids a couple of years back.  Some if it isn't half bad.
4. Jane Birkin - Help Camionneur What do you get when you add a squeaky-voiced actress to a Gainsbourg written/produced album?  Something like this, actually. 
5. Laghonia - Glue Psyche from Peru.  Apparently they wanted to be Traffic. 
6. Deuter - Der Turm Fluchpunkt Deuter's first two albums, D and Aum, are both great studio Krautrock albums.  Now move along. 
7. Funkadelic - I Bet You (Single Version) A much as I love P-Funk, the rock in me keeps pulling me back to Funkadelic.  In mono, because (according to Stanley Kubrick and Anton LeVay) it's better.
8. Dry & Heavy - Dawn Is Breaking Japan is not generally the first place I think to look for heavy roots dub, but what to I know?  Nothing, apparently. 
9. Jack Dangers - Burbidge Chain Experimental MBM commissioned for the unfortunately named T.I.T. planetarium?  Sure, I'll take a bit of that.
10. Okkyung Lee - Sky I have no idea where this came from, though iTunes claims that I downloaded it in 2008 and the cover looks like standard Tzadik fare.  Sounds great, though. 
11. Bindu Suspension - Snow Is Coming Apocryphal, hopefully.