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Thursday, 10/25/12
serendipity Cyrus, “Inversion” (Basic Channel), 1994 Last night, making dinner, I bumped into this on the radio (WFMU-FM). Television I could live without in a heartbeat. Radio? Never. **********...
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Wednesday, 10/31/12
Happy Halloween Robin The Fog, Haunted Homes Under The Hammer, 2012
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Thursday, 12/6/12
We ain’t never goin’ home . . . —Neneh Cherry (59:55)* Neneh Cherry & The Thing (Mats Gustafsson, baritone saxophone, electronics; Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, bass; Paal Nilssen-Love, drums), live,...
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Friday, 12/28/12
two takes How To Dress Well (Tom Krell), “& It Was U” (2012) *** Bear//Face, “Taste My Sad” (2012) Nineteen-year-old Bear//Face—his nonvirtual self, that is—lives in Belfast.
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Tuesday, 1/22/13
soundtrack of a marriage On my first date with Suzanne, in 1974, we went to Chicago’s Jazz Showcase (then upstairs on Lincoln, just south of Fullerton), where we saw Sun Ra & His Arkestra. With a...
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Wednesday, April 10th
two takes Julius Eastman (1940-1990), Evil Nigger (1979) Julius Eastman, Frank Ferko, Janet Kattas, Patricia Martin, pianos; live, Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.), 1980 (Unjust Malaise, New...
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Thursday, April 18th
keep on dancing Hieroglyphic Being (AKA Jamal Moss), Imaginary Soundscapes (B1), 2013 Who knew electronic music could be so warm, so joyous?
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Tuesday, May 7th
Only a world this noisy could produce music this quiet. Evan Parker (soprano saxophone), et al.,* live, London (Freedom of the City festival), 2011 *Heledd Francis Wright (flute), John Russell...
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Saturday, May 18th
soundtrack for a dream I’d like to have Four Tet (AKA Kiernan Hebden), live (Boiler Room), 2012 ********** lagniappe reading table I don’t regard my life as insufficient. Inside the brushwood gate...
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Wednesday, June 19th
serendipity Last night, while I was doing some law work, these guys—I’d never heard of them before—jumped out of the radio.* Los Pirañas, “Bambo Ha Muerto Devorado Por El Pecado (Version Alterna),”...
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Wednesday, July 17th
What’s needed sometimes, like, for instance, the other morning, when I was driving to court for a hearing in a murder case, slid this into the CD player, and cranked up the volume, is something to get...
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Thursday, August 29th
nothing much happening Phill Niblock, “Pan Fried 70″ (Touch Food, 2003) #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 ********** lagniappe random thoughts If they’re both immeasurable, is a lifetime any greater than a moment?
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Wednesday, December 18th
what’s new Glasser, live, London (Boiler Room), 2013 “Forge” *** “Dissect” *** “Landscape”
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Thursday, December 26th
what’s new Julianna Barwick, live (studio performance), Seattle, 11/22/13 “Look Into Your Own Mind” *** “Crystal Lake” ********** lagniappe reading table The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) One...
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Friday, January 3rd
what’s new Darkside, live, Paris (Pitchfork Music Festival), 10/31/13 ********** lagniappe art beat Lee Friedlander (1934-), Japan (Kyoto), 1981
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Wednesday, January 8th
William Basinski, “Silent Night,” 2004 ********** lagniappe musical thoughts If all we ever listen to are things that sound like things we’ve heard before, aren’t we living, however comfortably, in an...
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Thursday, January 16th
sounds of Chicago Hieroglyphic Being (AKA Jamal Moss), “Space Is The Place (But We Stuck Here On Earth)”
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Friday, January 17th
Chvrches, “Lies,” live, Scotland (Glasgow), 2012 Ever notice how terribly young everybody seems to be getting?
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Saturday, January 25th
sounds of Japan What do you get when you cross Abba and the Chipmunks? Perfume, “1 mm,” 2013
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