Daily Planet Playlist

[Geno]

eMusic:

Blotted Science, The Machinations of Dementia
Thanks for the tip, Sazzle. I'm loving it.

Doug Stanhope, From Across the Street

Still deciding what to do with the remaining few credits. Maybe some of this, maybe not, especially since there's a big chunk of the Atlantic catalogue now out there, which means some prime Coltrane and Mingus. And a cheap way to grab some REM B-sides - sweet!

Otherwise a dreary week..

Nick Drake, Five Leaves Left
Blackfield II
Captain Fribble, November Suite / Cambridge '05
Fates Warning, A Pleasant Shade of Gray
Nine Horses, Snow Borne Sorrow / Money for All
No-Man, Schoolyard Ghosts

[owen]

If you still have credits I recommend you check out the new Portico Quartet album Isla (Real World).

It's very good, and probably right up your alley (quirky but straight enough modern jazz with postrock/artpop arrangement sensibilities).

[Michael]

Joni Mitchell: Taming the Tiger

Frank Glazer: Satie: Piano Music

Harold Budd: The White Arcades, Music for 3 Pianos, and (with John Foxx) Translucence/Drift Music

[Geno]

New arrivals:

Vampire Weekend, Contra
Me like! Probably can't form a long-term opinion this fast, but so far it sounds well-crafted, eclectic, worldly and fun. All the things I loved about the debut so much. The mishmoshy extra remix CD I can take or leave, but at least it's an incentive for folks to buy from indie outlets.

No-Man, Wild Opera
Wonderfully skewed. I knew another hardcopy would emerge at some point, so I'm glad I didn't pay for it on iTunes after all.

Dizrhythmia s/t (Jakko J/Gavin H/Danny Thompson/Pandit Dinesh, not to be confused with the math-metal guyz)
Errrrmmm. The lineup looks great on paper, but the execution is much too far into smooth-Muzak territory. I suspect it's Jakko's sensibility at work. That whole slick production sound came across OK with Glee Club, but this one seems way too sterile. I'll see how it sounds after another shot or two.

A smattering of HoBoLeMa from the usual place
Like Michael, I'm reminded more of the ProjeKcts than anything else - particularly P1, since it's big on atmosphere and not nearly as propulsive as Ps 2 through X. This stuff will make a worthy official release sooner or later, I hope.

Devin Townsend Presents: Ziltoid the Omniscient
Blotted Science, The Machinations of Dementia
Genesis s/t
Sixteen Horsepower, Secret South
OSI, Blood
Crimson, Arlington '73 / San Diego '01
Marillion, Misplaced Childhood / Clutching at Straws

If you still have credits I recommend you check out the new Portico Quartet album Isla (Real World).

It's very good, and probably right up your alley (quirky but straight enough modern jazz with postrock/artpop arrangement sensibilities).

Ahhh, Real World. If I could choose one new label to include on eMusic here in the USA, they'd probably be at the top.. probably even more than ECM. Shame they're nowhere to be found.

Hadn't heard of that title or that group, but I'm intrigued. Thanks for the tip.

[owen]

If you can't get Isla because of the label, you should be able to check out their debut Knee Deep In The North Sea (Babel Label). It's just as good a place to start.

[Geno]

If you can't get Isla because of the label, you should be able to check out their debut Knee Deep In The North Sea (Babel Label). It's just as good a place to start.

Ahhh, we do have that and it looks nice. Thanks. That'll be on the burner for next month (I only had six credits left, so went looking for a complete album - I usually hate going half-and-half between two months).

We didn't have a holiday here yesterday or anything, but I figured there'd be a little solidarity in breaking out some Whitlams (Undeniably and Live with the Sydney Symphony). That led to a little Aussie-themed Myspace hopping, which has been fairly amusing. Ever hear of Better Than the Wizards?

[Geno]

Ian Boddy/Markus Reuter/Nigel Mullaney, Triptych
eMusic doesn't have Dervish, but searching for it led me to this, which also looked interesting. And it is; there's a wonderful textured electronic Eno-meets-Centrozoon vibe and it's pretty eclectic for an album that could conceivably be filed under 'ambient.' Wonder why I'd never known about it before.

Paper Cat Live at John & Peter's 7.16.09
The Slick sibs teaming up with a guitar player who's interested in making sounds/noises almost as much as playing notes. Imagine that. It's mainly a series of simple groove-based improvs, but a tasty one, especially if you like to listen to a band interacting more than coasting. Good stuff for working or speeding somewhere in a hurry. Imagine Larks'-era Fripp with the Islands-era rhythm section by way of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar.

Steven Wilson, Insurgentes
Marillion, Happiness Is the Road
Aviv Geffen, With the Time
Miles Davis, Sorcerer / Miles in the Sky
Porky Tree, In Absentia
PCO, Music from the Penguin Cafe
Various HoBoLeMa

[Michael]

Eliane Radigue: VICE VERSA
John McLaughlin, Paco De Lucia, and Al Di Meola: Passion, Grace, and Fire
ProjeKct One: London, 4 December 1997
Joni Mitchell: Miles of Aisles
Traffic: On the Road

[muziko]

Pat Metheny Orchestrion  this is awesome. I thought it would sound like bad rube goldberg cartoon music.
By the sound of this 1st track it's already in my top Metheny. Has some echoes of his This Way Up release with more
polyrhythm and complexity and very sweet so far!

Jon Hassel the moon dropped it's drawers or something This is more like the good old
Jon hassel with a little modern downtempo sound in there. also very sweet.

Joe Morris Quartet  at the old office So far this free jazz is sounding abit more almost straight ahead or acessable in a way than what i've heard before of his. great playing and interplay so far. the drummer rips on the 2nd tune over a 12/8 ostinato pattern.
Now the strange guitar melody or head comes in. A very clean guitar sound but the cat is out there full of ideas! i love this kind of stuff. The 3rd tune is more freebop. mat maneri rips on viola.  everyone's uneffected clean sound adds focus on the playing.

John Prine -sweet revenge - common sense - diamonds in the rough
Micheal Hurley - Snockgrass
david lindley y wally ingram - twango bango II
Matching mole's little red record

[Michael]

Miles Davis: A Tribute to Jack Johnson
Philip Jeck and Janek Schaefer Songs for Europe
The Velvet Underground: and Nico
The Clash: s/t

Still easily my favorite Clash album.  They weren't, I suppose, as inventive as Pere Ubu, Television, Wire, PIL, or The Talking Heads, or even the more raw Sex Pistols, but for that brief, rather amazing period ('77-'79), they were probably the best rock band (in its strictest definition) in the world.

[Kcowboy Kcurtis]

Still easily my favorite Clash album.  They weren't, I suppose, as inventive as Pere Ubu, Television, Wire, PIL, or The Talking Heads, or even the more raw Sex Pistols, but for that brief, rather amazing period ('77-'79), they were probably the best rock band (in its strictest definition) in the world.

Dude, Journey, dude...

[Michael]

Still easily my favorite Clash album.  They weren't, I suppose, as inventive as Pere Ubu, Television, Wire, PIL, or The Talking Heads, or even the more raw Sex Pistols, but for that brief, rather amazing period ('77-'79), they were probably the best rock band (in its strictest definition) in the world.

Dude, Journey, dude...

   You know, at the time those punk bands were REALLY hated, and people who listened to Journey and their ilk would say of them "that's not rock'n'roll!"

[Geno]

HoBoLeMa, Santa Cruz 1.6.10 (early and late sets)
New from the usual place. Alan may have described the all-improv situation as terrifying, but the results are equally rewarding. From what I've heard alone, they've got more than enough worthy material to compile a full CD from the tour.

Fripp, Chicago 1.12.98
This has been most excellent for a week of commutes through the woods where everything's white and snowy.

Béla Fleck/Zakir Hussain/Edgar Meyer, The Melody of Rhythm
If there's one thing you can consistently say about these guys, it's that when they take part in something, it'll sound like nothing else out there. The triple concerto with orchestra seems like a small masterpiece so far, and it's actually my least favorite part of the disc.

Aimee Mann, I'm with Stupid
T-Lev, Stick Man
Travis & Fripp, Thread
Sixteen Horsepower, Secret South / Folklore
Blotted Science, The Machinations of Dementia
Warren Zevon, Mr. Bad Example / Mutineer
OSI, Free
Archetribe, Waterworks
Keith Jarrett, Sun Bear Concerts: Nagoya

Pat Metheny Orchestrion  this is awesome. I thought it would sound like bad rube goldberg cartoon music.
By the sound of this 1st track it's already in my top Metheny. Has some echoes of his This Way Up release with more
polyrhythm and complexity and very sweet so far!

Hey, I'd been wondering how well-executed (as opposed to how gimmicky) this one was going to come out. Thanks for the description.

Miles Davis: A Tribute to Jack Johnson

I just thought of this one the other day for no particular reason and was planning on spinning it this afternoon. Spoooooky.

[Michael]

HoBoLeMa, Santa Cruz 1.6.10 (early and late sets)
New from the usual place. Alan may have described the all-improv situation as terrifying, but the results are equally rewarding. From what I've heard alone, they've got more than enough worthy material to compile a full CD from the tour.

Right now, these guys are on heavy rotation in my car and I'm going through the Slow Music cds at work.  In terms of distribution, the difference is Fripp.  He had, in place, a space where the Slow Music shows could go up without too much cost (and the guys in place to put it there).  For HoBoLeMa, I don't think that's the case, and I doubt that any label would jump on this stuff.

You probably have the right answer: a compilation CD might well interest a small label.

Fripp, Chicago 1.12.98
This has been most excellent for a week of commutes through the woods where everything's white and snowy.

That sounds VERY cool.   

[Geno]

Right now, these guys are on heavy rotation in my car and I'm going through the Slow Music cds at work.  In terms of distribution, the difference is Fripp.  He had, in place, a space where the Slow Music shows could go up without too much cost (and the guys in place to put it there).  For HoBoLeMa, I don't think that's the case, and I doubt that any label would jump on this stuff.

You probably have the right answer: a compilation CD might well interest a small label.

It's pretty sad when you look at it that way. I think I recall their agent/promoter commenting on Kram's blog, saying what a hard time he had even getting the band booked for the tour at all. What a cruel world.

I've always thought it would be great if DGM could expand to include non-Fripp material, like TU or the Trey Gunn Band or HBLM. Then again, considering what a big undertaking it would be to do all the paperwork & accounting that would entail (even the honest kind), maybe it's not surprising it hasn't happened... but I'm still holding out hope for a Papa Bear release or something similar.

Fripp, Chicago 1.12.98
This has been most excellent for a week of commutes through the woods where everything's white and snowy.

That sounds VERY cool.   

Frigid might be a better word... but yes, the visuals go together most nicely.    The best part of the trip is eight miles of this.



This is the same reason the mistress and I have been spinning Thread almost daily at home. She's getting into it more than expected, even if she still wouldn't rush out to see them live the way I would.

Other stuff for a rare snow-day-off:

Morphine, Cure for Pain
Sigur Ros, Takk...
Bill Evans Trio, Sunday at the Village Vanguard