Audiversity's weekly column on music we stumble across during our sonic adventures. No random numbers, just straight audio goodness. MA: If you are curious at all to find some reasonably priced insights into Detroit's great deep jazz label Tribe Records , look no further than Soul Jazz 's sister-label Universal Sound . Along with an anthology of the Phil Ranelin and Wendell Harrison -helmed independent label highlighting some of the most intriguing jazzy space-funk cuts from the socio-political and [...]
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M83 - Couleurs (Mute 2008) M83 - Saturdays = Youth / Mute From the minimalism of Berlin to the maximalism of modern France: M83 (meaning Anthony Gonzalez) has already earned plenty of webspace on this website for his work on last year's Digital Shades, Vol. 1 . And certainly, since this album leaked nearly a month ago, a fair amount of press from all corners of the indie world has already been delivered for this album which bears such a phenomenally stupid-yet-totally unsurprising title. I [...]
Ellen Allien - Its (Bpitch Control 2008) Ellen Allien - Sool / Bpitch Control Though it's common knowledge in the music world that "big" releases crop up on opposite ends of the calendar year (February-April and September-November, respectively), May of 2008 will go down as a significant month for the electronica community. A host of big names are releasing material, and though Booka Shade may beg to differ, Ellen Fraatz stands atop the techno pile as arguably its guiding light and most recognizable face. After Justice, anyway. [...]
6a: 1. Neu! - Hallogallo - Neu! (Brain/ Polygram 1972) 2. Faust - Picnic on a Frozen River - Faust IV ( Virgin 1973) 3. McDonald & Giles - Suite in C - McDonald & Giles ( Cotillion 1971) 4. Cloudland Canyon - Silver Tongued Sisyphus - Silver Tongued Sisyphus ( Kranky 2007) 5. Colorlist - Lluvia - Lists ( Off 2008) 6. Fieldwork - Balanced - Door ( Pi 2008) 7. Marcus Belgrave - Glue Fingers (Part II) - [...]
Frank Turner - St. Christopher is Coming Home (Xtra Mile 2008) Frank Turner - Love, Ire & Song / Xtra Mile Well we're a long way from playing another Nambucca show, aren't we? Frank Turner has emerged as one of England's brightest wordsmiths in the last four years or so, due initially to his sharp wit behind the mic of post-hardcore heroes Million Dead , but mostly since his folk route on last year's Sleep is for the Week . [...]
The Byard Lancaster Unit - "Last Summer" (Porter 2008, originally Dogtown 1972) The Byard Lancaster Unit – Live at Macalester College / Porter Luke Mosling's upstart label Porter Records was one of our luckiest stumble-upons in 2007. His 1500 series provided my personal favorite reissue of the year: Birigwa's self-titled debut , recorded in 1972 for the tiny Boston imprint Seeds. The then 23-year-old Ugandan, joined by a tight class of New England jazz and funk musicians including Stark Reality's Phil [...]
Audiversity's weekly column on music we stumble across during our sonic adventures. No random numbers, just straight audio goodness. MA: I am exhausted. Eleven hours at a record fair has left me too tired to write anything thoughtful. I am not complaining though, because record fairs lead to all sorts of random discoveries. For instance, you could discover the greatest 45 ever recorded about your namesake without even knowing it existed. The C.O.D.'s "Michael" may have [...]
Skyphone - Dream Tree Lemurs (Rune Grammofon 2008) Skyphone - Avellaneda / Rune Grammofon The train doors opened and I walked over to the opposite side of the car to my usual seat. I like to sit there because it allows me to leave the train faster when we finally get to where I'm going. I also do it out of habit, found that it's best to have a routine in the morning not because it provides stability in an otherwise unpredictable day, but because I know where [...]
Chicago Independent Radio Project Presents the 6th Annual Record Fair & Other Delights (click the flyer for a printable version to bring and get $2 off admission)
Triclops! - March of the Half-Babies (Alternative Tentacles 2008) Triclops! - Out of Africa / Alternative Tentacles And so we move from one take on Africa to another: Triclops! is a group that has been on Audiversity's radar since the Cafeteria Brutalia EP in February of 2007 (though the San Francisco quartet had already been playing together since late '04). That EP's squalling punk was another variant on the bloodlines of Drive Like Jehu: It changed time signatures faster than a Tissot on speed; it barked [...]
Ecstatic Sunshine - "Herrons" (Cardboard 2008) Ecstatic Sunshine - Way / Cardboard It's interesting how much difference a year-and-a-half of exposure can make for a burgeoning music scene. I have spent very little time paying attention to the Baltimore lofts collective of noisemakers that have taken the indie world by storm in the last couple of years, but they have somehow worked their way into my immediate knowledge anyhow thanks to the rampant press coverage and onslaught of interesting albums. In September of 2006, when Ecstatic Sunshine's debut [...]
6a: 1. The Microphones - The Moon - The Glow Pt. 2 ( K 2001) 2. Richard Swift - Vandervelde Blues II - Onasis II ( Secretly Canadian 2008) 3. Thee Oh Sees - Graveyard Drug Part - The Master's Bedrrom is Worth Spending a Night In ( Tomlab 2008) 4. Ecstatic Sunshine - B - Way ( Cardboard 2008) 5. Earth - Miami Morning Coming Down II (Shining) - The Bee Made Honey in the Lion's Skull ( Southern Lord 2008) 6. Terry [...]
The return of Wreckless Young People (featuring Audiversity's own: me) will be returning to the Town Hall Pub (3340 N Halsted, Chicago), Wednesday evening (4/9) 10p-2a. Come, get drunk, high five, dance to the music, hug, make out, do whatever you do after you leave the bar wasted, and have a good time. Hooray. Spinning records is fun.
Nkasei (feat. Reggie Rockstone ) - Adua No Ebu (Outhere 2008) Various Artists - Black Stars: Ghana's Hiplife Generation / Outhere My introduction to Ghana was through aircraft livery in the early 90s. Fascinated by air force insignia, I pored over a book in which Mike Spick and Barry Wheeler could offer no more than one paragraph for the nine Aermacchi MB.326F/Ks and two MB.339As that made up the country's collective combat unit. Thankfully, Ghana hasn't (comparatively) been one of the most troubled sub-Saharan [...]
Jason Kopec - "Untitled Track 2" (Noise|Order 2008) Jason Kopec – Release the Cheerfulness, China: Ground Up 2 / Noise|Order Eth-nog-ra-phy (eth- 'nä-gruh-fē): the study and systematic recording of human cultures; a descriptive work produced from such research. (Merriam-Webster) Jason Kopec refers to himself as a musical ethnographer. While this is not a new concept (see Sublime Frequencies as a popular and well executed example), it's a practice that typically leads to very interesting results, especially for audiophiles. Historically, traditional ethnographers gain [...]
Audiversity's weekly column on music we stumble across during our sonic adventures. No random numbers, just straight audio goodness. MA: Drunken dialogue is a thing of both sheer embarrassment and protean beauty. It ebbs and flows between grandiose pontification and petty sarcasm, creating a rather malleable cadence between conversationalists that has a certain charm to it. Within a group of witty personalities, the banter can become a poignant, unpredictable free-flow of individual ideas and mental competitiveness. I hear this same kind of fluid [...]
Fuck Buttons - Okay, Let's Talk About Magic (ATP/R 2008) Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing / ATP/R What's Good About This Album - Fuck Buttons are emerging as a refreshing new voice in the latest generation of noise-based artists fascinated by the possibilities in doing more with noise than merely make it loudly. The patterns, the subtleties, the intricate builds and steadfast rhythms layered hazily beneath the drones of this relatively short album are at times cleverly crafted for two kids out [...]
Scott Tuma - "Rakes" (Digitalis 2008) Scott Tuma – Not for Nobody / Digitalis Book-ending Scott Tuma's third solo album is a pair of elegiac tunes narrated by a teetering high-pitched voice. Like most of Tuma's music, the atmosphere is eerie and somber: wooden panels creek beneath barely audible acoustic guitar melodies, wind chimes ping softly somewhere in the distance, and the low mechanical hum of a rundown pick-up truck rumbles past the microphone once or twice. It's as if a field mouse is crooning the loss of [...]
6a: 1. Can - Pinch - Ege Bamyasi ( Spoon 1972) 2. Excepter - Any and Every - Debt Dept ( Paw Tracks 2008) 3. Oneida - Ceaser's Column - Secret Wars ( Jagjaguwar 2004) 4. Tim Hecker - Celestina - Mirages ( Alien8 2004) 5. Static North - Stubborn Tiny Lights - Static North (self-released 2007) 6. Corespondents - Crowning - Hairy Ghost Pipefish ( Noise Order 2007) 7. Scott Tuma - Nobody (River of Tin) - Not for Nobody [...]
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