Singer and synth player Caroline Teagle’s latest creation as Imperial Topaz, with Zachary Zierden on more synths, might just be her sultriest song to date. You can catch the duo’s live debut at The Stone in New York City on Sunday, February 3, and, if you act fast, you can snag a copy of their new split cassette with Motion Sickness of Time Travel on brother Franklin Teagle’s label, Tranquility Tapes (for which Carolyn provides all the snazzy cover art).
Angular Music, the debut full-length album by Tilth – Nathan McLaughlin, Cody Yantis and Joe Houpert – is now available for preorder on the Soft Abuse website, here. McLaughlin has been among my most significant discoveries in 2012 (I can’t get enough of his now-concluded Echolocation cassette series), and I’ve also admired his work with Houpert as Loud & Sad; Houpert’s solo music as Prayer; and the too-little bit of Yantis’s work I’ve encountered up to now.
Playlist.
Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet in G, Op. 18, No. 2; String Quartet in C, Op. 59, No. 3 - Belcea Quartet (Zig-Zag Territories)
Brian Green - 060412 (A Beard of Snails)
Micromelancholié / Wolf Fluorescence - split CS (A Beard of Snails)
Vales - Sebakh (A Beard of Snails)
Derek Rogers - Peripetia (A Beard of Snails)
Soft Serve - Nonday Diary (Housecraft)
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street (Virgin; via MOG)
Crowded House - Temple of Low Men (Capitol; via MOG)
ZZ Top - Degüello (Warner Bros.; via MOG)
Pete LaRoca - Turkish Women at the Bath (Fresh Sounds; via MOG)
Anthony Braxton - Creative Music Orchestra (NYC) 2011 (New Braxton House)
Salvatore Sciarrino - Fabbrica degli incantesimi - L’opera per flauto - Roberto Fabbriciani (EMG Classical; via MOG)
Sam Pluta - Machine Language (Carrier)
Michel van der Aa - Here Trilogy (disquiet media; via MOG)
Phantom Orchard Orchestra - Trouble in Paradise (Tzadik)
The Golden Palominos - Pure (Ryko/Rhino; via MOG)
Lori Carson - Where It Goes (Ryko/Rhino; via MOG)
Michael Tippett - Symphony No. 4; New Year Suite - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Richard Hickox (Chandos; via MOG)
Digital Natives - Parted by the Say (Housecraft)
Beru - Fire Eyes Gather Souls (Digitalis)
Beru - What Would I Do Without You (Thor’s Rubber Hammer Productions)
Robe. - Remains of a Burning World (Thor’s Rubber Hammer Productions)
Günter Schickert - HaHeHiHo (VCO Records)
Majeure - Trancer (VCO Records)
Dreadlords - Dreadlords (Prison Tatt)
Dope - Dope (Prison Tatt)
Goblin War Trio - Screaming Like a Hellhound Bitch (Prison Tatt)
Bondage - Mini-LP (Prison Tatt)
Tidal / Venn Rain - Missing Time (Sunk Series)
Clime - Rift-Valley Landing (Sunk Series)
Various artists - Wandelweiser und so weiter (Another Timbre)
Holographic Arts - Lightworks Remixes (Sunk Series)
Former Selves / Journey of Mind - split CS (Sunk Series)
Karl M V Waugh / Tidal - split CS (Sunk Series)
Yann Robin - Vulcano; Art of Metal I & III - Alain Billard, Ensemble Intercontemporain/Susanna Mälkki, IRCAM-Centre Pompidou (Kairos)
Wet Ink Ensemble - Relay (Carrier)
Jürg Frey - Klavierstück 2; Les Tréfonds Inexplorés des Signes pour Piano (24-35) - R. Andrew Lee (Irritable Hedgehog)
Hex Breaker Quartet - Method for Astral Amelioration (Dokuro)
Grateful Dead - Dave’s Picks, Vol. 4: College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 9/24/76 (Grateful Dead/Rhino)
Ratkiller - Cellar Dweller (Rotifer)
Primitive Motion - Two Ellipses (A Guide to Saints)
Grant Evans - Jewels from the House of Worms (A Guide to Saints)
The Rolling Stones - O2 Arena, London, England, 25.11.12 (audience recording)
Roman Wolfe - Ylem (905 Tapes)
Wether + Parashi - split CS (905 Tapes)
Sparkling Wide Pressure - Past Master (905 Tapes)
Glenn Bach - Radia (Dust, Unsettled; via Bandcamp)
Brian Lavelle - The Night Ocean (Dust, Unsettled; via Bandcamp)
Katharina Rosenberger - Texturen - Wet Ink Ensemble/Carl Christian Bettendorf (hat[now]ART)
Fausto Romitelli - Anamorphosis - Talea Ensemble/James Baker (Tzadik)
Vales - Pentress (905 Tapes)
Mike Shiflet - Nature Seen (905 Tapes)
Derek Rogers - Of Weight, Phantom Pain (905 Tapes)
Nag Dolly / Digital Natives - split CS (Rotifer)
Hew - Domoboi (Rotifer)
Gerda Taro - Hold the Moon (Rotifer)
Strindberg and Helium at the Beach (by strindberghelium)
Just remembering how this series is one of my favorite things in the universe ever.
Yes yes yes I said yes.
Tōru Takemitsu – Archipelago S. (1994)
Members of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra/Yuzo Toyama
If you’re in New York City on Monday, December 10, you can hear Juilliard’s outstanding new-music group Axiom play this live at Alice Tully Hall, free of charge and paired with John Adams’s Grand Pianola Music.
Cut Hands
Black Mamba
Very Friendly/Susan LawlyAssembling a Cut Hands follow-up had to be a fairly daunting task for Mr. William Bennett, the self-applied Afro Noise descriptor hanging over his head the entire time no doubt. Adhering too strictly to his repertoire wouldn’t offer much upside. Nor would venturing too far outside of it. But Bennett found no shortage of angles from which to attack, maintaining the parameters that aesthetically and definitively shape Cut Hands while radically shifting them from one minute to the next. Not only do none of Black Mamba’s tracks sound rehashed, no two of them even sound alike. Given the narrow framework we’re talking about here, that is beyond impressive. After a brief and baffling intro, the album’s title track makes it obvious right away that the drum palette has been significantly expanded and the rhythmic complexity upgraded a level or two to boot. The tracks with more of a noise focus also sound sharper than their predecessors, the violent and shrill feedback replaced with a more collected and composed aural display. Every aspect of Black Mamba sounds more refined and precise. Credit where credit is due: Bennett is a tactician and a brilliant one at that. The man isn’t afraid to back himself into a corner or to lunge ferociously out of one. - Mike Shiflet, Experimedia
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Playlist.
Nathan McLaughlin - Echolocation #1 (Digitalis)
Nathan McLaughlin - Echolocation #2 (Digitalis)
Nathan McLaughlin - Echolocation #3 (Gift Tapes)
Nathan McLaughlin - Echolocation #4 (Sunshine Ltd.)
Nathan McLaughlin - Echolocation #5 (Notice Recordings)
Nathan McLaughlin - Echolocation #6 (SicSic)
Jacob Obrecht - Missa de Sancto Donatiano - Cappella Pratensis (Fineline Classical, via MOG)
Je Suis le Petit Chevalier - A Guide to the Sun (SicSic)
Quiet Evenings - Various (Bandcamp)
Wolf Fluorescence - Unwavering, Achronymous (Jozik, via Bandcamp)
James MacMillan - A Deep but Dazzling Darkness; Í (A Meditation on Iona); Veni, Veni, Emmanuel - Gordan Nikolic, Colin Currie, Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic/James MacMillan (Challenge Classics)
Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 18, No. 6; String Quartet in E-flat, Op. 127 - Belcea Quartet (Zig-Zag Territories)
Wolfgang Mitterer - Massacre - Elizabeth Calleo, Valèrie Philippin, Nora Petroczenko, Jean-Paul Bonnevalle, Lionel Peintre, Wolfgang Mitterer, Remix Ensemble/Peter Rundel (Col Legno, via Naxos Music Library)
Wolfgang Mitterer - inwendig losgelöst - Wolfgang Mitterer, ensemble recherche, Freiburger Barockorchester/Lucas Vis (NEOS, via Naxos Music Library)
Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Motion Sickness of Time Travel (Spectrum Spools)
Jethro Tull - Thick As a Brick (Chrysalis Special Collectors Edition)
Bastian Void - Fluorescent Bells (Field Hymns, via Bandcamp)
Crippling / Ala Vjiior - split CS (Worn Habit, via Bandcamp: 1, 2)
Kui Dong, Larry Polansky & Christian Wolff - Trio (Henceforth)
Nova Scotian Arms - Winds Over Silmäterä (Hooker Vision, via Bandcamp)
Grateful Dead - Dick’s Picks, Vol. 26: Electric Theatre, Chicago, IL Apr. 26, 1969 & Labor Temple, Minneapolis, MN Apr. 27, 1969 (Grateful Dead/Rhino, via MOG)
Greg Osby - Inner Circle (Blue Note, via MOG)
Steve Tibbetts - Safe Journey (ECM, via MOG)
Digital Natives - Abrahamsak (Twin Palms Cinematics)
Noveller - This Heat Will Melt the Earth (Baked Tapes)
Uton - Attack of the Aether Sun (Housecraft)
Fletcher Pratt - Mind Gunk Vol. 11 (Housecraft)
Joshua McAbee & the (7/13) Moon -Accidentally Transcending (Housecraft)
Pink Buffalo -Bearded Tooth (Housecraft)
John Coltrane - The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings (Impulse!, via MOG)
Bermuda Link - Observe (self-released)
Enfer Boréal - Noiseless Moonbeam Thrill (Housecraft)
Ala Vjiior - Lifetime ‘772/Y’ (Bandcamp)
New audio crackl by Crippling, a recent concern from Grant Evans, of Hooker Vision renown and formerly active as Nova Scotian Arms. It’s one side of a new split CS on Worn Habit, the flip of which is occupied by Ala Vjiior (a.k.a. Frank Ouellette of Hobo Cubes / Hobo Cult).
Playlist.
Bernhard Lang - Die Sterne des Hungers; Monadologie VII - Sabine Lutzenberger, Klangforum Wien/Sylvain Cambreling (Kairos)
Decapitated - The Negation (Earache, via MOG)
Loud and Sad - False Intimacy (Cae-sur-a)
Marillion - Sounds That Can’t Be Made (E.A.R. Music)
Aaron Dilloway/Jason Lescalleet - Grapes and Snakes (PAN, via MOG)
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Danse orientale; Cello Sonata, Op. 19; Études-tableaux, Op. 39; Lied - Steven Doane, Barry Snyder (Bridge)
Aaron Dilloway - Modern Jester (Hanson, via MOG)
Wolf Eyes - Slicer (Hanson, via MOG)
Laurie Spiegel - The Expanding Universe (Unseen Worlds)
Thomas Chapin - Never Let Me Go: Quartets ’95 and ’96 (Playscape; due Dec. 11)
Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy (Warp, via MOG)
Deicide - Deicide (Roadrunner, via MOG)
Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction (Earache, via MOG)
Napalm Death - Utopia Banished (Earache, via MOG)
Jason Lescalleet - Songs About Nothing (Erstwhile)
Various Artists - Inscriptions, Vol. 2 (Sacred Phrases)
Rolling Stones - Toronto Phoenix (Live, 2005) (Rolling Stones/Google Music)
Majeure - Solar Maximum (Temporary Residence)
Steve Moore / Majeure - Brainstorm (VCO Recordings)
Yes - Yessongs (Atlantic/Rhino, via MOG)
Yes - In the Present—Live from Lyon (Frontiers, via MOG)
Yes - Fly from Here (Frontiers, via MOG)
Matt Northrup / The Aloha Spirit - split CS (Space Slave Editions)
Matamoros - Reflection Duct / Derek Rogers & R. Lee Dockery - Things Are Different Now (Space Slave Editions)
Chucho Valdés - Bele Bele en la Habana (Blue Note, via MOG)
Irakere - Rare Irakere (EGREM, via MOG)
Luiz Gonzaga - A raíz do Nordeste (CNM, via MOG)
Chavela Vargas - Live at Carnegie Hall (Tommy Boy, via MOG)
Thoughts on Air - Softlight FM (Space Slave Editions)
Vasculae - Receding Stasis (self-released)
