Friday, May 25, 2012

flusslandschaften


: listening to :

- oren ambarchi - audience of one - touch - 2012
- meg baird - seasons on earth - drag city - 2011 (lp)
- biosphere - mysterier - touch - 2011 (7")
- bohren & der club of gore - black earth - wonder - 2002
- taylor deupree - shoals - 12k - 2010 (7")
- dronæment - wassermond - drone records - 2000/2007 (7")
- fire! with jim o'rourke - released! - rune grammofon - 2011
- fire! with oren ambarchi - in the mouth - a hand - rune grammofon - 2012
- fly trio - year of the snake - ecm - 2012
- börje fredriksson - intervall - emi columbia - 1966
- from the mouth of the sun - woven tide - experimedia - 2012 (lp + cd)
- funkadelic - funkadelic - westbound/4 men with beards - 1970/2008 (lp)
- hildur guðdnadóttir - leyfðu ljósinu - touch - 2012
- ingenting kollektiva - lost beyond telling - invisible birds forthcoming - 2012 (12k mastered version)
- ktl - v - editions mego - 2012
- maeror tri ‎- the beauty of sadness - direction music/tantric harmonies - 1996/2005
- oöphoi ‎- static soundscapes: three lights at the end of the world - hic sunt leones - 1996
esp. space forest part 1: distant monastery
- organum - die hennen zähne - die stadt - 2005
- charlemagne palestine & janek schaefer - day of the demons - desire path recordings - 2012 (lp)
- pinkcourtesyphone (r. chartier) - foley folly folio - line [segments] - 2012
- the smiths - meat is murder - rough trade records - 1985 (lp reissue)
- the smiths - the queen is dead - rough trade records - 1986 (lp reissue)
- the smiths - louder than bombs - rough trade records - 1987 (lp)
- smog - forgotten foundation - drag city - 1992/2012 (lp)
- david sylvian - approaching silence - virgin - 1999
- talk talk - the colour of spring - emi - 1986 (lp)
- talk talk - spirit of eden - parlophone/emi - 1988
- talk talk - laughing stock - verve/ba da bing - 1991/2011 (lp reissue)
- mark hollis - mark hollis - polydor/ba da bing - 1998/2011 (lp reissue)
- tindersticks - tindersticks - this way up/plain recordings - 1993/2011 (lp)
- troum - ryna - transgredient records - 1998/2007
- troum - tjukurrpa (part one: harmonies) - transgredient records - 2001
- troum - tjukurrpa (part two: drones) - transgredient records - 2001
- troum - tjukurrpa (part three: rhythms and pulsations) - transgredient records - 2003
- troum - sigqan - transgredient records - 2003/2009
- martin bates | troum - to a child dancing in the wind - transgredient records - 2006
- troum - aiws - transgredient records - 2007
- troum - eald-ge-stréon - beta-lactam ring records - 2009

image from leonardo da vinci : das wasserbuch - schirmer/mosel - 1996
entry title : river landscapes

Monday, May 21, 2012

alchemy of suffering









matthew swiezynski - my heart, delirious with sound - 2012 (in progress)
titles from monsieur baudelaire


Sunday, May 13, 2012

scentless apprentice


- bonnie "prince" billy - master and everyone - drag city - 2003 (lp)
- black swan - aeterna - ethereal symphony - 2012
- bill callahan - rough travel for a rare thing - sea note - 2010 (lp)
- the haxan cloak - the haxan cloak - aurora borealis - 2011
- gas - nah und fern (gas, zauberberg, königsforst, and pop) - kompakt - 2008
- thomas köner & asmus tietchens (kontakt der jünglinge) - 1 - die stadt - 2001
- john duncan / kontakt der jünglinge / c.m. von hausswolff - untitled - die stadt - 2007
- dickie landry - fifteen saxophones - unseen worlds - 2011
- my bloody valentine - isn't anything - creation records - 1988
- my bloody valentine - loveless - creation records - 1991
- nirvana - bleach - sub pop - 1989
- nirvana - nevermind - dgc - 1991
- nirvana - incesticide - sub pop - 1992
- nirvana - in utero - dgc - 1993
- nirvana - mtv unplugged in new york - dgc - 1994
- nirvana - from the muddy banks of the wishkah - dgc - 1996
- nirvana - nirvana - dgc - 2002
- nirvana - with the lights out - dgc- 2004
- nirvana - life at reading - dgc - 1992/2009
- sunn o))) - the grimmrobe demos - hydra head records/southern lord - 1999
- sunn o))) - 00 void - rise above/hydra head - 2000
- sunn o))) - flight of the behemoth - southern lord - 2002
- sunn o))) - white 1 - southern lord - 2003
- sunn o))) - white 2 - southern lord - 2004
- sunn o))) - black one - southern lord - 2005
- sunn o))) & boris - altar - southern lord/inoxia records - 2006/2007
- sunn o))) - monoliths & dimensions - southern lord - 2009 (cd + lp)
- susanna - wild dog - rune grammofon - 2012
- david sylvian - secrets of the beehive - virgin - 1987
- david sylvian - blemish - samadhisound - 2003
- david sylvian - the good son vs. the only daughter (the blemish remixes) - samadhisound - 2005
- wire - 154 - harvest - 1979 (lp)
- peter wright - orbit - install - 2012 (lp)
- neil young - zuma - reprise - 1975 (lp)
- neil young - american stars 'n bars - reprise - 1977 (lp)
- neil young - arc & weld - reprise - 1991

(things we have been listening to recently)

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

lost beyond telling

samples from the cd portion of the forthcoming oiseaux invisibles release :

everything is abyss (baudelaire), excerpt

ingenting kollektiva 
lost beyond telling : fragments of night as envisioned by johannes d'église, church mouse.
(ib006 - cd + dvd - 2012, forthcoming, also available in artist edition of 8)

material from ingenting kollektiva, ingmar bergman, and j.s. bach, modified and transformed by johannes d'église & matthew swiezynski, and mastered by taylor deupree.

titles taken from :
baudelaire, bonnefoy, prospero, messiaen, jaccottet, stamelman, ashbery, and d'église

images by tarrl lightowler

Sunday, May 6, 2012

atlas of the photographs, collages and sketches


helmut friedel and ulrich wilmes - gerhard richter: atlas of the photographs, collages and sketches - d.a.p. in association with anthony d'offay london and marian goodman new york - 1997


post inspired by last night's viewing of corinna belz's film gerhard richter - painting - 2011

Friday, May 4, 2012

the something rain


recent recordings

- thomas bel - innerly - annexia - 2012 (lp)
- biosphere - substrata - biophon records - 2011 (lp reissue)
- anthea caddy & thembi soddell - host - room40 - 2012
- alex cobb & aquarelle - split - low point - 2011 (lp)
- karen dalton - 1966 - delmore recordings - 2012 (lp)
- miles davis - agharta - columbia records / 4 men with beards - 1975/2012 (lp reissue)
- miles davis - pangaea - columbia records / 4 men with beards - 1976/2012 (lp reissue)
- miles davis - dark magus - columbia records / 4 men with beards - 1977/2011 (lp reissue)
- gareth dickson - quite a way away - 12k - 2012
- gareth dickson - noon ep - 12k - 2012
- dirty three - toward the low sun - drag city - 2012 (lp)
- earth - pentastar: in the style of demons - sub pop records - 1996 (lp)
- earth - a bureaucratic desire for extra-capsular extraction - southern lord - 2010 (lp)
- earth - angels of darkness, demons of light ii - southern lord - 2012 (lp)
- en - the absent coast - root strata - 2010
- en - already gone - students of decay - 2012 (lp)
- gas (wolfgang voigt) - nah und fern (gas, zauberberg, königsforst, and pop) - kompakt - 2008
- ingenting kollektiva - lost beyond telling - invisible birds - 2012
- vikki jackman, andrew chalk & jean-noel rebilly - a paper doll's whisper of spring - s/r - 2012
- brian lavelle - just a song at twilight - dust, unsettled - 2006
- brian lavelle - fallen are the domes of green amber - diophantine discs - 2007
- brian lavelle - alessandri's dream - dust, unsettled - 2008
- brian lavelle - ustrina - afe records - 2008
- brian lavelle - supernaturalist - ee tapes - 2008
- brian lavelle - avalonian - apollolaan recordings - 2009
- brian lavelle - two ostensions - hooker vision - 2010
- brian lavelle - lambent - sonic oyster records - 2010
- brian lavelle - magdalena - diophantine discs - 2010 (lp)
- brian lavelle - empty transmissions - sonic oyster cassettes - 2011
- brian lavelle - hyperboreans - siren wire editions - 2011
- john lennon - john lennon / plastic ono band - apple records - 1970
- main - hydra-calm - situation two - 1992
- main - motion pool - beggars banquet - 1994
- main - deliquescence - beggars banquet - 1997
- mickey newbury / bill callahan - heaven help the child - saint cecilia knows/drag city - 2012
- lou reed - transformer - rca records - 1972
- daniel rossen - silent hour / golden mile - warp records - 2012 (lp)
- sigur rós - valtari - xl recordings - 2012
- the smiths - meat is murder - rough trade records - 1985 (lp reissue)
- the smiths - the queen is dead - rough trade records - 1986 (lp reissue)
- david sylvan - a victim of the stars 1982-2012 - virgin records - 2012
- talvihorros - descent into delta - hibernate - 2011
- tindersticks - the something rain - constellation - 2012 (lp)

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

(sounds like dirt xvi) i still can't remember how or where i lost my way


he came dancing across the water
with his galleons and guns
looking for the new world
in that palace in the sun.

on the shore lay montezuma
with his coca leaves and pearls
in his halls he often wondered
with the secrets of the world.

and his subjects
gathered 'round him
like the leaves around a tree
in their clothes of many colors
for the angry gods to see.

and the women all were beautiful
and the men stood
straight and strong
they offered life in sacrifice
so that others could go on.

hate was just a legend
war was never known
the people worked together
and they lifted many stones.

they carried them
to the flatlands
and they died along the way
but they built up
with their bare hands
what we still can't do today.

and i know she's living there
and she loves me to this day
i still can't remember how
or where i lost my way.

he came dancing across the water
cortez, cortez
what a killer.