#Nate Wooley Columbia Icefield

[lyssahumana]

[dustedmagazine]

Nate Wooley — Ancient Songs of Burlap Heroes (Pyroclastic)

Photo by Julia Dratel

Ancient Songs of Burlap Heroes by Nate Wooley

The second album by Nate Wooley’s Columbia Icefield band adopts an almost Tom Petty-like stance vis-a-vis hard luck. His liner note reads, “This album is dedicated to those who recognize living as a heroic act: the occupiers of sunup barstools; the cubicle-planted; the ghosts of Greyhounds; the reasonably sketchy. A Burlap hero is one who marches—consciously or not— back to the sea in hopes of making no splash, who understands and embraces the imperfection of being, and in that way, stretches the definition of sainthood to fit.”

The music’s sound can easily resonate with suffering. Each ensemble performance plays out at length, with two or three players moving at a pace that would make it easy for the titular glacier to keep up while one or two generates stress from within. The core band contains musicians — guitarist Mary Halvorson, pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn, drummer Ryan Sawyer — who are equally adept at inhabiting and subverting stasis, and guest Mat Maneri and Trevor Dunn thicken the atmosphere with further murky layers of (respectively) viola and electric bass. Framing them are much shorter pieces constructed from icefield recordings and amplified trumpet exhalations so cold that they’ll turn blood to slushy ice. 

When he takes the lead, Wooley’s horn comes wreathed in reverb, floating gradually decaying melodies that hover like Miles Davis blowing cold and lonely from that ski-lift overhead.  Taken in combination with the CD’s frosty artwork, this could almost be The Great Lost Miles Davis ECM Record, with production and imagery converging far up the fjord where the snow never melts. In the past, when Wooley has taken on an historic monolith, he’s talked about it. This time, there’s no direct commentary, but a sympathetic vibration emerges. The ECM look and sound was nothing if not romantic, and Petty sang about losers in order to celebrate them. There’s a moment partway through Ancient Songs of Burlap Heroes where the action bogs down in a puddle of melting water, and then rouses itself for another round of baleful, slow-motion melody; you can almost imagine the musicians taking turns putting down their instruments and coming over to pull a coat around the trudging hero’s shoulder. 

Bill Meyer

[dendre]

Hanglemez 2019/02

Default Genders: Main Pop Girl 2019  9.0  (future pop) Ot to Not To: It Loved To Happened  9.0  (mark hollis of experimental r&b) Y La Bamba: Mujeres  8.5  (latin alt, indiefolk) Piroshka: Brickbat  8.5  (indierock) Roses Gabor: Fantasy & Facts  8.5  (elektro r&b) Feels: Post Earth  8.5  (lofi-posztpunk) Fling: Fling Or Die  8.5  (indiepsychpop)

Golden Daze: Simpatico  8.0  (neopsychdreamjanglepop) The Delines: The Imperial  8.0  (altcountry-soul) Cherusii & Maria Minerva: ST  8.0  (hypnogogic outsider pophouse) Sleaford Mods: Eton Alive  8.0  (spokenword posztpunk) Powder: Powder In Space  8.0  (dj mix, house) Time Grove: More Than One Thing  8.0  (electrosouljazz) Nate Wooley: Columbia Icefield  8.0  (jazzambient) Celestial Trax: Serpent Power  8.0  (ambient) AJ Lambert: Careful You  8.0  (elegantpop-feldolgozáslemez Sinatra-unokától) Leyla McCalla: The Capitalist Blues  8.0  (cajun, folkswing) Swindle: No More Normal  8.0  (purple sound, uk hiphop) Pom Poko: Birthday  8.0  (dancepunk) Du Blonde: Lung Bread For Daddy  8.0  (indierock) Wadada Leo Smith: Rosa Parks  8.0  (jazz) Theon Cross: Fyah  8.0  (jazz) Mikron: Severance  8.0  (ambient techno) Sunwatchers: Illegal Moves  8.0  (jazzpsychrock) Pierce Pettis: Father’s Son  8.0  (folk) Vtgnike: Steals  8.0  (ambient juke) Our Native Daughters: Songs Of Our Native Daughters  8.0  (banjofolk) Jozef Van Wissem / Jim Jarmush: An Attempt To Draw  7.5  (avantfolk instru) Tourist: Everyday  7.5  (deep house) Nakhane: You Will Not Die  7.5  (artpop&b) Greensky Bluegrass: All For Money  7.5  (progressive bluegrass) Seed Ensemble: Driftglass  7.5  (souljazz) Gum Takes Tooth: Arrow  7.5  (expreirock) Frances Cone: Late Riser  7.5  (indieartpop) Diat: Positive Disintegration  7.5  (posztpunk) The Long Ryders: Psychedelic Country Soul  7.5  (paisley under, powerpop) Yugen Blakrok: Anima Mysterium  7.5  (hiphop) Julia Jacklin: Crushing  7.5  (indiefolk) Angelo De Augustine: Tomb  7.5  (indiefolk) Madolin Orange: Tides Of A Teardrop  7.5  (folk, altcountry) Yola: Walk Through Fire  7.5  (soulpopcountryblues) Twin Talk: Weaver  7.5  (sleepjazz) Calva Louise: Rhinoceros  7.5  (indierock) Lor Choc: Love Is Love  7.5  (rap&b) Bjarki: Happy Earthday  7.5  (izlandi idm-ambient techno) Brìghde Chaimbeul: The Reeling  7.5  (skót dudazene, folk)

International Teachers Of Pop: S/T  7.0  (disco-szintipop) Buke And Gase: Scholars  7.0  (indietronica, artpop) Betty Who: Betty  7.0  (softy, synthy, 80s-y dancepop) Vandoliers: Forever  7.0  (cowpunk) Finlay Shakespeare: Domastic Economy  7.0  (electro) Copeland: Blushing  7.0  (dreampop) Mykele Deville: Maintain  7.0  (hiphop) Jio: TFW  7.0  (alt-elektro r&b) XamVolo: All The Sweetness...  7.0  (alt&b) Markers: Heaven In The Dark Earth  7.0  (droneposztfolk) The Cool Greenhouse: Crap Cardboard Pet EP  7.0  (bedroom posztpunk) Spellling: Mazy Fly  7.0  (experi electropop) Harlem: Oh Boy  7.0  (garage pop) The Entrepreneurs: Noise And Romance  7.0  (noisepop) Hugh Marsh: Violinvocations  7.0  (hegedűs glitchambient) Julia Kent: Temporal  7.0  (vonós posztminimalambient) Fran And Flora: Unfurl  7.0  (hegedűcselló modern classical) The Unthanks: Emily Bronte  7.0  (kamarafolk) Adia Victoria: Silences  7.0  (artrock) Robert Ellis: Texas Piano Man  7.0  (piano pop) Telekinesis: Effluxion  7.0  (indiepop) James Yorkston: The Route  7.0  (indiefolk) Chaka Khan: Hello Happiness  7.0  (dancesoulpop) Charlotte Adigéry: Zandoli EP  7.0  (altdancepop) Surachai: Come, Deathless  7.0  (noise) Shook Twins: Some Good Lives  7.0  (decens folkpoprock) Liz Brasher: Painted Image  7.0  (popsoul) Mike Krol: Power Chords  7.0  (power garage) Bass Clef: 111  7.0  (outsider dubhouse-idm) Teeth Of The Sea: Wraith  7.0  (neopsych-elektroposztrock) Desperate Journalist: In Search Of The Miraculous  7.0  (posztpunk-indierock) Tender: Fear Of Falling Asleep  6.5  (dreamy electropop) Lee Gamble: In A Paravental Scale EP  6.5  (idm) Subjective: Act One  6.5  (deephouse and bass) Thelma: The Only Thing  6.5  (artpop) Susanna & Brotherhood...: Garden Of Earthly Delights  6.5  (avantfolk-artpop) And The Kids: When This Is Over  6.5  (indierock) Yann Tiersen: All  6.5  (ambient pop) Machinefabriek: With Voices  6.5  (konkrét elektronika) Deer Tick: Mayonnaise  6.5  (folkrock, americanablues) Julian Lynch: Rat’s Spit  6.5  (indie-dreamfolk) Ry X: Unfurl  6.5  (folktronica) Kehlani: While We Wait  6.5  (neosoul-r&b) Efdemin: New Atlantis  6.5  (minimal/ambient/abstract techno) Tiny Ruins: Olympic Girls  6.5  (folkpop) Black Taffy: Elder Mantis  6.5  (absztrakt hiphop) Drenge: Strange Creatures  6.5  (garázsposztpunk)

Homeshake: Helium  6.0  (hypnagogic synthfunk) Nate Young: Dilemmas Of Identity  6.0  (post-industrial) Lorelle Meets The Obsolete: De Facto  6.0  (mexikói neopszichkrautrock) Le Butcherettes: bi/MENTAL  6.0  (artrock) Say Anything: Oliver Appropiate  6.0  (acousticemo) Cub Sport:  Cub Sport  6.0  (elektropop&b) Rosie Carney: Bare  6.0  (indiefolk) Cucina Povera: Zoom  6.0  (a capella minimal synth) Deep Cut: Different Planet  6.0  (shoegaze-psych) TMBOY: Steam  6.0  (elektropop) Go Dark: Neon Young  5.5  (hipszeterelektropop) Thyla: What’s On Your Mind EP  5.5  (indierock) Tim Presley: I Have Toe Feed  5.5  (psychpop) Elena Setién: Another Kind Of Revolution  5.5  (szofiszti artpoppy)  Hayes Carll: What It Is  5.5  (altcountry, americana) Dreezy: Big Dreez  5.5  (trap-hiphopr&b)  Boogie: Everything’s For Sale  5.5  (westcoasthiphop) Fredo: Third Avenue  5.0  (uk rap) Perfect Son: Cast  5.0  (szintis artpop) 

+++++ Brown Sugar: I’m In Love With A Dreadlock (Birth Of Lovers Rock 1977-1980)  9.5  (gyönyörű, úttörő lovers rock-életmű összegzése, 2018-as, decemberi lemez) Don The Tiger: Matanzas  8.5  (2018-as évvégi lemez, poszt afrocuban) VA: The Social Power Of Music  8.0  (négylemezes Smitshonian Folkways-válogatás, komoly protest song-history) Damon Zucconi: Untitled Substance  8.0  (b-more deconstructed, 2007-es, elfeledett LP újrakiadása) Stano: Content To Write  8.0  (1983-as ír posztpunk újrakiadása) D. Rothon: Nightscapes  8.0  (2018-as évvégi, smoothpopjazzmoodmusic) Moma Ready: Ocean Walker II  8.0  (2018-as évvégi, liquid funk, breaks) Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Smells Funny  7.5  (2018-as évvégi, heavypsych-jazz) BlueWhale: Process  8.0  (2018-as évvégi, atonal rock) Rattle: Sequence  8.0  (2018-as évvégi, dobzene)

(Ezeken kívül még sok lemezbe belehallgattam, és maximum 10 percet töltöttem velük, mert annyira nem nekem szóltak vagy szimplán borzasztóak voltak, ezeket nem sorolom. És igen, ez amolyan laza sorrend.)     

Eszméletlenül sok olyan zene van ma (kösz soundcloud/bandcamp), amit az alkotója valamilyen (leginkább életkori) oknál fogva nem tudott megvalósítani akkor, amikor az újszerű, releváns, aktuális, izgalmas lehetett volna. Ezek között persze akad több olyan, ami legalább érdekes, ügyesen nyúl a témához, jól hallgatható, de ha már hallottad azt, amiket másolnak, akkor nyilván nem tudnak revelációt kiváltani (vagy csak nagyon kivételes esetben). És akkor ugye hallani is minek, ha nem másnak, hogy szóljon valami elmegy háttérzene. Rengeteg lemez esik ebbe a kategóriába, a szabad újrafelhasználás, a miért ne korát éljük.

Ugyanakkor ha nem ösztönöz a remény, hogy potenciálisan jó zenéről maradhatok le, akkor nincs is értelme új megjelenéseket hallgatni. Vagy a régiek közül keresgélni.

Ami még általánosságban jellemző, az a kislemez (albumtrekk)-nagylemez örök szkanderének aktuális kiélesedése. Még a legtöbb 6.5 alatti lemezről is tudnék egy jó számot kiemelni, és végülis nem ez a lényeg? Jó számokat hallgatni. Pont ez van, Spotify-kor definíció szerint: jó számokat kiválasztani, abból jó playlisteket hallgatni. De ha én baszom el ezzel az időt, akkor csak ezzel foglalkozom (és jó eséllyel úgy sem fogom két-három alkalomnál többször hallani), ha más, nem hiszek neki, nem hiszem el, hogy ne hagyott volna le valami jót és a végén becsavarodunk az értelmetlen, újzenét megszállottan (ennél, amit itt csinálok, sokkal megszállottabban) kereső spirálba. Plusz, ha tudtál egy jó számot, akkor hallani akarom, hogy tudsz-e többet is? Ha nem, az sajnálatos. Ha igen, akkor meg csinálj belőlük egy jó lemezt, ami képes egy egységes hangulatot, világot nyújtani, amibe szívesen elmerülök.

Ebben a hónapban két lemeznek is az a címe, hogy Unfurl. Sok februári LP volt már az első részben is, így ez a második most alighanem rövidebb. Kevesebb a kiemelkedő album, ennélfogva. Most is kettő tetszett nagyon, az egyik a legtipikusabb future pop, mindent bele Default Genders friss albuma, ő a reményteljes, de ki nem igazán teljesedő Elite Gymnastics egyik fele volt (ez a chillwave idején feltűnt zenekar mindent mashupolt: dreampopot, jungle-t, house-t, k-popot stb.), ez a második szólólemeze és a zenekarral elkezdett munka eddigi betetőzése. Perfekt jövőpop, ami természetesen nem jelent mást, mint, hogy 2019-ben ilyennek is kellene lennie a jó popzenének, miközben alig ilyen. A másik nagyon tetszetős lemez egy Ot to Not To nevű előadó harmadik albuma, róla nem hallottam korábban. A zenéjére nem én találtam ki a Talk Talk-os Mark Hollis-párhuzamot, ami tökéletesen illik:  mark hollis of experimental r&b. Valami nagyon szellős, szétszerelt-újrarakott folk r&b ez, nagyon távoli kapaszkodónak lehet használni Kindness-t, aki nagyon kicsit hasonlóan szerelte az 80s softpopos r&b-t néhány éve. Ebből a kínmondatból is látszik, milyen nehéz körbeírni a zenét, inkább hallani kell. Jó még a  Y La Bamba eklektikus indiefolkpopja, nagyon kicsit US Girls, ha ez segít, aztán a Lush-os milányunk, Miki Berényi új zenekara, a Piroshka egy több mint korrekt albummal debütált, persze vele elfogódott vagyok, ezt itt be is jelentem, de mindenesetre ez sokkal jobb, mint a három évvel ezelőtti Lush-visszatérő EP, és úgy általában is. Kellett neki három hallgatás, hogy a korrektnél többnek halljam, itt tartok most vele. Roses Gabor szerintem nem a mi lányunk, ha jól veszem ki, grenadai szülők gyereke (Gábor ZsaZsa ihlethette a nevét?) erős elektro r&b-t tol, a Feels nekemvalóan megkapó lofi-posztpunkot, a Fling pedig szórakoztató indiepsychedéliát, utóbbi három lemezt lehet, hogy kicsit túlértékelem. Majdnem ennyire jó még a Golden Daze télies, ártalmatlan dreampopja (picit Real Estate-es jangle is), amibe nagyon jó belebújni. Akárcsak a The Delines soulos altcountryjába. A Sleaford Mods ismét szórakoztató, zeneileg talán minden korábbinál, izé, zeneibb. Cherusii & Maria Minerva kiadványa félig posztumusz anyag, Cherusii fiatalon hunyt el, barátnője, Minerva gondozta, fejezte be közös felvételeiket, nyilván nagyon sajnálatos, hogy előbbi nem tudott kibontakozni, utóbbi viszont hosszabb hallgatást tört meg ezzel a jó lemezzel. Mi van még? Nyilván mindig keverednek a friss megjelenések közé pár hetes, hónapos kiadványok is, ennyit csak ilyen tempóban lehet feldolgozni. Nem nekem, a nemzetközi sajtónak, amiből mondjuk a Popmatters úgy tud minden nap pár lemezt bemutatni, hogy nem ismétli a Pitchfork-féle fősodor kínálatát és mégis érdekes. De amúgy nagyon sok mindent kell olvasni, hogy összeálljon egy ilyen kép, ilyen lemezsor. 

Ezek tetszettek a legjobban februárban. A második kupacban (és harmadik elején) még olyanok vannak, amiket szerintem abszolút érdemes meghallgatni annak, aki bírja az adott stílust, a harmadik-negyedik adagban viszont már azok szerepelnek, amikhez rajongónak kell lenni és úgy sem kizárt a csalódás.

[hatingwithfears]

Top 50 Albums of 2019

50- Floating Points- Crush

49- Angel Olsen- All Mirrors

48- Wilco- Ode To Joy

47- Philip Glass, Gavin Bryars, Third Coast Percussion- Peretulum

46- Nivhek- After It’s Own Death

45- The Comet Is Coming- The Afterlife

44- Boris- LOVE & EVOL

43- Deathprod- Occulting Disk

42- Anna Meredith- FIBS

41- Plaid- Polymer

40- Tyler The Creator- IGOR

39- Xiu Xiu- Girl With a Basket Of Fruit

38- Coldplay- Everyday Life

37- Big Thief- UFOF/Two Hands

36- Kanye West- Jesus is King

35- Inter Arma- Sulphur English

34- William Doyle- Your Wilderness Revisited

33- Florist- Emily Alone

32- Philippe Bronchtein- Oregon Air

31- Bon Iver- i,i

30- Caterina Barbieri- Ecstatic Computation

29- Sarah Davachi- Pale Bloom

28- Moor Mother- Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes

27- Kim Gordon- No Home Record

26- Bill Orcutt- Odds Against Tomorrow

25- Bill Callahan- Shepard In a Sheepskin Vest

24- Elbow- Giants of All Sizes

23- Jefre Cantu-Ledesma- Tracing Back The Radiance

22- Vampire Weekend- Father of The Bride

21- Craig Finn- I Need a New War

20- Nate Wooley- Columbia Icefield

19- Sandro Perri- Soft Landing

18- Bruce Springsteen- Western Stars

17- Nonlocal Forcast- Bubble Universe!

16- Sleater-Kinney- The Center Won’t Hold

15- FKA Twigs- Magdalene

14- Sunn o)))- Pyroclasts

13- Loraine James- For You and I

12- Britney Howard- Jamie

11- Deerhunter- Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared

10- Leonard Cohen- Thanks For The Dance

9- Solange- When I Get Home

8- Lambchop- This (Is What I Wanted To Tell You)

7- Sunn o)))- Life Metal

6- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- Ghosteen

5- Purple Mountains- Purple Mountains

4- Sarah Mary Chadwick- The Queen Who Stole The Sky

3- Robert Stillman- Reality

2- American Football- LP 3

1- The National- I Am Easy To Find

[siawasedragon-blog]

Nate Wooley - Columbia Icefield

(https://open.spotify.com/album/4tAceYj30ljyUpdVaG9JM7?si=XJuczzphRaqkTN_XUKJqTgから)

[freethejazzblog]

Free The Jazz #97 [for Scott Walker]

1 - Albert Beger Electroacoustic Band - Nigun (edit) (from "Peacemaker", 2010 Anova)

2 - Paul Dunmall / Jon Irabagon / Mark Sanders / Jim Bashford - Part Two (from "The Rain Sessions", 2018 FMR)

3 - Marco Serrato / Francesco Covarino - Rogna (edit) (from "Bestemmia", 2019 Raw Tonk)

4 - Paisiel - Limousine In The Desert (from "Paisiel", 2018 Lovers & Lollypops)

5 - Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo - Ah Dadada (from "Kikoeru (Tribute To Masaya Kimura)", 2018 Libra)

6 - Sun Ra And His Astro Infinity Arkestra - Pathways To Unknown Worlds (edit) (from "Pathways To Unknown Worlds", 1975 ABC Impulse!)

7 - Hamid Drake / Ralph Jones / Adam Rudolph - Etymologies (from "Karuna", 2018 Meta)

8 - Nate Wooley - With Condolences (from "Columbia Icefield", 2019 Northern Spy)

9 - Akira Sakata & Chikamorachi - That Day Of Rain (from "Friendly Pants", 2009 Family Vineyard)

Hear it first on 8K Sundays 11amNZT (Saturdays 10pmGMT)

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columbia icefield (nate wooley / ryan sawyer / mary halvorson / susan alcorn) (at The Standard Knoxville) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvW-btBnptb/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1kywdehoelyux

[laura-ortman]

...a week ago last Monday night...mezmerized by Columbia Icefield (Nate Wooley, Ryan Sawyer, Mary Halvorson + Susan Alcorn)...what a week it's been---will never forget these inspirational times*+*+*+++holding you s'close*+*++xOx (at Pioneer Works) https://www.instagram.com/p/BumjymYlQpiOKyB5yAGtDcuH68bw91S9NFi8WA0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=oe79ccio72en

[whileiamdying]

Review: The Prettiest, Most Progressive Campfire Music Ever

By ZACHARY WOOLFE Nate Wooley’s “Columbia Icefield,” disarmingly intimate music inspired by the grandeur of nature, balances a sense of vastness and privacy. Published: February 27, 2019 at 05:00PM from NYT Arts https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/arts/music/nate-wooley-review.html?partner=IFTTT via IFTTT

[javierpenadea]

Nate Wooley’s “Columbia Icefield,” disarmingly intimate music inspired by the grandeur of nature, balances a sense of vastness and privacy.

[timothyabernard]

Review: The Prettiest, Most Progressive Campfire Music Ever

Nate Wooley’s “Columbia Icefield,” disarmingly intimate music inspired by the grandeur of nature, balances a sense of vastness and privacy. Article source here:New York Times Arts Section

[dustedmagazine]

Susan Alcorn Quintet — Pedernal (Relative Pitch Records)

Pedernal by Susan Alcorn Quintet

Susan Alcorn has created a new vocabulary for the pedal steel guitar, an instrument closely associated with the country & western genre.  The composer and steel player started out playing in Texas country & western bands before immersing herself in free jazz, modern classical and musical traditions from outside North America.  Her playing is unique, a culmination of her experiences and influences: equally melodic and atonal, at times terse and at others languorous. She cuts a wide swathe, stylistically, yet is evenly eloquent across the broad range she inhabits.

With Pedernal, Alcorn plays the role of composer, performer and band leader, her debut as the latter after decades of solo, duo, and side-woman outings. Adding her six strings to Alcorn’s compositions is guitarist Mary Halvorson, a long-time collaborator. Alcorn’s pedal steel is the grounding force within Halvorson’s own octet, as can be heard on the Away With You record.  Joining on double bass is another frequent associate, the Baltimore-based Michael Formanek (Alcorn is also currently a Charm City resident).  Ryan Sawyer, who plays with Alcorn and Halvorson on Nate Wooley’s Columbia Icefield album, lends his drumming talents to the proceedings. Rounding out the quintet, Mark Feldman wields the violin, as unique an instrument within the jazz idiom as the pedal steel. 

Alcorn and her team of crack improvisors imbue the quintet concept with a sense of airiness without coming across as fragile or dull.  Whereas a less well-orchestrated combo might seem crowded or even step over each other, this quintet seems to sense when to stay true to Alcorn’s compositions and when to slip out and be a little daring. Halvorson and Alcorn, in particular, are nearly synchronous when they’re not playfully dancing around each other or pulling off a solo.  Feldman’s violin is the perfect foil for those two.  Whether he is soaring or scrabbling about, he has a keen sense of what energy each moment requires. 

It's quite clear that Alcorn has not left her country roots behind, as evinced within the first bluesy moments of Pedernal.  The album, and its eponymous opening piece, were named after the mesa in New Mexico near where the composer holed up in retreat and wrote.  Those first few bars conjure up images of the mountain, which painter Georgia O’Keeffe made famous through many of her works.  The breathtaking vista was inspirational for both women. The elegance and immensity are carried through not only Alcorn’s compositions but are felt in the performance of the quintet, and of each player.  If it’s possible for a landscape to reverberate within a recording, this is definitely the phenomenon at play on Pedernal. 

Bryon Hayes

[zestaffer]

Nate Wooley’s “Columbia Icefield,” disarmingly intimate music inspired by the grandeur of nature, balances a sense of vastness and privacy.

[dustedmagazine]

Dusted Midyear Exchange, Part 3: The Lists

Toshiya Tsunoda made a couple of our writers’ lists.

Switching is fun, but when push comes to shove, we like what we like.  Here’s what 12 Dusted writers are enjoying for the first half of 2019.  If you missed them, catch up on Parts One and Two.  

 Ben Donnelly

Kelsey Lu — Blood (True Panther Sounds) 

Steven R Smith —  Sketchbook of Endings (Soft Abuse)

Ulaan Passerine —  New Evening (Worstward)

Cate Le Bon —  Reward (Mexican Summer)

Shana Cleveland —  Night of the Worm Moon (Sub Pop)

Prins Thomas —  Ambitions (Smalltown Supersound)

Weyes Blood —  Titanic Rising (Sub Pop)

Big|Brave —  A Gaze Among Them (RED/Southern Lord)

Derya Yildirim and Grup Simsek —  Kar Yagar (Bongo Joe)

Amon Tobin —  Fear in a Handful of Dust (Nomark) 

 Justin Cober-Lake

Charly Bliss —  Young Enough (Barsuk)

Over the Rhine —  Love & Revelation (Great Speckled Dog)

Gary Clark Jr —  This Land (Warner)

The Mountain Goats —  In League with Dragons (Merge)

Nate Wooley —  Columbia Icefield (Northern Spy)

Linda May Han Oh —  Aventurine (Biophilia)

Patty Griffin —  Patty Griffin (Thirty Tigers) 

Sarah Louise —  Nighttime Birds and Morning Stars (Thrill Jockey) 

Stef Chura —  Midnight (Saddle Creek)

Chris Forsyth —  All Time Present (No Quarter)

 Andrew Forell

Fennesz — Agora (Touch)

Toy — Happy in the Hollow (Tough Love Records)

Bethany Curve — Murder! (Kitchen Whore)

Tyler, The Creator — Igor (A Boy Is A Gun/Columbia)

Charly Bliss — Young Enough (Barsuk)

Drahla — Useless Coordinates (Captured Tracks)

Simulation — Death’s Head Speaks (Hausu Mountain) 

& a couple of re-releases:

Eric Dolphy — Musical Prophet (Resonance)

Stereolab — Transient Random— Noise Bursts with Announcements (Warp/Duophonic)

 Mason Jones

Mdou Moctar — Ilana (The Creator)” (Sahel Sounds)

Centrum — För Meditation — (Rocket Recordings)

Caterina Barbieri — Ecstatic Computation (Editions Mego)

The Young Gods — Data Mirage Tangram (Two Gentlemen)

Cosey Fanni Tutti — Tutti (Mute)

Karen O + Dangermouse — Lux Prima (Lux Prima/BMG)

75 Dollar Bill — I Was Real (Thin Wrist/Black Editions)

Julia Kent — Temporal (Leaf)

Spellling — Mazy Fly (Sacred Bones)

Radiohead — Minidiscs [Hacked]

 Jennifer Kelly

Steve Gunn — The Unseen in Between (Matador)

Dark Blue — Victory Is Rated (12XU)

Mdou Moctar — Ilana (The Creator) (Sahel Sounds)

Uranium Club — The Cosmo Cleaners (Static Shock)

Garcia Peoples — Natural Fact (BBIB)

Michael Chapman — True North (Paradise of Bachelors)

NOTs— 3 (Goner)

Damien Jurado— In the Shape of a Storm (Mama Bird)

Sleaford Mods — Eton Alive (Extreme Eating)

Matmos — Plastic Anniversary (Thrill Jockey)

 Patrick Masterson

Pile — Green and Gray (Exploding in Sound)

Hand Habits — Placeholder (Saddle Creek)

Koffee — Rapture EP (Promised Land Recordings)

Jamila Woods — Legacy! Legacy! (Jagjaguwar)

Rafael Anton Isirrari  — Solastalgia (Room40)

Carly Rae Jepsen — Dedication (Interscope)

Head High  — Into It (Power House)

Overmono — Live in Osaka 2018 (Poly Kicks)

The Twilight Sad — It Won/t Be Like This All the Time (FatCat)

Fresh — Withdraw (Specialist Subject)

Hugh Marsh — Violinvocations (Western Vinyl)

Sikka Rymes — Love Di People EP (Bokeh Versions)

 Ian Mathers

Picastro — Exit (Sleeping Giant Glossolalia)

Boy Harsher — Careful (Nude Club)

Julia Kent — Temporal (Leaf)

Lambchop — This (Is What I Wanted to Tell You) (Merge/City Slang)

Sigrid — Sucker Punch (Island)

Nakhane — You Will Not Die (BMG)

Wand — Laughing Matter (Drag City)

Sunwatchers — Illegal Moves (Trouble in Mind)

Clinic — Wheeltappers and Shunters (Domino)

Pelican — Nighttime Stories (Southern Lord)

Reissue:

Robert Ashley — Private Parts (Lovely Music)

 Marc Medwin

J.S. Bach — Die Kunst Der Fuge (Aeolus) 

Anna Webber — Clockwise (Pi Recordings)

Toshiya Tsunoda — Extract From Field Recording Archive (ErstPast)

Satoko Fujii — Stone (Libra)

Jandek — Ray (Corwood Industries)

Anthony Braxton — GTM Syntax 2017 (New Braxton House)

Gil Sanson and Lance Austin Olsen — Works on Paper (Elsewhere)

Catherine Lamb — Point / Wave (Another Timbre)

Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan — Epistrophy (ECM)

And a reissue of sorts:

King Crimson — Heaven and Earth (Panegyric)

 Bill Meyer

Steve Gunn — The Unseen In Between (Matador)

Masaki Batoh — Nowhere (Drag City)

75 Dollar Bil l— I Was Real (Thin Wrist)

Dustin Laurenzi — Snaketime:The Music of Moondog (Astral Spirits/Feeding Tube)

John Butcher / Rhodri Davies — Drunk on Dreams (Cejero)

Elkhorn — Sun Cycle / Elk Jam (Feeding Tube)

House and Land — Across the Field (Thrill Jockey)

Jacob Wick — Feel (Thin Wrist)

Christian Lillinger — Open Form for Society (Plaist)

Joshua Abrams and Natural Information Society — Mandatory Reality (Eremite)

Reissue:

Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit — April is the Cruelest Month (Blank Forms Editions)    

Isaac Olson

Mdou Moctar — Ilana (The Creator) (Sahel Sounds)

Martha — Love Keeps Kicking (Dirtnap Records)

Jake Xerxes Fussell — Out of Sight (Paradise of Bachelors)

Stella Donnelly — Beware of the Dogs (Secretly Canadian)

Sunn 0))) — Life Metal (Southern Lord)

Bill Callahan — Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest (Drag City)

C Joynes & The Furlong Bray — The Borametz Tree (Thread Recordings)

House and Land — Across the Field (Thrill Jockey)

75 Dollar Bill — I Was Real (Thin Wrist)

Joshua Abrams and Natural Information Society — Mandatory Reality (Eremite)

 Michael Rosenstein

Toshiya Tsunoda — Extract From Field Recording Archive (ErstPast)

The Seen —  Archive : Volumes VI —  X : 2014 to 2016 (confront collectors series)

Tim Olive + Yan Jun — Brother of Divinity (845 Audio)

Magnus Granberg & Skogen — ‘Nun, es wird nicht weit mehr gehn’ (Another Timbre)

James Tenney: Changes — 64 Studies for 6 Harps (New World)

Anna Webber — Clockwise (Pi Recordings)

Bertrand Denzler — Four Saxophone Solos (Remote Resonator)

D'Incise — Assemblée, Relâche, Réjouissance, Parade

Anne — F Jacques, Ryoko Akama, Takamitsu Ohta — The Magic City (Hasana Editions)

Mdou Moctar — Ilana: The Creator (Sahel Sounds) 

 Jonathan Shaw

Venom Prison— Samsara (Prosthetic Records)

Depressor — Hell Storms over Earth (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)

Epectase — Astres (I — Voidhanger)

Victims — The Horse and Sparrow Theory (Relapse Records)

Panopticon — Crescendo of Dusk (Self released)

Sunn O))) — Life Metal (Southern Lord)

Vanum — Ageless Fire (Profound Lore)

 Peter Taber

9T Antiope & Siavash Amini — Harmistice (Hallow Ground)

Asuna & Jan Jelinek — Signals Bulletin (Faitiche)

Dustin Laurenzi — Snaketime: The Music of Moondog (Astral Spirits)

Helm — Chemical Flowers (PAN)

Lorem — Adversarial Feelings (Krisis)

Rian Treanor — ATAXIA (Planet Mu)

SA — 20 — No Refunds (Business Casual)

Stereotyp — Look Things (Seagrave)