Monday, September 30, 2024

• Java: Court Gamelan, Volume II (Nonesuch)
• Wadada Leo Smith, String Quartets Nos. 1–12 (disc 6)
• Anthony Braxton, B-X0 NO-47A (BYG)
• Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee
• Albert Ayler, Revelations: The Complete ORTF 1970 Fondation Maeght Recordings (disc 2)
• KVL, Volume 2
• Thela, Argentina
• Meat Puppets, Meat Puppets II

Sunday, September 29, 2024

• Ahmed, Giant Beauty (disc 3)
• Albert Ayler, My Name Is Albert Ayler
• Boneshaker, Unusual Words
• Hello Spiral, Guitarded
• Jandek, The Place
• Dean Roberts, Not Fire

Saturday, September 28, 2024

• Samuel Reinhard, For Piano and Shō (Elsewhere)
• Kevin Drumm, The Back Room
• Jim O’Rourke, Steamroom 53
• Anthony Braxton, Saxophone Improvisations Series F (disc 1)
• Leo Smith, Creative Music - I
• Pelt, Ayahuasca (disc 1)
• Thela, Thela

Friday, September 27, 2024

• San Agustin, The Expanding Sea (disc 2)
• Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres
• Albert Ayler, La Cave Live Cleveland 1966 Revisited (disc 2)
• KVL, Volume 2

Thursday, September 26, 2024

• Albert Ayler, La Cave Live Cleveland 1966 Revisited (disc 1)
• Rasmussen / Sakata / O’Rourke / Corsano, Live at SuperDeluxe - Volume 1
• Ahmed, Giant Beauty (disc 2)
• Asher Gamedze, Out Side Work
• White Winged Moth, I Can See Inside Your House
• Peter Gabriel, Plays Live (disc 2)
• Fischerspooner, #1

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

• Wadada Leo Smith, String Quartets Nos. 1–12 (disc 5)
• Anthony Braxton, Creative Orchestra Music 1976
• Asher Gamedze, Turbulence and Pulse
• Pelt, For Michael Hannahs
• Jimi Hendrix, Band of Gypsys
• Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
• Elvis Costello, Spike

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

• Pelt, Brown Cyclopaedia
• Brian Eno & David Byrne, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
• Jimi Hendrix, Electric Ladyland

Monday, September 23, 2024

• Jürg Frey, Lieues d’Ombres (Reinier van Houdt, piano) (disc 1)
• Anthony Braxton, Saxophone Improvisations Series F (disc 2)
• Ellery Eskelin, Ramifications
• Albert Ayler, My Name Is Albert Ayler
• C. Spencer Yeh, Violin Voice Live Norway Landmark Bergen Jan 12th 2010
• Thela, Argentina
• Jimi Hendrix, Are You Experienced?
• Gareth Williams, Flaming Tunes

Sunday, September 22, 2024

• Melaine Dalibert, Night Blossoms
• San Agustin, The Expanding Sea (disc 1)
• Dean Roberts, Not Fire
• Garbage, Garbage
• Newcleus, Jam On Revenge

Saturday, September 21, 2024

• Ellery Eskelin, Solo Live at Snugs
• London Jazz Composers Orchestra w/ Irène Schweizer, Theoria
• Louis Moholo-Moholo Septet, Bra Louis - Bra Tebs
• Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home

Friday, September 20, 2024

• Philip Glass, Glassworks
• Albert Ayler, Revelations: The Complete ORTF 1970 Fondation Maeght Recordings (disc 4)
• Asher Gamedze, Turbulence and Pulse
• KVL, Volume 2

July/August 2024 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Donna Tartt, The Secret History
• Charles Portis, True Grit
• Robert Silverberg, The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party
• Stephen King, Desperation

visual:

• Bob Black & Bruno Borges, The Abolition of Work

nonfiction:

• Richard Hell, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp
• Richard Koloda, Holy Ghost: The Life & Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler
• Marcia Bjornerud, Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth

movies:

• Rob Reiner, Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
• Albert Brooks, Defending Your Life *

* = re-read/re-view

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads and my Letterboxd

Thursday, September 19, 2024

• Albert Ayler, At Slugs’ Saloon
• Loren Connors & David Grubbs, Evening Air
• Ewald Spiss, Akustische Arbeiten 1982–1993 (disc 4)
• Newcleus, Jam On Revenge

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

• Old and New Dreams, A Tribute to Blackwell
• Ewald Spiss, Akustische Arbeiten 1982–1993 (disc 3)
• Garbage, Garbage

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

• Thela, Argentina
• Dean Roberts, And the Black Moths Play the Grand Cinema
• Asher Gamedze, Turbulence and Pulse
• Django Reinhardt, Rétrospective Django Reinhardt 1934–53 (disc 1)

Monday, September 16, 2024

• Albert Ayler, Swing Low Sweet Spiritual
• Co Streiff / Russ Johnson Quartet, In Circles
• Elvis Costello, This Year’s Model

Sunday, September 15, 2024

• Jürg Frey, Lieues d’Ombres (Reinier van Houdt, piano) (disc 2)
• Yvonne B, Synth Music from the Archives
• Derek Bailey / Han Bennink / Evan Parker, Topographie Parisienne (disc 1)
• John Zorn, The Book of Heads (Marc Ribot, guitar)
• Joe McPhee, Musings of a Bahamian Son (Poems and Other Words)
• Ahmed, Giant Beauty (disc 1)
• Josephine Davies, Satori
• KVL, Volume 2
• San Agustin, The Expanding Sea (disc 3)
• Big Black, Songs About Fucking

Saturday, September 14, 2024

• Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden
• Merzbow, Circular Reference
• Keiji Haino / Jim O’Rourke / Oren Ambarchi, Caught in the dilemma of being made to choose... (disc 1)
• San Agustin, The Expanding Sea (disc 2)
• Garbage, Garbage
• Newcleus, Jam On Revenge

Friday, September 13, 2024

• San Agustin, The Expanding Sea (disc 1)
• White Winged Moth, I Can See Inside Your House
• Irène Schweizer / Fred Anderson / Hamid Drake, Willisau & Taktlos
• Josephine Davies, In the Corners of Clouds
• Co Streiff / Russ Johnson Quartet, In Circles
• Asher Gamedze, Turbulence and Pulse
• Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II
• The Beatles, Let It Be... Naked

Thursday, September 12, 2024

• Giacinto Scelsi, The Works for Double Bass (Mode)
• J. Guy Laughlin & Bbob Drake, Curiouser
• Margaux Oswald & Jesper Zeuthen, Magnetite
• Irène Schweizer & Han Bennink, Irène Schweizer - Han Bennink
• Mars Williams / Darin Gray / Chris Corsano, Elastic
• Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis
• KVL, Volume 2
• Asher Gamedze, Out Side Work
• Albert Ayler, Lörrach/Paris 1966
• Loren Connors, In Pittsburgh
• Dean Roberts, And the Black Moths Play the Grand Cinema
• Jandek, Victoria Wednesday (disc 2)
• The Cure, Disintegration
• Garbage, Version 2.0
• Where Will You Be Christmas Day? (Dust to Digital)