Wednesday, August 27, 2025

• Navajo Songs From Canyon De Chelly (New World)
• Toshi Tsuchitori, Jômonko: Pottery Drums of the Jomon Period
• Terry Riley, A Rainbow in Curved Air
• Henry Kaiser, The Deep Unreal
• Raphael Rogiński, Talàn
• Charles Mingus, Mingus
• Tim Barnes, Inside Energy
• The Durutti Column, LC

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

• Jeb Bishop, Tim Daisy & Mark Feldman, Begin, Again
• Sonny Rollins, Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders
• John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
• Paul Motian Band, Psalm
• Tim Barnes, Noumena
• John Cale & Terry Riley, Church of Anthrax
• Mar, Ruin Is Rebirth
• Revolting Cocks, You Goddamned Son of a Bitch
• Christopher Cross, Ride Like the Wind: The Best of Christopher Cross

Monday, August 25, 2025

• Terry Riley, Persian Surgery Dervishes (disc 2)
• U. Srinivas, Mandolin Ecstasy
• Albert Mangelsdorff, Trilogue – Live at the Berlin Jazz Days
• Wire, Chairs Missing

Sunday, August 24, 2025

• Jürg Frey, Les Signes Passagers (Keiko Shichijo, fortepiano)
• Tim Barnes, Lost Words
• Head of David, Dustbowl
• Michael McDonald, Sweet Freedom

Saturday, August 23, 2025

• Jeb Bishop / Matthias Müller / Matthias Muche, Konzert für Hannes
• John Fahey, America
• Donald Fagen, The Nightfly
• The Doobie Brothers, Greatest Hits

Friday, August 22, 2025

• Derek Bailey & John Stevens, Playing
• Miles Davis, Agharta (disc 1)
• Tim Buckley, Lorca
• Ozzy Osbourne, Diary of a Madman

Thursday, August 21, 2025

• Jürg Frey, Lieues d’Ombres (Reinier van Houdt, piano) (disc 3)
• John Fahey, Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier’s Choice)
• Talking Heads, Fear of Music

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

• Jürg Frey, Lieues d’Ombres (Reinier van Houdt, piano) (disc 1)
• Steely Dan, Aja
• X, Under the Big Black Sun

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

• Kunaichō Gakubu Ensemble, Gagaku Collection 2 (Victor, SLJ-59)
• Leroy Jenkins, Space Minds, New Worlds, Survival of America
• Steve Lacy & Brion Gysin, Songs

Monday, August 18, 2025

• Mauricio Kagel, Heterophonie/Improvisation Ajoutee
• Jeb Bishop, Jeb Bishop Trio
• The Doobie Brothers, Greatest Hits

Sunday, August 17, 2025

• Jürg Frey, Collection Gustave Roud (disc 1)
• The Whammies, The Music of Steve Lacy Vol. 2
• Steely Dan, Gaucho

Saturday, August 16, 2025

• Jürg Frey, Continuité, fragilité, résonance (Quatuor Bozzini/Konus Quartett)
• Eddie Harris, Live at Newport
• Donald Fagen, The Nightfly
• Talking Heads, Little Creatures
• Whatitdo Archive Group, Exotique / Italian Love Triangle

Friday, August 15, 2025

• Jürg Frey, String Trio (Apartment House)
• Kory Reeder, Codex Vivere (Apartment House)
• Rafael Toral, Violence of Discovery and Calm of Acceptance
• Natural Snow Buildings, Daughter of Darkness (discs 5 & 6)
• Syd Barrett, The Madcap Laughs

Thursday, August 14, 2025

• Dagar Brothers, Berlin 1964 — The Lost Studio Recording
• Natural Snow Buildings, Daughter of Darkness (discs 3 & 4)
• Miles Davis, The Complete On the Corner Sessions (disc 6)
• Jimmy Giuffre, Western Suite

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

• Natural Snow Buildings, Daughter of Darkness (discs 1 & 2)
• Duke Ellington & John Coltrane, Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
• Miles Davis, The Complete On the Corner Sessions (disc 5)
• Donald Fagen, The Nightfly

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 2)
• Miles Davis, The Complete On the Corner Sessions (disc 3)
• Steely Dan, Gaucho

Monday, August 11, 2025

• Jeb Bishop / Pandelis Karayorgis / Damon Smith, Duals (disc 1)
• Miles Davis, The Complete On the Corner Sessions (disc 2)
• Steely Dan, Aja

Sunday, August 10, 2025

• Jeb Bishop Trio/Quartet, Afternoons
• Miles Davis, The Complete On the Corner Sessions (disc 1)
• Whatitdo Archive Group, Exotique / Italian Love Triangle

Saturday, August 9, 2025

• J.S. Bach, French Suites (Glenn Gould)
• Jeb Bishop & Jorrit Dijkstra, 1000 Words
• Tim Barnes, Noumena
• Revolting Cocks, You Goddamned Son of a Bitch
• Toto, Toto IV

Friday, August 8, 2025

• Alvin Lucier, Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas (disc 2)
• Hello Spiral, Oh! Discordia!
• Jeb Bishop, Tim Daisy & Mark Feldman, Begin, Again
• Blue Notes, Blue Notes in Concert (feat. Louis Moholo)
• Tim Barnes, Lost Words
• Autechre, Confield
• Mar, Ruin Is Rebirth
• Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren’s Utopia
• Ozzy Osbourne, Diary of a Madman
• The Doobie Brothers, Greatest Hits
• Toto, Toto
• Whatitdo Archive Group, Exotique / Italian Love Triangle

Thursday, August 7, 2025

• Alvin Lucier, Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas (disc 1)
• Daniel Lentz, Lips (disc 2)
• Kevin Drumm, Technology
• Susie Ibarra & Denis Charles, Drum Talk
• Jason Stein, Anchors
• Jeb Bishop Flex Quartet, Re-Collect
• Tim Barnes, Inside Energy
• Autechre, Envane
• Captain Beefheart, The Mirror Man Sessions (disc 2)
• Syd Barrett, Barrett
• Steely Dan, Gaucho

June/July 2025 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show
• Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!
• Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman
• Joe Westmoreland, Tramps Like Us
• Eando Binder, Adam Link - Robot

visual:

• Charles Burns, Final Cut
• Kristen Radtke, Imagine Wanting Only This

nonfiction:

• Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
• Matt Young, Eat the Apple
• Brianna Madia, Nowhere for Very Long

movies:

• Spike Jonze, Her
• Garret Price, Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary
• Joseph Kosinski, F1

* = re-read/re-view

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

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

• Daniel Lentz, Lips (disc 1)
• Derek Bailey & Henry Kaiser, Wireforks
• Eric Lunde, Witness to Disaster
• Autechre, Oversteps
• Revolting Cocks, You Goddamned Son of a Bitch
• My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Confessions of a Knife...
• Syd Barrett, The Madcap Laughs
• Steely Dan, Aja
• Whatitdo Archive Group, Exotique / Italian Love Triangle
• Al-Fajer Group, Al Fajer (The Dawn)

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

• Angus MacLise, The Cloud Doctrine (disc 2)
• Philip Glass, Einstein on the Beach (disc 4)
• Daniel Lentz, Missa Umbrarum
• Willem Nyland, Piano Studies 337
• Eric Lunde, Tape Death Cut
• Autechre, Tri Repetae
• Mar, Ruin Is Rebirth
• Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren’s Utopia
• Black Sabbath, Paranoid
• Ozzy Osbourne, Diary of a Madman
• Donald Fagen, The Nightfly

Monday, August 4, 2025

• Philip Glass, Einstein on the Beach (disc 3)
• Eric Lunde, XCHdX: On the Terrain of Prophecy
• Kees Hazevoet, Pleasure (feat. Louis Moholo)
• Jeb Bishop Flex Quartet, Re-Collect
• Jason Stein, Anchors
• Tim Barnes, Inside Energy
• Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Push the Sky Away
• Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell
• Ozzy Osbourne, Blizzard of Ozz
• Steely Dan, Gaucho
• Syd Barrett, Barrett

Sunday, August 3, 2025

• Philip Glass / Robert Wilson, Einstein on the Beach (disc 2)
• Rodrigo Amado & Chris Corsano, No Place to Fall
• Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark, Tomeka Reid, Chad Taylor, Pivot
• Mike Osborne, Dawn (feat. Louis Moholo)
• ICP Orchestra, Aan & Uit
• The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Kabalaba
• Boy Dirt Car, 1983–87 Live w/out a Body
• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Wild God
• Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath
• Steely Dan, Pretzel Logic

Saturday, August 2, 2025

• Daniel Lentz, Missa Umbrarum
• Duke Ellington & John Coltrane, Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
• The Necks, Aethenaeum, Homebush, Quay & Raab (disc 4)
• Mar, Ruin Is Rebirth
• Black Sabbath, Master of Reality
• Ozzy Osbourne, Diary of a Madman
• Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren’s Utopia
• Donald Fagen, The Nightfly

RIP Daniel Lentz

Friday, August 1, 2025

• Philip Glass / Robert Wilson, Einstein on the Beach (disc 1)
• Jason Stein, Anchors
• Eric Revis 11:11, Parallax
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 4)
• Whatitdo Archive Group, Exotique / Italian Love Triangle
• Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell
• Black Sabbath, Technical Ecstasy
• The Verlaines, Some Disenchanted Evening
• Steely Dan, Gaucho
• Syd Barrett, Barrett
• Tom Lehrer, More of Tom Lehrer

RIP Robert Wilson

Thursday, July 31, 2025

• Nihilist Spasm Band, ¬x~x=x (feat. Bill Exley)
• Paul Bley, The Complete Footloose
• Lee Morgan, The Procrastinator
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 11)
• 75 Dollar Bill, Power Failures
• Pink Floyd, London 1966/1967
• Black Sabbath, Never Say Die!
• Black Sabbath, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
• Steely Dan, Countdown to Ecstasy
• Giles, Giles & Fripp, The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp
• Yellow Magic Orchestra, Solid State Survivor
• Jackie Mittoo, The Keyboard King at Studio One

RIP Bill Exley

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

• Jürg Frey, String Quartet No. 4 (Quatuor Bozzini)
• Daniel Lentz, Missa Umbrarum
• Blue Notes, Legacy: Live in South Afrika 1964 (feat. Louis Moholo)
• Tim Barnes, Lost Words
• Throbbing Gristle, CD1
• Nihilist Spasm Band, No Record
• Haruomi Hosono, Cochin Moon
• DJ Krush & Toshinori Kondo, Ki-Oku
• Steely Dan, Pretzel Logic
• Ozzy Osbourne, Diary of a Madman
• Black Sabbath, Vol. 4
• Pink Floyd, The Early Singles
• Tom Lehrer, Songs by Tom Lehrer

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

• Hello Spiral, Staunch Advocate of Doing Nothing
• Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark, Tomeka Reid, Chad Taylor, Pivot
• Mike Osborne, Dawn (feat. Louis Moholo)
• Sonny Rollins, Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders
• Boy Dirt Car, Winter (+ F/i split)
• Caspar Brötzmann Massaker, It’s a Love Song
• Tim Barnes, Noumena
• Ryuichi Sakamoto, Thousand Knives of Ryuichi Sakamoto
• Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren’s Utopia
• Black Sabbath, Technical Ecstasy
• Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell
• Syd Barrett, Barrett
• Donald Fagen, The Nightfly
• Tom Lehrer, That Was the Year That Was

RIP Tom Lehrer

Monday, July 28, 2025

• J. Soliday, Beached
• Jeb Bishop Flex Quartet, Re-Collect
• Gerry Mulligan Paul Desmond Quartet, Blues in Time
• Gate, Hate
• Ozzy Osbourne, Blizzard of Ozz
• Black Sabbath, Never Say Die!
• Steely Dan, Gaucho
• Todd Rundgren, Something/Anything? (disc 1)
• Yellow Magic Orchestra, Solid State Survivor

Sunday, July 27, 2025

• Kevin Drumm, Sheer Hellish Miasma II (disc 1)
• Bailey/Bryars/Oxley, Joseph Holbrooke ’65
• Tristan Honsinger 5tet, Map of Moods (feat. Louis Moholo)
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 3)
• Tim Barnes, Lost Words
• Neal Markowski, Holiday Cheer Where You Need It
• Black Sabbath, Sabotage
• Steely Dan, The Royal Scam
• Todd Rundgren, Faithful
• Simon & Garfunkel, Bookends

Saturday, July 26, 2025

• Derek Bailey & Han Bennink, ICP 004
• Roswell Rudd, Roswell Rudd (feat. Louis Moholo)
• Charles Mingus, Mingus
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 2)
• Tim Barnes, Noumena
• Donald Fagen, The Nightfly
• Todd Rundgren, A Wizard, a True Star
• Black Sabbath, Technical Ecstasy

Friday, July 25, 2025

• Kevin Drumm, Crazy
• Derek Bailey & Henry Kaiser, Wireforks
• Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark, Tomeka Reid, Chad Taylor, Pivot
• Mike Osborne, Dawn
• Donald Byrd, A New Perspective
• Tim Barnes, Dead-Loop
• Herman Chin Loy, Aquarius Dub
• Black Sabbath, Never Say Die!
• Steely Dan, Gaucho

RIP Ozzy Osbourne

Thursday, July 24, 2025

• Jeb Bishop / Pandelis Karayorgis / Damon Smith, Duals (disc 1)
• Paul Bley / Gary Peacock / Tony Oxley / John Surman, In the Evenings Out There
• Chuck Mangione, Feels So Good
• Boy Dirt Car, Winter (+ F/i split)
• Gate, Hate
• Glen Brown, Termination Dub (w/ King Tubby)
• Bohannon, On My Way
• Sly & the Family Stone, Small Talk
• Steely Dan, Aja
• Spacemen 3, Playing with Fire
• The 13th Floor Elevators, Easter Everywhere
• Todd Rundgren, Something/Anything? (disc 2)

RIP Chuck Mangione

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

• Wire, Chairs Missing
• Bohannon, Stop & Go

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

• Sonny Rollins, Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders

Monday, July 21, 2025

• Boy Dirt Car, Winter

Sunday, July 20, 2025

• Paul Bley, The Complete Footloose
• David Grubbs, Whistle from Above

Saturday, July 19, 2025

• Perry Robinson, Funk Dumpling
• Sonny Rollins, Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders

Friday, July 18, 2025

• Roswell Rudd, Roswell Rudd
• On Fillmore, On Fillmore (Box 100) (disc 2)
• Pere Ubu, New Picnic Time

Thursday, July 17, 2025

• Tim Barnes, Dead-Loop
• Pere Ubu, Worlds in Collision
• Donald Fagen, The Nightfly

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

• Derek Bailey & Henry Kaiser, Wireforks
• Magic Hour, Secession 96
• Gate, Hate
• Tim Barnes, Noumena
• Eli Keszler, Eli Keszler
• Pere Ubu, Cloudland
• Steely Dan, Aja

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

• Irène Schweizer / Rüdiger Carl / Louis Moholo, Messer Und...
• James Moody, James Moody and His Modernists
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 2)
• Mark Fell, Multistability
• Tim Barnes, Lost Words
• Steely Dan, Gaucho

Monday, July 14, 2025

• Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark, Tomeka Reid, Chad Taylor, Pivot
• COWWS Quintett, Grooves ’N’ Loops
• Keiji Haino / Jim O’Rourke / Oren Ambarchi, Tea Time for Those Determined to Completely Exhaust Every Bit of This Body They’ve Been Given
• Altarage, Nihl
• Gastr del Sol, Mirror Repair
• Bobby Conn, Rise Up!
• Roy Harper, HQ

Sunday, July 13, 2025

• Alice Coltrane, Live at the Berkeley Community Theater 1972
• Mike Osborne, Dawn (feat. Louis Moholo)
• 75 Dollar Bill, Power Failures
• BASIC, This Is BASIC
• Eli Keszler, Eli Keszler
• Pere Ubu, Worlds in Collision
• Todd Rundgren, Something/Anything? (disc 1)
• Sly & the Family Stone, Small Talk
• Souled American, Flubber

Saturday, July 12, 2025

• Kunaichō Gakubu Ensemble, Gagaku Collection 2 (Victor, SLJ-59)
• Kory Reeder, Codex Vivere (Apartment House)
• Peter Brötzmann / Harry Miller / Louis Moholo, The Nearer the Bone, the Sweeter the Meat
• Susan Alcorn & Tom Carter, Ajax Peak
• Gate, Hate
• Stereolab, Dots and Loops

Friday, July 11, 2025

• Alice Coltrane, Carnegie Hall ’71
• Sonny Rollins, Complete Live at the Village Gate 1962 (disc 4)
• Duke Ellington & John Coltrane, Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
• Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath, Live at Willisau (feat. Louis Moholo)
• Donald Byrd, A New Perspective
• Math, Bask Math
• Matmos, Return to Archive
• Pere Ubu, Worlds in Collision
• Roy Harper, HQ

Thursday, July 10, 2025

• Morton Subotnick, Silver Apples of the Moon
• Mike Osborne, Dawn (feat. Louis Moholo)
• John Coltrane, Evenings at the Village Gate
• Thelonious Monk, In Italy
• Gerry Mulligan Paul Desmond Quartet, Blues in Time
• Duke Ellington, Black, Brown & Beige
• BASIC, Dream City
• Sly & the Family Stone, Small Talk