Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Terry Riley, A Rainbow in Curved Air
  • 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

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
  • 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

Monday, August 25, 2025

Albert Mangelsdorff, Trilogue — Live at the Berlin Jazz Days
  • 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

Sunday, August 24, 2025

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

Saturday, August 23, 2025

Saturday, August 23, 2025

John Fahey, America
  • 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

Friday, August 22, 2025

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

Thursday, August 21, 2025

Thursday, August 21, 2025

Talking Heads, Fear of Music
  • 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

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

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

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Leroy Jenkins, Space Minds, New Worlds, Survival of America
  • 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

Monday, August 18, 2025

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

Sunday, August 17, 2025

Sunday, August 17, 2025

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

Saturday, August 16, 2025

Saturday, August 16, 2025

Eddie Harris, Live at Newport
  • 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

Friday, August 15, 2025

Syd Barrett, The Madcap Laughs
  • 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

Thursday, August 14, 2025

Dagar Brothers, Berlin 1964 — The Lost Studio Recording
  • 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

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Duke Ellington, John Coltrane
  • 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

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Steely Dan, Gaucho
  • 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

Monday, August 11, 2025

Jeb Bishop, Pandelis Karayorgis, Damon Smith, Duals
  • 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

Sunday, August 10, 2025

Jeb Bishop Trio/Quartet, Afternoons
  • 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

Saturday, August 9, 2025

Jeb Bishop, Jorrit Dijkstra, 1000 Words
  • 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

Friday, August 8, 2025

Mar, Ruin Is Rebirth
  • 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

Thursday, August 7, 2025

Daniel Lentz, Lips
  • 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

Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show

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

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Revolting Cocks, You Goddamned Son of a Bitch
  • 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

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Ozzy Osbourne, Diary of a Madman
  • 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

Monday, August 4, 2025

Kees Hazevoet, Pleasure
  • 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

Sunday, August 3, 2025

Rodrigo Amado, Chris Corsano, No Place to Fall
  • 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

Saturday, August 2, 2025

Daniel Lentz, Missa Umbrarum
  • 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

Friday, August 1, 2025

Philip Glass / Robert Wilson, Einstein on the Beach
  • 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

Thursday, July 31, 2025

Nihilist Spasm Band, ¬x~x=x
  • 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

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Blue Notes, Legacy: Live in South Afrika 1964
  • 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

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Tom Lehrer, That Was the Year That Was
  • 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

Monday, July 28, 2025

Ozzy Osbourne, Blizzard of Ozz
  • 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

Sunday, July 27, 2025

Tim Barnes, Lost Words
  • 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

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

Friday, July 25, 2025

Black Sabbath, Never Say Die!
  • 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

Thursday, July 24, 2025

Chuck Mangione, Feels So Good
  • 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

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Bohannon, Stop and Go
  • Wire, Chairs Missing
  • Bohannon, Stop & Go

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Sonny Rollins, Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders
  • Sonny Rollins, Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders

Monday, July 21, 2025

Sunday, July 20, 2025

Sunday, July 20, 2025

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

Saturday, July 19, 2025

Saturday, July 19, 2025

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

Friday, July 18, 2025

Friday, July 18, 2025

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

Thursday, July 17, 2025

Thursday, July 17, 2025

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

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Tim Barnes, Noumena
  • 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

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Irène Schweizer, Rüdiger Carl, Louis Moholo, Messer Und...
  • 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

Monday, July 14, 2025

Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark, Tomeka Reid, Chad Taylor, Pivot
  • 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

Sunday, July 13, 2025

75 Dollar Bill, Power Failures
  • 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

Saturday, July 12, 2025

Stereolab, Dots and Loops
  • 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

Friday, July 11, 2025

Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, Live at Willisau
  • 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

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Mike Osborne, Dawn
  • 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