Tuesday, January 4, 2022

• J.S. Bach, Great Organ Works (Peter Hurford, organ) (disc 1)
• Joe Henderson, Inner Urge
• Wadada Leo Smith, Spirit Catcher
• Henry Kaiser / Mari Kimura / Jim O’Rourke / John Oswald, Acoustics
• Jim O’Rourke & Mats Gustafsson, Xylophonen Virtuosen
• Gastr del Sol, 20 Songs Less
• Gastr del Sol, Mirror Repair
• Jim O’Rourke, Simple Songs
• Grateful Dead, Europe ’72 (disc 1)
• Black Uhuru, Liberation: The Island Anthology (disc 2)
• The Mighty Diamonds, Right Time
• Arthur Lyman, The Legend of Pele
• Arthur Lyman, Leis of Jazz
• Korla Pandit, The Grand Moghul Suite

Arthur Lyman is better than Martin Denny. Fight me!

The daringly, luxuriantly slow and soporific Hawaiian Sunset is the one I’d rescue from a house fire, but they’re all great. You need them all at least up through 1963 or so. (Maybe after that, even? I’d better find out.)

I would make a pilgrimage to the Henry J. Kaiser Aluminum Dome in Honolulu, where the Lyman LPs were recorded, but it was demolished in 1999 😡. Did they at least put up a plaque? According to one source, if you listen to Lyman on headphones you can sometimes hear the dome creak a little as it cools in the nighttime air blowing in off the Pacific. What bliss!