* Buxtehude: Sonatas, Op.1 (Holloway/ter Linden/Mortensen) (Naxos CD)* Buxtehude: Sonatas, Op.2 (Holloway/ter Linden/Mortensen) (Naxos CD)
* Venice Baroque Orchestra (Marcon/Carmignola): Concerto Italiano (Archiv Prod. CD)
* Vivaldi: Cello Sonatas (ter Linden/Mortensen) (Brilliant Classics 2CD)
* Handel: 12 Solo Sonatas, Op.1 (AAM/Egarr) (Harmonia Mundi 2CD)
* Handel: Trio Sonatas, Op.2&5 (AAM/Egarr) (Harmonia Mundi 2CD)
* Boyce: 8 Symphonies (English Concert/Pinnock) (Archiv Produktion CD)
* Ravel: Piano Music (Queffélec) (Virgin CD)
* Ravel: Orchestral Music (selections) (NYPhil/Chicago/Boulez) (Sony 3CD)
* Poulenc: Chamber Music (d.1) (Nash Ensemble) (Hyperion 2CD)
* Sun Ra: The Native Son, Berkeley, CA circa.1971 (SBD CDR)
* Sun Ra: unknown venue, circa.1972 (SBD CDR)
* Sun Ra: Universe in Blue (Saturn LP>CDR)
* Sun Ra: Dramaten, Stockholm, Sweden 10-12-71 (FM CDR)
* Sun Ra: The Antique Blacks (Art Yard CD)
* Pharaoh Sanders: Thembi (Impulse! CD)
* Miles Davis: The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions (d.2-5) (Columbia/Legacy 5CD)
* Miles Davis: The Complete On the Corner Sessions (d.1) (Columbia/Legacy 6CD)
* Henry Threadgill’s Zooid: This Brings Us To, Vol.1 (Pi CD)
* Anthony Braxton 12+1tet: Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver 1-29-10 (AUD CDR)
* Anthony Braxton Sonic Genome Project: Roundhouse, Vancouver 1-31-10 (AUD 2CDR)
* Susie Ibarra: Songbird Suite (Tzadik CD)
* Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks (Columbia SACD)
* Van Morrison: Veedon Fleece (Polydor CD)
* Grateful Dead: Marin Veterans Memorial Auditorium, San Rafael, CA 3-31-84 (SBD 3CDR)
* Grateful Dead: Marin Veterans Memorial Auditorium, San Rafael, CA 4-01-84 (SBD 3CDR)
* Grateful Dead: Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA 10-29-85 (SBD 3CDR)
* Steely Dan: Gaucho (MCA DVD-A)
* Talking Heads: Remain in Light (Sire/Warner Bros. DVD-A)
* The Police: Zenyatta Mondatta (A&M/Universal SACD)
* The Police: Ghost in the Machine (A&M/Universal SACD)
* My Bloody Valentine: Loveless (Plain LP)
* Robert Pollard: We All Got Out of the Army (GBV, Inc. LP)
* Robert Pollard: “Silk Rotor” (Happy Jack Rock Records 7”)
Commentary:
It is appropriate that my first new records of the year would be by Robert Pollard (photo). By now of course, it is a cliché to say the guy makes too many records, but I am not complaining. As you can see, I love records! We All Got Out of the Army is another slickly produced collection of songs, but this time there’s an air of dark melancholy and dissonant, prog-rock undertones. After only a couple of listens, the songs have yet to sink in, but I like the sound of it very much. The accompanying seven-inch single (on peach-colored vinyl) contains the album track, “Silk Rotor” and two strong b-sides: “Fear of Heat,” a one-note rave-up bordering on Circus Devils-like paranoia and the gently whimsical “Rare Hazel Japan.” Both records feature beautiful collages by Pollard, making them delightful objects d’art as well. Nicely done! A new Circus Devils album, Mother Skinny, is due out on March 30 and two new Boston Spaceship discs should arrive in April and May. Can’t wait! Available directly from Rockathon.
Looks like you've been following up on your pledge to listen to more of the Miles boxes. You would think, with 9 more inches of snow on top of the 13 we got last weekend, that I would have a bit more time for more tunes, but no: I was too busy digging out the driveway.
ReplyDeleteHere's my listening and reading for last week:
Playlist 2010-02-08
*Brand X: Unorthodox Behaviour
*Anthony Braxton, Walter Thompson, & the Walter Thompson Orchestra: 2009-04-16 Brooklyn (CDR)
*Anthony Braxton/Walter Thompson: 2009-04-18 Brooklyn (CDR)
*Rodger Coleman & Andrew Dickson: No Why, Just Is
*Charles Mingus: Tijuana Moods (Bluebird First Editions) disc 1
*Charles Mingus: Music Written For Monterey 1965. Not Heard... Played In Its Entirety At UCLA, disc 1
*Roscoe Mitchell Quintet: 1991-06-28 Bolzano, Italy (CDR)
*Roscoe Mitchell: Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3
*Joe Morris: 2009-04-03 The Stone, NYC (CDR)
*New Loft: 2009-10-28 Little Blinking (wav)
*New Loft: 2010-01-20: Catch Breath, Sign Dot (wav)
*New Loft: 2010-01-27 Live at the Bossa Bistro, DC (mp3)
*Sam Rivers Trio: 1976-04-19 Philadelphia (CDR)
*Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus
*Sun Ra: Unreleased test pressing tracks, NYC, 1965 (CDR)
*Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley: 2009-10-02 Starsbourg, France (CDR)
*Animal Collective: Here Comes the Indian
*Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour (2009 stereo remaster)
*Beatles: Abbey Road (2009 stereo remaster)
*David Bowie: Low
*Broadcast: Broadcast & The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
*Elvis Costello & the Attractions: Get Happy (2003 reissue, disc 2)
*Grateful Dead: 1969-08-16 Woodstock (CDR)
*Grateful Dead: 1969-08-21 Seattle (CDR)
*Grateful Dead: 1971-12-01 Boston Music Hall (set 2 Cryptical > Other One) (CDR)
*Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks 33 (Oakland 1976) discs 1, 2
*Henry Cow: In Praise of Learning
*High Llamas: Snowbug
*Buddy Holly: Down the Line: Rarities, disc 1
*Yo La Tengo: I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
*Neil Young/Crazy Horse: Year of the Horse
*Wire: Pink Flag
Reading log 2010-02-08
*Kirby, Jack. Jack Kirby's Fourth World Featuring Mister Miracle (started/finished)
*Deadhead's Taping Compendium, vol. 1 (finished)
*Kirby, Jack. Jack Kirby's Mister Miracle (finished)
*The Complete Weird Science (EC) (in progress)
*Larson, Gary. The Complete Far Side (in progress)
*Musil, Robert. Man Without Qualities (in progress)
*A New Literary History of America (ed. Greil Marcus & Werner Sollors) (in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet (Oxford ed., ed. Jill Levenson) (in progress)