Playlist Week of 2014-05-24

* Ives: A Set of Pieces (Orpheus Chamber Ensemble) (Deutsch Grammophon CD)

* Xanakis: Iannis Xenakis (selections) (Editions RZ 2CD)

* Miles Davis: Doo-Bop (Warner Bros. LP)

* Hubert Laws: In The Beginning (CTI 2LP)

* Placebo: 1973 (Parlophone/Music on Vinyl LP)†

* Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet: Navigation (Possibility Abstracts X & XI) (Firehouse 12 2LP)

* Mary Halvorson Septet: Illusionary Sea (Firehouse 12 2-45RPM LP)

* Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey: And Other Desert Towns (Relative Pitch CD)†/‡

* Kris Davis/Ingrid Laubrock/Tyshawn Sorey: Paradoxical Frog (Clean Feed CD)

* Paradoxical Frog: Union (Clean Feed CD)

* Rodger Coleman & Sam Byrd: Cosmologies (NuVoid LP) (test pressing)

* Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté: Toumani & Sidiki (World Circuit LP)

* George Duke: Don’t Let Go (Epic LP)

* Hot Chip: Made In The Dark (EMI LP)

* Parrell Williams: G I R L (Columbia LP)(†/‡)

* Jimi Hendrix: People, Hell and Angels (Experience Hendrix/Columbia CD)

* The Red Krayola: Coconut Hotel (Drag City LP)

* The Red Krayola: Singles (Drag City 2LP)

* Dust: Dust/Hard Attack (Kama Sutra/Legacy 2LP)

* Death: Death III (Drag City LP)

* Jah Wobble: Heaven & Earth (Island CD)

* Bill Laswell & Laraaji: Divination: Sacrifice (Meta CD)

* Laraaji: Celestial Music 1978-2011 (All Saints 3LP)

* New Order: Power, Corruption & Lies (Factory LP)

* New Order: Blue Monday (Factory 12”)

* Lee Ranaldo & The Dust: Last Night On Earth (Matador 2-LP)

* Ambarchi/O’Malley/Dunn: Shade Themes From Kairos (Drag City 2LP)

* Agalloch: The Serpent & The Sphere (Profound Lore ALAC)†(‡)

* Astra: The Black Chord (Metal Blade CD)

* Deafheaven: Roads To Judah (Deathwish LP)

* Nothing: Downward Years To Come (Bandcamp ALAC)†

†=iPod/iTunes

‡=car

Commentary:

I'm still buzzing from Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey's visit to Nashville this week - and I'm too blown out to try to write something coherent about it. However, I did make a rambling video, if you are interested. Suffice to say, it was AMAZING.

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In other exciting news: test pressings arrived of Cosmologies, my new album with Sam Byrd! They sound really good. So, we're still on track for a release at the end of June. Wahoo! You can download  digital copy of the album and pre-order the LP on Bandcamp.