Playlist Week of 2016-05-14

* Esprit des Balkans (Hesperion XXI/Savall) (Alia Vox SACD)

* Debussy: Preludes, etc. (Thibaudet) (d.1) (London 2CD)

* Gigi Ryce-Donald Byrd Jazz Laboratory/Cecil Taylor Quartet: At Newport (Verve CD)

* Alice Coltrane: Universal Consciousness (Impulse!/Verve CD)

* I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music in America, 1950-1990 (Light In The Attic 3LP)

* Jon Hassell: Dream Theory In Malaya: Fourth World Volume Two (Editions EG LP)

* Jon Hassell: The Surgeon Of The Nightsky Restores Dead Things... (Intuition/Capitol LP)

* Steve Roach: Light Fantastic (Fathom CD)

* Kevin Braheny: The Way Home (Hearts of Space CD)

* Lee “Scratch” Perry: Soundz From The Hotline (Heartbeat CD)

* William Onyeabor: Tomorrow (Wilfilms/Luaka Bop LP)

* William Onyeabor: Great Lover (Wilfilms/Luaka Bop LP)

* D’Angelo: Black Messiah (RCA 2LP)

* Cybotron: Sunday Night At The Total Theatre (Dual Planet LP)

* Heldon: Live in Paris 1976 (SouffleContinuum EP)

* Chrome: The Visitation (Siren/Cleopatra LP)

* Chrome: Alien Soundtracks (Siren/Cleopatra LP)

* Chrome: Half Machine Lip Moves (Siren/Cleopatra LP)

* The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin (Warner Bros. HDCD)

* Beach House: Teen Dream (Sub Pop 2LP)

* Nothing: Downward Years To Come (A389/Bandcamp EP)†

* Nothing: Guilty of Everything (Relapse LP)†

* Nothing: Tired Of Tomorrow (Relapse LP)(†)

†=iPod/iTunes

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Commentary:

Yesterday, I went to the first of what will hopefully be a semi-annual event, the Music City Record Convention, by far the largest record show ever in Nashville. With over 50 vendors from all around the region crowded into The Nashville Palace, it was a great dig! A video will be forthcoming...