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)†

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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.

Playlist Week of 2014-05-17

* Handel: Concerti grossi, Op.3 (Academy of Ancient Music/Egarr) (Harmonia Mundi SACD)

* Berio: Sinfonia/Ekphrasis (DG CD)

* Miles Davis: The Complete On The Corner Sessions (d.1-4) (Columbia/Legacy 6CD)

* Pharoah Sanders: Message From Home (Verve CD)

* Pharoah Sanders: Save Our Children (Verve CD)

* James “Blood” Ulmer: Tales Of Captain Black (Artists House LP)

* Terje Rypdal: After The Rain (ECM LP)

* William Parker Quartet Featuring Leena Conquest: Raining on the Moon (Thirsty Ear CD)

* William Parker Violin Trio: Scrapbook (Thirsty Ear CD)

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

* D’Angelo: Brown Sugar (EMI CD)

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

* Grateful Dead: Holleder Stadium, Rochester, NY 1979-09-01 (selections) (SBD 2CDR)

* Grateful Dead: Capital Centre, Landover, MD 1982-09-15 (selections) (SBD 2CDR)

* The Cure: Happily Ever After (A&M 2LP)

* The Flaming Lips: 7 Skies H3 (Warner Bros. LP)

* Stereolab: Dots And Loops (Drag City 2-45RPM LP)

* Wilco: The Whole Love (Nonesuch 2LP)

* Kyuss: Blues For The Red Sun (Dali/Elektra LP)

* The Black Keys: Turn Blue (Nonesuch LP)

* Broken Bells: Broken Bells (Columbia CD)

* Ensemble Pearl: (ensemble pearl) (Drag City 2LP)

* Agalloch: Marrow Of The Spirit (Profound Lore 2LP)

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

* White Hills: So You Are…So You’ll Be (Thrill Jockey LP)

* ASG: Win Us Over (Volcom/Relapse 2-45RPM LP)

* Ancestors: In Dreams And Time (Teepee 2LP)

* Windhand: Soma (Relapse 2LP)

* London Grammar: If You Wait (Columbia 2LP)

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Commentary:

The amazing Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey are currently on a rare U.S. tour and, as you can see, they are covering quite a lot of ground out here in “flyover country”:

05/15 Cleveland/Mahall's 20 Lanes (+ Oblique Orchestra)

05/16 Ann Arbor/Kerrytown Concert House

05/17 Chicago/Constellation (+ Tomeka Reid/Katherine Young, 2nd set)

05/18 Milwaukee/Sugar Maple

05/20 St. Louis/Kerr Foundation Building (New Music Circle)

05/22 Nashville/Zeitgeist Gallery
                 ('Indetermanacies' series concert + workshop at the Nashville Public Library)

05/23 Tuscaloosa/University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa New Music Collective)

05/24 New Orleans/Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center

05/25 New Orleans/Cafe Istanbul

05/26 Houston/Avant Garden, "They Who Sound" series
                 (duo + quartet with Damon Smith (b) and David Dove (tbne)

05/27 Austin/Museum of Human Achievement (presented by Epistrophy Arts)

05/29 Santa Fe/Gig Performance Space

05/30 Lafayette (CO) /Ceraso Gallery + Studio

06/01 Kansas City/The Record Bar

06/02 Minneapolis/The Icehouse (J T's Jazz Implosion series)

06/03 Madison/Audio for the Arts
06/05 Pittsburgh/Thunderbird

Be sure to catch them if you can. They will be here in Nashville on Thursday, May 22 for an all-day celebration of their music and avant-garde jazz, with an “Out of the Lunchbox” talk by Vanderbilt professor Robert Fry at noon at the downtown Public Library, followed by a workshop/masterclass with Ingrid and Tom in the library auditorium. Then, at 7:00pm, the duo will perform at “Indeterminacies” at Zeitgeist Gallery with a discussion segment led by Prof. Fry. This, sadly, will be the final "Indeterminacies" event--but we're going out with a bang. Not to be missed!!

Playlist Week of 2014-05-10

* Scriabin: Complete Symphonies, etc. (Deutsches Sym. Berlin/Ashkenazy) (d.3) (Decca 3CD)

* Lachenmann: Allegro Sostenuto/Serynade (Sugawara/Oka/Fels) (Kairos CD)

* Charlie Haden Quartet West: The Art Of The Song (Verve CD)

* Jaco Pastorius: Modern American Music…Period! The Criteria Sessions (Omnivore LP)

* Myra Melford’s Be Bread: The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12 CD)

* Sylvie Courvoisier: Lonelyville (Intakt CD)

* Shin Terai: Unison (Ion CD)

* Bill Laswell/Buckethead/Shin Terai: Heaven And Hell (Innerhythmic CD)

* Salif Keita: Amen (Mango CD)

* Lee “Scratch” Perry: Reggae Greats (Mango CD)

* Michael Jackson: Off The Wall (Epic LP)

* The Moody Blues: On The Threshold Of A Dream (Deram LP)

* The Moody Blues: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (Threshold LP)

* Carlos Santana: Divine Light: Reconstruction & Mix Translation by Bill Laswell (Columbia CD)

* July: July (Major Minor/Guerszen LP)

* The Free Design: Kites Are Fun (Project 3/Light In The Attic LP)

* Cat Stevens: Tea For The Tillerman (A&M/Mobile Fidelity CD)

* Black Sabbath: Technical Ecstasy (Warner Bros./Rhino LP)

* Black Sabbath: Never Say Die! (Warner Bros./Rhino LP)

* Mandrill: Solid (United Artists LP)

* Placebo: Ball Of Eyes (Parlophone/Music On Vinyl LP)

* Placebo: 1973 (Parlophone/Music On Vinyl LP)

* Placebo: Placebo (Parlophone/Music On Vinyl LP)

* Death: Spiritual-Mental-Physical (Drag City LP)

* Death: …For The Whole World To See (Drag City LP)

* The dB’s: Amplifier (Castle LP)

* Death: Leprosy (Relapse LP)

* Porcupine Tree: The Incident (Roadrunner CD+CDEP)

* Thievery Corporation: Saudade (ESL LP)

* Ray La Montagne: Gossip In The Grain (RCA 2LP)

* Ray La Montagne: Supernova (RCA LP)

* Grails: The Burden Of Hope (PSM LP)

* Mastodon: Live At Brixton (Reprise 2LP/DVD)

* Baroness: Yellow & Green (Relapse 2LP)

* True Widow: Circumambulation (Relapse LP)

* Deafheaven: Roads To Judah (Deathwish LP)

* Deafheaven: Sunbather (Deathwish 2-45RPM LP)

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

* Nothing: Guilty Of Everything (Relapse LP)(†)

†=iPod/iTunes

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Commentary:

I had a good week - how about you?