ginchy shit, 2018
ginchy shit, 2018
Jesse Jarnow / @bourgwick
a running list
single-asterisk – extra-highly recommended
triple-asterisk – instant classic in my own personal canon
new or newish
Sunwatchers, Sunwatchers II (Trouble In Mind) *
Drunken Foreigner Band, White Guy Disease (Electric Cowbell)
Yo La Tengo, There’s a Riot Going On (Matador) ***
Rose Mercie, s/t (SDZ/Monofonus)
Josiah Steinbrick, Meeting of the Waters (Leaving)
Jon Collin, The Nature (Early Music)
v/a, You Don’t Have To Be Fashionable, v. 6 (With A Messy Head) *
v/a, Hexadic III (Drag City)
Jeffrey Lewis & the Deposit Returners, Songs By Tuli Kupferberg (1923-2010) (Don Giovanni) ***
v/a, Our Trip Is Short, v. 1 (Your Trip is Short)
Brigid Mae Power, The Two Worlds (Tompkins Square)
Itasca, Morning Flower (Dove Cove)
The Breeders, All Nerve (4AD) *
Charnel Ground, s/t (12XU) ***
Gwenifer Raymond, You Never Were Much of a Dancer (Tompkins Square)
Buck Curran, Morning Haikus, Afternoon Ragas (Obsolete) *
Benjamin LeMar Gay, Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun (International Anthem Recording Co.)
Paul Blanding, Bedtime (no label)
Paul Blanding, Krampusnacht (Music from an Unwritten Puppet Opera) (no label)
Marisa Anderson, Cloud Corner (Thrill Jockey) *
SUSS, Ghost Box (Northern Spy)
The Ex, 27 Passports (no label) *
Tanzania Albinism Collective, White African Power (Six Degrees) *
Ted Reichman, Airs, Reels & Hornpipes (no label)
Mary Halvorson, Code Girl (no label)
Daniel Bachman, The Morning Star (Three Lobed)
Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois, self-titled (no label)
Arp, ZEBRA (Mexican Summer) *
Jeremy Barnes, Summer ‘16 (L-M Duplication) *
Jeremy Barnes, Winter ‘16 (L-M Duplication) *
Jeremy Barnes, Spring ‘17: Live in Satan’s Finger (L-M Duplication)
The Special Pillow, Sleeping Weird (Zofko)
Garcia Peoples, Cosmic Cash (Beyond Beyond is Beyond)
Oneida, Romance (Joyful Noise)
Thumbscrew, Theirs (Cuneiform) *
Thumbscrew, Ours (Cuneiform)
Alexander, 8/15/07 (Southern Jukebox) ***
Parquet Courts, Wide Awake (Rough Trade)
Drinks, Hippo Lite (Drag City)
Mitski, Be The Cowboy (Dead Oceans)
Träden, Träden (Subliminal Sounds)
Hamish Kilgour, Finkelstein (BaDaBing)
Snail Mail, Lush (Matador)
The Other Years, The Other Years (BaDaBing)
Sarah Louise, Deeper Woods (Thrill Jockey)
Mind Over Mirrors, Bellowing Sun (Paradise of Bachelors)
Table Sugar, Collected Acknowledgments (no label)
Elkhorn, Lionfish (Eiderdown)
Proven Recording, Dubs, volume 1 (Hoss)
Bill Frisell, Music IS (Okey/Sony Masterworks) *
Jim O’Rourke, Sleep Like It’s Winter (Newhere) *
Animal Collective, Tangerine Reef (Domino)
v/a, Freedom of the Press (Freedom of the Press)
Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore, Ghost Forests (Three Lobed)
Booker Stardrum, Temporary etc. (NNA)
Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt, Brace Up (Palilalia)
Medeski Martin and Wood & Alarm Will Sound, Omnisphere (Indirecto)
Tropical Fuck Storm, A Laughing Death in Meatspace (Mistletone/TFS) *
Jonathan Richman, SA (no label)
Hardy Fox Bobuck, Nineteen Sixty Seven (no label)
Hardy Fox Bobuck, Nachtzug (no label)
Guerilla Toss, Twisted Crystal (DFA)
Ruby Karinto, self-titled (aka Spray Bottle) (HoZac)
Oh Sees, Smote Reverser (Castle Face)
Sarathy Korwar, My East Is Your West (Gearbox)
PI Power Trio, The Walk EP (Birdwatcher)
Glenn Jones, The Giant Who Ate Himself and Other New Works For 6 & 12 String Guitar (Thrill Jockey)
David Crosby, Here If You Listen (BMG)
Yuzo Iwata, Daylight Moon (Siltbreeze)
Swamp Dogg, Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune (Joyful Noise)
The Moles, Code Word (Super Secret)
Harmony Rockets feat. Peter Walker, lachesis / clotho / atropos (Tompkins Square)
Phosphorescent, C’est La Vie (Dead Oceans)
Dustin Wong, Fluid World Building 101 With Shaman Bambu (Hausu Mountain)
Ned Collette, Old Chestnut (Feeding Tube)
Cut Worms, Hollow Ground (Jagjaguwar)
Eiko Ishibashi, The Dreams My Bones Dream (Drag City)
Mountain Man, Magic Ship (Nonesuch) *
Dire Wolves (Just Exactly Perfect Sisters Band) / Headroom split cassette (Centripetal Force)
Dire Wolves (Just Exactly Perfect Sisters Band), Shootout at the Dildo Factory (Eiderdown)
Dire Wolves, Paradisical Mind (Feeding Tube)
Francesco Cavaliere, Xylomania (no label)
Zolephants, Islands of Neptune (Fuzzy Warbles)
singles/short-form/individual performances
misc. tracks, Mike Nezmeme (via YouTube)
“Highway to Hell but with every other beat missing” & other tracks, Adam Emond (via YouTube)
“Albatross (Keith Fullerton Whitman blend),” Fleetwood Mac (no label) ***
“Deep Sea Diver Blues,” Gwenifer Raymond (Tompkins Square)
“American Woman (David Lynch Remix),” Muddy Magnolias, Twin Peaks: Limited Event Series Original Soundtrack (Rhino)
“Digital Billboards,” Rocket 808 (12XU)
“I Don’t Want To Do This Again,” Ye Nuns (State)
a few album tracks (all ***)
“The Tonsure Twist,” Borzoi, A Prayer For War (12XU)
“New Moons,” Brian Eno, Music For Installations (Universal/Opal)
“Soon All Cities,” The Ex, 27 Passports (no label)
“Music Machine,” Gabriella Cohen, Pink is the Colour of Unconditional Love (Captured Tracks)
“Sea Salt Nap,” Gris Velasquez, Denim EP (no label)
reissues/new old things
translated Cambodian artist/title (Sayonara Sound Productions)
Jerry Garcia, isolated guitar track, 12 November 1972 (no label)
Troupe Ecole Tudu, Vol. 1 (HASADA)
Bob Dylan, Once Upon A Time (Live 2017) (no label)
v/a, Even A Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk & Rock 1969-1973 (Light in the Attic)
Holger Czukay, Cinema (Grönland)
Ali Farka Touré, Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 (Mahmoudou Maiga)
Ned Lagin, Seastones (no label) ***
v/a, 1984 – Freedom Is Jazz: Music From/For A Dark Era (Destination: Out 2017 WFMU Marathon Premium) (no label)
Sun Ra and His Arkestra, Of Abstract Dreams (Strut/Art Yard)
Shirley Ellis, Three Six Nine! The Best of Shirley Ellis (Ace) ***
Jess Sah Bi & Peter One, Our Garden Needs Its Flowers (Awesome Tapes From Africa) ***
Jerry Garcia, Before the Dead (Round) *
Brian Eno, Music For Installations (Universal/Opal)
Gene Clark, Gene Clark Sings For You (Omnivore) ***
Michael Hurley, 40 Years (no label) ***
Troupe Ecole Tudu, Oyiwane (Sahel Sounds)
Van Morrison, Live in Boston 1968 (Sony Legacy UK) *
Geoff & Maria Muldaur, Pottery Pie (Omnivore)
Grateful Dead, Pacific Northwest ’73-’74: The Complete Recordings (Rhino) *
Bob Dylan, More Blood, More Tracks (Sony Legacy) *
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard, Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969 (Free Dirt)
Neil Young, Roxy: Tonight’s the Night Live (Reprise) *
Neil Young, Songs For Judy (Shakey/Reprise) ***
The Beach Boys, Wake the World: The Friends Sessions (UMG/Capitol)
The Beach Boys, I Can Hear Music: The 20/20 Sessions (UMG/Capitol)
Good Old Boys, Drink Up & Go Home (Rockbeat)
Grateful Dead, Dead is Jazz, 1993-1994 (no label) ***
Grateful Dead, Music For Scareports: October 1994 (no label) ***
Grateful Dead, Music For Spaceports: March 1994 (no label) ***
Grateful Dead, The Last Jam: July 9, 1995 (no label) ***
Doc & Merle Watson, Never The Same Way Once: Boarding House, October 1974 (Owsley Stanley Foundation)
misc. new-to-me
György Ligeti, “Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes” (unknown performer, 20:05) ***
Fred Hellerman, Caught in the Act (no label)
Seith Freiberg’s dad, San Francisco Bay Fog Horns, 29 August 1987 ***
Goat (jp), Rhythm and Sound (HEADZ)
Van Morrison, Gypsy Soul Demos, 1968-1971 (no label) ***
Joshua Abrams, Mangeticopetion (Eremite) *
Exploding Star Orchestra, Stars Have Shapes (Delmark) *
Dan Melchior’s Broke Revue, O’ Clouds Unfold (Hook or Crook)
Kasvot Växt, i rokk (Elektrisk Tung)
Odetta, Odetta Sings Dylan (RCA Victor) ***
New Riders of the Purple Sage, Before Time Began (Relix)
live recordings
April 1966 Velvet Underground, The Dom, NYC (Jonas Mekas’s Walden OST)
22 November 2016 Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society, The Hideout, Chicago, IL
6 January 2018 Drunken Foreigner Band, Transpacific Sound Paradise, WFMU, NJ
16 April 2018 Gunn-Truscinski Duo, Surface Noise, WFMU, NJ
14 May 2018 Sachiko Kanenobu, Surface Noise, WFMU, NJ
29 July 1986 Steve Wever & Dave Reisch, Iron Horse Music Hall, Northampton, MA
March 1984 Bob Dylan & The Plugz, rehearsals in Bob’s garage, Malibu, CA
1 May 2018 Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Warnors Theater, Fresno, CA
5 July 2018 Marisa Anderson, PhilMOCA, Philadelphia, PA
22 October 2018 Bob Dylan, Palace Theater, Waterbury, CT
live
24 February – People of the North at Trans-Pecos
27 February – Yo La Tengo at National Sawdust
28 February – Alexander at Wonders of Nature
2 March – Phil Lesh and Bob Weir at Radio City Music Hall
3 March – Phil Lesh and Bob Weir at Radio City Music Hall
6 April – Yo La Tengo at Brooklyn Steel
12 April – Chuck Johnson at Union Pool
13 April – Brandon Lopez/Sam Yulsman/Chris Corsano at Areté
14 April – War Bubble at Wonders of Nature
9 May – Che Chen at Roulette
20 May – Peter Stampfel, Shelley Hirsch, & co. at Sidewalk Cafe
6 June – Willie Klein with Two Mule Team, and Elkhorn at Wonders of Nature
28 June – Yo La Tengo on Rocks Off boat cruise
8 July – Marisa Anderson at Union Pool
10 July – Radiohead at Madison Square Garden
18 August – Ryley Walker & Bill MacKay at Union Pool
19 August – Daniel Bachman at Trans Pecos
12 September – Yo La Tengo at Kingston BPI
15 September – Willie Klein with Two Mule Team at Wonders of Nature
23 September – 75 Dollar Bill at Troost
25 September – 75 Dollar Bill with Ira Kaplan at Troost
26 September – Neil Young & Promise of the Real at Capitol Theater
27 September – Neil Young & Promise of the Real at Capitol Theater
31 October – Phish at MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV
30 November – Bob Dylan at Beacon Theater
2 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
3 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
4 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
5 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
6 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
7 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
8 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
9 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
14 December – Ryley Walker at Baby’s All Right
30 December – Phish at Madison Square Garden
etc.
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
Astral Weeks by Ryan Walsh
Wormwood directed by Errol Morris
Phantom Thread written/directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Black Panther directed by Ryan Coogler
Fog Window Liberation News #1 by Gary Panter
Death’s End by Cixin Liu
@ominouswhoosh
@KeithHernandez
Neil Young Archives Times-Contrarian
Aquarium Drunkard Lagniappe Sessions
Bop Apocalypse by Martin Torgoff
Oak Leaf Park: bluegrass feuds, family, and festivals, Luray, Virginia – 7/4/61 by James Adams
Crawl Space by Jesse Jacobs
Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back) by Jeff Tweedy
Downtown Pop Underground by Kembrew McLeod
@ArtyBots
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