ginchy shit, 2020
ginchy shit, 2020
Jesse Jarnow / @bourgwick
a running list
single-asterisk – extra-highly recommended
double-asterisk – I’ll figure out what 2 stars means one of these years
triple-asterisk – instant classic in my own personal canon
new or newish
Clandestine Quartet, One for the Fossa, Two for the Wolverine (33-33) ***
Amelia Courthouse, Ruby Glass (Spinster Sounds)
Thurston Moore, Spirit Counsel (Daydream Library)
Richie & Rosie, Nowhere In Time (no label) *
Doug Wieselman, From Water (figureight) *
OOIOO, Nijimusi (Thrill Jockey)
Matt LaJoie, Everlasting Spring (Flower Room) *
Ztom Motoyama, Steeler’s Delight on Youtube (no label)
Dire Wolves Just Exactly Perfect Sisters Band, I Just Wasn’t Made For These Set Times (no label)
Mute Duo, Lapse In Passage (American Dreams) *
Stephen Malkmus, Traditional Techniques (Matador) ***
Caetano Veloso & Ivan Sacerdote, Caetano Veloso & Ivan Sacerdote (Universal)
Elkhorn, The Storm Sessions (Beyond Beyond is Beyond)
Spacefuzz, Coq (no label)
Swamp Dogg, Sorry You Couldn’t Make It (Joyful Noise)
Lee Ranaldo and Raul Dufree, Names of North End Women (Mute)
Sarah Louise, Sally Anne Morgan, & Kryssi B, Natch 11: Earth Cult (Black Dirt)
Woods, Strange To Explain (Woodsist)
YPY, NYE/D IN DUB!!!! (birdFRIEND)
YPY, Oversmiling Dub (birdFRIEND)
Mosses, T.V. Sun (Anyways)
The Necks, Three (Northern Spy)
Jason McMahon, Odd West (Shinokyo) *
Sarah Louise, Earth & Its Contents (no label)
Joan Shelley, Live at the Bombard (no label) *
Aoife Nessa Frances, Land of No Junction (Basin Rock)
Chris Forsyth With Garcia Peoples, Peoples Motel Band (Solar Live Vol. 3: 9.14.19) (Algorithm Free) ***
Dustin Wong, Swedish American Hall, Night 1 (no label) *
Dustin Wong, Swedish American Hall, Night 2 (no label) *
Dustin Wong, Swedish American Hall, Night 3 (no label) *
Horse Lords, Common Task (Northern Spy)
The Mountain Goats, Songs for Pierre Chuvin (Merge) *
Dwarfs of East Agoza, Green Dogs of Dahshur (Akuphone)
Dirty Projectors, Windows Open EP (Domino)
Sarah Louise & Holly Juniper, I Feel Nourished By the Earth (no label)
Buck Curran, No Love Is Sorrow (Obsolete)
Will Guthrie, Nist Nah (Black Truffle)
Lewsberg, In This House (12XU)
Million Lands, The Ochre World (Ernest Jennings)
Marisa Anderson & Jim White, The Quickening (Thrill Jockey) *
Elkhorn, Southern Star (no label)
Makoto Kawabata, Richard Pinhas, Manongo Mujica, Juan Luis Pereira, Hiroshi Higashi, Alturas (Buh)
Joe Westerlund, Reveries in the Rift (no label)
Noah Wall, Alloys (no label)
Dan Romano’s Outfit, Do What (Could Have Been) “Infidels” by Bob Dylan & the Plugz (no label) ***
Kawaguchi Masami’s New Rock Syndicate & Kryssi Battalene, s/t (C/Site)
Golden Retriever and Chuck Johnson, Rain Shadows (Thrill Jockey)
Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon, Noon (ATO)
Sun Ra Arkestra, Swirling (Strut) *
Yo La Tengo, We Have Amnesia Sometimes (Matador)
Yo La Tengo, Sleepless Nights (Matador)
Julianna Barwick, Healing Is a Miracle (Ninja Tune) *
ML Wah, Shinki Water (Flower Room) *
Dire Wolves Just Exactly Perfect Sisters Band, Flow & Heady (no label)
Bob Dylan, Rough and Rowdy Ways (Columbia) ***
Ramble Tamble & Powers/Rolin Duo, Live at Tubby’s 8/5/19 (no label) ***
Gerycz/Powers/Rolin, Beacon (Garden Portal)
Powers/Rolin Duo, self-titled (Feeding Tube) *
Alec Bathgate, Phantom Dots (no label)
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, All the Good Times (Acony) *
Sleeper and Snake, Junction and Gold (Upset the Rhythm)
75 Dollar Bill, Power Failures (no label)
75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band, Live at Roulette (no label)
v/a, Alternate African Reality – Electronic, electroacoustic and experimental music from Africa and the diaspora (Syrphe)
v/a, Storehouse Presents… (Storehouse) *
Mike Polizze, Long Lost Solace Found (Paradise of Bachelors)
Baby Copperhead, We Stand Tall (no label)
Joanna Sternberg, Then I Try Some More (Team Love) *
Tara Clerkin Trio, Tara Clerkin Trio (Laura Lies In) *
Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl, Artlessly Falling (Firehouse 12)
William Tyler, New Vanitas EP (Merge) *
Lambchop, TRIP (Merge) ***
Garcia Peoples, Nightcap at Wits’ End (Beyond Beyond is Beyond)
Matmos, The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form (Thrill Jockey)
Jennifer Castle, Monarch Season (Paradise of Bachelors)
Gunn/Truscinski Duo, Soundkeeper (Three Lobed) ***
Heather Trost, Petrichor (Third Man)
Rootless, Docile Cobras (Flower Room)
The Special Pillow, World’s Finest (Zofko)
Nate Wooley, Seven Storey Mountain VI (Pyroclastic)
Carl Stone, Stolen Car (Unseen Worlds)
Nihiloxica, Kaloli (Crammed Discs)
Deerhoof, Love-Lore (Joyful Noise)
Chris Forsyth / Dave Harrington / Ryan Jewell / Spencer Zahn, First Flight (no label) *
Jeff Tweedy, Love Is the King (dBpm)
Cyril Cyril, Yallah Mickey Mouse (Born Bad)
Wet Tuna, Eau’d To A Fake Bookie, Vol. 2 (Child of Microtones)
Susan Alcorn Quintet, Pedernal (Relative Pitch)
Thurston Moore, By the Fire (Daydream Library)
North Americans, Roped In (Third Man)
Cut Worms, Nobody Lives Here Anymore (Jagjaguwar)
Prana Crafter, MorphoMystic (Cardinal Fuzz)
Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger, Force Majeure (International Anthem) ***
SUSS, Promise (Northern Spy)
Sanjay Mishra & Garrett Gleason, Duets (no label)
John Dwyer, Ryan Sawyer, Peter Kerlin, Tom Dolas, Brad Caulkins, Kyp Malone & Marcos Rodriguez, Bent Arcana (Castle Face)
MV/EE, Cap Trips (Child of Microtones)
Gwenifer Raymond, Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain (Tompkins Square)
Tashi Dorji, Improvisations For Nylon String Guitar (no label) *
Post Moves, Cut Into Your Own Dimension (Noumenal Loom)
Barry Walker Jr., Shoulda Zenith (Holy Mountain)
singles/short-form/individual non-album performances
Eddie Marcon, 少女, ふわふわあい 7-inch (Pong Kong)
Tara Jane O’Neil & Marissa Anderson, “You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To” 7-inch (no label)
“Bob Dylan,” “Hit Me One More Time” & other Speech Synthesis tracks (via YouTube)
Marisa Anderson, “The Fire This Time” (no label)
Sundae Painters, “Aversion” (no label)
Will Oldham & David Pajo, “Standin’ In My Way” (Instagram) *
Angel Bat Dawid, “Transition East” (International Anthem) *
reissues/newish old things
v/a, Demos to Spazz By (Dave the Spazz 2017 WFMU Premium) (no label)
v/a, Alien Americana (Radio Ravioli 2019 WFMU Premium) (no label)
v/a, Nicked Names (Gaylord Fields’s 2013 WFMU Premium) (no label)
Jean-Bosco Mwenda, Jean-Bosco Mwenda (1952-1962) (Mississippi)
Smokey Haangala, Aunka Ma Kwacha (Séance Centre) *
The Monkees, 33 ⅓ Revolutions Per Monkee (Zilch HQ Remaster) (no label)
v/a, Down That Country Road (Joe McGasko’s 2019 WFMU Premium) (no label)
Neil Young, Homegrown (Reprise) ***
Mike Nesmith, Cosmic Partners: The McCabe’s Tapes (7A) ***
v/a, Slow Caledonia (no label) ***
Harry Roesli Gang, Titik Api (La Munai)
Gillian Welch, Boots No. 2, Vol. 1-3: The Lost Songs (Acony) *
v/a, The Harry Smith B-Sides (Smithsonian Folkways)
Doug McKechnie, San Francisco Moog, 1968-1972 (VG+)
Miquela, Miquela (Finder Keepers)
Neil Young, Archives, Volume 2 (1972-1976) (Warner/Reprise) ***
Masters of the Edge, Somewhere Between Space & Time (no label) *
Masters of the Edge, Baked Bean Cyclops (no label) *
Grateful Dead, The Angel’s Share: Workingman’s Dead (Rhino)
Grateful Dead, The Angel’s Share: American Beauty (Rhino)
Bob Dylan, 50th Anniversary Collection: 1970 (Sony)
Sharhabil Ahmed, The King of Sudanese Jazz (Habibi Funk)
v/a, If I Had A Pair of Wings: Jamaican Doo-Wop, v. 3 (Death Is Not the End)
misc. new-to-me
Japancakes, Loveless (Darla)
Mapache, Live at Mollusk (no label)
Thongsai Taptanon, no title (no label)
Glenn Phillips, Lost At Sea (40th Anniversary Edition) (Feeding Tube) ***
Town & Country, Up Above (Thrill Jockey)
Holy Modal Rounders, Punishment Bros. (no label)
Sun City Girls, Multiple Hallucinations of an Assassin (Cloaven)
Sun Ra, Hiroshima (Saturn) *
Big Black, Lion Walk (UNI) *
The New Sound of Numbers, Invisible Magnetic (Cloud Recordings)
Kostas Bezos & the White Birds – s/t (Olivido)
Hampton Grease Band, January 1970 demo (no label)
Quicksilver Messenger Service, Red Vest Inn, Oahu, Hawaii June 13, 1970 (Purple Pyramid)
Robyn Hitchcock with Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Spooked (Yep Roc)
David Byrne, Little Creatures/True Stories Demos (no label)
Zal Yanovsky, Alive & Well in Argentina (Buddah) ***
v/a, Don’t Ever Buy Nothin’ You Don’t Dig: The Warner/Reprise Radio Spots (no label)
Mandolin Sisters, Melodies on Mandolin (no label)
Demola Adepoju, Hawaiian (Premier)
live recordings
This Is Not This Heat, 1 March 2019 EartH, London, UK
Bob Dylan, 15 November 1994 MTV Unplugged Rehearsal, NYC
Everly Brothers, 29 July 1993 Valley Forge Music Fair, Devon, PA
Moondog For Gamelan, 20 October 2017 St. John’s, London, UK
Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra, 6 September 2019 Piazza del Nurahe, Sant’Anna Arresi, IT
Soft Boys, 21 November 1978 Leicester University, UK
Gene Clark & the Silverados, 24 May 1975 Mother’s, Dallas, TX
Christian Marclay, 14 March 1987 Roulette, NYC
Kraftwerk, 5 May 1975 PNE Gardens, Vancouver, BC
Sun Ra Arkestra, 1 March 1995 Wetlands, NYC
Starving Braineaters, late 1972, WREK ***
live
19 January – High Time, Elkhorn, MV & EE at Baby’s All Right
21 January – Ancient Ocean at Hifi Loft
4 February – Steve Gunn & William Tyler & Friends at Union Pool
6 February – Steve Gunn & William Tyler & Friends at Union Pool
7 February – Steve Gunn & William Tyler & Friends at Union Pool
29 February – Garcia Peoples & Sarah Louise at Magick City
1 March – Sarah Louise at Hifi Loft
5 March – Matt LaJoie at Montauk Salt Cave
live streamed
Neil Young Fireside Sessions
14 March – Sarah Louise (Instagram)
19 March – Starbirthed (YouTube)
19 March- Willie, Lukas, & Micah Nelson (Twitch)
19 March – Neil Young (NYA)
23 March – Dustin Wong (Twitch)
25 March – Saariselka (Facebook)
4 April – Chris Corsano (Experimental Sound Studio)
27 April – Joshua Abrams, Jupiter Blue (Experimental Sound Studio)
28 April – Sarah Louise (Experimental Sound Studio)
29 April – Susan Alcorn, Matmos (Experimental Sound Studio)
8 May – Chris Corsano (Drum & Percussion Madness 8)
8 May – Myriam Gendon (Feeding Tube)
18 July – Yo La Tengo (NoonChorus)
19 July – Yo La Tengo (NoonChorus)
29 August – Tony Buck (Experimental Sound Studio)
20 November – William Tyler, Marisa Anderson, Yamin Williams (Big Ears Residency)
18 December – Yo La Tengo (Greene Space)
etc.
The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi
Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry by Kyle Barnett
@__koyaanisqatsi
Watchmen
Grateful Dead Scholars Caucus, SWPACA, Albuquerque, NM
They Live In Me by Jesse Jacobs
Flagging Down the Double E’s newsletter by Ray Padgett
Mississippi Records newsletter
Brother Robert by Annye Anderson
Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life by Gustavus Stadler
Rescue Party (Instagram)
Experimental Sound Studio
Open Streets
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard
More Important Than The Music by Bruce Epperson
In Search of the Blues by Marybeth Hamilton
Records Ruin the Landscape by David Grubbs
Grateful Dead, Shakedown Stream
Phish, Dinner and a Movie
I’m Your Fan: Songs of Leonard Cohen by Ray Padgett
Echoes by Glenn Phillips
JerryBase
The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
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