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ginchy shit, 2021

ginchy shit, 2021
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
Astute Palate, Astute Palate (no label) *
Chris Corsano, Mezzaluna (Hot Cars Warp)
Ventla, Ventla Is In Your Extended Network (no label)
Dr. Pete Larson and his Cytotoxic Nyatiti Band, Dr. Pete Larson and his Cytotoxic Nyatiti Band (Dagoretti)
Sabir Mateen, Christopher Dell, Christian Ramond, Klaus Kugel, Creation (577)
Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt, Made Out of Sound (Pallalia) ***
Ryley Walker & Kikagaku Moyo, Deep Fried Grandeur (Husky Pants)
Jupiter Blue, Dreams of Future Memories (no label)
Wau Wau Collectif, Yaral Sa Doom (Sahel Sounds)
Peter Stampfel, Peter Stampfel’s 20th Century (Red Hot Louisiana) *
Chuck Johnson, The Cinder Grove (VDSQ) *
Yasmin Williams, Urban Driftwood (Spinster Sounds) *
Joshua Abrams, Cloud Script (Rogueart) ***
Iri Di, 24 (no label)
Ryley Walker, Course in Fable (Husky Pants)
Natural Information Society with Evan Parker, descension (Out of Our Constrictions) (Eremite) ***
Shackleton, Tunes of Negation – Like the Stars Forever and Ever (Cosmo Rhythmatic)
Koko, Koko (no label)
Matthew J. Rolin, The Dreaming Bridge (Feeding Tube)
Vapour Theories, Celestial Scuzz (Fire) *
Wet Tuna, Eau’d To A Fake Bookie, Volume 4 (Child of Microtones)
Sarah Louise, Earth Bow (no label)
Sweet Herringbone, After Ten (no label)
Marisa Anderson/William Tyler, Lost Futures (Thrill Jockey)
Rose City Band, Earth Trip (Thrill Jockey)
Animal Collective, Crestone OST (Domino)
Endlings, Human Form (Whited Sepulchre)
Lisel + Booker Stardrum, Mycelial Echo (LUMINELLE)
Rob Noyes, Arc Minutes (Feeding Tube)
Curtis Godino, Alien Nation (Feeding Tube)
DARKSIDE, Spiral (Matador)
Joseph Allred, Lute Music (no label)
Jantar, Sempronia (Feeding Tube) *
Matt Sweeney & Bonnie Prince Billy, Superwolves (Drag City) ***
Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders, London Symphony Orchestra, Promise (Luaka Bop) *
Mind Maintenance, Mind Maintenance (Drag City) *
Human Shower, Outtakes from yet unreleased first album (no label)
Jeffrey Alexander, Reyes (Garden Portal)
Pascal Comelade & Richard Pinhas, Le Plan de Paris (Staubgold)
Jaimie Branch, Fly or Die Live (International Anthem) *
Toby Hay, Home Recordings, vol. 1 (no label)
Eugene Chadbourne & Jim McHugh, Bad Scene (Post Present Medium)
Tashi Dorji, Improvisations For Nylon String Guitar II (no label) *
Lambchop, Showtunes (Merge)
Jeffrey Alexander & the Heavy Lidders, Jeffrey Alexander & the Heavy Lidders (Arrowhawk)
Powers/Rolin Duo, Strange Fortune (Astral Edition) *
Gerycz/Powers/Rolin, Lamplighter (American Dreams) *
Angel Bat Dawid, Hush Harbor Mixtape Vol. 1 Doxology (International Anthem)
Sonny & the Sunsets, New Day with New Possibilities (Rocks In Your Head)
Mountain Movers, World What World (Trouble In Mind)
Steve Gunn, Other You (Matador)
Weak Signal, Bianca (Colonel) *
Ben Chasny, The Intimate Landscape (Drag City)
Ignatz & De Stervende Honden, Dork Star (Takuroku)
No Motion, No Motion (no label)
On Fillmore, Soundtrack 1 (no label)
Jusell, Prymek, Sage, Shiroishi, Yamawarau (山笑う) (no label)
Boubacar “Badian” Diabate, Mande Guitar (Lion Song) *
Florry, Big Fall (12XU) *
Kroba, First of Three (no label)
Myriam Gendron, Ma délire – Songs of love, lost & found (Feeding Tube) ***
Paul Leary, Born Stupid (Shimmy-Disc)
Tonstartssbandht, Petunia (Mexican Summer)
Michael Hurley, The Time of the Foxgloves (No Quarter) ***
Noël Akchoté & Shin Sasakubo, Auto & Beauto (no label) *
Jason Nazary, Spring Collection (We Jazz) *
Caetano Veloso, Meu Coco (Sony Music Brazil)
Grouper, Shade (Kranky) *
Bitchin Bajas, Switched On Ra (no label) ***
Valerie June, The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers (Fantasy)
Joseph Allred, Branches and Leaves (Feeding Tube)
Dave Easley, Byways of the Moon (Joyful Noise/Big Ego)
Patrick Shiroshi, Hidemi (American Dreams) *
Lewsberg, In Your Hands (12XU)
Ben LaMar Gay, Open Arms To Open Us (International Anthem)
Eddie Marcon, Live at UMIBE NO POLKA 20 DEC.2020 (no label)
Jeff Parker, Forfolks (International Anthem)

singles/EPs/short-form/individual non-album performances
Sarah Louise, “Sing A Song of Memory” (no label)
75 Dollar Bill, “Irons Out” (Fire Over Heaven)
Jake Xerxes Fussell, “Copper Kettle”/”Hills of Mexico” (Paradise of Bachelors) *
Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Nathan Salsburg, Max Porter, Three Feral Pieces (No Quarter)
Johnnie the Bulgaria Group, “くるくるぱあ (Round & Round)/だれ (Who)” (no label) *
William Tyler & Luke Schneider, Understand (no label)
Myriam Gendron, Lagniappe Session (Aquarium Drunkard) ***
Shirley Collins, Crowlink EP (Domino)
Kim Gordon & J. Mascis, “Abstract Blues”/”Slow Boy” (Sub Pop) *
SUSS, Night Suite EP (Northern Spy)

reissues/newish old things
Sanjay Mishra & Jerry Garcia, Front Street Outtakes (Jerry Garcia Music Arts)
Tom Zé, Raridades (Warner Music Brasil)
Brij Bhushan Kabra with Zakir Hussain, The Magic of Music – Guitar & Tabla (Classics For Pleasure/EMI) *
v/a, Secret Museum of Mankind, Guitars Vol. 1: Prologue to Modern Styles (Jalopy) *
Oneida, Nobody: Rarities, 2009-2010 (no label)
Fred Neil, 38 MacDougal (Delmore Recording Society)
CAN, Live in Stuttgart 1975 (Mute)
Michael Nesmith, Different Drum: The Unreleased RCA Masters (Omnivore)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, 13 March 2013 Plenary Hall, Melbourne, Victoria, AU (Neil Young Archives) *
Sun Ra Arkestra, Lanquidity (Definitive Edition) (Strut)
Yoko Ono & Plastic Ono Band, Plastic Ono Band (The Ultimate Collection) (Live Sessions) (UMe)
Don Cherry’s New Researches featuring Naná Vasconcelos, Organic Music Theatre: Festival de jazz de Chateauvallon 1972 (Blank Forms) *
Joseph Spence, Encore: Unheard Recordings of Bahamian Guitar and Singing (Smithsonian Folkways) *
Chrissy Zebby Tembo & Ngozi Family, My Ancestors (Mississippi)
Ruthann Friedman, Hurried Life: Lost Recordings, 1965-1971 (Tompkins Square)
Fireballs, Dots (Strawberry Rain)
Grateful Dead, Listen To The River: St. Louis ‘71 ‘72 ‘73 (Rhino) *
David Crosby, If I Could Only Remember My Name (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (Rhino)
Bob Dylan, Springtime In New York (Sony/Legacy) *
Linda Smith, Till Another Time: 1988-1996 (Captured By Tracks)
Kiko Kids Jazz, Kiko Kids Jazz (Mississippi) *
CAN, Live in Brighton 1975 (Mute)
Bola Sete, Samba In Seattle: Live at the Penthouse, 1966-1968 (Tompkins Square) *
John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (Impulse!) ***
Oneida, “Don’t Clap Yet”: Live at Emmaboda 2007 (no label)
Leo Nocentelli, Another Side (Light In The Attic) *
Aunt Sally, Aunt Sally (MESH KEY)
Neil Young, Summer Songs (Neil Young Archives) *
Lou Reed, I’m So Free: The 1971 RCA Demos (RCA)

misc. new-to-me
Obeng Ungu & Jalan Buntu with Group Uang Wayang of Palembang, 1951: Sumatran Ladies Wearing Hats as Outlawed by Government (no label)
Jefferson Airplane, Levi Strauss Salesman’s Record, Fall 1967 (Honig-Cooper & Harrington Advertising)
v/a, A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings (Rounder) *
Ralph Towner/Gary Burton, Matchbook (ECM)
Fairport Convention, A Chronicle of Sorts (no label)
Stavros Xarhakos, Girls in the Sun OST (EMI Greece)
Há-Zá-Má, Under the Radioactive Fallout (Sloow Tapes)
Jerry Garcia and David Grisman, Garcia/Grisman Alternate Takes (Acoustic Oasis) *
Keith Jarrett, No End (ECM)

live recordings
Bill Frisell & Greg Leisz, 22 March 2009 Great Hall, Chapel Hill, NC ***
ECM All Stars, 19 January 1976 Village Gate, NYC
John Abercrombie/Jack DeJohnette/Nana Vasconcelos/Collin Walcott 18 September 1981 Woodstock Playhouse *
Bob Weir & Wolf. Bros feat. Greg Leisz, TRI Studios, San Rafael, CA, misc. tracks from 12/31/20, 2/12/21, 3/17/21
John Handy’s Rainbow, 27 July 1979 Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA
New Riders of the Purple Sage with David LaFlamme, 28 February 1971 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA ***
Peter Stampfel, 7 February 1999 Maxwell’s
The Soft Boys, 27 November 1978 Lady Mitchell Hall, Leicester, UK ***
Karen Dalton, 1 May 1971 Golden Rose Pop Festival, Montreux, SE ***
Bob Dylan, 11 March 1995 Palác Kultury, Prague, CZ ***
Bonnie Prince Billy & Matt Sweeney, 13 June 2021 Dry Gulch Ranch, Malibu, CA
The Apollo Project, 6 January 2012 World Financial Center, NYC
Sam Rivers Trio with Steven Bernstein, 29 August 2003 Jazz Festival, Saalfelden, AT

live streamed
19 January – Brandee Younger & Dezron Douglas at The Lantern, Columbia University
26 February – Sun Ra Arkestra at Total Luxury Spa
8 March – Jeff Tweedy/John Stirratt/Glenn Kotche on the Tweedy Show *
26 March – Michael Hurley and the Croakers at Rosebud Cafe
1 April – Steve Gunn at Golddiggers
22 May – The Smile at Worthy Farm
21 June – Eli Winter/Sam Wagster/Tyler Damon at Constellation Chicago
19 July – Bob Dylan at Bon Bon Club Marseille ***
5 August – Jupiter Blue at Bowerbird
12 October – Robyn Hitchcock at City Winery

live 
10 April – William Parker/Cooper-Moore/Hamid Drake at Summit Rock
5 May – Charlie Burnham at Sunny’s
22 June – Trey Anastasio at Beacon Theater
26 June – Yonatan Gat & co. at Sultan Room
27 June – Angel Bat Dawid & Adam Zanolini at Herbert von King Park
29 June – Garcia Peoples at Judson Church
10 July – Oneida at H0l0
14 July – Mary Lattimore at Greenwood Cemetary
22 July – William Tyler & Steve Gunn & co. at Bell House
24 July – Sun Ra Arkestra, Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty at SummerStage
28 July – Ravi Coltrane at Mama Tried
30 July – Sex Mob at Hometown Bar-B-Q, Industry City
3 August – Dump at Mama Tried
4 August – Chris Forsyth/Tom Malach/Doug McCombs/Ryan Jewell at Turk’s Inn
15 September – Yo La Tengo at TV Eye
23 September – Yo La Tengo at TV Eye
25-26 September – Woodsist Festival, Accord, NY
27 September – Gunn/Truscinski Duo, Natural Information Society with William Parker at LPR
10 November – Gunn/Truscinski Duo at Union Pool
17 November – Garcia Peoples, Ryan Sawyer at Sultan Room
19 November – Bob Dylan at Beacon Theater
23 November – Bob Dylan at Capitol Theater, Port Chester, NY
24 November – Bob Dylan at Capitol Theater, Port Chester, NY
28 November – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
29 November – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
30 November – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
1 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
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

etc.
Mushrooms playing modular synths
Pirates of the High Cs by Nicholas Limansky
Father Yod’s Kitchen by Byron Coley
A Sound History by Steven P. Garabedian
Bob Dylan, just in general
Always Crashing In The Same Car by Matthew Specktor
Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s by Andrew F. Jones
Grateful Dead Time Machine by Steve Eichner
Songbooks by Eric Weisbard
Christine: The Untold Story of Christine Bott by Christine Bott & Catherine Hayes
Noise Uprising by Michael Denning
Get Back by Peter Jackson
The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel
The Burning Shore by Erik Davis
Flagging Down the Double E’s by Ray Padgett & co.

yo la tengo, hanukkah 2021, night #8 setlist

Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom
5 December 2021
*(Hanukkah, night 8)*

opening act: Eleventh Dream Day
comedian: Joe Pera
mix CD: Patty Schemel
benefiting: Letters To Santa & One Simple Wish

From Me To You (The Beatles, sung as “From Me to Jews”)
Today Is The Day (slow version) (with Janet Beveridge Bean/drums, Mark Greenberg/keyboards, James Elkington/guitar, Doug McCombs/bass)
Stockholm Sydrome (with Rick Rizzo/guitar, JBB, MG, DM)
The Crying of Lot G (with JE, DM, JBB, MG)
Avalon or Someone Similar (with RR, JBB, MG, DM)
Season of the Shark (with JE, JBB)
Two Trains (with JE, JBB, DM)
When It’s Dark (with JE, JBB, DM, MG)
Goin’ Back (Carole King & Gerry Goffin) (with JE, RR, JBB, MG)
Group Grope (The Fugs) (with JE, RR, JBB, MG, DM)
Some Kinda Fatigue (with RR, JBB)
Autumn Sweater
Deeper Into Movies (with JBB)
Sister Ray (Velvet Underground) (with MG, RR, JBB, DM)
Our Way To Fall

*(encore)*
The Whole of the Law (The Only Ones)
Dum Dum (Bush Tetras) (with Cynthia Sley and Pat Place)
Run Run Run (Velvet Underground) (with CS & PP)
Too Many Creeps (Bush Tetras) (with CS & PP)
Here Comes My Baby (Cat Stevens) (with Marilyn Kaplan/vocals & Mark Luecke/whistling)
My Little Corner of the World (Bob Hilliard, Lee Pockriss) (with MK)

yo la tengo, hanukkah 2021, night #7 setlist

Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom
4 December 2021
*(Hanukkah, night 7)*

opening act: Natural Information Society
comedian: Hari Kondabalu
mix CD: Georgia
benefiting: National Alliance on Mental Illness

Green Arrow (with Natural Information Society)
I Can’t Stand It (Velvet Underground)
Let’s Save Tony Orlando’s House
Mr. Tough
Did I Tell You
Is That Enough
Swing For Life (with Natural Information Society)
The Last Days of Disco (with Natural Information Society)
The Room Got Heavy (with Natural Information Society)
False Alarm
Too Animalistic (Angry Samoans) (with Dutch Worthington)
Drug Test
Upside Down
We’re An American Band
Blue Ling Swinger

*(encore)*
I Threw It All Away (Bob Dylan)
I Don’t Care (The Ramones) (with Jon Langford & Sally Timms)
Dan Dare – Out of Space (It’s A Really Nice Place) (The Mekons) (with JL & ST)
Keep on Hoppin’ (The Mekons) (with JL & ST)
Dan Dare – Out of Space (It’s A Really Nice Place) (The Mekons) [take 2] (with JL & ST)

yo la tengo, hanukkah 2021, night #6 setlist

Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom
3 December 2021
*(Hanukkah, night 6)*

opening act: Jaimie Branch’s Fly or Die
comedian: Dina Hashem
mix CD: Ira
benefiting: Abortion Access Front

whole set from “Tired Hippo” onwards with Chad Taylor on drums

Cherry Chapstick
Nothing To Hide
She May, She Might >
Ack Ack Ack Ack (The Urinals) >
She May, She Might
Pablo and Andrea
Have You Seen My Baby (Randy Newman)
Tired Hippo
I’m On My Way
I’ll Be Around
As the Hour Grows Late (with Jaimie Branch/trumpet, Jason Ajemian/bass, Lester St. Louis/cello)
Let’s Be Still (with JB/JA/LSL)
The Summer (with JB/JA/LSL)
Moby Octopad (with JB/JA/LSL)
Right Side of My Mind (Angry Samoans)
From A Motel 6
Mushroom Cloud of Hiss

*(encore)* with the Dream Syndicate
Definitely Clean (Dream Syndicate)
Too Little, Too Late (Dream Syndicate) (without Ira & James)
Hero Takes A Fall (The Bangles)
Some Kinda Itch (Dream Syndicate)
Tell Me When It’s Over (Dream Syndicate)

yo la tengo, hanukkah 2021, night #5 setlist

Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom
2 December 2021
*(Hanukkah, night 5)*

opening act: Low
comedian: Fred Armisen
mix CD: James
benefiting: Environmental Advocates NY

whole show minus 1st 3 songs with Fred Armisen on drums

Surfin’ With the Shah (The Urinals)
Five-Cornered Drone (Crispy Duck)
Forever
Detouring America With Horns
Center of Gravity
Black Flowers
Fog Over Frisco
Don’t Have To Be So Sad
Nowhere Near
Baby Strange (T-Rex)
I Should Have Known Better
Big Day Coming (fast version)
Sugarcube
Ohm
The Story of Yo La Tango

*(encore)*
Sorrow (The McCoys)
Orange Song (Antietam) (with Tara Key on guitar/vocals)
(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais (The Clash) (FA on guitar/vocals, Joe Puleo on harmonica)
I Am, I Said (Neil Diamond) (with Alan Sparhawk & Mimi Parker of Low on guitar/vocals)
Keep It Warm (Flo & Eddie) (with AS & MP)

yo la tengo, hanukkah 2021, night #4 setlist

Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom
1 December 2021
*(Hanukkah, night 4)*

opening act: Cup (Nels Cline & Yuka C. Honda)
comedian: Jo Firestone
mix CD: Blockhead
benefiting: NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund

whole show with Nels Cline on guitar & Yuka C. Honda on electronics

Out of the Pool
Little Eyes
One PM Again (without YH)
Can’t Forget (without YH)
Lewis (without YH)
Tears Are In Your Eyes
The Race Is On Again (without YH)
Above the Sound
I Found A Reason (Velvet Underground) (with John Cameron Mitchell on vocals)
Waves of Fear (Lou Reed) (with JCM)
Clumsy Grandmother Serves Delicious Desert By Mistake (Jad Fair)
Out the Window
Styles of the Times
Tom Courtenay
Little Honda (The Hondells)

*(encore)*
Wasn’t Born To Follow (Carole King/Gerry Goffin)
Cool Metro (David Johanson/Syl Sylvain)
Hanky Panky Nohow (John Cale) (without YH & NC)

yo la tengo, hanukkah 2021, night #3 setlist

Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom
30 November 2021
*(Hanukkah, night 3)*

opening act: Marisa Anderson & William Tyler
comedian: Roy Wood Jr.
mix CD: Jeff Parker
benefiting: Texas Civil Rights Project

Georgia, Ira, and James joined Marisa Anderson & William Tyler for “Something Will Come.”

whole show (minus encore) with Marisa Anderson & William Tyler on guitars/keyboards

You Are Here >
The Fireside >
Damage
The Point Of It
Love Minus Zero/No Limit (Bob Dylan)
The Ballad of Red Buckets
Shades of Blue (minus MA)
Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1)
Satellite
Tears Are In Your Eyes (instrumental) (minus MA)
Shaker
She Cracked (Jonathan Richman)
Double Dare
Pass the Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind >
Blues Stay Away From Me (Delmore Bros.)

*(encore)* with Ivan Julian on guitar/vocals
The Kid With the Replaceable Head (Richard Hell)
Going, Going, Gone (Bob Dylan) (Richard Hell arrangement)
Blank Generation (Richard Hell)