ginchy shit, 2022
ginchy shit, 2022
Jesse Jarnow / @bourgwick@heads.social
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
newish
Parquet Courts, Sympathy For Life (Rough Trade)
Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel Band, Both Ways (no label) ***
Tom Carter & Susan Alcorn, Ajax Peak (no label)
Béla Fleck and Toumani Diabaté, The Ripple Effect (Rounder)
Trond Kallevåg, Fengselsfugl (Hubro)
Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection, Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection (YK)
Louise Bock/PG Six, All Summer Long Is Gone (no label)
William Parker/Hamid Drake/Cooper-Moore, Painters Winter (AUM Fidelity) *
William Parker/Matthew Shipp/Daniel Carter/Gerald Cleaver, Welcome Adventure! Vol. 1 (577) *
The Bug Club, Pure Particles (no label) ***
new
Jonathan Richman, Want To Visit My Inner House (Blue Arrow) ***
Jake Xerxes Fussell, Good and Green Again (Paradise of Bachelors) ***
Curtis Godino Presents the Midnight Wishers (Shimmy-Disc)
Kendraplex, Two Rivers (no label)
Andrew Scott Young/Ryan Jewell/Ryley Walker, Post Wook (Husky Pants)
Elvis Costello, The Boy Named If (EMI/Capitol)
Tyler Mitchell feat. Marshall Allen, Dancing Shadows (Mahakala)
75 Dollar Bill, Social Music at Troost vol.3: (Other) People’s Music (no label)
Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros, Live From Colorado (Third Man)
Animal Collective, Time Skiffs (Domino)
Animal Collective, The Inspection (A24)
Organs Obsolete, Organs Obsolete (no label)
David Nance/Pearl Lovejoy Boyd/James Schroeder, Ash Wednesday (no label)
Jon Camp, Jon Camp (Centripetal Force)
Seawind of Battery, Clockwatching (Island House)
Taper’s Choice, Choice Tapes, vol. 2 (no label)
Glenn Jones, Vade Mecum (Thrill Jockey)
Winged Wheel, No Island (12XU)
Joan Shelley, The Spur (No Quarter)
Wet Leg, Wet Leg (Domino)
Brad Barr, The Winter Mission (Secret City)
Scott Metzger, Too Close To Reason (Royal Potato Family) *
Anteloper, Pink Dolphins (International Anthem)
Weak Signal, War & War (no label) ***
Rich Ruth, I Survived, It’s Over (Third Man)
Wilco, Cruel Country (dBpm)
Old Saw, Country Tropics (Lobby Art)
Mary Halvorson, Belladonna (Nonesuch)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Emile Mosseri, I Could Be Your Dog / I Could Be Your Moon (Ghostly International) *
John Zorn, A Garden of Forking Paths (Tzadik) *
Dew Claw, Horripilation (no label) *
Kikagaku Moyo, Kumoyo Island (Guruguru Brain) *
Mary Lattimore & Paul Sukeena, West Kensington (Three Lobed)
Prairiewolf, Live at the Aztlan Theatre, 7/16/2022 (no label) ***
David Nance, Non-Missile (no label)
Sun Ra Arkestra, Living Sky (Omni Sound) ***
Bill Orcutt, Music For Four Guitars (Pallalia) *
v/a, Imaginational Anthem Vol. XI : Chrome Universal (Tompkins Square) *
Lambchop, The Bible (Merge) *
Oren Ambarchi, Shebang (Drag City) ***
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom, Reset (Domino) ***
Ralph White, It’s More In My Body Than In My Mind (Worried Songs)
Ralph White, Something About Dreaming (Worried Songs)
The A’s, Fruit (Psychic Hotline)
Jack White, Entering Heaven Alive (Third Man)
Garcia Peoples, 100 Years of Solid Dudes (no label)
Wau Wau Collectif, Mariage (Sahel Sounds) *
Golden Brown, Moonrise Orb Weaver (no label)
v/a, Sounds of Lecak, vol. 1 (Guruguru Brain)
Heather Trost, Desert Flowers (Ba Da Bing!)
Jessica Ackerley and Patrick Shiroshi, Across Water (no label)
Bitchin Bajas, Bajascillators (Drag City) *
v/a, Birthday Blues: 33 Artists Interpret The Music Of James Toth (Aquarium Drunkard)
Horse Lords, Comradely Objects (RVNG Intl)
Brian Eno, foreverandevernomore (Verve/UMC)
Nathan Salsburg, Landwerk No. 3 (No Quarter) *
Robyn Hitchock, Shufflemania! (Tiny Ghost)
Jake Acosta, Rehearsal Park (Husky Pants)
Marisa Anderson, Still, Here (Thrill Jockey) *
Sofia Birch & Antonina Nowacka, Languoria (Unsound) *
The Mystic Revelation of Teppo Repo, Kosmoksen erakko (Sahko)
Nurse & Soldier, Let’s Spend the Day Together (no label)
Mali Obomsawin, Sweet Tooth (Out of Your Head)
Horsegirl, Versions of Modern Performance (Matador) *
singles/EPs/short-form/individual non-album performances
Steve Gunn, Nakama EP (Matador)
Weak Signal, Best Friend EP (no label) ***
SUSS, Heat Haze EP (Northern Spy)
Jonathan Richman, Cold Pizza & Other Hot Stuff EP (Blue Arrow)
Prairewolf, Labwerk/Lunar Deluxe (no label)
reissues/newish old things
Antonia 1975-1976 demos (no label)
Sonic Youth, In/Out/In (Three Lobed) *
Jama Sultan’s Aboriginal Music Society, Father of Origin (Eremite)
Norma Tanega, I’m the Sky: Studio & Demo Recordings, 1964-1971 (Light In the Attic)
Karen Dalton, Shuckin’ Sugar (Omnivore) *
Oneida, “Don’t Clap Yet”: Live at EmmabOda (no label)
Les Rallizes Denudes, The OZ Tapes (Temporal Drift)
えろちか Erochika, Kawabata’s Demo 1986 (no label)
Travesia, Ni Un Minuto Mas de Dolor (Vampisoul) ***
John Ondolo, Hypnotic Guitar of John Ondolo (Mississippi)
v/a, Hurt Feelings: Goldband Records Demo Submissions (no label)
Lou Reed, Words & Music, May 1965 (Light In the Attic)
v/a, River of Revenge: Brazilian Country Music 1929-1961, Vol. 1 (Death Is Not the End)
The Chieftains, The Foxhunt: San Francisco, 1973 & 1976 (Owsley Stanley Foundation)
V-Effect, Stop Those Songs (no label)
Ernest Hood, Back to the Woodlands (Freedom To Spend)
misc. new-to-me
Don Everly, Sunset Towers (Ode) *
v/a, The Music Of Africa Series: Musical Instruments 7, Guitars 2 (Kaleidophone)
v/a, The Nairobi Sound: Acoustic and Electric Guitar Music of Kenya (Original Music) *
Edmond Hall Celeste Quartet feat. Charlie Christian, Memorable Sessions in Jazz (Blue Note)
Willie Nelson, Live Country Music Concert (RCA Victor) ***
Alex Chilton, My Rival (Omnivore)
Pharoah Sanders (with Don Cherry, Sun Ra Arkestra, etc.), In the Beginning (ESP-Disk’)
The Belmonts, Together Again (and More) (ABC)
live recordings
Bob Dylan, 23 September 1995 The Edge, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Bob Dylan, 26 July 1999 Tramps, NYC
Bob Dylan, 23 June 2022 Santa Cruz Auditorium, Santa Cruz, CA
Akron/Family, 27 September 2007 Club Metronome
Animal Collective, 26 April 2004 BBC Radio 1
King Sunny Ade, 7 September 1984 Pier 84, NYC
Chris Forsyth/Bill Nace/Ryan Jewell, 20 August 2022 Deep in the Valley, Red Hook, NY
Stephen Malkmus, 12 August 1998 Long Beach Museum
Ryley Walker/JR Bohannon/Ryan Jewell, 12 November 2022 Tubby’s, Kingston, NY
Ween, 1996 Country Tour Sampler
Bill Evans Trio, 1960 Birdland broadcasts, NYC
Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie/Bud Powell/Charles Mingus/Max Roach, 15 May 1953 Massey Hall
Thelonious Monk & co., Spring 1941, Minton’s, NYC
Joshua Abrams/Lisa Alvarado/Chad Taylor, 24 August 2013 Sant’anna Arresi, IT
live streamed
17 July – Natural Information Society at Pitchfork Fest
30 September – Marisa Anderson & Jali Bakary Konteh, BBC3 Late Junction
live
30 January – Jake Xerxes Fussell at Knitting Factory
16 March – Fly or Die at Baby’s All Right
2 April – Bob Weir at Radio City Music Hall
13 April – Chris Corsano/Bill Orcutt/Che Chen at Baby’s All Right
14 April – Chris Corsano/Bill Orcutt at Baby’s All Alright
22 April – Phish at Madison Square Garden
24 April – Taper’s Choice at Sultan Room Roof
11 May – Jaimie Branch/Billy Martin/Luke Stewart at IRL
4 June – Garcia Peoples in Vermont
10 June – Garcia Peoples at Weylin
16 July – Anteloper at Public Records
21 August – Gunn/Sawyer/Ismaily, Malcolm Mooney’s Dream Band at Union Pool
17 September – 75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band, Oneida at Forest Park
18 September – Tara Jane O’Neil/Ryan Sawyer, Natural Information Society at Union Pool
2 October – Pavement at Kings Theatre
8 October – Chuck Johnson at Ambient Church
17 October – Jonathan Richman at Opera House
22 October – Fire Over Heaven Festival
8 November – Ryley Walker/JR Bohannon/Kid Millions, Wendy Eisenberg at P.I.T.
11 November – Bill Nace/Steve Gunn/John Truscinski, Deradoorian at Union Pool
16 November – Little Black Egg at Shift
18 November – The Willies & The Feelies at White Eagle Hall
2 December – Garcia Peoples at Weylin
4 December – Bitchin Bajas at Union Pool
9 December – Ikue Mori & Chris Corsano, Catalytic Sound Festival at Shift
10 December – Marisa Anderson & Jim White at Pete’s Candy Store
16 December – Lambchop at Le Poisson Rouge
18 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
19 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
20 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
21 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
22 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
23 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
24 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
25 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
etc.
Cinema Purgatorio by Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill
Maybe the People Would Be The Times by Lucy Sante
Fuff #1-#12 by Jeffrey Lewis
Future #1-#9 by Tommi Musturi
Lightning Striking by Lenny Kaye
New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson ***
After All Is Said & Done by Mark Rodriguez
Andor
From Head Shops to Whole Foods by Joshua Clark Davis
Marquee Moon by Bryan Waterman ***
Grateful Dead Meet Up At the Movies
Dangerous Visions & New Worlds edited by Andrew Nette & Iain McIntyre
The Folk by Russ Cole
Murderbot books by Martha Wells
All Gates Open by Rob Young & Irmin Schmidt
Dirty Pictures by Brian Doherty
Mets Old Timers Day
Mets Regular Timers Days (mostly)
Devil House by John Darnielle ***
Mastodon ***
Live Music In America by Steve Waksman ***
