Ilyas Ahmed
John Coltrane Quartet - One Down, One Up: Live At The Half Note (Impulse) Shirley Collins - False True Lovers (Bo’Weavil) Keiji Haino - Black Blues (Disques du Soleil) Gust Burns - Solo Piano Vol.2 (No Label) Sun Ra - Heliocentric Worlds Vol.3 (ESP) Reeks And The Wrecks - Knife Hits (Tumult) Fursaxa – Lepidoptera (ATP) Farid el Atrache - An Evening With The King Of The Oud (Next) Tower Recordings - Message From The Celestial Explosions (Holoscanner Consciousness) Om – Variations On A Theme (Holy Mountain)
Robin Barnes (Isolde)
Francoiz Breut - Une Saison Volee (Olympic Disk) Annie - Anniemal (679 Recordings) Islaja - Palaa Aurinkoon (Fonal) Still (still!) no new Slayer album. I would add a frowning emoticon here if I knew how to do it.
Karl Bauer (Axolotl)
The Wooden Cupboard - Boiling the Animal in the Sky (Pseudo Arcana) Jane - Coconuts (Psych-O-Path) Konono #1- Congotronics (Crammed) Ariel Pink - Worn Copy (Paw-Tracks) Animal Collective and Vashti Bunyan- Prospect Hummer (Fat Cat) Magik Markers/Sunburned Hand of the Man tour Neil Campbell’s Astral Social Club John Coltrane - One Down, One Up: Live At The Half Note (Impulse) Mouthus - Told by the Water (Our Mouth) No-Neck Blues Band live
Robert Beatty (Hair Police/Eyes & Arms Of Smoke)
Major Stars - Majors Stars 4 (Twisted Village) Warmer Milks - Penetration Initials (Mountaain) Greg Kelley - I Don’t Want to Live Forever (Gameboy/Little Enjoyer) Bird Show- Green Inferno (Kranky) C-Schulz - 5.Flicker Tunes (Sonig) Kites - Peace Trials (Load) Growing - His Return (Troubleman) Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - The Days of Mars (DFA/Astralwerks) Animal Collective – Feels (FatCat) Annie- Anniemal (679 Recordings)
Nemo Bidstrup (Time-Lag/Drona Parva)
Death Chants - Natural History (No Label) Lau Nau – Kuutarha (Locust) Damin Eih, A.L.K. and Brother Clark - Never Mind (Orange Doubledome) Virgin Insanity - Illusions Of The Maintenance Man (De Stijl) Beauregard Ajax - Deaf Priscilla (Shadoks) Family Underground - Familiar Places (Into The Lunar Night) GHQ – Hea (Arbitrary Signs) Damon - Song Of A Gypsy (Guerssen) Visitations - Untitled (Maang Disc) Ilyas Ahmed - Between Two Skies (No Label)
Joshua Burkett (Joshua)
Lau Nau – Kuutaarha (POK/Locust) Coyote - A Red Wind Blew (No Label) Magik Markers - Captured Live(st) in Tienen, Belgium (In The Living) Wooden Wand - Harem Of The Sundrum & The Witness Figg (Time-Lag) Alvarius B - Blood Operatives Of The Barium Sunset (Abduction) Jack Rose- Raag Manifestos (VHF/Eclipse) Alastair Galbraith- Radiant (Emperor Jones) Soil Sing Through Me - s/t (Blueberry Honey) Fursaxa – Lepidoptera (ATP) Spoils Of War – s/t (Shadoks) Live: Halloween night show: Magik Markers and Believers in Cambridge, Mass. Flaherty, McPhee and Corsano in the Bookmill, Montague Mass.
Neil Campbell (Vibracathedral Orchestra/Astral Social Club)
Axolotl D Yellow Swans Skaters Burning Star Core Myriad combination collaboration/solo CD-Rs by all of the above The ‘return’ of the mighty Tirath Singh Nirmala Excepter – Throne (Load) Wolf Eyes - Dog Jaw (Heresee) Richard Youngs - The Naive Shaman (Jagjaguwar) Ashtray Navigations + Tomutonttu live in Leeds, April 2005
Mike Connelly (Hair Police/Wolf Eyes/Failing Lights et al)
Satanic Warmaster -Carelian Satanist Madness (No Colours) Bloodyminded - Gift Givers (Bloodlust) Woods of Infinity – Ljuset (Total Holocaust Records) Graveyards - Monument Centers (American Tapes) Akitsa - Aube de la misanthropie (Raging Bloodlust Records) Eyes and Arms of Smoke - Religion of Broken Bones (Cenotaph Audio) Prurient/Nicole 12 – Love And Romance (Hospital) Sick Llama - Barf Troth (Audiobot) Macronympha - Melting Softly Into Time (Self Abuse/Hospital) Burning Star Core - Inside the Shadow (Drone Disco)
Alan Cummings (The Wire/PSF)
Masayuki Takayanagi - Action Direct (Tiliqua) Lau Nau - Kuutartha (Locust) Kazuki Tomokawa – Pistol: Shibuya Apia Live (PSF DVD) Kazuo Imai – Far & Wee (PSF) Stars - Perfect Place to Hideaway (Pedal) Munehiro Narita – Narita (PSF) John Fahey – The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick (Water) Ikuro Takahashi - Domori to sanshu (Siwa) MV & EE Fantastic String Music - Ragas & Blues (Idea) Toshi Ichiyanagi - Opera from the works of Tadanori Yokoo (Bridge)
Jon Dale (Rhizome/The Wire/Signal To Noise)
Top 10 Records I Stupidly Left Out Of The Last 2005 Top 10 I Did The Howling Hex - You Can’t Beat Tomorrow (Drag City) The Howling Hex - All Night Fox (Drag City) Andrew Chalk - The River That Flows Into The Sands (Faraway Press) Teotihuacan – s/t (New Age) Sunroof! - Silver Bear Mist (VHF) Arek Gulbenkoglu - Points Alone (Impermanent) Astral Social Club - everything Francis Plagne - Idle Bones (Synaesthesia) Hive Mind - Death Tone (Hanson) Devillock - These Graves (PACrec/SNSE) Labels to sweat: United Fairy Moons Breakdance The Dawn Black Petal Spanish Magic Winter Records
John Fail (Cenotaph Audio et al)
Burning Star Core - The Very Heart Of The World (Thin Wrist) Greg Kelley - I Don’t Want to Live Forever (Gameboy/Little Enjoyer) Milk from Cheltenham - Triptych of Poisoners (Alga Marghen) Nils Økland - Bris (Rune Grammafon) Rayoff - Ghost Wolf Of Thunder Mountain (United Fairy Moons) Ben Reynolds - Silver Songs or Ghost of a Cube (267 Lattajjaa) ThreeLeggedRace/Walter Carson - Primitive Ash (Mountain) Uncle Jim – Uncle Jim’s Superstars of Greenwich Meantime (Black Velvet Fuckere) Weird Weeds - Hold Me (Digitalis) Jerry Yester/Judy Henske - Farewell, Aldebaran (Radioactive)
Dominik Fernow (Prurient/Hospital)
Aodl - Blister Parabola (Rive) Macronympha - Close To The Edge (Self Abuse) Air Conditioning - Frustrating Ice Princess/Cat Neck (Electric Human Project) Bone Awl - Not For Our Feet (Nuclear Was Now) Daft Punk - Human After All (Virgin) Clandestine Blaze - Deliverers Of Faith (Northern Heritage) Akitsa - Soleil Noir (Tour de Garde) Pedestrian Deposit - Damsel (Monorail Trespassing) Burning Star Core - Inside The Shadow (Drone Disco) Hototogisu - Ghosts From The Sun (Heavy Blossom) Also of great importance: Sudden Infant live in Newcastle - Jesus!!! Blossoming Noise CD too... Can’t - Live in Leeds/RRR LP Sickness - Live at Knitting Factory/RRR LP Wolf Eyes - Live in Talahasse FL - Rusted Mange and Village Oblivia versions! Grunt - Live in Nottingham Emil Beaulieau - Live in Eastbourne Onomatopoeia - Live in London Consumer Electronics - Live in Bristol Dilloway at the Hook/Hanson mailorder Furisubi - Chime/Magnet (Louder Than Life) Work/Death - Seven Branched Larch Boughs (Thu) Alberich - The Body EP (Louder Than Life) Wolf Eyes - Live in some fucking town I can’t remember in FL where Jon opened with solo sax! The Seven Arts - Alley Way Song – (Fargone) Skaters/Double Leopards - live collaboration at Tonic NYC Filthy Turd - Death Turd Anal Abyss - live gig - Eastbourne UK
Chris Gray (Double Leopards/Endless Boogie)
16 Bitch Pile Up - Just Another Point In The Pentagram (No Label) M.F. Doom - Special Blends Vol. 1(Metal Face) Negative Approach - Ready To Fight (Reptilian Records) George Brigman – Jungle Rot (Anopheles) The Shadow Ring – I’m Some Songs (Swill Radio) Nath Family - Sounds Of The Indian Snake Charmer (Hanson) Max Cloud - 7" (Spite) Graveyards – Monument Centers (American Tapes) Various Artists - Radio Phnom Penh (Sublime Frequencies) John Fahey - The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick (Water)
Hannu Haahti (267 Lattajaa)
The Fall - Fall Heads Roll (Narnack) Caroliner - Transcontinental Pinecone Collector (No Cat) Paavoharju - Yhä Hämärää (Fonal) Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering (Fat Cat) Animal Collective - Feels (Fat Cat) Black Twigs - Midnight Has Come And Gone (VHF) Various Artists - Radio Phnom Penh (Sublime Frequencies) Various Artists - Radio Sumatra: The Indonesian FM Experience (Sublime Frequencies) Lau Nau - Kuutarha (Locust) Skullflower - Orange Canyon Mind (Crucial Blast) The Fall - The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004 (Castle)
Tony Herrington (The Wire/Long Time Sick Punk Avatar)
Various - Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box (Last Visible Dog) Various - By The Fruits You Shall Know The Roots (Eclipse/Time-Lag) Skullflower - Orange Canyon Mind (Crucial Blast) Minexio VIII - Vida Psiquica De Los Caracoles (Aguila) Burning Star Core - The Very Heart Of The World (Thin Wrist) Grey Daturas/Yellow Swans - Copper/Silver (Jyrk) Keijo & The Free Players - Between Us (Foxy Digitalis) Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Wedlock (Eclipse) My Cat Is An Alien - Plutonian Flames (Opax) Wolf Eyes/Dead Machines/Dilloway/Hair Police/Guam River/Graveyards/Birth Refusal/Falling Lights/Spykes - everything!
Jani Hirvonen (Ikuisuus)
Ashtray Navigations - The Love That Whirrs (Last Visible Dog) Double Leopards - Savage Summer Sun (Hospital Productions) Hototogisu - Green (Heavy Blossom) Keiji Haino - Uchu Ni Karami Tsuite Iru Waga Itami (PSF) Keuhkot - Toimintatapoja Olioille (Ektro) My Cat Is An Alien - Plutonian Flames (Opax) Sanhedolin - s/t (PSF) Skullflower - Orange Canyon Mind (Crucial Blast) Various Artists - Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box (Last Visible Dog) Peter Wright - Yellow Horizon (PseudoArcana) Makoto Kawabata - inui 3 (vhf) Various - tone of universe (pseudoarcana) Ben Reynolds - earth & space magics (pseudoarcana) Toho Sara - hourouurin (fractal) Nanjo Asahito Group Musica - contemporary kagura-metaphysics (fractal) Ian Middleton - best of (cdr copy, not-available) Bridget Hayden - just ideas (self released) Hototogisu - brooming mephitic blast (esquilo)
Jojo Hiroshige (Hijokaidan/Alchemy)
Naoki Zushi - III (Org) Yoshio Hayakawa & Masahide Sakuma - Ii hito wa ii ne – Ces Chiens Live (Roots Music DVD) Chozu - Chozu (Rev-Node Records) Rashinban – Musubi (Lighthouse) Doodles - France Tour 2004.11.18 at Point Ephemere in Paris (Doodles) Jackie Leven - Elegy for Johnny Cash (Cooking Vinyl) Peter Hammill – Incoherence (Fie) Van Der Graaf Generator – Present (EMI) Edgar Froese - Epsilon in Malaysian Pale (Caroline) Brian Eno - Another Day on Earth (Ryko)
Simon Keeler (Forte/Beautiful Happiness)
Leaving Cargo and all it entailed Jack Rose - Kensington Blues (Beautiful Happiness/VHF/Tequila Sunrise) Marissa Nadler – The Saga Of Mayflower May (Beautiful Happiness/Eclipse) Comets On Fire live at Royal Festival Hall, London Immortal Lee County Killers 3 - These Bones Will Rise To Love You Again (Tee Pee) Wooden Wand - Harem Of The Sundrum & The Witness Fig (Soft Abuse/Time-Lag) Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice – Buck Dharma (5RC/Time-Lag) Black Lips - Let It Bloom (In The Red) Grouper - Way Their Crept (Free Porcupine Society) Finding a stack of ’84-era Metallica bootlegs in the mire at home Load records canon of 2005
David Keenan (Taurpis Tula/Volcanic Tongue) Mouthus – Slow Globes (Troubleman) Prurient – Black Vase (Load) Grouper – Way Their Crept (Free Porcupine Society) Hisato Higuchi – 2004 11 2005 4 (Ghost Disc) MV/EE & The Bummer Road – We Offer You Guru (Child Of Microtones) Owl Sounds – Owl Sounds with Arrington DeDionyso (Colour Sounds Recordings) Skullflower – Orange Canyon Mind (Crucial Blast) Can’t – New Secret (RRR) Double Leopards – A Hole Is True (Troubleman) Teotihuacan – s/t (New Age Cassettes) Julie Mittens – AJ L M Recorded June 20 2005 (No Label) And alla the amazing blats from American Tapes, Gods Of Tundra, Hanson, Hospital, Chondritic Sound, Heavy Tapes, Fag Tapes, Heresee, Tone Filth, New Age Cassettes, Dronedisco, Since 1972, Wolf Eyes, Graveyards, Failing Lights, Birth Refusal, Dead Machines, Hair Police, Guam River, Spykes… what a fuckin year…
Steve Krakow (Plastic Crimewave Sound/Galactic Zoo Dossier)
Jack Rose - Kensington Blues (VHF/Beautiful Happiness) Fursaxa – Lepidoptera (ATP) Loren Mazzacane Connors/Christina Carter – Meditations On The Ascension Of Blind Joe Death (Yod) Gary Higgins - Red Hash (Drag City) George Brigman – Jungle Rot (Anopheles) Spires That In The Sunset Rise – Four Winds The Walker (Secret Eye) Josephine Foster – A-Diadem EP Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound LP Six Organs Of Admittance - School Of The Flower (Drag City) Group 1850-live
Matt Krefting (Believers/Duck):
Ten? Only ten? FUCK YOU ONLY TEN! And you just want records??? No way, but I'll try to stay vaguely on task. Jesus, too much this year, new and old, all eternal: Shadow Ring (I’m Some Songs), Antony and the Johnsons (I Am A Bird Now and live), Whitehouse live, 16 Bitch Pile-up (Abortions and live), Dredd Foole (Long Losing Battle and live live live), Kenneth Patchen (EVERYTHING), Sapat, C93 retrospective 2CD (it works!), Braces DVD, Anna Klein solo show, Criterion Man Who Fell to Earth, Fe-Mail, BELIEVERS, Burning Star Core (Very Heart of the World, Let’s Play Wild..., Cenotaph 2CD, etc), Vampire Belt (Moth Lake and live), No Fun Fest, Donna Parker, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Endless Boogie, McPhee/Corsano/Flaherty live, Nautical Almanac, Fall Heads Roll (Especially that first track -- holy crow!), Criterion Cassavettes box (yeah it was last year, but I dug FAR into it in’05), Bummer Road (recordings and live), Van Morrison, Knob Creek, XO4, Joshua (live shows and mind-numbing readings), Grateful Dead Fillmore Box, new Organum/Jackman stuff, John Martyn, The Bells (as always), Can’t, Magik Markers, Lungfish (Feral Hymns and live), Scorsese Dylan doc, Ayler box, Joni Mitchell, Six Organs (LP and amazing live shows), Sunburned (LPs/CD-Rs/tapes and live), Mirror LPs/CD-Rs, too many beautiful experiences and people to handle.
Adam Kriney (Owl Sounds/La Otracina/Lust Ionics/Colour Sounds Recordings) Liek – s/t (Learning The Language) Liek – Twi And The Humble Feather (Learning The Language) King Crimson - Discipline & Beat (Discipline) Matt Valentine - Creek To Creation (Qbico) Feathers - s/t LP (Feathers Family) Various Artists - Gather In The Mushrooms (Castle) Makoto Kawabata & The Mothers Of Invasion – Hot Rattlesnakes (Paratactile) Scorch Trio - Luggumut (Rune Grammafon) Free Music Ensemble (Ken Vandermark/Paal Nilssen-Love/Nate McBride) Live at Tonic, NYC on 9/18/5 Marc Orleans/Matthew Bower Duo - live at Tommy’s Tavern, Brooklyn, NY Volcanic Tongue coming into existence!
Heather Leigh (Taurpis Tula/Volcanic Tongue) Mouthus - Slow Globes (Troubleman) Fraction – Moonblood (Radioactive) Wolf Eyes - Live in a Boat (No Label) Prurient - Black Vase (Load) Double Leopards - A Hole is True (Troubleman) Zaimph - Mirror Images & Moon’s Pool (Heavy Blossom) Teotihuacan – s/t (New Age Cassettes) Samara Lubelski - In the Valley (Eclipse) Skullflower - Orange Canyon Mind (Crucial Blast) Grouper – Way Their Crept (Free Porcupine Society) Hisato Higuchi – 2004 11 2005 4 (Ghost Disc) Can’t - New Secret (RRR) MV/EE and The Bummer Road – We Offer You Guru (Child Of Microtones)
Steve Lowenthal (Swingset) Metalux - Victim of Space (5RC) Prurient/Aaron Dilloway - Disappearance of the Maya (Hospital) Hair Police/Dead Machines – split (Gods Of Tundra/American Tapes) Comets on Fire/Burning Star Core – s/t (Yik Yak) Major Stars - Black Road/Pocket (Twisted Village) Warmer Milks - Tendertoe Blues (Rampart) Vampire Belt - Moth Lake (Hot Cars Warp) Magik Markers - NxCxHxCx (No Label) Endless Boogie- Black (Mound Duel) Can’t - New Secret (RRR)
Lieven Martens (Imvated) NO ORDER Kemialliset Ystavat – Taju (Pok) Bomp Tep - Touble in the Miks (Yeay) Davenport - Field Tales (23 productions) Meerk Puffy - ASHZ/ARCS/AZES/ETC (Animal Disguise) Little Howling Wolf - Brave nu World (Heresee) Edith Bunker’s Demonized Vomit Insurance (Mang) Ignatz – s/t (k-raa-k)3 Bobby Colombo - 7" (ultra eczema) Various Artists - String of Artifacts (Resipiscent) Metalux/Evil Moisture – split (veglia) Skullflower - Orange Canyon Mind (Crucial Blast) Ben Reynolds - Music is the music language (Ikuisuus) The Futurians - Pimp my Tardis (267 lattajja) Heavy Seals - Jazzbust (pacrec / tronics) Weirdo/Begeirdo tape (not not fun) - + MANY MORE??
Scott McKeating (Brainwashed/Stylus) Antony and the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now (Rough Trade) Coil – The Ape of Naples (Threshold House) Pajo – Pajo (Drag City) Black Sun Productions - Operett Amorale (Divine Frequency) Jamie Lidell – Multiply (Warp) Tunng – Mother’s Daughter and Other Songs (Static Caravan) Number None – Urmerica (Rebis) Jesu – Jesu (Hydra Head) Jazzfinger - Ugly For A Living (Gold Soundz) Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain (Load) Sun Kil Moon - Tiny Cities (Caldo Verde)
Heath Moerland (Sick Llama/Fag Tapes) Graveyards - Endings vol. 1 (No Label) Nicole Chambers - N C (No Label) Failing Lights – Evening Tomb (Gods Of Tundra) American Tapes Helloween Holocausts Box Set Steely & Clevie – Sleepy Dog (VP Records) Hive Mind/Workbench - Flashflood (Heavy Tapes/Chondritic Sound) The Haunting – Songs For Sleeping Fog (Gods Of Tundra) Pengo – A Nervous Splendor (Hahoma) The Dead Machines - Human Brain Wasting Syndrome (Ecstatic Peace) The Frying Membrane Boyz - Waiting For The Minded (American Tapes)
John Moloney (Sunburned Hand Of The Man) Uncle Jim- Uncle Jim’s Superstars Of Greenwich Meantime (Black Velvet Fuckere) Lungfish - Feral Hymns (Dischord) Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and Matt Sweeney – Superwolf (Drag City) Prurient - The Black Vase (Load) Six Organs Of Admittance - School Of The Flower (Drag City) Excepter – Throne (Load) Jack Rose - Kensington Blues (Beautiful Happiness/VHF) Nath Family – Sounds Of The Indian Snake Charmer (Hanson) Burning Star Core - Mes Soldats Stupides ‘96 – ’04 (Cenotaph Audio) Ilk – Canticle (VHF)
Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth/Dream Aktion Unit/College Girls Gone Wild) Charalambides - Live/Dead (Wholly Other) Can’t - 7" (Ultra Eczema) Leslie Keffer - Devastates (No Label) Family Underground - Slingshot Feud Vol. 2 (Sloow Tapes) Eyes and Arms of Smoke - Moonburn (Ramparts) Fricara Pacchu - Waydom (Lal Lal Lal) Taurpis Tula - Steel Rods Bruise Butterflies (Chocolate Monk) x.0.4 - All Alien Part One (Wabana) Religious Knives - In Bed (Heavy Tapes) Wayne Rogers - Blues-Ul Alb (Twisted Village)
Michael Morley (Dead C/Gate) Toy Love - Cuts (Flying Nun) A superior re-issue, with the original multitrack recordings long gone this is a DAT copy of a 1/4 inch master!!!! With a bit of studio enhancement it sounds a million times better than its original vinyl Release; this record was released in NZ in 1980!!! It was the best and the worst record of that year. Best because it was the first real NZ punk long player to come out and worst because of the well known problems with the sound of the original vinyl disc, there are references to this in the enclosed booklet. The other thing that makes this disc stand out is that it is not only the LP Toy Love that is included here but also their singles and a swathe of live material and demos. The best Flying Nun release of 2005 as well.
Mark Morris (Bo’Weavil Recordings) Sunburned Hand Of The Man – Wedlock (Eclipse) Es - Sateenkaarisuudelma/Maailmankaari/Pianokaari (Kraak) The Spoils Of War – s/t (Shadoks) Edip Akbayram – s/t (Shadoks) Blops – Box Set (Shadoks) Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice – Buck Dharma (Time-Lag) Charalambides – Our Bed Is Green (Time-Lag)
Justin C. Meyers: (Panther Skull/Devillock/Tone Filth) John Wiese - Light of A Ghost (Helicopter) & Magical Crystal Blah Vol. 3 (Helicopter/Kitty Play) Work/Death - Seven Branched Larch Boughs (Twonicorn) Prurient - Black Vase (Load) The Shadow Ring – I’m Some Songs (Swill Radio) Impregnable - Smile She Says (Troniks / PACrec) & ALL tapes Burning Star Core – Let’s Play Like Wildcats Do (Hospital/RRR) LHD - Triple Void (Chondritic Sound) Niellerade Fallibilisthorstar – Hålrum (SNSE) Damion Romero - You Can Tell By the Blur (Chondritic Sound) & Birth Twin (Heavy Tapes) Withdrawal Method - Live at Killzone (Since 1972) 2006 Request: More good tapes please!
Tirath Singh Nirmala (John Clyde-Evans) Richard Youngs - Naive Shaman (Jagjaguwar) Bhai Avtar Singh Ragi - Prem Piri (T Series) Theo Parrish - Capritarious #7 (Sound Signature) Neil Campbell - Astral Social Club #5 (Astral Social Club) Ross Parfitt - Whole Tone Infinity (No Label) Double Leopards - A Hole is True (Troubleman) Grupe i te rinjve Gjirokastrite cassettes Shaykh Ahmad al-Tuni - Sultan of all Munshidin Church of the Patriarche of Constantinople - Divine Liturgy of St. John Chysostum Sunburned Hand of the Man – Wedlock (Eclipse)
Pete Nolan (Virgin Eye Blood Brothers/Spectre Folk/Magik Markers et al) Burning Star Core – Let’s Play Wild Like Wildcats Do (Hospital) I think this is the strongest and purest example that I've seen of C. Spencer Yeh's singular vision... the word is in .... this guy's a genius from the middle of fucking America...aka the middle of fucking nowhere... blessed be those who work in opposition Mick Flower CD-R (self-released) The cds that Mick sold on tour are fucking excellent... this guy is the greatest guitarist alive today... feedback raga scree...perfect... If I practice for 20 years maybe I'll be as great as this guy... another powerful and singular vision from Leeds Tower Recordings - Message from the Celestial Explosion (Holoscanner Consciousness) This record is a very fucking visit to some kind of Ra-like folk universe... my favorite tower release... spraypainted gold...makes no sense ... but perfectly formed... put it in the reliquary Neil Campbell - Astral Social Club volume 1 This is one of my favourite noise releases... brain patterns laid out ... beautifully Henry Flynt – Purified By The Fire (Locust) First heard this in Morden Tower in Newcastle... Jazzfinger dudes played it before a VEBB set and it made the room ring perfect... most true drones and electric violin... puts me to the same place as a Saturday evening visit to the dream house.. Bridget Hayden – Films (DVD) Truly a modern day psych genius... takes you through tubes mirrors and TV feedback to another goddamn universe... Heathen Shame - Speed The Parting Guest (Twisted Village) This CD sounds really great... kinda in the hood of Metal Machine Music... my favourite noise band... done right ... with guitars and trumpets.. Virgin Insanity – Illusions Of The Maintenance Man (De Stijl) I really like these real peeps home made Texas dusted folk jams... that one song about touching the sky always gets in my head... in a really nice sunny morning kind of way... Alvarius B - Blood Operatives Of The Barium Sunset (Abduction) Tis is the coolest Al B record yet... totally lush production ... good songs... Big Whiskey – s/t (White Tapes) This is really great... one of the best rock things I've heard in a while... home made... noise psych rock
Dylan Nyoukis & Karen Constance (Blood Stereo/Chocolate Monk) Paavi - Untitled (Lal lal lal) Burning Star Core - The Very Heart Of The World (Thin Wrist) Maniacs Dream - Die, Learn, No Way (Hp Cycle) x.0.4 – All Alien Part 1 (Open Mouth) Inca Ore - A Knit of My Own Fibers / When You Are Sleeping I Tell You Secrets (Jyrk) Skaters - Pavilionous Miracles of Circular Facet Dice (Chocolate Monk) Glamorous Pat - Music For Cracked Cases (No Label) Nath Family - Sounds Of The Indian Snake Charmer (Hanson) Pengo - Damaged Casket (Hippie Overdose) Various Artists - God Came Between Us (Temple Of Be-Saint 777)
Bart de Paepe (Sloow Tapes) Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice - Buck Dharma (Time-Lag) Fursaxa – Lepidoptera (ATP) Family Underground – Familiar Places (Into The Lunar Night) Charalambides – Live/Dead (Wholly Other) Skullflower – Orange Canyon Mind (Crucial Blast) Kukkiva Poliisi – Ilola (Audiobot) Hototogisu – Green (Heavy Blossom) Kemialliset Ystävät – Taju (POK) Cale/Conrad/MacLise/Young/Zazeela - Inside The Dream Syndicate Volume 1: Days Of Niagara 1965 (Table Of The Elements) Prima Materia - The Tail of the Tiger (Die Schachtel)
Rich Pontius (Sunburned Hand Of The Man) Paul LaBrecque and Valerie Webb - Trees, Chants and Hollers (Wooden Finger) Jack Rose - ¬ Kensington Blues (VHF) Alvarius B -¬ Blood Operatives of the Barium Sunset (Abduction) Bruce Langhorn - Hired Hand soundtrack ¬ Satwa ¬ - s/t (Time-Lag) The Konks ¬ -s/t The Blood Farmers ¬ - Permanent Brain Damage Noir -¬ We Had To Let You Have It Bill Fay ¬ - s/t Fursaxa – Lepidoptera (ATP)
Ben Reynolds Tower Recordings - Message From The Celestial Explosions (Holoscanner Consciousness) Cold Bleak Heat – It’s Magnificent, But It Isn’t War (Family Vineyard) Wooden Cupboard - Boiling The Animal In the Sky (Pseudo Arcana) Aaron Dilloway - Boggs Vol.2 (Hanson) Magik Markers - I Trust My Guitar, etc (Ecstatic Peace) Hair Police - Drawn Dead (Hanson) Kemialliset Ystävät - Taju (POK) Skaters - Gambling In Opha’s Shadow (Pseudo Arcana) Ashtray Navigations - Deader Pedal Jugend Reflecting North (No Label) Burning Star Core - The Very Heart Of The World (Thin Wrist)
Wayne Rogers (Major Stars/Heathen Shame/Twisted Village) UV Protection - Consumer Material (UV Protection) Greg Kelley - I Don't Want To Live Forever (Gameboy) Magik Markers - Live In Belgium (Apostasy) Aaron Dilloway -Beggar Master (Hanson) Laura Cantrell -Humming By The Flowered Vine (Matador) Kanye West - Late Registration (Universal) Endless Boogie - s/t (private) Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain (Load) Julia P - Making Up For Lost Time (Excalibur) Graveyards - Monument Center (American Tapes)
Jessica Rylan (Can’t) My 10 Favourite Live Shows Of 2005: Pedestrian Deposit covering Cat Power at Behind the Green Door, Detroit Hush Arbors at Wedge Gallery, Asheville Chocolat Billy in a red brick cave in Bordeaux Bloodyminded and Wooden Wand at No Fun, Brooklyn Graveyards’ 2 minutes of silence at PA’s Lounge, Boston Prurient at Chillingham Arms, Newcastle Gowns and Amps for Christ at Midway Cafe, Boston Charalambides at Eyedrum, Atlanta
Sami Sänpäkkilä (Es/Fonal) Paavoharju - Yhä hämärää (Fonal) Islaja - Palaa Aurinkoon (Fonal) Bohren und der Club of Gore - Geisterfaust (Wonder) Animal Collective - Feels (Fat Cat) Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering (Fat Cat) Birchville Cat Motel - Chi Vampires (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) Kemialliset Ystävät – Taju: Live in Hyvinkää (Pohjoisten kukkaisten äänet)
Angela Sawyer (Twisted Village/Swingset) New Releases: Alvarius B - Blood Operatives of the Barium Sunset (Abduction) Feast Whisperpants & Penis Tea Flush - s/t (Ultra Eczema) Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain (Load) Various - Cambodian Rocks IV (Khmer Rocks) Michael Waisvisz - In Tune (Sonig) Hair Police/Wolf Eyes & Anthony Braxton - Live (Purple Stuff) Henry Jacobs - The Wide Weird World Of (Important) Moondog - The Viking of Sixth Avenue (Honest Jon's) Endless Boogie - #2/White (Mound Duel) Ennio Morricone - The Library Vol. 1 (Dagored) Old Stuff Listened To A Jillion Times This Year: Various - Music of Indonesia Vol. 14 (Smithsonian Folkways) Django Reinhardt - Paris and London Vol. 2, Disc 2 (JSP) Om Kalthoum - Box Set (Holy Land Market) O’Jays - Backstabbers (Philadelphia International) J.J. Light - Heya (Liberty) Original Soundtrack -Yaadon Ki Baaraat (Saregama) DeZurik Sisters - I Left Her Standing There/Arizona Yodeler (Vocalion) Various - Beating the Dragon Robe (Smithsonian Folkways) Cliff Edwards - On the Air (Nostalgia 2001) The Surfers - Christmas from Hawaii (Hi Fi) Top Ten New Releases That Wayne Village Declared Best Record Ever: Magik Markers - Feel the Crayon (Apostasy) Mascots - Ellpee (Radioactive) Various - Studio One Women (Soul Jazz) Beauregard Ajax - Deaf Priscilla (Shadoks) Kingpins – You’re My Girl (Oak) Spirit - Model Shop (Sundazed) Albert Ayler - Holy Ghost (Revenant) Fresh Maggots - s/t (Amber Soundroom) Rogerio Duprat - A Banda Tropicalista Do (El) Merry Go Round - Listen Listen: The Definitive Collection (Cherry Red)
Brian Smith (The Iron Kite/Twilight Flight Sound) Konono No. 1 - Congotronics (Ache) Jack Rose - Kensington Blues (VHF) Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower (Drag City) Various Artists - Choubi! Choubi! - Folk & Pop Sounds from Iraq (Sublime Frequencies) Various Artists - Guitars of the Golden Triangle - Folk & Pop Sounds from Myanmar Vol. 2 (Sublime Frequencies) George Brigman - Jungle Rot (Anopheles) Todd Tamanend Clark - Nova Psychedelia (Anopheles) Various Artists - American Primitive Vol. II (Revenant) Double leopards - Out of One, Through One, and To One (Eclipse) Kemialliset Ystävät - Kellari Juniversumi (Fonal/Beta-Lactum Ring)
Carlo Steegen (Audiobot) Ba. Ku. - Ritual Totemic Stone (Trash Ritual) Woods Of Infinity - Hejda (Total Holocaust) The Haunting - Songs For Sleeping Fog (Gods Of Tundra) The Rita - Bodies Bear Traces of Carnal Violence (PACrec) Treriksröset & Sewer Election - Killing For Norrland (Harsh Head Rituals) Brethren - Savage Inequalities (Freak Animal) Panther Skull - Slothwave (Tonefilth/Snse) American Tapes Helloween Holocaust Box Set Privy Seals - Skinkills (Swampland) Climax Denial - Dedicated to Piper Fawn (Pain Compliance)
Chad Stockdale (Living Breathing Music/Weird Forest Records) Dead Raven Choir - Cask Strength Black Metal (Weird Forest) Inca Ore - Brute Nature Vs. Wild Magic (Jyrk/Weird Forest) Various - Tibetan Buddhist Rites From The Monasteries Of Bhutan (Sub Rosa) Excepter – Throne (Load) Slomo - The Creep (Fuck Off & Di) Double Leopards – Gematria (Heavy Tapes) Hair Police - Drawn Dead (Hanson) Gang Gang Dance – God’s Money (The Social Registry) Circle live...no one can touch them Aaron Dilloway - Bad Dreams (PACrec) Growing - Live Dead Machines - Every Hour of Every Day Judy Henske & Jerry Yester - Farewell Aldebaran (Radioactive) Living Breathing Music - Unreleased Fools Foundation Session
Peter Swanson (Yellow Swans) Mouthus - Slow Globes (Troubleman) Grouper - Way Their Crept (Free Porcupine Society) Bonus - Double Odyssey (Father) Prurient - Black Vase (Load) Kemialliset Ystävät - Latvasta Laho (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) Silentist - Nightengales (Celestial Gang) Gerritt - Space Level Blaze (Misanthropic Agenda) Devillock - These Graves (PacREC/SNSE) Burning Star Core - The Very Heart Of The World (Thin Wrist) Zaika – No Cat (Wholly Other) Thuja - Pine Cone Temples (Strange Attractors) Skullflower - Orange Canyon Mind (Crucial Blast) Other Favourites: - P-tapes 3" CDR series - Sublime Frequencies - End Times Fest (great times AND I got to record with Wiese and Greh. Two of my favourite dudes ever) - Going to New Zealand and Australia (all of it… Campbell Kneale, Musicyourmindwillloveyou, Castings, Grey Daturas, Antony Milton, Futurians, United Fairy Moons... ALL OF IT) - Seeing Hyacinth, Coughs and Total Shutdown… good to see new ROCK bands that KILL - JYRK JAMBOREE TOUR!
Seth Tissue (Jandek site) Jandek live (Gateshead/Glasgow/Austin/Manhattan/Brooklyn) Jandek – Khartoum (Corwood) Phill Niblock live (6ODUM, Chicago) Keiji Haino live (The Sage, Gateshead) Whitehouse live (Empty Bottle, Chicago) Tony Conrad live (Empty Bottle, Chicago) Anthony Braxton solo live (Wesleyan Univ.) Konono No. 1 live (Logan Square Auditorium, Chicago) No Neck Blues Band live (Empty Bottle, Chicago) Wagner's Ring cycle live (Lyric Opera, Chicago)
Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations) Teotihuacan – s/t (New Age Cassettes) (the CDR version he sent me, I've not heard the eventual cassette release version so can't vouch for that) Various Artists – Congotronics Volume 2 (Cramworld) Directing Hand – A Old Soul At The Helm (Chocolate Monk) Excepter – Throne (Load) Sunburned Hand Of The Man – Wedlock (Eclipse) Mick Flower - Solo (no label) Sunroof! – Silver Bear Mist (VHF) The New Blockaders with The Haters – Zero Is The Journey (Psychform) Skaters – s/t (American Tapes) Om – Variations On A Theme (Holy Mountain)
Brian Turner (WFMU) * MUSIC 2005 (in no order) Reeks and the Wrecks - Knife Hits (tUMULt) Country Teasers - Live (In the Red) Air Conditioning - Bachelor Party 7" (White Tapes) Whitehorse - West of the Sun (Whitehorse) Endless Boogie - Vol. 2 (Mound Duel) Tsehaytu Beraki - Selam (Terp) Jonathan Kane - February (Table of the Elements) Shapeshifter - Reticulum Flux (Schematic) Nurse With Wound - Shipwreck Radio Vol. 2 (ICP/United Dairies) Pissed Jeans - Shallow (Parts Unknown) Various - Congotronics 2: Buzz N' Rumble In the Urb'n Jungle (Crammed Disc) Rova:Orkestrova - Electric Ascension (Atavistic) Sublime Frequencies-o-rama * REISSUES 2005 Gary Higgins - Red Hash (Drag City) Various - Can You Jack: Chicago Acid and Experimental House 1985-95 (Soul Jazz) The Fall - Peel Sessions Box (Castle) Laja Aijala - Passions of Laija Aijala (Bad Vugum) Disembowelment - Disembowelment (Relapse) Conrad Schnitzler - Conrad & Sohn (Creel Pone) Various - Jazz In Paris: St Germain de Pres 1946-56 (Universal France/Gitanes) Various - Wahrnehmungen 1980/81 (Vinyl On Demand) Icky Boyfriends - A Love Obscene (Menlo Park) Various - Time Machine: Vertigo Retrospective 3CD (Vertigo/Universal)
Dennis Tyfus (Ultra Eczema et al) Jessica Rylan - New Secret (RRR) Uncle Jim - Uncle Jim's Superstars Of Greenwich Meantime (Black Velvet Fuckere) x.0.4 - 4 (Open Mouth) Guam River - Tapesystems For Empty Skies (Audiobot) Menstruation Sisters – Holy Africa (White Denim) Tumble Cat Poof Poofy Poof - Werewolf Story (Yeay) Various Artists - Like A Rug In A Lake (Freedom From) Drama En Zoid - Oerkreten (Imvated/Audiobot) Bob And Lou - The Bob And Lou Tapes (Ultra Eczema) Kites - Peace Trials (Load)
Steve Underwood (Harbinger Sound) Mnemonists – Gyromancy (ReR). So much noise you just gotta listen for it. Incapacitants - Sec End ( Meatbox ) endless... The Prefects - ...Are Amateur Wankers (Acute) Great short but sweet collection of early Subway Sect-esque post-punk before it was ‘post’ S.Y.P.H - Essential Recordings 1978 – 2003 (Glitterhouse) Could’ve been 2004 release but I play it everyday! For that ‘1977 = Year Zero’ person who also digs Can, etc P-Tapes - all those 3” CD-R releases ...Astro, Dead Machines, Rubber O Cement, Thirdorgan, Space Machine. I’m stockpiling them, so should you Die Todlichen Doris - all V.O.D. releases...follow the herd, get bovine... Primitive Calculators – s/t (Chapter) Oz No Wave reissue, c’mon “do the icepick” Gauze – Fuckheads (Boot of 1st LP) at last ! Rudolv Eb.Er/Joke Lanz – s/t (Blossoming Noise) Hijokaidan - in Glasgow @ Instal - I lost it ! So many good things paving the way for a BETTER 2006! Sweet dreams...
Matthew Valentine (MV & EE Medicine Show/Tower Recordings/College Girls Gone Wild) Glands Of External Secretion/My Cat Is An Alien - From The Earth To The Spheres Volume 6 (Opax) A chasm of broken arcs, moonlit hearts and blondes crashing like a homely ‘nine pound hammer’ in the path of the meaning of modern beat. Drona Parva - Salvia Door (Time-Lag) A punch of protein and protean saying hello to the protector of the universe & plant life honeymoons reconstituted as a ballad of tone robed in hand guided mandalas by those that don’t mind listening. Spectre Folk - s/t CD-R (Arbitrary Signs) Never been doing any of the screaming for a new song against swinging from anything lower than a chandelier and full of multi faceted new octave mantras in a very comfortable post bosom graduation of misused postal supplies. Black Sand Archives Volume One (DJ’s Jeremy Pisani & Conrad Capistran) - Six Full Length Radio Shows (CD-R) From the units on valley free radio in barbarian Tuesdays this listens like a gamblers passion that makes hillbilly seem like Randy California where playlists read like Berrigan (more on that later) and chimney fire is a magic pinball UFO of burnt nosehair unless nuclear is the smell of something else. Right fuckin’ on. J Mascis - Sing & Chant For Amma (Baked Goods) Outlaw angel blues and crow jane fuzz I take it for granted that you've all heard great black deer run and mounds of love exist within you but it takes nothing but skin and skins and a mouthful of witch and don't you know no happy songs. Josephine Foster - Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You (Locust) Her voice rings keep walking aphrodite’s colorado sea foam in the blues dunes perhaps after her birth we can hardly believe our good fortune sitting among a good fire. Valley Of The Ashes - s/t (Spirit Of Orr) Zulus ball for the aural boom boom parlour in the hole of the row where they wanna blame groovy but there wasn't a neck in a noose in sight nor a punch of the man so they jump in the sun anyway it wonderlick and a stamp. My men cannot be captured. Dredd Foole - A Long, Losing Battle With Eloquence And Intimance (Ecstatic Yod) It’s true pirates try to rob you and rich pimps endorse McNeill’s as they should in rap on sugarmountain and It’s true goodwill toured this year and after the tear gas disappears near solar hill we will find he disturbed the universe and hitchhiked alotta trails with throat and heart. Caveira – A’frica (Private Press) Muscle beach and caracois meat in the cripple crash of a sheriff turban and the fela of laundry and a mangy satan in a fantastic hexagram bandage of what the private press can manage if you could have swallowed it before you abandoned. Sunburned Hand Of The Man – Anatomy (Manhand) & Complexion (Records) A perfect pair, jack of diamonds and the aces in the sky without apology for not coming earlier orbiting out of a nova while jumping into the sun of the great pocketful of grigio where it’s not scared to take the absolute and blaze soon not later dangling on the golden chord of breathing and no electric crash. Various Artists - Good For What Ails You: Medicine Shows 1926-1937 (Old Hat) Essential listening Nolan/Yeh Duo – s/t (Drone Disco) Since the festival things have quieted down a volcano of making love and the radial starlight that talks to a portal and the gossip of who’s getting free balls or bras retires to the arcade of space invaders and this feels like the hi score of all things in jeans, higher key ice cream and ray beams as serious as cancer. Ted Berrigan - Collected Poems (University Of California Press) Essential reading
Russ Waterhouse (White Tapes) Dutch Masters - Radioactive (Goner) Pierre Henry - Mise en Musique du Corticalart de Roger Lafosse (Creel Pone) Jeph Jerman - Lithiary (Fargone) Paul Kelday - One Dimensional (Ufo Mongo) Loopool / Robedoor - Blood Trance (Not Not Fun) Maniacs Dream - Die, Learn, No Way (HP Cycle) Max Cloud - Legs (Spite) Partkdolg - Spring Recordings (Imvated) Starz - Starz (Ryko) Titus Groan - Titus Groan (Breathless)
Eric Weddle (Family Vineyard/John Wilkes Booze) Margarida Garcia/Barry Weisblat – Loran (Quakebasket) The Watts Prophets - Things Gonna Get Greater: 1969-1971 (Water) Can’t - New Secret (RRR) Christina Carter - Human As Guitar (Many Breaths Press) Little Howlin’ Wolf - The Singles Vol. 1 (Heresee/True Vine) Dredd Foole - A Long, Losing Battle with Eloquence and Intimance (Ecstatic Yod) Tommy Peltier - Chariot Of Astral Light (Black Beauty) Hisato Higuchi - 2004 11 2005 4 (Ghost Disc) Various Artists - Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926-1937 (Old Hat) The Shadow Ring - I’m Some Songs (Swill Radio)
Wooden Wand Jehovah (Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice et al) Witchcraft – Firewood (Rise Above) George Brigman – I Can Hear The Ants Dancin’ (Or Records) Om – Variations On A Theme (Holy Mountain) Alexander tucker - Old Fog (ATP) Hush Arbors - all Feathers - Tour Paint (Feather’s Family) The Howling Hex - You Can’t Beat Tomorrow (Drag City) Endless Boogie - Stanton Karma (Mound Duel) Excepter – Throne (Load) Davenport - Free Country (Last Visible Dog)
C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Starcore) Shadow Ring - I’m Some Songs (Swill Radio) Was this 2005?? I'm thinkin maybe it was 2046... Dead Machines - Every Hour of Every Day (American Tapes) When I complemented the Dead Machines about it, I just got a restrained response, as if they know something I don't (something about how it was actually a reissue from 420 AD) Antony & the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now (Rough Trade) Is Krefting the only other one who'll list this ?? Hair Police - Constantly Terrified (Troubleman) A lotta people cite "Drawn Dead" but I think this is the one folks will look back to, and wonder how a lacquer gets cut with a skeleton's finger. Can't tell you how many times I listened to this, but could tell you the time I "finally got it" while listening to this, stuck in automobile traffic in a tunnel... The New Blockaders/Coil/Vortex Campaign - Melancholy Mad Tenant YES. FFH - Silenced Whore CS The morning commute soundtrack for a good month or so. Nihilist Assault Group - Aural Retribution (Hospital) Also one of the best album covers of the year; I can't separate this from my fond memories of the single live performance from NAG this year, so I won't try to Isolation - s/t The perfect "trying to make coffee and eggs" LP; or perhaps the "waking up and walking a few feet to go record shopping" LP Can't - New Secret (RRR) On some other Can't album, there is the recording of a pencil writing something. I could swear the cut "New Secret" was the sound of a computer keyboard having something typed out on it... Phantasia - s/t LP+10" Though dudes maybe prefer the Trizo 50 over this, please consider the cut "Talk to the Moon" - the dude who wrote this doesn't have issues -- he has a subscription. My kind of jam.