The point of this page isn't to give
insight into my work but rather to my listening patterns (as a
music loving citizen, not as an ARTISTE, that is) during a certain
period of
time. It's just a rough draft of what I was
listening to more often (in the case of the pop oriented ones - ala
whilst driving to and fro work) and/or what had the greatest impact
(referring more to the art music) on me
during the month listed (always there's much more music listened than
listed that just didn't fall under one of those two categories -
listened to more often or had a great impact). Might at least be
a somewhat interesting (though I seriously doubt it) time capsule (for
myself) to check back at year's
end. I always enjoy reading these types of lists from fellow artists,
thought I might as
well post one myself, you know.
April 2006
Vashti Bunyan : "Lookaftering" 2005 (first half of the album is
nothing short of otherworldly in it's thick atmospheres and vivid
portraits)
Rebecca Saunders : "Quartet/Into The Blue/Molly's Song 3/dichroic
seventeen" 1995-98
The Love Generation : "Love and Sunshine, the best of..." (1967-68)
2002 (a fantastic Jimmy Webb song included)
The Free Design : "Kites Are Fun" 1967
Wendy & Bonnie : "Genesis" 1968
Inner Dialogue : "Inner Dialogue" 1969 (very addictive UP pop)
Lisa Germano : "Lullaby for Liquid Pig" 2003 (great atmospheric pop -
the sound of dissociation)
Zeena Parkins & Ikue Mori : "Phantom Orchard" 2004
May 2006
Mauricio Kagel : "Playback Play" 1996-97/2000 + "Acustica" 1971 + Der
Shall" 1968
BrainTicket : "Celestial Ocean" 1974
German Oak : "German Oak" 1972
Emtidi : "Saat" 1972
Peter Frohmader/Nekropolis : "Musik Aus Dem Schattenreich" 1979
Robert Wyatt : "Schleep" 1997 *always obsessed
Paul Giovanni (and Magnet) : "The Wicker Man" 1973 (2002)
DeerHoof : "Milk Man" 2004
JS Bach : "The Art of Fugue" (Keller Quartet 1998) *always obsessed
June 2006
Mates of State : "Team Boo" 2003 + "Bring It Back" 2005
The Pipettes : "We Are The Pipettes" 2006 (took a few listens, but...it
grows on you eventually becomes crack'like in it's addictive powers)
Camera Obscura : "Let's Get Out Of This Country" 2006 (better now as a
girl run band)
Igor Wakhevitch : "Logos Ritual Sonore 1970/Docteur Faust 1971/Hathor
1973/Les Fous D'Or 1975/Nagual 1977/Let's Start 1979"
Gyorgy Ligeti : "Kammerkonzert (1970) Ramifications (1969) Lux Aeterna
(1966) Atmospheres (1961) Wergo 1988
East River Pipe : "Garbageheads On Endless Stun" 2003
Scott Walker : "The Drift" 2006 (always over-rated, still pretty
interesting, clearly an improvement from "Tilt")
LadyTron : "Light and Magic" 2002 (lot of -cold hearted- fun, an
updated Kraftwerk with female vocals)
Morton Feldman : "String Quartet 2" 1983 (Mode 2002)
Giacinto Scelsi : "String Quartet no.4 / etc" (Kairos 2001)
Carlo Gesualdo : "Tenebrae"(ECM 1994)
July 2006
Zhou Long : "Poems from Tang" (1998 Delos)
The Beijing Angelic Choir : "Chinese Lullabies" (1995 Wind Records)
Vittorio Gelmetti : "Musiche Elettrinoche"
Morton Feldman : "Crippled Symmetry" (1999 Bridge)
Sun Ra : "Heliocentric Worlds Vol.1" 1965 + "Crystal Spears" 1973
(possibly hit the spot more so than anything else this month)
Home Movies : (bonus cd that comes with the season four dvd box set of
the cartoon show - and yes, it's very good, for a comedy album)
GG Allin : "Freaks, Faggots, Drunks & Junkies" + "Brutaliy and
Bloodshed For All"
Robert Wyatt : "Schleep" 1997 (always obsessed with this album)
Women of the SS : "John Zewizz Present His Infamous..."
Merzbow / Christoph Heemann : "Sleeper Awakes On The Edge Of The
Abyss" (Merzbow 1987. Heemann processing of 1988-1993)
August 2006
Mauricio Kagel : "1898" + "Music for Renaissance Instruments"
Radiohead : "Amnesiac" 2001 (I've finally allowed myself to like this
one)
The Fall : "Hex Enduction Hour" 2002 + "The Real New Fall LP" 2004 +
"This Nation's Saving Grace" 1985-88
Henri Pousseur : "Electronic Works"
Hasil Adkins : "Out to Hunch" 2002 (a feminist who happened to love
chicken just a little bit more)
Les Baxter : "Pit And The Pendulum" (score) 1961
Jandek : "I Threw You Away" 2002
John Adams : "On The Transmigration Of Souls" (2002)
Brian Wilson : (self made compilation of choice late/post-"Pet Sounds"
Beach Boys era tracks)
Hammock : "The Sleep Over Series, Volume 1" 2006
Synthe-Sound-Trax : "Boogeyman" (score) 1980 (surprisingly good cheap
horror score)
September 2006
Karlheinz Stockhausen : "Stop-Ylem" 1974 + "Prozession" 1967
Iannis Xenakis : "Electronic Music" 1957-92 (pre-pre-pre industrial
soundscapes at their best)
John Cage : "Fifty-Eight" 1993 (who says that all Cage amounted to was
silence)
Windy & Carl : "Antarctica" 1997 + "Depths" 1998
Witold Lutoslawski : "Funeral Music / Symphony No.4"
Beach Boys (Brian Wilson) : "Pet Sounds" 1966 (40 years, still sounds
like butta)
Sun Ra : "Strange Strings" 1967
Yen Pox : "Blood Music" 1995
Mates of State : "Team Boo" 2003 (it's crack, what can I say)
