Best of 2007 - Music

Best of 2007: Music

1. Tuxedomoon 7707 - 30th Anniversary Box Contents:

Vapour Trails
(CD | new album | 2007)
Muchos Colores • Still Small Voice • Kubrick • Big Olive
Dark Temple • Dizzy • Epso Meth Lama • Wading Into Love

Unearthed: Lost Cords
(CD | previously-unreleased recordings | 1977-1997 )
Day to Day • Remember • III (April in Afghanistan) • Somnambulist
Heaven and Hell • Atlantis • Up All Night • Loplop's People • Devastated
Brad's Loop • Allemande Bleue • No Business Like Show Business
Cell Life • Oceanus • Work Coda

Unearthed: Found Films
(DVD | archive & unreleased material| total time 160 minutes| 1977-1988)
I. Ghost Sonata (an opera without words)
II. A Thousand Lives By Picture (nine music videos)
III. Mythical Puzzle (a travelogue)
IV. Jetwave (a multimedia loft jam)
V. Colorado Suite (early studio explorations)
VI. No Tears (accelerated memory)

162o7 (39°N 7°W)
(CD | a concert recorded in February 2007) (Crammed)

2. Robert Wyatt Comicopera (Domino)

3. Gudrun Gut "I Put a Record On" (Monika Enterprise)
FYI: her best of 2007 is here.

4. Fennesz Sakamoto "Cendre" (Touch)

5. Burial "Untrue" (hyperdub)

6. The Durutti Column "Idiot Savants" (Fulfill)

7. Frank Bretscheider "Rhythm" (raster-noton)

8. Hans Appelqvist "Sifantin och mörkret" (Hapna)

9. Christina Kubisch "Five Electrical Walks" (Important)

10. Berg Sans Nipple "Along the quai"

11. Pelle Carlberg "In a Nutshell" (Labrador)

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Reissues:
Harmonia "Live 1974"
Young Marble Giants "Colossal Youth" (Domino)
"The Fruit of the Original Sin" Compilation (LTM)
"Ghosts of Christmas Past" Compilation (LTM)
Kraftwerk "Ralf & Florian"
The Durutti Column "Sporadic Three" (Kooky) [older material made available for the first time]
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Films about music:
Scott Walker: 30th Century Man dir. Stephen Kijak (film site)
Control dir. Anton Corbjin
Screaming Masterpiece dir. ARI ALEXANDER ERGIS MAGNÚSSON(film site)

Happy Christmas 2007

Best Wishes.

Last Show of 2007 - Playlist "Off the Cuff" WZBC NCP

Fri Dec 21st 2007 7.00pm–10.00pm
Like everything else, times are approximate. Spinitron and this station are not liable for errors or omissions.

Lawrence “Lowlights from the Past” from Lowlights from the Past and Future CD
July Skies “Garden Constellations” from Dreaming of Spires CD ALBUM
Polyphonic Size “Kyoto” from B9 BIS (Belgian Cold Wave 1979-1983) (LTM)
Anne Laplantine “Keep Me Updated” from Nordheim CD ALBUM (Gooom)
The Pale Fountains “Benoit's Christmas” from ghosts of christmas past
George “The New and Better Heart” from A Week of Kindness (Pickled Egg 2005)
Vitesse “The Saddest Day” from A Certain Hostility (Parasol 1999)
The Names “Tokyo Twilight” from Ghosts of Christmas Past
Burial “Etched Headplate” from Untrue CD ALBUM (Hyperdub 2007)
Ken Ishii “Loop” from Garden on the Palm CD ALBUM (Sony)
Supermayer “Two of Us / Geigermix” from Total 8 (Kompakt)
Prothese “Tumeurs” from B9 BIS (Belgian Cold Wave 1979-1983) (LTM)
Acetate Zero “A picture you can't flash” from VA: bucolique vol 01 (Arbouse)
Wally Van Middendorp “raving lunatic #2” & Paul Haig “Chance” from some of the interesting things you'll see on a long distance flight (LTM)
Screen Prints “Blew Through - Valentine From Vilnius” from Perfect City (20 Songs 1998-2000) (Earworm)
Antena “Noelle a Hawai” from Antena EP (Les Disques Du Crepuscule 1982)
Robert Wyatt “Stay Tuned” from Comicopera (Domino)
The Durutti Column “One Christmas for your thoughts” from Ghosts of Christmas Past
Anna Domino “Zanna” from anna domino CD ALBUM (LTM)
Mark Van Hoen “Dark Roads” from the warmth inside you (Very Friendly 2004)
Yann Tiersen “La terrasse” from tout est calme
Michael Nyman “cream or christians” from ghosts of christmas past CD COMP
John Cale “Paris 1919 (live)” from Fragments of A Rainy Season (Hannibal 1992)
George “This will not stop” from A Week of Kindness (Pickled Egg 2005)
Desormais “broken images and packets of light” from Iambrokenandremadeiambroken... CD ALBUM (intr_version)
Cabaret Voltaire “Invocation” from Ghosts of Christmas Past
Isolation Ward “Lamina Christus” from B9 BIS (Belgian Cold Wave 1979-1983)
Tuxedomoon “Weinachts Rap” from ghosts of christmas past CD COMP
Gnac “Vertical Features” from The Arrival of the Fog (LTM)
Robert Wyatt “Just As You Are” from Comicopera (Domino)
Wim Mertens “Let Him Go” from Shot and Echo CD ALBUM
Jay-jay Johanson “Fire” from Poison CD ALBUM (Labels)
Nine Horses “birds sing for their lives” from Money For All (samadhisound)
The Sound “Winter” from shock of daylight (Statik 1984)
Young Marble Giants “Brand - New - Life” from John Peel Session 1980 (Domino)
Young Marble Giants “Final Day” from John Peel Session 1980 (Domino)
Christina Kubisch “Atocha” from Five Electrical Walks CD ALBUM (Important)

my last show of 2007

I'll be on the air tonight from 19:00 to 22:00 EST (7 - 10pm).

My next radio show after that is on Friday, January 4, 2008.

Stay Tuned.

on the air - right now - wzbc

you can listen online until 10pm EST.

enjoy.

The Fly tonight in London - charity DJ benefit night with sets from Electrelane, Alex Paterson (The Orb) and others

Friday 14th December in aid of The Anti-Trafficking Alliance which is a London-based charity that campaigns against sex trafficking and funds projects to support survivors. We'll be DJing at the night. It's at The Fly on New Oxford Street, London. Here's the line-up - Live:Charlotte Hatherley, Adrian Sherwood, Dot Allison, It Hugs Back, Freddie Stevenson. DJs: Alex Paterson (The Orb), Electrelane, Anjali, Sinqueso Sisters, The Broken Hearts. It's from 8pm - 2am and costs £7 on the door. All money raised goes to The Anti-Trafficking Alliance. Have a look at this website for more info on the charity. http://www.atalliance.org.uk

Last Week's Playlist - wzbc

"off the cuff" (NCP) with George

Fri Dec 7th 2007 7.00pm–10.00pm

Like everything else, times are approximate.

Bachi Da Pietra “non io” from Non Io CD ALBUM
Mark Van Hoen “Dark Roads” from the warmth inside you (Very Friendly 2004)
Sleeparchive “Pulkovo” from Sleeparchive | Antti Rannisto CD SPLIT
Wally Van Middendorp “raving lunatic #1” from some of the interesting things you'll see on a long distance flight (Les Disques Du Crepuscule)
Paul Haig “Scottish Christmas” from Ghosts of Christmas Past
Robert Wyatt “Stay Tuned” from Comicopera
The Durutti Column “One Christmas for your thoughts” from Ghosts of Christmas Past
Fennesz Sakamoto “amorph” from Cendre CD ALBUM (touch)
Tuxedomoon “Weinachts Rap” from ghosts of christmas past CD COMP
Janek Schaefer “Between the two” from In the Last Hour CD ALBUM
Brian Eno “The Big Ship” from Another Green World CD ALBUM
Antena “Noelle a Hawai” from Antena EP (Les Disques Du Crepuscule 1982)
Gnac “The Arrival of the Fog” (LTM)
Blaine L. Reninger “Side Wind” from Instrumentals (LTM)
Robert Wyatt “A Beautiful Peace” from Comicopera
Michael Nyman “cream or christians” from ghosts of christmas past CD COMP
Harmonia “notre dame” from Deluxe CD ALBUM (Lilith 2006)
Robert Wyatt “Be Serious” from Comicopera
The Names “Tokyo Twilight” from Ghosts of Christmas Past
Christina Kubisch “Night Shift” from Five Electrical Walks CD ALBUM (Important)
Cabaret Voltaire “Invocation” from Ghosts of Christmas Past
The Sound “Winter” from shock of daylight (Statik 1984)
Penguin Cafe Orchestra “The sound of someone you love who's going away and it doesn't matter” from music from the penguin cafe CD ALBUM (EG Records 1976)
July Skies “Countryside of 1938” from where the days go (make mine music)
The Durutti Column “Snowflakes” from Ghosts of Christmas Past
The Montgolfier Brothers “Journey's End” from All My Bad Thoughts (Vespertine & Son)
The Lost Jockey “Matters of Theory” from the fruit of the original sin (LTM)
Emak Bakia “How much time means (forever) ?” from Jane CD ALBUM
Mark Van Hoen “the warmth inside you” (Very Friendly 2004)
Brian Eno “Bone Bomb” from Another Day On Earth CD ALBUM
Young Marble Giants “Final Day” from John Peel Session 1980
Arbol “Aroma - Agios” from arbol (indus sonica 2001)
Karlheinz Stockhausen “Stimmung” CD ALBUM (Harmonia Mundi & Hyperion 2007)

a more light past

Sitting in my room now, warming up the place a bit. I have to sift through a number of essays and articles soon. I took some time off from my usual consumption to read a few novels. Now I'm getting back on track. I'm apologize if that last post seemed a bit incoherent, it was something I had to write at the time. A strong bout of anxiety and general loneliness came over me I suppose. Sometimes its the best thing in the world to be alone. On other occasions, it is healthy to have some welcome company. Perhaps that's all I needed. It doesn't matter now. This week has been going by at a steady pace. The rain and the ice have worked together to make the sidewalks impenetrable. How unfortunate, I tread carefully always forgetting to factor in extra time for the longer commute. One morning I'll remember I suppose. I've been completing further studies in the history of European cinema. The junctures between film and politics. I still have quite a ways to go but am confident I'll get there soon.

Stay tuned.

Nightwalks

I have to go out to clear my head to prove to myself that there is life beyond these four walls. I've had such a lovely day today. Then I got home and then circumstances beyond my control brought me down. I read a little, then one of my roommates came home. After a brief discussion, we decided it was time to watch the final episode of Blake's 7. It was better than I expected. I am still in shock. It will take a while to recover from that one. A nice emotional shock sometimes proves cathartic in its own way. Blake's 7 is truly one of the great Sci-fi series. Now its over and I need to escape for a while. Possibly walk around in the cold and observe. Possibly walk around in the cold and listen to the recent Robert Wyatt album "Comicopera". I need to feel what its like, to observe the horizon line once again with the sky above my head. I don't need to meet other people.

I just need to experience space once again.
Tomorrow let the cycle begin again anew.

Karlheinz Stockhausen - composer, born August 22, 1928; died December 5, 2007

Good obituary in the Guardian UK and another from the CBC
and in Le Monde (with YouTube clips).

UPDATE: an Introduction and remembrance of Karlheninz Stockhausen, as published in the Guardian UK.

A Zed and Two Naughts - this Saturday at the MFA in Boston

More information on Peter Greenaway's film.




Once again:

A Zed and Two Naughts dir. Peter Greenaway
playing at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts - Saturday, December 8, 2007 at 3:40pm

WZBC - Playlist - Nov. 23 2007 - "Off the Cuff"

Fri Nov 23rd 2007 7.00pm–10.00pm
Like everything else, times are approximate. Spinitron and this station are not liable for errors or omissions.

Christina Kubisch “Homage With Minimal Disinformation” from Five Electrical Walks CD
Opto “5.10 a.m.” from 2nd CD ALBUM (hobby industries www.hobbyind.com 2004)
Gas “Nach 1912” from Pop Ambient 2007 (Kompakt www.kompakt-net.de 2006)
Barbara Morgenstern “eine verabredung” from Raumschiff Monika
Bertuf “Ecotone” from Bucolique Vol. 1 CD COMP (Arbouse Recordings)
Robert Wyatt “A.W.O.L.” from Comicopera (Domino 2007)
The Durutti Column “the eye and the hand” from The fruit of the original sin
Dream Makers “Helen's Song” from From Brussels with Love CD COMP
Tuxedomoon “ninotchka” SINGLE (Les Disques Du Crepuscule 1982)
L'ensemble Raye “Un Square au Printemps” from Comme un pinson dans l'eau LP
Hans Appelqvist “wanxian - tank att himlens alla stjarmor” from Sifantin och morkret
Wim Mertens “Let him go” from Shot and Echo CD ALBUM (Les Disques Du Crepuscule 1992)
Robert Wyatt “A Beautiful Peace” from Comicopera (Domino www.dominorecordco.com 2007)
Gnac “Examples of Bad Driving” from The Arrival of the Fog
Les Hurleurs “Chrysantheme” from ciel d'encre
Young Marble Giants “Brand - New - Life” from John Peel Session 1980
Young Marble Giants “Final Day” from John Peel Session 1980
Locust “Folie” from Morning Light CD ALBUM (R&S Records 1997)
The Durutti Column “party” from The fruit of the original sin
Mark Tranmer “scoop of ice cream moon”
Robert Wyatt “On the Town Square” from Comicopera
The Montgolfier Brothers “All My Bad Thoughts”
Wim Mertens “Wandering Eyes” from Shot and Echo CD ALBUM
Steven Brown “Sous quelle etoile suis-je ne?” from a tribute to polnareff CD COMP
Fabio Viscoglisiosi “rumbubble” from fenomeno (Microbe www.microberecords.com 2007)
Lilacs “Young and Supernatural” from Crooning on Venus COMP
Nine Horses “birds sing for their lives” from Money For All
The Lost Jockey “Matters of Theory” from the fruit of the original sin
Jay-jay Johanson “Mana Mana Mana Mana” from Whiskey CD ALBUM (BMG Sweden 1996)
Chessie “the firefly” from Night Owls CD COMP (Deluxe www.deluxerecs.com 2001)
Mark Van Hoen “when tomorrow comes” from playing with time CD ALBUM (Apollo 1998)
The Hafler Trio “alternation, perception & res” from A Bag of Cats CD ALBUM
Christina Kubisch “Security” from Five Electrical Walks CD ALBUM

O a beautiful song

I had a dream a friend was singing
It was a beautiful song
her voice was pure and cute