In Rotation: Winter Doldrums 2019

Sofia Gubaidulina - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Silenzio
Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
Nels Cline/Gregg Bendian - Interstellar Space Revisited
Various - Ecstatic Music of the Jemaa el Fna
Arto Lindsay - Mundo Civilizado
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Wagner - Götterdämmerung (von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic/Deutsche Oper Berlin; Haitink, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Bayerischen Rundfunks chorus)
Schoenberg/Berg/Webern - Gurre-lieder, Lieder (Kubelik/Fischer-Dieskau)
Wagner - Tristan und Isolde (Furtwängler)
The Ex - History 1980-2004
Suicide - s/t
Don Cherry - Brown Rice
The Flesh Eaters - I Used to be Pretty
Anthony Braxton - (Actuel 15)
Sonny Sharrock - Monkey Pockey Boo
Stockhausen - Gesang der Jünglinge, Kontakte
Xenakis - Orchestral Works & Chamber Music

Wacky winter, Louisville style: a dump of snow that lasts barely a day, temperature ranges from single digits to 70+, often within the same week, and the February showers that bring March . . . floods.

I acknowledge the drastic slowdown on this blog, but it is not necessarily a bad thing. Bands and solo projects in full swing, new recorder means new recordings and mixdown times, still working on a poetry collection started last summer . . . lots & lots of projects, little time. There are several projects in this particular pipeline as well, including the ongoing Profligate Vinyl series, and yet another attempt to "get into" Bob Dylan. This blog too will find its turn. Until then . . .

In Rotation, Late Summer 2018

Not that anybody asked.

Iannis Xenakis (Edition RZ)
Various - Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music (1948-1980)
Scarcity of Tanks - No Endowments; Vulgar Defender
J Dilla - Donuts
The Roots - Rising Down
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
John Coltrane - Both Directions at Once
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontakte
Alfred Schnittke - Faust Cantatas
John Zorn - Aporias (Requia for Piano and Orchestra)
Mott the Hoople - Mad Shadows; Brain Capers
Lester Bowie - The Great Pretender
Wombo - Staring at Trees
The Body - I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer
Bela Bartok - Complete String Quartets (Takács Quartet)
Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights
Andrew Hill - Point of Departure
Beethoven - Late String Quartets (Alban Berg Quartet)
Leif Ove Andsnes - Sibelius

In Rotation: Spring is Coming!

I suffer from what the kids are calling Seasonal Affective Disorder. Or maybe I just hate the holiday season that much. Yeah, actually it's not SAD at all, it's just a hatred of the season of hysterical commerce. By February, hoops are peaking at all levels, commerce is coming under control, and my anniversary rolls around at the end of the month. By March, spring's promise is within reach, even if we get slapped once or twice with snow just to keep us grounded. As I sit now, Texas Tech has eliminated North Carolina, and all is getting better with the world.

Wombo: Staring at Trees
Dirtbag: Voided
Earth: Earth 2
Iannis Xenakis: Iannis Xenakis (Editions RZ)
Robert Ashley: Automatic Writing
Shostakovich: The Complete String Quartets (Emerson String Quartet)
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 (Stokowski/Houston Symphony)
Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (Sanderling/St. Petersburg Philharmonic)
John Coltrane: Meditations
Todd Rundgren: A Wizard, A True Star
Obnox: Boogalou Reed
Webern, Haubenstock-Ramati, Urbanner: String Quartets (Alban Berg Quartet)
Debussy, Ravel: String Quartets (Quartetto Italiano)
Debussy, Ravel: String Quartets (Kodaly Quartet)
Stockhausen: Telemusic, Mixtur
Protomartyr: Relatives in Descent
Pallbearer: Sorrow and Extinction
Dream Syndicate: Days of Wine and Roses
Maria McKee: You've Got to Sin to Be Saved
Paul Sturm: Collateral Effect

In Rotation: State Fair Days

Cecil Taylor - Erzulie Maketh Scent
Tony Williams Lifetime - Emergency
Frank Zappa - Meat Light: The Uncle Meat Project/Object
Scott Walker/Sunn O))) - Soused
Sean Price - Imperius Rex
Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
David Nance - Negative Boogie
John Coltrane - Bye Bye Blackbird
Boris - Akuma no Uta
Wolf Eyes - No Hate
Sun Ra - The Soul Vibrations of Man
Feral Ohms - s/t
Shostakovich - Symphony 8 in C Minor, Op. 65 (Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrey Boryko)
Glenn Gould - The Acoustic Orchestrations - Works by Scriabin and Sibelius
Junior Kimbrough - Meet Me in the City

In Rotation: On the Shore

Bo Diddley - Black Gladiator
Duke Ellington - Far East Suite
Alex Chilton - Set
Prince - 1999
Marianne Faithful - Broken English
Mekons - Curse of the Mekons/Fun 90
Giant Sand - Chore of Enchantment
Paul Sturm - Angels, Threads
Hank Williams - Maximum Hank mixtape
Ennio Morricone - Moses the Lawgiver OST
Country Teasers - The Empire Strikes Back
Adeptive Radiation - 4 CDs with indecipherable titles
Alice Coltrane - Transfiguration, Journey in Satchidananda
John Coltrane - Olé Coltrane
T Rex - Electric Warrior
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street

In Rotation: The Dog Days

Mahler (Bernstein/LSO) - Symphonies 7 & 8
Lather Sommer Duo - Cultivate Consciousness
Harpy - Fuckbird
Jimi Hendrix - Live in the West
Mike Cooper - New Guitar Old Hat Knew Blues
Public Enemy - Nothing is Quick in the Desert
Tredici Bacci/ENPSE - Vai! Vai! Vai!/Concetti
Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect
The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
Pharoah Sanders - Izipho Zam
The Who - Live at Leeds
Debussy (Märkl/Orchestre National de Lyon) - Pelleas et Melisande-symphonie, Nocturnes
Equipment Pointed Ankh - Re-Open Holes
The Fall - Spotify playlist