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Saturday, February 4th, 2023
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7:47 pm
Episode 138

illusion of safety - finite material context cover
My dog Winona died yesterday. This episode has nothing to do with that aside from the fact that I needed to do something to keep my mind off things.
 
00:00:00 Christopher Marlowe, with Frank Silvera as Dr. Faustus – Dr. Faustus (Part 1) (from The Tragical History Of Dr. Faustus)
00:00:17 Illusion Of Safety (Chris Block, Janie Bouzek & Kitty Bouzek) – Untitled [Side A] (from Finite Material Context)
00:23:07 Jed Speare – Mettle Of Metal (from Cable Car Soundscapes)
00:25:45 Jonathan Coleclough – Summand (from Period)
00:46:41 Tom Lawrence – Grand Canal Springs (from Water Beetles Of Pollardstown Fen)
00:46:55 Jamra – Armaggedon/Invocation (from The Second Coming)
00:51:10 Pelt – Untitled [Track 1] (from Untitled [2005])
01:01:43 TenHornedBeast – Christus Nox (from The Sacred Truth)
01:12:04 Natural Snow Buildings – Shall I Kill My Own Child, I Will Never Sing The Glory Of Satan (from Two Sides Of A Horse)
01:15:46 Hiroshi Yoshimura [吉村弘] – Time Forest (from Soundscape 1: Surround)
01:26:14 Harold Budd – Dark Star (from Abandoned Cities)

Wednesday, December 21st, 2022
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4:47 pm
Top Metal Records of 2022

It’s been about 6 months since I’ve touched Anti-Gravity Bunny or A Thick Mist. Life is different now. I still care about this stuff, I just have other priorities. I have no idea what the future of AGB/ATM looks like right now but I haven’t given it up yet.

I’m doing things differently this year. Probably most notably, no Top Drone list for the first time in 13 years. Not much drone in my life this year. Tons of metal, although that’s always the case. I know I’ve been “the drone guy” for a while but I’m trying to embrace change and not let the guilt from my self-imposed obligations get the better of me. Instead, I’m doing one Top Metal list with some extras.

First up are the 10 incredible records by artists that have gotten plent of attention from me before. As usual, I try to share the love. Also, a lot of them are pretty well known by now.

Then there’s 20 honorable mentions plus 2 noteworthy compilations. The honorable mentions aren’t a bunch of mediocre records that I just wanted to show off how much I listened to, these are all amazing. I included them for those of you looking to dig deeper. I didn’t write anything about them but they’re all linked to Bandcamp streams. I’m more than happy to talk about them if you are looking for more specific recommendations.

Then there’s the Top 10, and like the 2 previous lists before it, it’s unranked, for no reason other than I didn’t want to rank them this year.

As always: Thanks for reading. Thanks for listening. Thanks for making incredible music. And especially this time, thanks for sticking around.

Previously seen on AGB
Astronoid – Radiant Bloom
The Body & OAA – Enemy Of Love
Cavernlight – As I Cast Ruin Upon The Lens That Reveals My Every Flaw
Dead Neanderthals – Metal
Liturgy – As The Blood Of God Bursts The Veins Of Time
Mamaleek – Diner Coffee
Mizmor – Wit’s End and Mizmor & Thou – Myopia
Olhava – Reborn
RLYR – RLYR
Vile Creature & Bismuth – A Hymn Of Loss And Hope
 

Honorable Mentions
Agriculture – The Circle Chant
Bad Manor – The Haunting
Black Metal Rainbows
Cabinet – Claustrophobic Dysentery and Pt. III Get In… (Enter The Cabinet)
Deathbell – A Nocturnal Crossing
Desiccation – Cold Dead Earth
E-L-R – Vexier
Gudsforladt – Friendship, Love, And War
Messa – Close
Müür – Grief Ascension
Oldest Sea – Strange And Eternal
Orphaned – Hate Has Consequences
Ostots – Madarikazioa
Pušča (пуща)- Éphémère
Send The Pain Below
Sigh – Shiki
Spider God – Black Renditions
Terra – Für Dich Existiert Das Alles Nicht
Trhä – Vat Gëlénva!!!
Weeping Coffin – F.B.I.

 

Top 10

Black Math HorsemanBlack Math Horseman (Profound Lore)
First album in 13 years and I am fuckin psyched to have them back. Absolutely vicious psych doom with Sera Timms of Ides Of Gemini on vocals here too. It’s only 25 minutes but it’s some of the best 25 minutes this year has to offer.

 


ForlesenBlack Terrain (I, Voidhanger)
3 current Lotus Thief and ex-Botanist members and 1 ex-Maudlin Of The Well member making some huge blackened doom with large swaths of dark ambient.

 


It Is DeadHell Is Now (Auris Apothecary)
Furious black sludge debut that hits hard in the first 10 seconds and never lets up. The members are politically active too, by which I mean they’ve shown up in news photos punching Nazis.

 


MarEverything Is Alive (self released)
Killer experimental doom duo out of Rhode Island that leans heavy on the atmosphere. A bit like Divide & Dissolve with some Ragana tossed in.

 


Ode And ElegyOde And Elegy (self released)
A majestic hour-long opus with all flavors of metal and weirdness. Conceived by Kent Fairman Wilson and Harold Taddy, this single track of doom folk classical magic features tons of additional contributions like a choir, a harp, strings, woodwinds, brass instruments, and everything else.

 


The OtolithFolium Limina (Blues Funeral)
I can’t tell you how much I miss SubRosa. More Constant Than The Gods is one of my most replayed records. The Otolith is made up of 4 of SubRosa’s numerous members, including violinists/vocalists Sarah Pendleton and Kim Pack, so naturally I’m all over this. SubRosa’s main singer Rebecca Vernon isn’t present here which is a huge bummer, but The Otolith still fills that SubRosa-shaped hole in my heart. Oh and in case you didn’t notice the subtext, The Otolith sounds a lot like SubRosa (but they’ve got their own vibe going on).

 


PyritheMonuments To Impermanence (Gilead Media)
This is without a doubt the record I’ve listened to more than anything else this year. They’re kind of like a prog-sludge version of RLYR in that they’re all over the place genre-wise and every moment is a fucking triumph.

 


ScarcityAveilut (Flenser)
The weirder the better is true almost 100% of the time with music and this is the epitome of weird metal. If I say black metal plus drone, you might envision some winterscape stuff like Paysage d’Hiver. But Scarcity make black metal drone unlike anything else you’ve heard. This sounds like it’s informed more by Charlemagne Palestine than Darkthrone, kinda like if Important Records put out a black metal album. If I had to pick a favorite this year, it’d probably be this one.

 


UlthaAll That Has Never Been True (Vendetta)
No idea why I thought Ultha was a new band. Although I’m not gonna lie, there are dozens of metal bands with short names that start with the letter U and I can’t keep em straight (see below), so that’s my excuse for not knowing about Ultha until now. This is just some straight atmospheric black metal that hits all the right spots. Not the most special but absolutely the best.

 


UnruDie Wiederkehr Des Verdrängten (Babylon Doom Cult)
Not to be confused with Unruh or Unruhe or Unsu or Untru, Unru make some premium doomed black metal with keyboards and organs which means I am automatically in. Don’t be fooled by the 8-minute opening track of Sunn O))) worship with ethereal vocals, the remaining 45 minutes are a relentless onslaught of serious destruction and the clean vocals just fucking kill me.

Tuesday, June 28th, 2022
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5:44 pm
Episode 137 – Feminist


 
When I feel helpless in the face of insurmountable problems (like when non-elected appointed-for-life bigots force their opinions on over 300 million people), I usually turn to music. This episode is about women being powerful, women being assaulted, women being outspoken, and women being silenced. There’s Matriarkathum raging about mutilating dicks, there’s Dolly lamenting the glass ceiling, there’s Rainbow Star calling out fake feminist predators, there’s Bea Miller celebrating her bodily autonomy, there’s Ashnikko boosting about her financial independence, and there’s Perfect Pussy’s scathing sarcasm about rape culture.
 

00:00:00 Klaus Nomi – You Don’t Own Me (from Klaus Nomi)
“You don’t own me.”

00:03:40 Feminazgul – Forgiver, I Am Not Yours (from No Dawn For Men)
“I was not made to be gracious and I will carry this hatred to my grave.”

00:08:35 Dolly Parton – 9 To 5 (from 9 To 5 And Odd Jobs)
“They let you dream just to watch em shatter.”

00:11:16 Perfect Pussy – IV (from I Have Lost All Desire For Feeling)
“God knows you’d burn a witch to warm your hands.”

00:14:39 Björk – Mouth Mantra (from Vulnicura)
“My throat was stunned. My mouth was sewn up.”

00:20:45 Sarparast – The Red Council (from The Red Council)
“A woman’s place is in the revolution. Your place is by her side.”

00:29:45 Peggy Seeger – Reclaim The Night (from Different Therefore Equal)
“The choice is hers and hers alone.”

00:34:14 Princess Nokia – Crazy House (from Everything Sucks)
“Got his dick up in a coffin. I’m the young Lorena Bobbitt. If I want it, I’ma cop it. If I hate it, I’ma chop it.”

00:37:14 G.L.O.S.S. – Give Violence A Chance (from Trans Day Of Revenge)
“Afforded rights when convenient to protect the elite.”

00:39:09 Loretta Lynn – The Pill (from Back To The Country)
“Every year that’s gone by, another baby’s come. There’s gonna be some changes made right here on Nursery Hill.”

00:41:45 Big Freedia – Not Today (from BDE)
“You ain’t winning so you blame me?”

00:44:20 Matriarkathum – Mutilation Of The Fifth Limb (from Curse You All Men!)
“Dismembering the ones who held us back, since the dawn of time.”

00:48:35 Laura Duncan – I’ve Got A Right (from Songs For Political Action)
“Boss tells me I’ve got to stay down where I belong… but I say boss man will tumble one of these days.”

00:51:18 Janelle Monáe – Americans (from Dirty Computer)
“Sometimes I wonder if you were blind would it help you make a better decision?”

00:55:22 Couch Slut – Rape Kit (from My Life As A Woman)

01:01:02 Bea Miller – S.L.U.T. (from Aurora)
“If you don’t like what I’m wearing well you’re only bothered ’cause you’re staring.”

01:04:00 Madam Data – And At The End Of Space And Time, We Flayed The Body Of The Ancient Enemy And Made His Body Into Food For Stars And The Birth Of New Constellations (from The Gospel Of The Devourer)

01:07:32 Sara Ogan Gunning – I’m Going To Organize, Baby Mine (from Songs For Political Action)

01:08:51 Ashnikko – Working Bitch (from Hi, It’s Me)
“Now he look stressed ’cause he know that I don’t need him. Mouth open, baby bird, I’m not gonna feed him. Yeah, I’m big, I’m boss.”

01:11:49 Kittie – Paperdoll (from Spit)
“Watch the blood run down her face but don’t take notice.”

01:15:10 Diet Cig – Link In Bio(from Swear I’m Good At This)
“I know what I want so please fuck off.”

01:17:18 Sudan Archives – Nont For Sale (from Sink)
“This is my time, don’t waste it up. This is my land, not for sale.”

01:20:58 Chastity Belt – Cool Slut (from Time To Go Home)
“We’re just a couple of sluts. So what? We like to fuck.”

01:23:46 Champion Road – Feral Men (from Melter Demon)
“Feral men. There’s feral men here. You’re all with them.”

01:26:51 Junglepussy – Stamina (from JP4)
“I need that dick swinging off a tree.”

01:28:48 Rainbow Star – Patriarchy Song (from Music From The Rainbow Sparkle Palace: Volume II)
“You’re such a feminist, you teach it at the college. And how dare I not trust you when you make sexual advances.”

01:34:06 Remorseful – The Stomach (from Exit)
“Take out the leaders. We need them burnt to a crisp. We see their head on a stick. We’ll sleep when they’re all dead.”

Monday, June 20th, 2022
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5:34 pm
Episode 136 – (Mostly Weird) Metal


 
All of these songs came out this year. Most of this is non-traditional black metal. The rest is other non-traditional metal that can barely even contain that wide genre.

00:00:00 RLYR – Head Womb (from RLYR)
In case I haven’t made it abundantly clear in the past, RLYR is the absolute fucking best. Each of their previous two records have been all time favorites for me. This new self-titled one on Gilead Media is no different. Trevor de Brauw (Pelican, Chord, Tusk, etc), Steven Hess (Locrian, Cleared, Haptic, etc), and Colin DeKuiper (Bloodiest, founding member of Russian Circles, etc) make the most indescribable metal that will undoubtedly put a smile on your face and get your fists pumping in the air. They just fucking rock.

00:08:04 Silver Knife – Ecomimesis (from Ring)
One of the two tracks from the new single/EP. Excellent black metal from Déhà and 3 others, including N from Laster and Nusquama. I don’t usually pay attention to such short releases (this is only like 13 minutes) but Silver Knife’s debut LP two years ago was incredible, so I’m definitely keeping an eye on whatever they do. As should you.

00:14:48 Ultha – Bathed In Lightning, Bathed In Heat (from All That Has Never Been True)
These dudes have been around forever (aka 7 years) but for some reason I never paid much attention to them. I think that might be because up until this record, I thought they were Ulthar, who I’m not crazy about. But holy shit this record is a year end contender for sure. Premium shrieky vocals seething in a brilliant blaze of blasting and shredding.

00:25:57 Astronoid – Decades (from Radiant Bloom)
Goddamn I love Astronoid. Not nearly getting the attention they deserve. Their bright metal is unrivaled, the peak of beauty in heavy music. Their first record is Top 10 material, their second is like Top 20, and only time will tell what tier this new one lands in but I can assure you it will be holding hands with the forever bests.

00:32:56 Häxenzijrkell – Part 1: Die Entschleierung (from Urgrund)
I knew about their debut from 2020 but never listened to it. Chalk it up to the neverending backlog. But I’m definitely going to have to check it out now because this new one is fuckin gnarly. It opens with this 18-minute burner. It’s really fucking good, a creepy long form psyched out black metal that’s kinda like Cultes Des Ghoules as a jam band.

00:51:14 Rye (Рожь) – Amen (Аминь) (from Amen (Аминь))
I found out about this Russian dude from his full length last year and was immediately hooked. Absolutely huge melodic post-doom.

01:05:29 Cavernlight – The Ashes Of Everything I’ve Failed To Be (from As I Cast Ruin Upon The Lens That Reveals My Every Flaw)
Best blackened doom this side of Mizmor. The new record is way more dynamic than the last, like this track starts out vibing with The Cure a bit before it kicks your face in, and the tremolo riff is so fucking evil.

01:09:35 Unru – Hungersteine (from Die Wiederkehr Des Verdrängten)
My music library says I listened to their first demo back in 2013, but clearly it didn’t stick with me and I haven’t followed them since. Except this new one? Holy shit it’s awesome. Black metal with keyboards and organs and includes Lars Ennsen from Sun Worship and Ultha (see above). It’s dramatic and painful.

01:25:22 Kardashev – Cellar Of Ghosts (from Liminal Rite)
Super weird shoegazey metal that’s as far from shoegaze it could get while still maintaining a thread of connection. This leans heavy on the death metal, though, unlike most metalgaze that’s black metal or post metal.

01:31:49 Sunrise Patriot Motion – Drippings Of God (from Black Fellflower Stream)
The Skarstad brothers, Will & Sam, of Yellow Eyes (and in Will’s case, Ustalost and Sanguine Eagle), created Sunrise Patriot Moon to pursue their love of goth rock. So think Yellow Eyes plus goth rock and you’re in the right ballpark. It’s insane and insanely good. Also, their nearly nonsensical three-word names thing is officially weird. The last two Yellow Eyes records were Rare Field Cieling and Immersion Trench Reverie, which I was willing to let go without mentioning, but now Sunrise Patriot Motion and Black Fellflower Stream? I don’t have any quips or insights, just confusion.

01:36:01 Homeskin – Fixated On An Image (from Fixated On An Image)
The main Cara Neir dude, Garry Brents, has a dizzying amount of side projects, one of the most current being Homeskin (and also Gonemage, seek it out), which is just as nuts as the last two Cara Neir records. Homeskin is experimental black metal in the truest sense. Also, he did a split with Frogoroth, the black metal project with frog vocals, and called it Frogskin so obviously I love him very much.

01:49:39 Olatom Amespïrïa – 2 (from Demo 1)
Debut release from someone involved with the new-to-me Cërcle Mortüaire collective. Blistering black metal with tons of reverb and sick riffs and howling shrieks and everything else I love about black metal. I definitely need to check out the other Cërcle Mortüaire bands now.

01:57:03 Zos – On The Announcer Of Great Events (from The Whole Of The Body I Call Zos)
You can always count on I, Voidhanger to put out the weird shit. I didn’t know about Zos until this new one, experimental doom that’s kinda proggy but definitely all over the place. This track is a pretty decent representation of the rest of the album. Highly recommended.

02:08:48 Gravenchalice – Via Peccatum (from Via Dolorosa)
Good black metal from a band you might not have heard of.

02:17:09 Nocturnal Depression – When My Time Has Come To Die (from When My Time Has Come)
More good black metal from a band you almost certainly have heard of.

02:26:24 Olhava – Mirror (from Reborn)
I really love Olhava. Their 2019 debut of intense atmospheric black metal instantly hooked me and even though they’ve been pretty prolific since then (5 LPs in 4 years), I’ve kept up. Reborn might be my favorite and it’s their longest yet. 4 side-long pieces, one of which is 100% drone but I assure you it’s not a throwaway track (their second full length was entirely ambient, they know what they’re doing). “Mirror” is the opener and it’s fucking glorious. More year end list material.

Monday, May 23rd, 2022
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4:26 pm
Episode 135 – Holy Music In America


 
I started out making a holy music episode. But when I was gathering records, I ended up having over 150 jams that I needed to play. Somewhere about an hour into pulling, I realized that this would end up being at least a two part episode, maybe even a series, so I just kept looking, trying to uncover every bit holy music music I could find in my library (this is where my extensive genre tagging comes in handy). Also, I’m pretty happy to say I didn’t rely too heavily on Folkways for this episode (probably will in later ones, though). There are only 2 songs from Folkways records here and I’ve got about 30 in the whole holy list.

For no particular reason, I decided to start with a 160-minute episode for American-made music. From what I can tell, all of the artists here would probably call themselves “American” (whatever that means). There were a few things I wanted to include, like Cantor Abraham Brun, a Polish Holocaust survivor who immigrated to American after he’d lived about half his life overseas, but I figured that’s maybe stretching “American” a bit and regardless is probably better left for another holy episode. That being said, I didn’t dig too deep into people’s origins. I mean yeah, maybe some of the unidentified people in the Angola Quartet from Camp A aren’t “from here” but whatever.

I tried to keep a broad enough definition of “holy” to include a variety of music beyond just the obvious gospel and hymns. This is A Thick Mist so I made sure to inject some black metal, hip hop, and drone. And it’s certainly not all Christian, plenty of it is just spiritual, like Vanum who sings “In return for tribute, a duty pledged. A mortal offering to divine ends.” Or evenly abstractly religious like the piece I played from Xela’s holy trilogy (The Illuminated, The Divine, and The Sublime) which is just a wall of sound, no lyrics. But of course there is stuff like the inimitable Reverend Gary Davis, the Handless Organist, Alberta Baker, (unironically?) singing “His Hand In Mine,” and the powerful acoustic soul of Pastor Champion. This goes all the way from 1929 (one of only two Frank Palmes songs ever recorded) up to April 2022 with Dälek’s newest dark beats and bleak verses. Something for everyone.
 

00:00:00 Reverend Gary Davis – I Want To Be Saved (from At Home And Church: 1962-1967)
Davis is one of my all time favorites (along with another dude at the end of this episode). I love banjos, I love his voice. He has a ton of compilations/anthologies; this is one released by Stefan Grossman’s Guitar Workshop is fantastic but really they all are and you can’t go wrong with anything he’s done (fyi there’s also some recordings under the name Blind Gary Davis, which is the same guy).

00:02:47 Old Harp Singers Of Eastern Tennessee – Morning Trumpet (No. 99) (from Old Harp Singing)
If there’s one genre of music outside of drone and metal that I would take with me to the grave, it would be sacred harp singing. There’s nothing else like it.

00:04:44 The Lord – Church Of Herrmann (from Forest Nocturne)
Debut LP under a new pseudonym of Sunn O)))’s Greg Anderson. It’s very Sunny but it’s got it’s own vibe. Also don’t miss the single track he released with Robin Wattie (singer/guitarist in Big Brave) last year it’s amazing.

00:09:55 L. Ron Hubbard And Friends – Why Worship Death? (from The Road To Freedom)
Bet you weren’t expecting some John Carpenter-esque New Age prog creep to show up on this list, let alone from Mr. Scientology himself, and with broadway singer Julia Migenes on vocals and Chick Corea playing keyboards & drums.

00:16:11 Jackie McDowell – Wash Me In Holy Fire (from Baptisia)
McDowell (previously Inez Lightfoot) continues to be painfully underrated. This is from her debut release under her given name which remains an all-timer for me.

00:18:22 Evangelist Lillie Heath – Wasted Years (from Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down)
Apparently Heath recorded a bunch in the 60s but this is the only one that seems to have hung around. Halfway decent country gospel.

00:20:11 Our Generation – I Can See Forever (from Dawning Of The Day)
Obscure Christian rock from the 70s. There’s like 8 or 9 people making music that sounds like it could have been made by 3 or 4.

00:24:33 Daniel (A.I.U.) Higgs – Are You Of The Body? (from Ancestral Songs)
One of the Lungfish mystic’s earliest solo releases, this is premium minimal psych buzz kinda like Mind Over Mirrors plus Alan Licht. Instrumental too, which is a bit rare from Higgs from what I’ve heard.

00:35:59 David Koresh – Three Angels Message (from Voice Of Fire – The Complete David Koresh)
The Final Prophet of the Branch Davidians and Waco Massacre catalyst/victim was a bad human but also a pretty awesome musician. I don’t know too much about the expanded version of this release beyond what’s on DIE Or DIY? so if you’ve got any info, let me know.

00:38:58 Angola Quartet From Camp A – See How They Done My Lord (from Angola Prison: Spirituals)
Incarcerated Black men singing sad, recorded in the 50s by Harry Oster.

00:41:49 The Handless Organist – His Hand In Mine (from Truly A Miracle Of God)
From what I can gather, Alberta Baker was born with meromelia but that didn’t stop her from playing music for Jesus. I just can’t get over the inclusion of this song, though. Intentional or not, Baker is a fucking comedic genius.

00:44:05 Dälek – Devotion (When I Cry The Wind Disappears) (from Precipice)
I can’t get enough Dälek, definitely my favorite hip hop. I don’t know of anyone else making industrial dark ambient rap. This new record just dropped in April on Ipecac and I highly recommend it. I mean I highly recommend any Dälek record too but starting at Precipice works just fine as an intro if you’re unfamiliar.

00:49:31 Rev. Jim Jones’ People’s Temple Choir – Black Baby (from He’s Able)
Another wildly successful megalomaniac, another choir full of victims.

00:52:46 Ernest Van “Pop” Stoneman – The Great Reaping Day (from Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies: A Treasury Of Caucasian-American Gospel)
There’s something a little weird about both the phrase Caucasian-American as well as making a record specifically for white gospel. It feels a bit like when people complain about how there’s no Straight Pride Parades. It’d be one thing if this was music by immigrants from the Caucasus region, but nah, it’s just white folks. Anyway, this country gospel jam from Pop Stoneman is great.

00:54:50 Robert Takahashi Crouch – Ritual (Christina Giannone Remix) (from Ritual Variations)
Crouch’s previous record, Jubilee, is fuckin awesome. It opened with a 20-minute track “Ritual” which itself was culled from a 2-hour long improv session. He gave that unreleased jam to friends and had them remix it. Giannone’s is one of my favorites, but there’s also Faith Coloccia, France Jobin, Lawrence English, Byron Westbrook, and more.

00:55:52 Aunt Molly Jackson – Holiness Church Monologue (from Library Of Congress Recordings)
I thought Giannone’s remix of “Ritual” would sound cool with Aunt Molly.

01:04:19 Vanum – Beneath The Pillars Of Earth And Air (from Legend)
Vanum is one of those bands that’s great at what they do but nothing ever really sticks with me. There’s something about this new song, though. It’s fuckin epic and I love it. Will definitely be playing this one on the regular.

01:18:43 The Belleville A Capella Choir – On The Battlefield For My Lord (from Honor The Lamb – Southern Journey 12)
Alan Lomax recorded some of the most important music in human history during his Southern Journey sessions. Here’s a deep cut out of Virginia.

01:22:01 The Staples Jr. Singers – I Got A New Home (from When Do We Get Paid)
Thanks to Luaka Bop for this reissue, filled with fun funky gospel.

01:24:41 Njiqahdda – Serpents In The Sky… (from Serpents In The Sky)
An incredibly prolific black metal duo that I eventually lost track of at some point. Their brand of meditative metal is hard to forget though. It was love at first sight with Nji. Njiijn. Njiiijn. which remains a highlight for me in their discography, but their second-to-last full length, Serpents In The Sky is some special shit.

01:36:40 Marjoe Gortner – To This End Was I Born (Age 4) (from Marjoe Gortner (“World’s Youngest Evangelist”))
I have a 6-year-old and therefor have a very recent memory of what a 4-year-old is like. I say with 100% confidence that it is 100% fucked up to have your 4yo be a Christian evangelist. This is incredibly fascinating, though.

01:42:08 Pastor Champion – I Know That You’ve Been Wounded (Church Hurt) (from I Just Want To Be A Good Man)
Thanks to Luaka Bop again, for putting out Champion’s first and only record. He died in December 2021, just a few months shy of this record’s release date. It hurts.

01:45:23 Om – Pilgrimage (from Pilgrimage)
Everyone loves Om, two thirds of Sleep (the other third, Matt Pike, went on to create High On Fire). I’ve always loved Om on paper, minimal meditative doom is absolutely my jam. But something about it just doesn’t work for me. Maybe it’s the whole God thing. Maybe it’s that Cisneros keeps his voice at a whisper and mumble instead of his majestic growl in Sleep (which is honestly maybe the best part about Sleep). Maybe I’ll never figure it out. One thing I do know is that Om is essential for an episode about American holy music.

01:55:51 Moses Mason – John The Baptist (from Alabama: Black Secular & Religious Music (1927-1934))
Little known about this guy. Recorded six songs in the late 1920s. Great music.

01:58:42 Frank Palmes – Troubled ‘Bout My Soul (from American Primitive Vol. I: Raw Pre-War Gospel (1926-1936))
Little known about this guy too. Recorded only two songs in the late 1920s. Great music. This recording is pretty rough sounding, which makes it pretty awesome sounding. Also, I love this compilation and it’s arguably one of the most important players in the 21st century re-fascination of old American tunes.

02:01:36 Xela – Of The Light And Of The Stars (from The Divine)
I fucking love Xela. John Twells made some of the best drone ever and their (unofficial?) trilogy I mentioned above is absolute top tier music. And while I wish they were still recording as Xela and releasing records on Type, I can just be thankful that we have what we have, which is a lot.

02:19:09 Almeda Riddle – The Old Churchyard (from Ballads And Hymns From The Ozarks)
You need more Riddle in your life, I guarantee it.

02:26:39 Liturgy – Lonely OIOION (from Origin Of The Alimonies)
Hunter Hunt Hendrix is easily one of the most important figures in 21st century metal. Her music as Liturgy is brilliant. I just wish I figure out whatever the hell she’s singing about.

02:31:20 Fred McDowell – Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed (from My Home Is In The Delta)
Mississippi Fred McDowell is a goddamn legend. His music is literally perfect.

02:33:45 Indian Bottom Association – Farewell Vain World (from Old Regular Baptists: Lined-Out Hymnody From Southeastern Kentucky)
Closed out the episode with some more monumental sacred harp-esque lining out. Farewell vain world.

Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
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3:04 pm
OOPs, Batch 2: Internet Archive – Folkways & Caedmon

The Internet Archive is one of the greatest organizations of our time. Their purpose “is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.” They are champions of open access and preservation, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks of history. So clearly, they are my fucking heroes.

Part of their massive library includes vinyl rips of an insane variety of records, most of which are no longer available in any form. It’s an incredibly valuable resource. However, I see a pretty big problem and I intend to help. The problem is their download speeds are fucking abysmal. It doesn’t matter how fast your internet connection is; you’re lucky if you average 200 KBps when downloading from IA. Now if you’re anything like me and you want to download from IA in bulk, you’re going to have a bad time. But there’s good news! I had the bad time for you so you don’t have to have a bad time. I downloaded over 20,000 tracks primarily consisting of traditional folk music from around the world and anything “not music.”

Unfortunately for you, I’m not a true masochist. I only downloaded the mp3s, the cover image, and some additional contextual files which usually only totaled less than 100 MB per record. However, there’s also HD TIF scans of the artwork and discs for each release that adds at least another 1 GB to the total size. I couldn’t subject myself to the pain of downloading potentially terabytes of data from IA. Ideally, I would have downloaded all of these scans too (I did for some) but the mp3s were the priority so that’s what I got. Hypothetically, we can just go view the scans on IA if we need to.

Another problem that cropped up was their tagging wasn’t up to my standards, so everything is getting cleaned up with the usual expected stuff like song titles and track numbers but I’m also making sure everything has a date, genre, publisher, and album art, along with stuff like performer, disc title, and catalog number when deemed relevant. So needless to say, this isn’t a project that will be finished anytime soon. I figured I’ve cleaned up enough to share, though, and that’s what this batch is.

This is a selection of records released by Caedmon and Folkways. It’s mostly stuff with artist names from the beginning of the alphabet but my tagging changed some of that (like a bunch of records where Anthony Quayle reads from various authors, but I made the Album Artist name the author, the Performer the reader, and the Artist the author and reader, so depending on how you sort your shit, you might find his readings from The Iliad under “H” for Homer).

So here you go. 60+ records from Folkways and Caedmon (a pillar in the spoken word records field). The bulk of this is non-music but there’s a some early recordings from the Middle East and Africa, and other stuff sprinkled in. It’s one big 11 GB zip file; I didn’t have the time to make separate zips of each record like I did in the last OOPs batch. And since some of these aren’t listed in Discogs, I just linked to their page in IA.

Side note: I’ve always stayed away from sharing Folkways records in my OOPs posts because for the most part, those records are still available through Folkways. Not the vinyl, but they have digital versions of almost their entire back catalog. I’m not sure how or why IA is allowed to share these records. Some of the stuff on IA only has 30 second samples for each track and some have the full audio. Maybe those are just the ones that Folkways knows about and asked them to take down? If you have any insight, definitely let me know. But in the meantime, I figure if IA can share them, I can too.

Download OOPs, Batch 2: Internet Archive – Folkways & Caedmon

Here’s everything in this batch:

Caedmon
Adrien Stoutenburg read by Ed Begley – American Tall Tales, Volume 3: Mike Fink / Stormalong (IA)
Aesop read by Boris Karloff – Aesop’s Fables (IA)
Alexandre Dumas Fils directed by Edward King – Camille (IA)
Alfred Edward Housman read by James Mason – A Shropshire Lad And Other Poetry (IA)
Alfred Lord Tennyson read by Anthony Quayle – Idylls Of The King – Geraint And Enid (IA)
Amabel Williams-Ellis read by Anthony Quayle – Aladdin And His Lamp (A Tale From The Arabian Nights) (IA)
Amabel Williams-Ellis read by Anthony Quayle – Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves (IA)
Amabel Williams-Ellis read by Anthony Quayle – Sinbad The Sailor (IA)
Anonymous [The Wakefield Master] directed by Howard Sackler – The Second Shepherds’ Play (IA)
Anton Chekhov directed by Howard Sackler – Three Sisters (IA)
Anton Chekhov directed by Marshall Jameson – The Cherry Orchard (IA)
Archibald Macleish – Archibald Macleish Reads His Poetry (IA)
Aristophanes directed by Howard Sackler – Lysistrata (IA)
Arthur Conan Doyle read by Basil Rathbone – Stories Of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1 (IA)
Arthur Conan Doyle read by Basil Rathbone – Stories Of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 2: The Redheaded League (IA)
Arthur Conan Doyle read by Basil Rathbone – Stories Of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 3: A Scandal In Bohemia (IA)
Arthur Conan Doyle read by Basil Rathbone – Stories Of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 4: Silver Blaze (IA)
Arthur Miller directed by Ulu Grosbard – A View From The Bridge (IA)
Arthur Miller directed by Ulu Grosbard – Death Of A Salesman (IA)
Benjamin Spock – Dr. Spock Talks With New Mothers (IA)
Boris Karloff – The Three Little Pigs, The Three Bears, Henny Penny, And Other Fairy Tales Read By Boris Karloff (IA)
Bourvil & Pierrette Bruno – Le Roman De Renard (IA)
Dwight D. Eisenhower narrated by Bob Considine – Eisenhower (IA)
Hans Christian Andersen read by Boris Karloff – Reads The Ugly Duckling And Other Tales By Hans Christian Andersen (IA)
Homer read by Anthony Quayle – Homer The Iliad (IA)
Jean-Paul Sartre directed by Howard Sackler – No Exit (IA)
J. R. R. Tolkien – Poems And Songs Of Middle Earth (IA)
Nathaniel Hawthorne read by Anthony Quayle – The Story of Theseus – Nathaniel Hawthorne Tanglewood Tales (IA)
Omar Khayyam & Matthew Arnold read by Alfred Drake – The Rubaiyat And Sohrab And Rustum (IA)
Rudyard Kipling read by Boris Karloff – Just So Stories And Other Tales (IA)
Rudyard Kipling read by Boris Karloff – Toomai Of The Elephants (A Story from The Jungle Books) (IA)
W. W. Jacobs read by Anthony Quayle – The Monkey’s Paw And The Interruption (IA)
 
Folkways
Al Capp interviewed by Howard Langer – Interview With Al Capp (IA)
Alfred Wolfsohn – Vox Humana: Alfred Wolfsohn’s Experiments In Extension Of Human Vocal Range (IA)
Anton Chekhov read by Karp Korolenko – Anton Pawlowitsch Chekhov Read In Russian By Karp Korolenko (IA)
Armand Bégué – The Bible In French – Excerpts From: The Psalms, The Proverbs, The Ecclesiastes (IA)
Armand Bégué & Louise Bégué – Speak And Read French, Part 1 – Basic And Intermediate (IA)
Armand Bégué & Louise Bégué – Speak And Read French, Part 3 – French Literature (IA)
Armand Bégué & Louise Bégué – Speak And Read French: Basic (IA)
Arthur M. Greenhall, Nicholas Collias – Sounds Of Animals: Audible Communication Of Zoo And Farm Animals (IA)
Barbara Moncure & Harry Siemsen – Folksongs Of The Catskills (IA)
Bell Telephone Laboratories – The Science Of Sound (IA)
Bertolt Brecht – Before The Committee On Un-American Activities (IA)
Bertolt Brecht – Bertolt Brecht’s The Exception And The Rule (IA)
Big Bill Broonzy – His Story – Big Bill Broonzy Interviewed By Studs Terkel (IA)
Brendan Behan – On Joyce (IA)
Dikmen Gürün / Erdal – Turkish Folktales (IA)
Guy de Maupassant, Paul-Louis Courier, & Voltaire read by Armand Bégué, Louise Bégué, & Pierre Capritz – French Short Stories, Volume 1 (IA)
Michael Siegel – The Sounds Of The Junk Yard (IA)
The Armenian National Choral Society Of Boston, Siranoush Der-Manuelian – Armenian Choral Music (IA)
Unknown artists – Music Of The Plains Apache (IA)
Unknown artists – Folk Songs And Dances Of Iran (IA)
Unknown artists – Folk Music Of The Western Congo (IA)
Unknown artists – Music Of South Arabia (IA)
Unknown artists – Religious Music Of The Falashas (IA)
Unknown artists – Prayer For Absolution / Prayer “Adonai” For Weekdays (IA)
Unknown artists – Prayer For Passover / Prayer “Adonai” For Saturday (IA)
Unknown artists – Prayer For Passover / Prayer For New Year (IA)
Unknown artists – Responsive Reading (IA)
Unknown artists – Hungarian Folk Songs (IA)
Unknown Western Australian Desert artists – Songs Of The Western Australian Desert Aborigines (IA)
Voltaire, Prosper Merimme, & Guy de Maupassant read by Armand Bégué, Louise Bégué, & Pierre Capritz – French Short Stories, Volume 2 (IA)

Sunday, April 24th, 2022
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9:08 pm
Episode 134 – Carnatic Music

Madurai Mani Iyer album cover
 
I think Hindustani tends to be the more popular style of classical Indian music in the west (see: Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Chatur Lal, Dagar Brothers, etc) so I figured I’d shed some light on the Carnatic side. This episode features some standout Carnatic musicians like supreme violinist L. Subramaniam and veena master Sundaram Balachander as well as some lesser known but just as amazing players like Chinna Moulana and a group recorded by Brigitte Chataignier.
 

00:00:00 Chitti Babu – Ragam Thanam Pallavi (from Swara Raga Sudha)
00:11:56 Dr. L. Subramaniam – Rāga Śivapriya (from Three Ragas For Solo Violin)
00:31:55 Isaimani Sirgazhi S. Govindarajan – Sri Rama Charitha Geetham, Part 2 (from Papanasam Sivan’s Sri Rama Charitha Geetham (Tamil))
00:52:00 Sundaram Balachander – “Gnaana Mosaga Raadha” Raagam Poorvikalyani Roopakam Taalam (from Man From Madras)
01:13:02 Madurai Mani Iyer, T. N. Krishnan, & Vellore Ramabadran – Kamalambam Bajare (Ragam: Kalyani) (from Madurai Mani Iyer)
01:33:31 Sheik Chinna Moulana – Valli Nayakane (Ragam: Shanmugapriya) (from Sheik Chinna Moulana)
01:49:37 Vamanan Namboodiri, Soorya Narayanan, Ananthapadmanabhan, Madhusudanan, Tripunithura Krishnadas, P. Nandakumar, & Kalamandalam Kshemavathi – Sumasayaka (from Inde: Le Chant Du Mohini Attam – Danse Classique Du Kerala = India: Singing The Mohini Attam – Classical Dance Of Kerala)

Monday, April 18th, 2022
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10:39 pm
Episode 133 – Appalachian Folk & Blues

instrumental music of the southern appalachians album cover
 
Something I didn’t realize before I made this episode is that a lot of the major country blues stars like Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, Lead Belly, and Blind Lemon Jefferson weren’t from the Appalachian region. I guess if I gave it even a second thought, I’d realize that the genre-adjacent delta blues was named after the Mississippi Delta and that the tunes coming from the rural Appalachians leaned more towards the bluegrass style. Anyway, I thought it would be fun to highlight the wide variety rolling down the mountains: everything from the banjo instrumentals of Hobart Smith to the lone black lung vocals of Nimrod Workman. I’ve always been a sucker for banjos, a cappella, and grim vibes, so naturally Appalachian music is 100% my jam.

I tried to stick to the early pre-war stuff and stay away from anything coming out of the 50s/60s folk revival. A lot of these tracks come from compilations by labels like Folkways, Yazoo, Mississippi, and Dust-to-Digital because 1: it’s not like I have a collection of 78s to pull from and 2: they’re the ones helping to preserve this history so that’s where most of us discover these artists. I did my best to find some of the lower profile compilations & songs and, as always, tried to play things that haven’t appeared on A Thick Mist/AGB Radio before (except for Lloyd Chandler’s “A Conversation With Death” that’s just too good to not include). And I veered toward the gloomy tones because obviously but also it’s called the blues for a reason. Also, I tried to stay away from any gospel because I’ll probably end up doing a gospel episode at one point.

I’m not an ethnomusicologist nor am I a historian, so I’m not going to try to offer commentary on individual tracks. I highly recommend you dig into any and every artist and compilation you find here. If you’re looking for suggestions, try either of my favorite sad ladies that bookend the episode or my man Nimrod right in the middle.

There’s probably some stuff on here that might not fit under a strict definition of Appalachian music, but lets not get too bogged down in semantics. Enjoy.
 

00:00:00 Sarah Ogan Gunning – Dreadful Memories (from A Girl Of Constant Sorrow)
00:02:25 Etta Baker – Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad (from Instrumental Music Of The Southern Appalachians)
00:03:47 Peg Leg Howell – Moanin’ And Groanin’ Blues (from “Folks, He Sure Do Pull Some Bow!” – Vintage Fiddle Music 1927-1935: Blues, Jazz, Stomps, Shuffles & Rags)
00:07:18 Jean Ritchie – The Unquiet Grave (from Ballads From Her Appalachian Family Tradition)
00:11:16 Floyd Council – I’m Grievin’ And I’m Worryin’ (from Carolina Blues (1937-1947))
00:14:01 Florence Reece / Almanac Singers – Which Side Are You On? (from Classic Labor Songs)
00:16:35 Murphy Gribble, John Lusk, & Albert York – Eighth Of January (from Deep River Of Song: Black Appalachia – String Bands, Songsters And Hoedowns)
00:20:52 Edward Clayborn – Death Is Only A Dream (from Last Kind Words (1926-1953))
00:23:47 Carter Family – Motherless Chidren (from Lead Kindly Light)
00:27:23 Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley – Dark Holler Blues (from Friends Of Old Time Music)
00:32:15 Dock Boggs – Oh Death (from Virginia Traditions: Ballads From British Tradition)
00:35:32 Ruby Glaze – Lonesome Day Blues (from I Can’t Be Satisfied: Early American Women Blues Singers – Town & Country, Vol. 1 – Country)
00:38:46 Hobart Smith – Drunken Hiccups (from Instrumental Music Of The Southern Appalachians)
00:39:55 Roscoe Holcomb – Graveyard Blues (from Mountain Music Of Kentucky)
00:42:19 Grayson & Whitter – Little Maggie With A Dram Glass In Her Hand (from The Rose Grew Round The Briar: Early American Rural Love Songs – Vol. 1)
00:45:43 Nimrod Workman – What Is That Blood On Your Shirt Sleeve? (from Mother Jones’ Will)
00:47:38 Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill – “Hold Up Your Hand Old Joshua!” She Cried (from Last Wisps Of The Old Ways: North Carolina Mountain Singing)
00:53:25 Kid Williams & Bill Morgan – When He Died He Got A Home In Hell (from Lead Kindly Light)
00:56:04 Bascom Lamar Lunsford – Mole In The Ground (from Smoky Mountain Ballads)
00:58:55 Lloyd Chandler – A Conversation With Death (from High Atmosphere)
01:03:05 Woodie Brothers – Chased Old Satan Through The Door (from Music From The Lost Provinces – Old-Time Stringbands From Ashe County, North Carolina & Vicinity, 1927-1931)
01:05:59 Fiddlin’ John Carson – Dixie Boll Weevil (from People Take Warning! Murder Ballads And Disaster Songs, 1913-1938)
01:08:58 Wade Ward & Charlie Higgins – Did You Ever See The Devil, Uncle Joe? (from I’ll Be So Glad When The Sun Goes Down: Field Recordings From Alan Lomax’s “Southern Journey” 1959-1960)
01:10:50 Ed Morrison – We’ll All Go To Heaven When The Devil Goes Blind (from Kentucky Mountain Music: Classic Recordings Of The 1920s & 30s)
01:15:20 Sid Hemphill – So Soon I’ll Be At Home (from The Devils Dream)
01:16:55 Ola Belle Reed – My Epitaph (from My Epitaph: A Documentary In Song And Lyric)

Monday, April 11th, 2022
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3:22 pm
Episode 132 – Weird & Erotic

christopher recordings on sex instruction album cover
 
Let me just start off by saying this episode is super explicit and not safe for work (unless you’re a sex worker I guess). 99% of the spoken word is people talking about sex stuff like blowjob instructions (from the 50s? 60s?), some offbeat porno poetry, Christians talking about male puberty, hypnotherapy to make your dick bigger, etc. 99% of the music is experimental from 2022 and made by women.
 

00:00:00 Annie Sprinkle – Deep Inside Your Cosmic Body Erotic (from Cyborgasm – Erotica In 3-D Sound)
A former sex worker and current environmental artist (approaching her art from an “ecosexual” perspective) on a very odd compilation from the 90s of spoken word, ambient, and weird erotic shit.

00:02:55 Elin Piel – Heart Walls (from Satsuma Sunday)
Premium modular synth drone.

00:10:45 Meg Mulhearn – Pisces (from Archetypes)
The first in a 12-piece series of “meditations and non-linear reflections on archetypes of the twelve Western zodiacal signs.” Free* and starting off strong.

00:13:03 Unknown artist – Side A (from How To Drive Your Man Wild With Oral Sex)
Absolutely fuckin wild 7″ from decades ago that I have a hard time believing actually exists.

00:22:56 Victoria Wizell-Gallagher – Conversation With Cells (from Penis Enlargement Deluxe)
Another one I have a hard time believing exists. This is a 6-session set that aims to help you make your dick bigger by sheer willpower. Accompanied by some chill new age ambient cheese.

00:28:19 Laura Jordan Cocks – Produktionsmittel I (from Field Anatomies)
I didn’t just play this because her last name is Cocks. It’s also fantastic “blisteringly physical work for flutes.” In this case: amplified flute, aluminum foil, glass bottle, and fixed media.

00:48:14 Lori Goldston & Stefan Christoff – Wingspan In The Sunshine (from Punk Equinox)
I was so psyched to discover this one. I’ve always loved Goldston’s cello work but Christoff is new to me. Here he’s playing a Hammond organ. So yeah, cello + organ, obviously my kind shit.

00:58:15 Philip Jeck – As My Shadow Passes… (from Touch 00)
I remember the first Jeck work I heard: Sand (thanks Aquarius Records). It was revelatory. The first time I fully understood how vinyl could be used as an instrument instead of just the delivery method. He will be sorely missed but I’m thankful for all of the music he left behind.

01:07:38 The Christophers – The Problems Of Growing Boys (from Christopher Recordings On Sex Instruction)
The Christophers are an “inspirational” Christian group founded in 1945 by the Roman Catholic/Maryknoll priest James Keller. This is one of their earliest publications (from 1951), intended to educate parents on how to educate their children about sex and puberty.

01:16:42 Astrid Øster Mortensen – Styrsö Kyrkorgel (from Skærsgårdslyd)
New to me Danish artist. Amazing field recording and folk droney sounds.

01:17:37 Matchess – Almost Gone (from Sonescent)
Huge release by Whitney Johnson. Her previous work is excellent but this is next level. Highly recommended.

01:26:13 John Giorno – Pornographic Poem (from Raspberry / Pornographic Poem)
The experimental poet and Dial-A-Poem founder is joined by a dozen or so others to get weird and talk dirty.

01:34:59 Bunny Buckskin & Carrington McDuffie – Pink Sweatboxes (from Cyborgasm – Erotica In 3-D Sound)
Another one from Cyborgasm. Figured I’d just add to the Giorno chaos with more perverted chat.

01:39:30 Maria Moles – In Pan-as (from For Leolanda)
Powerful percussion inspired by Philippine gong music.

01:46:33 Vanessa Wagner – Gustave Le Gray (from Study Of The Invisible)
Wagner takes her piano to Caroline Shaw’s “Gustave Le Gray” and you pass out.

01:54:20 Stanley Z. Daniels – Side B (from Sex For Adults (Sex Is Fun Particularly When You’re In Love))
The epic conclusion to the sex trilogy by Stanley Z. Daniels (he’s an M.D. so you can totally trust him), preceded by Sex Explained For Children and Sex For Teens (Where It’s At).

01:59:51 Ann Eysermans – Fuga For Four Diesel Locomotives And Harp (from For Trainspotters Only)
Debut release from Eysermans featuring her field recordings of Belgian diesel trains accompanied by her beautiful harp, organ, chimes, music boxes, etc.

02:05:48 Maya Shenfeld – Sadder Than Water (from In Free Fall)
Another debut. Stunning.

02:12:19 Kinbrae & Clare Archibald – Haul Into Being (from Birl Of Unmap)
A debut collaboration making beautiful sounds alongside stoic spoken word, all of which is inspired by hyper-local areas in Scotland.

Sunday, April 3rd, 2022
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8:24 pm
Episode 131 – Metal


 
It’s only been 7 months since the last A Thick Mist episode, not that anyone’s counting… So here’s the thing. I clearly don’t have room in my life to do radio shows the way I was kinda doing them since the pandemic started (which was basically not at all) so I thought I’d try something new. A new process that might fit into my life and a new approach to curation that might appeal to more people (although that’s besides the point).

The new process involves no spoken commentary during the show. It’s kind of like my Halloween episodes where I just play my stuff for a couple hours so as to not interrupt the vibes. However I will be adding some written commentary here in the playlist when I have anything to say.

The new curation sees an end to my psychotic combinations of black metal followed by Haitian Voodoo rituals followed by zoned out minimalism followed by turn-of-the-century country blues followed by some dude reading about seashells followed by… Instead, each episode will focus on a more unified genre/theme. This is great for those of you who hated the doom but loved the Hindustani ragas. I assume those of you who liked the craziness will still enjoy each episode because the primary content isn’t changing and now you can still listen to A Thick Mist with a migraine, just pick a chill droney episode instead of the one full of Peruvian dances.

Let me know what you think of this new setup. Are you going to miss hearing my super sexy voice? Are you psyched about not spilling your coffee when the caustic black noise jumpscares you?

This first incarnation of the New Way is a metal episode because that’s pretty much all I’ve been listening to lately. Enjoy.

 

00:00:00 Spider God – Forever (from Black Renditions)
Free* record by new-to-me band and it’s black metal covers of pop songs. You won’t believe how fucking good this is. I chose to highlight their version of Viva Forever by the Spice Girls but I highly recommend checking out their Whitney or their Brittany or their No Doubt or everything else.

00:03:37 Пуща (Pušča) – Ça Brûle (from War Is Hell)
Amazing Ukranian black metal with some clean female vocals. They put out a 2-song single to raise money for Come Back Alive. And while you’re at it, grab their fantastic new EP for just $4.

00:10:03 Mizmor – Wit’s End (from Wit’s End)
Everyone loves Mizmor. New record is the best.

00:24:49 An Evening Redness – The Judge (from An Evening Redness)
New dusty doom drone band inspired by Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. Into it.

00:35:24 Deathbell – Come To Trouble (from With The Beyond)
Some killer doom from 2018 that I only just learned about. They have one that just came out in February and
that’s great too.

00:44:59 Blackwater Holylight – Every Corner (from Silence/Motion)
Amazing record from last year that’s got lots of stoner doom sounds but also plenty of moments of true evil bursting through. Not sure why this song sounds so muffled and quiet in the mix. I tried to mess with it but no dice.

00:52:45 Det Eviga Leendet – Yield (from Reverence)
New release on Mystískaos. It’s their second record and it’s awesome atmospheric black metal. They “take their name from Pär Lagerkvist’s 1920 writing about a group of dead people who are now stuck in the dark with nothing to do besides talk in order to pass eternity.”

01:03:53 Whourkr – Squirk (from Concrete)
Not sure what took me so long to hear this record from 2008. It’s fucking insane. “This is what happens when animals pretend to be human. An acclaimed cybergrind record… worse than death metal.”

01:07:54 The Body & OAA – Fortified Tower (from Enemy Of Love)
Not gonna lie, I absolutely love everything The Body touches. Doesn’t matter what they’re doing or who they’re doing it with. This new collaboration from OAA is absolute madness. Veering way into noise territory.

01:11:28 Negativa – XXIX (from 04)
Supremely underrated Spanish noisy black metal. This new one is on Mystískaos but their last one was released by Sentient Ruin, which is much more their style.

01:20:57 Holy Fawn – Dark Stone (from Death Spells)
Another 2018 record I only just heard about thanks to their recent tour with Deafheaven and Midwife.

01:27:18 Rinuwat – Laknat Bumi (from Dua Naga)
This record would have been on my top metal list in 2021 if I knew about it. Weird as hell experimental doom featuring Southeast Asian instruments and styles. Their name is Javanese and translates to “to liberate oneself from a curse.” The singer is bonkers and I love everything about this.

01:33:26 Rolo Tomassi – The End Of Eternity (from Where Myth Becomes Memory)
Didn’t think I’d ever love a shoegazey proggy post-hardcore record this much but here we are. Definitely a year end contender.

01:39:31 Zeal & Ardor – Hold Your Head low (from Zeal & Ardor)
I feel like when a band puts out a self-titled record when it’s nowhere near their first release, they’re trying to make a statement like “this is our definitive sound.” Zeal & Ardor further cements my theory. The one and only gospel metal is at the top of their game here.

01:44:14 Ustalost – Bright Window Closing (from Before The Glinting Spell Unvests)
The second record from Yellow Eyes singer/guitarist Will Skarstad’s solo project. Yellow Eyes is amazing. Ustalost is better?

01:53:12 Sadhaka – Surrender (from Surrender)
I swear I almost had a heart attack when I saw this song dropped. Sadhaka put out one of my all time favorite records in 2013, Terma, and then basically vanished. It’s kinda standard post black metal but something about it is absolutely perfect and I can’t really describe why. The fact that Yianna Bekris (aka Vouna, from Eigenlicht and Vradiazei) is involved probably has something to do with it. Anyway, this new single is fantastic and I really hope it means more is on the way.

02:02:50 Messa – 0=2 (from Close)
I had the best timing in finding out about Messa. I discovered their 2018 record Feast For Water a couple months ago, loved it, played the heck out of it, then found out Close was right around the corner. Didn’t have to wait long at all. This is some premium droney doom psych out of Italy and it fuckin rips.

Thursday, January 27th, 2022
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3:01 pm
Top 14 Metal Records Of 2021

I did it! I made another list. My favorite metal from 2021. Big year for doom with clean vocals made by ladies and in case you didn’t know, that’s some of the best kind of music. I tried not to include big names like The Body, Body Void, Big Brave, Genghis Tron, Mare Cognitum, etc. I also tried not to include releases from labels that have made this list before, so no Gilead, no Sentient Ruin, no Eisenwald, no Mystískaos/Dissociative Visions, no Bindrune, no I, Voidhanger. There were 2 exceptions (Northern Silence and Profound Lore) because they were too good to not include and I think they didn’t get enough showtime.

For the first time, I’m doing some honorable mentions (similar to my drone list). They’re here for 3 reasons: one was not metal enough (Madam Data), one was on a label that was too big (Prophecy), and I ran out of steam with the list.

As always: Thanks for reading. Thanks for listening. Thanks for making incredible music.

Honorable Mentions:
Awenden / Feminazgûl split (Tridroid)
Can’t not shout out Feminazgûl.

Madam DataThe Gospel Of The Devourer (Purple Tape Pedigree)
Unhinged industrial noise metal that takes no prisoners. Proceeds go to the Coalition For Black Trans Economic Liberation in Philadelphia.

Nemorensis / Monvment split (Pacific Threnodies)
Two new-to-me bands each with a side long slab of intense black metal.

UnreqvitedBeautiful Ghosts (Prophecy)
The postest black metal around.

WhitehorseDeath Weight (Heavy Machinery)
A new Whitehorse record is always worth celebrating. And this one is an hour long.

WispThe Insomniac (self released)
Ethereal Shroud dude made an instrumental Silver-era Jesu EP and it rips.

 


14. GravkvädeGrav|Vind (GS / V.G.D.K. / self released)

Premium blackened funeral doom from this Swedish trio that have released a bunch of stuff in the past 5 years that I somehow have never heard. Grav|Vind is only two songs, a 17 minute epic giving me big pre-bluegrass Xasthur vibes, going hard for the first 10 minutes, breaking for a windy interlude, then kicking back in with blast beats barely heard under the bleak guitar buzz, then it ends with a 7 minute frosty dark ambient chill out.

 


13. GlooshSylvan Coven (Depths Of Void / Drevo)

Really really reaaallllyyyy good 21st century black metal, not quite post black metal, not quite atmospheric black metal, but somewhere along those lines, Gloosh is just one dude (George Gabrielyan) riffing killer hooks and blasting furious beats out of Russia. It’s straightforward, nothing fancy, the only thing that will catch you by surprise is just how fucking well done it is.

 


12. CoruboAjuricaba (self released)

Corubo, the self-described “Indigenous black metal” trio, is originally from Brazil, now based in Uruguay, and has been raging against colonialism and genocide and all that comes with it since 1999, it only took 22 goddamn years to make it to my white American ears, these guys make insane black metal that’s like Gnaw Their Tongues’ sample-heavy horror mixed with Kaatayra’s Brazilian black folk metal and it’s easily some of the most unique music I’ve ever heard. Ajuricaba is based around the story of Manaos native Chief Ajuricaba’s uprising against Portuguese invaders in the 18th century, a war I had never heard of until this record. Thanks to Corubo for simultaneously entertaining and educating.

 


11. Lunar ArkRecurring Nightmare (Lunar Seas / Realm And Ritual / Trepanation)

In summer 2021, there was a one day outdoor minifest in Somerville (aka Boston) called Somergloom. It felt moderately safe because we were in one of the downswings COVID positivity rate-wise and it was a breezy day, so I grabbed a mask, walked into a random parking lot, and stood as far away from humans as I could. It was amazing. Body Void played. Glacier played. Kira McSpice played. Lunar Ark played. Never heard of them before. Turns out they’re local and were playing stuff from their forthcoming debut LP. Well, that set was fucking fantastic and I couldn’t wait to hear the record, super high expectations, etc, etc, then Recurring Nightmare drops and it’s everything I hoped it would be, 3 long songs of mega heavy black sludge infused with post metal riffage and rumbly walls of drone. I fully expect to see these dudes on Relapse or Southern Lord or something someday.

 


10. Asenath BlakeZoëtic Songs (self released)

The witch Asenath Blake making fast & frenzied black metal with guitars sounding like a clavichord giving it a slight medieval/Renaissance vibe (except totally batshit crazy and with zero relation to dungeon synth), 5 songs in just under 15 minutes, with shrieking and wailing vocals that are just as frantic as the music, this is just straight fucked weirdo black metal that hits all the right buttons. Her first record was 2020’s Voorish Songs, which I didn’t find out about until this year, otherwise it would’ve ended up on last year’s list. She also put out Tribeckoning Songs on Halloween 2021 but Zoëtic Songs here is my pick of the two.

 


9. Elles VārtiElles Vārti (self released)

This is absolutely filthy doom from a Latvian lady whose name is non-existent on the internet, this is slow and pitch fucking black, heavy enough to create its own black hole, but the kicker is that it’s dripping with her smooth crooning voice reverberating through empty cathedrals. She can fucking scream too, though, like on “Kad No Murga Nepamosties” which is just truly devastating music, a whirlwind of nauseating feedback and obliterating bass. Haven’t heard anything like this in ages… maybe never?

 


8. Nameless GraveThe Warmth Of The Sun Can No Longer Thaw The Ice From My Bones (self released)

A debut of magnificent proportions, one song, almost 30 minutes long, of slow melodic funeral doom à la Bell Witch, by the non-binary New Zealander Winter Kneale, this has tons of depth and is absolutely monstrous, with low growly vocals that are so buried in the mix they’re almost indiscernible and become part of the music.

 


7. OrasyonAll And Nothing (self released)

Not quite sure how to sell this one. Raw atmospheric depressive black metal with melodies that’ll be in your head for days. On paper, I would normally pass over something like this because it sounds like nothing too special. I can’t remember how or why this fell into my lap but holy hell I’m glad it did. This is the best black metal I’ve heard in a long time. And the lyrics, albeit unintelligible, can be found on their Bandcamp page and they are fucking potent. Definitely look them over when you listen to this. Also, they already put out another record on January 22, Soil Of Sorrows, and all their stuff is free* on Bandcamp.

 


6. BlóðSerpent (Malpermesita)

Another new-to-me band that’s already released music I hadn’t heard before. The French duo of Anne Wegrich (from Lynn) and Ulrich Wegrich (aka Dagoth from Otargos) makes some of my favorite kind of doom: blackened and with clean vocals (preferably from a lady, like in this case). These are typical song lengths, all of them well under 10 minutes, but they feel enormous, they’re slow and majestic and all kinds of awesome.

 


5. Cara NeirPhase Out (Tomb Tree / self released)

Do you remember Cara Neir? Released a bunch of stuff on Broken Limbs, including the awesomely nasty black metal Portals To A Better, Dead World in 2013? Or their split with like-minded weirdos Venowl, Njiqahdda, and Horseback? Well, throw whatever you remember out the window. They broke the mold with Phase Out, this is the craziest fucking thing I’ve heard in a lonnggg time. “This album is about us being warped into a 8-bit video game dimension by a sinister alien entity.” Not to be confused with the actual soundtrack to said (non-existent) video game. I think this is the first record to combine chiptune, black metal, surf, grindcore, screamo, post hardcore, synth punk, and the kitchen sink. And they went all out with this, creating pixel animations for every song and a full length commentary. But look past all the novelty and you’ve just got some truly awesome jams.

 


4. SeedDun Pageant (Mutual Aid / self released)
The world needs more “Anti-fascist, Queer Forward” experimental doom. Thanks to Seed for helping out. Their brand of doom is a bit different than most of the other records on this list. It’s frequently sparse, venturing into slowcore territory kinda like if 40 Watt Sun didn’t go full sad, but when it hits, it hits hard and paralyzes you, with the highlight being Lux’s otherworldly vocals that float in from purgatory. But as incredible as this (debut?) record is, and as cliche as it is to say it, you really need to see them live. Lux is a fucking showstopping rockstar and brings an energy that pushes the music to unbelievable levels of amazing. Dun Pageant is unlike any other but Seed on stage (or more accurately, off stage) is an unfathomable experience.

 


3. EarthshineMy Bones Shall Rest Upon The Mountain (Northern Silence)
I can’t believe how good this is. Kind of like Orasyon, this is pretty straightforward stuff. Melodic atmospheric doomed post black metal, which is definitely the kind of stuff I like, but goddamn this is next level. Two Australian dudes making some truly epic metal that has no business being this good. It’s fucking beautiful, sometimes vibing on old-school Alcest shimmer, sometimes trudging through Panopticon growls, sometimes locking into a bass heavy groove, My Bones… is so dynamic but is 100% tremendous and triumphant the whole way through.

 


2. Divide And DissolveGas Lit (Invada)
Yup, a 2020 record is number 2 on a 2021 list. Long story short, I don’t remember why I didn’t prioritize this when D&D self-released this digitially on December 3, 2020, because I was realllly looking forward to it after hearing 2018’s Abomination and my 2020 metal list published in January 2021, so I don’t really have an excuse. But it got an “official” physical release in 2021 thanks to Invada so there’s at least a slight argument for including this on a 2021 list. ANYHOO, Divide And Dissolve is Takiaya Reed (Tsalagi descent) on guitars & saxophone and Sylvie Nehill (Māori descent) on drums and they are fucking pissed, regularly condeming white supremacy, colonialism, prisons, and all manner of stupid shit that humans do to control and own fellow humans. But neither Nehill nor Reed sing, all of their fury comes out in the music, in the song titles, and in their communication outside the music. This is instrumental doom with a heavy dose of weird thrown in, strings, drones, spoken word, all sorts of unexpected mischief, and it’s all fucking amazing. Kinda like Holly Hunt but way better and way cooler.

 


1. VounaAtropos (Profound Lore)
Yianna Bekris is one of the most underrated musicians going right now. She’s in Eigenlicht, Vradiazei, and Sadhaka (who just released their first new music (a single, but still) since 2013’s Terma, one of my all time favorite records, so I am psyched they’re still at it), and Vouna here is her solo work, monolithic blackened funeral doom with plenty of clean vocals and the most sublime sound imaginable. 3 long songs and 2 short ones that clock in just under an hour, she sings about the pain and sorrow of existence while she makes the walls crumble around you, I love this so fucking much, it’s just absolutely stunning music.

Monday, December 13th, 2021
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2:25 pm
Top 16 Drone Records Of 2021

I am wicked fuckin depressed yall. The list was thiiiis close to not happening because I have’t been doing a goddamn thing besides losing myself in video game worlds, binge watching videos of people playing Super Mario Maker 2, and hiding from every single human, friends & family included. I feel like I barely listen to music anymore and when I do, I rarely feel anything.

But I have listened to some music, and I did have some emotions when listening, and there were a few records that got stuck on repeat, some of which were actually pretty helpful. I needed to make this list. No lie it was a pretty monumental effort. But it’s here. I’m not looking for accolades or anything, just trying to be real and not make it seem like everything is ok because everything is definitely not ok.

As always: Thanks for reading. Thanks for listening. Thanks for making incredible music.

There were 3 records in particular that I listened to a ton that are pretty droney but not quite droney enough to join the list. They deserve recognition.

Mother Of SighsMother Of Sighs (Deathbomb Arc)
A debut of a new project from Terence Hannum and Erica Burgner-Hannum, horror music about a miscarriage and the pain of motherhood. Read the description on the Bandcamp page and lose your faith if there’s any left to begin with.

Gazelle Twin & NYXDeep England (NYX Collective)
A self-described “electronic drone choir” re-interpreting Gazelle Twin’s album Pastoral. It’s kind of like if Shirley Collins scored a remake of The Wicker Man directed by Ben Wheatley and it was piped into The Haçienda’s dance floor.

MidwifeLuminol (The Flenser)
Midwife’s debut, Like Author, Like Daughter, lead me to make a separate list in 2018 just so I could put it in the number 1 spot. LA,LD was and is masterpiece. There is no record I’ve listened to more in my entire life. Luminol is better. LA,LD still holds a special place in my heart, but Luminol is actually a better record. I never even thought that could happen. If you somehow haven’t hopped on the Midwife train yet, now is the fucking time.

And now onto the proper Top 16 Drone Records of 2021.
 


16. C. LavenderTransient Seclusion (Longform Editions)
Longform Editions is one that you should be paying attention to if you’re not already. They put out batches of 4 releases every few weeks and every single one of them is brilliant ($6 AUD/$4.30 USD per month gets you access to the whole catalog). This one from C. Lavender is my pick of the crop, though. Her drone here is exquisitely textured with some rhythms and grit that veer into industrial territory. Also, it crams a full album’s worth of material into its 17 minutes, which is more than can be said of some records three times as long.

 


15. Of Thread & MistStatic Hymns to No One (Gizeh)
This is the debut of a new moniker for Richard Knox (from A-Sun Amissa, head of Gizeh Records) and I knew I needed to hear this as soon as I saw the album title. It doesn’t disappoint with its somber tape loop decay and foggy elegies, and at first glance you might think you’ve got the standard two side-long pieces, but look again and you’ll see the “B side” is actually 32 minutes long, a huge swath of bittersweet beauty and cinematic mourning that will make you wish you had a box of tissues nearby.

 


14. R. Keenan Lawler & John KrausbauerSpinnan (Debacle)
These two are mostly new to me, with Lawler’s name being super fresh whereas I kind of know Krausbauer but only through his work with the perpetually underrated Tecumseh. On Spinnan, they weave a 34 minute raga using steel resonator guitars, banjos, bells, and oscillators, definitely not your typical raga instruments but these guys make it work, and it is one transcendent fucking jam. And this all came about because the two toured together with solo sets and ended up joining each other on stage for some longform acoustic zones. Side note: Debacle killed it with incredible collaborations this year with Spinnan obviously but also Andrew Weathers & Hayden Pedigo and Ashley Bellouin & Ben Bracken, not to mention the new beast of a Chord record. Seek them all out.

 


13. MilieuImprovisations For Hylian Horn & Pipe Organ (Milieu)
Brian Grainger is easily one of the most prolific folks in the experimental scene with something like 40+ releases this year alone. It’s really hard to keep up. But when he drops 3.5 hours of Zelda drone (on Zelda’s 35th anniversary), you drop what you’re doing and listen immediately. So this technically isn’t made with a Hylian horn (those aren’t real) or a pipe organ, but that’s irrelevant. This is fucking amazing, some “impressionistic pieces” of Hyrule, great & small. You’ve got 3 minutes of reedy wobble on “Hymn To The Goddess” and you’ve got almost a half hour of chiptune-esque electronics and ethereal echoes in enormous empty halls on “The Ballad Of The Continental Flood.” If 3.5 hours of this isn’t enough for you (and honestly, it shouldn’t be), Grainger released Improvisation For Hylian Piano And Woodwinds in 2018 and the ancient, long-forgotten but nevertheless magical splits with Millipede (RIP) on volumes I (OG AGB review) and II (stream it!) of Play Ancient Hylian Folk Songs.

 


12. Catherine Lamb, Rebecca Lane & Jon HeilbronMuto Infinitas (Another Timbre)
This is some of the most minimal stuff on this list. Lamb composed this hour-long whisper for quartertone bass flute and double bass, performed by Lane & Heilbron, and while I’m tempted to say it’s relentless, it does have brief moments of silence, as if pausing for 5 seconds of a deep inhale before slowly drawing out the tones for the next 5 minutes.

 


11. HellveteVoor Harmonium (Aguirre)
I try my best to keep repeat offenders off my drone lists but there will always be exceptions. Glen Steenkiste’s Hellvete project is one of them. This dude just does it for me and Voor Harmonium is no exception. Two side-long harmonium-based pieces that entrance and hypnotize, these are super dense drones but with a twist, they’ve got some rhythms, the first piece starts out 100% solid, impenetrable, but slowly over the course of the next 18 minutes, a beat emerges, like some sweet techno melody, enough that you might start bobbing your head, and then the B side reverses it, kicks off with a lonely helicopter beat that eventually brings in the monolithic drone and next thing you know you’ve got yourself a fuckin dance party.

 


10. Walt McClementsA Hole In The Fence (American Dreams)
Have I ever mentioned how much I love reed drone? The drone scene is pretty big on the organs and harmoniums but I think we could use some more accordion drone. Three cheers for Walt McClements and his solo debut outside of his Lonesome Leash moniker, this is some wonderful stuff, dramatic and rich, ebbing and flowing with the tide, traditional accordion sounds looped and layered to make beautiful melodies that blur into a smoothed out smear of euphoric heartache.

 


9. Judith HamannA Coffin Spray (Superpang)
Judith Hamann made A Coffin Spray after her friend died. It’s not a eulogy per se, but it feels like one. Just Hamann and her cello making slow, deep sounds that resonate in your bones for 28 minutes straight. It kind of hurts listening to this. It sounds like the way my eyes feel when I’m about to cry. It comes in waves and my eyes get fuller each time. A Coffin Spray never reaches that breaking point, though. And that’s exactly how I’ve felt these past couple of years, dealing with so much death and grief and mourning, being overwhelmed with emotion but not collapsing and having it wash over me. I wish I could let that happen but for some reason it never does.

 


8. Various Artists – The Harmonic Series II (Important)
This is the first time I’ve ever put a compilation on a year end list. They typically get the cold shoulder when it comes to “best of” lists and I’ve obviously contributed to that problem. However, I’ve never heard a compilation that was a true favorite for me, so I haven’t been intentionally ignoring them. More like they just don’t usually compare to traditional records. Duane Pitre, this compilation’s curator, and Important Records have broken the mold with this one though. The Harmonic Series II is a 3xLP with 6 side-long pieces by Kali Malone, Catherine Lamb, Tashi Wada, Byron Westbrook, Caterina Barbieri, and Duane Pitre himself. 6 artists that are at the forefront of minimalism in the 21st century, pushing drone its limits. This is a breathtaking, massive fucking record. There could be doctoral dissertations written about this thing. There’s no way I could cover all this has to offer in this space, so you’re just gonna have to trust me, trust Important, trust the artists on the record, and trust Pitre because he’s the brains behind this.

 


7. Terence HannumDissolving The Bonds (Flag Day)
While you’re waiting for the next Locrian album to drop, you should be losing yourself in Hannum’s solo work (be it here or under his power electronics work as Axebreaker). Everything Hannum touches is golden, but Dissolving The Bonds is his best solo work by far. It’s arguably his most droney, which is why this is the first time he’s appearing on a drone list, but it’s also pretty heavy and noisey, bleeding into industrial, darkwave, and metal arenas. I mean the track “I Am Still Here” is 100% definitely not drone. But! “Tender Resignations” has some ghostly Dan Barrett wailing and reminds me a bit of the ambient Have A Nice Life songs, and the 16 minute closer “Everyone Has Gathered Here To Destroy You” is an absolute fucking Drone Beast, starting out all innocent before smashing the world to pieces with a caustic wall of static. It’s so so fucking good.

 


6. Mary Lattimore & GrowingGainer (self released)
I’m pretty sure no one had Lattimore & Growing on their collaboration bingo card but the world is a better place now because Gainer is here. I had a hard time imagining how Lattimore’s harp could stand up alongside Growing’s thick hum but the pairing is a shining example of how seemingly disparate sounds can enhance each other. Somehow Lattimore’s tender caresses and Growing’s buzzing minimalism co-exist simultaneously, neither commanding space over the other but rather embracing the other, a beautiful marraige that I hope lasts beyond this one record.

 


5. Beth McDonaldDensing (self released)
I first found out about the drum/tuba duo Korean Jeans from their 2019 record No Trust. It blew me away. If it was just a bit dronier, it would have been on my year end list. The tubist, Beth McDonald, went off on her own and made this magnificent solo tuba record and it is suuuuper minimal and as droney as it gets, dark glacial reverberations that evolve over millennia and engulf everything in their path.

 


4. Marine EyesIdyll (Stereoscenic)
Marine Eyes is the debut solo record of Cynthia Bernard (from Awakened Souls) and she made it “with one intention—to create a peaceful, gentle place.” She 100% succeeded. But if I (accurately) described this as some guitar-based new agey ambient with some field recordings and vocal loops, I feel like that might turn some people off. Trust me, this is the real deal heavenly drone that turns everything white and lifts you up out of the grave you accidentally dug for yourself this year. The final track is something I’ve kept on repeat ever since I heard it, it’s just a simple guitar melody with breathy Midwife-y singing but it is absolute fucking bliss.

 


3. All Hands_Make LightAll Hands_Make Light (Constellation)
AH_ML is the duo of Ariel Engle (aka La Force, from Broken Social Scene, AroarA) and Efrim Menuck (from GYBE, A Silver Mount Zion) where Engle does “voice” and Menuck does “noise” and holy shit this is special. Engle’s voice is effortlessly passionate, with harmonic delays and choral layering that elevate you, reminding me of Elisa Ambrogio’s solo work, and Menuck’s sounds are similar to those found on his collaboration with Kevin Doria as Sing Sinck, Sing, dense and homogenous, but dynamic and seamlessly intertwining with Engle, making for somewhat traditional song structures unlike anything else on this list that are dramatic and truly fucking beautiful.

 


2. CharlatanEventually Rising (The Jewel Garden)
Y’all should know Charlatan by now, the king Brad Rose who’s been involved in more things that you can count, I’m not even going to bother name dropping. This year alone he’s released music under at least 5 different names. Like fellow drone lister Brian Grainger, it can be hard to keep up. During one of my Jewel Garden journeys this year, I came across Eventually Rising and gave it a spin because a Rose record with two side-long pieces isn’t an every day occurrence. I found this when I was in dire need of drowning in drone, bright white drone that would blind me and obliterate everything in sight, something that would make me feel full, make me feel good, make me feel something other than crippling depression and despair. Rose made that happen. The B side, “Third Moon,” is 22 minutes of warm pipe organ-y shimmer that makes me forget that China is committing genocide against Uyghurs and that there are humans who willingly throw babies into fire pits. I want to live in those 22 minutes forever.

 


1. Hathor’s Rose ChoirHathor’s Rose Choir (Golden Ratio Frequencies)
This is it. This is the one. The 70+ minute improv vocal drone record you didn’t know you needed and now can’t live without. Hathor’s Rose Choir is led by Lani Rocillo, where she sat with a handful of others (mostly women) in various sacred spaces and sang in holy harmony while their voices reverberated throughout the building, this is the epitome of ritual music, where people commune with themselves, each other, their voices, and their surroundings to create something wholly sublime and incomparably distinctive. I know I’ll never reach the heights of pure transcendence the Hathor’s Rose Choir members achieve, but if listening to this record is as close as I get, I’m more than happy to settle here.

Monday, October 4th, 2021
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4:57 pm
OOPs: Batch 1

pronouncing the scientific names of seashells record jacket
Back when I sold off my record collection, I kept a few hundred from my non-music section that I thought were kind of rare. Not necessarily valuable, just stuff that I knew was hard to find. The kind that doesn’t exist digitally and probably never had much of an audience to begin with. The main reason I bought those records in the first place was because I knew they needed to be preserved. If I didn’t take it home, it would languish at the bottom of a stack getting scratched to oblivion and the world might never hear it again.

I haven’t done a very good job at digitizing these in the past few years and I have quite a backlog. I’m trying to change that. I thought it would be good to release these in batches instead of just trickling them out one by one.

Here’s the first batch. There are 38 records. About 1/3rd of them I have already shared here on AGB at some point (like my all time favorite, the seashell pronunciation record). I’m sharing them again here for two reasons. First, I thought it would be nice to gather everything together. But more importantly, I’ve done high resolution scans of the front and back of the jackets as well as the center labels. These were scanned on a large flatbed scanner, not photographed. The bad news is that I found out after I scanned everything that my scanner now makes two faint green lines appear across every image. Needless to say I was pretty fuckin upset when I saw that. Oh well. Nothing I can do now. Also, there are maybe 10-15 that don’t have scans because I accidentally sold them before I scanned them (oops).

Each one is listed individually below with links to download and Discogs info as well as a brief description. You can download all of them at once in this 4.6 GB zip file. Also, they’re spit into two groups, music & non-music, just in case some of yall don’t jam with the spoken word and field recording stuff.

Music
George Mgrdician – East Of Athens (1964) / Download / Discogs / Middle Eastern excellence
Hedy West – Accompanying Herself On The 5 String Banjo (1963) / I ripped this but then saw it was already on archive.org so you should go download it there
Michael P. Williams – The God Who Takes A Little And Makes A Lot / Download / Discogs / Private press gospel
Nimrod Workman – Mother Jones’ Will (1978) / Download / Discogs / I fucking love this guy’s voice. All vocals, no music, just pure Appalachian emotion.
Philip Sainton – Moby Dick Soundtrack (1956) / Download / Discogs / Classic
Siobhan McKenna – Irish Ballads, Folk Songs And Lyrics (1956) / Download / Discogs / A little bit of everything
Sundaram Balachander – Man From Madras (1968) / Download / Discogs / Carnatic master
Various Artists – No More Feeling Cheated (1982) / Download / Discogs / Kids songs and stories, pretty goofy stuff
Various Artists – Skid Row Sounds – Stories And Songs (1968) / Download / Discogs / Some big band/jazz kinda jams and sad stories
Various Artists – Southern Prison Blues (1965) / Download / Discogs / This has been repressed a bunch of times but as of now is not available as far as I can tell. High quality country glues and gospel.
Various Artists – Southern Sanctified Singers (1970) / Download / Discogs / More high quality blues and gospel.
Various Artists – The Unexpurgated Folk Songs Of Men (1960) / Download / Discogs / This is a weird one. I think someone just placed a microphone in the middle of a bunch of old vulgar grumps, hit record, and let em ramble.

Non-Music
Albert Camus – Reading From His Novels And Essays (1960) / Download / Discogs / I don’t speak French but this is still cool
An Evening In Sapsucker Woods / Download / Discogs / Field recording of a pond at dusk
Auscultation Of The Heart (1962) / Download / Discogs / Wonky heartbeats
Boris Karloff / Bela Lugosi – Arsenic And Old Lace / The Doctor Prescribed Death / Download / Discogs / Creepy dudes reading creepy stories
Boston: Birthplace Of Liberty (1961) / Download / Discogs / Kind of like an audio guide from a walking tour
Concentration Camp Horrors (1980) / Download / Discogs / Radio broadcasts of soldiers and other folks when they liberated concentration camps
Elie Wiesel – Reading From His Works (1968) / Download / Discogs / Harrowing
Elijah Muhammad – Muhammad Speaks, Volume 2, Part 1 – The Time Of Judgement / Download / Discogs / A self-proclaimed messenger of Allah
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Home Computers (1983) / Download / Discogs / Steve Allen talking about floppy disks while Jayne Meadows laughs
Frank Lloyd Wright – On Record (1961) / Download / Discogs / Famous old white guy sounding exactly how you’d expect a famous old white guy to sound
Getting Through – A Guide To Better Understanding Of The Hard Of Hearing (1971) / Download / Discogs / Kind of a promotional record for hearing aids but also some really compassionate stuff about, well, understanding the hard of hearing.
I Love A Mystery – The Temple Of Vampires (1976) / Download / Discogs / An old spooky radioplay
The Inquiry Development Program (1966) / Download / Discogs / What, you don’t know what the Inquiry Development Program is? Well I’ve got the perfect record for you!
J. R. R. Tolkien Reads And Sings From His The Lord Of The Rings (1975) / Download / Discogs / It’s another old white guy! But honestly this is fucking awesome.
J. R. R. Tolkien Reads And Sings His The Hobbit And The Fellowship Of The Ring (1975) / Download / Discogs / So is this one.
Jack Van Impe – The Coming War With Russia (1969) / Download / Discogs / The Walking Bible is afraid
James Baldwin – Black Man In America (1962) / Download / Discogs / Now this is a fucking interview
Jimmy Nelson’s “Instant Ventriloquism” And “Ventriloquism For The Beginner” (1964) / Download / Discogs / You really want to listen to this one. Trust me.
Jimmy Swaggart – Flying Missiles Atomic Bombs And The Second Coming Of Jesus Christ (1972) / Download / Discogs / Another televangelist trying to scare you into giving him all of your money.
Metabolic Abnormalities In Diabetes (1966) / Download / Discogs / Get educated.
The Most Important Event Of The Year (1965) / Download / Discogs / I won’t spoil the surprise but I must agree, this was the most important event of the year.
Pronouncing The Scientific Names Of Seashells Of North America (1969) / Download / Discogs / The best of the best.
Russ Burgess – Developing Your E.S.P. Powers / Download / Discogs / Impress your friends with this cool trick.
The Sea At Castle Hill / The Alexander Hamilton Of The Hudson River Day Line (1963) / Download / Discogs / One of those Droll Yankees gems, a field recording of random places in New England.
Stairway To Hell – Evils Of Led Zeppelin Exposed / Download / Discogs List to Nileppez Del backwards and sell your soul to Satan.
Voices Of The Loon (1980) / Download / Discogs / Loons make some of the scariest sounds in the animal world.
Walter Van Tilburg Clark read by Henry Fonda – The Ox-Bow Incident (1979) / Download / Discogs / Henry Fonda reading about lynch mobs and herd mentality.
Yehuda Lev – The Sounds Of Jerusalem (1959) / I ripped this for myself but I’m not posting it here because it’s a Folkways release and they have (almost) everything they’ve ever released available digitally and for a reasonable price. Consider this my recommendation to buy this from them because it’s really fucking good.

Monday, September 13th, 2021
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12:22 pm
Episode 130


 
New Fluisteraars, Yemeni folk, new Sarah Davachi, Godzilla sound effects, ionosphere recordings, Margaret Walker poetry, Cambodian ballads…

 
Background music: Michael Chapman – Homage To Jim Hall (from VDSQ Solo Acoustic Vol. 11)

00:00:00 Talk break
00:02:25 Fluisteraars – Verscheuring In De Schemering (from Gegrepen Door De Geest Der Zielsontluiking)
00:22:34 Daniel Walsh – The Old Miner’s Refrain (from Songs & Ballads Of Anthracite Miners)
00:23:16 Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe – Brianna Says His Name (from Candyman Soundtrack)
00:30:09 Talk break
00:32:14 Saad Kawkabani – Ya Sabooh Al Enab (from Music From Yemen Arabia • Sanaani – Laheji – Adeni)
00:43:00 Lawrence English – Observation Of Breath (from Observation Of Breath)
00:44:58 Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard – Music For 19 Bass Clarinets (from Saturations)
00:45:21 Unknown Giay Woman – Song In Lao Chai Village (from Ethnic Minority Music Of North Vietnam)
01:03:43 Talk break
01:07:45 Sadness – In A Memory (from Agnosia)
01:21:58 High Altitude Sounds Recorded At Various Speeds: Dawn-Chorus, Swishes, Whistlers, Tweeks (from Ionosphere)
01:22:57 Situation Dramas Utilizing Sound Effects (from Sound Effect Of Godzilla: Godzilla And His Friends)
01:31:13 Margaret Walker – Delta (from Margaret Walker Reads Margaret Walker And Langston Hughes)
01:32:31 Sarah Davachi – Magdalena (from Antiphonals)
01:42:27 Talk break
01:46:21 Low – Hey (from Hey What)
01:54:02 Samantha Bumgarner – Georgia Blues (from Hard Times Come Again No More Vol. 1 – Early American Rural Songs Of Hard Times And Hardships)
01:56:58 Mao Sareth – Wounds Of Love (from Wounds Of Love: Khmer Oldies, Vol. 1)
02:01:19 Talk break

Monday, August 30th, 2021
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1:54 pm
Episode 129


 
A live set! First time in forever. It went ok. I think I figured out a setup that works for me.

Got some good shit on this one. I start out with two of my favorite records this year, mix in some Bahamian folk, Bengali spirituals, Japanese weirdness, Greek hymns, Easter Island chants, and of course some killer black metal.
 
Background music: The Ghostwriters – Slow Blue In Horizontal (from Remote Dreaming)

00:00:00 Talk break
Vouna – What Once Was (from Atropos)
Midwife – Promise Ring (from Luminol)
Karen Black – Babe Oh Babe (from Dreaming Of You (1971-1976))

00:29:08 Talk break
Chord – G9-11sus(b2)-F (from Imperfect Authentic Cadence)
Unknown Artists – Cultivate The Human Land (excerpt) (from Religious Songs From Bengal: Songs Of The Bauls And Poems Of Chandidas)
Elie Wiesel – The Song Of The Dead (from Reading From His Works)
Arushi Jain – The Sun Swirls Within You (from Under The Lilac Sky)

01:05:22 Talk break
Joseph Spence – Run Come See Jerusalem (from Encore: Unheard Recordings Of Bahamian Guitar And Singing)
Jose Bedmar – Guitar Improvisation (from Portrait Of Andalusia)
France Jobin – The Fluidity Of Time Does Not Exist Pt. I & Pt. II (excerpt) (from The Fluidity Of Time Does Not Exist)
Asenath Blake – Elemental Materialisation (from Zoëtic Songs)
Tvær – IV (from Uvaer)

01:32:11 Talk break
Ichiko Aoba – Pilgrimage (from Adan No Kaze)
Roxane Métayer – Partie II: Grottes Graciles (from Paroles Cavernicoles)
The Chuch Of The Theotokos Blachernae – Side A (from The Akathistos Hymn And The Veneration Of The Cross)
Amélia Tepano – Kaï Kaï (from Musiques De L’Ile De Pâques)

01:59:55 Talk break

Monday, July 12th, 2021
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3:04 pm
Episode 128 – Soundtrack Special


 
Got inspired to do an entire episode of soundtracks. Mostly horror and sci-fi stuff, there’s a pretty good mix of new and old. The bit with Upstream Color & Annihilation is fuckin crazy.

 
Background music: Popol Vuh – Vergegenwärtigung (From Aguirre Soundtrack)

00:00:00 Talk break
00:01:23 Gil Mellé – Strobe Crystal Green (From The Andromeda Strain Soundtrack)
00:06:22 Pino Donaggio – Two Evil Eyes (From Two Evil Eyes Soundtrack)
00:13:58 Giuliano Sorgini – Amboselli (From Zoo Folle Soundtrack)
00:20:01 Fred Karlin – Robot Repair (From Westworld Soundtrack)
00:20:15 Disasterpeace – The Gauntlet (From Hyper Light Drifter Soundtrack)
00:24:19 Les Baxter – Reincarnation (From The Dunwich Horror Soundtrack)
00:29:45 Philip Glass – Floating Candyman (From The Music Of Candyman)
00:36:50 Talk break
00:39:20 Bruno Nicolai – La Dama Rossa Uccide Sette Volte (Preludio & Titoli) (From La Dama Rossa Uccide Sette Volte Soundtrack)
00:43:01 Eduard Artemiev – Untitled (6) (From Solaris Soundtrack)
00:43:25 Sarah Connolly – Fragments Of A Prayer (From Fragments Of A Prayer: Children Of Men Soundtrack)
00:50:19 Mica Levi – Alien Loop (From Under The Skin Soundtrack)
00:58:43 Talk break
01:00:238 Paul Giovanni – Festival / Mirie It Is / Sumer Is A-Cumen In (From The Wicker Man Soundtrack)
01:02:41 Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow – The Alien (From Annihilation Soundtrack)
01:05:45 Shane Carruth – A Low And Distant Sound Gradually Swelling And Increasing (From Upstream Color Soundtrack)
01:14:23 Andrzej Korzyński – Kreuzberg 1 (From Possession Soundtrack)
01:16:23 Lubos Fiser – And The Lasat (From Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders Soundtrack)
01:19:37 Peter Peter & Peter Kyed – The Boat (From Valhalla Rising Soundtrack)
01:21:37 Ferde Grofé – Exploring The Red Planet (From Rocketship X-M Soundtrack)
01:29:51 John Harrison – Henry Leaves Wilma A Note (From Creepshow Soundtrack)
01:34:06 Talk break
01:36:41 Nino Rota – Il Duca Di Wurttenberg (From Il Casanova Di Federico Fellini Soundtrack)
01:36:42 Richard Band – Quinn Attacks The Remaining Few/Dv-8 Robot Re-Activated (From Crash And Burn Soundtrack)
01:42:20 Elmer Bernstein – Space Murder (From Saturn 3 Soundtrack)
01:46:01 Christopher Young – The Hider (From Hider In The House Soundtrack)
01:49:43 Ryuichi Sakamoto – The Seed And The Sower (From Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Soundtrack)
01:57:52 Brian Reitzell – Soon There Will Be Just Five (From 30 Days Of Night Soundtrack)
02:04:08 Bobby Krlic – Fire Temple (From Midsommar Soundtrack)
02:13:41 Talk break

Friday, July 16th, 2021
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8:35 pm
200+ Rare International Records


Remember those blogs from the late ’00s and early ’10s like Mutant Sounds and Holy Warbles? They were the fucking best. They shared music that you either never knew existed or knew about but thought “there’s no way I’ll ever get to listen to that.” I’m pretty sure a decent chunk of my digital music collection came from those sites. It’s a shame the zeitgeist has passed. Not only have those sites been taken down but the once ubiquitous MediaFire and RapidShare download links have long since expired.

Sometime last week, I stumbled across Bolingo (aka Anthems for the Nation of Luobaniya). It’s mostly focused on traditional Indian with a hefty dose of African, Middle Eastern, and various Asian jams. The site is still there and the dude has made sure all the download links still work. But even better is that most posts have high quality scans and a ton of information about the artists, labels, release variants, and all that good stuff. It’s a fucking treasure. But this time, I wasn’t about to let all of this go the way of Cosmic Hearse.

I downloaded every record (which includes scans of the jacket, liner notes, etc) and I downloaded a mirror of the entire site. 200+ records (mostly 320k mp3s), over 30 GB, and all of it was either untagged or horribly tagged. And while I’m incredibly thankful this music was made available, I couldn’t re-share it in that kind of condition.

I spent a considerable amount of time making sure everything had a track number, track title, artist, album title, date (if available), and embedded cover art. That was time-consuming enough on its own but I’m kind of a stickler for making sure that 1, diacritics are transcribed correctly and 2, artist information is as accurate as possible. The problem with the diacritics was that some were kind of obscure and I had some trouble just identifying them (like a handwritten “ɛ” or “ɔ”) which made it difficult finding them on Graphemica.

The artist info wasn’t super challenging, it’s just that the information I needed wasn’t something I could just copy from Discogs, so I had to *ZOOM* *ENHANCE* some of those liner notes to identify Kiko, Alberto Hotou, & Souzy as the people who performed “Hanga Rahi A Akou.” It’s possible that some are labeled as “Unknown Artist” where the performer is, in fact, mentioned in the liner notes, but the only reason that would happen is if the liner notes weren’t in English. Anyway, it’s cool if you don’t really care about my attention to detail but I kind of hope you do.

Here you go.
3MB file: bolingo.torrent
1.7MB file: bolingo.torrent

Also, here’s a zip of the site mirror… just in case.

Update
I can’t believe I didn’t include a single line about exactly what music is in this collection (and also that so many of you downloaded it regardless!). Let me remedy that. Most of the records that are just a single artist (instead of a compilation or whatever), are Indian. A few big names like Bhimsen Joshi, Ustad Amir Khan, M.S. Subbulakshmi, and Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan as well as a bunch of musicians I’ve never heard of like Pandit Narayanrao Vyas, Geetashree Sandhya Mukherjee, and Rasiklal Andharia.

Then there’s a ton of field recordings and anthologies like the series of Unesco/Musicaphon releases (A Musical Anthology Of The Orient, An Anthology Of African Music, An Anthology Of South-East Asian Music, Musical Sources, Musical Atlas, Anthologie De La Musique Des Peuples, Music Of Oceania, Première Anthologie De La Musique Malienne, etc). There’s also a bunch from The Living Tradition series on Argo recorded by Deben Bhattacharya and The Music Of Africa series on Kaleidophone recorded by Hugh Tracey.

Friday, March 12th, 2021
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4:31 pm
Episode 127 – Nu Metal Special


 

I love nu metal. There was a short period of my life where I was a little ashamed by it, but that’s long gone. There is some really good stuff in the genre that I think most people ignored because of garbage like Limp Bizkit’s “Rollin’.” There’s more to nu metal than that and if you can’t share my love of the genre as a whole, maybe you can at least find a song or two for the next time you feel the need to mosh.

 

Background music: Static-X – December (from Wisconsin Death Trip)

00:00:00 Talk break
00:05:38 Taproot – I (from Gift)
00:09:59 Godhead – The Reckoning (from 2000 Years Of Human Error)
00:13:59 Fear Factory – Shock (from Obsolete)
00:18:57 Kittie – Spit (from Spit)
00:21:16 Nonpoint – What A Day (from Statement)
00:24:31 Talk break
00:28:21 Static-X – Bled For Days (from Wisconsin Death Trip)
00:32:07 Spineshank – Detached (from Strictly Diesel)
00:35:26 Relative Ash – Sperm (from Our Time With You)
00:38:56 Sevendust – Black (from Sevendust)
00:43:04 [minus] – Father’s Eyes (from Structure Of Simplicity)
00:46:31 Talk break
00:48:14 Flaw – Whole (from Through The Eyes)
00:52:02 Snot – Snot (from Get Some)
00:55:23 Ultraspank – Crumble (from Progress)
00:59:09 Cold – Just Got Wicked (from 13 Ways To Bleed On Stage)
01:03:09 40 Below Summer – We The People (from Invitation To The Dance)
01:06:50 Shinedown – Fly From The Inside (from Leave A Whisper)
01:10:42 Talk break
01:15:09 Chevelle – Send The Pain Below (from Wonder What’s Next)
01:19:18 Ill Niño – What Comes Around (from Revolution Revolución)
01:23:03 Reveille – Permanent (Take A Look Around) (from Laced)
01:27:08 Skrape – What You Say (from New Killer America)
01:30:28 Soulfly – Eye For An Eye (from Soulfly)
01:34:01 Systematic – Deep Colors Bleed (from Somewhere In Between)
01:38:07 Otep – Blood Pigs (from Sevas Tra)
01:42:09 Talk break
01:45:42 Korn – Ball Tongue (from Korn)
01:50:07 Deftones – My Own Summer (Shove It) (from Around The Fur)
01:53:43 Limp Bizkit – Pollution (from Three Dollar Bill, Y’all)
01:57:36 Fear Factory – Resurrection (from Obsolete)
02:04:11 SlipKnot – Surfacing (from Slipknot)
02:07:49 Talk break
02:13:25 System Of A Down – Spiders (from System Of A Down)
02:17:00 Static-X – I Am (from Wisconsin Death Trip)
02:19:48 Mudvayne – Death Blooms (from L.D. 50)
02:24:40 Taproot – Smile (from Gift)
02:28:12 Flaw – Payback (from Through The Eyes)
02:32:11 Talk break

Thursday, March 4th, 2021
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3:23 pm
Episode 126


 
This is the first episode in a long time with no black metal. The only metal is some massive doom. But there’s also some wind harp drone, weirdo Japanese disco, the Inanga queen, the new solo acoustic master Yasmin Williams, and some snapshots of the civil rights movement.
 

Background music: Jack Rose – Calais To Dover (from Kensington Blues)

00:00:00 Talk break
00:01:52 Pantheist – Don’t Mourn (from O Solitude)
00:15:51 Yasmin Williams – After the Storm (from Urban Driftwood)
00:16:17 Indian Bottom Association – The Meaning of Singing (Spoken) (from Old Regular Baptists: Lined-Out Hymnody From Southeastern Kentucky)
00:21:24 M. Caye Castagnetto – Mi Mentira (from Leap Second)
00:25:52 Heather Leigh – Death Switch (from Glory Days)
00:28:39 Talk break
00:31:57 Hellvete – Voor Harmonium III (from Voor Harmonium)
00:32:03 Daphne Oram & Frederick Bradnum – Private Dreams And Public Nightmares (from Private Dreams And Public Nightmares)
00:51:10 Perfect Mother – Dark-Disco-Da-Da-Da-Run (from Somewhere Between: Mutant Pop, Electronic Minimalism & Shadow Sounds Of Japan 1980–1988)
00:54:!7 The Montgomery Express – Gotta Make a Comeback (from The Montgomery Movement)
00:58:25 Sophie Nzayisenga – Story of Nyangezi (from Queen Of Inanga: Music From Rwanda)
01:06:14 Talk break
01:08:30 Gavilán Rayna Russom – A Place For Us Among The Ruins (For Alyson) (from Secret Passage)
01:09:36 Etta & Cora Baker – Jaybird March (from Black Banjo Songsters Of North Carolina And Virginia)
01:14:30 Ralph Abernathy – Ralph Abernathy speaking (from Lest We Forget, Vol. 2: Birmingham, Alabama, 1963 – Mass Meeting)
01:22:19 Cassandra Jenkins – The Ramble (from An Overview On Phenomenal Nature)
01:29:21 Talk break
01:31:33 Samothrace – A Horse of Our Own (from Reverence To Stone)
01:51:58 Sverre Larssen – Nordavinden I (from Wind Harp Recordings (1976-1977))
01:52:55 The Moving Star Hall Singers – Lay Down Body (from Been In The Storm So Long – Spirituals & Shouts, Children’s Game Songs, And Folktales)
01:56:38 Demonstrators At March – Freedom Now Chant (from Freedom Songs: Selma, Alabama)
01:59:46 The Nashville Quartet – Your Dog Loves My Dog (from Sing For Freedom: The Story Of The Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs)
01:05:09 Two Gospel Keys – I Don’t Want To Go Down There – Part 2 (from Country Gospel: The Post War Years (1946-1953))
02:08:03 Talk break

Friday, February 5th, 2021
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12:00 pm
Episode 125

funeral dance in the mountains album cover
 
Watch out. That third set with Johanna Hedva, The Besnard Lakes, and Divide And Dissolve is fuckin monstrous.
 

Background music: Dylan Golden Aycock – Scratch The Chisel (from Church Of Level Track)

00:00:00 Talk break
00:01:41 Eyeless In Gaza – The Protagonist (from Act I: The Protagonist)
00:22:03 Brethren Of The Free Spirit – The Wolf Also Shall Dwell With The Lamb (from The Wolf Also Shall Dwell With The Lamb)
00:30:43 Talk break
00:32:13 The Body – A Lament (from I’ve Seen All I Need To See)
00:38:10 Jon Mueller – Welcome (from Family Secret)
00:41:08 Indricothere & Geryon – One Hundred Thousand Years (from Timelined Exterior)
00:45:27 Walantaka Village, Java – Debus (from Funeral Dance In The Mountains: Rural Percussion (& Vocal) Ethnographic Recordings From Southeast Asia)
01:01:49 Jackie McDowell – Throat (from Color + Sound)
01:06:13 Talk break
01:09:27 Johanna Hedva – 2 Coins (Tears Are What God Uses To Lubricate Its Big Machine Of Nothing) (from Black Moon Lilith In Pisces In The 4th House)
01:18:32 The Besnard Lakes – Our Heads, Our Hearts On Fire Again (from The Besnard Lakes Are The Last Of The Great Thunderstorm Warnings)
01:24:59 Divide And Dissolve – Denial (from Gas Lit)
01:32:36 Talk break
01:35:01 Of Thread & Mist – Grace And Truth Perish (from Static Hymns To No One)
01:37:05 Margaret Walker – Epitaph for My Father (from The Poetry Of Margaret Walker)
01:53:22 J.P. Nyangira – Hongo Owiti (from Bellyachers, Listen: Songs From East Africa, 1938-46)
01:56:44 Talk break

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