That Witch is Groovy

6/5/13

Mansanka Sankyai & Kasai Allstars: Wa Muluendu, Congotronics 2 (crammed)
Shannon and the Clams: Rip Van Winkle, Dreams in the Rat House (hardly art)
Firefriend: Witch Hunt, Witch Tales
Lonnie Holley: The End of the Film Era, Just Before Music (dust to digital)
Peter Murphy: Final Solution, Should the World Fail to Fall Apart (beggar’s banquet)
Andrea Parker: Melodious Thunk, Kiss My Arp (mo wax)
Holy Balm: Phone Song, It’s You (not not fun)
John Chantler: #3, The Luminous Ground (room40)
hudpucker: Freeze
Anne-James Chaton & Andy Moor: D’ouest En Est, Transfer (unsouns)
Xeno & Oaklander: Vigils (wierd)
Hototogisu: #1, Chimaredammerung (de stijl)
Noah Creshevsky: Hoodlum Priest, Hyperrealism (mutablemusic)
Date Palms: Dusted Down, The Dusted Sessions (thrill jockey)
Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Irgendwann Fruhling, Cicadidae (temporary residence)
Mono: A Heart Has Asked For The Pleasure, You Are There (temporary residence)
Mum: K/Half Noise, Finally We Are No-One (fatcat)
Dim Past: Winter For The Machine, Black Dolphin (other electricies/roofless)
Big Black Delta: Capsize (masters of bates)

5/29/13

Controlled Bleeding: Firelight (pts 1 & 2), Hog Floor (subterranean)
Richard Burmer: The Serum, Electronic Vignettes (fortuna)
Tom Jones and Sean Connery: What’s New PUSSYcat
PJ Harvey and John Parish: Is That All There Is?, Dance Hall at Louse Point (island)
Optiganally Yours: The Outer Space, Presents: Exclusively Talentmaker (absolutely kosher)
Bjork: Amphibian (film mix), Being John Malkovich OST (astralwerks)
Tom Furse/Goat: Run To Your Mama (extrapolation mix), RTYM Remixes vol 1 (rocket)
Jean Claude Vannier: Le Roi Des Mouches et La Contifuture De Rouse, L’Enfant Assasin Des Mouches (b-music)
Air: Sonic Armada, Le Voyage Dans La Lune (astralwerks)
Lucky Dragons: Snowing Circle, Widows (marriage)
Matthew Burtner: d2 (edit), Wire Tapper 12
Justin Walter: Plastic People, Lullibies and Nightmares (kranky)
Peter Broerick and Machinefabriek: Session I, Mort-Aux+Vaches (vpro)
Howlround: Side 1, The Ghosts of Bush (curved)
Xinlisupreme: Under a Clown, Tomorrow Never Comes (fatcat)
Dayjoy: Talks of Terror, Go to Sleep Mess (small plates)
Conure: Some Vowel Abstinence, The Generation of Our Grandfathers (edgetone)
Brother JT: I Still Like Cassettes, The Svelteness of Boogietude (thrill jockey)
David Grubbs: I Started to Live When My Barber Died, The Plain Where The Palace Stood (drag city)
Baptist Generals: 3 Bromides, Jackleg Devotional To The Heart (subpop)
Unstable: To Speak To Listen, The Liturgy of Ghosts (family vineyard)

5/22/13

Happy Birthday, Herman Blount!

Sun Ra: Twin Stars of Thence, Lanquidity (evidence)
Brian Turner: Disco Hiroshima, WFMU Reinterprets the Music of Sun Ra (wfmu)
Atlas Sound: Quick Canal, Logos (kranky)
Belaboris: Kolme Askelta (demo), Once Upon a Time… (dark entries)
Kesinee Na Banrai: Lam PLearn Isan Lang, Theppabutr Productions: The Man Behind the Molam Sound 1972-1975 (light in the attic)
Happy New Year: Summer (svn sns)
Ilhan Mimaroglu: La Ruche, an Elegy for Electromagnetic Tape, Agitation (locust)
Loop 2.4.3: Dark Matter, Zodiac Dust (music starts from science)
The Books: Thank-You Branch, Thought for Food (tomlab)
John King: Sweet Hardwood (exerpt), Ethel (cantaloupe)
Harvey Goldman: Singing with Slit Tongue, Speaking with Shadows (la la music)
Motorpsycho: Mutiny!, The Death Defying Unicorn (rune grammofon)
Chelsea Light Moving: Mohawk (matador)
Guided By Voices: Taciturn Cave, English Little League (gbv, inc.)
Ulrich Schnauss: Broken Homes, A Long Way to Fall (domino)
Cosmin TRG: Gordian (weapons)
Faze Miyake: 5000, Grime 20 (big dada)
Jim Haynes: November, The Wires Cracked (editions mego)

5/8/13

A.R. Kane: Dizzy, 69 (rough trade)
Black Sabbath: Planet Caravan, Paranoid (wea)
Jimaji: Oorutaichi, Hard Marchen in Osaka (nazna oiran)
Wolf Eyes: Chattering Lead, No Answer-Lower Floors (de stijl)
Mandible Chatter: From Whence and to Whither, Hair Hair Lock & Lore (russell)
Broadcast: Collatina is Coming, Berberian Sound Studio (warp)
Jacky Apple: The Mexican Tapes, side 2 (one-ten)
Lush: Light From a Dead Star, Gala (4ad)
Wavves: Mystic, Afraid of Heights (wea)
Adult.: A Day Like Forever, The Way Things Fall (ghostly)
Siouxsie and the Banshees: Lunar Camel, Kaleidoscope (geffen)
Henry Kucharzyk: Play Dot Sam, Walk the Line: Three New Works (artifact music)
Helen Money: Everything I Am Thinking, In Tune (radium)
Milford Graves: Gathering, Grand Unification (tzadik)
Low: Lazy, I Could Live in Hope (vernon yard)
Quicksails: Dancing By Yourself, Mayville (spectrum spools)
Eugene Carchesio: side A, Circle Music II (room40)
Legowelt: Strange Girl, Classics (bunker)
From The Mouth of The Sun: My Skin Drinks Light that has Passed Through Leaves, Woven Tide (experimedia)
La Mystere des Voix Bulgares: Tri Shopski Pesni, Vol. 4 (fontana)
Meredith Monk: Do You Be, New Series (ecm)
Joan La Barbara: Thunder, Tape Songs (ecm)

5/1/2013

Sonic Youth: Expressway to Yr Skull, Evol (sst)
Van Allen Belt: Songs (veronica plume)
The Knife: Raging Lung, Shaking the Habitual (brille)
Wax Idols: When it Happens, Discipline + Desire (slr)
Robert Fripp: Urban Landscape, Exposure (e.g.)
Suuns: Music Won’t Save You, Images du Futur (secretly canadian)
!!!: Careful, Thr!!!er (warp)
Matthew Dear: Tide, Backstroke (ghostly/spectral)
Black Pus: A Better Man, All My Relations (thrill jockey)
Fridge: Oram, The Sun (temporary residence)
Petra Haden: Carlotta’s Galop, Petra Goes to the Movies (anti)
Ishi: Moon Watcher, Digital Wounds (internal)
Boundary: Long Story Short (noboundary)
Nommo Ogo: In the Inbetween, Endless Dream (record label)
Brain Science: Looper Trooper (basic training mix), This is Ovenguard, vol. 3 (ovenguard)
So Percussion: Melody Composition: Evan Ziporyn (cantaloupe)
Material: I’m the One, Change the Beat (The Celluloid Records Story 1979-1987) (strut)
Umberto: The Summoning, Confrontations (not not fun)
Pantha du Prince & The Bell Laboratory: Photon, Elements of Light (rough trade)
Sonogram: Bloom, How We Saw Tomorrow (simulacra records)