I’m covering for “Style City” today, so it’s feeling a bit bright and sunny in the studio– even with all these horrid grey skies! I imagine that will make today’s show a bit different than usual. Another big influence on today’s programming will be the presence of the brand-spanking-new “L” volume of GX Jupitter-Larsen’s “Zelphabet” series. As any reader/listener of mine will know, I’m a big fan. In addition to being an incredible source for noise lovers to discover overlooked or under-promoted musicians, the quality of the contributions has been consistently high– compilations might be a dime a dozen, but there are precious few (especially of this scope) that would honestly elicit such description.
Eric Glick-Rieman — The Past, Aerated (from “In My Mind, her Image Was Reversed,” on Accretions)
Toshio Kajiwara, Marina Rosenfeld, Christian Marclay — New York, 8/21/03 (from “DJ Trio,” on Asphodel)
Lovely Little Girls — Chunky Dog-Like Face (from “Glamorous Piles & Puffy Saddlebags,” on Apop Records)
Lovely Little Girls — Creeping Things Dig Slowly
Lovely Little Girls — Wretched Substitute
Don Campau — Jungle of Misunderstanding (from album of the same name, on Lonely Whistle)
Lasse Marhaug — Zen (this, and next three, from “L” volume of “Zelphabet”)
Leather Bath — Armistice
Leticia Castaneda — Museum for the Blind
Lionel Marchetti — Natura Morta
Whew! I’m kind of tired out this morning. I was happy to take a few nice calls, though– it’s always nice to hear from listeners. Next week is the 10th anniversary of “It’s Too Damn Early” airing on WDBX-FM, so I’m pretty excited about that. Although I don’t have an exact count personally, this is about 500 shows! Seems like a fair number– I’ve missed some, but I’ve also covered a bunch. At any rate, it’s been a lot of fun, and I know I’ve had a great time learning about experimental music (as well as sharing it with you).
Alfred Harth — Adler_Kino 1166-1215 I# (from “Gift Fig,” on Kendra Steiner Editions)
Pailbug — First Pail (from self-titled album on Generate Records)
Pailbug — Second Pail
Pauline Oliveros — No Mo (from “No Mo,” on Pogus)
Yota Kobayashi — Kakusei (this, and next two, from “XXXII Concorso Internazionale Di Musica Elettroacustica E Rumore 2010,” on Monochrome Vision)
Sergy Khismatov — Spring Relapse
Sebastien Peter — Schatten
Crank Sturgeon — Breakfast With Crank Sturgeon (on RRRecords)
Eric Glick Rieman — Forgetting Belief (from “In My Mind, Her Image Was Reversed,” on Accretions)
Eric Glick Rieman — What’s Said, Reinterpreted By Future Hearers
Kevin Kastning, Sandor Szabo, Balazs Major — Triptych 1 (from “Triptych,” on Greydisc)
Kevin Kastning, Sandor Szabo, Balazs Major — Triptych 2
Kevin Kastning, Sandor Szabo, Balazs Major — Triptych 3
Loachfillet — The Automated Bowl of Soup (from “Electric Pond: Solar Solution,” on Resipiscent)
Eric Glick Rieman — The Past, Aerated (from “In My Mind, Her Image Was Reversed,” on Accretions)
Eric Glick Rieman — Reinventing Belief
Brent Fariss — Palestine (from “Four Environments… Collapsing,” on Kendra Steiner Editions)
Brent Fariss — Four Environments… Collapsing
Brent Fariss — Three Spirit Recordings
David First — Pipeline Witness Apologies To Dennis (from “Privacy Issues,” on XI Records)
“At the first thrill of the organ I was torn from my setting and came near to sobbing. “Keep quiet, you fool,” I said to myself, “it’s only neurasthenia.”" –Wanderers
Read more sound/listening-related quotes at my Litnoise page!
Okay, so it looks like Kendra Steiner Editions is getting added to my short list of favorite labels. How did I miss this for so long? I must be slipping. Folks, you need to hold me to a higher standard! But seriously, the latest addition is #214, so I have a lot to fill in. My birthday is in April, please give generously, haha.
Also, Dolphin Logic’s EP is almost out on Tundra Dubs. Listen in next week, and I’ll play some more of it. You gotta love an album with a track named “Wet Goddess.”
Ernesto Diaz-Infante — Emilio I-XXXII (from “Emilio,” on Kendra Steiner Editions) Arvo Zylo — Quicksand Eggs of a Beaten Pathos (from “333″ self-release)
Merzbow — The Spirit Indulges In The Sadness (from “Dead Zone,” on Quasi Pop)
Sabrina Siegel — Bottlecaps pt.1 (from “Bottlecaps,” on Kendra Steiner Editions)
Sabrina Siegel — Bottlecaps pt.2
Sabrina Siegel — Bottlecaps pt.3
Dolphin Logic – Nukular (from “Holographic Dreaming,” on upcoming EP for Tundra Dubs)
Dolphin Logic — Wet Goddess
DaveX — Free Air I (from “Free Air” self-release)
These are all too long for Twitter! Still, this is a great quote– definitely going to be a hard one to beat:
“Sound of mating birds, sound of spring blossoms dropping in the tranquil air, the bark of sleepy dogs at midnight; who is to set them down and make them anything but hackneyed?” –Arrowsmith
Read more sound/listening-related quotes at my Litnoise page!
This is a great quote. As I continue to work on Litnoise, I find these demonstrations of active listening to be quite rare indeed:
“The boy listened sharply. He heard the Doc open the lower part of the washstand, where he kept his bottle of Jamaica rum. After a long gurgle the invisible Doc put away the bottle and decisively kicked the doors shut. Still good. Only one drink. If he came into the consultation-room at once, he would be safe. But he was still standing in the bedroom. Martin sighed as the washstand doors were hastily opened again, as he heard another gurgle and a third.” –Arrowsmith
Alchemy of the 20th Century — Modern Alchemy (from “Halogen Ball,” on Negative Foundation)
Dieter Muh — Well-Thumbed
Mnem — Genocide Mobile
Grey Park — 10 Dollar Habit/Immediate Resignation
Frank Rothkamm — German Film Star (from “Reno” on Flux Records)
Frank Rothkamm — E Sharp Espresso
Frank Rothkamm — Brooklyn Warehouse Party
Frank Rothkamm — I Love Nina
Area C — Treble Thickness (from “Traffics + Discoveries,” on Last Visible Dog)
Area C — Dark Radio/Light Waves
Area C — Ordinary Vane
Area C — Squall (2)
Area C — Jinking And Tunneling
Area C — Surface Volumes
Dislocation — View 1 (from “Mud Layer Cake,” on Eh? Records)
Dislocation — View 2
I guess I’m in a mood for the electroacoustic side of things today! I’ve been impressed (again) by Stanislav Kreitchi, sound engineer and keeper of the ANS synthesizer. This is the sort of guy I’d love to meet– and such amazing music!
RP Collier — All Christmas Songs At Once (otherwise unreleased) (and check out some of Collier’s amazing handmade instruments!)
Dohi Moon — Perhaps, reminisce (this, and next, from “XXXII Concorso Internazionale Di Musica Elettroacustica E Rumore 2010,” on Monochrome Vision)
Damien Depannemaeck — Stadt Test
Grey Park — Report One (otherwise unreleased)
Screwtape — Please God, Wash All the Filth Away (Screwtape’s Bandcamp)
Stanislav Kreitchi — Birth of Vertical (from “Ansiana,” on Electroshock) (some interesting background here)
Stanislav Kreitchi — Ocean: Waves, Winds & Birds
Stanislav Kreitchi — Ocean: Tam-Tams of the Green Islands
Stanislav Kreitchi — Ocean: Dolphins’ Play
Stanislav Kreitchi — Ellipsiada 1 & 2
Stanislav Kreitchi — Six Days of Creation
Dear Beloved Henry — Untitled, Side A (from “Dear Beloved Henry/Albert Materia” split cassette on Hyster Tapes)
Albert Materia — Untitled, Side B
DACM — Party (from “Stéréotypie,” on Asphodel)
DACM — Vidya
DACM — Angel
DACM — Marie
I played a lot from the Accretions 25th anniversary compilation today– if you’re noticing the absence of Eric Glick-Rieman in the lineup, it’s because I’ve got so much of his stuff in tomorrow’s “Sounds Like Radio” broadcast. Next week, look for new recordings from his latest album “In My Mind, Her Image Was Reversed.” Also– played some cool new recordings from a couple favorite people– R.P. Collier sent in some goodies, and I hope you’ll take a while to check out what he’s up to; Duane Pitre also saw to it that “It’s Too Damn Early” listeners could check out his “ED09: Live At The Stone” LP here on the show. I appreciate it, and of course would like to encourage you to pick up a copy for yourself.
Ministry of Rites — Saturnine Shores (from “Grid,” on Edgetone)
Dawn of Midi — The Far Seam (this, and next eight, from “25″ on Accretions)
Donkey w/ Marcos Fernandes — Jazzorca En Vivo
Hans Fjellestad — The Keeper
Jason Robinson, Michael Dessen — Synchronous Aether
Marcelo Radulovich — Circumnambulating
Marcos Fernandes — Heat
Nathan Hubbard — Echodot
Santiago Latorre — Solo
RP Collier — Micro-Rhapsody
RP Collier — Precipitate (for Hans Reichel)
Duane Pitre — ED09: Live At The Stone, Side A (from LP of the same name, on Basses Frequences)
Pawn — Snow Piles (from “Above the Winter Oaks,” on The Land Of)
Pawn — Winter Came Again
Pawn — Fallen
Pawn — Bottom of Bottle
Pawn — Above the Winter Oaks
Uton — Ay Um Au Lam (from “Whispers From The Woods,” on Last Visible Dog)
Jennifer Walshe — Nature Data (from “Nature Data,” on Interval Recordings)
Myriam Lavoie — Chercher (this, and next two, from “Cache 2007” compilation)
Theo Mathien — Eolian Erosion
Elliot Vaughn — Icely Unsect
Ministry of Rites — Nightlight (from “Grid,” on Edgetone)
Octopus Inc — Goldbug (this, and next 7, from “Penguin Mechanics III” compilation from KracFive)
Bauri — Computercuddle
Pthalocyanine — Metalo-meld-mechano
Lackluster — Third Pie
Brothom States — Not Kava
Miragliuolo — Sandwich Train
Pacman — Citybuilder
Colongib — Angry Robot Locked in Compartment Wrenches Itself Free
Bearly Queen — Hairy Palm Adventures I-VII (on Luovaja, album of same name)
Rune Lindblad — Månens Död (from “Death of the Moon,” on Pogus)
Rune Lindblad — Evening
Rune Lindblad — Nocturne
Martin Alejandro Fumarola — Callejuelas (this and next from “Travels of the Spider,” on Pogus)
Alejandro Iglesias Rossi — Ascención
Ashtray Navigations — Darwin’s Seal, Animal Tracks and Bones (from “The Love That Whirrs,” on Last Visible Dog)
Ashtray Navigations — She’s Like Black Glass On A Pinball Table, Threatening The Love That Whirrs Seeded Plain — Tarpaper Neutrality (from “Entry Codes,” on Creative Sources)
Seeded Plain — Vacuum Insect
Seeded Plain — Czar of Thumbs
Seeded Plain — Waxwing Lettuce
Nolls — Tsunami Arms (from Hiss Nausea/Nolls split cassette on Hyster)
Nolls — Sunrape
Nolls — Invisible Summer
Nolls — Alpha Mail
Nolls — Night City
Nolls — Hallucinatory Forest
Rotkappchen — Xerox and Infinity (from Knirschen Knacken/Rotkappchen split cassette on Ikeukuro Dada)
Margaret Noble — Safer Is Better (from “Frakture“)
Margaret Noble — Watched
Margaret Noble — Consistent
Margaret Noble — Drowning on Land
Margaret Noble — Crossing Over
Margaret Noble — The Object of Power Is Power
Margaret Noble — Interlude Before the End
Margaret Noble — Distopia
Anna Maria Kieffer, Leo Kupper — Annazone (from “Ways of the Voice,” on Pogus)
Marko Marin — Kaikki jotka pimeää hengittävät (from “Heijastu, Katoa Ja Ole Valmiina,” on Luovaja)
Dolphin Logic — Hits From The Holographic Bong (from “Replicant Embolisms” self-release)
Robert Ashley — Perfect Lives; The Bank: Victimless Crime (from “Perfect Lives,” on Lovely Music)
Coin Gutter — Zero Article (from “Pigeonless,” on Vanity)
Coin Gutter — Third Conditional (for V)
Umin — Quill (from “Umbr,” on Abandon Buildings)
Umin — Nelm
Umin — Uke15
Umin — Umbr
Umin — 00
Umin — redvrtd
Seeded Plain, Hal Rammel — Hook and Eyespots (from split LP with DBH, co-release from Friends & Relatives Records, Gilgongo Records)
I’m covering for Emma’s “Style City” show today, so this is the “awake and cogent” version of my usual broadcast, haha. It’s been fun so far– definitely different to have the sun streaming in the windows!
Be sure to check out Dolphin Logic’s “Replicant Embolisms” album, btw. They’re local, and they’re keeping it weird– plus, I hear their show at the Douglass Art School went well! I’ll have to see about getting them on-air soon!
Hmm. I just got a “text-to-voice” message from a caller who says: “This is white noise, not music. I’m turning to country.” So I called them back, and left my own message. Next time, Jimerson Montgomery Phillips III (really?!) should grow a pair and call me himself.
Joe Lasqo — Choshi (from “Turquoise Sessions,” on Edgetone)
Gen Ken Montgomery — Friedhof (from “Birds + Machines,” on Pogus)
Dolphin Logic — Her Eyes Were A Burning Laser (from “Replicant Embolisms,” self-release)
BKPR — Kollateral (from “BKPR,” on Autumn Abattoir and Seasonal Affect)
Charlie Morrow — Central Park 1850 (from “Toot!,” on XI Records)
Robert Ashley — Perfect Lives, pt.2; The Supermarket: Famous People (from “Perfect Lives,” on Lovely Music)
Warren Burt — La Strega Bianca Della Luna (this, and next two, from “Sonic Circuits VI,” on Innova)
David Barnes — Panic in Legoland
Rasmus B. Lunding — Det Nødvendige
I was pretty happy to play the new Chefkirk album, “We Must Leave The Warren,” out now on Bryan Day’s Eh? label. Day has been sticking it to thematic music for a long while now, and frankly, I’m happy to see Chefkirk’s disc in such good company. It’s no secret that I’ve dug every Chefkirk recording I’ve managed to hear, but this one seems particularly right– high tones that pierce your face; low end that rattles the room; and every sort of scratchy, squelchy noise in between. Anyone playing no-input mixers will probably face a Toshimaru Nakamura comparison at some point in time, but Chefkirk’s offerings still come out strong. It’s partly due to the obvious familiarity with his gear, but paradoxically, it’s his naked efforts to push and explore the confined space of the mixer that set this disc apart from Nakamura’s more meditative fare.
Margaret Noble — Where Am I (from “Early Works,” on FEM Records)
Margaret Noble –Fingers
Margaret Noble — Atonement
Margaret Noble — Door Number Two
Margaret Noble — Kira’s Murder
Margaret Noble — The Walk Home On Ashland
Chefkirk — Vegan Buttermilk (from “We Must Leave The Warren,” on Eh?)
Chefkirk — Quiet Parts of In-Between
Chefkirk — Gross Pyramids
Psychotic Quartet — Entropy Is Information (from “Sphaleron,” on Eh?)
Psychotic Quartet — We Are All 11 or 26 Dimensions
Federico Barabino — Can You Listen To The Silence Between the Noise? (from album of the same name on Eh?)
Andrea Pensado — Ktotam (from album of the same name, on Zeromoon)
It isn’t often that I get to use the phrase “exploded gagaku” in a sentence. I’d like to thank Joe Lasqo, Edgetone Records, and “It’s Too Damn Early,” for affording me this unique opportunity.
Andrea Pensado — Bircho Raro (from “Ktotam,” on ZeroMoon)
Andrea Pensado –BR+DSC
Andrea Pensado — Desconcierto (1)
Howl Jolson — Shibu Inu Dreams (presently available via Howl Jolson’s Soundcloud)
Howl Jolson — Flowery
Andrea Pensado — Desconcierto (2)
Bjork — Dark Matter (from “Biophilia,” on One Little Indian)
Bjork — Hollow
Bjork — Virus
John Cage — Third Interlude (from “Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano,” on Naxos)
John Cage — Sonata IX
John Cage — Sonata X
Joe Lasqo — Alingana (“Interlock”) #1 (from “Turquoise Sessions,” on Edgetone)
Joe Lasqo — Etenraku in Mode Hyo
Andrea Pensado — Ktotam
Sonic Dada — Apart at the Seams (this, and next two, from “Serge Modular Users 2009,” on Resipiscent)
David Talento — Crisis Mountain
Lowenzahn — Unravel With Ease
Charlie Morrow — Central Park 1850 (from “Toot!” on XI Records)
Charlie Morrow — Breath Chant
Charlie Morrow — Late Afternoon Chant
Charlie Morrow — Chorale Bounce 2
Charlie Morrow — Central Park 2007
DaveX hosts "It's Too Damn Early," (WDBX-FM) and "Sounds Like Radio," (WSIU-FM) weekly experimental radio programs originating in Southern Illinois. In addition, he is a licensed raconteur, and founder of the Crab Orchard Manatee Association.
