Playlist, Week of 2022-07-10

Used to be as a kid, I'd get one album and play it over and over before getting another one (months later)... those days are long gone... all by way of saying I don't absorb all the music I listen to as much as I used to... so it was nice to return to Michael Formanek's large-scale work The Distance and realize all over again how wonderful and compelling it is... I'm still absorbing the marvelous four discs' worth of improvisations of Anthony Braxton with Nels Cline, Greg Saunier, and Taylor Ho Bynum... wonders abound on those discs, as the pieces morph and transmute multiple times over the course of the hour or so it takes for them to unfold... 

Playlist 2022-07-11:

*Area: Crac! (side 1)

*Art Ensemble of Chicago: Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City: Live at Iridium (disc 1)

*B-52s: Wild Planet

*B-52s: Cosmic Thing

*Beatles: Past Masters (2009 stereo remaster) (sides 1, 2)

*Paul Bley: Ballads

*Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings of Anthony Braxton (disc 4) "Opus 76 (Version Two)"

*Anthony Braxton: Seven Compositions (Trio) 1989

*Anthony Braxton: Quartet (New Haven) 2014 (disc 4)

*Broadcast: Maida Vale Sessions

*Clash: London Calling

*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2009-07-23 Nashville (wav) track 6 "What You Said"

*Congotronics International: Where's the One?

*Estamos Trio: People's Historia

*Joe Farrell Quartet: Joe Farrell Quartet

*Michael Formanek/Ensemble Kollosus: The Distance

*Fred Frith Trio with Lotte Anker, Susana Santos Silva: Road (disc 1)

*Mary Halvorson: Belladonna

*Kip Hanrahan: Days and Nights of Blue Luck Inverted

*Freddie Hubbard: The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard

*King Crimson: Starless (disc 19)

*Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Holy

*George Lewis/Roscoe Mitchell: Voyage and Homecoming

*Tony Malaby's Sabino: The Cave of Winds

*Garry Martin Project (CDR compilation) (disc 4)

*Rob Mazuerk Quartet: Father's Wing

*John McLaughlin: Where Fortune Smiles

*Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet: For the Love of Fire and Water

*Merzbow/Mats Gustafsson/Balázs Pándi: Cuts Open (disc 1)

*Charles Mingus: Mingus Three (discs 1, 2)

*Matt Mitchell/Kate Gentile: Snark Horse (discs 4, 5)

*Hank Mobley: The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note Sessions 1963-70 (disc 8)

*Phantogram: Voices

*Spirit: Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus

*Cecil Taylor Unit: It Is in the Brewing Luminous "Part 1"

*June Tyson/Sun Ra: Saturnian Queen of the Sun Ra Arkestra (side 1)

*Various artists: Masters of the Modern Piano 1955-1966 (side 2)

*Anna Webber: Idiom (disc 1)

*XTC: Drums and Wires

*John Zorn: Cobra (disc 1)

*John Zorn/Simulacrum: Spinoza