Playlist, Week of 2025-08-31

 

 

 

 

 

Lotta road trip music from my son... will be getting back into the "Dark Star"/Ellington/Sun Ra groove pretty soon... 

Playlist 2025-09-01:

*100 Gecs: 1000 Gecs
*Alexisonfire: Alexisonfire
*Alexisonfire: Crisis
*Alexisonfire: Old Crows/Young Cardinals
*Animals as Leaders: The Joy of Motion
*Anthony Braxton: Quartet (England) 1985 (disc 4)
*James Brown: Live at the Apollo (1962) (Expanded ed.)
*Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) (selections)
*John Coltrane: The Major Works of John Coltrane (disc 1) "Om"
*Deerhoof: Noble and Godlike in Ruin
*Eidola: Mend
*Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington's Jazz Violin Session
*Tomas Fujiwara: Triple Double
*Bobby Hutcherson: Components
*Machine Girl: Neon White (Soundtrack, Pt. 1:  The Wicked Heart)
*Machine Girl: RePorpoised Phantasies
*Machine Girl: MG Ultra
*Warne Marsh/Sal Mosca Quartet: Volume 2
*Muffins: Bandwidth
*Haru Nemuri/Frost Children: Soul Kiss
*New Ting: 2025-08-30 Test Run, Richmond VA (wav)
*Ovlov: Am
*Ovlov: Tru
*Ovlov: Buds
*Santana: Borboletta (side 2)
*Tyshawn Sorey: Pillars (disc 1)
*Sparks: MAD! 
*Sun Ra: Apple Purchases (CDR compilation) (discs 3, 4) 

Reading List, Week of 2025-08-31

Definitely read the book, but by all means stay away from the film; it's terrible...

Reading List 2025-09-01:

*Osman, Richard. The Man Who Died Twice (started)
*Osman, Richard. The Thursday Murder Club (started/finished)
*Shakespeare, William. Othello (Arden 3rd series, ed. E.A.J. Honigmann) (reread/started)
*Everett, Walter. The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul (reread/in progress)
*Lambert, Eddie. Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide (reread/selections)
*MacDonald, Ian. Revolution in the Head, 3rd ed. (reread/in progress)
*Pollack, Allan W. Notes on … Series (reread/in progress)
*Riley, Tim. Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (reread/in progress)
*Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children (in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. King Lear (Arden 2nd series, ed. Kenneth Muir) (reread/in progress)