Playlist, Week of 2019-12-01

Dark Carpet's Factory Side is now out on Bandcamp... see my review here.

Playlist 2019-12-02:

*Anthony Braxton: 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (selections)
*John Coltrane: Live in Japan "Leo"
*Miles Davis: Miles at the Fillmore (disc 2)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Concert in the Virgin Islands
*Irreversible Entanglements: Irreversible Entanglements
*Matthew Shipp: Symbol Systems
*Tyshawn Sorey: Alloy "A Love Song"
*Beatles: Live at the BBC (discs 1, 2)
*Beatles: On Air: Live at the BBC Volume 2 (discs 1, 2)
*Beatles: Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band (Super Deluxe Ed.) (selections)
*Beatles: The Beatles (Super Deluxe Edition) (selections)
*Beatles: Abbey Road (selections)
*Various artists: Exotica
*Various artists: Country & Western Hit Parade 1958: Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, and Hillbilly Music

New Dark Carpet Album Coming Soon: Factory Side

I was happy to receive a pre-release recording of Dark Carpet's new CD Factory Side (no cover yet) (full disclosure: my brother's in the band). A worthy follow-up to their eponymous debut disc (pictured above), Factory Side is a thrusting slab of country-laced hard-driving rock. Basically guitar/bass/drums, with the odd piano or tambourine thrown in, the songs are propelled by grungy guitar, structural bass lines, and a strong backbeat, with Southern-fried unhinged (but channeled) lead vocals balanced by anthemic, often falsetto backing vocals. The rough and the ready. Monster grooves burning down to the soul. Any of these songs could unfold into a long jam you could drive down a backwoods road all night long to, with traces of Stones momentum and a Sonic Youth sense of scale, but they don't; instead, they ride out in 4- to 5-minute bursts. Keep rocking, guys!

Playlist, Week of 2014-12-14

A little catch-up on recent music activities:

Dark Carpet (above) played again in Brooklyn Friday night, and by the evidence of some audience video, they rocked...really, really hard! And got into some noise/thrash territory with the final number, when they stretched out "Color Set" to take out the set. Wish I could have been there!

Over Thanksgiving break I got together and recorded more with Rodger. He's already written about it here; the only things I'll add are: a. On guitar, Rodger sounds as great, if not better, than he ever did back in our UYA days. And his new piano sounds incredible. As usual, he kicked my butt and drew things out of me I didn't even know were there. Whatever we come up with will be guaranteed to have some way-out sounds, totally different from Cosmologies. Oh, and b. I take a lousy photo. All the photogenic genes went to my sibs.

I also have some thoughts about the last couple of years' new directions with New Ting Ting Loft, but I am going to save them for a separate post.

Playlist 2014-12-15:

*Stan Link: 2013-11-14 “Concert” (Rodger Coleman, piano) Nashville (streaming)
*AMM: The Crypt: 12th June 1968, The Complete Session (disc 1)
*Daniel Barbiero: “Sound Row No. 5 for Prepared Double Bass with Object Contintuo (excerpt)” (mp3)
*Anthony Braxton Ensemble: 1995-02-09 Tri-Centric Festival, NYC (CDR) “Composition 96”
*Anthony Braxton: Piano Music (1968-2000)/Performed by Genevieve Foccroulle (disc 1)
*Taylor Ho Bynum: 2014-09-17 Acoustic Bicycle Tour, Oakland, CA (streaming)
*Rodger Coleman & Sam Byrd: Cosmologies (LP) (side A)
*Rodger Coleman & Sam Byrd: 2014-11-25 Nashville (wav)
*Marilyn Crispell/Reggie Workman/Doug James: Gaia
*Marilyn Crispell: Live at Mills College, 1995
*Crispell/Brotzmann/Drake: Hyperion
*Marilyn Crispell: Santuerio
*Marilyn Crispell Trio: Live in Zurich
*Marilyn Crispell/Gary Peacock/Paul Motian: Nothing Ever Was, Anyway (disc 2)
*Vince Guaraldi Trio: A Charlie Brown Christmas
*Barry Guy/Marilyn Crispell/Paul Lytton: Ithaca
*Joe Henderson: The Blue Note Years (discs 2, 3)
*Charles Mingus: Cumbia & Jazz Fusion
*Roscoe Mitchell/Anthony Braxton Creative Orchestra: 1984-06-30 Austria (CDR)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2014-09-08 "You May Now Proceed To Take the Post Test for the Self Instruction Unit" (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2014-11-17 “Task Management” (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2014-12-08 “Feed the Feed” (wav)
*Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Drawn Inward
*Alan Silva and the Celestrial Communication Orchestra: Seasons (disc 1)
*Sun Ra: Continuation (Saturn/Corbett vs. Dempsey 2CD) (disc 2)
*Sun Ra: Journey to Saturn (CDR compilation)
*Cecil Taylor Feel Trio: Two Ts for a Lovely T (disc 8)
*John Zorn: Enigmata
*B-52’s: Good Stuff
*Beach Boys: Ultimate Christmas
*Dark Carpet: 2014-12-12 Brooklyn (video)
*Deerhoof: La Isla Bonita
*Mike Elder/Harry Forrest/Greg Jordan/Sam Byrd: 2014 selections (CDR compilation)
*Mike Elder/Harry Forrest/Greg Jordan/Sam Byrd: 2014-11-07 (wav)
*Flying Lotus: Until the Quiet Comes
*Grateful Dead: Wake Up to Find Out (disc 2)
*High Llamas: A Sampler (CDR compilation)
*OOIOO: Gamel
*Shaolin Afronauts: Flight of the Ancients
*Sportsman’s Paradise: Welcome to Paradise
*Stock, Hausen, & Walkman: Organ Transplants Vol. 2
*Various artists: The Spirit of Christmas Past
*Various artists: It’s Saturday Night! Starday-Dixie Rockabilly 1955-1961 (disc 2)
*Robert Wyatt: ‘68

Dark Carpet's first gig

If you're up in the Brooklyn/NYC area, definitely check out Dark Carpet this Friday at Freddy's! Their first ever live performance; should be blazin'--wish I could make it.

Playlist, Week of 2013-12-08

Check out Tex Goldstein.  Lovely, whacked-out alt-country-psychedelia from one-third of Dark Carpet. Go, Tracy!

Playlist 2013-12-09:

*Pauline Oliveros: “A Little Noise in the System (Moog System)” (from Anthology of Noise & electronic Music/First A-Chronology 1921-2001, disc 2)
*Armstrong, Louis: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-1946) (selections)
*Art Ensemble of Chicago: The Alternate Express
*Anthony Braxton: Nine Compositions (DVD) 2003 (tracks 1-5)
*Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet & 7-tette: Navigation (The Complete Firehouse 12 Recordings)
*Chick Corea: The Vigil
*Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet 1965 to 1968 (discs 2, 3)
*Mary Halvorson-Ingrid Laubrock Duo (2013-03-21) Essen, Germany (CDR)
*Roscoe Mitchell Septet: 1976-02-08 Studio Rivbea, NY (CDR)
*New Loft: 2013-11-04 “Betty’s Escape” (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2013-12-02 “Not Breaking the 43-Minute Barrier” (CDR)
*Tony Oxley: Ichnos
*Terje Rypdal Trio: 1973-04-04 Bremen, Germany (CDR) (disc 1)
*Stark Reality: Acting, Thinking, Feeling (disc 2)
*Subtle Body Transmission Orchestra: 2013-10-05 Sonic Circuits Festival, Washington DC (wav)
*Sun Ra: 1985-12-14 Live at Club Lingerie, Hollywood (disc 1)
*John Zorn: The Dreamers
*Lily Allen: Alright, Still
*Allman Brothers: At Fillmore East (side 2)
*Beach Boys: Studio Rehearsal Sessions, 1967 (boot CDR)
*Scott Brookman: Smellicopter
*De La Soul: First Serve
*Faust: Faust IV (disc 2)
*Fela: Monkey Banana
*Tex Goldstein: Horse In The Teepee (Bandcamp)
*Grateful Dead: Live/Dead (side 3)
*Jupiter Maca: A Setima Enfervescencia
*Menahan Street Band: Make the Road by Walking
*Andy Partridge: Fuzzy Warbles 6
*Various artists: Deep Soul Treasures (cassette compilation) (selections)
*Various artists: OHM+: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music, 1948-1980 (disc 3)
*Various artists: The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Brazil
*Kit Watkins: Labyrinth
*XTC: Skylarking

Dark Carpet

Warped, raucous roots rock and roll, New Jersey edge with a Louisiana twang. Hard rocking and experimental, with more than a dollop of soul. Just released on Bandcamp at http://darkcarpet.bandcamp.com/.  My brother's in this band; they've been playing and working on this material for a few years now, and this is their first release. It's big fun! You can catch an earlier mix of "Seagull" here.