Playlist, Week of 2020-06-07

A new slab of wonderful new ditties, strange grooves, distorted guitar riffs, haunting vocals, and general rock wonderment from Wig Drop (a duo consisting of Jefferson Pilot and Tex Goldstein, 2/3 of Dark Carpet)... what should be playing on the radio stations of my dreams...

Playlist 2020-06-08:

*Muhal Richard Abrams: Spiral: Live at Montreux 1978

*AMM: For Ute

*Daniel Barbiero/Gary Rouzer: Postcards from Quarantine

*Anthony Braxton & Derek Bailey: Duo 2

*Anthony Braxton: 20 Standards (Quartet) 2003 (disc 3)

*Alice Coltrane: Carnegie Hall '71

*Alice Coltrane: Lord of Lords

*John Coltrane: Infinity (side 1)

*Miles Davis: In Person Friday and Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk, Complete (disc 2)

*Whit Dickey: Morph (discs 1, 2)

*Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington Plays (EP) (sides 1, 2)

*Duke Ellington: Blues in Orbit (side 2)

*Bill Evans: The Complete Riverside Recordings (disc 5)

*Milford Graves: Bäbi (disc 2)

*Ingrid Laubrock: Forensic

*New Ting: 2019-02-25 "Make the Round Thing Talk" (wav)

*Keith Rowe/John Tilbury: Enough Still Not To Know (disc 4)

*Simulacrum: Beyond Good and Evil

*Sun Ra and His Astro Ihnfinity Arkestra: The Intergalactic Thing (side 2)

*Sun Ra Arkestra: 1974: Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (CDR)

*Cecil Taylor: Garden "Garden II"

*James Blood Ulmer: Live at the Caravan of Dreams

*Beach Boys: Pet Sounds (side 1)

*Beatles: Rubber Soul (American mono) (side 1)

*David Bowie: Lodger

*Sam Byrd/Garry Martin/Doug Pritchard/Sam Pritchard: 1999 Rehearsals (disc 1)

*Deerhoof: Surprise Symphonies

*Grateful Dead: Dave's Picks Vol. 5 (1973-11-17 UCLA) (disc 3)

*Happy the Man: 1977-04-24 Rainbow's End, Williamsburg, VA (CDR)

*Kinks: The Anthology 1964-1971 (discs 1, 2, 3) (selections)

*Kinks: Face to Face (Deluxe Edition) (disc 1)

*Kinks: Something Else by the Kinks (Deluxe Edition) (disc 1)

*Kinks: The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

*Kinks: Arthur, or, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire (50th anniversary remaster) (disc 1)

*Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp a Butterfly

*Garry Martin Project (CDR compilation) (discs 2, 3, 4, 5)

*Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66: Equinox

*Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66: Crystal Illusions

*Roxy Music: The Thrill of It All (disc 3)

*Tad Thaddock: Things 14 (1985): First without Jeff

*Tad Thaddock: Things 15 (1985): Excess Blankets (selections)

*Various artists: The Sound of Bossa Nova (disc 1)

*Wig Drop: Wig Drop 3

*X: Los Angeles/Wild Gift

*X: More Fun in the New World

Playlist, Week of 2017-01-22

This just in! Just released: the new Wig Drop album, Wig Drop 2. Full disclosure: one of my brother's bands, and I play on one track. More fun power-folk rock with lo-fi original twists. Do especially check out the first track, "The Waves"....this should be a hit!


Playlist 2017-01-23:

*John Abercrombie: 1981-06-11 Seventh Avenue South, NYC (cassette) (side B)
*Kenny Barron: What If?
*Tim Berne Bloodcount: Discretion
*Paul Bley: Turns
*Anthony Braxton: Trillium E (disc 3)
*Nels Cline/Larry Ochs/Gerald Cleaver Trio: 2016-12-08 Philadelphia (CDR)
*Rodger Coleman & Sam Byrd: 2016-12-26 Nashville (wav)
*Rodger Coleman & Sam Byrd: 2016-12-28 Nashville (wav)
*John Coltrane: The Major Works of John Coltrane "Om"
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 14 (disc 2)
*Jerry González and the Fort Apache Band: Obatalá
*Mary Halvorson Octet: Away with You
*Shannon Jackson & the Decoding Society: Nasty
*Ingrid Laubrock: Serpentines
*Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble: Intergalactic Beings
*Roscoe Mitchell: Conversations II
*Music Revelation Ensemble: No Wave
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2016-12-20 Gallery 5, Richmond VA (wav)
*Charlie Parker: The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve (disc 2)
*Don Pullen: New Beginnings
*Tom Rainey Trio: Hotel Grief
*Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra: Secrets of the Sun
*James Blood Ulmer: Memphis Blood: The Sun Sessions
*James Blood Ulmer: Birthright
*Circles Around the Sun: Interludes for the Dead (selections)
*Cream: Disraeli Gears (Deluxe Ed.) (disc 1)
*Carmen Electra: On Top (boot CDR)
*Eno/Cale: Wrong Way Up
*Funkadelic: Toys
*Hatfield and the North with Robert Wyatt: Calyx (boot CDR)
*Heldon: Stand By
*Opeth: Sorceress (Limited Edition) (disc 1)
*Richard Pinhas: 2014-05-16 Victoriaville (CDR)
*Richard Pinhas/Yoshida Tatsuya: 2016-12-01 Tokyo (CDR)
*Robert Pollard: Cock Blocking the Romantics (selections)
*Prince: Montreux Jazz Festival 2013/From The Soundboard, Vol. 1 (boot CDR) (disc 2) (selections)
*Prince: Montreux Jazz Festival 2013/From The Soundboard, Vol. 2 (boot CDR) (disc 1)
*Sonic Youth: Washing Machine
*Unknown Mortal Orchestra: Multi-Love
*UYA: The Unrealized Sessions of UYA (High Noon ADAT Mixes) (disc 2)
*Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks: Orange Crate Art

Wig Drop

So now this is dropped on us... Wig Drop.



Jefferson Pilot + Tex Goldstein = Wig Drop.

This music is swampy and swarthy. Lo, lo, lo-fi, high, high, high-intensity. Sharp attitude like a bentback big toe hangnail, struggling with the moist sock lint through the infested hole of yesteryear. Strange, strained, immediate.

From the website:

Who is Wig Drop? We don't know, but a batch of their songs have been unearthed near the Passaic River off of Rt. 20 in Paterson, N.J. 
Literally- they were pulled from the mud and hosed down in some guy's backyard. Like otherworldly field recordings, Wig Drop's songs conjure a strange world where spray adhesives, diapers, UFOs, old discounts, sleepovers and sacred love all vie for the listener's attention. Like a weed between the crack, Wig Drop grows wild and is hard to put down.

Check it out.