Playlist, Week of 2014-04-20

Playlist 2014-04-21:

*Chopin: Sonata No. 3 in B Minor & Four Ballades (Cecile Ousset)
*League of Automatic Music Composers: The League of Automatic Music Composers, 1978-1983
*Morton Feldman: For Philip Guston (S.E.M. Ensemble) (discs 3, 4)
*David Tudor and Gordon Mumma: David Tudor & Gordon Mumma
*AMM: Before Driving to the Chapel We Took Coffee with Rick and Jennifer Reed
*Arcana: 1997-06-07 Frankfurt (CDR)
*Art Ensemble of Chicago: Reunion
*Anthony Braxton/Walter Thompson: 2009-04-18 Brooklyn (CDR)
*Rodger Coleman & Sam Byrd: Cosmologies (LP master) (24-bit WAV)
*Miles Davis: The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 (discs 4, 5, 6)
*Miles Davis: What I Say? Vol. 1 (Vienna 1971-11-05)
*Charles Mingus: The Jazz Experiments of Charles Mingus
*Slobber Pup: Black Aces
*Sun Ra & His Astro-Infinity Arkestra: Other Strange Worlds
*John Tilbury: Barcelona Piano Solo
*B-52’s: Wild Planet
*B-52’s: Cosmic Thing
*Willis Earl Beal: Nobody Knows
*Mike Elder/Harry Forrest/Greg Jordan/Sam Byrd: 2014-03-07 (wav)
*Jefferson Pilot: Hello Mississippi
*King Crimson: The Road to Red (disc 19)
*Prince: Days of Soundboard, Vol. 5: Rehearsals 2012-2013 (boot CDR)
*Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos: Muy Divertido
*Lewis Taylor: The Lost Album

Reading List, 2014-04-20

Reading List 2014-04-21:

*Coover, Robert. John’s Wife (started)
*Willingham, Bill, et al. Fables: Sons of Empire (started)
*Bloom, Harold. “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” in Shakespeare: Invention of the Human (reread/started/finished)
*Garber, Marjorie.  “Love’s Labour Lost,” in Shakespeare After All (reread/started/finished)
*Tanner, Tony. “Love’s Labour Lost,” in Prefaces to Shakespeare (reread/started/finished)
*Willingham, Bill, et al. Fables: Wolves (started/finished)
*Le Guin, Ursula K. A Wizard of Earthsea (finished)
*Shakespeare, William. Love’s Labour’s Lost (Arden ed., 2nd series, ed. R.W. David) (reread/finished)
*Willingham, Bill, et al. Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall (finished)
*Weldon, Michael J. Psychotronic Video Guide (in progress)

New Ting Ting Loft at RVA Noise Fest Sunday at 1 PM

RVA Noise Fest III is in town this weekend, and New Ting Ting Loft is playing at the noon-to-2 PM event at Steady Sounds on Sunday, April 20. Here's the full lineup. We'll be there (some of us, anyway; I won't be there, but at least Jimmy and Tommy will). Stop on by!

Playlist, Week of 2014-04-13

Playlist 2014-04-14:

*Morton Feldman: For Philip Guston (S.E.M. Ensemble) (discs 1, 2)
*AMM: Laminal (disc 3)
*Jean Chevalier/Christophe Howard/Julien Ottavi/Keith Rowe: [N:Q]
*Miles Davis: Live-Evil (disc 2)
*Miles Davis: The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 (discs 1, 2, 3)
*Formanex: Treatise- Cornelius Cardew
*Havard/Leduc/Morin/Ottavi: Digital Live Radio Session
*Donald Miller: Little Treatise on Morals
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2014-03-31 “Let X Be Y” (wav)
*Harold Rubin/Barre Phillips/Tatsuya Nakatani: 3 on a Thin Line
*Sun Ra & His Astro-Infinity Arkestra: Other Strange Worlds
*Scott Brookman: A Song for Me, a Song for You
*Flaming Lips: Peace Sword
*Buddy Holly: The Buddy Holly Collection (disc 2)
*King Crimson: Larks Tongues in Aspic
*National Health: D.S. Al Coda
*OOIOO: Kira Kira Kira
*Lewis Taylor: The Lost Album
*Various artists: Rough Guide to Psychedelic Bollywood
*Zombies: Odessey and Oracle

Reading List, Week of 2014-04-13

Reading List 2014-04-14:

*Le Guin, Ursula K. A Wizard of Earthsea (started)
*Willingham, Bill, et al. Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall (started)
*Willingham, Bill, et al. Fables: Arabian Nights (and Days) (started/finished)
*Willingham, Bill, et al. Fables: Homelands (started/finished)
*Granville-Barker, Harley. “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” in Prefaces to Shakespeare, Vol. II. (started/finished)
*Willingham, Bill, et al. Fables: The Mean Seasons (started/finished)
*Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale (finished)
*Shakespeare, William. Love’s Labour’s Lost (Arden ed., 2nd series, ed. R.W. David) (reread/in progress)
*Weldon, Michael J. Psychotronic Video Guide (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2014-04-06

Playlist 2014-04-07:

*League of Automatic Music Composers: Automatic Music Cassettes 78-81 “Blind Lemon,” sides A & B
*AMM: Laminal (disc 2)
*AMM: At the Roundhouse
*AMM: From a Strange Place
*AMM with John Butcher: Trinity
*AMM: Sounding Music
*Arcana: The Last Wave
*Miles Davis: Miles Davis At Fillmore (disc 2)
*Miles Davis: 1970-08-02 CBS Records Convention, Nassau (CDR)
*Miles Davis: 1970-10-15 Fillmore West (CDR)
*Miles Davis: 1970-10-17 Fillmore West (CDR)
*Miles Davis: 1970-10-18 Fillmore West (CDR)
*Miles Davis: Live-Evil (disc 1)
*Dave Holland: Prism
*Roscoe Mitchell and the Sound Ensemble: 3x4 Eye
*Roscoe Mitchell Sound Ensemble: 1988-10 Detroit (CDR)
*Roscoe Mitchell: Hey Donald
*Wadada Leo Smith: Lake Biwa
*Spontaneous Music Ensemble: A New Distance
*Cecil Taylor Unit: 1976-01-30 Philadelphia (CDR)
*B-52s: The B-52s
*The Band: Live at the Academy of Music 1971 (disc 1)
*Buttfinger: Power92 Jams (streaming)
*Deerhunter: Monomania
*Guided By Voices: English Little League
*Henry Cow: Leg End
*Jefferson Pilot: Hello Mississippi
*King Crimson: The Road to Red (disc 18)
*OOIOO: Gamel
*Stock, Hausen, & Walkman: Stop!
*Stock, Hausen, & Walkman: Organ Transplants Vol. 2
*Stooges: Fun House
*UYA: 1990-05-09 Green St. Station, Boston (wav)
*Various artists: Gee-Tair (CDR compilation)
*Warpaint: Exquisite Corpse
*Who: Live at Leeds (2001 Deluxe Ed.) (disc 1)

Reading List, Week of 2014-04-06

Reading List 2014-04-07:

*Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale (started)
*Alexander, Lloyd. The High King (reread/started/finished)
*Alexander, Lloyd. Taran Wanderer (finished)
*Willingham, Bill, et al. Fables: Storybook Love (started/finished)
*Willingham, Bill, et al. Fables: March of the Wooden Soldiers (started/finished)
*Shakespeare, William. Love’s Labour’s Lost (Arden ed., 2nd series, ed. R.W. David) (reread/in progress)
*Weldon, Michael J. Psychotronic Video Guide (in progress)