Playlist, Week of 2018-07-29

Travel music....

Playlist 2018-07-30:

*Beach Boys: 50 Big Ones (disc 1)
*Beatles: Anthology 1
*Elvis Costello: This Year's Model (2002 reissue, disc 1)
*Elvis Costello & the Attractions: Get Happy (2003 reissue, disc 1)
*Grateful Dead: Dark Star 1972 version 2 (in progress, 02:31:02-02:49:37)
*Jefferson Pilot: The Optimist Field
*Kinks: The Anthology 1964-1971 (disc 2)
*Roxy Music: The Thrill of It All (disc 2)

Reading List, Week of 2018-07-29

Reading List 2018-07-30:

*Bouros, Terri. Young Shakespeare's Young Hamlet: Print, Piracy, and Performance (started)
*The Living Dead 2 (ed.  John Joseph Adams) (started)
*Chance, Rebecca. Killer Heels (started/finished)
*King, Stephen. Pet Sematary (reread/started/finished)
*Rankin, Ian. Strip Jack (started/finished)
*Rankin, Ian. Tooth and Nail (started/finished)
*Rankin, Ian. Hide and Seek (reread/started/finished)
*Rankin, Ian. Knots and Crosses (reread/finished)
*Thomson, David. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (4th ed.) (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2018-07-22

Beach time.....

Playlist 2018-07-23:

*Muhal Richard Abrams: Spihumonesty
*AMM: Tunes Without Measure or End
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2017-12-27 Nashville (selections)
*John Coltrane: Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Deluxe Edition)
*End: Svårmod Och Vemod Är Värdesinnen
*Okkyung Lee/Christian Marclay: Amalgam
*George Lewis: Shadowgraph, 5 (Sextet)
*Evan Parker/Joe Morris/Nate Wooley: Ninth Square
*Tom Rainey Obbligato: Float Upstream
*Dan Weiss: Starebaby
*Beach Boys: 50 Big Ones (disc 1)
*Beatles: The Empire Strikes Back (boot CDR)
*Clash: Sandinista! (disc 1)
*Grateful Dead: Dave's Picks Vol. 19: Honolulu Civic Auditorium 1970-01-23 (disc 1)
*Grateful Dead: Rockin' the Rhein with the Grateful Dead (disc 3)
*Grateful Dead: Dark Star 1972 version 2 (in progress, 00:36:00-02:31:02)
*Grateful Dead: 1975-03-23 Kezar Stadium, San Francisco (streaming)
*Elvis Presley: A Boy From Tupelo: The Complete 1953-55 Recordings (disc 3)
*Roxy Music: The Thrill of It All (disc 1)
*Sonic Youth: The Eternal
*Bruce Springsteen: The Ties That Bind: The River Collection (disc 2)

Reading List, Week of 2018-07-22

Reading List 2018-07-23:

*Rankin, Ian. Hide and Seek (reread/started)
*Rankin, Ian. Knots and Crosses (reread/started/finished)
*Malvinni, David. Grateful Dead and the Art of Rock Improvisation (finished)
*Shakespeare, William. 3 Henry VI (ed. John Jowett, New Oxford Shakespeare, Critical Reference Ed.) (reread/finished)
*Thomson, David. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (4th ed.) (in progress)

Jefferson Pilot: The Optimist Field

Jefferson Pilot's new CD The Optimist Field is both a snappy summary of what he's done so far (2013-2018) and a new comprehensive statement on its own. It mixes some of the best songs from his previous releases Hello Mississippi and Welcome Stranger with brand new ones. The older songs are remixed here, and they sound brighter and punchier as a result, and fit in seamlessly with the newer material. This is easily the best release from Jefferson Pilot so far. His explorations of noise sonics, subtle sampling, shifting textures, and avant-garde flavors in the context of rock, pop, funk, and country-flavored songs are truly distinct and original....and fun. Things are really mixed in good here, with songs taking left-, or, well, u-turns all over the place. The spirit of Ringo hovers all over the album, primarily and spiritually in Jeff's excellent drumming throughout (especially in "Poor Dead Soldier"), but also in a sampled drum beat and in "Little Ringo with Words," a heartfelt paean to the young Richard Starkey in his sickbed in Liverpool--a beautiful way to close this album of sonic treats.

This album isn't up on Bandcamp yet, but I understand it will be soon. Well worth checking out! (Full disclosure: proud to say that Jefferson Pilot is my brother. Rock on!)

Playlist, Week of 2018-07-15

More about the fabulous new Coltrane release after I've had some time to absorb it....

Playlist 2018-07-16:

*Daniel Barbiero/Sam Byrd/Jimmy Ghaphery: 2016-08-27 Rhizome, Washington DC (wav)
*Borah Bergman and Roscoe Mitchell: The Italian Concert
*John Coltrane: Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Deluxe Edition)
*Sylvie Courvoisier/Mark Feldman/Ikue Mori/Evan Parker: Miller's Tale
*Michael Formanek:  The Rub And Spare Change
*Michael Formanek: Small Places
*Mary Halvorson Quartet: Paimon (Zorn/Book of Angels Vol. 32)
*Alexander Hawkins-Elaine Mitchener Quartet: Uproot
*Herd of the Ether Space: Short Wayner
*Ingrid Laubrock: Ubatuba
*Nicole Mitchell/Tomeka Reid/Mike Reed: Artifacts
*Roscoe Mitchell: Nonaah (disc 2)
*Roscoe Mitchell: Roscoe Mitchell and the Sound and Space Ensembles
*Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory: This Dance Is for Steve McCall
*Roscoe Mitchell/Montreal-Toronto Art Orchestra: Ride the Wind
*Thelonious Monk: The Complete Prestige 10-Inch LP Collection (disc 1)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2018-06-25 "Wood and Wires" (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2018-07-01 Strange Matter, Richmond VA (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2018-07-09 "It Was Great; Nothing Was Working" (wav)
*Sun Ra & His Arkestra with Chamber Orchestra: Pleiades: A Jazz Symphonique (disc 1)
*Craig Taborn: Avenging Angel
*Cecil Taylor Unit and Diane McIntyre Sound in Motion Dance Co.: 1983-03-19 Camden, England (wav)
*Thumbscrew: Ours
*John Zorn's Cobra: Tokyo Operations '94
*Dr. Dog: Critical Equation
*Grateful Dead: Fallout from the Phil Zone (selections)
*Grateful Dead: Dark Star 1972 version 2 (started, 00:00:00-0:36:00)
*High Llamas: Beet, Maize & Corn
*Jefferson Pilot: The Optimist Field
*King Crimson: 1972-02-12 NYC (disc 1)
*Mystery Science Theater 3000: Clowns in the Sky II
*Residents: Meet the Residents (pREServed Edition) (disc 1)
*Residents: The Third Reich 'n Roll (pREServed Edition) (disc 1)
*Shardik: Shardik
*Bruce Springsteen: The Ties That Bind: The River Collection (disc 1)
*Various artists: History of Electronic/Electroacoustic Music (Stockhausen: "Mixtur") (CDR compilation) (disc 14)
*Yes: Best of Wembley 1977 (boot CDR) (disc 2)

Reading List, Week of 2018-07-15

Reading List 2018-07-16:

*Malvinni, David. Grateful Dead and the Art of Rock Improvisation (started)
*Shakespeare, William. 3 Henry VI (ed. John Jowett, New Oxford Shakespeare, Critical Reference Ed.) (reread/started)
*Greer, Andrew Sean. Less (started/finished)
*Ennis, Garth, and Steve Dillon. Preacher: Book Two (reread/finished)
*Shakespeare, William. 2 Henry VI (ed. Rory Loughnane, New Oxford Shakespeare, Critical Reference Ed.) (reread/finished)
*Sorrentino, Gilbert. Steelwork (reread/finished)
*Thomson, David. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (4th ed.) (in progress)