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Download of the Week: Carter Tutti Void
Chris and Cosey have been pouring sonic tonic into amygdalae for decades. Add Nik Colk Void and we're off to the funhouse.
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Download of the Week: Throbbing Gristle
We had this idea in mind that someone quite innocently would come along to a record store and see [the record] and think they would be getting 20 really good jazz/funk greats, and then they would put...
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Download of the Week: Erykah Badu
Dreamy, breezy and oh so easy, Erykah Badu described But You Caint Use My Phone (Mixtape), released in December on Motown Records, as "TRap & B" but I feel lots of soul as well. From the press...
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Download of the Week: Bob Dylan
I love Bob Dylan. From 1962 to 1975 he has me all in, hook, line, and sinker. After that, I lose track. Except: World Gone Wrong. World Gone Wrong, released in 1993 on Columbia, his last record to seal...
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Download of the Week: African Head Charge
Holes. I've got holes in my musical knowledge all over the place; if my body was a pitcher and you poured water into my head, you'd see thousands of tiny spouts spitting water through those holes....
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Download of the Week: Adrian Younge
"He is also an entertainment law professor and edits and scores films". So reads part of composer, arranger, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Adrian Younge's bio and that bit about film scores is...
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Download of the Week: Gagarin-Kombinaatti
Art is a funny thing: Funny because what some people consider to be art, others don't. I'm not talking about value judgments of "good" or "bad", I'm talking about the mere classification as such. Of...
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Download of the Week: Ornette Coleman
The Complete Science Fiction Sessions (Columbia, 2000) combines the original Science Fiction LP from 1971 and the then unreleased Broken Shadows recorded at the same time: Sessions. I'd be more than...
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Download of the Week: Jesu/Sun Kil Moon
Here's the skinny on my intro to Jesu/Sun Kil Moon (Rough Trade, 2016); I read that in the song "Exodus", Sun Kil Moon's Mark Kozelek talks about Nick Cave losing his son in that tragic accident. I'd...
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Download of the Week: Wolfgang von Schweinitz
Plainsound Glissando Modulation: Raga in just intonation for violin and double bass, Helge Slaato, violin, Frank Reinecke, double bass (NEOS, 2008). "Like a sleepwalker, he [von Schweinitz] prods...
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Download of the Week: Erik Satie
Regular Download of the Week (DotW) reader's may have noticed I have a penchant for difficult music. Difficult music, however, does fit my every mood or situation. Sometimes I want to be soothed,...
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Download of the Week: Winterpills
Winterpills stepped out of their home studio and into Justin Pizzoferrato's Sonelab for Love Songs their new release of original songs. My ears, heart, and mind are happy they did as Love Songs sounds...
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Download of the Week: Osvaldo Golijov
Big, bold, and passion-full. I was on a Dawn Upshaw jag, The Girl with Orange Lips and more to our point Golijov: Ayre / Berio: Folk Songs, and I wondered—who is this Golijov guy? One doesn't have to...
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Download of the Week: F.S.Blumm & Nils Frahm
Tag Eins Tag Zwei (Day One Day Two) came my way via John DeVore (I have to say that getting music recommendations from friends is among my favorite things). F.S.Blumm's guitar and Nils Frahm's piano...
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Download of the Week: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
Try not to think about Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. Instead, try listening to White Lunar (Mute/BMG, 2015), a double-CD-sized compilation of their film music, without expectations and if you hear what I...
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