1.SHWEP. podcast 2.The Nietzsche podcast 3.Amanda Lear – Sweet Revenge 4.Patricia Wolf – See Through 5.Laurie Spiegel – Unseen Worlds 6.Nala Sinephro – Space 1.8 7.Jen Cloher – Jen Cloher 8: Dora Pejačević – Complete Pianoworks – Nataša Veljković 9.Henriëtte Bosmans – Frank Bridge – Mayke Rademakers & Matthijs Verschoor 10.C.W. Glück – Friedman piano transcripts – Ignatz Friedman
1.Secret history of western esotericism podcast aka SHWEP.
Open up your head with this blast of a podcast. Earl Fontainelle is the perfect guide for this deep dive into the waste basket of ‘rejected religion’: western esotericism. One of my favorite episodes:
Foie Gras – Holy Hell Bnny – Everything Packs – Take The Cake Black Moth Super Rainbow – Dandelion Gum King Kahn and the Shrines – Idle No More King Dude – Love Tall Dwarfs – Weeville The War on Drugs – A Deeper Understanding Pauline Oliveros – Deep Listening Akalé Wubé – Akalé Wubé
Foie Gras ‘Psychic Sobriety’:
Bnny ‘Promises’:
Packs ‘Hangman’:
Black Moth Super Rainbow ‘Dandelion Gum’:
King Kahn and the Shrines ‘Born to Die’:
King Dude ‘Lucifer’s the Light of the World’:
Tall Dwarfs ‘Rorschach’:
The War on Drugs ‘Thinking of a Place’:
Pauline Oliveros ‘Suiren’:
Akalé Wubé ‘Marye’:
This years photo challange: INTERLOCUTOR > Snap two identical photo’s of the chair you sit on when you assess your days work: one with you on it and one without: <
1: Dora Pejacevic – Chrysantheme 2: José Vianna da Motta – Fantasiestück op.2 3: Henriëtte Bosmans – Nuit Calme 4: George Enescu – Violin Sonata in A minor 5: Charles Koechlin – Suite for two piano’s 6: Igor Stravinsky – Cantilene 7: Robert Moran – Stimmen des Letzten Siegel 8: Alissa Firsova – If sleep and death are truly one 9: Thomas Adès – Life Story 10: The War on Drugs – Touch of Grey
1: Dora Pejacevic – Chrysantheme
2: José Vianna da Motta Fantasiestück op.2
3: Henriëtte Bosmans Nuit Calme
4: George Enescu Violin Sonata in A minor (this is an absolute peak performance!)
5: Charles Koechlin Suite for two piano’s
6: Igor Stravinsky Cantilene (another top performance)
7: Robert Moran Stimmen des Letzten Siegel
8: Alissa Firsova If sleep and death are truly one
9: Thomas Adès Life Story
10: The War on Drugs Touch of Grey
TOOLS OF THE TRADE > what tools and materials changed your life? <
1) My favorite tool is something too big to hold. It’s my litho press. I’m in love with litho. Such a stubborn, rich, mysterious medium.
2: This year I got hold of an old amp and double cd deck. I play mostly classical music on it. I also took a spotify account which I now play over this wonderful JBL speaker.
3: As a kid I discovered the Rotring pen and drew a lot of comics with it. It truly heightened the joy of drawing with it’s clear, even deep black lines.
During my recovery from heart failure I couldn’t stand pop music for a while. I discovered the healing qualities of 19th century, early 20th century European chamber music. From there I (re)discovered some later and contemporary composers who write work for piano and ensembles. It was difficult to give Charles Koechlin priority over Gabriël Fauré. I choose the lesser known composer so people might get to know him. This is a nice entry into his work which was for it’s time very adventurous. Thomas Adès is the son of British art historian and specialist on Surrealism Dawn Adès. This piece is as dramatic as it is hilarious. The text is by Tennessee Williams. It’s great to see this piece performed by different soprano’s but I choose the version I got to hear it first by. Alissa Firsova is the daughter of Russian composer Dmitri Smirnov and a great composer in her own right as this piece illustrates. Pop is growing on me a little bit again. For that it’s been the year of ‘The War on Drugs’ with me. This band manages to get me in a very sentimental mood every time I play them. I’m adding their version of The Grateful Dead’s ‘Touch of Gray’. Also I love Mokadelic’s music to ‘Gomorra’ (had a lot of time binge-watching Netflix series) but I have no room to add this to the list.
1: Ethiopiques – 13 2: l’Epée – ‘Diabolique’ 3: The Brian Jonestown Massacre – ‘The Brian Jonestown Massacre ‘ 4: Kevin Morby – ‘Oh My God’ 5: Kevin Morby – ‘Singing Saw’ 6: Gene Clark – ‘No Other’ 7: Josephine Foster – ‘Faithful Fairy Harmony’ 8: Guided by Voices – ‘Warp and Woof’ 9: Guided by Voices – ‘Zepplin over China’ 10: Moon Duo – ‘Stars are the Light’
1: Yo La Tengo – Painful 2: Kath Bloom – Loving takes this Course 3: Loren Mazzacane Connors – 1987-1989 4: Sonny Boy Williamson 5: Josephine Foster – All the Leaves are Gone 6: Fats Waller 7: Khruangbin – Con todo el mundo 9: Exuma – Exuma 10: Nina Simone
1: From a Motel 6 -Yo La Tengo Rediscovering Yo la Tengo.
2: Kath Bloom – Come Here Discovering Kath Bloom. Goosebumps for all the good reasons.
3: Loren Mazzacane Connors – Blue Ghost Blues Discovered Loren Mazzacane Loren through Kath Bllom.
4: Sonny Boy Williamson – Keep it to Yourself He was just amazing.
5: Josephine Foster – Lullabye to all She just keeps being amazing.
6: Fats Waller – The Jitterbug Waltz Discovered Fats Waller plays the organ long ago through Lynch’s Eraserhead. This song is my ode to Tom Robbins ‘Jitterbug Perfume’.
7: Khruangbin – Maria Tambien Stumbled upon lovely Khruangbin through this song.
9: Exuma – The Vision Picked up Exuma’s first record recently at Plaatboef intrigued by the painting on the cover. Have been playing this strange record of Obejah psychedelia many, many times.
10: Nina Simone – Dambala Nina Simone was a Exuma fan apparently, as she covered about 4 of his songs. This is a pretty spooky one!
2018 photo request: “The Ear of the Artist” Send me a photo of your right ear.
1 -intro- 2: Fancy Space People 3: Chain and the Gang 4: Selector Dub Narcotic 5: Malaikat dan Singa 6: Various Gamelan 7: Angus Mclise – The cloud doctrine. 8: More McLise and Conrad from the album Dreamweapon III. 9: Lon Milo Duquette 10: The Apple Pen song.
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2: Fancy Space People, space rock collaboration between artist/musician Nora Keyes and Don Bolles, ex drummer of The Germs (here on guitar). From L.A.. No album so far as I know. Could play this song all day long.
3: A punky narrative by multi-meta writer/musician/performer/’web-personality’ Ian Svenonius from Washington DC. He did a memorable gig at PrintRoom this year to promote his new book ‘Censorship Now!’. Many, many albums on K records from Olympia, Washington.This is with one of his many bands: Chain and the Gang.
4: First song from the latest album of Calvin Johnson (founder of K records) as Selector Dub Narcotic. He was touring Europe recently to promote it and I was happy to catch him on the wing for a gig at KABK. Watch out, this song will get stuck in your head!
5: Artist/Musician Arrington de Dionyso used to be in Old Time Religion and went on to form Malaikat al Singa, a band heavily influenced by indonesian music. Both on K Records. Painted Murals at Comet Pizza, the pivot of Pizzagate. I listen a lot to his: Unheard Indonesia, a long impro with Indonesian musicians.
6: Gamelan gives me goosebumps. Pitamaha-Various Gamelan musicians.
7: Angus Mclise – The cloud doctrine. A selection from a large collection of mesmerizing sound experiments by McLise. This must be a collaboration with Tony conrad on violin.
8: More McLise and Conrad from the album Dreamweapon III.
9: Lon Milo Duquette is a musician who left behind his musical career to focus on being a practicing magician and writer on the occult. He is still involved in occult organization OTO, originated by Aleister Crowley. Since a few years he’s picked up his guitar again and records and tours as a singer songwriter. This is from the album Sweet Baba Lon.
10: I love nonsense rhyming like this viral one the kids came home with: The Apple Pen song.
hey ron. i haven’t got any new tunes. i am mainly listening to blogtalkradio when i am in my studio. in my ongoing researches in the cultural dimensions an appearances of contemporary magic and the occult i had a great time in listening to: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/the-hermetic-hour i especially recommend the edition on robert graves’ ‘the white godess’ a seminal text for new paganist movements. enjoy and, in the manner of poke runyon: good magic! ewoud
