Thursday, December 31, 2009

pre 2010


(la musique)
- alio die & aglaia - private history of the clouds - infraction
- ambrose field & john potter - being dufay - ecm
- alva noto - xerrox vol.2 - raster-noton
- asher - miniatures - sourdine
- william basinski - 92982 - 2062
- ran blake - driftwoods - tompkins square
- bon iver - blood bank - jagjaguwar
- peter brötzmann/toshinori kondo /massimo pupillo /paal nilssen-love - hairy bones - okka disk
- bill callahan - sometimes i wish we were an eagle - drag city
- evan caminiti - psychic mud chrine - digitalis recordings
- celer - engaged touches - humming conch
- celer - close proximity and the unhindered care-all - sra
- andrew chalk & daisuke suzuki - the shadows go their own way - siren records
- andrew chalk - the cable house - faraway press
- dropp ensemble - safety - either/oar
- bob dylan - together through life - columbia
- elegi - varde - miasmah recordings
- eleh - homage to the sine wave - taiga
- eleh / nana april jun - observations & momentum - touch
- deceh (eleh?) - deceh - important records
- elm - nemcatacoa - digitalis
- lawrence english - a colour for autumn - 12k
- fennesz + sparklehorse - in the fishtank 15 - in the fishtank
- fire - you liked me five minutes ago - rune grammofon
- ben frost - by the throat - bedroom community
- jimmy giuffre - the swamp people with bob brookmeyer & jim hall (newport 1958) - giant steps records
- grizzly bear - veckatimest - warp
- jgrzinich - phase inversion - mystery sea
- hildur gudnadottir - without sinking - touch
- robert haigh - notes and crossings - siren records
- harmonia 76 w/ brian eno - tracks and traces reissue - sony/gronland
- jon hassell - last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street - ecm
- tim hecker - an imaginary country - kranky
- king crimson - in the court of the crimson king: an observation by king crimson - island
steven wilson 5.1 version
- lethe - catastrophe point #5 - intransitive recordings
- stephan mathieu - the key to the kingdom - dekorder
- stephan mathieu & taylor deupree - transcriptions - spekk
- mountains - choral - thrill jockey
- mountains - etching - thrill jockey
- michael northam - suhina - drone records
- phill niblock - touch strings - touch
- nils økland - monograph - ecm
- yui onodera - entropy - trumn
- yui onodera & the beautiful schizophonic - radiance - basses frequences
- adam pacione - still life series - bee eater recordings
- adam pacione - dobranoc - elevator bath
- evan parker - the moment's energy - ecm
- arvo pärt - in principio - ecm
- pillowdiver - sleeping pills - 12k
- plinth - music for smalls lighthouse - durtro jnana
- henry purcell - the complete fantazias (fretwork) - harmonia mundi
- eliane radigue - vice versa, etc - important records
- eliane radigue - triptych - important records
- steve roden - ecstasy shorewed its petals with the full peal of the bells - ferns recordings
- simon scott - navigare - miasmah recordings
- seaworthy - 1897 - 12k
- colin andrew sheffield - signatures + broken light - invisible birds (officially late 2008)
- colin andrew sheffield - for tomorrow - bee eater recordings
- matt shoemaker - erosion of the analogous eye - helen scarsdale agency
- matt shoemaker - the sunken plethora consumes all - mystery sea
- matt shoemaker - wayward set - human faculties
- six organs of admittance - rtz - drag city
- six organs of admittance - luminous night - drag city
- a broken consort - crow autumn part two - sustain-release
- clouwbeck - wolfrahm - shining day
- steven r. smith - cities - immune
- steven r. smith & gareth davis - westering - important records
- solo andata - solo andata - 12k
- spiracle - ananta - the helen scarsdale agency
- sunn o))) - monoliths & dimensions - southern lord
- supersilent - supersilent 9 - rune grammofon
- john surman - brewster's rooster - ecm
- svarte greiner - kappe - type records
- david sylvian - manafon - samadhisound
- tamaru - figure - trumn
- charles tyler - charles tyler ensemble - esp (1966)
- moroslav vitous w/ michael portal - remembering weather report - ecm
- yoshi wada - earth horns with electronic drone - edition omega point
- peter walker - long lost tapes 1970 - tompkins square
- christian wallumrød - fabula suite lugano - ecm
- jozef van wissem - it is all that is made - important
- mark peter wright (hands of sand) - a quiet reverie: an audio exploration of site, solitude, and perception
- peter wright - an angel fell where the kestrels hover - spekk
- robert wyatt - box set - domino
- richard youngs - under stellar stream- jagjaguwar
- townes van zandt - live at the old quarter, houston, texas - fat possum records
- various - open strings: 1920s middle eastern recordings - honest jon's
- kronos quartet - floodplain - nonesuch

(books)
- samuel beckett - the letters of samuel beckett 1929-1940 - cambridge university press
- john cage - zen ox-herding pictures - george braziller
- raymond carver - collected stories - the library of america
- caspar david friedrich - caspar david friedrich: the art of drawing - fundación juan march
- lefcadio hearn - hearn: american writings - the library of america
- friedrich hölderlin - friedrich hölderlin: essays and letters - penguin classics
- athanasius kircher - athanasius kircher's theatre of the world: the life and work of the last man to search for universal knowledge - inner tradition
- heinrich von kleist - selected prose of heinrich von kleist - archipelago books
- gérard de nerval - the salt smugglers - archipelago books
- robert walser - the tanners - new directions

(susan derges photo)

Friday, December 18, 2009

only mediocrities develop

stupidity is not my strong point. i have seen many persons; i have visited several countries; i have taken part in various enterprises without liking them; i have eaten nearly every day....

paul valéry - monsieur teste - 1896
(la soirée avec monsieur teste)

(title - old man wilde)
(will be absent for some 2 weeks - immersion in mr. ripley, tow(l)ers of light (or, owlers), catastrophes, and the birth of christ)

Friday, December 11, 2009

chaos

image from sensitive chaos: the creation of flowing forms in water and air

there is no doubt that our body is a moulded river
(novalis, aphorisms)