Thursday, January 9, 2020

rotating in the year of our lord 2019 from the followers of local cheese eaters 51








M a t t h e w S w i e z y n s k i

:: film, in order ::

Bong Joon-ho Parasite
Martin Scorsese The Irishman
Craig Mazin Chernobyl
Pedro Almodóvar Pain and Glory
Quentin Tarantino Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Robert Eggers The Lighthouse
Jia Zhangke Ash is the Purest White
Hu Bo An Elephant Sitting Still
Joanna Hogg The Souvenir
Jennifer Kent The Nightingale
Mati Diop Atlantique
Bi Gan Long Day's Journey into Night
James Gray Ad Astra 
Claire Denis High Life
Chad Stahelski John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum
Takashi Makino Memento Stella

:: kill your television, not in order ::

Susannah Grant, Ayelet Waldman & Michael Chabon Unbelievable
Nic Pizzolatto True Detective season three
Alec Berg & Bill Hader Barry season two
Phoebe Waller-Bridge Fleabag season two
Ava DuVernay When They See Us
Joe Penhall Mindhunter season two

:: music recordings ::

Jakob Kirkegaard Opus Mors
Jim O’Rourke To Magnetize Money and Catch a Roving Eye
Éliane Radigue Occam Ocean 2
Biosphere The Senja Recordings
Catherine Christer Hennix The Deontic Miracle
Beth Gibbons, Henryk Górecki ‎Symphony No. 3 (Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs) Op. 36
Stuart A. Staples Music For Claire Denis' High Life (OST)
Jakob Ullmann Fremde Zeit Addendum 5
Sunn O))) Pyroclasts
Hildur Guðnadóttir Chernobyl (OST)
Jóhann Jóhannsson Retrospective I
Tangerine Dream In Search Of Hades (The Virgin Recordings 1973-1979)
Werner Durand Schwingende Luftsäulen 2
Thom Yorke Anima
Maria w Horn Epistasis

:: books ::

Vija Celmins To Fix the Image in Memory
H.P. Lovecraft (Leslie S. Klinger) The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
Robert Musil Intimate Ties: Two Novellas
Luc Ferrari Complete Works
Chris Roberts and James Marsh The Spirit of Talk Talk [new edition]
René Daumal Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing (Exact Change)


C h i  Y u n

:: film, in order ::

Bong Joon-ho Parasite
Martin Scorsese The Irishman
Pedro Almodóvar Pain and Glory
Hu Bo An Elephant Sitting Still
Quentin Tarantino Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Jia Zhangke Ash is the Purest White
Mati Diop Atlantique
James Gray Ad Astra
Robert Eggers The Lighthouse
Nanfu Wang & Lynn Zhang One Child Nation
Bi Gan Long Day's Journey into Night


J o h n  S p e l l

:: music recordings ::

Éliane Radigue Occam Ocean 2
Jakob Kirkegaard Opus Mors
The Deontic Miracle Selections from 100 Models of Hegikan Roku
Jakob Ullmann Fremde Zeit Addendum 5
Félicia Atkinson The Flower And The Vessel
Sunn O))) Pyroclasts
Autechre Warp Tapes 89-93
Patsy Millicent Todd 45s on Gay Feet:
I Don’t Want To Be Hurt/Certify My Love
We Were Lovers/Give Me A Chance [w/Stranger Cole]
Your Photograph/Tell It To Me [w/Stranger Cole]
Just Like It Is/I Tell Myself
Tujiko Noriko Kuro (OST)
Kali Malone The Sacrificial Code
David Terry & Eye Spirit The White Horse Of The Sun
E-Saggila My World My Way
Not Waving Futuro (Music For The Waldorf Project)
DOME reissues
The Caretaker Everywhere, An Empty Bliss
Andrew Chalk One Long Year

:: film/kill yr television ::

Jeffrey Addiss, Will Matthews The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance
Chad Stahelski John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum
Takashi Makino Memento Stella at OMSI with live score by Takashi Makino
Zal Batmanglij & Brit Marling The OA Season 2
Joji Matsuoka & Nobuhiro Yamashita Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories Season 2
Aki Kondo & Masahito Kobayashi Rilakkuma and Kaoru

:: music recordings ::

Marion Brown Three For Shepp
Marion Brown Capricorn Moon to Juba Lee:  Revisited
Louis Moholo Octet Spirits Rejoice
Sonny Sharrock Ask the Ages
Maleem Mahmoud Ghania with Pharoah Shanders The Trance of Seven Colors
Alice Coltrane Carnegie Hall '71
Alice Coltrane Sextet Live at the Berkeley Community Theater 1972
Bill Orcutt Odds Against Tomorrow
Peter Brötzmann I Surrender Dear
Matana Roberts Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis
Arve Henriksen the timeless nowhere
Yoshi Wada Lament For the Rise and Fall of the Elephantine Crocodile
Winfried Muhlum-Pyrapheros Musica Nova Contemplativa
Biosphere The Senja Recordings
jürg frey fields, traces, clouds
Hildur Guðnadóttir Chernobyl (OST)
Stuart A Staples High Life (OST)
Mark Korven The Lighthouse (OST)
Lustmord First Reformed (OST)
Catherine Christer Hennix The Deontic Miracle
Jerome Noetinger and Anthony Peteras A Sunset For Walter
Terry Fox Linkage
Purple Mountains S/T
Tindersticks No Treasure But Hope
Thom Yorke Anima
Bill Callahan Shepard in a Sheepskin Vest
Phill Niblock and Catherine Lamb Ensemble neoN
Phill Niblock Music For Organ
Joshua Abrams and the Natural Information Society Mandatory Reality
75 Dollar Bill I Was Real
Kali Malone The Sacrificial Code
Deathprod Occulting Disk
D Jackman Herbstonne
Bendik Giske Surrender
Fire! Orchestra Arrival
Jakob Kirkegaard Opus Mors
Jakob Kirkegaard Phonurgia Metallis
Leila Bordreuil Headflush
Roland Kayn Scanning
Jakob Ullmann solo V fur Klavier
Jim O'Rourke To Magnetize Money and Catch a Roving Eye
Éliane Radigue Occam Ocean 2
The Caretaker Everywhere at the End of Time Stages 4 to 6
Sunn0))) Pyroclasts
Keith Fullerton Whitman STS
Klein Lifetime
Black To Comm Seven Horses For Seven Kings
FKA Twigs Magdalene
People Like Us The Mirror
Petra Dubach and Mario van Horrik Church WAVES

:: surround sound found in 2019 ::

The Band S/T
Tangerine Dream In Search of Hades
The Beatles Abbey Road
Gene Clark No Other
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Shiro Takatani async surround
Roxy Music S/T
Velvet Underground Loaded
Fleetwood Mac Tusk
Jethro Tull Aqualung
Johann Johannsson Viroulegu forsetar
John Luther Adams Become Ocean
John Luther Adams Become Desert
Herbie Hancock Sextant
Talking Heads Fear of Music
Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues
Bjork Selmasongs
Bjork Medulla
Bjork Vespertine
Bjork Volta
Bjork Homogenic
Bjork Drawing Restraint
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King (50th Anniversary)
Bass Communion Loss
Beck Sea Change
Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother
Pink Floyd Meddle
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Yes The Yes Album
Yes Fragile
Yes Close to the Edge
Yes Relayer
Yes Tales of Topographic Oceans


 B e a  K w a n  L i m

{ nothing listed in any particular order }

:: film ::

*The first two address a numinous silence that can only come from the innermost parts of individuals who come to truly know their soul’s compass - words have no domain, mindless mob mentality be damned. In a way all the films have that quality in some shade or moment.

Hu Bo An Elephant Sitting Still
Terrence Malick A Hidden Life
Béla Tarr Sátántangó (new restoration)
Chad Stahelski John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum

:: live music ::

*The Radigue and Monk shows had sacred and virtuosic qualities. Must say most of these shows  had kind and respectful audiences - rare! Grace Cathedral’s cavernous echo and light from sunset to darkness is spectacular. I’m also very fortunate to count admired friends in my list.

Éliane Radigue - Occam Ocean at The Lab
Meredith Monk at Grace Cathedral
David Novick, Donovan Quinn, Six Organs of Admittance at Adobe Books
Tashi Dorji and Sumac at Rickshaw Stop
This Is Not This Heat at The Chapel
Elysian Fields at Starline Social Club
Bill Callahan at the Castro Theatre

:: music recordings ::

*Several recordings that took many years to make in this list. The common thread I noticed is some very sophisticated maturity in all these albums.

Rustin Man Drift Code
Donovan Quinn Absalom
Akira Rabelais CXVI
Beth Gibbons / Henryk Gorecki Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
Lumine Quiet Ends
Alice Coltrane Live at the Berkeley Community Theatre 1972

:: books ::

*Was a very bad reader this year.

Éliane Radigue Intermediary Spaces
Jean Ray Cruise of Shadows
Luc Ferrari Complete Works
Chris Roberts and James Marsh The Spirit of Talk Talk [new edition]
Benjamin Piekut Henry Cow The World is a Problem
Vija Celmins To Fix the Image in Memory


images
Biosphere, Chernobyl, High Life OST, Phill Niblock Music For Organ, The Lighthouse OST, Pain and Glory

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