Saturday, December 31, 2022

twenty twenty two according to vibrational occurrences in the vicinity of my progeny leviathan gray paw aka leviathan grey paw



aural vibrational occurances aka best new music of 2022:


Alva Noto, Martin L. Gore & William Basinski / Subterraneans (Noton)
Andrew Anderson / Vagrancies CD (Elevator Bath)
Brötzmann, Graves, Parker / Historic Music Past Tense Future LP (Black Editions Archive)
Robin Carolan & Sebastian Gainsborough / The Northman LP (VMP)
Laura Cannell / Antiphony of the Trees (Brawl Records)
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis / Blonde (Invada Records UK, Lakeshore Records)
Deathprod / Sow Your Gold In The White Foliated Earth (A Composition For Ensemble Musikfabrik's Harry Parch Instruments) LP (Smalltown Supersound)
Ben Frost / Broken Spectre (The Vinyl Factory)
Evgueni Galperine / Theory of Becoming (ECM)
Terry Jennings, Charles Curtis / Piece for Cello and Saxophone LP (Saltern)
aLICE kEMP / To All My Hideous Children (Coherent States)
Susana López / The Edge Of The Circle CD (Elevator Bath)
Emeka Ogboh / 6°30’33​.​372”N 3°22’0​.​66”E LP (Danfotronics)
Tindersticks / Stars at Noon
Valerio Tricoli / Say Goodbye To The Wind CD (Shelter Press)
Keith Fullerton Whitman / GRM [Redactions] LP (NAKID)




reissued or archival vibrational occurances aka best archival music:


Idris Ackamoor The Pyramids / Aomawa (The 1970s Recordings) LP Boxset (Strut)
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto with Ensemble Modern / utp_ LP (Noton)
Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake / From The River To The Ocean LP (Thrill Jockey)
Ash Ra Tempel / Join Inn LP (MG.ART)
Ash Ra Tempel & Timothy Leary / Seven Up LP (MG.ART)
Albert Ayler / Revelations - The Complete ORTF 1970 Fondation Maeght Recordings CD Boxset (INA, Elemental Music)
The Beatles / Revolver LP (Apple Records)
Colin Blunstone / One Year LP (Sundazed Music)
Brötzmann & Bennink / Schwarzwaldfahrt Book + CD (Trost Records)
Gavin Bryars / The Sinking Of The Titanic LP (Superior Viaduct)
Harold Budd / The Pavilion Of Dreams LP (Superior Viaduct)
Ornette Coleman / The Shape Of Jazz To Come LP (VMP)
Ornette Coleman / Round Trip: Ornette Coleman On Blue Note LP Boxset (Blue Note Tone Poet)
Alice Coltrane Featuring Pharoah Sanders And Joe Henderson / Ptah, The El Daoud LP (Verve By Request)
John Coltrane / Sun Ship LP (VMP)
Digable Planets / Blowout Comb LP (Light in the Attic)
Johnny Dyani / Song For Biko LP (Steeplechase)
Bob Dylan / Blonde on Blonde LP (VMP)
Bill Evans Trio / Trio '65 LP (Verve)
Marvin Gaye / What's Going On 2LP version (Tamla, UMe)
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru / Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru LP (Mississippi Records)
Grant Green / Feelin' The Spirit LP (Blue Note Tone Poet)
Hands To / Bio Electric (New Forces)
Bernard Herrmann / Vertigo LP (VMP)
Freddie Hubbard / Breaking Point LP (Blue Note Tone Poet)
Bobby Hutcherson / Stick-Up! LP (Blue Note Tone Poet)
Interpol / Turn On The Bright Lights 2LP (VMP
Khan Jamal's Creative Arts Ensemble / Drum Dance To The Motherland LP (Aguirre Records)
Thomas Köner / Aubrite LP (Mille Plateaux)
Dickie Landry / 4 Cuts Placed In "A First Quarter" (Unseen Worlds)
Dickie Landry / Solos (Unseen Worlds)
Yusef Lateef / The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef LP (VMP)
Les Rallizes Denudes / The Oz Tapes LP (Temporal Drift, Oz Records)
Les Rallizes Denudes / '67-'69 Studio Et Live (Tuff Beats, The Last One Musique)
Mizutani & Les Rallizes Denudes / Mizutani & Les Rallizes Dénudés (Tuff Beats, The Last One Musique)
Maliks Emerging Force Art Trio / Time And Condition LP (Moved-By-Sound)
Branko Mataja / Over Fields And Mountains (Numero Group)
Curtis Mayfield / Super Fly 2LP version (Run Out Groove)
Ken McIntyre / Year Of The Iron Sheep LP (Sowing Records)
Jackie McLean / Destination... Out! LP (Blue Note)
Jackie McLean / Tippin' The Scales LP (Blue Note Tone Poet)
Charles Mingus / Mingus LP (Candid)
Charles Mingus / Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus LP (Candid)
Joni Mitchell / Blue LP (Reprise Records)
Neu! / 50! Vinyl Boxset (Grönland Records)
Michel Pilz, Peter Kowald, Paul Lovens / Carpathes LP (CIEN FUEGOS)
Pink Floyd / Animals (2018 Remix) LP (Pink Floyd Records)
Ride / Nowhere LP (Wichita)
Max Roach / We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite LP (Candid)
Pharoah Sanders / Karma LP (Impulse!)
Gil Scott-Heron / Pieces Of A Man LP (Flying Dutchman)
Wayne Shorter / Adam's Apple LP (Blue Note Tone Poet)
Sirone / Artistry LP (Moved-By-Sound)
David Sylvian / Blemish LP (Samadhisound)
David Sylvian / Manafon LP (Samadhisound)
Tangerine Dream / Alpha Centauri LP (Esoteric Records)
Tangerine Dream / Live In Reims Cinema Opera, September 23rd, 1975 LP (Eastgate Music And Arts)
Horace Tapscott Quintet / The Quintet LP (Mr Bongo)
Teenage Fanclub / Bandwagonesque LP (Sony Music)
Masahiko Togashi, Don Cherry & Charlie Haden / Session In Paris, Vol. 1 "Song Of Soil" LP (We Want Sounds)
Robert Turman / Flux LP (Spectrum Spools)
War / Deliver The Word LP (Avenue Records, Rhino Records)
War / The World Is A Ghetto LP (Avenue Records, Rhino Records)
War / All Day Music LP (Avenue Records, Rhino Records)
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band / Part One LP (Jackpot Records)
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band / Vol. 2 (Breaking Through) LP (Jackpot Records)
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band / Vol. 3: A Child's Guide To Good & Evil LP (Jackpot Records)
Wilco / Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Vinyl Boxset (Nonesuch)
The Frank Wright Quintet / Your Prayer LP (ESP Disk)
Larry Young / Unity LP (Blue Note)
Townes Van Zandt / At My Window LP (Craft Recordings)


visual vibrational occurances aka best theatrical films and television:

Charlotte Wells / Aftersun
Martin McDonagh / The Banshees of Inisherin
Joanna Hogg / The Eternal Daughter

Robert Eggers / The Northman
Todd Field / Tár
James Gray / Armageddon Time
Thomas M. Wright / The Stranger
Jordan Peele / Nope
Claire Denis / Stars at Noon
Alec Berg & Bill Hader / Barry Season 3
Mike White / The White Lotus: Sicily




blu ray / 4k vibrational occurances aka best films in the physical media:


Jane Campion / The Power of the Dog (Criterion Collection) 4K
David Cronenberg / Eastern Promises (Kino) 4K
Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather 50 Years (Paramount) 4K
John Dahl / Red Rock West (Plan B Entertainment)
Carl Th. Dreyer / Vampyr (Eureka)
Clint Eastwood / High Plains Drifter (Kino) 4K
John Ford /  The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Paramount) 4K
Richard Franklin / Cloak & Dagger (Vinegar Syndrome) 4K
Philip Haas / The Music of Chance (Imprint)
Ryusuke Hamaguchi / Drive My Car (Criterion Collection)
Rowdy Herrington / Road House (Vinegar Syndrome) 4K
Walter Hill / The Driver (Studio Canal) 4K
Alfred Hitchcock / Shadow of a Doubt (Universal) 4K
Mike Hodges / Get Carter (BFI) 4K
Mike Hodges / Croupier (Arrow) 4K
Dennis Hopper / Out of the Blue (Severin) 4K
Dennis Hopper / Out of the Blue (BFI)
Norman Jewison / In the Heat of the Night (Kino) 4K
Lau Kar-leung / The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter (Arrow)
Stanley Kubrick / The Killing (Kino) 4K
John Landis / An American Werewolf in London (Arrow) 4K
Sergio Leone / A Fistful of Dollars (Arrow) 4K
Sergio Leone / For a Few Dollars More (Arrow) 4K
Martin McDonagh / In Bruges (Kino) 4K
John McNaughton / Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (Arrow) 4K
Allan Moyle / Times Square (Kino)
Mira Nair / Mississippi Masala (Criterion Collection)
Gordon Parks / Shaft (Criterion Collection) 4K
Alan J. Pakula / The Parallax View (Imprint)
Ivan Passer / Born to Win (Fun City Editions)
Ivan Passer / Cutter’s Way (Fun City Editions)
Frank Perry / Man on a Swing (Imprint)
Lynne Ramsay / Morvern Callar (Fun City Editions)
Al Reinert / For All Mankind (Criterion Collection) 4K
Bernard Rose / Candyman (Arrow) 4K
Joseph Sargent / The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Kino) 4K
Martin Scorsese / The Last Waltz (Criterion Collection) 4K
Martin Scorsese / Raging Bull (Criterion Collection) 4K
Tony Scott / True Romance (Arrow) 4K
Jim Sheridan / Directed By Jim Sheridan: Four Irish Films (Imprint)
Don Siegel / Escape from Alcatraz (Kino) 4K
Bertrand Tavernier / Round Midnight (Criterion Collection)
Various / Shawscope: Volume Two (Arrow)
Various / House of Psychotic Women (Severin)
Various / All The Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium Of Folk Horror (Severin)
Thomas Vinterberg / The Celebration (Criterion Collection)
Jimmy Wang Yu / One-Armed Boxer (Arrow)
Wayne Wang / Chan Is Missing (Criterion Collection)
Billy Wilder / Some Like It Hot (Kino) 4K
Billy Wilder / The Apartment (Kino) 4K
Billy Wilder / Double Indemnity (Criterion Collection) 4K
Michael Winner / Deathwish 2 (Vinegar Syndrome) 4K
Theodore Witcher / Love Jones (Criterion Collection)
John Woo / Hard Target (Kino) 4K

much advise from friends on these releases...
many more I wanted, but couldn't buy at the moment!

Thursday, December 8, 2022

figurative senses, the fact or condition of being inspired : milford graves

still from Milford Graves: Full Mantis, a film by Jake Meginsky and Neil Cloaca Young

"The drums, after all, echo the heartbeat, and as Milford Graves has also noted 'If you study the anatomy of the ear, you'll see that the so-called eardrum is nothing but a membrane, and the so-called hammer is nothing but a drumstick.'" Valerie Wilmer As Serious As Your Life: The Story of the New Jazz



images of inspiration, a breathing or infusion into the mind or
soul of a supernatural being, a visual portrait of Milford Graves


Milford Graves
born August 20, 1941 Jamaica, Queens, New York
died February 12, 2021







American drummer, percussionist, cosmic philosopher, professor, researcher, inventor, visual artist/sculptor, gardener, herbalist, and martial artist.

Began playing drums when he was three years old.

Along with Sunny Murray and Rashied Ali, Graves is known for liberating percussion from its timekeeping role in music. One wouldn't cross a busy road with a rigid military march, but move at different rhythms.

Graves was music faculty at Bennington College from 1973-2012 and was appointed faculty emeritus in 2016.








Select Discography
  • Albert Ayler Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962–70) (Revenant)
  • Paul Bley Barrage (ESP) 1964
  • New York Art Quartet New York Art Quartet (ESP) 1964
  • New York Art Quartet Mohawk (Fontana) 1965
  • Giuseppi Logan The Giuseppi Logan Quartet (ESP) 1965
  • Jazz Composer's Orchestra Communication (Fontana) 1965
  • Lowell Davidson, Gary Peacock, Milford Graves Lowell Davidson Trio (ESP) 1965
  • Milford Graves with Sonny Morgan Percussion Ensemble (ESP) 1965
  • Giuseppi Logan More (ESP) 1966
  • Milford Graves with Don Pullen At Yale University (SRP) 1966
  • Milford Graves with Don Pullen Nommo (SRP) 1967
  • Albert Ayler Love Cry (Impulse!) 1968
  • Sonny Sharrock Black Woman (Vortex) 1969
  • Milford Graves with Andrew Cyrille Dialogue of the Drums (IPS) 1974
  • Milford Graves with Arthur Doyle, Hugh Glover Bäbi (IPS) 1977
  • Milford Graves with Kaoru Abe, Toshinori Kondo, Mototeru Takagi, and Toshiyuki Tsuchitori Meditation Among Us (Kitty) 1977
  • Kenny Clarke, Andrew Cyrille, Milford Graves, and Famoudou Don Moye Pieces of Time (Soul Note) 1984
  • David Murray and Milford Graves Raw Deal (DIW) 1994
  • Milford Graves Grand Unification (Tzadik) 1998
  • New York Art Quartet 35th Reunion (DIW) 2000
  • Milford Graves Stories (Tzadik) 2000
  • Milford Graves, Peter Brötzmann and William Parker Historic Music Past Tense Future (Black Editions) recorded 2002, issued 2022
  • Milford Graves, Anthony Braxton & William Parker Beyond Quantum (Tzadik) 2008
  • Milford Graves with Bill Laswell Space/Time – Redemption (TUM Records) 2014
  • Milford Graves with Bill Laswell The Stone (Back In No Time) (M.O.D. Technologies) 2014
  • Wadada Leo Smith Sacred Ceremonies (Tum) 2021