:Episode One Hundred Sixty: 10.18.2019
| Artist | Title | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Firefriend | Who's Gone What's Missing | Avalanche |
| Rev Rev Rev | Waiting For Gödel | Kykeon |
| The Black Wizards | Outlaws | Reflections |
| Blackwater Holylight | Motorcycle | Veils of Winter |
| Bison Machine | Seas of Titan | Seas of Titan |
| Fabienne Delsol | Door Knob | Four |
| The Comet Is Coming | The Afterlife | The Afterlife EP |
| Upperground Orchestra | Barene | Euganea |
| Waaju | Maroc | Waaju |
| Angel Bat Dawid | Impepho | The Oracle |
| Sun City Girls | The Court Magicians of Agartha | Dawn of the Devi |
| Humming Dogs | Oh Le Le | Les Borigenes |
| People Like Us | Step Inside | The Mirror |
| Trevor | Midi 2 | Becoming A Bed |
| Masahiro Sugaya | Until the End of the World | Horizon, Vol. 1 |
| Eye Nono | My Blue Horizon | My Blue Horizon |
| Michael A. Muller | Lower River | Lower River |
| A Produce | Raga Riley | The Clearing |
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* Not on Spotify:
Upperground Orchestra - Barene
Humming Dogs - Oh Le Le
Eye Nono - My Blue Horizon
Description
Among the highlights of this week's show:
An opening block of rock to knock your socks into... the dock of chalk? (FM DJ patter is not my strong suit) A few times a year, I'll hear someone, usually around my age (about which I'll say: I was a "90s kid"... if by "kid" you mean "teenager," and let you do the math) lament that "rock is dead." To which I say: take these six songs, all from albums released THIS YEAR and cram them into your pipe with walnuts and smoke it, Gramps! (again, not so great with the patter) We've got some Hawkwind-on-ludes low-key space rock from Firefriend, some JAMC/BRMC-ish noisy, noir-y stomp from Rev Rev Rev and The Black Wizards, a bit of stoner metal from Blackwater Holylight, as well as 70s-inspired prog by Bison Machine and 60s-inspired French psych-pop by Fabienne DelSol.
A middle block of jazz and jazz-adjacent (i.e. improvised) tunes, leading off with a track from current fusion-jazz torchbearers The Comet Is Coming, who released the best album of their short career earlier this year, and who have now given us an EP that is sort of the In a Silent Way to its successor's Bitches Brew. We also get Upperground Orchestra channeling some serious Sun Ra vibes (I saw the Sun Ra Arkestra earlier this year, so I know of what I speak) on a track that's not on the Spotify playlist, but that I think is worth seeking out (I mean, all you have to do is click something... not really much "seeking" involved) as it's maybe the most truly spaced-out jazz I've heard in quite some time.
A closing block of electronic music that includes the Negativland-esque plunderphonics (long before mash-ups, there was plunderphonics) of People Like Us, as well as one of the godfathers of contemporary Japanese minimal ambience, Masahiro Sugaya, with a track from the first edition of what is to be a multi-volume retrospective of his work (I mean, I assume - it's subtitled "Volume 1" and the guy has an ENORMOUS back catalog, almost none of which has ever been released outside Japan) released by Light In The Attic sub-label Empire of Signs.