:Episode One Hundred Eleven: 07.13.2018
| Artist | Title | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Tigue | Triangle | Strange Paradise |
| Free / Slope | Universal (Deep Into Drift Mode) | Abracadabra |
| Routine Death | Star Alliance | Parallel Universes |
| Hamish Kilgour | Whistle Stop | Finklestein |
| Norman Westberg | After Vacation | After Vacation |
| K.S. Ratliff and Black Magic | Fear Of The Night | Fear Of The Night |
| Konrad Kraft | Arc 10 | Arctica |
| Delphine Dora & Sophie Cooper | Sublime Gesture II | Divine Ekstasys |
| Prana Crafter | Moon Through Fern Lattice | Enter The Stream |
| Gold | No Parking | V/A: Brown Acid - The Sixth Trip |
| Zendik | Is There No Peace | V/A: Brown Acid - The Sixth Trip |
| Enoch Smoky | It's Cruel | V/A: Brown Acid - The Sixth Trip |
| Cosmic Fall | Narcotic Vortex | In Search Of Outer Space |
| CVX | Zibaldone I of CVX | Zibaldone I of CVX |
| Michael Beharie & Teddy Rankin-Parker | Roses | A Heart From Your Shadow |
| X.Y.R. | Quiet Time (Excerpt) | QTT7 |
Description
Returning after a week's absence, I start off the show with a set of summery (by the standards of the show, at any rate) tunes, beginning with some tropicalia-influenced post-post-rock (that's what we're calling the post-rock revival, right?) from Tigue, followed by some NEU!/Harmonia-ish neo-Krautrock from the oddly named Free/Slope (who join AC/DC and Yamantaka//Sonic Titan in the "bands with a slash in their name" club), a bit of avant-pop from Routine Death, a psychedelic folk number that I think is fair to describe as "ramblin'" from Hamish Kilgour of The Clean, and a piece of gorgeous dark ambience from longtime Swans member Norman Westberg.
The middle set leads off with a song from an extraordinary, recently-reissued album of outsider 70s rock by K.S. Ratliff and Black Magic (if you pay attention to the chorus, you'll note that in lieu of a delay pedal to create an echo effect, he simply repeats its final word, "night," with decreasing volume, a la "fear of the NIGHT... Night... night...") After that, we hear some early-80s post-kosmiche from Konrad Kraft, some avant-garde drone by Delphine Dora & Sophie Cooper (that I admit might be a little too weird for the show - though it's an excellent album if you're into that sort of thing), some drone-folk by Olympic Peninsula-dweller Prana Crafter, several tracks from the most recent edition of 70s post-Nuggets compilation series Brown Acid, and some low-key space rock by Cosmic Fall
The last set begins with a somewhat "Faust Tapes"-esque sound collage by CVX, a bit of jazz-adjacent improv by Michael Beharie & Teddy Rankin-Parker, and concludes with mysterious Russian dronesmith X.Y.R.'s recent recording for Quiet Time Tapes (a label similar in both its musical and visual aesthetic sensibilities to Not Not Fun).