APRIL 28, 2015
(WEEK # 17)
1.
ALVA NOTO-“XERROX VOLUME 3” (4/28)
2.
AMERICAN WRESTLERS-“AMERICAN WRESTLERS”
(4/7)
3.
CRAIG ARMSTRONG-“FAR FROM THE MADDING
CROWD” (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK RECORDING” (4/28)
4.
BELL WITCH-“FOUR PHANTOMS” (4/28)
5.
THE BLOW MONKEYS-“IF NOT NOW, WHEN?”
(4/28)
6.
BLUR-“THE
MAGIC WHIP” (4/28)
7.
BRAIDS-“DEEP IN THE IRIS” (4/28)
8.
BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE-“MUSIQUE DE FILM
IMAGINE” (4/28)
9.
HOWIE DAY-“LANTERNS” (4/28)
10. LAWRENCE
ENGLISH-“THE PEREGRINE” (4/28) (Room40
presents a reissue of Australian sound artist Lawrence English's acclaimed 2011
album The Peregrine, inspired by John Alec Baker's 1967 nature writing classic
of the same name. "I first discovered The Peregrine when I was visiting my
friend David Toop in London. He had the book on his desk and I picked it up and
randomly turned to a page. It was an exquisite description of an Owl silently
hunting. I was struck by the detail and evocative sense of listening in the
writing. It was as though I was there experiencing that moment through the
author's ears. I turned to another page and before I finished that paragraph I
was sold. I ordered The Peregrine and was reading it avidly days later. Since
that time I have spent a good deal of time with that book and J.A. Baker's only
other text The Hill of Summer. I've purchased in excess of 100 copies of The
Peregrine, gifting them to fellow musicians and artists who visit and
occasionally sending them to people who I felt might relish the book. Most
infamously I suppose is my sending the book to Werner Herzog, who I was
introduced to by my friend Douglas Quin. Herzog loved the book and now includes
it as essential reading in his film school. For me, The Peregrine captures a
very special turning point in the 20th century. It marks a recognition of the
role humans play in shaping their environment. Without ever addressing the
topic directly, Baker's misanthropic, almost nihilistic reading of modern life
pinpoints many issues that have come to a head in contemporary society. For a
character we never learn very much about, Baker's voyeur of the falcons is a
surprisingly engaging figure. As the reader we become him, we live through his
textual renderings of time and place. Ultimately, through this ghost of a
character, we become the bird in what Herzog so perfectly called a 'quasi-religious
transubstantiation' -- reader into author into bird. This book changed my life.
So much so that I felt it necessary to make a record about it and find some
small way to respond to what is, in my opinion, one of the finest literary
outings of the 20th century. I hope you can find some space in which to
experience both the book and this record." --Lawrence English, January
2015)
11. EVERCLEAR-“BLACK
IS THE NEW BLACK” (4/28)
12. BILL
FAY-“WHO IS THE SENDER?” (4/28)
13. GANG
OF YOUTHS-“THE POSITIONS” [2-CD DELUXE EDITION] (4/28)
14. MARTIN L. GORE-“MG” (4/28)
15. I AM KLOOT-“HOLD BACK THE
NIGHT: I AM KLOOT LIVE” [DELUXE EDITION 2-CD] (4/28)
16. THE
KINGBEES-“THE KINGBEES” (4/28) [1980/2015 REISSUED REMASTERED &
EXPANDED W/ UNISSUED DEMOS AND LIVE TRACKS]
17. THE
LATE CALL-“GOLDEN” (4/28)
18. LOOPER-“THESE
THINGS” [5-CD BOX SET] (4/28) (5
CD box set, collating tracks from their entire catalogue, including the brand
new album, Offgrid:Offline plus rarities & previously unreleased material*
"In an inventive reinterpretation of ‘the box set’, Looper have curated
the database of their entire body of work as five separate CDs, themed by type
and entitled ‘Lexiphonics’, ‘Kinokraft’, ‘Voxtrot’, ‘Transmitte’ and ‘Melos’:
Inspired by mixtapes and their modern day equivalent, the playlist, ‘These
Things’ puts the songs in new contexts, allowing new relationships between
works previously kept apart. Looper explain, “For us this box is a repurposed,
recycled and renewed work - an attempt to make something new out of something
old.” The concept of sampling - present both in the construction of the early
music and the creation of the playlists - assumes visual form in the
cut-and-paste collage artwork by Karn David. Photographs from the Looper
archives illustrate her unique liner notes: quotes and ‘samples’ from music reviews
and articles from the time of the original releases, collaged together to tell
the story of Looper. Looper emerged from Belle & Sebastian in 1997 when
Stuart David (co-founder and bass player of B&S) and his wife Karn (an
artist who directed the early B&S videos) collaborated for a show at
Glasgow School Of Art. A degree show fundraiser for Stuart’s sister Karla Black
- who received a Turner Prize nomination in 2011 - the performance was a
multimedia affair incorporating TVs, Super 8 film, 35mm slides and kinetic
sculptures. Since nothing broke down and everyone clapped, they decided to keep
doing it.")
19. MEW-“+
-“ [DELUXE DOUBLE CD & HARD BACK
BOOK] (4/28)
20. MODEST
MOUSE-“INTERSTATE 8” (2003/2015 REISSUED) (4/28)
21. PALE
ANGELS-“IMAGINARY PEOPLE” (4/21)
22. PALE
BLUE-“THE PAST WE LEAVE BEHIND” (4/28) (Musically, Pale Blue is a response to modern dance music and its
constant fluctuations. It intentionally bears no obvious singles, nor club
hits. While Simonetti, Wight and Jana Hunter (vocals on Dusk in Parts ) remain
at its core, Pale Blue s philosophy is to keep everything open to
collaboration. It does not aim to pigeonhole itself into a genre or any new
vistas in music, but instead to a unifying sound produced collectively and
harmoniously.)
23. POST
SOCIAL-“POST SOCIAL” (4/28)
24. ROCKET
FROM THE CRYPT AND SONNY VINCENT-“VINTAGE PISS” (4/28) (2015 archive release. Vintage Piss is the baby whose
seed was planted on the 2003 Rocket From The Crypt US tour, which also paired
some members of the band with legendary 1970s New York outta control rock 'n'
roller Sonny Vincent. After the Swami release of Vincent's previous band
Testors' Complete Discography, Speedo (John Reis), Ruby Mars (Mario Rubalcaba)
and The Notorious ND (Andy Stamets) served as the man's backing band and
slashed through his Testors repertoire resulting in a primo barrage of 1970s
neo-proto-punk. After one particularly meaty performance in Chicago amidst high
fives and ass slaps signifying a job well done, the inspiration to write and
record new songs struck. Back in San Diego, late 2003, the group incubated in
Drag Racist Studio. They employed a steam-of-consciousness approach to making
noise by recording songs and ideas live in the studio without rehearsal. With
Vincent's voice and blazing, James Williamson-esque Les Paul attack leading the
way, the band followed him into the punk abyss, emerging with a record that is
both Sonny Vincent and Rocket From The Crypt. Unfortunately, the studio and
Swami Records became buried by transition. It was to be the last thing recorded
at Drag Racist before the studio shut its doors. The recording lay dormant,
unmixed and unfinished. With the 2013 reformation of Rocket From the Crypt and
the continued rerelease of Sonny Vincent and Testors material, a rekindled
interest in the lost artifact of rock 'n' roll led Swami to revisit these
masters eleven years later.)
25. THE
SLOW READERS CLUB-“CAVALCADE” (4/13)
26. STEALING
SHEEP-“NOT REAL” (4/14)
27. COLIN
STETSON AND SARAH NEUFELD-“NEVER WERE THE WAY SHE WAS” (4/28)
28. 10,000
MANIACS-“TWICE TOLD TALES” (4/28)
29. THIS
IS THE KIT-“BASHED OUT” (4/13)
30. ROCKY
VOTOLATO-“HOSPITAL HANDSHAKES” (4/21)
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