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after listening to #MyBloodyValentine #Loveless (1991), #music was never the same. over and over again. #SquirrellyWhirligig https://album.link/de/i/1556921230
after being run over by a car, having leg broken, and lying for a month in a hospital, i listened to one 120-minute cassette over and over again. the #Beatles #WhiteAlbum (1968). #SquirrellyWhirligig https://album.link/de/i/1441133180
another cassette that popped out of my early years, all hips askew and asway, and still sounds so modern to me, #GraceJones #Nightclubbing (1981). #SquirrellyWhirligig https://album.link/de/i/1564514397
another album where, on first listen, i had no idea what this could be. game changing madness. #Boredoms #PopTatari (1993) #SquirrellyWhirligig https://youtu.be/eDzBpQ0GcoU?feature=shared
Boredoms - Pop Tatari (full album)
no way to determine which #Stereolab album belongs on this #SquirrellyWhirligig #playlist, but #DotsAndLoops (1997) accompanied me through a major heartbreak & 1st visit to san francisco, on repeat over & over… https://album.link/de/i/1230517312
brief excursion in #SquirrellyWhirligig playlist for a duo of #dyads — dyad 1/2 #1 jaqueline taïeb “7 heures du matin”
duo of #dyads — dyad 2/2 #2 broadcast “come on let’s go”
#dyads — neil young’s “after the gold rush” and aldous harding’s “warm chris”
#NeilYoung #AldousHarding #SquirrellyWhirligig
https://album.link/de/i/1015783330
https://album.link/de/i/1598442016
#NeilYoung #AldousHarding #SquirrellyWhirligig
https://album.link/de/i/1015783330
https://album.link/de/i/1598442016
harry smith’s anthology of american folk music must also settle into its rightful place here in the #SquirrellyWhirligig archive — back when music was physical and tracks were engraved in acetate or vinyl and truly rare — an invitation to smith’s apartment in the chelsea hotel a rare privilege #harrysmith
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIp8e66RJrrLRwjalT738els7XcMD0-bS&feature=shared
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIp8e66RJrrLRwjalT738els7XcMD0-bS&feature=shared
for pure free-yr-ass-&-yr-mind-will-follow lack of willpower, y’all, i must beseech thee to give lil listen to the discography of clap!clap! the album liquid portraits is exquisite and has, as this playlist thread of living aural memories attests to, placed its imprint upon my identity, if I have such a thing. #clapclap #SquirrellyWhirligig archive https://album.link/de/i/1501274586
julia holter’s album aviary also rearranged my notions of what music means — listening to the songs in reverse order is a slow burn in, tho starting with “turn the light on” with volume up high gives cathartic nerve tinglings.
#SquirrellyWhirligig #playlist #JuliaHolter
https://album.link/de/i/1424641183
la monte young's well-tuned piano – unparalleled minimalism/maximus – this just intonation composition and performance has never been finished – most provisional performances last six hours – can be experienced in the regenbogenstadl dream house in polling, upper bavaria, along with marian zazeela’s slowburn imperceptibly moving calligraphy work “symmetry” #SquirrellyWhirligig #lamonteyoung #marianzazeela #minimalism #justintonation #playlist
La Monte Young - The Well-Tuned Piano (1987)
the album “promises”by floating points, pharoah sanders & london symphony orchestra is still unfolding itself in my bodyheartmind’s landscape of resonances, but i imagine it is a work of perpetual unfolding… as sanders is inevitably still unfolding in the beyond he was already one step ahead in while living… #SquirrellyWhirligig #pharoahsanders #floatingpoints
https://album.link/de/i/1550124058
https://album.link/de/i/1550124058
a recording that always stops me in my tracks… (i stop, turn up my glance, ears perked) — its title “fikratchin” translates from amharic as “thinking” — perhaps this song illustrates the principle described by timothy morton, by which thoughts are the past tense of feelings — the music of mulatu astatke is often sublime, but the vocals by menelik wossenatchew shift this next level — a gift, an offering.
#SquirrellyWhirligig
#MulatuAstatke
https://song.link/de/i/335309240
#SquirrellyWhirligig
#MulatuAstatke
https://song.link/de/i/335309240
this track opened up for me first fully on playa — a typically hot dusty midday nap-heavy hazy lazy day — when neighbors outta the blue set this sound out into the world full on — and i couldn’t help but be lifted from my horizontal and begin to weave and lithesomely wobble and dip, swirl & slip indirectly with its expansive cadence.
alice coltrane’s “journey in satchidananda” (featuring pharoah sanders)
#SquirrellyWhirligig
#AliceColtrane
#PharoahSanders
https://song.link/de/i/1440719297
this album is such an exquisite exploration of where soul can go, and still feels so fresh. thank you sister erykah badu for all you’ve given us. and the madlib-produced track “the healer” is still so damn deep subterranean down.
erykah badu’s album “new amerykah, pt. 1: 4th world war”
#SquirrellyWhirligig
#ErykahBadu
#Madlib
https://song.link/de/i/1440793836
still a very strange album. 1995. u.s. maple — long hair in three stages. 10 tracks. 31 minutes.
“before they fell all apart … this is the album that ‘rocks’… disjointed machinations, poppy locksteps & jarring sideways excursions all leading down a path to nowhere's-ville…”
https://usmaple.bandcamp.com/album/long-hair-in-three-stages
Long Hair In Three Stages, by U.S. Maple
10 track album
electrelane’s “axes” a lovely album’s worth of edgy jangle-pop of the modularbau (e.g. stereolab) variety — some may say tis youth-sized sonic youth, but still holds up v. well! 10 songs. 39 minutes. too pure (2005)
grass widow’s “past time” may be past its time but still rocks the fucking fields & road where their gear lays strewn. love this record for its v. simple modularbau (e.g. stereolab) raw rock. HLR (2010)
black flower’s belgian freeform whatnot explorations expand a solid base of ethiopian jazz/r&b — their music has been on constant rotation with me for forever-and-a-day — this was the first album i encountered
Artifacts, by Black Flower
9 track album
spirit of malombo: malombo, jabula, jazz afrika 1966-1984 –south african drummer julian bahula
dirty projectors — one of thee most heaviest rotation bands in my realm ever! hard to imagine not yet on thee #SquirrellyWhirligig thread — ahoy! where to begin? well, the last record with amber swings, a swan song of sorts: #SwingLoMagellan (2012)
#DirtyProjectors
https://dirtyprojectors.bandcamp.com/album/swing-lo-magellan
Swing Lo Magellan, by Dirty Projectors
12 track album
caroline shaw, here w/ attacca quartet, the album “orange” — such turnings. ah! joy!
caroline shaw, here w/ sō percussion, the song “let the soil play its simple part” — mo’ twinings. oh! sweet hope!
#SquirrellyWhirligig playlist
#CarolineShaw
#SoPercussion
#SquirrellyWhirligig playlist
#CarolineShaw
#SoPercussion
you’ve got to pick up every stitch. it must be the season of the witch. always the season the witch. allhallowtide all year round.
#SquirrellyWhirligig playlist
#JulieDriscoll
#SeasonOfTheWitch
#SquirrellyWhirligig playlist
#JulieDriscoll
#SeasonOfTheWitch
this EP by white magic “dark stars” is still sublime. i can navigate by its polar instincts.
#SquirrellyWhirligig playlist
#WhiteMagic
thee melvins have occasionally delved into the underland & made music at its most geological scale – listen here, when Dale Crover’s drums enter at 7:50… whoahhhh.
#SquirrellyWhirligig playlist
#Melvins
madlib's freejazz solo project yesterdays’ new quintet blowing open a portal in my head about how to flip wigs with grace & insight: “prepare for a new yesterday, vol. 1" – their album of mellow, instrumental, stevie wonder covers was thee unassuming gateway to this familiar yet unmappable soundscape.
#SquirrellyWhirligig playlist
