jesse jarnow...and a parallel occasional/rolling thread of favorite newish reissues, archival releases, live tapes, & other older fresh-to-me music.
super cool & varied compilation of 1950s zambian pop star alick nkhata. dance tunes, fresh acoustic guitar moves, english-language songs, & (always welcome) some excellent southern african C&W. https://mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/album/radio-lusaka
Radio Lusaka, by Alick Nkhata
12 track album
i'm predictably loving the cleaned-up woody guthrie demos from the early 1950s, some of his most modern incursions, but every single piece of coverage i've seen ignores that guthrie had just written an actual top 10 hit & his publisher intended to pitch these to pop stars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGwFNiV1vao&list=PLRKtw9iPiWM_TrzBIBYPD5Mcn05Oecfr6 #folk #pop
further down the SML rabbit hole, a march 2020 live set by drummer booker stardrum & synthesist jeremiah chiu with surrealist-guitarist dustin wong, floating from dream to dream & drawing out unexpected colors/peaks/shapes. https://youtu.be/dq-DbhV9k4I #jazz
Booker Stardrum Trio - Live at Zebulon, LA 3/3/2020
came across some great pro videos (with pro audio) of jim o'rourke playing with the full "insignificance" era band, which are dated (march 25, 2000) but no venue listed. guessing it's chicago, can anybody tell? tried & failed at some newspaper searches. UPDATE: it's aoyoma cay in tokyo. https://youtu.be/OR7szKcx4lM
Jim O'Rourke - Not Sport, Martial Art Live 25/03/2000
to amend what i posted yesterday: tracks 1-5 are a gorgeous duo of nico on harmonium/vocals & @SunRaUniverse's john gilmore on sax in #nyc on 9/27/80. cheetah chrome shows up after, to mixed results. https://ijwthstd.blogspot.com/2025/09/nico-nyc-1980-09-26.html
gilmore is also on this bumpier 9/27 set, though less audible: https://ijwthstd.blogspot.com/2025/09/nico-nyc-1980-09-27.html
(and there's seemingly a max's tape with this combo from 11/80, too.)
gilmore is also on this bumpier 9/27 set, though less audible: https://ijwthstd.blogspot.com/2025/09/nico-nyc-1980-09-27.html
(and there's seemingly a max's tape with this combo from 11/80, too.)
drifting towards autumn cool as a cucumber with a sweet tape of the jeff parker eta ivtet in atlanta earlier this year by @BugFajita. https://archive.org/details/jeff-parker-etaivtet-2025-04-01 #jazz
Jeff Parker EVA IVtet : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
1 Improv 12 Improv 23 Freakadelic4 Three For L5 1974 Blues6 Song 4
uncut peruvian sunshine pop, 1973, by grupo amigos. apply as needed. https://munsterrecords.bandcamp.com/album/paloma-mensajera
Paloma Mensajera, by GRUPO AMIGOS
12 track album
digging the hep deep cuts by pre-proto-#punk peter laughner on this '72 session: multiple VU tunes, bootleg basement dylan, a song with #pynchon lyrics (from "v", arranged by the insect trust), michael hurley's "eyes eyes," early cover of "willin'" plus a few originals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZpzeVAGv4o
Peter Laughner - Fat City Jive 1972 Full Album Vinyl
wish it was more than 6 minutes, but love the alternate elephant 6 universe suggested by "leap through poisoned air" (excavated from 1999/2000), pretty seamless combo of elf power's magick folk & the olivia tremor control's pocket dreamscapes. https://orangetwinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/leap-through-poisoned-air-4-song-ep
Leap Through Poisoned Air (4 song EP), by W. Cullen Hart and Andrew Rieger
4 track album
sweet & swingin' compilation of mid-century south african country/folk/pop, which i can never get enough of. especially tickled by how "kumnandi kwazulu" by cowboy superman & beauty (amazing name!) accidentally presages "mellow yellow" https://matsulimusic.bandcamp.com/album/zulu-guitar-blues
Zulu Guitar Blues, by Various Artists
25 track album
future #jazz for a rainy night: SML in chicago earlier this year, especially silvery with sam prekop on electronics during 2nd set.
set 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwkNoW0x9Hg
set 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GRAPF7f6DA
(and immediately added this channel to @livetapes)
set 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwkNoW0x9Hg
set 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GRAPF7f6DA
(and immediately added this channel to @livetapes)
SML @ Empty Bottle
the earliest full live recording of parliament-funkadelic (please point me to any others!), sept. 1971, with a gorgeous melting 14-minute "maggot brain," new band members, charming chaos, fierce "free your mind" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QSV1AfXeN4
rare post-"cheap at half the price" weird-wave vocal tune by fred frith (with richard thompson, henry kaiser, & drumbo). really wish he'd had a longer period in this mode, ala eno. https://henrykaiser.bandcamp.com/track/wheres-the-money
Where's The Money?, by French, Frith, Kaiser & Thompson
from the album Live, Love, Larf & Loaf
gorgeous solo prepared electric #guitar by hans reichel, coves & inlets at the edge of the diamond sea. https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/dalbergia-retusa
Dalbergia Retusa, by Hans Reichel
23 track album
Andrew Shields@bourgwick I have that quartet’s great album “Invisible Means” but not this one!
Hunter King@bourgwick ooh yes gimme it