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The second of a handful of Haden/Bley's Liberation Music Orchestra excursions, an exuberant, overflowing rallying cry for people who's voices can't be amplified on their own, full of anger and fury and beauty from every corner.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

now spinning; significantly more interesting than that AllMusic review gives it credit for, lots of blissful saccharine moments alongside some real blistering shred

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

next up; I met someone at Big Ears who was the self proclaimed biggest Hermeto fan in the world (I believe him) and he said this was his favorite!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

gonna keep ripping thru Hermeto's discography, someone I've really been meaning to get into for years (no time like the present!)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Been actively trying to get off of my phone throughout the day, so I'm gonna start cataloging the whole CD shelf (which I've been meaning to do since I did the same with the records in 2020) or: You Can Only Pick One

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

can we get a cohesive list of the Least ECM-ey ECM Album Covers going?

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

gonna be honest with you all; I really love the new Stereolab record

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

an incredibly exciting gift from the record store homies that they found in a box; the full length making-of documentary of Escalator Over the Hill (which, from what I can tell, does not exist on the internet outside of a few short YouTube clips)

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Coming back to the new Swans today since I have time to listen to it in full instead of in sections; I am biased of course but this is up there with the best they've ever been

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

new Alan Sparhawk / Trampled By Turtles record is so astounding - handful of moments that I genuinely almost can't handle. Highest of recommendations

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

"I'll just pop into the weird little record store that opened up near work" he said, like an idiot. "They don't really ever have anything good but maybe today's the day," he said, a complete rube, moments before seeing this at the front of the shelf

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Swans are a really important band for me and I'm very, very excited to listen to their new album today:

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Gotta be honest I've been struggling pretty hard the last week or so with the state of the world, finding it hard to find any response to any of this other than to just roll over and die, which I very much do not want to do at all

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

now Swooning on another one that didn't quite click the first time around but is sitting nicely on round two: a pretty incredible mix of the haze of The ECM Sound and the grind stone ooze of electric Miles

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Ralph Towner - Solstice / Sound And Shadows (US '77) The sequel to one of the best early ECM super groups, and not just warmed up leftovers - Garbarek's skronk, Weber's sproing and Towner's cascades melt together perfectly again into a free flowing miasma of almost-melodies

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Couple new stunners in the house now; homie who was selling the Armonicord record (late 70s small press French free jazz with a harpsichord, not to be missed) also put up the Bruninghaus so I simply had to go for it - and, of course, the new Groop joint!

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

now Shredding; truly bizarre stuff here folks, a cavalcade of horn freak-outs, synth bubble bobbles, concrete tape manipulation and German poetry/prose/shouts. A treat!!

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

HAPPY NEW STEREOLAB DAY

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

🚨🚨🚨 new Steamroom release 🚨🚨🚨 steamroom.bandcamp.com/album/steamr...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

now Shredding; some of the highest highs that the American Quartet ever rumbled towards, slipping in and out of a variety of jazz traditions before rocketing off to Something New (or, as I've said before, the blueprint for The Necks's whole thing)

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Now spinning; after the hyper-shred punchline of track one, we're treated to maybe be the most straight up "ambient" record ECM ever made (certainly at this point), Darling cranking the reverb past 11 with Rypdal filling in the timbral crevices with his gorgeous, bizarre soloing.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

happy new Water Damage day everybody, consider celebrating by listening to the new Water Damage album waterdamage12xu.bandcamp.com/album/instru...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

my most absurd white whale appeared, sealed dead stock, on the FB buy/sell group, so I simply had to indulge: a 7" jukebox edit of Coltrane's Ascension (with included tags!)

submitted 35 days ago • 8 comments

now Floating on this lovely thing; pretty thoroughly unfamiliar with RRK's ouvre but this one's really hitting the spot

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

now Swooning; a top 5 ECM, not just because I've been listening to it since I was an infant but because it hits the stratosphere from second one and only goes higher, earworm melodies nestled in warm compositional complexity. The best $5-10 you can spend at any record store!

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

now Floating on the new Cole Pulice slab - totally gorgeous, of course colepulice.bandcamp.com/album/lands-...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Just scanned the timeline really quickly and Keith Jarrett is the new pope

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

poking into this one again; didn't really click with it the first go-round but its really blasting off today, compositionally kinda a mix of a proggy Chick Corea and a particularly bouncy Gary Burton sent all swirly-like by Weber shredding away. Definitely a pricey one though!!

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

The world's weighing particularly heavy lately, but I'm doing my best to not drown before we make it a better one

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

digging into this finally; if you can believe it, it's an absolute shredder billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/hausli...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

now Swooning; this one's been on my list for a while! Ooh's and aah's abound from Tamia, landing somewhere between Meredith Monk and Yma Sumac punctuated by all sorts of tuned or otherwise transients by Favre. Slides between soundscape and pop songs without blinking! A stunner!

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

trying some stuff out

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

now Soaring; keeping on the Bley train today, this one starts off in the stratosphere that Fragments left us in and keeps going up - the slow, meticulous and then gently violent build of the first piece alone is maybe some of the best stuff ECM's put out!

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments