Konstantia Gourzi – Anájikon

Greek modern classical composer, moods alternating between mournful homages to Mozart, ominous percussive ballet improvisations and epic string quartets. One of the best ECM releases in a long time. 2021 cd on ECM.

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Razen - Rim Saraband

 

One of the most "acoustic" but highly droned-out recording of Razen, featuring immersive jams with Eastern wind and string instruments. Awesome. 2013 tape on Sloow Tapes.

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Raymond Dijkstra, Louise Landes Levi – In The Face Of Faceless Eye

 

Unnerving collaboration between Louise Landes Levi reciting poetry and Raymond Dijkstra (head of Des Astres d'Or label) doing evil sound collage, not too far away from Ruth White's Flowers Of Evil. 2019 LP on Des Astres d'Or.

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Bombay Lunatic Asylum ‎– Mad Song

 

 Second album of zoning Indian classical drone rituals by Louise Landes Levi, Bart DePaepe and Koen Vandenhoudt. 2021 LP on Oaken Palace.

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Association Area – Stop Motion Hasbeen

 

Mix of early Converge and math fuckeries by one of the best but overlooked bands of the genre. 1998 self-released cd.

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Association Area – Culinar Nostalgy West

 

This is a double cd split between Association Area and other bands, and I have it somewhere but I don't know why I haven't ripped the songs of the other bands. But Association Area is reason enough to get this, as it's a completely out of control live performance of jazz mathnoisegrind fuckcore of the highest order that puts almost everyone to rest. 1999 cd on Impaler Records.

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Million Brazilians – Hideous Visions Of Million Brazilians

 

The second full-length of Million Brazilians is kind of monotonous, one-sided psych-rock/free jazz improv with lots of percussion. Certainly one of their least successful efforts, but a good reader asked for it to be uploaded so there you are. 2010 LP on Psychic Sounds.

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Bombay Lunatic Asylum ‎– Bombay Lunatic Asylum

Mind-losing collaboration between Louise Landes Levi, Bart DePaepe and Koen Vandenhoudt, with a double sarangi (the Iron Maiden of sarangi) and harmonium. 2019 LP on Des Astres d'Or.

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Alien Porno Midgets

 

Someone asked about this a long time ago. Properly hazy, conceptual and bordering on memory loss Hawaii music by James Kirby (The Caretaker).

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Jazzfinger - Bad Timing I

 

 This really was a double cd called Bad Timing I & II, but the box I received had twice the same disc with a different cd cover. Meh. So if anyone has the second disc, please send it over here. Anyway, this is an IMMERSIVE mix of Jazzfinger live performances at their absolute best = not extremely noisy or badly recorded, but with a hypnotic and outright devotional approach. The gigs themselves must have been amazing for the audiences. 2007 cdr on Fuckin' Amateurs.

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Various ‎– People Take Warning! (Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 1913-1938)

 

 Probably sums up my life being a disaster. In the vein of Alan Lomax music research this compilation gathers stories about disasters (say Titanic) and murders, of course in country, roots, blues and bluegrass styles. 2007 3 X Cd on Tompkins Square.

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Κώστας Παντόπουλος - Κωστής Δρυγιανάκης – Ο Μύθος του Πενθέα (Costas Pantopoulos - Costis Drygiannakis - The Penteus Myth)

 

In the 1980s Costis Drygiannakis played in an electronics group called Optical Musics (check here). Costas Pantopoulos was another member of the group and this is a collaboration they recorded in 1989, which centers around heavily percussive MIDI electronics with big ethnic influences, which would probably make a good soundtrack to a documentary or something. 2019 cd on Hxoi Kato Apo To Spiti.

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Posset – The Golden Handshake That Almost Broke My Wrist

 

No Posset for a long time, so it was mandatory to do something. Vocal junk, mutated frequencies, almost Christmas-y ambient and choirs of drooling senile gremlins. 2019 tape on Regional Bears.

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Κωστής Δρυγιανάκης ‎– Ο Χονδρός Και Η Κατσιάνη Στο Βουνό (Costis Drygiannakis - Chondros and Katsiani on the Mountain)

 

Didn't plan to take me such a long time to get back to posting, but things haven't been exactly well. Probably had the worst summer of my life, I don't see life getting any better soon. Thanks to everyone who asked about me, sorry for not replying.I haven't heard to much music either, when I have the time I'd rather listen to ASMR videos on youtube (or even watch old NBA highlights).

Costis Drygiannakis is a top-class Greek avant-garde composer (I think Bleak Bliss has posted some of his other releases in the past) and this is a dizzying cello-weird electronics-fucked percussions electroacoustic masterpiece bordering Greek folk music at times, drone and everything in-between, with vocal contributions from Alexandra Katsiani and Thanasis Chondros (hence the title) from weirdo Greek band Dimosioypalliliko Retire. First released in 2006, this is the 2019 re-release on Rekem Records.

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