• Various – Music Around Benjamin Boretz: Open Spaces, 2005 (2005 Open Space)

This post has been sitting in my drafts queue for too long, I'll just say the highlight of this (pretty extensive) compilation is
J.K. Randall's benfest reworking of Boretz' UN(-). I swear to god if you scribbled Nobukazu Takemura's
name onto this I wouldn't have batted an eye. I need to catch up with 21st century J.K. Randall. I dig the
playful and clustery mixture between slick general MIDI FM synth module vibes and sharp arrangements. (Which
could also describe a fair amount of Takemura's work!) Maybe Randall is less risky with timbre and a bit more
restless with thematic material, but I couldn't stop marveling at the kindred spirits I was hearing between these two.

Various – Qat, Coffee & Qambus: Raw 45s From Yemen (2013 Dust-to-Digital) Various - Hub Music (1987 Antelope) Well, my CD player issue is sorted out for now. I hooked up my DVD player (duh) as a headless player in the short term while I figure it out, but that means ...

Annette Vande Gorne – Exils (2008 Empreintes DIGITALes) My CD player is either broken or needs a better cleaning than a wipe-down and spray with the air compressor. :-/ So no CDs for me for a minute I guess. I spent a little too long this morning looking into standalone u...

• Keith Fullerton Whitman - Complicated Lives (2019 Self-released)
• Francis Dhomont - Le cri du Choucas (2016 Empreintes DIGITALes)
• Information - Keeping It All In (2019 Self-released)

See Sunday's post for some thoughts on the Dhomont and KFW albums.

• Eric Dolphy - Outward Bound (1960 New Jazz)

• Angel Olsen / Steve Gunn – Live At Pickathon: Angel Olsen / Steve Gunn (2016 Easy Sound)
• Honsinger / Christmann Duo – Earmeals (1978 Moers Music)
• Wendell Harrison – Reawakening (1985 Rebirth/Tribe)
• Dinky Mirage - 005 (2019 Traced Objects)

• Angel Olsen / Steve Gunn – Live At Pickathon: Angel Olsen / Steve Gunn (2016 Easy Sound)

I basically just listened to a bunch of overnight renders of a longform algorithmic thing I started recently while I worked today,
so I didn't even make it to side two (the Steve Gunn side) of this Angel Olsen / Steve Gunn split yet.

The Angel Olsen side is wonderful though, several of the songs overlap with the record of hers I already have (and know, and love) but it was fun to hear a few new things and the arrangements
on this LP are way different than the originals. Love that flangy guitar! Pretty nice recording for a live / festival recording, too. Looking forward to the Gunn side tomorrow.

Ryonkt - Troposphere (2012 Twice Removed) Ryonkt - Neighborhood (2017 Self-released) Alfredo Costa Monteiro – Umbralia (2011 Triple Bath) France Jobin – Valence (2012 Line) Michael Pisaro & Greg Stuart - July Mountain (2010 Point Engraved) After a flu-y week of no mus...

• Serafima Okuneva & Fahmi Mursyid - Coldness (2019 Self-released)
• Pas Musique / Urabaru / Tesla Manaf / Fat Velvet / Fahmi Mursyid - Ruang Tamblong (2019 Self-released)
• Fahmi Mursyid - Horizon (2019 Self-released)

• Angel Olsen – Half Way Home (2012 Bathetic)
• Altos – Altos (2011 Self-released)

On the subject of records I love yet are also the only record by that artist I've ever heard... Angel Olsen's Half Way Home
would fall into that category. I wonder sometimes if I'm almost afraid to ruin the magic of that one singular album by exploring
the rest of the discography. But that's ridiculous, so I'll file Angel Olsen along with Silent Poets among those I need to catch up with.
She's got a split with Steve Gunn, too -- probably a good place to start!

Cocteau Twins – Victorialand (1986 4AD) Miles Davis - In A Silent Way (1969 Columbia) Silent Poets - To Come... (1999 Idyllic) Sometimes I wonder how well known this Silent Poets album is in the US -- I think it made a splash in the late 90s / early 00s? It did for me. I...

Grace Cathedral Park - Grace Cathedral Park EP (2018 Self-released) Various – Songs For Political Action - Folk Music And The American Left 1926-1953 - Disc One: The Leftist Roots Of The Folk Revival (1996 Bear Family Records) A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami – Krishna Consciousn...

• Grace Cathedral Park - Grace Cathedral Park EP (2018 Self-released)
• Haco - Qoosui (2017 Someone Good)
• Cory Allen - One (2012 Self-released)

• Grace Cathedral Park - Grace Cathedral Park EP (2018 Self-released)
• Robbie Băsho – The Falconer's Arm I (1967 Takoma)
• Blaine Todd – Every Road Is A Good Road (2019 Full Spectrum)
• Antony Widoff - Disposition (2019 Full Spectrum)

• Sleeping Jesus - House Plants (2017 Self-released)
• Trevor Wishart - Journey Into Space (1973/2002 Paradigm Discs)
• Cocteau Twins – Victorialand (1986 4AD)
• Robbie Băsho – The Falconer's Arm II (1967 Takoma)

• Trevor Wishart - Audible Design (1994 Orpheus The Pantomime / 2019 ICR)

• Miles Davis – In A Silent Way (1969 Columbia)
• Telefon Tel Aviv – Dreams Are Not Enough (2019 Ghostly International)

Back after a (partially imposed by sickness) listening break... nothing like In A Silent Way to break the silence.

• Chick Corea & Return To Forever - Light As A Feather (1972 Polydor)
• Bob James - Touchdown (1978 Columbia)
• Bob James - 12 (1984 Columbia)
• President's Breakfast - Industrial Strength Funk In A Dub Stylee (1989 Disc Lexia)
• Jliat - 16:05:94 (1994 JLIAT)

• Marcus Fischer + The OO-Ray – Tessellations (2012 Optic Echo)
• Aki Tsuyuko – Empty Talk (2017 Enban)
• Alvear / Courtis / Jones – A Távlat, Ha Hátulról (2017 Glistening Examples)
• Various – Introspection (Neglected Jazz Figures Of The 1950s And Early 1960s) (1977 New World)
• Grachan Moncur III – Aco Dei De Madrugada (One Morning I Waked Up Very Early) (1970 BYG)

• Anthony Braxton – Seven Standards 1985, Volume I (1985 Magenta)
• Greg Davis – Curling Pond Woods (2004 Carpark)
• Sóley - Live on KEXP (2013 KEXP)
• The Miles Davis Quintet – Workin' With The Miles Davis Quintet (1959 Prestige)
• Charles Mingus – Charles Mingus (1980 Fabbri Editori)
• Various – Transmissions from the Love Room (WFMU Sessions 2008 - 2018) (2019 WFMU)

• Colleen – Captain Of None (2015 Thrill Jockey)
• Colleen – A Flame My Love, A Frequency (2017 Thrill Jockey)
• Duane Pitre / Pilotram Ensemble – Organized Pitches Occurring In Time (2007 Trome)
• Miles Davis – In A Silent Way (1969 Columbia)

• Steven Halpern - Comfort Zone (1980 Halpern Sounds)
• Smbols - Dreamsill (2019 Good Glass Records)
• Rosenau & Sanborn – Bluebird (2019 Psychic Hotline)
• Francis Dhomont – Frankenstein Symphony (1997 Asphodel)
• Steven Halpern – Spectrum Suite (1977 Halpern Sounds)
• Kenneth Goldsmith - Sings Frederic Jameson (2006 Self-released)

Also FWIW nothing to report yesterday. The only listening I did was to sketches of things I'm working on.

• Altars Altars - Fragments (2019 Home Normal)
• Ian Hawgood & Stijn Hüwels - No Voices (2019 Home Normal)
• Silent Vigils - Lost Rites (2019 Home Normal)
• Tomoyoshi Date & Stijn Hüwels (2019 Home Normal)
• Tsone - Live: Spring 2019 (2019 Self-released)
• Claude Debussy - Paul Jacobs – Preludes For Piano - Books I & II (1978 Nonesuch)
• Seattle Phonographers Union - Building 27 WNP-5 (2013 Prefecture Music)

• Steven Halpern - Crystal Suite (1988 Sound Rx)
• Anthéne – Weightless (2019 Home Normal)

• Noisesmith - Letting It All Out

• Various – Spire Live - Fundamentalis (2008 Autofact/Touch)
• múm – Dusk Log (2004 FatCat)
• múm – Nightly Cares (2004 FatCat)

• Catherine Christer Hennix – Selected Early Keyboard Works (2018 Blank Forms)
• Phill Niblock, Joseph Celli – Niblock For Celli / Celli Plays Niblock (1984 India Navigation)
• Mira Martin-Gray - Out of Body Out of Work: Solos for Mixing Boards (2019 Pan y Rosas Discos)
• Greg Davis – Clouds As Edges (2001 Grounded)
• Asterisk – Submersion Tank (Part Six) (2001 techNOH)
• Cedar AV - LP4 (Unreleased)
• Phill Niblock – G2,44+/x2 (2002 Moikai)

• Fennesz / Daniell / Buck - Knoxville (2010 Thrill Jockey)

• Various - Revolution of Our Times: Fediverse for Hong Kong (2019 Fediverse Self-Released)
• Various - Music from Listen/Space Scores and Recordings Volume 2 (2016 Listen/Space)
• Scott | Paul | Skeen - Touch Live in California (2019 Touch)

• Greg Davis – Curling Pond Woods (2004 Carpark)
• Brent Gutzeit – The Dust Trade (2019 JMY)
• Brent Gutzeit & Pharmakustik – Nonmotor (2019 JMY)
• M.C. Schmidt – Aqua Sauvage / Stuffed Concrete (2019 Northern Spy)