Re: [microsound] enjoyed in 2007

[Joshua Maremont <thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kim Cascone wrote:
> books:
> A Frolic of His Own - William Gaddis
> – a hysterical send-up of the legal profession in the USA...the dialog
> snap, crackle, pops off the page with the machine gun delivery of a
> 1940's Hepburn vehicle.
>
> Werckmeisiter Harmonies - Bela Tarr
> – since I learned of his work in Budapest he has become one of my
> all-time favorite filmmakers.

It is very nice indeed to read the names of William Gaddis and Bela Tarr 
here; I can only echo these recommendations, adding that the former 
should appeal to anyone with a fondness for Pynchon or DeLillo, while 
the latter for me is right up with Tarkovsky and Sokurov in the 
unscalable and quite indescribable heights.  Never has a truck's 
approach seemed so glacial or so apocalyptic as in Werckmeister Harmonies.

For me these come to mind at the end of the year (not necessarily the 
best or favorite, not at all exhaustive, not in order, just frequently 
played or fondly recalled as of year-end)....

New(ish) music on hard media:
Shut Up & Dance! Updated
Murmur - Undertone
The Search - Deranged Minds Unite
RV Paintings - Trinity Rivers
Knives Ov Resistance - Prisca Sapientia
Soundpool - On High
Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun
Tobias Lilja - Time Is On My Side
Piana - Eternal Castle
(We Are) Performance - (We Are) Performance
Poni Hoax - Poni Hoax
Many things from Library Tapes, Jasper TX, Machinefabriek, and the 
Miasmah label

Reissues or long unissued on hard media:
Liliental - Liliental (the one-time crossing of Cluster, Tietchens, and 
Kraan, finally)
Harmonia - Live 1974 (one would never have dared to hope)
Thierry Muller - Rare & Unreleased 1974-1984
Lowlife (5 discs on LTM)
The Wild Swans - Magnitude
This Empty Flow - The Album (doom metallers gone Cure)
The Sisters Of Mercy - First And Last And Always (with the b-sides at last)
Seefeel - Quique (but why not the early Pram too?)
Sun Electric - Lost + Found (1998-2000)
Silvania - Campo De Espirales / Arboles / Secuencias Posibles

New soft-music:
http://www.serein.co.uk/
http://www.lomov.de/
http://www.gultskra-artikler.com/
http://www.astrowind.net/
http://www.zymogen.net/
http://www.typerecords.com/radio/

Old painfully obscure music softened by the faithful:
http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/
http://433rpm.blogspot.com/
http://phoenixhairpins.blogspot.com/

Live:
Xela, Starving Weirdos, Tarentel @ The Hemlock
The Twilight Sad & A Northern Chorus @ The Independent (where was the 
audience, or the drummer?)
Richard Pinhas @ G3 (free, the soundcheck longer than the set)
Blixa Bargeld & Noto @ RML (with a CD-R of the set handed out at the exit)

On paper:
Mati Unt - Things In The Night
Christoph Peters - The Fabric Of Night
Tatyana Tolstaya - The Slynx
Victor Pelevin - Omon Ra
Albert Sanchez Pinol - Cold Skin
Ryu Murakami - Piercing

On film:
Hana Yori Mo Naho (Kore-eda Kirokazu)
Falling (Barbara Albert)
Hanging Garden (Toyoda Toshiaki)
Green Mind, Metal Bats (Kumakiri Kazuyoshi)
Valerie (Birgit Moller)
Four Minutes (Chris Kraus)
It's Only Talk (Hiroki Ryuichi)
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
Control (Anton Corbijn)
Hong Sang-Soo retrospective at SFAAIFF
Radio (Christopher Petit - finally on DVD)
Rechenzentrum - Silence (music DVD)
--
Joshua Maremont / Thermal - mailto:thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Boxman Studies Label - http://www.boxmanstudies.com/

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