Today's Purchases (Non-classical)

[Bogey]

A bit of "swing" for the shelves:

   

[Geo Dude]

Music:









Books on Kindle:









Books in the mail:

[Geo Dude]

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This one looks brilliant, and all of this is material I've never seen before.  I'll have to save up for it.

A few more things added:



All of this cost me $10.  I love Kindle.

[Bogey]

It is lovingly packaged & restored (as is the groundbreaking wonderfully written Twilight Zone series) .. and if you have a 3D television/blu ray player .. the box includes the theatrical 3D version of Creature from the Black Lagoon, the way it was meant to be seen..[/b]

Raises coffee mug.

Did they get Revenge of the Creature correct, or is that in the set?

[Geo Dude]

A few new purchases:

In the mail:



On Kindle:

[Octave]

Autechre: EXAI (Warp, 2cd)

I have not kept up with this band in 10 years, but every time I catch up to whatever they've been releasing, it's been pretty cool, sometimes crazy good.  A little trepidatious I am, buying this one without hearing it.  We'll see!

[HIPster]

Just arrived in the mail:

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Agitation Free - Live '74: At The Cliffs of the River Rhine
(Revisited Records)

A really nice 2008 re-release of this excellent album.  Includes one bonus track, recorded live in '72.  Sound is improved slightly over the 1998 release.  Excellent digi-pack packaging, with booklet and lots of photos and several informative essays.

I've been eyeing this one for some time and am glad that I went for it. 

Glorious music!  Sort of a "Krautrock-Grateful Dead" though in truth, Quicksilver Messenger Service is also a sign-post, especially with the twin lead guitars.

Autechre: EXAI (Warp, 2cd)

I have not kept up with this band in 10 years, but every time I catch up to whatever they've been releasing, it's been pretty cool, sometimes crazy good.  A little trepidatious I am, buying this one without hearing it.  We'll see!

Excellent, Octave!  Do post your thoughts when you get a moment.  Thank you!

[Bogey]

The nice little stack from the record show today. 

         

[Gold Knight]

From Amazon this afternoon: Keith Jarrett--The Impulse Story

[Bogey]

and

 

[The new erato]

Ordered this from amazon:

[Octave]

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These ~2011 "hardback book" gatefold type re-reissues have sat in my cart for months and months.  After losing basically my entire Miles Davis library in a catastrophe, I've been wanting to re-acquire the key releases; this isn't a bad way to do it, though I still think the best way to listen to Miles Davis might be one (commerically released) album, intact, at a time.  I don't care about that anymore, myself, so these watershed comps with interpellated outtakes etc are fine with me....I think.  A price dip brought each of the above 6cd sets to around $17 or less, including shipping, with a small order I made through Amazon UK.  (The prices are approx. the same from Amazon US-MP.)  The 1965-68 Elliptical Quintet studio recordings are also available in such a box; I haven't done the research, but I think maybe the BITCHES BREW SESSIONS and JACK JOHNSON SESSIONS boxes are as well?  I need to verify this.
One major strike against these hardback-book boxes is the weird way the discs are mounted in layers in the front and back of the book.  I think I've figured it out, but it's really weird and a bad design.  If money is not an object, get one of the old editions of these boxes.  Or if you're not an outtake freak, just buy the original albums.  Most of the liner notes to these boxes are a bunch of asskissy praise anyway....totally worthless as scholarship: it's almost as bad as DVD extras for Hollywood movies.

Speaking of "original album" formats, it looks like Amazon UK is selling the "Perfect Miles Davis" collection box (20 albums on 22 discs) for £5.07.  A lot of good albums there, covering a lot of time and changes in style.  Really an insane bargain and I cannot imagine a better introduction to Miles Davis, or jazz for that matter, at the price.

I also got this, after a good experience with the Everly Bros. early-albums comp box from the same label; all these albums are good, but I mainly wanted her wonderful first "Exclusive Jazz Cafe" (?) first LP:

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[Octave]

After recommending two of these albums twice at GMG, I tried revisiting my own discs and found them execrably thrashed after years of transportation and loaning them to dolts.  But a new edition, on the horizon!  (Actually from 2010.)  And supposedly remastered to excellent effect.  I was concerned it might be hard to get, already, but I scored one through Amazon UK.

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Thomas Köner: NUNATAK-TEIMO-PERMAFROST (Type, 3cd)

A description from Mimaroglu Music Sales, experimental/electronic music specialists in USA (Keith Fullerton Whitman, I'm assuming):

thomas köner's epic tryptich, in one package for the first time.

german sound-sculptor thomas köner always imagined his first three albums 'nunatak', 'teimo' and 'permafrost' as a single unit – a tryptich, if you will. this deluxe cd edition collects the three records and packages them together for the first time ever.

august 2010 release ; extremely prescient issue of all three of thomas köner's ground-breaking early 90s "gong" records, handsomely re-framed in shackleton-esque imagery ...

"teimo" was the first music i'd heard of köner's (via the 1997 mille plateaux edition ... well, aside from the porter ricks output on chain reaction from the previous year) ; as such it's the one that's left the strongest impression ... but i'm surprised at how amazing both "nunatak" & "permafrost" have fared over the years ; the three together creating an epic rise / release that's pretty much unparalleled in the world of long-form, drone-based music (only eliane radigue's "adnos" & "trilogie de la mort" come to mind) ...

... to say this record was but an influence on my own "playthroughs" -era music would be a major understatement ; it's pretty much the blueprint for much of what i've held dear over the past few decades ... of course it comes highly recommended !!!

ps. and i can't believe i've even typing this, but given the music's far-reaching fidelity-set & deep, rumbling sub-bass / low-end, i'm going to recommend that you experience this music on compact disc vs. the normally prescribed vinyl (even though type's done a bang-up job with the lp versions ; dubplates & mastering, whisper-quiet pressings, the whole deal) ...

[Gold Knight]

Just ordered from Amazon this afternoon:



  and  Procol Harum--Grand Hotel

[Geo Dude]

Ordered a Firefly shirt with this design on the chest:



A few books in the mail:



A few on Kindle:



And a few in the Blu-Ray/DVD department:

[huntsman]

Worst cover of the century thus far?

[Geo Dude]

Not a bad contender, but I'm sure some more creative minds than mine will be happy to meet the challenge with some really bad covers.

[huntsman]

Fine music, however,as we expect from Mr. Jones,  but this is really the antithesis of his early covers.

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

I have not kept up with this band in 10 years, but every time I catch up to whatever they've been releasing, it's been pretty cool, sometimes crazy good.  A little trepidatious I am, buying this one without hearing it.  We'll see!

Exaireceives very positive comments in the community. I mean Ae have a high quality level, but there were quite a few people not loving the route they went with Quaristice. Oversteps was OK and Exai seems like it has the potential to unite the fan base. My favourites are nodezh and cloudline. Especially cloudline. It's sooo funky only Ae can do that.

[Octave]

re: Autechre's EXAI:

Exaireceives very positive comments in the community. I mean Ae have a high quality level, but there were quite a few people not loving the route they went with Quaristice. Oversteps was OK and Exai seems like it has the potential to unite the fan base. My favourites are nodezh and cloudline. Especially cloudline. It's sooo funky only Ae can do that.

Thanks for that headsup.  That tension between their BMX/hiphop roots and the darkroom, code-crunching musique concrète fixation makes for some wonderful moments at least; I heard a live recording from the ATP fest they curated at Camber Sands, and iirc their performance struck me as immensely more bizarre than anything I'd heard on record before or since, though I think some familiar tracks emerged from the murk a bit.  Plus there was a hilarious coda in which a chuffed fan tried to explain that Autechre was truly ALL tomorrow's parties, not just some of them.  Goodness, that recording might have been from...11 years ago?  I have sunk beneath the waves.

TDS, you should recommend some electronic music things to me from the past decade, if you feel like it.  Coming from a background as a manic INA-GRM disciple and following Keith Fullerton Whitman's enthusiasms with some devotion, I finally dropped my WIRE sub nine years ago and have pretty much just caught recommendations by trickle-down ever since.

EDIT: TDS, if it's still the case that you live in Germany, do you know/remember that some wiseacre at Pitchfork wrote their review of CONFIELD or DRAFT 7.30 in German?  I think they were trying to make some point about the hermetic quality the recent Ae music, though it kind of came across to me as sophomoric anti-intellectualist, binarist bigotry.  Not saying I know or care a damn thing about Pitchfork.