Show #664 – 2/25/23

February 25, 2023 at 4:04 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

12:00 AM Kelela ~ On the Run ~ Raven ~ Warp Records ~ 2023
12:05 AM Meftah ~ Pay It Forward ~ Life-Like EP ~ Musha Publishing ~ 2022
12:08 AM Resavoir ~ Plight ~ Transmissions From Total Refreshment Centre ~ Total Refreshment Centre/Blue Note Records ~ 2023
12:15 AM Yo La Tengo ~ Miles Away ~ This Stupid World ~ Matador ~ 2023
12:23 AM Faten Kanaan ~ Votive ~ Afterpoem ~ Fire Records ~ 2023
12:26 AM Hannah Jadagu ~ What You Did ~ Aperture ~ Sub Pop ~ 2023
12:30 AM Léa Sen ~ Dragonfly ~ You Of Now, Pt. 2 EP ~ PTKF ~ 2023
12:33 AM Frankie Rose ~ Had It Wrong ~ Love as Projection ~ Slumberland ~ 2023
12:36 AM Liv.e ~ HowTheyLikeMe! ~ Girl In The Half Pearl ~ In Real Life Music ~ 2023
12:37 AM Harrison ft. Kadhja Bonet ~ Float ~ single ~ Last Gang ~ 2023
12:40 AM Madison McFerrin ~ (Please Don’t) Leave Me Now ~ I Hope You Can Forgive Me ~ MADMCFERRIN MUSIC ~ 2023
12:43 AM Mikado – Par hasard ~ Musik Music Musique 3.0: 1982 Synth Pop On The Air ~ Cherry Red Records ~ 1982
12:47 AM Passion Polka ~ Juliet ~ Musik Music Musique 3.0: 1982 Synth Pop On The Air ~ Cherry Red Records ~ 1982
12:51 AM The Passage ~ XOYO ~ Musik Music Musique 3.0: 1982 Synth Pop On The Air ~ Cherry Red Records ~ 1982
12:55 AM Erik Wøllo ~ Le Paysage ~ The Shape of Time ~ Projekt ~ 2023
1:00 AM Trace & Nico ~ Amtrak ~ Torque ~ No U Turn ~ 1997
1:06 AM Meemo Comma ~ Bubble Bag ~ Loverboy ~ Planet Mu ~ 2023
1:10 AM Poisonfrog ~ Musical Thing ~ JBDUBZ Vol. X ~ Juke Bounce Werk ~ 2022
1:14 AM Bogdan Raczynski ~ bogdanraczynski.com/sweet-98 (2) ~ bogdanraczynski.com/sweet-98 ~ Bandcamp ~ 1998
1:21 AM Orbital ~ The New Abnormal ~ Optical Delusion ~ London ~ 2023
1:26 AM Kenny Larkin ~ Wires ~ Azimuth ~ Warp Records ~ 1994
1:30 AM Derrick May ~ Drama ~ Innovator ~ Transmat/R&S Records ~ 1990
1:34 AM K. Hand ~ Motor ~ Detroit History, Pt. 1 ~ Tresor ~ 2001
1:39 AM Dave Clarke ~ Tale of Two Cities ~ Archive One ~ Deconstruction/Bush ~ 1996
1:45 AM Doctor Jeep ~ Prisma De Luz ~ No Pare, Sigue Sigue ~ Tra Tra Trax ~ 2022
1:49 AM Human Mesh Dance ~ Moonflower ~ Hyaline ~ Instinct ~ 1993
1:54 AM Spooky ~ Orange Coloured Liquid ~ Gargantuan ~ Guerilla ~ 1993

Applesauce Tears: Artifacts (Black Cottage, 2023)

February 12, 2023 at 9:55 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Applesauce Tears: Artifacts

The newest album from Atlanta’s Applesauce Tears adds more of a post-punk edge to their synth-heavy psychedelia, particularly on the opening track, “Dressed for Fortress”, with its commanding, driving bassline. “It’s Us Against the World (It Always Has Been)” sounds familiar, like it’s the theme to a teen drama I haven’t seen in ages. “Eurasian Girlfriend” is a distant, jazzy reflection and “Her Purse Falls and Everything Scatters” switches from clicky IDM-style rhythm to a more aggressive post-rock gale. “It Was God While It Lasted” is one of the more relaxed, breezy selections here, but “When Sleep Spoke to Hera” is a tense track that starts with slow, crawling trap beats and wispy, shivering synths, then explodes with flair and color later on. “The Wam Ebrace of a Mediocre Poet” is a further fusion of jazz noir, trappy drum machines, and gnarled guitar riffs. “Bent Like Winter Grass” is a truly pretty, gauzy song enhanced with strings, and “Another Piece of the Puzzle Goes Missing” retains strings but slathers then on top of a more of a late ’90s-style funky electronic beat, which would be fit for a movie trailer without them. “The Way We Weren’t” is more of a good-time jam with siren synths, ethereal vocals, and I think maybe even some slide guitar.

Bruce Licher: Exploratorium (2006/deluxe reissue by Independent Project Records, 2022)

February 11, 2023 at 6:34 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Bruce Licher: Exploratorium

Bruce Licher of Savage Republic and Scenic recorded these pieces on a 4-track in 1997 and originally released them on a limited 3″ CDr mounted on a 12″ sheet of heavy card stock letterpress. This is a proper CD reissue with a lengthy bonus track, but still containing fancy packaging, including postcards for each track. The original tracks are gliding space rock guitar solo excursions, with “Going Home” being the most awestruck, conveying a feeling of blissfully travelling at light speed towards one’s destiny without having the slightest notion of danger. “The Penstemon Field” is a much more dramatic and melodic piece which (to me) approximates a devastating trek home through the rainy streets at night. “Number 09” is vastly different than the other tracks, though it was recorded around the same time. Instead of guitar-based drifting, this is a wild synth expedition, with legions of echo and delay making the sequences feeling like they’re constantly crumbling and rebuilding, stretching a prismatic fortress throughout space.

Show #663 – 2/11/23

February 11, 2023 at 2:40 am | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

It’s WCBN’s fundraising drive! no show next week because of our annual Night of Noise!!!!!

12:02 AM Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad with Phil Ranelin & Wendell Harrison ~ Black Census ~ JID016 ~ Jazz Is Dead ~ 2023
12:06 AM Keith Kelly ~ And Then It Was ~ Departure ~ Edgetone Records ~ 2022
12:11 AM Kelela ~ Missed Call ~ Raven ~ Warp Records ~ 2023
12:14 AM Yo La Tengo ~ Fallout ~ This Stupid World ~ Matador ~ 2023
12:19 AM Applesauce Tears ~ It’s Us Against the World (It Always Has Been) ~ Artifacts ~ Black Cottage ~ 2023
12:23 AM Parannoul ~ Insomnia ~ After the Magic ~ Topshelf ~ 2023
12:27 AM Eric Ghost ~ Secret Sauce ~ Secret Sauce ~ Jazz Room Records ~ 1975
12:34 AM Liv.e ~ Wild Animals ~ Girl in the Half Pearl ~ In Real Life ~ 2023
12:38 AM Bruce Licher ~ Going Home ~ Exploratorium (Extended) ~ Independent Project Records ~ 2006
12:43 AM Joe Chambers ~ Caravanserai ~ Dance Kobina ~ Blue Note Records ~ 2023
12:47 AM James Brandon Lewis ~ Send Seraphic Beings ~ Eye of I ~ Anti/Epitaph ~ 2023
12:51 AM Sebastian Rochford & Kit Downes ~ Even Now I Think of Her ~ A Short Diary ~ ECM Records ~ 2023
12:55 AM Hollie Kenniff ~ Momentary ~ We All Have Places That We Miss ~ Western Vinyl ~ 2023
1:00 AM Bent Arcana ~ Misanthrope Gets Lunch (Live) ~ Live Zebulon ~ Castle Face ~ 2022
1:07 AM Little Simz ~ Heart on Fire ~ NO THANK YOU ~ Forever Living Originals ~ 2022
1:10 AM Dezron Douglas ~ Coyoacán ~ Atalaya ~ International Anthem ~ 2022
1:14 AM Young Fathers ~ Be Your Lady ~ Heavy Heavy ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2023
1:17 AM Meg Baird ~ Wreathing Days ~ Furling ~ Drag City ~ 2023
1:21 AM El Ten Eleven ~ Not Even Almost ~ Valley of Fire ~ Joyful Noise Recordings ~ 2023
1:27 AM François de Roubaix ~ Le Cubisme, Les Tableaux ~ Du Jazz À L’electro 1965 – 1975 ~ Pucci Records ~ 1975
1:31 AM Jad Fair & Samuel Locke Ward ~ Love Is In Charge ~ Happy Hearts ~ Kill Rock Stars ~ 2023
1:34 AM Coco Bryce ~ Campari ~ 12″ ~ Meditator Music ~ 2020
1:40 AM Legowelt ~ D33p Amiga Jungle ~ A Philosophy of Tracking ~ Nightwind Records 2022
1:44 AM Laraaji ~ Kalimba 4 ~ Segue To Infinity ~ Numero Group ~ late ’70s

Meadow Argus: This Old Rotten Barge tape (Tynan Tapes Temporal, 2023)

February 5, 2023 at 11:54 am | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Meadow Argus: This Old Rotten Barge tape

The newest Meadow Argus tape is the project’s most evocative recording yet, making the listener feel like a stowaway on a haunted ship on the path to total disappearance from civilization. The album extensively incorporates field recordings run through a delay pedal, with the first stretch of the first side taken from the banks of the Ohio river under a bridge, while a spooky backwards voice bleeds through from the other side of the master tape. Then there’s “It’ll heal over”, taken from a hospital hallway while being wheeled in for surgery. The echoed voices, unsteady tape quality, and wavering melodic loop all present feelings of displacement, not being able to believe any of this is happening, not being fully there. “Just like the skim that shines across the humps and the swells of the tide waters”, which takes up all of side B, is a bit calmer, with samples taken from an aquarium lapping up against the patient organ droning. There’s sounds of children being amazed at the sea life, and some distant playing and shrieking which gets twisted and whirled into the stream. Some unexplained explosions which sound like cannon blasts are audible near the end, yet that part feels like a memory rather than a document of something actually occurring.

Longmont Potion Castle: 20 (D.U. Records, 2023)

February 4, 2023 at 12:37 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Longmont Potion Castle: 20

Sometimes when LPC calls someone, they seem to think he’s talking about someone they know, and there’s a spark of recognition, which leads into a more engaged conversation. This happens early on during the newest LPC album, when he mentions someone named Crazy Face and makes up the very fake-sounding name Ralphred, and the other guy thinks he’s talking about his neighbor, Glen. Those parts are pretty cool. He actually manages to convince someone that he’s talking to his own son at one point, and only gives vague answers, acting surprised when the other guy relays the “wait for it” news that the person he just talked to has a monkey and wants to move in soon. Any of the parts when he makes the person on the other line laugh are always good fun. I will always love the incomprehensible jargon calls; “Pig Metal” is a prime example of that, where he just rattles off a stream of technical terms about metallurgy and confounds the person on the other end. The call when he says his name is “Freaky Bucky” and goes on about an “orb within an orb” and then plays on his “new banjo” is a hoot. In one of the most surreal LPC calls ever, he tries to convince a bunch of people that he’s about to setting off some holograms down the street, so they should stay inside their homes for a few hours, and there’s a chance that the holograms might travel through windows, but they can’t walk through walls or doors. Other types of LPC calls are best in moderation, and they’re more abundant on his recent albums. The ones when he connects a tree of businesses to each other, none of whom have any clue why they’re talking to each other, and he edits out his own voice and just leaves his reactions, those can be amazing sometimes, but can also wear out their welcome after a while. He has a whole bunch of people talking to each other about someone claiming their cigars have exploded, and somehow they find themselves talking to beer distributors in other states. There’s also a LOT of times on this album where he talks to someone and then patches in a crotchety old Jewish man that’s appeared on lots of other LPC albums before, but seems to turn up on most of these calls. He pretty much says the same thing every call (i.e. screaming that the other person is a criminal and full of shit, shit, shit!!!!!) except the one when he’s connected with cops who appear to be investigating the problem, in which case the bootlicker is patient, cooperative and respectful. “Clashettes” is a little different, though. It’s a medley of older-sounding LPS calls strung together with tape rewinding sounds. None of them sound familiar to me, so maybe they’re outtakes or unreleased calls. The way the rewinding sounds occur, and the title of the track itself, made me think he was going to try to mash the calls together and do something weirder with them, but it sounds pretty interesting the same. “Aardvark”, however, is pretty much a redux of the bookstore calls on the last album or two, it could very well just be additional material from the same series of calls. Also, I’m both amused and terribly annoyed by the guy on “Normal Jarvis” who repeatedly asks “what’s your real name?”, not realizing how dopey he sounds. Like a lot of LPC albums, especially the more recent ones, this one might require some judicious editing on the part of the listener, but there’s some incredible, mind-expanding stuff on here when he’s at his most inspired.

Show #662 – 2/4/23

February 4, 2023 at 2:28 am | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

12:01 AM Michel Banabila ~ Dragonfly ~ Uprooted ~ Tapu Records ~ 2019
12:08 AM Mette Henriette ~ I villvind ~ Drifting ~ ECM Records ~ 2023
12:12 AM Lamin Fofana ~ Erosion / Whispers “a laminated shout” ~ Unsettling Scores ~ Peak Oil ~ 2022
12:19 AM Vladislav Delay ~ He Lived Deeply ~ Whistleblower ~ Huume Recordings ~ 2007 (2023 remaster)
12:30 AM John Frusciante ~ Sluice ~ : I I . ~ Avenue 66 ~ 2023
12:37 AM The Leaf Library + Teriyuki Kurihara ~ Boundary ~ Melody Tomb ~ Mille Plateaux ~ 2022
12:42 AM Parannoul ~ We Shine at Night ~ After the Magic ~ Topshelf ~ 2023
12:48 AM Clark ~ Re-Scar Kiln ~ 05-10 ~ Warp Records ~ 2006
12:51 AM Tirzah ~ Hips (Loraine James Remix) ~ Highgrade ~ Domino Recording Co ~ 2022
12:54 AM Kode9 ~ Uncoil ~ ESCAPOLOGY ~ Hyperdub ~ 2022
12:58 AM Watabou ~ Obliterate ~ The Performance Chronicles Vol. 1 ~ self-released ~ Myspace-era, not sure exactly what year
1:01 AM Cardopusher ~ Unseen Terror ~ Immaculate Poison ~ Evar Records ~ 2023
1:04 AM CDR ~ CHILLNO N BASS ~ single ~ RDC Records ~ 2023
1:09 AM Little Mack ~ Hard Looks ~ Flutter Body Snowflake ~ Placenta Recordings ~ 2009
1:13 AM Hobert Europe ~ Drinking Lighter Fluid ~ Gramma’s Wax Seal EP ~ Pedophobic Records ~ ?
1:16 AM rRoxymore ~ At the Crest ~ Perpetual Now ~ Smalltown Supersound ~ 2022
1:25 AM Hagop Tchaparian ~ Escape ~ Bolts ~ Text Records ~ 2022
1:28 AM Recondite ~ Scare ~ Taum ~ Plangent Records ~ 2022
1:31 AM Galcher Lustwerk ~ Lil Bit o Chocolit ~ 100% Galcher ~ Ghostly International ~ 2013
1:37 AM Deru ~ We’re Not Needed ~ We Will Live On ~ Friends Of Friends ~ 2022
1:42 AM Guided By Voices ~ Caution Song ~ La La Land ~ Guided By Voices, Inc. ~ 2023
1:44 AM Homeboy Sandman ~ Fourth Day of Christmas ~ 12 Days of Christmas and Dia de Los Reyes ~ Dirty Looks ~ 2023
1:47 AM Sightless Pit ~ Calcified Glass (feat YoshimiO & Gangsta Boo) ~ Lockstep Bloodwar ~ Thrill Jockey Records ~ 2023
1:51 AM Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad ~ Ursa Major ~ JID016 ~ Jazz Is Dead ~ 2023
1:55 AM Raybone Jones ~ Green Funk ~ DJ-Kicks: Theo Parrish ~ !K7 Records ~ 2022

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