#albumshuffle Day 332: The Gutzeit Family - Songs Of Nature [JMY, 2015] What better way to celebrate getting a new granular synthesiser than to get the whole family involved with a bit of knob twiddling. Brent Gutzeit provides sounds of nature, transformed into amateur electronics by his family.

#albumshuffle Day 331: Také Rodriguez & His Exotic Arkestra - Pasión De Ritmo [Sonic Plate, 1999] Album from the late Takehiro Nakazato. Plunderphonic rumba, salsa and other latin sounds layered up and looped. Almost makes for a raucous party, save for the eccentric electronic & keyboard choices.

Dumping more stream VODs onto the ol' secondary youtube channel over the next three days for people who like Quake related stuff: www.youtube.com/@KorendianB

#albumshuffle Day 330: Violent Onsen Geisha - Nation Of Rhythm Slaves [Rail Recordings, 1996] Typically mystifying VOG album. Sound collage, ambient electronics, hip hop beats, bursts of harsh noise, pop and folk. There's a prolonged string of straight songs, then a plunge back into the deep end.

#albumshuffle Day 329: Creekbed Carter Hogan - St. Good Riddance [not on label, 2021] Debut album from a remarkable folk singer-songwriter, recorded during the pandemic in the Ozarks. Beautiful songs augmented by the chorus of birds, insects and the great outdoors. They have a lovely voice.

This is a good video about the organ at St Peter's Church used in that Van Hove album. Dumb clickbait-y title notwithstanding. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysnb...

#albumshuffle Day 328: Fred Van Hove - Church Organ [FMP, 1980] Free improvised solo on the organ at St Peter's Church in Sinzig. Really attacks the organ with great energy, often dissonant with dense note clusters. Finale 79 utilises its full dynamic range to make thunderous sheets of noise.

#albumshuffle Day 327: Various - Cat'n Around [Krazy Kat, 1992] A compilation surveying releases from Macy's Recordings, a label out of Houston which was operated by one Macy Lela Henry and her husband between 1948-51. Twenty-five sides of country, western swing, honky tonk and a side of cajun.

#albumshuffle Day 326: Various - 青春歌年鑑 '61 BEST 30 [EMI, 2002] Starting in 2000, the major Japanese labels coordinated a series of compilations of popular music by year called the Youth Song Yearbook. This one such release from the second run released in 2002 that covered the 1960s.

From: Fair, then Partly Piggy (1988), dir. Toshio Hirata, Oh! Production

Got months worth of quake to catch up with and a week off work. Will have to get stuck in with the streaming again.

A nice day for a walk on the beach I think.

#albumshuffle Day 325: Jim Cole & Spectral Voices - Coalescence [Spectral Spiral Music, 1997] Harmonic overtone singing recorded inside an empty water tower. No overdubs, no instrumentation beyond a tamboura on one track and some clapping on another - just human voices and it's remarkable.

#albumshuffle Day 324: Kuunatic - Wheels Of Ömon [Glitterbeat, 2025] Interesting female trio blending psych rock with gagaku instruments with science fiction lyrics describing of the natural history and mythology another planet. All three sing creating harmonies and ritual chants. Pretty decent.

if i had to pick, it has to be the chiffons.

#albumshuffle Day 323: Toshimaru Nakamura & Sachiko M - un [meme, 1998] Early onkyo effort from Sachiko M with her empty sampler & sine waves and Toshimaru Nakamura's no-input mixing board. Despite the ultra-minimal palette of sounds, this is a surprisingly dense and varied listen.

#albumshuffle Day 322: Magma - Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh [Vertigo, 1973] I remember getting this album as a 13 year old exploring prog and being bewildered & repelled by it. The folly of youth! Masterpiece of weird operatic Zeuhl. The chant on Kobaïa is de Hündïn is always foremost in my mind.

Powerwash simulator is a game people claim is ideal to play while listening to a podcast, watching a stream or an interminable three hour long youtube video essay. Wrong, it's a game that demands total focus. The only sounds I need are varying jets of water hitting metal, plastic and stone. Ding.

#albumshuffle Day 321: John Zorn - O'o [Tzadik, 2009] Mellow zorn album, typical fusion of interests - jazz, exotica, surf, prog and soundtrack work. Zorn composed & arranged these pieces but is not a performer. Band is made up of usual collaborators - Joey Baron, Marc Ribot, Cyro Baptista et al.

#albumshuffle Day 320: Wendy Eisenberg - Time Machine [HEC, 2017] I was introduced to Wendy Eisenberg through Its Shape Is Your Touch, an album of acoustic guitar compositions oscilating between folk, american primitive and Derek Bailey. Listening to album was a suprise as it's odd bedroom pop.

#albumshuffle Day 319: Hairy Bones - At Fresnes [not on label, 2010] Free jazz quartet consisting of Peter Brötzmann on reeds, Paal Nilssen-Love on drums, Toshinori Kondo on electric trumpet and Massimo Pupillo on electric bass. Explodes right out of the gate with the intensity expected from them.

I think a small child robbed me at the supermarket. Whoops.

quite enjoy that peak game. many japes to be had.

#albumshuffle Day 318: Toni Iordache - A Virtuoso Of The Cymbalom Vol. 1 [Electrecord, 1996] Compilation drawn from three records put out in the mid 1970s to early 80s. Remarkable precision and beautiful ornamentation as he works through all these doinas and ballads, often at breakneck pace.

#albumshuffle Day 317: The New Blockaders - Live at Sonic City [2019, Cold Spring] CD & DVD of The New Blockaders final live performance in Belgium. Seemingly starts with a performance of Moonlight Sonata, but the DVD shows it's a recording as a bloke silently mangles a piano with a claw hammer.

There seemed to be a pair of crows atop of every chimney stack lining my commute today. Love is in the air clearly.

#albumshuffle Day 316: Antithesis - Antithesis [Arise, 1973] Obscure spiritual jazz from Switzerland infused with revolutionary consciousness. Opens with an impassioned rendition of Bella Ciao where both saxophone players cut loose & ends with an extremely Coltrane-esque dedication to Angela Davis.

starting to get used to reading forum posts without pictures thanks to the imgur block. this has only made me more powerful like the day i toggled user avatars off. i'm ready to return to the bbs.

#albumshuffle Day 315: Various - Street Corner Symphonies: The Complete Story Of Doo Wop 1956 [Bear Family, 2012] An entry in another massive genre anthology series from from Bear Family Records. Ninety minutes of golden doo wop sides released in 1956. Well sequenced & researched as always.

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#albumshuffle Day 314: Dave Douglas - Charms of the Night Sky [Winter & Winter, 1998] Fantastic quartet helmed by trumpeter Dave Douglas running through some klezmer-infused pieces. A little melancholy. Guy Klucevsek's accordion is really exceptional here & Mark Feldman's violin on Little One...

#albumshuffle Day 313: Juke/19 - Ninety Seven Circles [not on label, 1981] One of the four albums put out by artist Shinro Ohtake's short-lived experimental band. Incredibly distorted no wave/punk compositions that occasionally veer into industrial noise. Easily their most straightforward album.

Think I've said it before but being an improvising vocalist takes an immense amount of courage. While freely improvised music certainly isn't popular, 'unusual' vocal performances seem to provoke a much stronger negative response for whatever reason. Perhaps it's the immediacy. Massively unfair tbh.

#albumshuffle Day 312: Taku Sugimoto & Minami Saeki - listening to improvisation 2 [self-released, 2023] Lengthy improvised duet where Taku Sugimoto plucks out individual notes and chords on an electric guitar while Minami Saeki sings, trills and hums, often holding notes for long periods.

It's the Elaine May long weekend.

#albumshuffle Day 311: The Clefs Of Calvary - Baptized! & God's Light [P-Vine, 1994] Reissue of two albums released on Tru-Sound in 1962-3. Fabulous gospel group from out of Chicago, notable for being started by vocalist James Phelps before he left for the Soul Stirrers & his later soul career.

Booking monday off, let the good times roll.

#albumshuffle Day 310: Pierre Bastien - Eggs Air Sister Steel [In-Poly-Sons, 1996] An album dedicated to Ray Monk Eno (geddit?). Fittingly, it's thirteen variations on a single musical theme featuring Bastien's mechanium - an orchestra of motorised self-playing instruments made with meccano.

#albumshuffle Day 309: Lol Coxhill & Alex Ward - Old Sights, New Sounds [Incus, 2011] Duets between Coxhill on soprano sax and Ward on clarinet. Loose, almost chatty free improvisation. They play well together; neither voice is dominant as they follow various musical threads and explore together.

#albumshuffle Day 308: The Lappetites - Before The Libretto [Quecksilber, 2005] Four female musicians from different countries making glitchy laptop music. Tongue twisters, minimal beats, multi-lingual spoken word parts, and pretty layers of electronic noise. Elements of EAI, drone loops, etc.

wget time

The old WFMU blog, Beware of the Blog, has not been updated since 2015, but we've continued to keep all the pages accessible to the public. Our host Typepad is now going out of business (let this be a lesson as to how unsafe "the cloud" is), and all blog pages will disappear on September 30. (1/2)

#albumshuffle Day 307: Incapacitants - El Shanbara Therminosis [2007 reissue, Segerhuva] Another harsh noise commute. Buffeted by a sustained walls of extremely compressed noise, it's like standing in a hurricane. There's a theremin wailing over the top of everything, but Clara Rockmore it ain't.

#albumshuffle Day 306: Various - Ciao Bella! (Italian Girl Singers Of The 60s) [Ace, 2015] Great compilation of female fronted pop songs and ballads from 60s Italy. Some notable songs include: Gigliola Cinquetti's Eurovision winning Non Ho L'Età (Per Amarti). What a voice for a 16 year old.

Just learned about Chicago's public access television show Chic-A-Go-Go, where kids get to dance to fabulous variety of bands and musicians such as Rudy Ray Moore, Red Krayola, GY!BE, Neil Hamburger, Dengue Fever, The 5 6 7 8s, Hasil Adkins and Mainliner... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Louy...

It's Schrader season in this house.

#albumshuffle Day 305: Various - limpmixbit collections vol. 1 [self-released, 2011] 24 amusing Limp Bizkit mashups from wheels, satin666, bleep, wolfpupy & friends. You never knew how much you wanted to hear Fred Dust with Kesha, Tears for Fears, Gwen Stefani, Girl's Generation & more until now.

I'd quite like to have grabbed some of those authorised releases that have been coming out over the last couple of years on Temporal Drift but the prices are an absolute piss take (in the UK at least). That said I did grab a copy of The OZ Tapes when I saw an opportunity a couple of years back.

#albumshuffle Day 304: Les Rallizes Dénudés - Cable Hogue Soundtrack [Univive, 2007] Heavy psychedelic 2 CD 'bootleg' from many sources of middling sound quality. Two different renditions of The Last One back-to-back, the first of which has Mizutani generating a yawning abyss of a guitar noise.

If this place goes down the tubes where to next I wonder.