Evening listening. Sonny Sharrock - Highlife. Perhaps not the hippest Sharrock-record. But who cares? I know I don't. The music may be packed in cheap start-1990s sound aesthetic, but the music is strong/direct and heartfelt and that's what matters to me. I love this album.

Listening to Zeppelin and Hendrix this evening. It's funny I can go for extremely long periods without thinking about or listening to classic blues-based rock and the likes, and then when I put it on and gradually get it under my skin again I'm like "Come on, this is completely unbeatable music!"

I guess I've always felt kinda suspicious about the discourse/idea/truth of the hip amateur musician - the one who can't play or doesn't know scales/theory, but do it anyway in a supposed more "real" and authentic artistic way or whatever. I'm not against discussing what's authentic or

I think I finally found what my biggest dream in life is: Living in a quiet and undisturbed place, where there are no other people than me and no annoying sounds from neighbors when I'm trying to sleep and where I can stay for as long as I want. That is really like my biggest dream in life.

Music for a Wednesday evening. Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door. Going all in on the later Zeppelin these days. This is kind of a messy, but somehow also interesting album in my opinion. Synths, prog and samba-rock among other elements. I don't know, I actually kind of like it.

Evening listening. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti. I inherited all their records on vinyl from my uncle 20 years ago, except for this album that I only own on CD. Fortunately the music sounds great on that format too. And again: in many ways just one of the best bands ever in my opinion.

My favorite time of the day is when I come home from work and lay on the couch for 40 to 60 minutes listening to a record. No internet, no disturbance, nothing but music and listening. Some would call it mindful listening or listening with full attention. Or pure listening. I just call it listening.

Just remembered how much I love Led Zeppelin. I bought that "Remasters" double CD when I was 12 mainly because of Stairway To Heaven, but these days my favorites would be albums like Houses of The Holy and Presence. And Jimmy Page is a complete master imo. Never understood calling him overrated.

Music for a Sunday evening. Pat Murano & Tom Carter - S/T. Been struggling with the mood the last couple of days. A feeling of "life is far away" & lack of confidence/belief that things have any real meaning. It helps to get some basic things done though & listening to music I like helps a bit too.

Evening zone. Jeff Parker ETA IVtet - Happy Today. New album from Jeff Parker ETA IVtet. Pretty damn good as expected. Have you heard it yet?

I hate to admit it and it's not really my style anyway although it does happen from time to time, what I am trying to say is that I'm really embarrassed to once again confess that I have eaten too many salted peanuts.

Brokeback morning. -Brokeback – Brokeback And The Black Rock -Brokeback – Field Recordings From The Cook County Water Table -Brokeback – Illinois River Valley Blues

Furekåben - Prinsesseværelset One of those rare experimental folk/hippie albums coming out of Denmark in the late-1960's. Essential hippie-explorations, but also kind of peculiar and of it's time. .

My last record before going to sleep has been picked from Jonn Serrie's discography lately. Some may find his music cheesy and new agey, but I don't know and don't really care anyway. I like his music a lot-it brings a certain comfort. Tonight's choice: heartsofspacerecords.bandcamp.com/album/tingri

I was tired so I made a kind of tired guitar piece

I tried to listen to the beautiful pop ambient I posted about, but I couldn't do it. Put on some of this noodling freaky/free weirdness by NNCK instead. Feels more like the stuff I wanna listen to today.You ever feel confused/uncertain about what you want to listen to? Some days are just like that.

New release from @chtctr.bsky.social. I feel grateful to live in time where we get new music from such a singular artist. Whatever CC's approach is the music always comes out as a spiritual & transcendentally human work of art. A synthesis of painful light /comforting darkness. Non-binary/visionary.

Starting the day with this ecstatically peaceful and spiritually uplifting collection of music.

Evening listening. Nels Cline - Coward. Here is a record I used to listen to a lot maybe 15 years ago. Listening to it now it still sounds pretty great. A lengthy album that heads in quite a few different directions both accessible and highly experimental ones, all in a very meaningful way.

Santana Saturday

Monday listening. Thela - Argentina. If you spend an hour a day listening to an album with full attention, you can travel to other dimensions of beauty & depth. Places where time & space feels different, but somehow familiar. Sun Ra was right - "there are other worlds (they have not told you of)".

Sunday listening. Fripp & Eno - The Equatorial Stars This album from 2004 doesn't seem to get talked about that much, but in my opinion it's kind of an underrated album. Maybe not as groundbreaking as their classic albums, but that would also be a lot to expect. But this is still pretty great.

Revisiting this release.Probably the funniest I've ever been part of the making of.My role was exclusively to be woken up in my daily naps by two friends to improvise guitar takes over tracks I didn't know anything about/wasn't allowed to listen to beforehand. weirdozer.bandcamp.com/album/weirdo...

Jandek - The Mountain Step. Instrumental Jandek is underrated in my opinion.

Some music just penetrates your system from the moment you drop the needle in the wax. As a state of mind, a parallel spiritual realm embodied now in physical presence of voices, music & sound. An aesthetic of directness & something that seems inescapable. Urgent. Life-changing music in other words.

Saturday listening. Weather Report - Heavy Weather. I guess within some circles this highly skillful, well-executed, accessible & even commercially successful form of jazz-fusion is considered to be uncool & polished. But whatever. I think the music here is awesome & often rather beautiful.

Seems like I've come to a point in my life where I realize I'm struggling to get really excited about something. Feels like most days are spent on being bored at work, coming home and filling time with music listening and being pissed or anxious about the neighbour's noises...

Gateway - Gateway 2 I have been diving into some ECM classics lately. This could easily be one of my favorites, although there is still so much I haven't explored in the ECM catalogue. Definitely one of the best guitar/bass/drums/ect.-trios of all time in my opinion.

To me style is just a by-product of what you do/who you are. I don't care what kind of music you play or listen to as long as you keep it honest and real and dare I say authentic. To pretend to be someone that you are not is the only thing that can make me sad.

Sunday listening. Slowdive - Pygmalion I could be wrong, but I have a feeling that I'm listening to this album almost every Sunday. Seems like the ultimate Sunday album. At least for me. It just has this seemingly eternal quality & timelessness to it. What's your ultimate or favorite Sunday album?

Loren Connors' music is the last thing I listen to before I go to bed. I have been doing that almost everyday for such a long time that I'm struggling to pick something else to listen to before I go to bed. His music is a comforting and tender, but also truthful, raw and honest guide into the dark.

Kind of Sonic Youth-inspired sketch/idea I guess

Wonderful list from a wonderful artist.

I was just thinking - how to play in an unforced way? And then I thought...well maybe thinking about doing that is just another subconscious way of forcing a pretentious concept into the playing and then I started playing something and realized that maybe playing is not the same as thinking anyway.

This release is 3 years old today. There are 3 copies left. Must be a sign? Maybe not. Felt like a big thing to release, but the actual concert was weird & difficult to play. I remember one guy in the front row laughing as a response. But it's all good. auralcanyonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/l-i-v-...

Sketch/whatever

Wow: youtu.be/4LOGpDqMvFw?...

On my way into a Frisell-phase. I kind of always admired him, but his music/style was also interwoven with some not so inspiring & dissapointing experiences in my music school years. Think I'm ready to fully embrace it now. God there is just so much music in his music. youtu.be/mbwVhNvkhw0?...

Pat Metheny - Offramp Listening to this CD for the first time in a long while. Realizing that it's also the first time in a while that I'm listening to some music that just moves me on a basic level. Guess I miss real life and people, the feeling of having a life or whatever.

Two years of this release. Haven't really listened to it since I put it on bandcamp. I could probably have made a few more acoustic albums, and I did make some more lo-fi releases with acoustic guitar after this, but somehow that also seems to be enough. nicklassorensen.bandcamp.com/album/akustisk

10 years ago, when we were in better shape and actually played some kind of psychedelic krautrock/whatever. youtu.be/Vc6IdsTaJL0?...

Just listened to the opening track on this new Steve Roach & Serena Gabriel album. Very beautiful & peaceful! steveroach.bandcamp.com/album/enteri...

Well, this is really great: youtu.be/kv-CR8_xAN0?...

Strongly considering taking a break from this place and other social media platforms. I like to read all ya folk's posts, but I'm tired of sharing & I'm not really interested in it as I've been. No guitar playing posts either, as I'm simply not interested in playing guitar at the moment.

Maybe I'm just in a weird melancholic mood these days, but I listened to Fennesz' Bécs earlier today and tracks like Liminality and the title track hit me deep, for real - like this fusion of pop melody & grandiouse noise was just the best music in the world.

It may sound weird, but sometimes I miss the freedom of not owning & buying a lot of records. I mean I love music & records, but it has become an addiction & it's not like I want to stream instead. Just romanticizing the time where I didn't have any money to buy records & didn't have the addiction.

There is a great new interview with Jim O'Rourke on Youtube. Still a mystery to me how he perceives some parts of his own music & agenda.Now listening to this album-one I regard as rather foundational for my own listening habits & perspectives on music/improvisation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaQ...

Last album before going to sleep. Just perfect. robinguthrie.bandcamp.com/album/anothe...

Papir's "Jams" was released on this day 5 years ago. What I personally like about this record is the fact that we literally released the pure jams with all their raw energy & limitations, cause jamming was always part of the band's praxis.