What are you Listening to right now?

[Bob Ross]

Tomahawk has been on heavy rotation in the shop lately.

Holy crap, how have I never heard of those guys before?!?!
I mean, I've heard Mike Patton and The Jesus Lizard and Helmet...just never knew they'd collaborated. I'm listening to and really liking this now:

[j44ke]

Reminds me of the Silophone (which may have changed their URL, or else gone defunct; the link in this article no longer works) where an abandoned grain silo was repurposed to be an acoustic reverb chamber. You could upload audio files to their website for (eventual) playback through the chamber, which they would record and send back to you.

Friend is a sound artist. She's made musical instruments out of typewriters and similar that she played in a place called The Tank. It is in Colorado. I heard something on NPR about the Silophone long ago. I wonder if it is still running? There's sort of a circuit among sound artists/experimental musicians for all these spots with interesting acoustics.

[VertigoCycles]

Holy crap, how have I never heard of those guys before?!?!
I mean, I've heard Mike Patton and The Jesus Lizard and Helmet...just never knew they'd collaborated. I'm listening to and really liking this now:

They're incredibly good. Trever Dunn (Mr. Bungle) I think has done most of the bass playing for them. I saw them live four or five times when they came around the DC area and Trevor played with them each time. Mike Patton is a hell of a performer. If you enjoy music that's a little more out there, give Fantomas a listen. It's Mike Patton, Trevor Dunn, Buzz Ozbourne (Melvins) and Dave Lombardo (Slayer) and it's bonkers. "The Directors Cut" is the most listenable album because they've reworked scores you've already likely heard. I don't often listen to their albums, but also saw them live 8 or 10 times and it was always outrageous...just the fact that they can pull off those pieces of music so tightly. Live. Incredible.

[9tubes]

Marcus King:

[robin3mj]

Willie and Norah

[72gmc]

[j44ke]

Bach’s Goldberg Variations performed by Glenn Gould while getting a squall of some sort coming across the valley.

[davids]

Right this moment?

[Bob Ross]

[GrantM]

wow, this is great, thanks for posting it.
I just pre-ordered the next vinyl pressing from her Bandcamp page.

-g

[sk_tle]

We lost them both these last few days...

[72gmc]

wow, this is great, thanks for posting it.
I just pre-ordered the next vinyl pressing from her Bandcamp page.

-g

I would do the same, but I'd have to fall down the turntable rabbit hole. Have to clear out some stuff before I can even think of that!

[72gmc]

Texas on my mind, and great music to work to.

[VertigoCycles]

I've been a fan of Tin Hat Trio for years and years and feel that this is a perfect piece of music.



My wife is an amazing teacher who often shows support of her students by attending events that involve her students or their families. Five or six years ago, she invited me to go see Buster Keaton's "The General" that was being shown by the father of one of her students. I didn't ask any details, but we hadn't been out for a while so we found a babysitter and decided to make a night of it. It turns out that the father of the student is Mark Orton of Tin Hat, and that not only did he write a new score for the film, but he and his band were playing it live along with the movie. What I expected to be a humdrum affair changed to excitement in slow motion as we realized that "hey, I think that's the guy from Tin Hat walking on stage right now" and "that's definitely Carla Kihlstedt...and Matthias Bossi...WTF is going on?" We had a most incredible evening, got to chat music with Mark and Carla and a few days later at pickup time at school, Mark handed me a huge bag of CD's of music I'd never heard before.

Carla and Matthias are also in this band, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. Differently incredible

[bcm119]

One of my favorite albums to listen to loud.

[rwsaunders]

I'm now listening to properly balanced stereo sound from my Nakamichi receiver, as the left channel was muffled...yahoo!

[Bob Ross]

Intrigued by this article in the New York Times about Guatemalan composer Joaquin Orellana, I'm checking out this piece now:

[Caleb Evenson]

And an image above reminded me of something to which I'm not listening:

[chasea]

[davids]

The Woods

Then, I think, Spiritualized live at the Royal Albert Hall.