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"Rat Salad" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, March 4, 2015 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Playlist
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* Indoor Life Gilmore of the Fillmore (VA) BART: Bay Area Retrograde Vol. 2 Dark Entries SF 1980
* Futuro Antico Suoni Naturali - Ladak - Tagu Tamu Dai Primitivi all'Elettronica Black Sweat 1980 Italian experimental electronic stuff
* Panda Bear Lonely Wanderer Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper Domino nice new one
CAN Soup Ege Bamyasi Mute 1972
* Keith Kelly Push Push The People Who Left Edgeton free improv ensemble of Phoenix and Bay Area players -- reeds, guitar, percussion, bass -- nice jam
Of Montreal Empyrean Abattoir Aureate Gloom Polyvinyl new. at Cat's Cradle Fri.
* Xepter Rose Pottery & Stairs Selenitic Landscapes Constellation Tatsu new, beautiful ambient/spacy
* Faster Detail Teenth Gear Scene GFR Tapes aka Alex Chesney. New from Greensboro, NC
Theoretical Girls You Got Me (VA) New York Noise: Dance Music from the New York Underground 1978-1982 Soul Jazz
* Sediment Club Rotten Roll 30 Seconds Too Late NNA Tapes new from Providence RI. Singer/guitarist Austin Julian's mom was in Bush Tetras (who appear on the comp I played before this), and dad was in Voidoids
* Mind Over Mirrors Motioning The Voice Calling Immune Recordings "bubbling armonium lines, studious keyboard patterns and washes of melodic synthesizer" Love This!
* Letha Rodman Melchior Bay of Rainbows Shimmering Ghost Siltbreeze beautiful posthumous release.
* Steve Gunn and Black Twig Pickers Cardinal 51 Seasonal Hire Thrill Jockey best of combining old time sounds & drones
Charlie Poole Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues You Ain't Talkin' To Me Columbia / Legacy 1925
* Blind Willie & Kate McTell Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around (VA) Last Kind Words 1926-1953 Mississippi
* Madam Ira Mae Littlejohn Go Devil Go (VA) Go Devil Go! Raw+Rare+Otherworldly African-American Gospel 1944-1976 Jerome 1947
Deliverance Echoes Heaven (VA) Local Customs: Downriver Revival Numero Group 1972
Bobby Cook & The Explosions On The Way (VA) Local Customs: Downriver Revival Numero Group 1970. This comp features excellent funk gospel & blues recorded at Double U Sound of Ecorse, Michigan, 1967-1973.
* Pops Staples No News is Good News Don't Lose This dBpm/ANTI- RIP Pops Dec 2000. Nice to hear this at last.
* Lost Trail Dusk Latitudes One Day We'll All Walk Outside and Stare Up at the Blameless Sky and Wait for Something to Happen Soft Recordings new from Burlington NC feat. WXDU's own Zach
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter Spectral Beings Like, Love, Lust & The Open Halls of the Soul Barsuk Seattle, 2006
Lucinda Williams Protection Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone Highway 20 new-ish
* Blaxxx Let Me Hold Your Hand For No Apparent Reason 12XU heavy distortoblues jams by 2 guys from Obnox and one from OBN III's
* King Woman Wrong Doubt The Flenser new from San Francisco. Kristina Esfandiari, vocals