IN THIS UPDATE

NEW RELEASES & VINYL UPGRADES BY LAU NAU , BLACK VATICAN/TRUE PRIMES, NALLE & HELLO, BLUE ROSES| ALL VINYL & CD PRICES INCLUDE POSTAGE

HENRY FLYNT LIVE

PAUL METZGER ON PUBLIC RADIO'S WEEKEND AMERICA

FAZZINI DOCUMENTARY

LIVE DATES

Greetings. just a week or so ago, Lau Nau's long in the making second album started hitting shops and digital boutiques around the globe. Like Kuutarha, Nukkuu has this special something - intuitive but collected; intimate but just remote enough that you can't help but try to cajole these 9 songs from their orbit.

We're also happy to say that a wellspring of vinyl - some of which had been experiencing a never ending round of hiccups along the way- finally came in. High quality vinyl from Hello, Blue Roses (hurry for the last of the blue wax copies!), the very wicked & crosseyed split lp by True Primes & Black Vatican, a stunning and weighty gatefold copy of Nalle's recent Sirens Wave which really does justice to Hanna Tulikki's engrossing illustrations and, yes, a gatefold copy of Lau Nau's tremendous looking Nukkuu - fragrant and sedate on the outside and an explosion of confetti colored interior images on the inside thanks to the really fine hand of Pauliina Makela.

Lau Nau
Nukkuu
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Digipak CD / 180 gram Gatefold LP / Digital Download

Listen: Lue Kartalta by Lau Nau

"the Finnish chanteuse has created an out-of-time album that should set the standard for psych-folk records in 2008" -
Other Music

Nukkuu (Finnish for Sleeps) is the long awaited sophomore album by celebrated Finnish folk fave Lau Nau. Nukkuu is psychedelic, abstract & emotionally captivating. Nukkuu is an album of changes.

In the years since her debut album Kuutarha, Laura became a mother, moved to the Finnish countryside and took valuable time to carve out a space for her enchanted art in the new found tranquility of her remote surroundings.

Conceived in tight attics & vacant dens on off hours when her young son Nuutti was fast asleep, this is an intimately crafted 9 song collection that unfolds like dreamlike musical ribbons for the senses and delivers the listener to a place of unhurried contentedness.

Buy LP ($16 USA) Buy LP ($18 Canada) Buy LP ($26 World)
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Black Vatican / True Primes
split
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Vinyl only
Listen: Night Is Come by Black Vatican | The Turn Bends Wide by True Primes

In this arranged marriage of sorts, Brooklyn's True Primes & Iowa's (by way of Chicago & Baltimore) Black Vatican each turn in a side of kindred primal now wave on this split vinyl only record.

True Primes, the Shaggs of noise pop, turn up the damage and deliver a side of aggro vocal moans, broken beats & confounding electrostatic grit . A hairier outing than their opiated 2007 disc we have one

For their part, Black Vatican - the duo of Andy Roche & Owen Gardner - make their locust debut here after a sweet casette release a year ago. Over these six cuts, they take a few cues from classic Suicide & Pere Ubu sides. Vocal croons over an austere white light of metronomic beats, minimal electronic sunshine melodies & arrested guitar strangulations make this the kind of cracked joyride you'll wanna have - even with gas prices as high as theyizzz.

limited to a few hundred copies.
buy vinyl ($15 USA) buy vinyl ($17 Canada) buy vinyl ($25 World)




Nalle
The Sirens Wave
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CD / Gatefold 180 gram LP / Digital Download

Listen to Alice's Ladder by Nalle

"...individuality banishes lazy comparisons to others...." The Wire

"they make sounds that recall Six Organs of Admittance, Islaja, John Fahey, Faun Fables, and a few others. Has the feel of some sort of magical sacred folk music from several different regions of the world played at once; while being very personal and utterly idiosyncratic." - Dream

Imagine for a moment the Wicker Man manned by the late Teiji Ito - resident avant composer for Harry Smith & Maya Derren - with psych folk giants Comus sitting in for good measure and you've got some idea of what the trio has put together on their mesmerizing sophomore effort Siren's Wave. Centered around Hanna Tuulikki's rich and expansive multi-octave vocals, with a heady, kaleidoscopic mix of vintage whirling oscillators, Moog synth and buzzing harmonium, alongside the intrepid string explorations of Chris Hladowski and Aby Vulliamy, these six pieces continue the long trek through other worlds of sound to form a dense, cohesive suite that meshes everything from Japanese Gagaku, European plainsong, Near Eastern modal drones and more. With Siren's Wave, Nalle have procured a special place where folk conventions are curiously uprooted & seamlessly meshed with other worldly avant tendencies. Features members of The Family Elan, Scatter & the One Ensemble of Daniel Padden.

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Sir Richard Bishop
God Damn Religion
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"This is a package so outstandingly perverse and sinister that it makes you truly doubt the sanity of your fellow man. Then again, any reaction less severe would surely disappoint an artist as iconoclastic as Bishop." - Michael Ardaiolo, Stop Smiling Magazine

 

 

Official DVD release of Richard Bishop's cracked movie God Damn Religion. First edition comes with a bonus audio CD of the quasi soundtrack Elektronika Demonika, originally issued by Locust as a mail order vinyl-only escapade in 2006.

"For centuries, man has used organized religion to control the hearts and minds (not to mention the pocketbooks) of the ignorant masses. Well, Richard Bishop has decided he would like a piece of the action.

This film is a diabolical experiment in hypnotic mind control—a phantasmagoric presentation of demonic and divine imagery, meticulously assembled and designed to put the viewer into an altered state of darkened awareness. Includes original music from Elektronika Demonika, as well as unreleased material.

If you ever wanted to go to hell and back, this film will get you halfway there. Some viewers may find the imagery used in this film to be disturbing, but that's the idea. Contains some strong sexual content (as all true religion should). Not for the weak-minded, faint of heart, or those suffering from occasional seizures."

Hello, Blue Roses
The Portrait Is Finished & I Have Failed To Capture Your Beauty...
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CD / 180 gram LP / Digital Download

Listen to Come Darkness by Hello, Blue Roses

"If dream-like celestial pop rings your fancy, you will swoon for Hello, Blue Roses, the side project of Dan Bejar (Destroyer, New Pornographers) and his main squeeze, visual artist Sydney Vermont. The band was developed in Vancouver in 2005, and over the past two years, their labor of love has blossomed to fruition" - Filter Magazine

"Like a Sonny & Cher for the hippest sectors of the Great White North, these Vancouverites are anything but frigid, delivering 14 warm embers of by-the-fire folk fitted for the lovelorn literati." - Spin

"Portrait bears the marks of a perfect collaboration, one in which two very strong (and very different) personal aesthetics merge seamlessly together into one unified vision." - Dusted

The sweetheart duo of Dan Bejar (Destroyer, New Pornographers) & Sydney Vermont (visual artist, former Toronto Children's Choir kid singer) have tied the knot around an infectious readymade classic with their 14 track self titled debut. The Portait Is Finished folds the last few decades of pop music together, drawing on everything from an unabashed love of 80s AOR (Prefab Sprout, Kate Bush) to the cheery mysticism of young Scotland ( Orange Juice & Felt) to prime Aquarian age femme folk of the 60s & 70s.

The Portait Is Finished was written and recorded over a period when Dan & Sydney took time out of regular life to hang out together, write and read and think about life differently...and be in Spain. From Málaga, Spain's balmy Mediterranean Winter - where the songs first started getting demoed - to the rainy Vancouver climes where the album was recorded at Bejar fave JC/DC studios, the 14 songs - all penned by Sydney (except Kevin Ayer's "Hymn") and arranged by Dan, maintain the unencumbered, free and easy spirit in which they first took root resulting in a sparsely populated, timeless pop sound.

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Dominique Grimaud
Les Quatre Directions
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CD / Digital Download

Dominique Grimaud is a hidden treasure of France's psych, free rock, electronic & jazz improv scenes. As a founding member of the legendary psych / krautrock inspired french act Camizole (1970 - 1978) to his equally inspired new wave duo Video-Aventures (1978-) whose groundbreaking music has been viewed as a precursor to the sound of Stereolab, and in more recent times, jaw dropping audio visual installations & live performances , Grimaud has spent his entire life exploring the musical fringes of the French underground.

With Les Quatre Directions, Grimaud reemerges with his first release in nearly a decade and it's a whirlwind mind altering long form of grand proportions that hearkens back tothe expanded audio visoneering & spiritualism of 60s electronic music luminaries from Stockhausen to Ramon Sender. On Directions, Grimaud combines the other worldly synth effects of his moog, EMS Synthi AKS & Sequential Circuit Prophet and the hairy electric guitar bravado of his Fender strat with shamanic chanting, commune improv sessions with fellow travelers with odd acoustic instrumentation into a celestial homemade orchestra. Les Quatre Directions pays homage to the culture of the American Indians of the Great Plains, to their rituals & their paintings. This culture is deeply rooted in the themes of the circle and the cardinal pointsthat they call the four winds. The whole piece evokes the outside world with the Four Elements : water,air, earth, fire and at the same time our inner world : heart, mind, body and spirit. Grimaud views Les Quatre Directions as four different paths in a person's life with his contradictions, his period of stagnation, and his return.



GazHeart
GazHeart
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With GazHeart, celebrated visual artist Rita Ackermann (voice)& the No Neck Blues Band's Dave Nuss (found percussion) created a playful spontaneous sound that seemingly bridged the gap between the broken pop sounds of certain strains of the no wave movement, sound poetry and catchy, otherworldly art folk using the barest of resources available to them. The one sided self titled album is available in a one time public edition of 400 copies and features a playful etching on one side by Ackermann housed in a plain white jacket with two offset printed drawings on brilliant white archival paper.

"The GazHeart recordings were made in August of 2004 after the disintegration of Angelblood at ATP in April. Rita and I traveled every August to Budapest to be with her family, who live in the hills outside the city in a small German village called Budaörs, created after WWII. The mise-en-scene of our life there was total village simplicity – grandma's cooking, dogs running the streets, babies with leaky diapers on big wheels, and gypsies hanging out in bars. We would go every Sunday morning to the gypsy market where the vendors would spread out a bunch of garbage on blankets in a parking lot, all the proprietors drunk by 10am on wine consumed from coke bottles. At the time of recording Rita had adopted the surrealist idea of automatic, unmediated writing direct from the unconscious, using spontaneous text to create songlike atmospheres, in the spirit of Tristan Tzara. For the percussion, I wound up keeping it simple and true to the environs: a bucket, a glass jar, a coffee can & a straw broom. All recordings were made to magnetic tape in the back yard late at night after the village was sleeping." - Dave Nuss
 

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For a few years now, queries would come our way every now and then wondering whether Henry Flynt would come out and play but the spirit never moved him, at least not until recently, thanks in some small part to the ecstatic response a lot of you gave Henry's latest archival release - Nova'Billy - from last Fall. After several decades out of the public performing loop, Henry Flynt has begun taking steps to get back in the ring. billing themselves as The Flynts, on May 31, he and his niece, Libby Flynt, will be doing a new tune called 'rockin' midnight' and as the name would suggest, it's to go on at the stroke of midnight. it's a one hour piece for two lead guitars and a boombox rhythm section. The show is at Brooklyn's Glasslands. Doors open at 9 pm. This is Henry's first public U.S. gig since 1983.

A little while back, a real doozy of a piece on Paul Metzger ran on Public Radio's Weekend America. If you missed the original show, you can listen to Paul riff about his illuminated inventions & watch some footage here. On other Metzger news, Paul is back in the woodshed hashing out not one but two discs for locust.

The strange and wonderful interior world of Tom Fazzini is explored in Andrew Hulme's film Fazzini, Glue the Stars. In addition to his off kilter whimsical reflections on everything from childhood drawings to nearly forgotten noises, the short features music from his 2006 album Sulphur, Glue the Star and his upcoming vinyl only 'Arms In Semaphore' due out in a little while. Check it out here .

OUT ON THE OPEN ROAD

Lau Nau
June 14 - Clandestino festival in Gothenberg, Sweden @ 2PM

The Family Elan will be doing a string of UK dates before coming over to the states with A Hawk and A Hacksaw later this summer (more to follow)

June 8th - Colchester, St. Martin's Church (with Thinguma*jigsaw and Three Beards)
June 9th - London, Cafe Oto
June 10th - Manchester, The Art of Tea
June 11th - Sheffield, The Red Deer
June 12th - Newcastle, The Star and Shadow (with Sunburned Hand of the Man)
June 13th - Glasgow, Hitherto (with Nalle)

The Glasgow show will be an album launch for the new Nalle's Sirens Wave and it's free, too.

Starless & Bible Black
Jun 5 LIVE ON ALL FM 96.90 LIVE, Blood Under The Tracks Manchester
Jun 7 ALL FM - In The Shadows Of Lev The CIty of Levenshulme
Jun 7 Kings Arms (with Sophie's Pigeons, David A Jaycock) Salford
Jun 26 King?s Arms (with Merz, Sara Lowes) Salford
Jun 28 The Grotton in the Hollow Oldham
Aug 30 Moseley Folk Festival Birmingham

Apothecary Hymns
Jul 11 @ Union Pool, Brooklyn, New York

2007 ARTIST YEAR END LISTS

As last year drew to a close, we asked several artists on locust to turn in their top 10s. Even as 2008 continues to get well underway, we've decided to keep these lists up for your reading pleasure.

Lau Nau
top 10 ways of recording when being home alone with a child (empirical results):

1. while he's taking a loo
2. with him
3. singing so that head and the microphone are out of the window
4. at the cold attic with the wind and mice while he's sleeping downstairs
5. by campfire with friends while he's sleeping in his charriot
6. outdoors with a tape recorder while walking with him
7. while he's watching the same cartoon for the 10th time in a row
8. with he in my arms, he holding my ears with his both hands at the same time
9. in the bathroom while he takes a bath
10. making music with his toys while he is playing with the proper recording equipment in the other room

Che Chen (The True Primes, aspiring beekeeper [not a band, a vocational goal])

10. Jorge Boehringer's increasingly strange blog
9. True Primes playing the Fingered Zine party with Robbie Lee
8. Seeing David Tudor's Rainforest at the Kitchen
7. Teiji Ito archives on Tzadik
6. Best Palindrome I came across in 2007: in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni ("we turn round in the night and are consumed by fire"--Sidonius Apollinarus/G.DeBord).
5.Henry Flynt and Nova'Billy
4.Marquise Dance Hall--A great used vinyl shop and sometimes venue that will sadly close it's doors.
3.Northern New Mexico
2.Putting together O Sirhan, O Sirhan 2
1.Harry Partch's Delusion of the Fury at The Japan Society

Paul Metzger
My top 10. Each takes up two spots.

1.The Pink Room: These cats throw so hard everything becomes meaningless.
2.International Novelty Gamelan: Beautiful
3.Davu Seru: Like a waterfall in a thunderstorm
4.Fat Kid Wednesday: A bright and shining moment
5.August (Paul's son) : Every day at least

Dan Bejar (Hello, Blue Roses, Destroyer)
10 musics i really liked this year:

1.Frog Eyes - Tears Of The Valedictorian
2.Cass McCombs - Dropping The Writ
3.Bill Callahan - Woke On A Waleheart
4.Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
5.Robert Pollard - Coast to Coast Carpet of Love
6.The Clientele - God Save The Clientele
7.Babyshambles - Shotter's Nation
8.Plush - "Take A Chance" video, "I Sing Silence" (rough mix)
9.Devon Williams - A Truce/Elevator 7"
10.Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover

Henry Flynt

1.Nothing Happened in 2007

Chris Hladowski (The Family Elan, Nalle)

1. Finishing the new Nalle album
2. The England football team being knocked out of the European championships before they even began
3. Walking in the Bieszczady mountains in south-east of Poland during the golden month of September
4. Discovering Gurdieff
5. Drinking Russian tequila in Bremen
6. Playing a spontaneous show at Le Goupil in Montigny-en-Morvan in front of a bunch of farmers and Medieval re-enactment fanatics
7. Finally taking my record collection out of storage
8. Digging the righteous mysticism of Julian Cope
9. Meeting my saz teacher Cihan Armut in a barbers shop in Glasgow
10. Being left aghast at the ongoing saga of war and hatred on our planet

Dominique Grimaud

1.The most important event of this year is definitely my brother's death last summer.
2.On a less private side, the continuation of destruction of this planet, Mother Earth.
3.Speaking of France, the coming to power of a reactionary president.
And fortunately there was good news :
4.The release of Colleen's third album "Les Ondes Silencieuses".
5.Charles Hayward's performance at "Gare Aux Oreilles" festival in the South of France.
6.The "Musiques Electroniques en France 1974-1984" compilation
7.Improvised concerts in company with Klimperei and his friends.
8. My book "SONOROUS MAQUIS, The Underground French Music since 1968"), to be published in 2008.
9.The release of my record "Les Quatre Directions" by Locust Music.
Last but not least !
10.As from today december 6rd of 2007 I'am lucky enough to be still alive.


Ethan Rose

10 favorite shows

Francisco Lopez
Laura Gibson
Glenn Kotche
Tom Brosseau
Deerhoof
gamelon son of lion
Eluvium
OOIOO
musee mecanique
m billy

Pete, Raz & Helene (Starless & Bible Black)

1. Performing and mud-sliding at the Green Man Festival
2. Dan Haywood's New Hawks making music beyond the realms of human comprehension
3. Pete playing alongside the legendary Danny Thompson in Watching The Well
4. Portishead and Black Mountain at ATP
5. Raz becoming the proud father of a baby Moog synth
6. The sound of dubstep
7. Klee paintings in Budapest as seen by Helene
8. Acquiring a vintage tape machine and pushing it into the red again
9. Witnessing the long overdue parity between both of Manchester's football teams
10. Avoiding television and not missing out on anything at all

Dawson Prater

1.My son George being a 1 year old.
2.Planet Earth in Hi Def 4 x DVD (BBC)
3.Robert Wyatt Comicopera (Domino)
4.Teiji Ito - Tenno & Music For Maya (Tzadik)
5.The Films of Kenneth Anger volume 1 & 2 (Fantoma)
6.Dennis Johnson Tree of Smoke (Farrar, Straus and Giroux )
7.Walking away from a second near death experience in under 10 years.
8.Martín Ramírez traveling exhibit @ the Milwaukee Museum of Art
9.Blossom Dearie
10.R.I.P. Cast King

Sydney Vermont (Hello, Blue Roses)

1. 2007: begins in Sevilla ends in Dawson Yukon
2. i sing silence, as played in my head on the muppet show, liam hayes
3. robert wyatt Comicopera
4. mix cd sent by Shary Boyle
5. misora, sachiko kanenobu, gift from sonja ahlers 07
6. cass mccombs, Dropping the Writ
7. lavender diamond, Imagine our Love, the cd, the t-shirt and the tote bag
8. Amy Winehouse
9. Frog Eyes Tears of the Valedictorian
10. Giantess

Alex Stimmel (Apothecary Hymns)

1.my divorce

Eric Cordier (Enkidu)

1. Alireza Mashayekhi "Persian electronic music 1966-2006" CD, Sub Rosa (B)
2. Remora "Song I sing" CD, Silber rec (USA)
3. Henrik Rylander & leif Elggren " Gottesdienst" CD, Idéal rec (S)
4. Timothy Renner "Hoofbeat Caw Thunder", CDr, Hand/Eye, Dark Holler (Usa)
5. Pierre Meunier "Les égarés", life show of contemporary dance/theatre (F)
6. Thierry Bae "Journal d'inquiétude", life show of contemporary dance (F)

Matt Shaw (230 Divisadero)

1. Control - A beautifly made film...life and music isn't always meant to be beautiful.
2. Acid Mothers temple and the Melting Paraiso U.F.O - Nam Myo Ho Ren He Kyo - Their gig at the Thekla in Bristol this year was simply incredible
3. Alison Bechdel - Fun House - An autobiographical masterpiece
4. Douglas Coupland - The Gum Theif - Always a pleasure
5. Magik Markers - Boss - Since i heard their true genius at Tonic in NYC i need to here everything these guys do
6. Lush Cosmetics - Greenwash Soap - Palm oil free soap.....be part of the solution, not the problem
7. Julian Cope - Japrocksampler, various gigs, You got a problem with me LP - One Inspired Drude
8. Benjamin Wetherill - He Rolled her to the wall / Jason & Lowlands away - Since seeing him play at the Green Man festival 2006 i knew there was something special going on here
9.Robin Williamson - Live, The Iron Stone LP - Incredible
10. Throbbing Gristle / Derek Jarman @ The Tate Modern - Once in a lifetime

Dave Nuss (No Neck Blues Band , Angelblood, GazHeart)

1."The Source" book (Process Media) and Yahowa 13 reunion shows in LA.
2.TOMUTONTTU "Triplapuisto" cassette (Imvated, Belgium)
3.SAPAT "Mortise and Tenon" LP (Siltbreeze).
4.Spencer and James of the Skaters.
5.NYC live shows by Circle, Witchcraft, Opeth, and Enslaved; and Wolf Eyes and Negative Approach at ATP.
6.Trees Community "The Christ Tree" CD (Hand/Eye)
7.The Sounds of American Doomsday Cults CD on Faithways International
8.Ensemble Uch Sume-R "Traditional songs of the Khakass and the Altai people" (Face Music, Sweden)
9.Charlie Gocher and Charlie Nothing, RIP !
10."The Fiery Angel" (Dedalus European Classics) book by Valery Bruisov



Rolyn Hu (The True Primes)

11. margaret cho's a sensual woman
10. crockpot my roomates and I bought together. Just $21.95!
9. annapurnas
8. riding randy nelson's bike in santa fe
7. glasslands afterschool program
6. dinner theatre w/ fritz and seth
5. the process in santa fe (and everyone involved in that)
4. paul metzger 12 string banjo live at marquise dance hall
3. TP playing Fingered dvdzine party w/ Robbie Lee
2. my red bike
1. dancing

Michael San Filippo (Silmaril)

1. Seeing our music being out and appreciated by a new group of people, worldwide.
2. Britney's meltdown! Who saw that coming? That's all I got!



Dan Smith (Begushkin)

top 10 films not released in 2007

1.Solaris
2.Family Plot
3.The Proposition
4.Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
5.Les Enfantes Terribles
6.The Long Goodbye
7.The Brood
8. Touch of Evil
9. Husbands
10. Day of the Locust

Tom Fazzini (Fazzini)

1.Seeing Anthony Rochester perform live at The Packhorse, Leeds, thu 6th Dec.
2. Hearing his new record- ' music for in the spaceship'.
3. Favorite track on this - 'Interplanetary relationships can be problematic at the best of times.'
4. Getting turned on to some American poets by Erich of Haught. ('Peddler' by James Tate, 'The Partial Explanation' by Charles Simic.)
5. On the Corner boxset/ Miles Davis.
6. Young Folks single by Peter, Bjorn and John.
7. 'This Is Civilization' . Saturdays, Channel 4, 8 p.m. British TV.Written and presented by Matthew Collins. (Particularly the one about Ruskin.)
8. The autumn colours this year.
9. Rediscovering 'Veiled Venus' by Kuhne Beveridge and Ella Von Wrede, placing my hands up and down it whilst no art gallery attendant caught me.
(Bronze, 1900, Leeds Art Gallery.)
10. Seeing newsreel footage of Mugabe on visits to other countries looking insulated, paranoid and uncomfortable.


David Meltzer (Serpent Power, David & Tina Meltzer)

1.Despite being a cut on the antho, I think Rhino's Love Is But The Song We Sing is an outstanding representation of that moment
2.The Mingus/Dolphy Blue Note CD retrieved from the hidden vaults
3.Allison Krause & Robert Plant's duo CD came out of nowhere
4.The Sound of Feeling -- the Andrece sisters -- twins -- their 2 LPs from early '60s on CD at last -- hugely wiggy & alas unrealized

Eric Carbonara

1.korean bbq in upper darby:perhaps the only reason to visit this working class suburb of philadelphia...(unless you're recording at nada sound studio)
2.rachelle lee smith:a mighty fine photographer focusing on gay rights and roller derby!
3.anup kishore pradhan: an amazing baltimore based guitar player who subtly balances beautiful melody with a completely unique and fluid style
4.mike tamburo: listening to mike every night is like climbing to the top of a mountain and ripping your own skin off in sheer ecstasy
5.nick schillace:which ever song he wrote for bola sete (can't remember the name of it)...will make you weep...
6.niagara falls:if herzog made aguirre today, these guys would do the soundtrack and i would pass out in joy
7.paul metzger:next to paco peña and manitas de plata, paul's the only man whose playing i blatantly (and shamelessly) drool over...
8.eugene lew:philadelphia's finest recording engineer
9.keenan lawler:this man will floor you with tricks you've never seen before...
10.i love new york 2: we've all got to have a vice...


Ramon Sender
Top 10 from a dedicated Hermit
1."Turning Toward The Mystery" by Stephen Levine
2."Science and the Reenchantment of the Cosmos: The Rise of the Integral
3. Vision of Reality" by Ervin Laszlo
4.Morton Subotnick's series "Creating Music for Children" (Creatingmusic.com)
5.Alicia Bay Laurel's CD "What Living¹s All About" (jazz, blues, & gospel, 10 original, 2 standards)
6."The Trips Festival," a documentary by Eric Christensen
7.Monroe Institute's Hemi-Sync CD of ocean surf
8.My own PURRING TO NIRVANA video
9.Hubble's 3D Dark Matter map of the Kosmos
10."Kyrie" by Hildegard von Bingen


Matt Nicholson (Function)

top 10 things of note in this moment, no good, no bad

Susanna - Sonata Mix Dwarf Cosmos
Beach House
Jan Anderson of Kemialliset Ystavat playing solo, London, Bush Hall w/ Lau Nau who was also awesome
The Books live in Chicago, Old Town School of Folk Music
Finishing next Function record, touring 12 countries in Europe & surviving
Rediscovering Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Richard Youngs, Robert Wyatt
Dear friends without whom life is unthinkable & to whom gratitude will always flow
Visiting the Venice Biennale exhibit of Adi Da Samraj's "Transcendental Realism"
The music of Pascal Babare
The life of Karlheinz Stockhausen

Daniel Goode (Gamelan Son of Lion)

1.Rape of Europa (film)
2.Music of Barbara Benary (New World Records)
3.Across the Universe (film: Taymor)
4.Living Gamelan at the Living Theater (concert)
5.Flexible Orchestra 07 (concert)
6.Saudi Gang-Rape Case Provokes a Rare Debate (NYTimes, Dec.1, pg.A9)
7.Richard Kalvar Earthlings (photo book, Flammarion)
8.Bernard Kerik Indictment (re: Giuliani)
9.Your Brain on Music—is either a misdirection of the eye or irrelevant (contentions on the paperback edition of Daniel Levitin's book)
10.Rehearsals of the Toy Symphony in our event space, re-renovated after a roof fire in '06 wiped it out with water damage: November 07. Insured.

Andy Roche (Black Vatican)

1.The Possibility of an Island, Michel Houellebecq, novel
2.Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon, novel
3. A Home-Made Optics: Films and Videos of Leighton Pierce, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL, film screening
4. Jonah Who Will be 25 in the Year 2000, Alain Tanner, film on video
5. The Iowa Caucus
6.School of the America's Vigil, Ft. Benning, Columbus, GA
I rode down there with a busload of people including my dad and several prisoners of conscience. If you've completely given up on activism, go down there for that weekend. You won't feel any better about the pragmatics of activism, not at all. However, it is invigorating to be reminded of the necessity of pacifism in this country.
7.The Cornelius Chronicles: The Final Programme, A Cure for Cancer, The English Assassin, The Condition of Muzak, Michael Moorcock, novel collection
8. WIlliam J. O'Brien, The Axis Mundi, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
9. Tsars to the Stars: A Journey through Russian Fantastik Cinema, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL
10. Herbman Skanking from Jah Son of Africa, U- Roy
This year if I couldn't get out of bed my girlfriend would pop this one on and I'd have to get up and dance... and make breakfast.