2011 October Downoads

Bad ThoughtsBad Thoughts
edited November 2011 in General
Amazon
Zee Avi, Ghostbird (wife's choice--more subdued than debut, but still good) ***1/2
Noriko Ogawa, Debussy: Music for Piano (5 BIS albums bundled for $8; a bit much to listen to in one sitting, but great) ****1/2
Lorenzo Micheli, Llobet: Guitar Works (compositions by Andres Segovia's teacher and mentor; this album includes all his compositions, especially his arrangements of Catalan folks songs, several being staples of the repertoire of the classical guitar) *****

mTraks
Martin Simpson, Purpose and Grace (not as strong as I hoped, but still has excellent guitar work) ***1/2
Bucky and John Pizarelli, Family Fugue (standards by legendary swing guitarist and son; excellent picking, but very sedate--don't play while operating heavy equipment) ****1/2
Zhang Hong Yan: Ambush from all sides (classical works for Chinese pipa) ****

Free: Joe Frawley (haven't heard yet), Heads on Sticks ****, Olafur Arnalds ****

For the record, my September downloads were: Hot Club of San Francisco: Bohemian Maestro ****; Stan Rogers: Fogerty's Cove ***** (brilliant!); Dr. Michael White: Adventures in New Orleans Jazz I ****1/2; They Say We're Sinking ****1/2

Comments

  • cafreemacafreema
    edited November 2011
    Only listing albums, because that's what I do.

    mtraks

    The Names - Swimming + Singles: So glad ScissorMan introduced me to this Factory band I was unfamiliar with.
    Sleep ? Over - Forever: Love this album. It appears to get filed under "dream pop", but it's too dark for that.
    Veronica Falls - s/t: Thanks DanielEsq! Good indie pop.
    Xeno & Oaklander - Sets & Lights: Feeding my recent appetite for the Wierd Records label. May be the best of the bunch, too.

    eMusic

    Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power: Finally got around to grabbing this classic.
    Zola Jesus - Conatus: Love her.

    Amazon

    The Modern Lovers - s/t: Been meaning to get this for awhile and the Amazon $2 discount pushed me over the edge.
    Tom Waits - Bad as Me: Very, very good.
    Wild Flag - s/t: Excellent rrriot girl.

    Craig

    ETA: Disappointing that the emusers software changes the infinity symbol in Sleep...Over to a question mark.
  • ScissorManScissorMan
    edited November 2011
    Let's see, this month I got Jason Falkner's I'm OK You're OK from iTunes, and from eMu I got Charlotte Hatherley's Grey Will Fade, most of a fairly interesting record called The Bellows by a band called The Caseworker, and an album called Vivian by a band called Lucy Dreams.

    As for free stuff, I got this hard-not-to-like EP from 93MillionMilesFromTheSun called All You've Found, which is hosted either at archive.org or ourmedia.org, and from Bandcamp, there's the Ivory Splinters and, of course, Madame Blavatsky Overdrive, who have somehow managed to release about a dozen pretty-good-quality albums and EPs without ever charging a red cent. (They appear to be led by one of the guys in a band from back in the 90's called The Spent Poets... don't know if anybody here has heard of them.)

    So, not a bad month, all in all.
  • GermanprofGermanprof
    Wow, what a rich month. Treated myself to a 75 track package on MTraks to do a slash and burn through my SFL - an amazingly well spent $20. Then emusic was giving away halloween credit, and I found a couple of one-track albums selling for 99 cents on amazon and CD Universe. And there were some brilliant new releases that I had the credit to snap up. (The Illuha recording is just beautiful, but so are several others).


    emusic:
    Tim Hecker - Dropped Pianos
    Biosphere - N-Plants
    Janek Schaefer - Phoenix & Phaedra Holding Patterns
    Senking - Ping/Thaw
    Alva Noto - Univrs
    Illuha - Shizuku

    MTraks:
    Daniel Thomas Freeman - The Beauty Of Doubting Yourself
    David Wenngren & Christopher Bissonnette - The Meridians of Longitude and Parallels of Latitude
    System - B
    Vieux Farka Tour
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