January 26 & 27, 2012 Listening & Reading Lists

Jan 25, 2012

Records Listened To:

Hell: I
Disma: Toward the Megalith
Eternal Tapestry & Sun Araw: Night Gallery
The Fruit Bats: Tripper
Ofege: Try & Love
Deepchord: Hash-Bar Loops
Dead Can Dance: Aion

Books Read From:

Tomaz Salamun: The Four Questions of Melancholy
Jean-Patrick Manchette: Three to Kill
J. Krishnamurti: The First & Last Freedom



Jan 27, 2012

Records Listened To:

Wolves In The Throne Room: Celestial Lineage
Action Patrol: On Patrol
The Dufay Collective: Dance in the Garden of Mirth
King Midas Sound: Waiting for You
King Oliver: 1923
Cinquecento: Vaet: Missa Ego Flos Campi
Nadja: Autopergamene
Bernarda Fink: Bach - Kantaten für Alt
Belong: October Language
Ratas de Vaticano: Tiempos de Austeridad
Willie Wright: telling the truth
The Body: All the Waters of the Earth Shall Turn to Blood
Googoosh: s/t
Bjork: Biophilia
Pandit Pran Nath: Earth Groove: The Voice of Cosmic India
Charanjit Singh: Ten Ragas To a Disco Beat
Charley Patton: The Complete Recorded Works

Books Read From:

Ed. Janet Brody Esser: Behind the Mask in Mexico

January 25, 2012 Listening & Reading List

Jan 25, 2012

Records Listened To:

Weedeater: Jason the Dragon
Motor City Drum Ensemble : Love EP
KWJAZ: KWJAZ cassette [Brunch Groupe 01]
John Luther Adams: Red Arc / Blue Veil
Midnight: Satanic Royalty
Anne-Sophie Mutter; André Previn: Sibelius: Violin Concerto, Serenades, Etc.
Kronos Quartet & Wu Man: Terry Riley: The Cusp Of Magic
Pictureplan: Thee Physical
Weedeater: God Luck & Good Speed
Jim O'rourke-Akira Sakata-YOSHIMIO: Hagyou
Cough: Sigillum Luciferi
Troum: Sigqan
Fucked Up: Singles Collection



Books Read From:

Jennifer Moxley: Imagination Verses
Tomaz Salamun: The Four Questions of Melancholy
Jean-Patrick Manchette: Three to Kill

January 24, 2012 Listening & Reading List

Jan 24, 2012

Records Listened To:

Weedeater: Jason the Dragon
v/a: Jess & Crabbe present Bazzerk: African Digital Dance
Engine Down: Demure
Black Vomit: Jungle Death
Nicolas Bernier: Les Arbres
Gérard Grisey: Les espaces acoustiques



Books Read From:

Maurice Blanchot: Madness of the Day
Fanny Howe: Come and See
Barbara Mauldin: Masks of Mexico

Jan 22, 2012

Records Listened To:

Sutekh Hexen: Luciform
The Mountain Goats: All Eternals Deck
Deuter: Aum
International Contemporary Ensemble: Adams: Son of Chamber Symphony & String Quartet
Maria Minerva: Cabaret Cixous
Blues Control & Laraaji: FRKWYS Vol. 8
Myrmyr: Fire Star
Tragedy: Vengeance
Karen Dalton: It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best
willie wright: telling the truth
Bonnie Prince Billy: Wolfroy Goes to Town
Aethenor: Betimes Black Cloudmasses


Books Read From:

Ryunosuke Akutagawa: Kappa
Maurice Blanchot: Vicious Circles



Jan 23, 2012

Records Listened To:

Bastard Priest: Ghouls Of The Endless Night
Joanna Newsom: Have One On Me

Books Read From:

Maurice Blanchot: Vicious Circles
Nick Flynn: The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands
Eduoard Glissant: Poetic Intention

January 19-21, 2012 Listening & Reading Lists

Jan 19, 2012

Records Listened To:

X2 Wolves in the Throne Room: Celestial Lineage
Obsequiae: Suspended in the Brume of Eos
Winterfylleth: The Mercian Sphere
Yob: Atma
Yob: The Great Cessation
Ensemble Ordo Virtutum: Hildegard Von Bingen: Ordo Virtutum
Ingrid Fliter: Beethoven: Sonatas
Alina Ibragimova: Hartmann (KA): Concerto Funebre
Lawrence Power, Simon Crawford-Phillips: Hindemith: The Complete Viola Music, Vol. 1 – Sonatas
Lady Gaga: Born This Way: The Remix
Dead Can Dance: Aion
Fruit Bats: The Ruminant Band
Karen Dalton: It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best
Islaja: Ulual Yyy
Devotchka: Una Volta
Withcraft: Firewood
Omar-S: It Can Be Done But Only I Can Do It
Oren Ambarchi: Destinationless Desire
Patricia Petibon: Rosso - Italian Baroque Arias

Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar
WS Merwin: The Lice
Jennifer Moxley: Imagination Verses



Jan 20, 2012

Records Listened To:

Fucked Up: David Comes to Life
Fell Voices: s/t
Calvin Keys: Shawn-Neeq
Chris Watson: Cima Verde
Angela & Jennifer Chun: Bartók: 44 Violin Duos
Elzhi: Elmatic
Pictureplane: Dimensional Rip 7: Thee Physical Remixes
Weedeater: God Luck & Good Speed
Yob: The Great Cessation
Ingrid Fliter: Beethoven: Sonatas
v/a: Lagos Shake Up
The Original Modern Lovers: 1972 Tapes
Against Me: Reinventing Axl Rose
Lucero: Tennessee
The Flatlanders: More of Legend than a Band
John Coltrane: Lush Life
Skip James: Devil Got My Woman

Books Read From:

Jim Krusoe: Girl Factory
Willa Cather: April Twilights
Rikki Ducornet: Netsuke



Jan 21, 2012

Records Listened To:

Ride: Nowhere
Antonio Carlos Jobim: Jobim
Bjork: Biophilia
Art Ensemble of Chicago: Fanfare for the Warriors
Balam Acab: Wander / Wonder

Books Read From:

Ryunosuke Akutagawa: Kappa

January 18, 2012 Listening & Reading List

Jan 18, 2012

Records Listened To:

Pentangle: Cruel Sister
Wolves in the Throne Room: Live at Roadburn 2008
X2 Wolves in the Throne Room: Celestial Lineage
My Brightest Diamond: All Things Will Unwind
Emeralds: What Just Happened
Chasing Voices: Acidbathory
The Body: All the Waters of the Earth Shall Turn to Blood

Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar
Rizzoli Quadrofolio: Caravaggio
ed. Axelrod, et al: Reading Critically, Writing Well

January 17, 2012 Listening & Reading List

Jan 17, 2012

Records Listened To:

Charley Patton: Volume 2 (1929)
Mountain Man: Made the Harbor
Mark Padmore & Paul Lewis: Schubert – Winterreise

Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar
Ivan Doig, Richard Shiff & Catherine Lampert: Ivan Doig

January 16, 2012 Listening & Reading List

Jan 16, 2012

Records Listened To:

X3 Julliard String Quartet: Bartok String Quartet 1
Kate Bush: 50 Words for Snow
Sun Araw: Heavy Deeds
Ø: Heijastuva
Tim Hecker: Dropped Pianos
Elzhi: Elmatic
The Caretaker: An Empty Bliss Beyond This World

Books Read From:

Eliza Frye: Regalia
China Mieville: The Scar
Julie Doxsee: Objects for a Fog Death
Cynthia Arrieu-King: People are Tiny in Paintings of China

Jan 15, 2012

Records Listened To:

Anne Briggs: Nottinghamshire Tales
Tom Ze: Tom Ze
Satwa: Satwa
Kaleidescope: Tangerine Dream
Bong: Beyond Ancient Space
Jana Winderen: Heated



Books Read From:

Nick Flynn: The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands
China Mieville: The Scar
Julie Doxsee: Objects for a Fog Death
Noah Eli Gordon: The Area of Sound Called the Subtone
J. Krishnamurti: The First & Last Freedom

January 14, 2012 Listening & Reading List

Jan 14, 2012

Records Listened To:

Krallice: Diotima
Konono No1: Live
Lync: These are Not Fall Colors
At the Drive In: In Casino Out
András Schiff: JS Bach – Partitas
Ryley Walker and Daniel Bachman: Of Deathly Premonitions



Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar
Laura Kasischke: Space, In Chains
Les Murray: Killing the Black Dog – A Memoir of Depression
Michael Dickman: Flies
John Wieners: A Book of Prophecies
Thomas Merton: Figures for an Apocalypse

January 12 & 13, 2012 Listening & Reading Lists

Jan 12, 2012

Records Listened To:

Midnight: Satanic Royalty
Pearls before Swine: Balaclava
Locrian: The Clearing
Jeff the Brotherhood: We Are the Champions & Heavy Days
Lifetime: Jersey’s Best Dancers
Balamoroah: All is Wild All is Silent
Avail: Dixie
Fisticuffs Bluff: s/t
Aluk Todoro: descension
EPMD: Strictly Business
pg. 99: Doc. #7
Damian Jurardo: Saint Bartlett
Jürgen Müller: Science of the Sea
v/a: Eccentric Soul: The Outskirts of Deep City
Antonio Carlos Jobim: Jobim
v/a: AC/DC Blues – Gay Jazz Reissues, vol. 1
Brewer & Shipley: Tarkio
The Police: Regatta de Blanc
X3 Fucked Up: Hidden World
Fucked Up: David Comes Alive

Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar



Jan 13, 2012

Records Listened To:

Krallice: Diotima
Ga’an: Black Equus

Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar
Hesiod: Theogony trans: Dorothea Wender

January 11, 2012 Listening & Reading List

Jan 11, 2012

Records Listened To:

Tom Waits: Bad Like Me
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks
Liturgy: Aesthetica
Dirty Beaches: Badlands
Group Doueh: Beatte Harab
Allen Toussaint: The Bright Mississippi
Prince: Dirty Mind
Fucked Up: Hidden World


Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar

January 10, 2012 Listening & Reading List

Jan 10, 2012

Records Listened To:

Dad Can Dance: Aion
Sutkh Hexen: Luciform
Wolvserpent: Blooseed
ZZ Top: Fandango
Joni Mitchell: Blue
v/a: Groove Club vol 3: Cambodia Rock Intesified!
Matthew Dear: Black City
Pastor TL Barrett & the Youth for Christ Choir Sings!
Emmy Lou Harris: Blue Kentucky Girl
Ella Fitzgerald: le major de Ella Fitzgerald
Young People: War Prayers
Cocteau Twins: Treasure
v/a: Eccentric Soul: The Outskirts of Deep City
Noveller: Glacial Glow


Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar

January 9, 2012 Listening & Reading List

Jan 9, 2012

Records Listened To:

Midnight: Satanic Royalty
Allen Toussaint: The Bright Mississippi
Satan’s Host: By the Hands of the Devil
X2 Locrian: The Clearing
Robert Johnson: Complete Recordings (disc 2)



Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar
Dori Hadar: Mingering Mike: The Amazing Career of an Imaginary Soul Superstar
Dan Beachy Quick: This Nes, Swift Passerine
Gwendolyn Brooks: A Street in Bronzeville
Emily Dickinson (Franklin): The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson, Vol 1
Hillary Gravendyk: Harm

January 8, 2012 Listening & Reading List

Jan 8, 2012

Records Listened To:

Hawkwind: Hall of the Mountain Grill
Ty Segal: Goodbye Bread
Hallow: s/t
Krallice: Diotima
Susan Gritton; The Florestan Trio: Shostakovich: Piano Trios & Songs
Weedeater: God Luck & Good Speed
Weedeater: Jason the Dragon
Winterfylleth: The Mercian Sphere
Wolves of Avalon: Carrion Crows Over Camlan
Lake of Blood: As Time And Tide Erodes Stone
Fell Voices: Demo
Cathedral: Ethereal Mirror
Quiquecento: Vaet—Missa Ego flos campi
Neutral Milk Hotel: On Avery Island
Kiila: Silmat Sulkaset
Motor City Drum Ensemble: DJ Kicks
Wet Hair: Dream



Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar
Rene Char: Stone Lyre, trans. Naomi Carlson
Samuel Beckett: Poems in English
Eduard Glissant: Poetics of Relation
Uyen Hua: a/s/l

January 6, 2012 Listening & Reading List

Jan 6, 2012

Records Listened To:

Iced Earth: Night of the Stormrider
Dark Sister: Swag Hag
Wolves of Avalon: Carrion Crows Over Camlan
Balaclava: Crimes of Faith
X2 Weedeater: Jason the Dragon
Jürgen Müller: Science of the Sea
Fruit Bats: Tripper
Joe Henderson: The State of the Tenor – Live at the Village Vanguard Vol 2
Boston Symphony Orchestra: Sibelius – Karelia Suite, Valse Triste, etc.
Tom Waits: Bad as Me
Tinariwan: Aman Iman: Water Is Life
Balam Acab: Wander / Wonder
Belong: Colorless Record
Widowspeak: Widowspeak
Yob: Atma



Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar
Renee French: The Ticking
Reader’s Digest: Illustrated Reverse Dictionary

January 5, 2012 Listening & Reading List

Jan 5, 2012

Records Listened To:

Midnight: Satanic Royalty
v/a: Music from Saharan Cellphones Vol.1
Greg Allman: Low Country Blues
Falls of Rauros: Hail Wind And Hewn Oak
Blut Aus Nord: MoRT
Dust: Hard Attack



Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar
Renee French: The Ticking
John M Gottman: The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
Cid Corman: Livingdying

January 4, 2012 Listening & Reading List

Jan 4, 2012

Records Listened To:

Midnight: Satanic Royalty
vidnaObmana: Crossing the Trail
Oxford Camerata: Gesualdo—Complete Sacred Music for Five Voices



Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar
Emily Pettit: Goat in the Snow

January 3, 2012 Listening & Reading List

Jan 3, 2012

Records Listened To:

Midnight: Satanic Royalty
Subrosa: No Help For The Mighty Ones
Teddy Pendergrass: The Essential Teddy Pendergrass
Wreck & Reference: Black Cassette
Woe: Quietly, Undramatically
William Basinski: The River



Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar
Jai Arun Ravine: แล้ว and then entwine

January 2, 2012 Listening & Reading List

Jan 2, 2012

Records Listened To:

Bernstein & the Philharmonic: Debussy — A Faun, Nocturnes & Joux
Igor Zhakov: Scriabin — 24 Preludes
Lady Gaga: Born This Way
Martin Best Consort: Forgotten Provance
DJ Shadow: Private Press
Stooges: Funhouse
Fucked Up: Hidden World
Dirty Beaches: Badlands
v/a: New Star — Original Style
Smart Went Crazy: Con Art
Pg 99: Document #7



Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar
Blake Butler: Nothing
Matt Beard: The 1000 Deaths of Matt Beard
Alexandra Fox: Towazagatari

January 1, 2012 Listening & Reading List

I’ve decided to keep track of every album I listen to & every book that I open up & read from or look at in 2012.

Jan 1, 2012



Records Listened To:

Lost Tribe: s/t
Ride: Nowhere
High Wolf: Atlas Nation
Marty Robbins: Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs
The Impressions: Finally Got Myself Together
Antonio Carlos Jobim: Jobim
El Rego: El Rego et ses Commandos
Noveller: Glacial Glow
McCoy Tyner: Extensions
Mogollar: s/t
The Walkmen: Bows & Arrows
KWJAZ: s/t
Madlib: Shades of Blue
EMA: pastlifemartyredsaints
Solomon Burke: Electronic Magnetism
Elizabeth Cotton: Live!
Pastor TL Barrett & the Youth for Christ Choir: Sings!
Ascend: Ample Fire Within
Rolling Stones: Goat’s Head Soup
Brainiac: Hissing Prigs in the Static Couture
Salem: s/t
Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part One – 4th World War
v/a: Lagos Shake – A Tony Allen Chop Up



Books Read From:

David B: The Armed Garden & Other Stories
China Mieville: The Scar
Douglas Kearney: The Black Automaton
Lorine Niedecker: Paean to Place
AR George: Babylonian Literary Texts in the Schoyen Collection v 10
Pieter Hugo: Permanent Error
Josef Koudelka: Gypsies