If you’re on a Mac (and suffering from creative bankruptcy), check out this dashboard widget of the first three editions of Brian Eno/Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies. Killer!

Oblique Strategies Widget

Oblique Strategies Fan Page w/ more info.

Holy. Fuck.

Get it here.

via the LAMARABA Blog.

With Winter coming to an imminent close, its about time to bid it farewell until next year.

Pretty sweet Animal Collective live clip of Winter’s Love from Sung Tongs, all intimate and acoustic w/ drums and masks and Panda Bear/Avey Tare makin’ weird noises. Killer!

Managed to snap a few pics at the Arp/Pocahaunted show a couple weeks ago (this is a repost from before the crash) at the Eleanor Harwood Gallery. For those not in the know, Arp is the solo project of Alexis Georgopoulos formerly of SF’s Tussle, now also of The Alps. Reminiscent of Cluster, Arp broke out some warm jamz to float around in.

Pocahaunted, on the other hand, brought down a mighty punk-dirge hammer with a killer single-song set. Thats right, ONE song, maybe 15min at most. Unfortunately, none of my pics came out.

Arp pics and cassette audio from both artists below:

Arp tape recording – Edit

Pocahaunted tape recording – Everything

Break my fucking heart Moondog. Break it. Apparently recently reissued via Roof Music, but I have yet to see it around. This is compliments of Twisted Perceptions blog

H’art Songs (1979).rar (56.76 MB)
 

What the hell is going on in Los Angeles these days? If you haven’t noticed the out pouring of good jams from the capital of smog then its time you tune in. Fantastic Sleep is a new duo formed by LA vets Grant Capes and Ged Gengras ((VxPxC), Antique Brothers, Sleepwalkers Local 242, Fantastic Ego, Thousands, et al. ) and New Master is their first outing.  And its good.  Real good. Super dense and…well..smogy.  Blown out soft noise of the inner space variety that I can’t really get enough of.  Jam over to Phantom Limb to pick this up.

Fantastic Sleep – Edit

Always nice to see a new outing from the Jewelled Antler mother ship Thuja. And of course it’s really nice that this one is on wax. Blue wax even. Culled from live recordings around California, this LP finds the usual suspects of Loren Chasse, Rob Reger, Steven R. Smith and Glenn Donaldson joined by a rotating cast of part time members Greg Bianchini, Keith Evans, Bryan DeRoo and Christine Boepple. Everything I love about Thuja is here. Earthy stretches of organic play, underwater sound waves and dreamy passages of acoustic strum. No one really does it like this.  Limited edition of 500 copies available over at Important Records

Thuja – Hemlock

Kazue Sawai is arguably the greatest living koto player. Her late husband, Tadao Sawai, was responsible for the modern day, though starting to age now, koto canon (and respective Western tunings). Here Sawai-san plays a “koten” (old song) called Midare.