Playlist.
A weekly tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears lately.
Spotify jukebox does not correspond precisely with the listed selections that follow, but maintains the playlist’s continuity and personality.
King Crimson – Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind (DGM; 2016)
Revolting Cocks – Big Sexy Land (Wax Trax; 1986)
R.E.M. – Accelerate (Warner Bros; 2008)
KMFDM – Nihil (Wax Trax/TVT; 1995)
Slow Music Project – Aladdin Theater, Portland, OR, May 5, 2006 (DGMLive; 2008)
The Minus 5 – The Minus 5 (Yep Roc; 2006)
Pigface – Gub (Invisble; 1991)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 – Ole! Tarantula (Yep Roc; 2006)
Swans – The Great Annihilator (Young God; 1995/2017)
Ministry – The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste (Sire; 1989)
The Humans – Strange Tales (Vertical Species; 2014)
John Wesley Harding – Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead (popover/The Rebel Group; 2009)
Bill Rieflin – Birth of a Giant (First World; 1999)
Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die (International Anthem; 2017)
Roscoe Mitchell – Bells for the South Side (ECM; due June 30, 2017)
Ben Richter – Panthalassa: Dream Music of the Once and Future Ocean (Infrequent Seams; due June 2, 2017)
Alice Coltrane – World Sprituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (Luaka Bop; 2017)
Threefifty – Gently Among the Coals (Threefifty; 2017)
Steve Coleman – Morphogenesis (Pi Recordings; due June 23, 2017)
David Lang – thorn – Molly Barth (Cantaloupe Music; 2017)
> thorn; lend/lease – Stuart Gerber; short fall – Matt Albert, Jeffrey Zeigler, David Riley; involuntary – Zachariah Galatis, Sarah Viens, Joshua Silva, Stuart Gerber; vent – David Riley; burn notice – Jeffrey Zeigler, David Riley; frag – Melissa Peña, Jeffrey Zeigler
John Luther Adams – Canticles of the Holy Wind – Amy Garapic, The Crossing/Donald McNally (Cantaloupe Music; 2017)
Erkki Kurenniemi – Äänityksiä/Recordings 1963-1973 (Love; 2002)
Antonín Dvořák – Violin Concerto in A minor (Op. 43) – Josef Suk, Czech Philharmonic/Karel Ančerl (Supraphon; 1960/2002)
Antonín Dvořák – Slavonic Dances, Op. 46, No. 1; Op. 72, No. 2; Op. 72, No. 7 – Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Rafael Kubelík (Deutsche Grammophon; 1975/1998)
Leoš Janáček – Taras Bulba – Czech Philharmonic/Karel Ančerl (Supraphon; 1961/2002)