AGB Radio (February 13, 2017)


 
New Anjou, new Skullflower, new Noveller, new Grails, and new Taylor Deupree? Dream. Also how come I haven’t heard of Saltland yet SHE’S AMAZING.
 
AGB Radio 2017/02/13

Background music: Zwischenwelt – Die Strasse Zerpflücken II (from Musical Compositions Lasting Days Or Weeks)

00:00:00 Saltland – Under My Skin (from A Common Truth)
00:03:19 Talk break
00:04:47 Skullflower – A Walk Through English Woods By Water (from The Wisdom Of Venom)
00:24:39 Gunther – Lemon (From Faces Everywhere)
00:29:03 Talk break
00:29:48 Taylor Deupree – Fenne (From Somi)
00:40:04 Thet Liturgiske Owäsendet – Hamnstad (from Hafvet)
00:59:44 Talk break
01:01:01 Anjou – Culicinae (from Epithymía)
01:15:31 Izanasz – Subliminal Storms (from The Opposite Of Aloof Vol. 1)
01:30:27 Talk break
01:32:15 Isabella – Cloying Traces (from Viscous Positions)
01:37:47 Francesco Giannico – Much (from Deepness)
01:48:01 Grails – Deep Snow II (from Chalice Hymnal)
01:53:44 Noveller – Deep Shelter (from A Pink Sunset For No One)
01:59:10 Talk break

Episode 12 – Black History Special


 
Music by black Americans (as far as I know). Not much in the way of spoken word stuff aside from Malcolm X’s speeches. Also: very little experimental music. The only artist in my vinyl collection who I knew wasn’t a white dude was Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, which was really disheartening to realize. Still covered a lot more ground than I typically do, with funk, jazz, electric Chicago blues, and vaudeville blues in addition to the usual country blues and gospel.

A couple of mistakes I feel the need to note: I gave the wrong name of the artist for “Time Is On Our Side” and thought Revelation Funk was part of the song title instead of one of the artists involved, and I said the boys from Street And Gangland Rhythms were homeless but they actually lived in public housing.

And apparently today is Bessie Jones‘ birthday (2/8/1902-7/17/1984). Alan Lomax called her “the Mother Courage of American Black traditions.” Happy birthday, Bessie. Thanks for your amazing music.
 

Air date: February 8, 2017

Background music: Jimi Hendrix – Young/Hendrix (from Nine To The Universe)

00:00:00 Talk break
00:02:32 Herbie Hancock – Hornets (from Sextant)
00:22:11 Bessie Johnson – The 1927 Flood (from 1928-1929 (Sanctified Volume 1))
00:25:21 Leadbelly – National Defense Blues (from Keep Your Hands Off Her)
00:28:26 De Ford Bailey – The Alcoholic Blues (from Harmonica Showcase – De Ford Bailey And D. H. “Bert” Bilbro 1927-31: Complete Recordings In Chronological Order)
00:31:28 Talk break
00:36:14 Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe – M’Bondo (from Timon Irnok Manta)
00:38:00 Malcolm X – Violence And Non-Violence, Human Rights And Civil Rights (from Speaking)
00:53:54 The Soul Rebellion Orchestra & Revelation Funk – Time Is On Our Side (from Dolemite Soundtrack)
00:57:19 Bessie Jones – This Time Another Year (from Georgia Sea Islands, Volume 1)
01:00:21 Talk break
01:04:37 Wicked Witch – Under Your Spell (from Chaos 1978-86)
01:13:00 Elmore James & John Brim – Whose Muddy Shoes (from Whose Muddy Shoes)
01:16:17 Victoria Spivey – Black Snake Blues (from Songs We Taught Your Mother)
01:20:28 Blind Joe Taggart – Strange Things Happening In The Land (from A Guitar Evangelist 1926 to 1931)
01:23:30 Unknown artist – Stackerlee (from Negro Prison Songs (From The Mississippi State Penitentiary))
01:27:33 Funny Papa Smith – Honey Blues (from 1930-1931 The Original Howling Wolf)
01:30:36 Talk break
01:34:22 Dollar Brand – Cherry / Bra Joe From Kilimanjaro (from African Portraits)
01:36:38 Unknown artist – Percussion Ensembles (from Street And Gangland Rhythms: Beats And Improvisations By Six Boys In Trouble)
01:40:07 Rev. G. I. Townsel – A Sermon Fragment (from Negro Church Music)
01:44:04 Ella Jenkins – An American Chain Gang Chant (from Call And Response: Rhythmic Group Singing)
01:47:33 Rev. C. L. Franklin – I’m Going Through; I Love The Lord, He Heard My Cry (from I Heard The Voice)
01:55:31 Lonnie Holley – Earthly Things (from Just Before Music)
02:01:47 Talk break

AGB Radio (February 6, 2017)

 

Too much excellence in this episode it’s almost not even possible. Bookended with new Emptyset and Second Woman jams with new Sutekh Hexen improv black noise and also a new Scuba Death record (!???!), then there’s the twisted brilliance of Fire-Toolz, I mean honestly this episode is fuckin stacked.

 

AGB Radio 2017/02/06

Background music: Ritual Object – Energy Vampire (from A Field Guide To Occult Warfare)

00:00:00 Emptyset – Axis (from Borders)
00:04:10 Talk break
00:05:34 Fire-Toolz – To See My Hatred Clearly (from Drip Mental)
00:10:06 Scuba Death – Cracks In The Shield (from The Worm At The Core)
00:17:59 Travis Trevisan – Phoenicia (from Slug)
00:23:15 Richard Osborn – Still I Will Be Merry (from Endless)
00:29:34 Talk break
00:31:32 The Necks – Blue Mountain (from Unfold)
00:52:14 No UFOs – Apocryphal Blues (from NU LP For RS)
00:55:45 Sutekh Hexen – Visitor (from Salem)
01:00:52 Talk break
01:02:23 Kay Hill – ANARAK II (from ANARAK)
01:14:10 Moon Duo – White Rose (from Occult Architecture Vol. 1)
01:24:26 José Silva – Cannot Explain It (from Modulated Tones No. 1: Music For Framed Works)
01:29:28 Talk break
01:30:35 Brian John McBrearty – Things I Recall (from Blue Twenty-Three)
01:43:19 Joachim Nordwall – Great Mind Of Fire (from The Ideal Black)
01:53:32 Second Woman – I E/P (from E/P)
01:59:03 Talk break

Episode 11


 
Goddamn this is a pretty sweet episode. Slowing the Jane Heidorn dirge from 45 down to 33 was unexpectedly awesome, using the “create destruction” locked groove from Unholy Triforce’s new laserdisc to back Elijah Muhammad’s proselytizing about Judgement Day was too perfect, and smashing Phill Niblock with Fell Voices made the intense intenser.
 

Air date: February 1, 2017

Background music: David Lackner – In The Well Of Eternal Living And Dying (from In The Well Of Eternal Living And Dying )

00:00:00 Talk break
00:02:02 40 Watt Sun – Beyond You (from Wider Than The Sky)
00:11:46 Alice Coltrane – Hare Krishna (from Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana)
00:17:42 Unknown artist – Huon Peninsula To Maclay Coast (from An Introduction To The Music Of New Guinea)
00:23:33 Jane Heidorn – Hard Times Come Again No More (from Hard Times Come Again No More)
00:30:05 Talk break
00:36:07 Unholy Triforce – untitled locked groove 1 (from The Legend Of Unholy Triforce)
00:36:48 Elijah Muhammad – Speaking On Judgment Part I (from Muhammad Speaks: The Time Of Judgement, Volume 2, Part I)
00:38:53 Unholy Triforce – untitled locked groove 2 (from The Legend Of Unholy Triforce)
01:00:40 Talk break
01:03:15 Menace Ruine – Bonded By Wyrd (from Cult Of Ruins)
01:15:07 Reverend Gary Davis – Sun Is Going Down (from Sun Is Going Down)
01:20:26 Barbara Dane – Insubordination (from FTA! Songs Of The GI Resistance)
01:24:41 Mammane Sani – Lidda (from La Musique Électronique Du Niger)
01:30:17 Talk break
01:33:03 Phill Niblock – A Third Trombone (from Nothing To Look At Just A Record)
01:34:31 Unknown artist – Bobongo and Nsi (from Ekonda: Tribal Music Of The Congo)
01:41:47 Fell Voices – untitled B side (from 2011 untitled record on Gilead Media and Howling Mine)
01:54:26 Giovanni Martinelli – A Talk On The Interpretation Of Verdi’s Operas Part 2 (excerpt) (from A Talk On The Interpretation Of Verdi’s Operas)
02:01:27 Talk break

AGB Radio (January 30, 2017)

 

You should do two things right away. 1: go download the Physically Sick charity compilation because it goes to good things (ACLU, PP, etc) and is full of righteous tunes and 2: go sign up for Chris Elmore’s Persistence subscription series and get your fix of the high quality special shit all year long.

 

AGB Radio 2017/01/30

Background music: Beatrice Dillon & Rupert Clervaux – The Same River Twice (from Two Changes)

00:00:00 CEP – Pupil (from Drawing The Target Around The Arrow)
00:05:29 Talk break
00:06:43 Alan Courtis – Estiba (from Los Galpones)
00:21:56 Isabella – Dying And Denying (from Physically Sick)
00:29:28 Talk break
00:30:59 Luciernaga – Untitled III (from Tile III)
00:50:36 Cristian Naldi – Requiem Rurale Parte 1 (from Rurale)
00:59:07 Talk break
01:00:19 Life Education – Acid Owl Meets Eagle Wizard (from Acid Owl)
01:09:30 Christopher Elmore – Lamentation A (from Lamentations)
01:31:08 Talk break
01:32:47 Trevor De Brauw – From The Black Soil Poetry And Song Sprang (from Uptown)
01:44:21 1 Mile North – Broken Corners (from Awakened By Decay)
01:53:49 Desiderii Marginis – The Core Of Hell II (from Songs Over Ruins)
01:58:48 Talk break

AGB Radio (January 23, 2017) – Label Spotlight: Debacle Records


 

Debacle is run by one dude, Sam Melancon, out of Seattle and he’s been at it for over a decade. It’s been an AGB mainstay ever since I first heard that Megabats record back in 2009 and I’ve been faithful ever since (oh what’s that? you’re wondering what my favorite Debacle release is? so glad you asked. it’s almost certainly Total Life’s Bender/Drifter). From now until the end of the month (I think?) he’s got just about every release on the Bandcamp page set to pay what you want. So go download literally everything because it’s super eclectic and all 100% amazing and throw Sam as much money as you can. Then make sure you head back later this year when he drops the new High Aura’d and Aquarelle records (!!!!!).

 

AGB Radio 2017/01/23 – Label Spotlight: Debacle Records

Background music: Blue Sabbath Black Cheer & The Rita – Drowning Witches II (from Drowning Witches)

00:00:00 Megabats – Meak Attack (from In/Out)
00:07:10 Talk break
00:09:04 Daniel Bachman – Black (Take Four) (from Grey-Black-Green)
00:14:31 Demian Johnston & Kevin Gan Yuen – The Thought Of This… (from Keep Your Hands)
00:29:28 Talk break
00:30:58 Paintings For Animals – Ahni Hansa (from Kristeater)
00:41:49 Dull Knife – Excavating (from Dull Knife)
00:58:03 Talk break
00:58:49 Black Hat – Callas (from Spectral Disorder)
01:04:31 Zac Nelson – Amazone Wall Smasher (from Charbroile)
01:06:25 Total Life – Bender (from Bender/Drifter)
01:22:42 Hayden Pedigo – If I Could Go Back (from Five Steps)
01:25:05 Talk break
01:26:27 Chambers – 000X (from Sigma Flare I)
01:36:31 Camedor – Alba (from En Ut/Alba)
01:48:55 Elkhorn – Dogfish Blues (from Elkhorn)
01:59:10 Talk break

Episode 10


 

I fuckin love that Hollerin’ record, such a weird one, and it went pretty well with Lowe’s drones. And just fyi, both Holly Hunt and Obolus were played at 33 instead of 45, so Holly Hunt got really fuckin sludgy and I might even prefer Obolus slowed down, or at least that song.

And I need to take every chance I get to share this Charlotte Daniels & Pat Webb record. It’s one of my all-time favorites. And this post where I made it available for people to download has become a home to conversation between Charlotte’s & Pat’s friends & family, sharing personal memories, including a comment from their niece to let everyone know Pat had just died. It’s my favorite thing on the internet and is exactly the sort of thing the internet is perfect for.

 

Air date: January 18, 2017

Background music: Love Cult – Fingers Crossed (from Fingers Crossed)

00:00:00 Talk break
00:01:39 Bloody Panda – Miserere (from Summon)
00:22:51 Sonny Terry – Moanin’ And Mournin’ (from Talkin’ ‘Bout The Blues)
00:26:18 Onago And Muana And Native Drummers Of The Congo – Tagati (Bewitched) (from Heartbeat Of The Congo)
00:28:48 Talk break
00:31:50 Axolotl – Holon (Parts 1-3) (from The Skaters / Axolotl split)
00:34:23 Stephen Ettinger – Variations In Heart Sounds (excerpt) (from Canine Heart Sounds)
00:41:51 Artie Butler – A Bird In The Hand (from The Harrad Experiment Score)
00:46:57 Kirsten Flagstad & Gerald Moore – Sånger Under Stärnorna, Op. 17 – Var Inte Rädd För Mörkret (from Norwegian Songs By Arne Dørumsgaard)
00:49:01 Blind Alfred Reed – How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live? (from How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?)
00:52:17 Servile Sect – Neon Gates Of Hades (from Svrrender)
00:58:58 Talk break
01:02:00 Bryce Bond & William Martin – The Prodigal Son (from God’s Trombones By James Weldon Johnson)
01:07:32 Unknown artist – Teško Krstačko (from Macedonian Folk Dances Volume II)
01:10:15 Robert A. A. Lowe – Cyclamen (from Fazo IV: La Kvalito De Speguloj)
01:12:02 Leonard Emanuel, H.H. Oliver, & Paul Parker – tracks A1-A7 (from Hollerin’)
01:30:31 Talk break
01:34:07 Charlotte Daniels & Pat Webb – Frankie & Johnny (from Charlotte Daniels & Pat Webb)
01:38:53 Holly Hunt – Manchurian Candidate (from Year One)
01:47:35 The Blue Birds – Sun We Bilou Akh Waliya (from Pakistan – Folk And Pop Instrumentals 1966-1976)
01:52:00 Obolus – Grievance (from Lament)
02:00:43 Talk break

AGB Radio (January 16, 2017)

 

There’s probably only a few names on here that you don’t recognize and one of them is probably MJ Lallo and that is seriously the only one that matters. Full Spectrum dug up a copy of the original 1988 tape, remastered it, and shared it with the world, vocal heavy weirdo exotica that sounds a bit like The Knife + Suzanne Ciani.

 

AGB Radio 2017/01/16

Background music: Senyawa – Brønshøj 4 (from Brønshøj (Puncak))

00:00:00 Pan Daijing – Tenderloin Tanz (from A Satin Sight)
00:05:56 Talk break
00:07:06 Keiji Haino, Jozef Dumoulin, & Teun Verbruggen – Non-Dark Destinations (from The Miracles Of Only One Thing)
00:32:51 Talk break
00:33:42 Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson – I Am The Cello (from Wondrous Intermission)
00:52:37 Thomas Köner – Tiento De La Luz 5 (from Tiento De La Luz)
01:03:42 Talk break
01:04:27 Lawrence English – Somnambulist (from Cruel Optimism)
01:10:24 Celer & Dirk Serries – Above / Below (from Background Curtain)
01:28:14 Talk break
01:29:08 Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe – Withdrawal (from Thought Withdrawal)
01:45:45 MJ Lallo – Blues For Buddha (from The Channeled Voice)
01:51:27 Mai Mai Mai – Magois (from Phi)
01:59:11 Talk break

Episode 9


 

Not too much experimentation this time. And once again, the recording starts late. I hit the record button on time this time, but I forgot you need to hit it twice so you come in towards the end of the first song I played (Surachai). That happens way too much and it pisses me off to no end, I just hope it doesn’t make you even half as mad it makes me.

 

Air date: January 11, 2017

Background music: Expressway Yo-Yo Dieting – Side B (from Bubblethug)

00:00:00 Surachai – Ancestral (from Embraced)
00:06:47 Short Stuff Macon – Hell-Bound Blues (from Hell Bound And Heaven Sent)
00:09:20 Ismael Salud Gonzalez – Cantares De Mi Tierra (from Mexico: Fiestas Of Chiapas And Oaxaca)
00:12:59 Salem Mass – Witch Burning (from Witch Burning)
00:23:22 Talk break
00:26:44 David Behrman – Figure In A Clearing (from On The Other Ocean)
00:28:26 Side B (from Tokyo Rose: Radio Traitor Or Radio Patriot)
00:46:42 Side B (from An Evening In Sapsucker Woods)
00:53:15 Talk break
00:56:26 Bohren & Der Club Of Gore – The Art Of Coffins (from Black Earth)
01:08:18 Dariush Dolat-Shahi – Samā’ (from Electronic Music, Tar And Sehtar)
01:17:12 Blind Willie McTell – Broke Down Engine Blues (from The Early Years (1927-1933))
01:20:28 Mark Korven – Hare In The Woods (from The Witch Score)
01:22:03 Talk break
01:25:31 Whitehorse – Mechanical Disintegration (from Progression)
01:33:03 Guy Carawan – Weary Blues (from Songs With Guy Carawan)
01:35:17 Alhaji Garbo Leao – Sarkin Mallamai Garba Kaita – Praise Song To A Chief Mallam (Teacher) (from Alhaji Garbo Leao And His Goge Music)
01:39:21 Khan Shushinsky – Segiakh Murza Gusein (from Secret Museum Of Mankind (Central Asia Ethnic Music Classics: 1925-48))
01:42:34 Larry Richardson & Red Barker And The Blue Ridge Boys – Pain In My Heart (from Larry Richardson & Red Barker And The Blue Ridge Boys)
01:44:54 Yellow Swans – At All Ends (from At All Ends)
01:56:28 Talk break

AGB Radio (January 9, 2017)


 

Lots of solo acoustic and black noise/metal, plus a cover of Hank Williams and me mistakenly thinking the Humbert & Rosenboom collab came out this year instead of 2013.

 

AGB Radio 2017/01/09

Background music: Tashi Dorji – Still III (from Collected Works)

00:00:00 Rob Noyes – Oni (from The Feudal Spirit)
00:04:36 Talk break
00:06:34 Sandworm – Still Beside The Grave (from Trails)
00:10:28 Nested – The Nasty Ripple Waltz (from Nested 5)
00:26:28 Gultskra Artikler – Savage Mechanism (from Industria)
00:30:42 Talk break
00:32:07 Crawl – Failure I (from Poisonous Failure)
00:39:35 Leila Abdul-Rauf & Nathan A. Verrill – The Angel Of Death (from The Angel Of Death single)
00:41:01 Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy – Al Weshaya (from Darraje)
00:52:46 Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom – Talk 1 (from Daytime Viewing)
01:01:29 Talk break
01:03:22 William Fowler Collins & James Jackson Toth – The Border (from Under Stars And Smoke)
01:16:59 Glenn Jones – Portrait Of Basho As A Young Dragon (from Fleeting)
01:23:17 Skyjelly – Krilltastica (from Black Panthers / Priest, Expert, Or Wizard)
01:29:36 Talk break
01:30:49 Nekrasov – Part 1 (from In Token Of Their Spite)
01:41:23 Damian Valles – Poison Tooth (from Frameshifting)
01:45:30 Willie Lane – New Arrivals (from A Pine Tree Shilling’s Worth Of Willie Lane)
01:58:57 Talk break

Episode 8


 

Some of the mashups worked amazingly, like Lakshmi Shankar & the Bowles/Verrastro duo (which starts off so seamlessly I actually can’t determine when it started, somewhere around the 20 minute mark). Some fell a little flat, like Mick Barr and the Venezuelan folk music. It was all fun, though. Also, for some reason I was getting the song info for Lluvia off of Discogs and I was looking at a different record online than the one I was actually playing, so I say that I played “La Oscuridad Doth Dar La Inmortalidad” from Premonicion De Guerra but I wasn’t even playing that record. Oops. Chalk it up to me not knowing Spanish and that the info for Eternidad Solemne is all on the inner sleeve instead of the jacket which I didn’t have readily at hand.

 

Air date: January 4, 2017

Background music: Perispirit – 14th Annual Seance (from Spiritual Church Movement)

00:00:00 Talk break
00:01:30 Primitive Man – The Holes In The Walls Are Like Holes In My Fucking Head (from P / / M)
00:10:17 Concepts And Problems (excerpt) (from Metabolic Abnormalities In Diabetes)
00:13:02 Lakshmi Shankar – Raga: Janasammodini (from The Voice Of Lakshmi Shankar)
00:20:00 Nathan Bowles & Scott Verrastro – Palanquin Opiate (from Polar Satellites)
00:33:24 Talk break
00:37:32 Coon Creek Girls – Little Birdie (from Coon Creek Girls)
00:40:50 Lluvia – Enterramiento En La Lluvia (from Eternidad Solemne)
00:49:22 The Halveti-Jerrahi Dhikr – Side A (from Journey To The Lord Of Power)
00:52:28 Xela – Calling For Vanished Faces (from Shipping Gold / Calling For Vanished Faces)
01:13:39 Talk break
01:15:39 Francis Bebey – New Track (from African Electronic Music 1975-1982)
01:24:00 John A. Lomax, Jr. – I’m All Out And Down (from John A. Lomax, Jr. Sings American Folksongs)
01:26:28 Portal – Omnipotent Crawling Chaos (from Outre’)
01:32:49 Talk break
01:35:34 Morton Subotnick – Touch (Beginning) (from Touch)
01:37:06 Side A (from Getting Through: A Guide To Better Understanding Of The Hard Of Hearing)
01:49:47 Grant Rogers – George’s Story (from The Cannonsville Story – From The Film “Kinfolks”)
01:51:44 Mick Barr – Side A (excerpt) (from Coiled Malescence)
01:56:47 Trio Cantaclaro – Polo (from Columbia World Library Of Folk And Primitive Music, Volume IX – Venezuela)
02:00:26 Ana Caraballo & Asuncion Caraballo – Canto Para Pilar Maiz (Corn Grinding Song) (from Columbia World Library Of Folk And Primitive Music, Volume IX – Venezuela)
02:01:21 Julian Guevara – Zumba, Que Zumba (How It Hums) (from Columbia World Library Of Folk And Primitive Music, Volume IX – Venezuela)
02:04:27 Talk break

AGB Radio (January 2, 2017) – Top 20 Metal Countdown

 

Was able to cram all 20 (21) into one episode and only had to do one excerpt. I consider that a victory.

Check the full list over here.

 

AGB Radio 2017/01/02 – Top 20 Metal Countdown

Background music: Cultes Des Ghoules – Storm Is Coming, Come The Blessed Madness (from Coven, Or Evil Ways Instead Of Love)

00:00:00 Malevich – Perennial Self (from Only The Flies)
00:01:16 Talk break
00:02:36 Book Of Sand – Crumbling Palaces (from Occult Anarchist Propaganda)
00:08:02 Jute Gyte – Palimpsest (from Perdurance)
00:16:20 Zön – Behold (from Mount Gaash)
00:21:48 Aureole – Interloper (from Aurora Borealis)
00:25:33 Talk break
00:27:03 Fuath – In The Halls Of The Hunter (from I)
00:36:02 Tardigrada – Erschöpft (from Emotionale Ödnis)
00:44:45 El-Ahrairah – White Kingdom (from El-Ahrairah)
00:48:19 Mare Cognitum – Aether Wind (from Luminiferous Aether)
00:56:39 T.O.M.B. – Mystic Blood Scrying (from Fury Nocturnus)
00:58:45 Hagazussa – Air Of The Black Spore (Contamination) (from Dyspnea: Early Works Compilation)
01:00:12 Talk break
01:01:47 VRTRA – The Cold Suffocating Dark Goes On Forever (from My Bones Hold A Stillness)
01:09:25 Twilight Fauna – Tongues Of Knowledge (from Fire Of The Spirit)
01:15:56 Without – Ego (excerpt) (from Elaborations: II)
01:18:48 Névoa – Conflict (from Re Un)
01:23:02 Forgotten Spell – Proclaiming Satan (from Epiphaneia Phosphorus (Angel, God Or Insanity))
01:27:13 Talk break
01:28:33 Spektr – Your Flesh Is A Relic (from The Art To Disappear)
01:31:44 Zeal And Ardor – Blood In The River (from Devil Is Fine)
01:35:16 RLYR – Slipstream Summer (from Delayer)
01:41:39 Astronoid – Obsolete (from Air)
01:47:49 Mizmor – Inertia, An Ill Compeller (from Yodh)
01:58:38 Talk break

Episode 7 – Holiday Special featuring Numero Group


 

I decided to pull all of my A Thick Mist-relevant Christmas records for this episode (which is only 5 but they’re all pretty great) as well as my entire Numero Group collection (which I only got to play half of but oh well, I’ll save em for another day). All in all, there’s only 3 non-Christmas or non-Numero songs and everything turned out just swell.

No A Thick Mist episode next week because the university is closed but I should return the first week of January.

Also, I mention it right off the bat on air, but just fyi, this is a short episode because the building the radio station is in didn’t open when it was supposed to and my secret back door that’s usually open wasn’t so I started about a half hour late. Blame Facilities.

 

Air date: December 21, 2016

00:00:00 Harry Bertoia – Clear Sounds (from Sonambient)
00:14:24 Talk break
00:17:20 Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin – Siku Kuu (Holy Night) (from Christmas In The Congo)
00:20:25 Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin – Lullaby (from Christmas In The Congo)
00:23:00 Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin – Kimya (from Christmas In The Congo)
00:25:51 Little Murray And The Maniacs – Don’t Leave Me Mama (from The ABCs Of Kid Soul)
00:30:22 Venus Star – On The Path Of Return (from Setyphorus)
00:34:49 Talk break
00:37:13 La Justicia – Guaguanco Coroco (from Cult Cargo: Salsa Boricua De Chicago)
00:43:36 Lil McClintock – Don’t Think I’m Santa Claus (from Death Might Be Your Santa Claus)
00:46:43 The Basement – Funky Music (from Local Customs: Pressed At Boddie)
00:51:58 Circuit Rider – Limousine Ride (from Circuit Rider)
00:57:28 Various/unknown – Dzwon, Dzwon, Dzwon (from Boże Narodzenie: Polish Christmas Songs And Sketches)
01:00:37 Various/unknown – Boże Narodzenie (from Boże Narodzenie: Polish Christmas Songs And Sketches)
01:03:35 Talk break
01:06:25 Otis G. Johnson – Call On Jesus (from Everything – God Is Love 78)
01:12:01 Kalinga province – Group Singing With Gongs (from Music From The Mountain Provinces)
01:17:28 Rita Ford’s Music Boxes – Ihr Kinderklein Kommet – Large Kalliope With Bells, Polyphon With Bells, Regina (from A Music Box Christmas)
01:20:23 Alfonso Lovo – Los Conquistadores (from La Gigantona)
01:26:10 Scars From A Dead Room – InHume (from Scars From A Dead Room)
01:32:57 Les Petits Chanteurs A La Croix De Bois – Noëls: Allons Pastoureaux (Vieux Noël Languedocien) (from Christmas Music Of France (Noëls Populaires))
01:35:12 Talk break

Top 20 Metal Records Of 2016

I did it! I made another list. I didn’t think it would happen, but it happened. No more lists, though. This is the last one for 2016.

Lots of black metal this year. And I mean lots. But it’s all A+ Amazing. I didn’t hear too much doom (or rather too much premium doom) this year, but, again the doom that was good was really fucking good. There’s tons of weird shit in here that pushes the limits of metal that you should come to expect from my metal lists. Also, I gotta say I’m surprised at the amount of color found on these album covers. 10 of them feature full multi-colored artwork and even more toss in some non-greyscale-but-still-monochromatic flair.

I did something that some of you may find treasonous. I have 2 records tied for first place. So, technically, this is a Top 21 list, but whatever. I spent way too long (like, weeks, maybe even months?) trying to decide which of the two I loved more and just couldn’t settle on one answer for more than a few days. And when I was putting this post together I realized “fuck it, there’s no reason I need to choose one over the other” and thus the Tied For Number 1 spot was born. I’m happy about it and you should be too.

As usual, I try to keep the big names/labels off the list because I’m definitely not a metal blog and I’m sure you all know that The Body, Ash Borer, SubRosa, Cough, ColdWorld, and Primitive Man put out truly outstanding records this year. You don’t need another site to tell you how good they are.

Thanks for reading. Thanks for listening. Thanks for making incredible music.

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AGB Radio (December 19, 2016) – Top 30 Drone Countdown, Part II


 

The top 15 of my 30 favorite drone records this year. See Part I of the radio countdown over here and the actual list over here.

Kinda messed up the timing of some of the talk breaks (like the last set of songs goes on for about 45 minutes instead of 30), so, sorry about that.

 

AGB Radio 2016/12/19 – Top 30 Drone Countdown, Part II

Background music: Vapor Lanes – Embers (from Hieratic Teen)

00:00:00 Architeuthis Rex – Fallen (from Stilbon Is Dead)
00:05:23 Talk break
00:06:41 Eola – How Far Am I From Canaan? (from Dang)
00:08:45 Nested – “What A Beautiful World This Will Be.” (from 3)
00:15:08 Matt Carlson, Michael Stirling, & Doug Theriault – Mishra Bhairavi (excerpt) (from Aakash)
00:24:00 Fis – Independently Together (from From Patterns To Details)
00:28:07 Talk break
00:29:11 Jon Mueller – How You Look When You’re Not Looking (excerpt) (from Tongues)
00:38:11 Of Earth And Sun – Radiatory Transmissions (from A Consuming Fire)
00:44:57 Accident Du Travail – Sheep’s Joy (from Très Précieux Sang)
00:48:00 Talk break
00:48:48 La Tène – Marche De Fahy (excerpt) (from Vouerca/Fahy)
00:58:04 Phurpa – Long Life (excerpt) (from Rituals Of Bön I)
01:06:41 Paul Jebanasam – eidolons beginning p = (m²A ² am to (rho-z)-y ∂t+(ρ see to wait dz/dt = it xy that I -beta* do not z countless (from Continuum)
01:16:35 Talk break
01:17:31 Shovels Beat The Sun – Sky Wires (from Sky Wires)
01:25:31 Ela Stiles – Black Metal (from Black Metal)
01:35:21 Claire M. Singer – Wrangham (from Solas)
01:41:52 Maja S. K. Ratkje – Part 3 (from Crepuscular Hour)
01:57:58 Talk break