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bourgwick, 6 months ago to vinylrecords

#NowPlaying - hanukkah night 11 vibes. mostly sure my dad peeled off the banana sticker, but positive he never started a band. @vinylrecords

bourgwick, 6 months ago to vinylrecords

#NowPlaying - the fairly battered thrift store copy of ornette coleman's "free jazz" in which i found a large amount of cash around a decade ago. another LP reanimated by the califone, sounding shockingly bright & wonderful, like it's somehow blurring all the surface noise into something warmer? don't totally get it, but it's awesome. @vinylrecords #jazz

bourgwick, 6 months ago to vinylrecords

#NowPlaying - perhaps the perfect califone LP that i've found (so far), standards & light pop, the compressed hum melding perfectly with the thick air of the #PedalSteel, or whatever is creating this magick grey zone between lo-fi and high. @vinylrecords

bourgwick, 6 months ago to vinylrecords

#NowPlaying - getting my head together post-hanukkah with yacht vibed 1983 willie, strings & slick production frankly sounding a bit queasy on the califone. @vinylrecords

bourgwick, 6 months ago to vinylrecords

#NowPlaying - starting to understand the whole "back to mono" thing. these 1948/1949 charlie parker radio recordings by boris rose (plus a few audience tapes) feel so much more present/vivid on this suitcase turntable than they do on my stereo. perhaps psychosomatic, but sounding incredible on this very rainy sunday. #jazz #bootleg @vinylrecords

bourgwick, 6 months ago to vinylrecords

#NowPlaying - great roswell rudd performance, live at studio rivbea, 1976. was the #design of the arista freedom #jazz imprint the precursor to the vintage contemporaries paperbacks? both have surreal art in the middle framed by negative space & a unified textual look across the series, but maybe it was a bigger design trend. (this may have been a niche toot.) @vinylrecords #trombone

bourgwick, 6 months ago to vinylrecords

#NowPlaying - new mode of hurkle-durkle just dropped. lying in bed like a sultan listening to the jefferson airplane on my reconstituted califone. @vinylrecords

bourgwick, 6 months ago to vinylrecords

#NowPlaying - and while we're at it, also more bangers than "meet the beatles" & an album i jam way more often than "sgt. pepper." "ugliest part of your body" & "take your clothes off when you dance" still go so hard. peace to FZ & all hungry freaks. @vinylrecords

bourgwick, 6 months ago to vinylrecords

#NowPlaying - peter stampfel's most straightforward album or at least his most straightforward rhythm section, 1986. a little too good timey for me, i think, but very much appreciate the #comics recommendations on the back. don't use streaming services, but guessing they don't include a field for that in the metadata, either. @vinylrecords

Peter Stampfel comic book recommendations

bourgwick, 6 months ago to vinylrecords

#NowPlaying - new age solo piano on windham hill, 1987, by w.a. mathieu, one-time arranger for stan kenton, musical director at second city & the committee, & founder of the sufi choir. occasionally a little too rhythmic for me, but gorgeous when it floats. some lovely vocalizing on one cut by pre-ubiquity bobby mcferrin. @vinylrecords

bourgwick, 6 months ago to vinylrecords

#NowPlaying - kinda has more bangers than "meet the beatles"? maybe not better & certainly not more original than even the beatles' covers, but also a much higher percentage of tunes still regularly stuck in my head. @vinylrecords

bourgwick, 6 months ago to vinylrecords

thee underground/psych/sludge record collecting legend paul major is now selling on discogs. https://www.discogs.com/seller/paulmajor/profile
a collector so legendary there's already a category on discogs for records featured in his catalogs: https://www.discogs.com/lists/Records-from-Paul-Majors-catalogs/368503
an anthology from his collection: https://anthologyrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/paul-major-feel-the-music-vol-1 @vinylrecords

bourgwick, 6 months ago to vinylrecords

#NowPlaying - this is just so great as an album/project/thing. adore the drumless vibe, the little transitions/modulations that connect a bunch of the pieces into suites, the little lyric tweaks. it almost makes up for the lack of live albums from the never-ending tour, but also just makes me want one of these for each year. i know #BobDylan likes to be mysterious, but the complete lack of credits for musicians or production is icky. don't think he's ever done that? @vinylrecords

bourgwick, 6 months ago to vinylrecords

#NowPlaying - fairport convention, live at the troubadour in LA, september 1970. less autumnal & more high-powered post-sandy denny lineup, but still more jiggy/reely than boogie. nonetheless a sparkling "sloth" with big "marquee moon" like peak by richard thompson. @vinylrecords

bourgwick, 7 months ago to vinylrecords

#NowPlaying - revisiting early santana for the first time in eons at the behest of a (drummer) pal who suggested trying to background carlos & focus on the next-level collectivity of this specific group of players. and, like, shit yeah! it's probably just stating the obvious to say that santana were an incredible band, but it made them feel fresh to me. @vinylrecords

bourgwick, 7 months ago to vinylrecords

#NowPlaying - sonic youth jams, 2000-2010, mostly in the dynamic shimmer mode honed on the SYR improv/out releases (& in song form on "murray street") save one big blaster & a crusher finale. this could've been SYR10 & would've made a nice cap on the series, though equally appropriate on @3lobed. a good entry to sonic jamming for the curious, too. https://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/in-out-in-2 @vinylrecords

bourgwick, 7 months ago to vinylrecords

#NowPlaying - is this phase 3 of "lumpy gravy"? phase 4 of "possible musics"? phase 5 of "union federal"? surely biased (see note on LP sleeve), but both zone-sweeping & totally personal. an unassuming freak masterpiece by @spacefuzz. https://spacefuzz.bandcamp.com/album/increvable @vinylrecords

bourgwick, 7 months ago to vinylrecords

#NowPlaying - home & radio sessions by red cravens & the bray bros., 1964ish, sometimes known as the bluegrass gentlemen, featuring compilation producer john hartford playing #fiddle on 5 cuts. hardcore 2nd generation #bluegrass, great warm vocal/instrumental blends that aren't too show-offy or shrill. not folkways but a very early rounder record. bonus: stamp from flipside in #kalamazoo, where @4CPcomics's father purchased it. the days before shrink wrapped LPs! @vinylrecords

Flipside Records stamp

bourgwick, 7 months ago to random

celebrating buy nothing day, part 1: brought a broken califone turntable for repair at the legendary wonderland of the hi-tech electronic service center at 47 canal in #nyc, one of the last full-service cash-only fix-it shops in chinatown (or anywhere in the city). frank rules. can't recommend highly enough.

Frank with wall of radios
wall of radios and old TV on counter
wall of radios and receivers

bourgwick, 7 months ago to vinylrecords

#NowPlaying - looked lonely at the record store, so i brought it home. keith & donna godchaux after leaving the #gratefuldead. good clean 1980 fun. the live side with baby steve kimock on guitar is cool & quietly promising. donna singing dylan's then-new gospel tune "solid rock" is a powerful choice. keith singing "knockin' on heaven's door" & "scarlet begonias" is kinda meh but it's like a month before his death & his piano playing is great, especially in brief jams with kimock. @vinylrecords

bourgwick, 7 months ago to vinylrecords

#NowPlaying - once again missing akron/family & not-missing them by listening to them very loudly (but also still missing miles a lot). noisy & ecstatic. a more cohesive & prankstery album than i remembered. love that they used the extra LP side for bonus chaos. (weirdly, "s/t ii: the cosmic birth & journey of shinju TNT" doesn't seem to be on bandcamp.) @vinylrecords

bourgwick, 7 months ago to vinylrecords

#NowPlaying - glenn mercer & dave weckerman of the feelies during the feelies' '90s hiatus. looser & noisier (& less jangly) than the feelies, but feeling like a natural & fresh continuation. post-velvets/stooges basement jams from the late grunge era. highly recommended for those bummed by the politeness or non-prolificness of the feelies (or yung wu). https://wake-ooloo.bandcamp.com/album/what-about-it @vinylrecords

bourgwick, 7 months ago to vinylrecords

#NowPlaying - zero-gravity tectonic juggling by william parker, leading a serious & mystical power trio with guitarist ava mendoza & drummer gerald cleaver. the half-dozen parker-involved releases from the last 2-3 years (on 577 & aum fidelity) are great entries to current waves of #nyc #jazz. https://williamparker.bandcamp.com/album/mayan-space-station @vinylrecords

bourgwick, 7 months ago to vinylrecords

#NowPlaying - sweet tribute to allen ginsberg, combo of musicians turning his words into songs & creating music for recordings of him reading. lee ranaldo & thurston moore's "hum bom!" is the perfect fusion & could listen to bill frisell emit guitar bliss under ginsberg (or anybody) for hours. stark & cinescopic yo la tengo jam, too. https://allenginsberg.bandcamp.com/album/allen-ginsberg-s-the-fall-of-america-a-50th-anniversary-musical-tribute cc @vinylrecords #poetry

bourgwick, 7 months ago to random

finished reading alan moore's early serials for the UK music weekly sounds, 1980-1983, written & drawn as curt vile. "roscoe moscow: who killed rock & roll" was a gas, if maybe slightly too edgy for moi, but adored the #SciFi "the stars my degradation," which is like a perfect halfway between #comix & #comics. can really see his inner crumb.
"the stars my degradation": https://archive.org/details/the-stars-my-degradation-uk-1980
full alan moore sounds collection: https://web.archive.org/web/20140202172217/http://www.4colorheroes.com/alan_moore_sounds.html /1

staying incognito in alien crowd
comic characters look upon their creator
ZARRK!

bourgwick, 8 months ago to vinylrecords

vital update for #nyc record accumulators: there will be a free shuttle bus from the jefferson street L stop to the @WFMU record fair this weekend. see you there. https://heads.social/@bourgwick/111177155835589293 @vinylrecords

bourgwick, 8 months ago to vinylrecords

this month, the @WFMU record fair returns for the first time since 2019! one of my personal happiest places on earth & can't wait (though realllllly wish it was at a spot that's less of a huge pain by public transportation, sadly the expo center in greenpoint closed; check maps before you haul). https://wfmu.org/recordfair/ @vinylrecords #records #vinyl #nyc #queens

bourgwick, 8 months ago to vinylrecords

holy moly, the wonderful shop mississippi records (in portland, oregon) apparently got firebombed yesterday?! no news coverage yet, cleanup underway, much love. #pdx #records @vinylrecords

post on Mississippi records
burned records

icastico, 8 months ago to vinylrecords

Found a $10 bill crumpled inside this album that I paid $5 for. Makes a good deal even better. #vinyl @vinylrecords #crateDigging

Charles Lloyd Quartet - Journey Within #jazz

bourgwick, 1 year ago to random

#nowplaying - resuming going through a giant pile of #peteseeger & #folkways records i inherited via @4CPComics. especially enjoying pete's lullabies on side A & adelaide van wey's 3 with zither. i don't often endorse discogs over scholarly discographies, but this is pretty much useless, despite dunaway's wonderful seeger bio. incomplete track lists, no credits for collaborators, zero attempt to establish session dates, much oy. on the other hand, A+ sticker placement.

A Pete Seeger Discography