2019 Albums You're Digging

OccultHawk · 10-29-2019, 05:56 AM

Border Ballads by Richard Skelton

https://aeolian.bandcamp.com/album/border-ballads

https://thequietus.com/articles/2656...ballads-review

Excellent experimental music compositions

OccultHawk · 10-29-2019, 01:34 PM

The Storyteller - A Musical Tribute to Yusef Lateef by The Nat Birchall Quartet

https://natbirchalljazzman.bandcamp....o-yusef-lateef

Probably the best modal jazz release of the year.

OccultHawk · 10-29-2019, 04:31 PM

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Millions
Album by Alaskan Tapes

https://alaskantapes.bandcamp.com/album/millions-2

Views from Sixteen Stories by Alaskan Tapes

https://alaskantapes.bandcamp.com/al...ixteen-stories

There’s a lot of stiff competition but these guys are still standouts in the ambient neoclassical scene.

OccultHawk · 10-31-2019, 02:01 AM

Dreamstruck by Harvey Sorgen, Joe Fonda, and Marilyn Crispell

Every recording Marilyn Crispell is on is probably a top ten jazz release from that year. It’s hard to believe she’s in her 70’s now. I know she gets a lot of respect but she deserves a hell of a lot more.

OccultHawk · 11-01-2019, 08:24 PM

IN DEMONS IN! by Jim O'Rourke & CM von Hausswolff

https://idealrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/in-demons-in

and that link links to several more 2019 recordings that are all probably very good to great

Idgaf how much listening you do. This year and the amount of music available on Spotify and bandcamp is an insurmountable mountain. We can make our lists of what we’ve heard but it’s impossible to really know. It goes to show if you give an easily accessible platform to everybody the amount of people with something powerful and beautiful to express and the talent to do it there a lot of very talented creative people out there. More than we’ll ever hear in this short life.

Anteater · 11-01-2019, 09:09 PM

Bandcamp has honestly been the best thing about the modern music era.

OccultHawk · 11-01-2019, 09:17 PM

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Bandcamp has honestly been the best thing about the modern music era.

It’s a better resource for finding new jazz than Spotify.

And then the vaporwave related stuff - bandcamp is the place to be to find cutting edge music that’s pioneering new ground. And music made purely as a creative expression with really no commercial intentions. Plus on bandcamp you can follow labels and it gives meaning to labels as a form of curation in the digital age.

It’s the ability to organize what you listen to that sends me back to Spotify though.

OccultHawk · 11-02-2019, 03:29 PM

Terror Management & Hiding Places

Right now I’m thinking Billy Woods is the heavyweight hip hop champion of 2019. Still things I haven’t heard (like the new earl) and will have to relisten to other stuff but his rap style is so confident masculine and complete and his content is fully potent. Unassailable

OccultHawk · 11-03-2019, 08:43 AM

Horixens by Sevish

https://sevish.bandcamp.com/album/horixens

He doesn’t put a vapor anything tag on his bandcamp but I still think it fits in broader interpretation of that movement. There’s a lot going on here musically but it also gels and grooves. An experimental composer who refreshingly embraces the “it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing” philosophy. Highly recommended

OccultHawk · 11-04-2019, 10:09 AM

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Richard Dawson's 2020 is very cool. Love the new poppier direction.

I didn’t buy in 100%.

10-29-2019, 05:56 AM	#411 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	Border Ballads by Richard Skelton https://aeolian.bandcamp.com/album/border-ballads https://thequietus.com/articles/2656...ballads-review Excellent experimental music compositions __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

10-29-2019, 01:34 PM	#412 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	The Storyteller - A Musical Tribute to Yusef Lateef by The Nat Birchall Quartet https://natbirchalljazzman.bandcamp....o-yusef-lateef Probably the best modal jazz release of the year. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

10-31-2019, 02:01 AM	#414 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	Dreamstruck by Harvey Sorgen, Joe Fonda, and Marilyn Crispell Every recording Marilyn Crispell is on is probably a top ten jazz release from that year. It’s hard to believe she’s in her 70’s now. I know she gets a lot of respect but she deserves a hell of a lot more. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

11-01-2019, 08:24 PM	#415 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	IN DEMONS IN! by Jim O'Rourke & CM von Hausswolff https://idealrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/in-demons-in and that link links to several more 2019 recordings that are all probably very good to great Idgaf how much listening you do. This year and the amount of music available on Spotify and bandcamp is an insurmountable mountain. We can make our lists of what we’ve heard but it’s impossible to really know. It goes to show if you give an easily accessible platform to everybody the amount of people with something powerful and beautiful to express and the talent to do it there a lot of very talented creative people out there. More than we’ll ever hear in this short life. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

11-02-2019, 03:29 PM	#418 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	Terror Management & Hiding Places Right now I’m thinking Billy Woods is the heavyweight hip hop champion of 2019. Still things I haven’t heard (like the new earl) and will have to relisten to other stuff but his rap style is so confident masculine and complete and his content is fully potent. Unassailable __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

11-03-2019, 08:43 AM	#419 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	Horixens by Sevish https://sevish.bandcamp.com/album/horixens He doesn’t put a vapor anything tag on his bandcamp but I still think it fits in broader interpretation of that movement. There’s a lot going on here musically but it also gels and grooves. An experimental composer who refreshingly embraces the “it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing” philosophy. Highly recommended __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html