from freak fighter to lamp lighter

OccultHawk · 12-02-2020, 11:59 AM

While we wait on that exposé I want to go back to when it all went undeniably wrong: 2016.

Such an incredible year for music and such horrible year for humanity. As harrowing as 2020 has been I feel like at least there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Now I’m very pessimistic about what’s after the tunnel but it’s not like 2016 when we were just entering the tunnel and that was all we knew. Well, I mean we don’t know for sure the future now anymore than then but idk perhaps it’s just that frightening novelty that it’s not ok has worn off. We’ve adjusted to the deeply not ok and even relish in the idea of entering a much more profoundly not ok era or a ray of sun or crisp air or whatever it is.

Controlling Body by Peder Mannerfelt

https://pedermannerfeltproduktion.ba...ntrolling-body

The Subliminal Kid is Peder Mannerfelt.

That Subliminal Kid is DJ Spooky.

They’re different people.

This album is an electronic album that has an uneasy feel and incorporates fragmented what’s he saying vocal samples designed to echo in your head drug music especially weed - on the cusp connectivity but ultimately too strange to unravel.

https://www.scaruffi.com/vol8/mannerfe.html

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Mannerfelt's Controlling Body (2016) was built around samples of recorded music and amateur videos plus new compositions sung by Cameron Mesirow (aka Glasser). The vocal samples are dissected and warped beyond recognition until they become voiceless sounds. Mostly these skeletal pieces rely on minimalist repetition of vocal effects

https://www.google.com/amp/s/pitchfo...ling-body/amp/

released April 18, 2016

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The presidential candidates are making final pitches to New York voters ahead of the state's crucial primaries on Tuesday. The frontrunners, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, are heading into the contest with double-digit polling leads. Still, Trump rivals John Kasich and Ted Cruz can win some of the state's coveted 95 GOP delegates if they keep Trump below 50 percent statewide, and in some of the state's 27 congressional districts. Clinton rival Bernie Sanders will look for a stronger-than-expected showing to preserve momentum gained in a string of recent wins.

OccultHawk · 12-02-2020, 12:52 PM

Dedekind Cut - Successor

I already said this:

$uccessor by Dedekind Cut

This is truly one of the definitive quintessential records of the 2016 avalanche of musical brilliance. Absolutely essential. Beautiful disquieting ambiguity. Fantastic avant ambient. A true sonic delight. 5/5 highest rating. Very enthusiastically recommended.

All that still stands but I want to talk about the cover.

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It's an apt soundtrack to the album artwork (below), which depicts two men on horseback in what seems like the middle of nowhere during night's darkest hours.

Vice says Dedekind Cut is a pseudonym for Lee Bannon but elsewhere it’s noted as Fred Warmsley. So born Fred Warmsley changed to Lee Bannon changed to Dedekind Cut.

That’s him. That’s him on the horse. This guy was born in Sacramento.

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In 2002, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University conducted for Time magazine named Sacramento "America's Most Diverse City".[17] The U.S. Census Bureau also groups Sacramento with other U.S. cities having a "high diversity" rating of the diversity index.[50] Moreover, Sacramento is one of the most well-integrated U.S. cities, having a relatively high level of ethnic and racial heterogeneity within its neighborhoods

Interesting because what I was going to say about the album cover is that I feel like it removes the otherness from the black subjects. Horses. Not in the city. It seems like a space owned by whiteness. Utah Idaho Wyoming. Same as the ambient music scene. It’s a very engaging and powerful photograph. So much so that I think the music benefits from the association with the image. It’s not aggressive in anyway. It’s not hip hop machismo. Instead it’s a comforting reclaiming of space, geographically and musically.

Released
November 11, 2016

https://theweek.com/10things/655906/...vember-11-2016

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President-elect Donald Trump met with President Obama at the White House on Thursday for their first discussion of the transition of power in January. Obama called the meeting "excellent." Trump said the two were only supposed to talk for 15 minutes or so, but they kept going for 90 minutes. Trump said he would seek Obama's "counsel" through the transition process, calling him a "very good man." During the campaign, Obama stumped for Hillary Clinton and called Trump unfit for the office, but on Thursday he told Trump his administration would "do everything we can to help you succeed, because if you succeed the country succeeds."

Very gracious Obama but it didn’t work out.

OccultHawk · 12-02-2020, 01:13 PM

Centres by Ian William Craig

https://ianwilliamcraig.bandcamp.com/album/centres

https://www.google.com/amp/s/pitchfo...g-centres/amp/

Experimental drones and vocals from this classically trained opera singer who went for ether.

released July 8, 2016

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nyt...oting.amp.html

Five Dallas Officers Were Killed as Payback, Police Chief Says

Damn. Forgot about that one.

OccultHawk · 12-02-2020, 01:39 PM

Love Streams by Tim Hecker

https://timhecker.bandcamp.com/album/love-streams

https://www.google.com/amp/s/pitchfo...e-streams/amp/

Tim Hecker has a consistently unassailable discography and this one certainly no exception. It’s been a little off my radar so it was a good thing to give it a listen just today.

released June 27, 2016

https://theweek.com/10things/625128/...y-june-27-2016

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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton pulled further ahead of her Republican rival, Donald Trump, in two new polls released Sunday. A Washington Post/ABC News poll put Clinton up by 12 percentage points, 51 percent to 39 percent. A Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll gave Clinton a lead of just five percentage points. Trump was closer in similar polls a month ago, but his popularity has suffered over the last two weeks after he said a Mexican-American judge in a lawsuit against Trump University was biased against him, and congratulated himself on his terrorism rhetoric after the Orlando mass shooting.

New York City's annual gay pride parade opened Sunday with a moment of silence in honor of the 49 people killed and 53 injured in this month's mass shooting at an Orlando gay nightclub. Authorities tightened security at pride parades in New York and around the nation in the wake of the shooting, the deadliest ever in the U.S. The pride events also celebrated President Obama's designation of the area around New York City's Stonewall Inn as the first national monument to gay rights.

OccultHawk · 12-02-2020, 02:24 PM

Jim O’Rourke Fennesz
It’s Hard for Me To Say I’m Sorry

https://thequietus.com/articles/2061...-say-i-m-sorry

https://www.google.com/amp/s/pitchfo...-im-sorry/amp/

I’ve said it before but I love this album. Big time. Gets a lot of attention from me. This takes a guitar duo to a place where it’s barely recognizable as guitar. So ethereal and shiny and furious and floaty. Two geniuses locked up on an awesome vision

OccultHawk · 12-02-2020, 05:53 PM

Too by Klara Lewis

https://klaralewis.bandcamp.com/album/too

https://thequietus.com/articles/2030...um-lead-review

Like the sounds trapped in discarded wires that tapped mafia hit men talking about pasta dishes bundled in the Nevada desert and baked in the sun since the 1970’s from lawless era to our new lawlessness of post-truth whateverisms. I don’t care if you don’t believe me. Listen for your goddamn self.

released May 27, 2016

https://theweek.com/10things/618949/...ay-may-27-2016

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Louisiana governor signs 'Blue Lives Matter' law
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) signed a law on Thursday making it a hate crime to make police officers the target of abuse. Critics of the legislation argued that adding law enforcement personnel to the list of groups protected under hate-crime diluted the meaning of the statute, and was not necessary to protect police. The Republican author of the bill, Rep. Lance Harris, said it gave officers "an extra level of protection" in the face of "a deliberate campaign to terrorize our officers." A similar "Blue Lives Matter" bill is pending in Congress.

Trollheart · 12-02-2020, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

America I Hate You

America, I hate you and these are the facts
I hate all your white people and I hate all the blacks
I hate every second you’re not hit with a nuke
I hate you more than I hate tumors and puke
I hate drawing breath and feeling your air
I hate waking up and knowing I’m there
I hate Kentucky bourbon and dark yuppie beer
I hate every second I’ve spent living here
I hate bald eagles and redwood trees
I hate southern people who say thank you and please
I hate your flag your culture and past
I even hate the fact that you’re not going to last
I hate all the privileged and disenfranchised too
I hate every last Christian and Muslim and Jew
I hate every gun and I hate revolution
I hate all your problems and I hate the solution

Did you write that? It's dark but **** it's well written. Good job!

OccultHawk · 12-03-2020, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Did you write that? It's dark but **** it's well written. Good job!

Preciate it

I liked Ant’s reaction, too

Caramel by Konx-Om-Pax

https://konx-om-pax.bandcamp.com/album/caramel

Retro-rave-hauntology

https://www.google.com/amp/s/pitchfo...7-caramel/amp/

Like a fire that somehow burns without fuel searching for a forest in California or Australia or Brazil or a fireplace in one room Nebraskan schoolhouse circa 1888.

released July 8, 2016

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DALLAS — The heavily armed sniper who gunned down police officers in downtown Dallas, leaving five of them dead, specifically set out to kill as many white officers as he could, officials said Friday. He was a military veteran who had served in Afghanistan, and he kept an arsenal in his home that included bomb-making materials.

The gunman turned a demonstration against fatal police shootings this week of black men in Minnesota and Louisiana from a peaceful march focused on violence committed by officers into a scene of chaos and bloodshed aimed against them.

The shooting was the kind of retaliatory violence that people have feared through two years of protests around the country against deaths in police custody, forcing yet another wrenching shift in debates over race and criminal justice that had already deeply divided the nation

NYTimes

Blast from the past: Read the Lamp Lighting review of Furfour

(****ing still love this record)

https://www.musicbanter.com/2018967-post755.html

OccultHawk · 12-04-2020, 06:47 AM

BEN JOHNSTON: STRING QUARTETS NOS. 6, 7, & 8 Kepler Quartet: Sharan Leventhal, violin I; Eric Segnitz, violin II; Brek Renzelman, viola; Karl Lavine, cello

I first learned about this composer in college when I bought a CD for a John Cage recording and it also included a Ben Johnston String Quartet. The freakish difficulty in playing this music is not a gimmick. The composer had something very specific he wanted to express and the music is quite ... well... musical goddamnit. Johnston died last year, three years after this recording was finished. Huge props to the Kepler Quartet for allowing Johnston to see his work come to fruition during before he died.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nyt...uired.amp.html

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April 28, 2016
According to experts, the most difficult string quartet ever written is Ben Johnston’s Quartet No. 7. It was composed in 1984 but went unperformed for decades. Musicians who knew the score, with the ingenious palindromic structure of one movement and variations teeming with over a thousand microscopically distinct pitches, considered it well-nigh unplayable.

Now the work is available on a CD that the Kepler Quartet released hard on the heels of the composer’s 90th birthday in March.

https://stringsmagazine.com/the-kepl...ton-recording/

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And the cycle is complete. After 14 years and more than 1,999 takes in the recording studio, the Kepler Quartet has fulfilled its mission and honored the core driver of its existence: They’ve recorded all ten of revered American composer Ben Johnston’s string quartets. A new album containing String Quartets Nos. 6, 7, and 8 was released in April, about a month after Johnston’s 90th birthday. The seventh and eighth are world-premiere recordings.

Composer Ben Johnston

Performers Kepler String Quartet

OccultHawk · 12-05-2020, 10:06 AM

Interventions by Horse Lords

https://horselords.bandcamp.com/album/interventions

https://www.google.com/amp/s/pitchfo...rventions/amp/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nyt...tions.amp.html

Some of this record is tonal but mostly it’s pattern based math rock. This band has already received love on this forum from Frown and Exo. It’s entirely instrumental.

What makes this record so good is how structurally sound it is. It’s almost as if it’s functional architecture built from nano-technology. If you visualize certain works of Bach it’s like a building built from brick and mortar. But this microtonal stuff, used like this, is like watching a structure built from nanotechnology by a 3D printer but for function not novelty.

released April 29, 2016

https://theweek.com/10things/611038/...-april-29-2016

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Seventeen people were arrested after violence erupted during a protest outside a Donald Trump rally in Southern California on Thursday night. Hundreds of demonstrators blocked traffic, some of them waving American and Mexican flags. Some protesters hurled rocks, and smashed the windshield of a police vehicle. Scuffles between Trump supporters and protesters calling them racists left a man wearing a pro-Trump shirt with his face bloodied. Many demonstrators said they had come to peacefully protest Trump's harsh rhetoric against Mexican immigrants

12-02-2020, 01:13 PM	#1203 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	Centres by Ian William Craig https://ianwilliamcraig.bandcamp.com/album/centres https://www.google.com/amp/s/pitchfo...g-centres/amp/ Experimental drones and vocals from this classically trained opera singer who went for ether. released July 8, 2016 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nyt...oting.amp.html Five Dallas Officers Were Killed as Payback, Police Chief Says Damn. Forgot about that one. __________________ 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

12-02-2020, 02:24 PM	#1205 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	Jim O’Rourke Fennesz It’s Hard for Me To Say I’m Sorry https://thequietus.com/articles/2061...-say-i-m-sorry https://www.google.com/amp/s/pitchfo...-im-sorry/amp/ I’ve said it before but I love this album. Big time. Gets a lot of attention from me. This takes a guitar duo to a place where it’s barely recognizable as guitar. So ethereal and shiny and furious and floaty. Two geniuses locked up on an awesome vision __________________ 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