what did you listen to last month?

[wba]

as I've started listening more regularly (and more concentrated) to music again, I figured why don't we have a thread like "what did you read last month?" or "what did you watch last month?" for music as well?

I will list mostly albums and complations and the like, but feel free to list whatever you like however you like it.

Just please don't post youtube videos or such stuff (this is not the "what are you currently listening to" thread). If somebody wants to find something, that person can probably google it or something.

[wba]

May 2019

The Sky Crawlers [score] - Kenji Kawai (2008) ****
StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops [score] - Kenji Kawai (1991) ****
1492: Conquest of Paradise [score] - Vangelis (1992) ****
The Hours [score] - Philip Glass (2002) ****
Symphonic Suite AKIRA - Geinoh Yamashirogumi (1988) ****
Crime of the Century - Supertramp (1974) ***
Karam - Kimi Djabate (2009) **
Jazz. Soundtrack zum Roman von Hans Janowitz – Various [compiled by Viktor Rotthaler] (1999) ****
The Empyrean – John Frusciante (2009) ****


rating: 0 not my cup of tea; * not really; ** good; +- what the hell!?; *** great; **** fantastic

[rischka]

listening to a lot of hip hop and electronic music on spotify. evolving in many interesting directions.

toro y moi - outer peace (2019) & boo boo (2017)
the internet - hive mind (2018) & ego death (2015)
JPEGMAFIA - veteran (2018)
bibio - ribbons (2019)
blue iverson - hotep (2017)
shintaro sakamoto - love if possible (2017)

also a bunch of african high life and psych from the 70s. spotify is the bomb

[greennui]

Albums:

Flying Lotus - Flamagra (2019) : Took a while but it has grown on me a lot.
Quasimoto - The Unseen (2000) : The GOAT bona fide classic and so forth.
Raveena - Lucid (2019) : So goddamn smooth.
Bibio - Ribbons (2019) : Pastoral chill.

Songs:

Tom Waits - Ruby's Arms : It's been stuck in my head ever since watching it being used in Godard's Prénom Carmen.
Nujabes - Shiki No Uta : I went to Japan last month and listened to this one a lot on beforehand in order to get in the mood.
Kate Bush - Sexual Healing : Pure sex.
Nicholas Britell - Agape : From the If Beale Street Could Talk OST. I thought the movie was only so-so but this track has stuck with me.

[nrh]

feel like my listening is almost totally split between sitting with records at home and jumping around with a lot of different stuff (much of it very new) through streaming at work. modern streaming services are great for lots of reasons but can feel a little scattered at times.

home -
pacific breeze - japanese pop, aor & boogie 1976-1986
pacific - haruomi hosono, shigeru suzuki & tatsuro yamashita
the Aegean Sea - haruomi hosono, takahiko ishikawa & masataka matsutoya
2lp asakawa maki collection from honest jon’s label
solla solla - ilaiyaraaja
ilectro - ilaiyaraaja

Streaming -
s/t - lô borges
clube da esquina- milton nascimiento
miracle in the night - John southworth
proto - holly herndon
psychedelic sanza (1982-1984) - francis bebeye
and because it’s summertime a weird mix of 70s reggae and outlaw country.

[rischka]

ha now i'm listening to quasimoto. i miss madvillain :'(

[greennui]

ha now i'm listening to quasimoto. i miss madvillain :'(

I love Madvillain but at the same time I kinda wish they never do another album. I'm looking forward to Madlib's new album with Freddie Gibbs later this month, it's been a looong wait.

[Pretentious Hipster]

Will only list the highlights:

5/5:

The Red Army Choir - The Best of the Red Army Choir: The Definitive Collection (2002)
Tusen år under jord - Sorgsendömet Fobos (2013)
SWR Sinfonieorchester / EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO des SWR / Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Wiener Konzertchor / Solistenchor Freiburg / hr-Sinfonieorchester / Ensemble Modern / Michael Gielen / Roberto Cecconi / Ernest Bour / Friedrich Goldmann / Roberto Fabbriciani / Ciro Scarponi / Elizabeth Laurence / Susanne Otto / Giancarlo Schiaffini / Charlotte Geselbracht / Christine Theus / Stefano Scodanibbio / Margot Laminet / Albert Gassner - Seguente (2014)
Gachet - Elite Sounds (1994)
Lukas Rickli - Fremde Zeit Addendum 5 (2019)

4.5/5:

Teki Latex - Deconstructed Trance Reconstructed (2014)
K Á R Y Y N - The Quanta Series (2019)
Alberich - Quantized Angel (2019)
Departure Chandelier - Antichrist Rise to Power (2019)
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba - Miri (2019)
Tyler, the Creator - Igor (2019)
Apartment House - Femenine (2019)
DJ Armok / DJ Bishop / Pillbox - Dungeon Rap: The Introduction (2019)
Ensemble Cordia / Stefano Veggetti - Porta Magna – Cello Sonatas (2019)
Camino 84 - Yacht Rock Breaks (2018)
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg / Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester / Jonathan Stockhammer / Arturo Tamayo / Jakob Ullmann / Gabriele Emde - Klang der Wandlungen (2017)

4/5:

Matthias Urban - Half-Silvered Mirror (2019)
Holly Herndon - PROTO (2019)
Ami Shavit - Yom Kippur 1973 (2019)
Fabrizio Fattori - Mediterranean Africa (2019)
Paal Nilssen-Love, Felipe Zenicola, Frode Gjerstad, Kiko Dinucci & Paulinho Bicolor - New Brazilian Funk (2019)
Acronym & Kali Malone - The Torrid Eye (2019)
Charlotte Adigéry - Zandoli (2019)
Various Artists - Antologia de música atípica portuguesa, vol. 2: Regiões (2019)
Paal Nilssen-Love, 坂田明 [Akira Sakata], Kiko Dinucci, 五味浩平 [Kohei Gomi] & 美川俊治 [Toshiji Mikawa] - New Japanese Noise (2019)
Syringe - Anti-World (2016)
Flemming Dalum - Hot Italo Nights (2011)
Dieselboy - Supreme (1995)
British Murder Boys - Fire in the Still Air (2019)
Tor Lundvall - A Strangeness in Motion - Early Pop Recordings 1989​-​1999 (2019)
Camino 84 - Yacht Rock Breaks 2 (2019)
Saba Alizadeh - Scattered Memories (2019)
Art Zoyd Studio / Musiques Nouvelles Ensemble - Expériences de vol (2002)
Pye Corner Audio - Hollow Earth (2019)

[rischka]

great now i'm listening to british murder boys

[wba]

June 2019

Dueling Banjos From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Deliverance And Additional Music - Eric Weissberg, Steve Mandell (1973) ****
Face Value - Phil Collins (1981) **½


rating: 0 not my cup of tea; * not really; ** good; +- what the hell!?; *** great; **** fantastic

[greennui]

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Bandana :

[wba]

July 2019

Zorro [score] – Guido & Maurizio De Angelis (1975) ***½
Ulysse’s Gaze [score] – Eleni Karaindrou, Kim Kashkashian (1995) ****
String Quartets 1-3 – Michael Nyman, Balanescu Quartet (1991) ****


rating: 0 not my cup of tea; * not really; ** good; +- what the hell!?; *** great; **** fantastic

[wba]

September 2019

Goodbye Again [score] – Georges Auric (1961) ***
Inside Betty Carter – Betty Carter (1964) ***


rating: 0 not my cup of tea; * not really; ** good; +- what the hell!?; *** great; **** fantastic

[wba]

October 2019

Flesh and Bone [score] – Thomas Newman (1993) ****
Righteous Love – Joan Osborne (2000) +- / ***


rating: 0 not my cup of tea; * not really; ** good; +- what the hell!?; *** great; **** fantastic

[arkheia]

Found myself listening to quite a bit of ambient music this month. Brian Eno's New Space Music (very soothing), Hiroshi Yoshimura's Wet Land (soft melodies and lush arrangements), and Takao Naoi's Vibration Pulsar (deep bass tones bubbling underneath wandering guitar picking). Apart from that, browsing singles by recent rap artists like ThouxanbandFauni (Flexin) and UnoTheActivist (Parkin' Lot Pimpin', which samples the classic Kerri Chandler track Rain).

[flip]

just started listening to some of the new king princess album, not sure if i'm into it, might be overproduced, 1950 was one of the best songs i heard last year though so i'll give it a chance.

[nrh]

march top ten -