September Acquisitions
Avantgarde selections
Ernest Hood -
Back to the Woodlands
Pauline Oliveros -
The Wanderer
V/A -
Virtual Dreams: Ambient Explorations in the House & Techno Age, 1993-1997
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During Music Millennium's annual sidewalk sale, the Ernest Hood companion piece for cheaper than anywhere else. It was also the lone purchase for that sale. I probably would've found more if I went earlier than on the third day out of the four the sale was held for.
I've noticed that Oliveros's music on LP runs fairly high on price. But it was cheapest at Mississippi out of all avenues, like usual.
Found a new favorite record last month (Passenger Seat Records; def in my top5 of PDX already) and also a MFM compilation I had searching to add for years. MFM does great work here again.
Current Year selections
Alabaster dePlume -
Come With Fierce Grace
CHAI -
CHAI (signed)
maya ongaku -
Approach to Anima
Jonny Nash -
Point of Entry
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Bought the new Alabaster dePlume at Mississippi. A needed return to form.
Bought the signed CHAI from their show last week, not really having planned on buying until I saw that merch copies were presigned. Had an even better time than last year! Got to speak to Mana (マナ) and Yuna (ユナ) at the merch desk for a few minutes in Japanese, too.
Found one of my favorites of the year at MP. Beautiful ambient folk music from Japan.
Found also the newest from Gaussian Curve member Jonny Nash at PSR which, I kid you not, could land in my top10 by year's end. It is certainly my favorite pure ambient/new age record of the year as of now.
Miscellaneous selections
Anri (杏里)-
COOOL
Isabelle Antenna - En Cavale
Kraftwerk -
Computer World
Pharoah Sanders -
Karma
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Got one of the Anri reissues, but waited too long on
Timely! and now massively regret it.
Numero did a great job with this Isabelle Antenna reissue. Some bonus cuts and great photography, too.
Solid reissue from Kling Klang on the Kraftwerk mainstay.
Found the
Karma AS reissue used for $29. It's passable, I don't think this record sounds impressive given the QRP/RKS hype and all that.
Swans -
Filth (signed)
Swans -
To Be Kind (signed)
Tom Waits -
Rain Dogs
Susumu Yokota -
Space Teddy Collection
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Saw Swans two weeks ago. Unrelenting and revelatory. I didn't know Gira would pop out after the show finished to sign merch, so I left my initial copy of
To Be Kind at home. I did purchase both a duplicate and
Filth to get signed afterwards. Not sure how much longer Gira will keep on.
Unimpressed by the Waits reissue. Doesn't help that the label was affixed off center, rendering the last track on each side unplayable.
This reissue from Susumu Yokota (横田進) finds him in a techno/acid trance lane. Should be optimal for DJing!
PIF claims
Bedouine -
Waysides
Herbie Hancock -
Sextant
Yellowcard -
Ocean Avenue Acoustic
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From
@SMeekWoodworks,
@yukbon, and
@Jan respectively. Outside of
Sextant not arriving as I had hoped (damage to record), satisfied with the PIF items here.
