Hi everyone,
Domenic hear from El Alto, hoping you’re shoe box is safely hidden in a remote imaginary summer house with all the lucre you hosed out of Wall Street’s pen. I got two traffic tickets this year. I promised myself I would save the tickets and make a lover eat them, demanding that she look at me with her cop sunglasses reflecting a lost continent of cheerful quack-quacks, as I rushed her to the elevator in the south east of our palace where an obsequious judge would cry in front of both of us, demanding that he be punished by having to witness a contest in which…anyway
We will have to wait till 2009 for El Alto’s ‘ The Long 18th Century’ to visit the earth from its safe recondite hiding spot. Our sound and our vast stash of horizontally-lift-delifting material, is still being culled from many similar sources of inspiration, as well as new special additions and subtractions from our lives. We promise an album that will be harder nosed in some respects with a few rodgered Rock nailers to spread over a cool unslept in bed— El Altoized to keep the seats in your car cold after hours of pissless mileage accrues….. Brian Dewan will be working on some of the album cover art, in collaboration with a concept especially developed for this first El Alto record in over 3 years.
Below, find a few albums that moved me in many ways this past year that I would like to share. I have no preamble, or tie in to ‘current events,’ that kept me sanguine—towards/sur-–suspicious or otherwise, no rhapsodizing to ooozle you doods and doodets with. Represented below, are both new albums, as well as reissues. How many hours has music come to your rescue in the quotidian clammy drill of the winter/summer/winter clobbering this year?
Best…Happy New Year…
Domenic
Some top artist/albums for 2008
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1: Max Richter: 24 Postcards in Full Color
Some of the most inspirational piano music I’ve heard in a bazillion years. Places imbued with places of music…brevity sweeted and darkened by many forlorn components, including gossamer clinging feedback. Strong tableaus present themselves, and retire with nervy evaporation. I understand that these compositions were suppose to originally be cell ring tones, elaborations of them, fusing the idea of music as art with this all too commercial aural bloop-poop… I don’t much care. I highly recommend this album by the German in England.
2. Kurt Vile: Constant Hitmaker
Dog ass Curtain Summer……now opening… can toss my pants at the mesk swallowing Hoover Beach Guitarist. Trumpets and bikes hold you in July’s honest crotch…. I wish I wish I wish… catchy Jaddles, and beat up locker hope. There is something AM Radio flipped and fingered with purulent reward in this hitmaker constant… Accident great, but no fortuity in that….or so I say lifting myself from a ten year reverie that this dude’s songs always throws back in my my Orange Julius.
3. The Oh Sees: The Master’s Bedroom
4. The Silver Jews: Look Out Mountain Look Out Sea
5. Shugo Tokumaru: Exit
6. Sic Alps: U.S. EZ
7. Jonas Reinhardt: (Self Titled)
8. Tommy Jay’s: Tom’s Tall Tales of Trauma
9. Escape Mechanism: Emphasis Added: “Yes, of course I do.”
10. The Instruments: Dark Smaland (Sweet teawood and lambent woe levitating you into some pusillanimous/frigid new thing around forever….. falling
11. Tape: Luminarium
12. William Parker: Double Sunrise over Neptune
13. Juana Molina: Un Dia:
(Loved taking the train to Tigre (about an hour south of Buenos Aires) in Argentina this past October, listening to such peripatetically perfect masterpieces such as ‘No Llama,’ This song and man on the well named ‘Un Dia’ take you on very rewarding and never meandering expeditions that are both eloquent and pleasingly disorientating. Something or someone always meets up with you midway or so during the walks of these tunes….these forces are snappy dressers and smell of pacified daysleepers dabbing long quills in long skinny pots of…………………………
14. Ignatz: 3
15. The Duchess @ the Duke: She’s the Duchess, He’s…
16. Prisonshake: Dirty Moons
17. Deer Hunter: Microcastle
18. Stereolab: Chemical Chords (I never went ga-ga for any of their album, yet have always enjoyed
19. Eddy Current Suppression Ring- Primary Colors (I don’t care if they spell it ‘colours’…i’m not doin it…no way…….I’m that kind of secret jingo-thug! A sweet door kicker of a downunder easy-path to…. that never needs too… The effortless, straight ahead riff-scorp and heap that get’s so full of warm ember claws, but keeps you 3 parts colder and trimmed away from any 1-2-9 tedium.
Sorry for the sloppiness of this post…. I am…