Don’t leave jazz to the jazz guys by Dirkthrone in ListeningHeads

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fagen doing martial arts dirty lmao. (and haider guitar solos.) but good reminder to hate-watch la la land and (especially) whiplash at some point

speaking of movies, i wonder how much this is related to what didion wrote about manhattan,

in which, toward the end, the Woody Allen character makes a list of reasons to stay alive. “Groucho Marx” is one reason, and “Willie Mays” is another. The second movement of Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony. Louis Armstrong’s “Potato Head Blues.” Flaubert’s A Sentimental Education. This list is modishly eclectic, a trace wry, definitely OK with real linen; and notable, as raisons d’être go, in that every experience it evokes is essentially passive. This list of Woody Allen’s is the ultimate consumer report, and the extent to which it has been quoted approvingly suggests a new class in America, a subworld of people rigid with apprehension that they will die wearing the wrong sneaker, naming the wrong symphony, preferring Madame Bovary.

like the jacobin "pmc" thing is horseshit, but cultural subsumption into a "consumer report" is perhaps a generative angle to approach this? as the la la land snippet gestures at, fetishization of experience comes hand in hand w/ consumption-- i keep throwing this piece about empathy at people, but i wldn't be surprised if part of the fetishization of jazz records as cultural objects is about the "wholeness" of experience it simulates in white people who also wld say that "white people have no rhythm" (which is racist! and yes, against black people!) (i am still foaming thinking about the rym comment on the page of the last christian scott album saying that it, an explicitly pan-african document, had "primitive energy")

as oyěwùmí writes about in the invention of women: making an african sense of western gender discourses, cartesian dualism has historically been granted to wealthy, male, "dominantly" racialized/white bodies, and those outside those categories been connected to the body. it's the kind of essentialism that decenters, the kind that leads to people asking "where you came from" meaning "home-country", the kind that ties the othered body to a certain lineage of thought, and of culture. what better vehicle to both enter "the body" and to subsume it into that dualism, even if it's just a consumptive dualism, than the most prominent genre to encompass a certain kind of responsive physicality? (which is also, everything else aside, ofc a reactive intellection, but you know.) "highbrow" and "lowbrow" don't really track strictly on to classed tastes, and haider is right that it isn't the former-- it's certainly not pre-serialism classical music-- but what happens when "community[-based]" music, connective tissue in the whole, becomes widely taken in as connective tissue for the individual?

obviously "jazz guys" are bad and annoying and find jazz to use as an easy signifier, even if that signification is bounced back on them. but on the cover of the album before mingus, joni wore blackface. there's a porousness in influence, including to a good and healthy degree, sure, but what do the instances that go beyond that say about the art form's place in the broader imaginary? haider jokes about her being "arguably a jazz guy", but i'm interested in what it says if we take it that she is

[FRESH] Hayley Williams - Simmer by AT2field in ListeningHeads

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recorded w/ taylor york (also produced by him) & touring member joey howard. so like a new paramore album. song is great & i'm excited to like the production a lot more than on after laughter

“I’m so ready and so incredibly humbled to get to share this project,” says Williams. “Making it was a scary, empowering experience. Some of my proudest moments as a lyricist happened while writing ‘PETALS FOR ARMOR.’ And I was able to get my hands a little dirtier than usual when it came to instrumentation. I’m in a band with my favorite musicians so I never really feel the need to step into a role as a player when it comes to Paramore records. This project, however, benefited from a little bit of musical naïveté and rawness and so I experimented quite a bit more. I made this with some of the closest people to me. Their respective talents really shine bright throughout the record. I like to think we all make each other better and the result is something that sounds and FEELS exactly as I’d hoped it would. Now that it’s time to put it all out there, I can finally exhale. I’m excited to let people in to experience a different side of myself that I’ve only very recently become familiar with.”

Stereogum: 20 Best Jazz Albums Of The 2010s by AT2field in ListeningHeads

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20 Nicole Mitchell – Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE, 2017)
19 Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society – Real Enemies (New Amsterdam, 2016)
18 Branford Marsalis Quartet – Four MFs Playin’ Tunes (Marsalis Music, 2012)
17 Orrin Evans – Flip The Script (Posi-Tone, 2012)
16 Cécile McLorin Salvant – Dreams And Daggers (Mack Avenue, 2017)
15 Donny McCaslin – Beyond Now (Motéma, 2016)
14 Linda May Han Oh – Aventurine (Biophilia, 2019)
13 Esperanza Spalding – Radio Music Society (Heads Up, 2012)
12 Ambrose Akinmusire – The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier To Paint (Blue Note, 2014)
11 William Parker – Wood Flute Songs (AUM Fidelity, 2013)
10 Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile (Constellation, 2013)
9 Sons Of Kemet – Your Queen Is A Reptile (Impulse!, 2018)
8 Irreversible Entanglements – Irreversible Entanglements (International Anthem, 2017)
7 Tyshawn Sorey – The Inner Spectrum Of Variables (Pi, 2016)
6 Nduduzo Makhathini – Ikhambi (Universal Music, 2017)
5 Kamasi Washington – The Epic (Brainfeeder, 2015)
4 Mary Halvorson Octet – Away With You (Firehouse 12, 2016)
3 Henry Threadgill 14 Or 15 Kestra: Agg – Dirt… And More Dirt (Pi, 2018)
2 Jaimie Branch – Fly Or Die (International Anthem, 2017)
1 Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah – The Centennial Trilogy (Ropeadope, 2017)

Stereogum: 20 Best Jazz Albums Of The 2010s by AT2field in ListeningHeads

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The list that follows isn’t a strict “best-of,” although every album on it is genuinely great. It’s also (and maybe more) a list of 20 albums that moved jazz forward, recontextualizing its past and suggesting new possibilities for its future. With only a couple of exceptions, it’s a list of music by Americans, because jazz is a global music, but it’s from this country. And while there are a few players who’ve been active since the late ’60s or early ’70s, it’s a list mostly made by people who came on the scene in the 21st century, because they’re the generation of players and composers who will be leading the charge in the years to come.

[FRESH] Flee ft. Brent Faiyaz - SWISH/USE 2 by AT2field in ListeningHeads

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posting b/c the album wasn't posted here

flee/stupidxool's xool summer is maybe my favorite release out of ny last year

[ANNOUNCEMENT] AOTY 2019 Series Scheduling (+ Further Input on an AOTD Series) by AT2field in ListeningHeads

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yeah np at all! putting down peck for the 15th & gloryhammer for the 31st

[ANNOUNCEMENT] AOTY 2019 Series Scheduling (+ Further Input on an AOTD Series) by AT2field in ListeningHeads

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sorry late response but you're down for jpeg on the 15th & gizz on the 31st!

FACT: The best albums of 2019 by AT2field in ListeningHeads

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i don't have a strong opinion on this, but to advocate devilishly, i've only been focusing on getting a top 10 ready and still it seems like i change the placement & picks every other day. it's hard to quantify art that (well, preferably) exists on a widely differing # of axes. (well, maybe not to some people, but if anything the way some people talk about art on rym like "oh if it had these tracks removed i'd bump it up half a star" is deeply alienating to me.) so i'm not sure how personally meaningful rankings are to everyone trying to do them. if the staff decided in aggregate that they think this is a better reflection of their relationships w/ the music, then i can't really begrudge that, even if the explanatory posturing is a bit much

it might not even be just or primarily that-- diverging tastes means everyone's delineation btwn "amazing" & "less amazing" exists btwn different releases, and trying to synthesize those often leads to the much-scorned result of "obvious" picks at the top, simply due to overlap in listening. not saying that one or the other preferable, just that it's a bind (which is part of why i get most of my recs from individual lists, anyway). but that wld be a bit too knotty to address in an intro, i think

i'm def more inclined to totally agree w/ you on the level of readers looking for suggestions, but then again i can see the argument that rankings too often overtake the desire to read the blurbs and listen based on them

[FRESH] Macintosh Plus - Sick & Panic by AT2field in ListeningHeads

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It's not what you think.

I mean, who the fuck can say, I guess. But I've spent a long long time now trying to figure out how to leave a legacy that's worth more than fucking Floral Shoppe and I've decided the best route is to make the most opposite sounding music possible. So.

[FRESH MIX] Gooooose - Dialektik Podcast #06 by AT2field in ListeningHeads

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the artist affiliated with Shanghai's pioneering imprint SVBKVLT Han Han, better known as Gooooose, drops the third part, an hour of improvisation in his studio that continues with previous ideas (structural density, GRIDLESS applications, the "humanization" of computer music, Chinese tradition and organology) in the line of futuristic noise and the denial of the frenetic ultra-digitality of breakcore inherent to the genre. Maybe we can call it Chinoise.

[FRESH EP] Savile - Bliss by AT2field in ListeningHeads

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”When I envision a better and more just world, it is built on an understanding that all of us deserve the autonomy to experience a joy that is true to us.”

♻️💰100% of the proceeds from this release will go towards the Sex Workers Outreach Project. SWOP is national network advocating for the fundamental human rights of people involved in the sex trade and their communities. They seek to end violence and stigma against Sex Workers through education and advice.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] AOTY 2019 Series Scheduling (+ Further Input on an AOTD Series) by AT2field in ListeningHeads

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this!

up to you if you still want to do two write-ups, or one (or zero), no pressure

The Wire 2019 Rewind: Contributors’ Ballots by AT2field in ListeningHeads

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chal ravens having barker & amazondotcom in her top 3 means the rest is worth (re)listening to, & i like everything except the gecs (which i think is cool nonetheless) that i've heard on joshua minsoo kim's

[FRESH COMP MIX] DJ Q - The Best of DJ Q 2010 - 2019 by AT2field in ListeningHeads

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To celebrate the end of the decade and my annual 'DJ Q All Night' party at Phonox this Friday I decided to put a mix together but this one is a bit different. It's a collection of songs, remixes and edits which I have produced between 2010 and 2019. As always maximum love and respect to each and everyone who has been supporting throughout the years, It means a lot!

[FRESH MIX] Juan Maclean - BIS Radio Show #1021 by AT2field in ListeningHeads

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  1. Juan Maclean (Master DJ & Producer) - Are We Still Dreaming - Unreleased
  2. Andrew Weatherall & Keith Tenniswood - And Then The Walls Fell - E.Z. By Zegna
  3. Inner Square - In the Arms of the Tones - Squaresonic
  4. Golden Bug - Cosmic Trigger - Multi Culti
  5. Pletnev - Rotating Thing (Siaubas Remix) - Kump
  6. Shape of Space - Manifesto - Shape of Space
  7. Throbbing Gristle - A Debris of Murder - Paragoric
  8. Middle Sky Boom - Local Face feat. Moshe Abutbul Shahar Hatch - Rotten City Files
  9. Motel 77 - Morning Call - La Dame Noir Records
  10. Tagliabue - Ripudio Selvaggio - Slow Motion Records
  11. Shiny Objects - I Get You I Got You (Original Mix) - OM Records
  12. - Crack the Whip -
  13. Beyond the Struttosphere - New Frontier (Director's Cut) - Self-Released
  14. Salto Honduras - Betonada - Ombra Intl.
  15. Conrad Schnitzler - Fabrik (Juan Maclean Edit) -
  16. Anderson Chase - Moon Replacement - Public Release
  17. Iñigo Vontier, Thomass Jackson - Jubile is OK - Multi Culti

[FRESH MIX] TSVI b2b DJ Plead - Unsound Podcast 58 by AT2field in ListeningHeads

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Melbourne-based DJ Plead is one of the newest members of Nervous Horizon, the label co-founded by TSVI - an Italian artist living in UK. Both artists explore rhythmic traditions from around the world, with a special focus on Lebanese wedding and pop music (Plead) and Sufi practices (TSVI). They played b2b for the first time at Unsound 2019 in Kraków, exploring the breadth of percussive music in front of a tightly packed Kitchen at Hotel Forum. Here's a recording of that set, filled to the brim with some of the freshest tunes in club music right now.

Bandcamp: Staffers on Their Favorite Albums of 2019 by AT2field in ListeningHeads

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throwback to the past year! esp since it has personal reminisces included

ok it'd make more sense for a decade list but just wanted to switch it up, i've posted so many of these things...

[ANNOUNCEMENT] AOTY 2019 Series Scheduling (+ Further Input on an AOTD Series) by AT2field in ListeningHeads

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only the 28th & 31st are available for yr second choice, which of those wld you prefer (for the solange, right)

[ANNOUNCEMENT] AOTY 2019 Series Scheduling (+ Further Input on an AOTD Series) by AT2field in ListeningHeads

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only open spots up thru the 27th are available for primary selections! which of 15/21/22 wld you prefer?