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BEST OF 2023

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End of Year Lists Below:

The headings will take you through to more expansive Playlists.

Individual song links take you to youtube videos and a playlist of all selections.

Album list links will take you to places to buy the records.

MUSIC IS NOT FREE!   Always Support the makers and buy your favorite music direct from the artists, preferably via bandcamp or direct. 20 SONGS (links to Larger Playlist)

Andy Schauf - Wasted on You

Leah Senior - Where Am I Now?

Yo La Tengo - Aselestine

Shirley Collins - High and Away

Lankum - Go Dig My Grave

Weval - Remember

Fever Ray - North

Juan Waters - Let Loose

Peter Peter - I Promise

Summer Flake - Ordinary

Nicholas Krgovich - Cup Full

Tim Hecker - Winter Cop

Westerman - Idol; RE-run

Keanu Nelson - Kutjupa Tjuta

Ulaan Passerine - Gathering

King Tuff - Pebbles In A Stream

André 3000 - Ants To You, Gods To Who?

MGMT - Mother Nature

Brian Eno - We Let It In

Mac Demarco - Gualala 2

10 ALBUMS (links to Playlist)

Andy Schauf - Norm

Leah Senior - The Music That I Make

Ulaan Passerine - Dawn

Shirley Collins - Archangel Hill

Weval - Remember

Tim Hecker - No Highs

Lankum - False Lankum

Okonski - Magnolia

Juan Waters - Wandering Rebel

King Tuff - Smalltown Stardust 2023 SONGS (Video Playlist) ***CLOSING NOTE: Even though I use Spotify I am not captured by it. As a listener, don't let this Spotify Wrapped bullshit sweep you up. They've got me completely wrong because the data gets skewed by how you listen in random ways. Don't let it tell you what you are. The people that run that company are a bunch of homogenising data-stealing pricks and their algorithm and influence will be the death of music. Make your OWN PLAYLISTS. Keep them Private. Find your own way in music listening by using things like IT as a TOOL only to recommend and find music that you then can go and buy via Bandcamp and other means to support the artists that they DO NOT.

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BEST OF 2021

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End of Year Lists Below:

The headings will take you through to more expansive Playlists.

Individual song links take you to youtube videos and a playlist of all selections.

Album list links will take you to places to buy the records.

MUSIC IS NOT FREE!   Always Support the makers and buy your favorite music direct from the artists, preferably via bandcamp or direct. 20 SONGS (links to Playlist)

The Zenmen - Homage to a Friendship

Kalbells - Pickles

Gordon Koang - Coronavirus

LUMP - Animal

Nicholas Krgovich - Bedlam

Joan - Don’t Say You Love Me

Porches - Okay

Caribou - You Can Do It

I Know Leopard - Lover Automatic

Dr Sure’s Unusual Practice - Infinite Growth

Juan Wauters - Real [with Mac DeMarco]

Ben Browning - I Knew Someone Willy Mason - Oh My Country

Perfume Genius - “Describe” (A.G. Cook Remix)

LUMP - Gamma Ray

John Grant - Boy from Michigan

Wolf Alice - No Hard Feelings

Geoffrey O’Connor - What A Scene (feat. Sui Zhen)

Ryan Downey - Contact

The Lazy Eyes - Where’s My Brain???

10 ALBUMS (links to Playlist)

LUMP - Animal

Michael Griboni (w/Chihiyea Hatekiyama & Steven Vitellio) - Earth Awhile

Marisa Anderson/William Tyler - Lost Futures

Sarah Davachi - Antiphonals

Juan Waters - Real Life Situations

The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Uncommon Weather

Cristobal Tapia De Veer - The White Lotus (Soundtrack)

Lori Scacco - The Order of Things

The Zenmenn - Enter The Zenmenn

Ai Yamamoto - Love Me Tender

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Today is release day for this compilation put together by @thebusinessrecs as a tribute to our deeply missed friend/artist & collaborator Geneviève Castrée/Elverum (1981-2016). Featuring amazing artist friends doing covers, variations and re-interpretations of songs by Geneviève. Get it on Bandcamp (via link in bio). All profits from this release will be donated to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Many thanks go to Nick Rennis for coordinating everything, Nich Wilbur for mastering, and all involved. =============== When we were recording the songs GRAND-SEC//ALUNISSAGE that I chose to do for the compilation together at the Unknown @anacortesunknownstudio I suggested the dreamy vocal melody she sings to be taken into a dream-pop world and repeated more in the song. As always, Geneviève had very strong & clear ideas about it being a concise moment of beauty and a short tribute of it's own to a France Gall single from the late 80's. (Such a powerhouse, Ge! Every idea always meticulously considered down to perfection!). We resolved that I could do a remix of this track one day to see out my idea. This remix idea became more real when Nick Rennis asked me to contribute to the compilation. I wanted it to contain all the darkness and power of the original version of GRAND-SEC but then drift off into the state of meditation that Geneviève had talked about achieving through our unfinished project of healing/relaxation music we had in the works before her passing. So this is it, Sheahan Drive & Ô Paon transitioning into the world of ôpital in a couple of Ô Paon songs joined together. I still hope to finish a record for that project someday in the not too distant future. In the moments when I get to sit down and spend time with that material it is the perfect zone to meet with her memory and zone into the state that her music always brings me, encapsulating all feeling and experience in one. A mournful pizza party, an hilarious joke about corruption, all darkness and light rolled up into the one perfect statement of summation at the breakfast table. I miss you Geneviève. (Photos: artwork from Ô and Geneviève as 'Reggae Mom,' Heckfest 2008) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNM2q3nHSjz/?igshid=nyz8phgv2xy3

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Ascolto essenziale di Morricone

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Great Interview on the Science Show with Peter Godfrey-Smith who has written a book directly linked to one of my favorite lifetime musings; the consciousness of everything.  I tend to agree with Cristof Koch more in thinking that everything with a function or interaction with it’s environment therefore has a form of experience, and would have some sensation of consciousness.  But anyways, this book should be good reading.

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BEST OF 2020

End of Year Lists Below:

The headings will take you through to extensive Spotify lists.

Album list links will take you to places to buy the records. (Please remember to buy your favourite records of the year!)

Individual song links take you to youtube playlist.

20 SONGS (listen on Spotify)

Blake Mills - Vanishing Twin

Margaret Glaspy - Stay With Me

Shabason, Krgovich & Harris - I Don’t See The Moon

Saint Savour & Willy Mason - Rock Pools

Perfume Genius - Describe

Soccer Mommy - Circle The Drain

Sam Prekop - September Remember

Caribou - Sister

Roger & Brian Eno – Blonde

Anderson .Paak - Lockdown

Golden Vessel - midwest

Haruomi Hosono - TALKING

The Microphones - Microphones in 2020

Caribou - Never Come Back

Bedouine - The Hum

Dalai Lama - Compassion

Westerman - Blue Comanche

Lost Horizons ft. John Grant - Cordelia

Tame Impala - Lost In Yesterday

Dr Sure’s Unusual Practice - Super Speedy Zippy Whipper

15 ALBUMS (listen on Spotify)

Blake Mills - Mutable Set

Shabason, Krgovich & Harris - Philadelphia

THIBAULT - Or Not Thibault

alva noto - Xerrox, Vol.4

The Microphones - Microphones in 2020

Sam Prekop - Comma

Caribou - Suddenly

Neil Young - Homegrown

Margaret Glaspy - Devotion

Dalai Lama - Inner World

Video Age - Pleasure Line

Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Kaitlin Aurelia Smith - The Mosaic of Transformation

Luluc - Dreamboat

Roger Eno and Brian Eno - Mixing Colours

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Prepping for a SHEAHAN DRIVE & UNiVERSE double shot/live appearance on the @andrewkaffer entertainment show @hotdogwatercocktailhour in half an hour. Beaming in from Port Fairy to around the globe! 12pm AEDT 5pm PDT right here on Instagram. (at Port Fairy, Victoria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJhczarnr69/?igshid=tc1cgrxaxxh1

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SPARE A DOLLAR for your favourite independent artists and BUY their music online,won't you? This is the last Bandcamp Friday for the year. All Revenue to artists for the next 23hrs! Link to buy the new Universe EP in bio up there 👆🏼 https://www.instagram.com/p/CIXnShsngov/?igshid=1cwuojv65p0wz

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HAPPY RELEASE DAY to THE UNIVERSE for the Never Explain EP. Bandcamp Link in bio. This one has been floppin' around for a while... With some photo-snapped memories here of the few days' recording it in the old beach house down in Port. https://www.instagram.com/p/CHzAq31HtpL/?igshid=1erthv8fmzfiz

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https://youtu.be/l3QQQu7QLoM

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I did a thing. (SHEAHAN DRIVE)

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BEST OF 2019

End of Year Lists Below:

The headings will take you through to extensive Spotify lists. 

Album list links will take you to places to buy the records. (Please remember to buy your favourite records of the year!) 

Individual song links take you to youtube playlist.

20 SONGS (listen on Spotify)

Kali Malone - Sacrificial Code I

Weyes Blood - Andromeda

King Gizzard & The Lizzard Wizzard - Planet B

Steady Garden - The Chemistry

Bobby Krlic - Attestupan

Huntly - Reckoning

Betty Who - I Remember

Katy Perry - Never Really Over

Aldous Harding - The Barrel

Kornél Kovács - Ducks

Ulla Straus - House

Justin Townes Earle - Ahi Esta Mi Nina

Lucy Roleff - A Woman’s Worth

King Gizzard & The Lizzard Wizzard - Real’s Not Real

Lankum - The Young People

Martin Frawley - Chain Reaction

Possible Humans - Meredith

Gordon Koang - Asylum Seeker

Sandro Perri - Wrong About The Rain

Genesis Owusu - WUTD

20 ALBUMS (listen on Spotify)

Kali Malone - The Sacrificial Code

Hannah Diamond - Reflections

Lankum - The Livelong Day

Tim Guy - Steady Garden

Traffik Island - Nature Strip

William Tyler - Goes West

King Gizzard & The Lizzard Wizzard - Fishing For Fishies

Lucy Roleff - Left Open In A Room

Possible Humans - Everybody Split

Kornél Kovács - Stockholm Marathon

Coda Chroma - Inside The Still Life

Terror Jr - Unfortunately, Terror Jr

Nivhek - After its own death/Walking in a Spiral Towards The House

Johnny Nash - Make A Wilderness

Cass McCombs - Tip Of The Sphere

Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising

Jessica Pratt - Quiet Signs

Sandro Perri - Soft Landing

Weval - The Weight

Eluvium - Pianoworks

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Song of the year?

Definitely an anthem for the times.

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RIP Ric.

https://youtu.be/E0Kv6vxZwL8

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Malen Magic last weekend. (at Port Fairy, Victoria) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzA13rMHHLV/?igshid=16id35pf2j7wu

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Lookout Suckers! Tonight at the TOTE we launch this ding dong duderino's record with a bunch of sick bands in support. Congrats @markybagels ! #summerofthemosquito (at The Tote) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByHiCu5HTocffMJjbhkz8dyYfNuWSQynOfBAXg0/?igshid=1y0t8ozs66t70