#Julia Reidy

[radiophd]

julia reidy -- crystal bones

[dustedmagazine]

Bryon Hayes’ 2022: Bleak, Uncertain, Beautiful…

Ayal Senior

It’s been a tumultuous year. Need I say more? 

The best part of the year for me was the return of live music. With mask on, I ventured out to see a handful of shows, beginning with Phil Elverum’s live rendition of The Microphones in 2020. I was frightened the entire time, as the unmasked throng of concert-goers around me seemed not to care about the on-going pandemic, but I emerged unscathed and with a smile on my face (hidden by my mask). Little did I know that I’d catch COVID a month later following the abolishment of the mask mandate in Ontario’s schools. I’m thankful that, unlike countless others, I survived the ordeal without any long-term health effects.

Another thing that brought me joy this year was the series of collective deep dives executed by the Dusted staff under the Listening Post banner. For me, these exercises in conversational scrutiny led to the rediscovery of artists I enjoy (The Clean, Wire, Tall Dwarfs, Broadcast) and the discovery of those I hadn’t yet investigated (Les Rallizes Dénudés, Masayuki Takayanagi, Wadada Leo Smith). It’s always pleasurable to witness my well-educated peers eloquently discuss the music that they love, and it’s a plus when I’m able to engage in the process with a comment or two of my own. 

If I had to call out a single artist that I feel had a particularly fruitful year in 2022, I’d have to pick Oren Ambarchi. Starting with the 10-year anniversary reissue of his Saggitarian Domain piece, and culminating with Shebang, Ambarchi seemed to be everywhere this year. He, Keiji Haino and Jim O’Rourke released what must be their most eclectic trio record to date, which is also their eleventh thus far. Ghosted, in which he joined up with Fire! Trio’s Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin might just be my favorite of the bunch. And of course, we mustn’t forget Ambarchi’s Black Truffle label, which put out a number of essential releases this year. 

Last year, I listed a bunch of Canadian records that filled my bucket, but for 2022 I want to focus on one LP that I kept turning to in the latter half of the year: Ayal Senior’s Az Yashir. Senior assembled the record from tunes he worked up with Matthew “Doc” Dunn, and these acoustic 12-string meditations really enswathed my soul with their warmth. Additional embellishments include pedal steel, percussion, and a few electronic adornments, all of which come together to plant these songs in the furrowed fields first harvested by lunar raga enthusiasts MV and EE. This is unsurprising considering the pedigree of all involved.   

And finally, I know that everyone loves a list, so I shall abide. Like last year, this isn’t a “top 10” list exactly, but the following ten records feature some of the music that made this year more than bearable for me: 

Pan*American — The Patience Fader (Kranky)

Winged Wheel — No Island (12XU)

Cate Le Bon — Pompeii (Drag City)

Julia Reidy — World in World (Black Truffle)

Horsegirl — Versions of Modern Performance (Matador)

The Reds, Pinks, and Purples — Summer at Land's End (Slumberland)

Ayal Senior — Az Yashir (Medusa Editions)

Ambarchi/Berthling/Werliin — Ghosted (Drag City)

Pulse Emitter — Dusk (Hausu Mountain)

Family Ravine — Away and Instinct (Round Bale)

Bryon Hayes

[het-geheim]

tagged by @brym to share what I've been listening to recently

here is the tapmusic.net collage of the last 7 days on my last.fm (most listened/scrobbled is top left)

especially obsessed about the new Elysia mix (free dl at purofantasia.com/ocelote)

also entranced by Molly McCann's rendition of Das Jahr from Fanny Mendelssohn, a piano composition representing the 12 months of the year, very beautiful (only snippets on bandcamp, message me for the files or they're on soulseek)

also been obsessed about Philip Corner's variations on François Couperin's Mysterious Barricades

also finally saw Julia Reidy for free in a bar last Friday, love their music

last one is an EP from a band (Unstraight....) featuring a mathematician from Baltimore who was an invited speaker at my university last week

I tag @c01n @riotshields @saffierblauw @suturesque @lapomind @nnbennynn @belloochie

[13melekradyo]

18 Kasım 2023 tarihli program kaydı.

Güncel deneysel kayıtlardan bir seçki // A selection of recent experimental recordings. Download.

01 – Lea Bertucci – Of Shadow and Substance (excerpt) 02 – Reinhold Friedl – Pissenlit 03 – Siavash Amini – The Darkness About The Pole (excerpt) 04 – Squncr – …Drowned Out… I 05 – Guentner | Spieth – Apastron 06 – Erlend Apneseth Trio & Maja Ratkje – Spor Etter Spor (Mellom Oss) 07 – Jessica Pavone – Nu Shu (Part 1) (excerpt) 08 – Nathan Davis – Versal 09 – The Pitch & Julia Reidy – Endless ≠ Limitless (excerpt) 10 – Sarah Davachi – Long Gradus (excerpt)

[alexbkrieger13]

For the anon wondering about Sweden's younger generation players we do have a bunch in the making 15-19 year olds or older in the U23.

From the top of my head and in no particular order Felicia Schröder, Monica Jusu Bah who was just signed by BKH, Evelina Duljan, Evelyn Ijeh who was just sold to Tigres in Mexico and biggest transfer for VDFF ever (more than when they sold Cankovic and Anvegård to FCR), Paulina Nyström, Smilla Holmberg, Ellen Wangerheim, Serina Iddrusu Backmark, My Cato, Elma Junttila Nelhage, Hanna Wijk, Hanna Lundkvist, Anna Sandberg, Alva Selerud, Rosa Kafaji, Matilda Vinberg, Cornelia Kapocs, Matilda Nildén, Amanda Nildén, Cajsa Rubensson, Sofia Reidy, Lisa Björk, Bea Sprung, Tuva Skoog, Emilia Pelgander, Julia Cavander, Maja Wangerheim, Medea Wignell.

Some play/have played outside of Sweden.

yea its quite a list of promising faces. definitely a good few of them we shall see pop up on rosters in the next year or so

[instants-chavires]

Julia Reidy. 17.01.2023 Photo © David Coax

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(▶︎ Shebang | Oren Ambarchiから)

Shebang by Oren Ambarchi

Extended guitar hero Oren Ambarchi returns with Shebang, the latest in the series of intricately detailed long-form rhythmic workouts that includes Quixotism (2014) and Hubris (2016). Like those records, Shebang features an international all-star cast of musical luminaries, their contributions recorded individually in locations from Sweden to Japan yet threaded together so convincingly (by Ambarchi in collaboration with Konrad Sprenger) that it’s hard to believe they weren’t breathing the same studio air. Expanding on the techniques used on Simian Angel (2019), we can never be entirely sure who is responsible for what we hear, as Ambarchi’s guitar is used to trigger everything from bass lines to driving piano riffs. Picking up from the staccato guitar patterns that ran through Hubris, Shebang’s single 35-minute track begins with a precisely interwoven lattice of chiming guitar figures, expanding Hubris’ monolithic pulse into a joyous, hyper-rhythmic melodicism that calls up points of reference as disparate as Albert Marcoeur, early Pat Metheny Group, and Henry Kaiser’s It’s A Wonderful Life. Building from isolated single notes into densely layered polyrhythms, the muted guitar tones are joined by subtle touches of shimmering Leslie cabinet tones and guitar synth. Simmering down and funnelling into a single note, the guitar stew is soon thickened by Joe Talia’s propulsive ride cymbal, which blossoms into a beautifully flowing yet rigorously snapped-to fusion funk, whose ever-shifting details skitter across the kit – think 70s heavyweights like Jack DeJohnette or Jon Christensen. An unexpected entry of guttural bass clarinet licks from Sam Dunscombe begins the series of instrumental features that pepper the remainder of the piece. Soon we hear from the legendary British pedal steel player B.J. Cole (hopefully known to some listeners from his outer-limits singer-songwriter masterpiece The New Hovering Dog or, failing that, ‘Tiny Dancer’), whose languorous yet uneasy lines float in and out of a shifting rhythmic foundation supported by a single note bass groove, cut through with aleatoric synth articulations Though single-mindedly occupying its rhythmic space throughout, Shebang’s dense ensemble sound is carefully composed while drawing on the free flow of improvisation, with individual voices momentarily coming to the fore and subtle changes in harmony and texture. Perhaps the most surprising of these shifts occurs around half-way through when the smoke of a buzzing synth crescendo from Jim O'Rourke clears to reveal something like a piano trio, with Ambarchi’s guitar-triggered piano patterns providing restless accompaniment to flowing melodic lines from Chris Abrahams of The Necks, while Johan Berthling’s double bass and Talia’s drums fill out the bottom end. Before long, things take another left turn as Julia Reidy’s rapidly picked 12-string guitar lines take centre stage, with O’Rourke’s monumental synth clouds hovering in the distance. The ensemble surges through a slow series of harmonic changes before the whole shebang dissolves into a delirious synthetic mirage. Bridging minimalism, contemporary electronics, and classic ECM stylings, and bringing together a cast of preternaturally talented contributors, Shebang is unmistakably the work of Oren Ambarchi: obsessively detailed, relentlessly rhythmic, unabashedly celebratory. クレジット2022年9月30日リリース Oren Ambarchi - guitars & whatnot with: Chris Abrahams - piano on III & IV Johan Berthling - acoustic bass on III BJ Cole - pedal steel on II & IV Sam Dunscombe - bass clarinet on I & II Jim O'Rourke - synths on III & IV Julia Reidy - 12-string guitar on III & IV Joe Talia - drums on the whole Shebang Executive Producers: Konrad Sprenger & Dick Wolf

[musicandjunk]

where were you when i did not laughing?

and everything was unclear

falling

[noloveforned]

the new show airs, per usual, on wlur at 8pm tonight but there's a special encore presentation of last week's show beforehand at 6pm. that's four full hours of no love for ned tonight, starting with the show below!

no love for ned on wlur – june 17th, 2022 from 8-10pm

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[dustedmagazine]

Dusted Midyear Round-Up: Part 3 The Lists

Cate Le  Bon

After two days worth of record trading, Dusted writers retreat to their various obsessions and share lists of their favorite records of early 2022.  If you missed our two-part midyear exchange coverage, check out Part 1 and Part 2.  

Jennifer Kelly

Winged Wheel — No Island (12XU)

Destroyer — Labyrinthitis (Merge)

Oneida  —  Success (Joyful Noise)

Cate Le Bon — Pompeii (Drag City)

Fontaines D.C. — Skinty Fia (Partisan)

Jake Xerxes Fussell — Good and Green Again (Paradise of Bachelors)

Reds, Pinks and Purples — Summer at Land’s End (Slumberland)

Yard Act — The Overload (Rough Trade)

Superchunk — Wild Loneliness (Merge)

Horsegirl — Versions of Modern Performance (Matador)

Jonathan Shaw’s horrendous half-dozen:

Black Fucking Cancer — Procreate Inverse (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)

Cosmic Putrefaction — Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones (Caligari Records)

Kostnateni — Ohen Hori Tam, Kde Padl (Mystiskaos)

Merihem — Incendiary Darkness (I, Voidhanger)

Mizmor and Thou — Myopia (Gilead Media)

Mutilatred — Determined to Rot (Redefining Darkness) 

Tim Clarke

The Smile — A Light for Attracting Attention (XL)

Big Thief — Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (4AD)

Black Country, New Road — Ants From Up There (Ninja Tune)

Aldous Harding — Warm Chris (4AD)

Shearwater — The Great Awakening (Polyborus)

Cate Le Bon — Pompeii (Mexican Summer)

Daniel Rossen — You Belong There (Warp)

Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin — Ghosted (Drag City)

Robert Stillman — What Does it Mean to be American? (Orindal)

Claire Rousay — Everything Perfect is Already Here (Shelter Press)

Ray Garraty

Bandgang Lonnie Bands x ShredGang Mone — Shottas (TF Distribution)

Wayne616 — Grease Files (Still Grinding)

Young Bleed — Dare Iza God (Trap Door Entertainment)

Z Money — Back 2 The Blender (4EverPaidRecords)

Boldy James & Real Bad Man — Killing Nothing (Real Bad Man)

Andrew Forell

billy woods - Aethiopes (Blackwoodz Studioz)

Kids On A Crime Spree - Fall in Love, Not In Line (Slumberland)

700 Bliss - Nothing To Declare (Hyperdub)

Brainwaltzera - ITSAME (Film Recordings)

Artsick - Fingers Crossed (Slumberland)

Blackhaine - Armour II (Fixed Abode)

Bill Meyer

Sophie Agnel / John Butcher, La Pierre Tachée (Ni Vu Ni Connu)

Rhodri Davies, For Simon H. Fell (Amgen)

Jake Xerxes Fussell, Good And Green Again (Paradise of Bachelors)

Mary Halvorson, Amaryllis & Belladonna (Nonesuch)

Haptic, Ladder of Shadows (901 Editions)

Glenn Jones, Vade Mecum (Thrill Jockey)

Shane Parish, Viscera Eternae (Ramble)

Dave Rempis / Elizabeth Harnik / Michael Zerang, Astragaloi (Aerophonic)

Masayuki Takayanagi, Eclipse (Black Editions)

Reinier van Houdt, Drift Nowhere Past / The Adventure Of Sleep (Elsewhere)

Bryon Hayes 

Pan•American — The Patience Fader (Kranky)

Robbie Lee & Lea Bertucci — Winds Bells Falls (Telegraph Harp)

Ayal Senior — Az Yashir (Medusa Editions)

Cate Le Bon — Pompeii (Mexican Summer)

Winged Wheel — No Island (12XU)

Julia Reidy — World in World (Black Truffle)

Horsegirl — Versions of Modern Performance (Matador)

Tilth — Rock Music (Round Bale Recordings)

p2p — Impossible Burger (Rat-Drifting)

Modern Lamps — Lucid Cartography (Hooker Vision) 

Patrick Masterson

Yard Act — The Overload (Rough Trade)

Overmono — Cash Romantic EP (XL)

Oneida — Success (Joyful Noise)

Angel Olsen — Big Time (Jagjaguwar)

Yung Kayo — DFTK (Young Stoner Life)

HAAi — Baby, We're Ascending (Mute)

Cloakroom — Dissolution Wave (Relapse)

Saba — Few Good Things (The Orchard)

Heavenly Bodies — Universal Resurrection (Petty Bunco)

Axel Boman — Luz / Quest for Fire (Studio Barnhus)

Cate Le Bon — Pompeii (Mexican Summer)

Sauce Walka — AI Rage Walka (Sauce Familia)

Christian Carey

Destroyer — Labyrinthitis (Merge)

Oneida — Success (Joyful Noise)

Cate Le Bon — Pompeii (Drag City)

Superchunk — Wild Loneliness (Merge)

Jenny Hvall — Classic Objects (4AD)

Steve Reich — Reich/Richter (Nonesuch)

Ches Smith — Interpret it Well (Pyroclastic)

Steven Schick — A Hard Rain (Islandia)

Mark Turner — Return from the Stars (ECM)

Walter Zimmermann — Voces (Mode)

Derek Taylor

Andrew Cyrille/William Parker/Enrico Rava — 2 Blues for Cecil (TUM)

Michael Bisio Quartet — MBefore (Tao Forms)

Ingrid Laubrock/Brandon Lopez/Tom Rainey — No Es La Playa (Intakt)

Survival Unit III — The Art of Flight/For Alvin Fielder (Astral Spirits/Instigation)

Ches Smith — Interpret it Well (Pyroclastic)

Chris Byars — Rhythm and Blues of the 20s (Steeplechase)

Cecil Taylor — The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert at the Town Hall, NYC, November 4, 1973 (Oblivion)

Albert Ayler — Revelations: The Complete ORTF 1970 Fondation Maeght Recordings (Resonance)

Peter Brötzmann/ William Parker/ Milford Graves — Historic Music Past Tense Future (Black Editions)

Sam Rivers — Caldera (No Business)

Virgil Gonsalves — Jazz in the Bay Area 1954-1959 (Fresh Sound)

Toots Thielemans & Rob Franken — The Studio Sessions 1973-1983 (Dutch Jazz Archive)

Michael Rosenstein

A baker’s dozen of releases that have caught my ear in the first half of the year:

John Butcher — 5 LP set from ausland (Ni Vu Ni Connu)

Zhao Cong — REW (Eminent Observer)

Anne-F Jacques, Chemiefaserwerk, Zhu Wenbo — La Cinta Flotante (Bolinga Everest Records)

Rie Nakajima/Takahiro Kawaguchi — Utsuho (tsss tapes)

Oùat — Elastic Bricks (Umlaut Records)

Manja Ristić — the concrescence (Self Released)

Vanessa Rossetto / Lionel Marchetti — The Tower (The City) (Erstwhile Records)

Li Song — Two Snare Drums (Infant Tree)

Staubitz and Waterhouse — Common Metals (music is the worst)

Tarab — Rooms (Ferns recordings)

Bardo Todol — La Siembra Eterna (Never Anything Records)

Yu Yiyi — Hypnos (self-released)

Sun Yizhou, Zheng Hao — Another Time (bluescreen)

Ian Mathers

15 in personal chronological order:

Cloakroom — Dissolution Wave (Relapse)

Pan•American — The Patience Fader (Kranky)

Aoife O'Donovan — Age of Apathy (Yep Roc)

Broadcast — Maida Vale Sessions (Warp)

Nadja — Nalepa (Broken Spine)

Sasami — Squeeze (Domino)

Picastro — I’ve Never Met a Stranger (3490032 Records DK)

Michael Beharie — Promise (Clandestine)

Chelsea Jade — Soft Spot (Carpark)

Spiritualized — Everything Was Beautiful (Fat Possum)

Diatom Deli — Time​~​Lapse Nature (RVNG Intl.)

loscil — The Sails p.1/p.2 (self-release)

Z Money — Back 2 the Blender (4EVERPAID)

Oneida — Success (Joyful Noise)

Billow Observatory — Stareside (Felte)

[zef-zef]

Julia Reidy

[bluetapes]

Was an honour to make this mix for Ransom Note. As I've often said there are only two types of music - party and chill - and this is a chill mix, albeit one which probably isn't very relaxing.

Features my favourite contemporary musicians, some of which - Kira May, Teruyuki Kurihara, Cadu Tenório, Katie Gately - have previously passed through the bowels of the cultural filtration system that is Blue Tapes.

Others, like Ose, Julia Reidy, Jonny Greenwood, Kamasi Washington, Shuta Hasunuma, 박지하 Park Jiha, Ariel Kalma, and KATE NV are just artists who I worship from a distance.

Features a little interview with me talking about work, making music, the label and crap like that.

Enjoy!

[13melekradyo]

Güncel drone/ambient kayıtlarından bir seçki // A selection of recent drone/ambient recordings. Download.

01 – Julia Reidy – Ajar 02 – MYMK – A Gesture Like / Like All Mornings 03 – Il Santo Bevitore – Water and Tears 04 – Daou – Regrets 05 – Specimens ft. Benoît Pioulard – Marble Bones 06 – T.R. Jordan – Time Decay 07 – Patricia Wolf – Woodland Encounter 08 – Awakened Souls – Quietude 09 – Prospector Sound – Nord View 10 – Colpitts – Bread (excerpt)

[radiophd]

julia reidy -- clairvoyant