Monthly Archives: May 2018

Purchase log, 2018-05-29

[Thomas Bartlett and Nico Muhly - Peter Pears: Balinese Ceremonial Music]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

New Releases

CD
  • Thomas Bartlett and Nico Muhly, Peter Pears: Balinese Ceremonial Music
  • Various Artists, Adam to Eve no Ringo (Shiina Ringo tribute album)

Catalog

CD
  • Minutemen, Double Nickels on the Dime
Vinyl
  • Dwight Yoakam, Guitars Cadillacs Etc. Etc.
Blu Ray
  • Stephen Sondheim, Company (2006 Production)

 

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Looking ahead, June-July 2018

[Utada Hikaru - Hatsukoi]

I started a new job on May 21, and I’m still getting adjusted to a new routine. I’m not ready to say the hiatus has ended just yet, but I can say new entries should resume before the end of summer. Till then, here’s a preview of upcoming releases.

Emmylou Harris, Ballad of Sally Rose (Deluxe Edition), June 1

I have listened to a lot of Emmylou Harris, and I can say this album is my least favorite. But its underdog status makes me curious about what didn’t make the album. Also, the current CD pressings sound awful, and I hope the remastering rectifies that.

Clannad, Turas 1980, June 8

This live album contains songs never recorded in the studio by the band.

Utada Hikaru, Hatsukoi, June 27

In retrospect, Fantôme was something of a downer. The singles preceding the release of Hatsukoi indicate a bouncier direction. Utada comes full circle title-wise — hatsukoi is the Japanese translation of “first love”.

Guns N’ Roses, Appetite for Destruction (Deluxe Edition), June 29

This album hadn’t already received a deluxe edition treatment? I’m not shelling out for anything more than the 2-disc edition.

Leo IMAI, V L P, July 11

I really enjoyed Film Scum, and it’s too bad the full album was only available at his live shows. I look forward to this album nonetheless.

Vinyl

Anne Dudley, Anne Dudley Plays the Art of Noise, June 22

This album receives a physical release in the UK and a digital release in the US. I was impatient and got the Japanese release last year, and Dudley employs some real studio wizardry to interpret the Art of Noise acoustically.

Fishbone, The Reality of My Surroundings, July 13

Trips to Goodwill have allowed me to rediscover this band.

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Purchase log, 2018-05-22

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

Catalog

CD
  • Aphex Twin, Syro
  • Eric Dolphy, Out to Lunch
  • Lucinda Williams, Essence
  • Lucinda Williams, Lucinda Williams
  • The Tallis Scholars, The Tallis Scholars Sing Josquin
  • The Wrens, The Meadowlands
  • William Byrd, Missa in Tempore Paschali (Chanticleer)
  • William Byrd / Thomas Tallis, Choral Works (St. John’s College Choir, Cambridge, George Guest)
Vinyl
  • Joni Mitchell, Court and Spark
  • Györgi Ligeti, Streichquartett No. 1 / Streichquartett No. 2 (Arditti Quartet)

 

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Purchase log, 2018-05-15

[L7 - Bricks Are Heavy]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

Catalog

CD
  • Black Sabbath, Greatest Hits 1970-1978
  • Carl Nielsen, Symphony No. 4 / Symphony No. 6 (Neeme Järvi, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra)
  • Drive-By Truckers, A Blessing and a Curse
  • Giovanni Palestrina, Missa Aeterna Christi Munera (James O’Donnell, Choir of Westminster Cathedral)
  • L7, Bricks Are Heavy

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Purchase log, 2018-05-08

[Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 9]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

The monthly $0.10 CD Sale at Lifelong Thrift Shop was particular fruitful where classical music is concerned.

Catalog

CD
  • Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 4 (Herbert Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic)
  • Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 9 (Christoph Dohnányi, Cleveland Orchestra)
  • Benjamin Britten, Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo / Music of Bali / British Folk Songs (Benjamin Britten; Peter Pears)
  • Benjamin Britten, String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3 / Alla marcia / Three Divertimenti (Sorell Quartet)
  • Clara Schumann, Complete Works for Piano 3 (Jozef De Beenhouwer)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich / Sergei Prokofiev, Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 / Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges (Eugene Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony No. 6 / Theme and Variations / Scherzo / Suite “Alone” (Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony No. 7 (Yuri Temirkanov, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra)
  • Emerson String Quartet, Bach: The Art of Fugue
  • Fugazi, The Argument
  • Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 1 (Sir Georg Solti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
  • Percy Grainger, Themes of Grainger (Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble)
  • Peter Lawson, American Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1
  • Sam Smith, The Thrill of It All (Deluxe Edition)
  • Samuel Barber, Music of Samuel Barber (Leonard Slatkin, St. Louis Symphony)
  • Samuel Barber / Charles Ives / Aaron Copland, Barber: Adagio for Strings / Ives: Symphony No. 3 / Copland: Quiet City (Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner)
Vinyl
  • Madvillain, Madvillainy
  • New Order, Technique
  • Sam Smith, The Thrill of It All (Deluxe Edition)
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced

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Purchase log, 2018-05-01

[The Streets - Original Pirate Material]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

New Releases

CD
  • Janelle Monáe, Dirty Computer
  • SUPERCAR, PERMAFROST

Catalog

CD
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Electric Ladyland
  • J Dilla, Donuts
Vinyl
  • Tomita, Firebird

Reissues

Vinyl
  • The Art of Noise, In Visible Silence (Deluxe Edition)
  • The Streets, Original Pirate Material

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