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Purchase log, 2019-12-10

[Les Miserablés - Original French Concept Album]

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
  • ACO, Sing Sing Sing

Catalog

CD
  • Antonio Salieri, Piano Concerto in B-Flat Major / Concerto in C Major for Flute and Oboe (I Solisti Veneti, Claudio Scimone)
  • Band of Susans, Love Agenda
  • Baths, Cerulean
  • Deltron 3030, Deltron 3030
  • Donkey, Slick Night Out
  • Eagles, Hotel California
  • Fleetwood Mac, Tusk
  • Franz Josef Haydn, String Quartets, Op. 71, Nos. 1-3 (Kodály Quartet)
  • Franz Josef Haydn, String Quartets, Op. 76, Nos. 4-6 (Kodály Quartet)
  • Jamila Woods, HEAVN
  • McCoy Tyner, Sahara
  • The Band, Music from Big Pink
  • The Band, The Band
  • Tsuji Ayano, CALENDAR CALENDAR
  • William Grant Still, Oregon Festival of American Music Presents William Grant Still
  • Soundtrack, Les Miserablés (Original London Cast)
  • Soundtrack, Les Miserablés (Original French Concept Album)
Vinyl
  • Big Country, The Crossing
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!
  • John Coltrane, Om
  • Midnight Oil, Earth and Sun and Moon
  • Missy Elliott, Supa Dupa Fly
  • S’Express, Original Soundtrack
  • The Zombies, Odessey & Oracle
  • Soundtrack, Love, Simon

Reissues

CD
  • Prince, 1999

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Purchase log, 2018-09-04

[Jayne Cortez - Everywhere Drums]

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.

Labor Day sales at thrift stores are a dangerous combination.

New releases

CD
  • Blood Orange, Negro Swan
  • Troye Sivan, Bloom
Files
  • Molotov, MTV Unplugged: El Disconecte
  • Santigold, I Don’t Want: The Gold Fire Sessions

Catalog

CD
  • Anonymous 4, Love’s Illusion
  • Bob Marley and the Wailers, Legend
  • Boris, Akuma no Uta
  • Edgard Varèse, The Complete Works
  • Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes
  • Giovanni Palestrina, Palestrina Masses (Tallis Scholars)
  • Iron and Wine, Around the Well
  • Jayne Cortez, Everywhere Drums
  • John Coltrane, Soultrane
  • Joni Mitchell, Hejira
  • Loretta Lynn, Country Music Hall of Fame
  • McCoy Tyner, Echoes of a Friend
  • Midnight Oil, Scream In Blue
  • Miles Davis, Sketches of Spain
  • Moby, Everything Is Wrong
  • Semisonic, All About Chemistry
  • The Books, The Lemon of Pink
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Axis: Bold as Love
  • Various Artists, If I Were a Carpenter
  • Various Composers, la Quinta essentia (Huelgas-Ensemble)
  • Various Composers, Musica Nova (Consort Veneto)
  • Vivian Green, A Love Story
Vinyl
  • Bananarama, True Confessions
  • Giovanni Palestrina, Missa “De Beata Virgine” (Chorus “Jeunesses Musicales”)
  • Madonna, You Can Dance
  • Rupert Holmes, Partners in Crime

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Purchase log, 2018-07-17

[Leo Imai - VLP]

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
  • Leo Imai, VLP
  • Steve Grand, not the end of me

Catalog

CD
  • Go-Go’s, Beauty and the Beat
  • New Order, Power, Corruption & Lies
  • Tomosaka Rie, Murasaki.
  • Wendy Carlos, Switched-On Bach
  • Original London Cast, Miss Saigon
Vinyl
  • Andy Gibb, Shadow Dancing
  • Cannonball Adderley, Somethin’ Else
  • Chris Isaak, Forever Blue
  • Enigma, The Cross of Changes
  • Fishbone, In Your Face
  • McCoy Tyner, The Real McCoy
  • Ready for the World, Ready for the World
  • Simple Minds, Sparkle in the Rain
  • The Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
  • The Pogues, Rum Sodomy & the Lash

Reissue

Vinyl
  • Anne Dudley, Anne Dudley Plays the Art of Noise
  • Fishbone, The Reality of My Surroundings

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Purchase log, 2018-06-12

[Pinback - Summer in Abaddon[

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
  • Clannad, Landmarks (Remastered)
  • Clannad, Sirius (Remastered)
  • Daft Punk, Random Access Memories
  • Guided By Voices, Human Amusements at Hourly Rates
  • McCoy Tyner, Song for My Lady
  • Metallica, … And Justice for All
  • Pinback, Summer in Abaddon
Vinyl
  • Mazzy Star, She Hangs Brightly
  • The Books, Thought for Food

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Vinyl Find: McCoy Tyner, Song for My Lady

[McCoy Tyner - Song for My Lady]

My introduction to McCoy Tyner’s Song for My Lady was brief but indelible.

My brother and I visited Jelly’s Comics and Music back in the late 1980s, and Song for My Lady was playing on the in-store PA. It was a particularly noisy part of the album, where Tyner sounded as if he was just pounding his fists on the piano.

My brother hated it. I absolutely dug it.

I was still in my infancy when it came to exploring atonal and dissonant music, and I had no clue about jazz history beyond the swing era repertoire offered in school.

I heard a crash of notes akin to what Kronos Quartet had introduced me, and I made sure to note the title and artist of the album playing that day. I vowed to pick it up eventually.

It took 30 years.

Jive Time Records held its anniversary sale, and the store had a used vinyl copy of Song for My Lady in stock. I hadn’t thought about the album in all that time, but I had to sate my curiosity.

Is it as noisy as I remember it to be? Just about.

I’ve had 30 years to be exposed to all manner of noisy music, and Song for My Lady falls a bit more on the tuneful side of John Coltrane’s Interstellar Space. It’s a rambunctious album and a far cry from the only other Tyner album in my collection, The Real McCoy.

I wonder if the engineer who programmed the ring of my apartment intercom listened to this album. There’s a sax trill on the title track which is a timbral and tonal match to that ring. The first time I heard it, I nearly got up to answer the intercom.

I’m still a novice when it comes to thinking critically about jazz, and according to reviews, Song for My Lady is one of Tyner’s best albums. The clerk at Jive Time who rung me up commented that it was one of his most underrated.

I believe it.

Song for My Lady doesn’t seem to come up in very many recommendation lists, which is a shame. This album is wild and energetic, but if my brother’s reaction is any indication, may a bit much so.

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