RIPPED & DUBBED mixtape #7
Brand new two-hour mix this week, gathering together beautiful new expressions in folk singer-songwriting, instrumental guitar, widescreen kosmische, and jazz-adjacent experiments. I picked a lot of these up during the most recent Bandcamp Friday, and I'll drop links to where they can be had in full below.
It was wonderful to hear of a new Rosali album due soon - her last LP, Trouble Anyway, has been a favorite of the past few years, and the stunning first single from the forthcoming No Medium has been living rent-free in my brain for two weeks. If its grace and melodic swagger signals what's to come on the full-length, there's no doubt it will make it to the top of 2021's stack.
This mix closes on a trio of sidelong instrumental kosmische odysseys, and I wanted to draw attention in particular to the final track. This absolute high-water mark in contemporary duo improv from Zelienople’s Matt Christensen and Neatly Knotted / Nevada Greene’s Ben Chlapek has gone so outrageously under-the-radar in the four years since its release that the label is currently selling the remaining cassette copies for a single dollar. I myself fell victim to ignorance on this should-be grail, until a kind soul (remind me / forgive me - I've forgotten who) just up and mailed me a copy this summer with a very kind note to the effect of "I thought you'd like this".. Well, they were right! How about that for community? Get one for a buck, please - it's the deal of the century.
1. Keven Louis Lareau - "Not All Songs Have Been Sung" single [self-released]
2. Rosali - "Mouth" from No Medium [S P I N S T E R]
3. Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore - "Fair Annie" from Ghost Forests [Three Lobed]
4. James Jackson Toth - "Stumpranchers" from The Hired Hands: A Tribute to Bruce Langhorne [Scissor Tail]
5. Gerycz / Powers / Rolin - "Untitled" (lathe-cut bonus track from Beacon vinyl reissue) [Centripetal Force / Cardinal Fuzz]
6. Landon Caldwell - "Lathe of Heaven" from Deep Strand [Trouble In Mind]
7. Wau Wau Collectif - "Si Tu Savais Juste" from Yaral Sa Doom [Sahel Sounds]
8. Yasmin Williams - "Guitka" from Unwind [self-released]
9. Ezra Feinberg - "A Spider Painted Over" from Recumbent Speech [Related States]
10. Rob Frye - "XC175020" from Exoplanet [Astral Spirits]
11. Bil Vermette - "Kuiper Belt" from Hunting For Planet 9 [Trouble In Mind]
12. Ashan - "Unbroken Circle" from Sacred Spring [Inner Islands]
13. GROWING - "Primitive Associations / Great Mass Above" from The Soul of the Rainbow and the Harmony of Light [Laffs & Danger]
14. levinson / mahlmeister - "Ascend" from Shores [Trouble In Mind]
15. Prana Crafter - "3rd Ear Incantations" from 3rd Ear Incantations [Null Zone]
16. Christensen & Chlapek - "B" from Unknown Pressures [Dismal Niche]
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