jim jones album cover
 
I’m back! Again. I fucked up my back by sitting around all day a few weeks ago and couldn’t stand or walk or anything.

But hey there’s new Jute Gyte! New Ragana! New Jasmine Guffond! New Inexorum! New Caretaker! New Embassador Dulgoon!

There’s also a new pressing of the Jonestown massacre released by TPOS and I’ve heard it a bunch of times and I know how harrowing it is but every time I hear it it’s like I’m hearing it for the first time and I just get fucking devastated all over again. So I thought it would be ok to play that during a normal (i.e. non-Halloween/horror) episode but that might have been a mistake. So for those of you not looking to totally ruin your day, skip from about 00:30 to 01:00. However, it does go perfectly alongside the newest Caretaker release. And the Fear Falls Burning/Sunn O))) pairing is pretty excellent as well.

 
Air date: November 7, 2018

Background music: Christopher Larkin – Soul Sanctum (from Hollow Knight Soundtrack)

00:00:00 Pierre La Dieu – Driving Saw Logs On The Plover (from Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time & End Time Music 1923-1936)
00:03:12 Talk break
00:06:18 Jute Gyte – The Norms That Author the Self Render the Self Substitutable (from Oviri)
00:17:40 Unknown Pushtu musicians – Tangtakore (from Folk Music Of Pakistan)
00:21:38 Gid Tanner – You’ve Got To Stop Drinking Shine (from Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time & End Time Music 1923-1936)
00:24:42 Happy Hour – Climbing The Golden Stairs (from Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time & End Time Music 1923-1936)
00:27:38 Talk break
00:30:41 The Caretaker – Sudden Time Regression Into Isolation (from Everywhere At The End Of Time – Stage 5)
00:32:21 Reverend Jim Jones – Side B (from Last Sermon At The Peoples Temple, Jonestown Guyana 11/19/78)
00:53:29 Embassador Dulgoon – Triassic Persuasion / Daedalean Escapades (from Hydrorion Remnants)
00:59:05 Talk break
01:01:32 Ragana – Inviolate (from Let Our Names Be Forgotten)
01:07:40 Unknown Serbian, Grecian, Turkish, Armenian, Jordanian, & Syrian musicians – C1-C3 (from Folk Instruments Of The World)
01:08:02 Jasmine Guffond – Part II (from Degradation Loops)
01:13:30 Unknown Bini (Southern Nigeria) musicians – Secret Society Drums (from African Music)
01:16:45 Maurice Evans, Lucile Watson, & Margaret Webster (Director) – Side C (excerpt) (from The Importance Of Being Earnest)
01:23:27 Kentucky Holiness Singers – I’m On My Way (from Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time & End Time Music 1923-1936)
01:26:37 Talk break
01:30:28 Sunn O))) – bassAliens (from White 2)
01:32:55 Fear Falls Burning – I’m One Of Those Monsters… (from I’m One Of Those Monsters Numb With Grace)
01:53:40 Inexorum – Let Pain Be Your Guide (from Lore Of The Lakes)
01:58:50 Talk break
02:00:43 Harry “Mac” McClintock – Jerry, Go Ile The Car (from Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time & End Time Music 1923-1936)


 
I had no idea Howard Fast sounded like Christopher Walken.
 

Air date: October 10, 2018

Background music: Teresa Winter – นม And Earth (from Untitled Death)

00:00:00 Sylvester Waver – Sore Feet Blues (from Smoketown Strut)
00:02:49 Talk break
00:05:30 L’Acephale – Perdition (from Stahlhartes Gehäuse)
00:18:25 Popol Vuh – Und Als ER Sah Es Geht Dem Ende Zu (from Sei Still, Wisse Ich Bin)
00:25:30 Talk break
00:29:17 Jessica Moss – Entire Populations (from Pools Of Light)
00:33:40 Howard Fast – Spoil The Child (from Howard Fast Reads Howard Fast)
00:53:37 William Albright – Organbook II: Last Rites (from New Music For Organ)
01:02:24 Talk break
01:04:14 Crawl – All Who Oppose Me (from All Who Oppose Me)
00:22:17 Shem Tupe & Family – Adui (from Usiende Ukalale: Omutibo From Rural Kenya)
01:27:50 Talk break
01:31:50 The New Boston Quartet playing Leo Ornstein – String Quartet No. 3: First Movement (from The Music Of Leo Ornstein: String Quartet No. 3)
01:33:39 Vicekopf – Principia Schizophonica (from Principia Schizophonica)
01:45:10 Unknown Yoruban musicians – Drums For The Deity Orishania (from African Drums)
01:48:12 Lum Guffin – Moanin’ And Groanin’ Blues (from Lum Guffin)
01:53:34 Rahu ?- Kalas Bleed For The Sun-Eater (from The Quest For The Vajra Of Shadows)
02:01:08 Talk break
02:04:58 Lulu Jackson – You’re Going To Leave The Old Home Jim (from The Rain Don’t Fall On Me)


 
The new Low record might be my favorite thing to come out this year. So incredible. Definitely check it out even if you aren’t a Low fan (like me) because it sounds like Basinski produced it (he didn’t).

Also, don’t be surprised of that Afsprengi Satans record shows up again in my Halloween episode.
 

Air date: October 3, 2018

Background music: 1-Speed Bike – The Day That Mauro Ran Over Elwy Yost (from Droopy Butt Begone!)

00:00:00 The Voices Supreme – The Broken Vessel (from To The Glory Of God)
00:04:41 Talk break
00:08:36 Afsprengi Satans – Í Iðrum Þínum Sefur Brennisteinn (from Seiðgall / Djöful Leg)
00:27:11 Low – Dancing And Fire (from Double Negative)
00:31:16 Talk break
00:34:27 Doc Reese – Ol’ Hannah (from Jazz Volume 1: South)
00:37:30 Mirror – Side A (from Ringstones)
00:41:15 Michael Fox – Side A (from Dogtalk)
01:01:34 Talk break
01:03:47 Imperial Triumphant – The Filth (from Vile Luxury)
01:13:07 Jobelou – Kita (from Voodoo Trance Music: Ritual Drums Of Haiti)
01:18:17 Mississippi Fred McDowell – Worried Mind Blues (from The Alan Lomax Recordings)
01:21:43 Mountain Man – Slow Wake Up Sunday Morning (from Magic Ship)
01:25:48 Unknown Aissawan musicians – Aissawa Procession (from Music Of Morocco)
01:30:13 Talk break
01:33:31 Paysage D’Hiver – Moloch (from Schattengang)
01:47:12 Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar – Raga Yaman: Alap (from Raga Yaman)
01:49:50 David Cory reading Ralph Waldo Emerson – “Is this beauty to perish…?” and the poem Hamatreya (from A Selection From The Essays, The Poetry, And The Journals)
02:01:02 Talk break
02:03:00 Big Bill Broonzy – Down In The Basement (from Do That Guitar Rag 1928-1935)


 
An especially eclectic mix this time around. Pretty psyched I found a reasonably priced copy of Jed Speare’s Cable Car Soundscapes. Fuckin classic. And playing alongside RAAL’s experiments with Val Bertoia’s sound sculptures? Gotta pat myself on the back for that one.
 

Air date: September 19, 2018

Background music: Takeshi Terauchi & Blue Jeans – Tsugaru Jongara Bushi (from Guitar Mood)

00:00:00 Gus Vali – Mi Tharis (from Greek Soul)
00:03:36 Talk break
00:06:01 Oak – Cowards And Undeserving Part I (from II)
00:22:10 Reverend Charlie Jackson – Send It On Down (from Lord You’re So Good: Live Recordings, Vol. 2)
00:28:54 Talk break
00:31:20 Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe – Side B (from Levitation Praxis Pt. 4)
00:32:42 Jed Speare – Mettle Of Metal (from Cable Car Soundscapes)
00:48:34 Wayfarer – On Horseback They Carried Thunder (from World’s Blood)
01:01:45 Talk break
01:03:47 Unknown Djerban musicians – Circumcision Ceremony At The Village Of Hara Kebira, Island Of Djerba (from Tunisia, Vol. 2: Religious Songs And Cantorials)
01:06:31 Windy & Carl – Intelligence In Evolution / Heavy Winged – Wool & Water (from Monolith: Earth)
01:15:16 Side 3 (excerpt) (from The State Funeral Of Sir Winston Churchill, Vol. 2)
01:30:03 Talk break
01:33:16 Dawson Henson – The Moonshiner (from Lost Train Blues)
01:36:06 Pandiscordian Necrogenesis – Gate Of Shields / Outer Supernal (from Outer Supernal)
01:41:45 Savia Andina – Piel Morena (from Lo Mejor De Savia Andina)
01:45:30 Georgia Kelly – Nilapadmam (Blue Lotus) (from Seapeace: Music For Harp)
01:47:35 Frankie Carle – Waltz Melody (from How To Succeed)
02:00:46 Talk break
02:03:33 Blind Owl Wilson – Poor Moon (from Blind Owl Wilson)


 
I think this might be the highest concentration of my favorite metal in one episode I’ve ever had yet. Gris’ classic reissued, the phenomenal new Mamaleek & Mare records, and my old high school favorite Gift by Taproot getting its first vinyl release that some might consider a guilty pleasure but fuck that, no shame in liking what you like. And this one still holds up for me.
 

Ait date: September 12, 2018

Background music: Ricardo Donoso – Diagonal Environment / The Old Straight Track (from As Iron Sharpens Iron)

00:00:00 John Angaiak – Anuureluqa (from I’m Lost In The City)
00:02:17 Talk break
00:06:22 Gris – Cicatrice (from Il Était Une Forêt…)
00:20:52 Suzanne Ciani – Malibuzios (from The Velocity Of Love)
00:22:20 Naval Research Laboratory – 600 Fathoms Down, Unknown Sounds, Pacific Ocean / 2000 Fathoms Down, 200 Miles Out, Pacific Ocean (from Sounds Of The Sea Vol. 1 – Underwater Sounds Of Biological Origin)
00:29:32 Talk break
00:33:26 Visions Congo – The Hoima Witch And The Songye Mask (from Mulago Sound Studio)
00:37:28 Albert Camus – La Peste (from Albert Camus Reading In French)
00:54:08 Mamaleek – The Recompense Is Real (from Out Of Time)
00:59:42 Talk break
01:01:38 Kesarbai Kerkar – Lalat: “Ghatan Lago Rain” (from Kesarbai Kerkar)
01:05:29 Dr. Ross – Little Solider Boy (from His First Recordings)
01:08:24 Unknown Haitian musicians – Voudoun Dance (from Drums Of Haiti)
01:09:55 Infinite Body – Slow Of Heart / Enlacing (from Avolition)
01:14:56 Communications Sounds Of The Baldwin Hills Dam Disaster (from Fire! Sounds Of The City Of Los Angeles Fire Department)
01:24:44 Taproot – I (from Gift)
01:28:58 Talk break
01:34:13 Mare – Labyrinth Of Dying Stars (from Ebony Tower)
01:42:20 Oren Ambarchi – Remedios The Beauty (from Grapes From The Estate)
01:59:19 Talk break
02:02:07 Helen Hollins Singers – Who Can Take Nothing (from Following Jesus)


 

This episode is only about an hour long because I woke up late. Apparently, according to my wife, I woke up in the middle of the night and turned off my alarm. Oops. So there’s only a few songs this time but it’s still a pretty sweet episode.

 

Air date: September 5, 2018

Background music: Container – Application (from LP)

00:00:00 Bola Sete – Prelude #4 (from The Solo Guitar Of Bola Sete)
00:03:27 Talk break
00:06:19 Arvo Pärt – Silentium (from Tabula Rasa)
00:24:19 Zeal & Ardor – Built On Ashes (from Stranger Fruit)
00:28:51 Talk break
00:33:45 Pandit Pran Nath – Raagini Bheempalasi (from Pandit Pran Nath Sings Ragas Bheempalasi & Puriyaa Dhanaashree)
00:56:08 Talk break
00:58:57 Reverend Pearly Brown – It’s A Mean Old World To Try To Live In (from It’s A Mean Old World To Try To Live In)


 
I’m back! Like, back back. I only know of one episode in the near-ish future that I have to miss but aside from that, I have the new keys to the station so I should be good to go for a while. And now that the school semester is starting up again, things at the station should be running more smoothly.

Anyway, this episode is packed full of the good stuff. There’s a new Kyle Bobby Dunn piece (played alongside weird birds), some classic Joseph Spence, some ladies talking about flowers, 1970s Italian minimalism, Lychgate’s bizarre prog, gospel with synthy lazers, and all sorts of other cool shit.
 

Air date: August 29, 2018

Background music: Madagascar – The Innocence Of Facts (from Goodbye East, Goodbye West)

00:00:00 Unknown Serbian girls’ chorus – Ritual Song (from Folk Music Of Yugoslavia)
00:01:56 Talk break
00:06:30 Bongripper – Slow (from Terminal)
00:26:48 Richard Allen Farmer – He Has A Way (from Leave Tomorrow To The Father)
00:29:47 Talk break
00:34:02 Kyle Bobby Dunn – Salve Regina / Glenmore (from Thesis Print/Track 04)
00:36:03 Virginia Belmont – Advice On Pets / Bambi / Traumerei (from Virginia Belmont’s Famous Singing & Talking Birds)
00:45:43 Juri Camisasca – Sincronie Part 1 (from Evoluzione Interiore)
00:48:41 Beverly Ann, Greta Thyssen, Tatiana McKenna interviewed by Bill Bertenshaw (from The Subject Is Flowers)
01:00:53 Talk break
01:06:01 Lychgate – The Contagion (from The Contagion In Nine Steps)
01:13:33 Joseph Spence – I’m Going To Live That Life (from Bahaman Folk Guitar – Music Of The Bahamas – Volume One)
01:19:55 Deathstench – Temples Of Dust (from Deathstench / Trepaneringsritualen split)
01:29:19 Talk break
01:32:44 Ned Milligan – Sternal Sky (from Nature Always Needs Improving)
01:33:59 Mrs. Marguerite Oswald – Side B (from The Oswald Case: Mrs. Marguerite Oswald Reads Lee Harvey Oswald’s Letters From Russia)
01:51:10 Lingua Ignota – For I Am The Light (And Mine Is The Only Way) / Holy Is The Name (Of My Ruthless Axe) (from All Bitches Die)
02:01:37 Talk break
02:03:44 Vaclav Nelhybel – Interplanetary Journey (from Outer Space)


 
This is a sorta special episode of A Thick Mist because I ditch the 100% vinyl format in lieu of 100% not vinyl. And this one only aired on BFF.fm, not WMWM. It’s a fundraiser episode for BFF.fm and just because you’re listening to it after it aired doesn’t mean you can’t support my show and the station in general. Stop by the BFF.fm page for A Thick Mist, click “support this show” and make everyone feel good.

Also, this episode fuckin rules because I played a bunch of my favorite stuff that either never got released on vinyl or I just don’t own it. There’s Gemini Sisters, Anna & Elizabeth, Nortt, Feminazgul, Mike Shiflet’s new Tetracosa series, some Dust-To-Digital releases, it’s all here.
 

Air date: August 20, 2018

Background Music: Andrew Weathers Trio – King Hell Ice, Black As The Grave, Slick As Glass (From Guitar Man Whirligig)

00:00:00 Frank Ferera – The Farmer’s Dream (From Victrola Favorites: Artifacts From Bygone Days)
00:03:04 Talk Break
00:05:28 Leechfeast – Tar (From Neon Crosses)
00:15:59 Sister Fleeta Mitchell And Rev. Willie Mae Eberhart – Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down (From Art Of Field Recording, Volume 1)
00:18:14 Michael Vallera – In Midafternoon (From All Perfect Days)
00:18:47 George E. Caraker – Self-Examination (From The Understanding And Self-Examination Of Breast Cancer)
00:28:59 Talk break
00:31:43 Mike Shiflet – 09:12:52.21 (From Tetracosa, Volume Four)
00:32:40 Tangle Eye, Fuzzy Red, Hard Hair & Group – Jumpin’ Judy (From Prison Songs – Historical Recordings From Parchman Farm, 1947-1948 – Volume 1: Murderous Home)
00:38:47 Hasan Kasa’i – Shushtari (Iranian) (From The Silk Road: A Musical Caravan (Masters And Traditions / Minstrels And Lovers))
00:45:17 Daniel Walsh – The Miner’s Doom (From Songs & Ballads Of Anthracite Miners)
00:51:56 Agung Player Of The Basalan Gong Ensemble – Duyug Mode On The Agung (From Music Of The Magindanao In The Philippines, Vol. 1 & 2)
00:52:35 Feminazgul – The Shadow Of Dead Gods (From The Age Of Men Is Over)
00:58:37 Talk Break
01:01:45 Gemini Sisters – Hurricane Shapes (From Gemini Sisters)
01:15:11 Nortt – Støv For Vinden (From Endeligt)
01:21:04 Anna & Elizabeth – Farewell To Erin (From The Invisible Comes To Us)
01:27:21 Madi K. Troupe – Ufo Gamelan (From Night Recordings From Bali)
01:29:43 Talk Break
01:31:39 Sandworm – Naal (From Lordsil)
01:36:15 N – Vreden (From Vreden)
01:36:15 Pente Meres Pantremeni Halkias Brothers Folk Orchestra – Five Days Married (From Five Days Married & Other Laments: Song And Dance From Northern Greece 1928 -1958)
01:42:08 William & Musa – Tuken Moral Songs (From Kenya & Tanzania: Witchcraft & Ritual Music)
01:50:03 Q. Sesser – Qqar Kököl Baatar (Luth) (From Mongolie – Chants Kazakh Et Tradition Épique De L’ouest)
01:54:41 Talk Break
01:56:49 Linda Watkins – Down To The Sea (From Lullabies & Dream Songs)


 
I’m back! I had to go a whole month without doing a new episode for A Thick Mist and it sucked. But this episode doesn’t suck. In fact, it rules. Tons of new top shelf shit. Enjoy.
 

Air date: July 25, 2018

Background music: Mouthus – Where The Bridge Was Found (from Mouthus / Bulbs split)

00:00:00 Afif Bulos – Hayyin Darb-Is-Seif (The Fall Of The Sword Is Easier) (from Songs Of Lebanon, Syria, & Jordan)
00:04:28 Talk break
00:08:35 Amarok – Devoured (from Devoured)
00:22:14 Babe Stovall – When The Circle Be Unbroken (from Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey Of Rural Black Religious Music)
00:24:58 Rakotozafy – Samy Faly (from Valiha Madagascar)
00:28:15 Talk break
00:32:05 Hawthonn – Lady Of The Flood (from Red Goddess (Of This Men Shall Know Nothing))
00:33:47 Jumalhämärä – Untitled B1 / Untitled B2 (excerpt) (from Resitaali)
00:44:11 Aidan Baker – When Sailors Die (from The Sea Swells A Bit)
00:45:14 Rev. C. L. Franklin – Satan Goes To Prayer Meeting Part 2 (from Satan Goes To Prayer Meeting)
01:01:16 Talk break
01:04:47 Yob – The Great Cessation (from The Great Cessation)
01:25:10 Robbie Basho – Salangadou (from Basho Sings)
01:29:17 Talk break
01:31:51 Nath Family – Side B (from Sounds Of The Indian Snake Charmer)
01:34:25 Sonung & Bahsim – Ga-Ra-Ra, Bosmun (from Crying Bamboos: Ceremonial Flute Music From New Guinea Madang)
01:51:05 Thantifaxath – Void Masquerading As Matter (from Void Masquerading As Matter)
01:58:33 Talk break
02:01:33 Rev. Charlie Jackson – Somewhere To Lay My Head (from You Got To Move: Live Recordings, Vol. 1)


 

Jon Rosenthal is a busy dude. He’s made harsh and heavy music with Venowl, Stellar Descent, and Ævangelist, and drone folk with Eitarnora. He’s also a big curmudgeon in the metal scene, a contributor to Decibel, a Pandora playlist curator, and the associate editor for Invisible Oranges, where he’s interviewed some of the most well-respected and enigmatic artists like Paysage d’Hiver, Nortt, Reverorum ib Malacht, and Elysian Blaze.

Footpaths is similar to Eitarnora but Footpaths leans more on the haunted drone than on the dusty folk and this is a solo outlet where he gets to be himself and let loose a deluge of somber sadness. He’s got a new one called Old Timer (Lost and Reclaimed) coming out in August on Montículo Creadores. Rosenthal has been steadily releasing material as Footpaths since his first split with Bunrage in 2010 and this new one is actually the first material he ever recorded under the Footpaths moniker back in 2009, and it’s a fucking winner. Easily some of the best drone I’ve heard this year. 22 short slices of mind-numbing Americana drone, broken memories caught in a locked groove that glisten and shimmer behind an overgrown thicket, with fog swirling around, clouding your view until you can only focus on that one discernible moment, Old Timer meets up somewhere between an ’80s dream pop downer and the new wave of guitar soli, then gets washed out and dragged like chum through freshwater.

You can check out the premier stream of the 21st untitled track on Old Timer below, then snag a pre-order of the digital version via Montículo Creadores, or wait until Rosenthal gets more copies of the super limited (as in, only 25) tape at a later date. Also, Footpaths will have some new new music (not an archival release) coming out sometime this Fall, which I’m pretty fuckin excited about, so definitely keep an eye out for that stuff.

And to celebrate this premier, Jon was kind enough to participate in my Q&A series.

 

 

What is an ideal death?
I used to think solitude would be nice — far away from loved ones and the noise of modern life — but, after bearing witness to a handful of deaths at this point, being surrounded by people who truly care about you has much more meaning than the misanthropic self-importance of being alone. We might be animals, but we lack the “flight in death” instinct, probably with reason. We don’t need to be alone.

 

What makes you happy?
My loved ones, my cat, my guitar, my records and tapes, and actually feeling the drive to write and record music. The latter grows more infrequent over the last six years, which is sad. The feeling of creativity.

 

How close have you come to death?
Who knows. I’ve been under so many different sedatives in the various surgeries to which I’ve been subjected during my life that I could have very possibly died multiple times. Car accidents happen, random accidents with sharp glass, and so on. You’d be surprised how often you mindlessly save yourself from the inevitable.

 

How can you make your life better?
Find balance. Finish graduate school, get a job, leave work at work, go places with my girlfriend, find a nice place to live, make life good for my cat (Marge).

 

What does kindness mean to you?
Kindness is humbling. I didn’t receive much outside recognition nor was part of many happy interactions when I was younger, so being on the receiving end of any sort of kindness is… humanizing (?) as an adult. It is a good feeling — makes me feel like a fellow person instead of some outside entity.

 

Where do you find love?
In those who love me back, or those who make me feel both extremes of the emotional spectrum.

In the people who mean the most to me. I could say “music,” but, in the end, my music collection is just a big room of “things.” “Things” can’t love you.

 

When were you most afraid?
A little over three years ago. I didn’t sleep, didn’t eat, couldn’t listen to music nor podcasts. My relationship died. I drank. A lot. I lost twenty pounds, and I’m not a large person. It was the worst six months of my life.

 

How do you listen to music?
Alone and with friends. The latter has become more frequent and the former the opposite. Music is something to be shared. I spend my personal time watching films and bad TV. Music has become commonplace and boring lately. Maybe it’s because my “day job” as a writer means I have to wade through, well, everything, or maybe I’m just depressed, but those moments when I listen to music which means something to me with friends who share that connection makes it so much more memorable and warming.


 
A pretty smooth episode, some older Fallen Empire releases, (one of?) the last Root Strata release, a Peking opera, a dude repeatedly yelling “help,” an unreleased Planning For Burial song, and one of my favorites from this year: Sonae.
 

Air date: June 27, 2018

Background music: Remst8 reworked by Drekka – Lissajous (from Drekka <—> Remst8)

00:00:00 Kilby Snow – Lonely Tombs (from Country Songs And Tunes With Autoharp)
00:03:06 Talk break
00:07:23 Skáphe – The Obelisk Gleam (from Skáphe)
00:18:47 Sonae – I Started Wearing Black (from I Started Wearing Black)
00:25:16 Hailu Mergia And The Walias – Yikirta Lemminalehu (from Tche Belew)
00:28:48 Talk break
00:32:56 Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar – Raga Vardhani: Alap (from Ragas Abhogi & Vardhani)
00:34:37 The Guerilla Art Action Group – Side B (from Action Interview At WBAI Radio Station NY)
00:55:48 Planning For Burial – 14 December 2011 (from Quietly)
00:57:48 Talk break
01:01:13 Reverend Gary Davis – Time Is Drawing Near (from Say No To The Devil)
01:05:36 Xothist – Blossom / A Binding (from Simulacrum)
01:17:35 Richard Burton reading Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner: Parts 3, 4, and 5 (from Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
01:25:14 Kagami – Mado (from Kagami)
01:29:22 Talk break
01:32:56 O Morto – The Spirits (from The Forest, The People, And The Spirits)
01:34:42 Court Official Pao Cheng, Emperor Chao Chen, Ch’en Lin, Attendant, Kuo Hai / Empress Li, Court Official Pao Cheng (from Beating The Dragon Robe)
01:44:40 Jason Sharp – Stand Above The Streams Part 3 (from Stand Above The Streams)
01:46:51 Reverend Michael P. Williams – Side A (from The God Who Takes A Little And Makes A Lot)
01:53:24 Damion Romero – III (excerpt) (from Friday The 13th)
01:59:27 Talk break
02:02:36 Robert “Guitar” Welch – Electric Chair Blues (from Angola Prisoner’s Blues)


 
Haitian, Nigerian, French, Creole, two “X” artists, and other cool shit.
 

Air date: June 13, 2018

Background music: Belong – Remove The Inside (from October Language)

00:00:00 Robin Roberts – Who Killed Cock Robin (from Fair And Tender Ladies)
00:02:00 Talk break
00:05:47 Yob – Beauty In Falling Leaves (from Our Raw Heart)
00:21:57 Unknown artists – Wake / Piano And Screaming / Funeral Procession “Ami Fidèle Et Tendre” (from Death In Haiti: Funeral Brass Bands & Sounds From Port Au Prince)
00:28:58 Talk break
00:32:38 Xela – Black Scripture (from The Illuminated)
00:35:00 Lotte Lenya reading Franz Kafka – A Hunger Artist (from The Stories Of Kafka)
00:52:50 Newaxeyes – Snowden (from Black Fax)
01:00:46 Talk break
01:03:08 Sir Waziri Oshomah And His Traditional Sound Makers – Oshiomegie Idonigie (from Vol. 3 – Sir Waziri Oshomah And His Traditional Sound Makers )
01:13:24 Canray Fontenot & Alphonse Ardoin – La Valse De La Prison (from Cajun Blues – Les Blues Du Bayou)
01:15:57 Sarah Davachi – Mordents (from Let Night Come On Bells End The Day)
01:19:04 Fred Lowery – The Church In The Wildwood (from Whistles Your Gospel Favorites)
01:26:48 Francoise Hardy – Mais Il Y A Des Soirs (from Mon Amour Adieu)
01:29:01 Talk break
01:32:16 Xasthur – Trauma Will Always Linger (from Subliminal Genocide)
01:40:38 The Caretaker – Stage 4 Post Awareness Confusions (from Everywhere At The End Of Time – Stage 4)
01:44:40 Peter Lorre – The Cask Of Amontillado (from Three Skeleton Key / The Thing On The Fourble Board)
01:51:10 Olando R. Hill – Biography: Tell Them We Are Rising (from Tell Them We Are Rising: Biography Of Major Richard Robert Wright, Sr.)
01:59:56 Talk break
02:02:58 Blind Boy Fuller, Sonny Terry, & Bull City Red – Pistol Slapper Blues (from Blind Boy Fuller With Sonny Terry And Bull City Red)


 
I think this was an especially good episode, the doom raga mixed with flute raga, the death of rave mixed with Tibetan bells, musique concrète with summer camp field recordings, the new Mizmor, the new Anna Von Hausswolff, master McDowell, and a new-to-me collaboration between Leila Abdul-Rauf and Tor Lundvall. 100% excellent.
 

Air date: June 6, 2018

Background music: Expressway Yo-Yo Dieting – Side C (from Bubblethug)

00:00:00 Leila Abdul-Rauf & Tor Lundvall – Quiet Seaside (from Ibis / Quiet Seaside)
00:04:29 Talk break
00:08:34 Mizmor – This Unabating Wakefulness (from This Unabating Wakefulness)
00:23:21 Lago Antoine – Gnonon Gue (from Assalam Aleikoum Africa Volume 2)
00:29:21 Talk break
00:32:14 Sachdev- Raga Bhupali Part 1 (from Raga Bhupali)
00:34:16 Tecumseh – Cascadia (from Avalanche And Inundation)
00:53:04 Anna Von Hausswolff – Källans Återuppståndelse (from Dead Magic)
01:00:23 Talk break
01:03:50 Eigenlicht – Berserker (from Self-Annihilating Consciousness)
01:12:00 No artist – Riflery / Last Campfire (from The Sounds Of Camp)
01:15:23 Harry Partch – U.S. Highball (from Untitled)
01:31:40 Talk break
01:34:23 Fred McDowell & Johnny Woods – Red Cross Store (from Eight Years Ramblin’)
01:39:15 Henry Wolff & Nancy Hennings – A Choir Of Bells (from Tibetan Bells)
01:39:50 Leyland Kirby presents V/Vm – Marple Libradome ’91 / Smithy & Dave The Rave / Big Eddie’s Van – Bowlers Car Park (from The Death Of Rave (A Partial Flashback))
01:56:14 Brigth Engelberts And The B.E. Movement – Shifty Hand Woman (from Tolambo Funk)
02:01:08 Talk break
02:03:44 Reverend Pearly Brown – Oh What A Mourning (from Georgia Street Singer)

The Country Girls album cover
 
The new CHRCH record is the absolute best and not nearly enough people are talking about Leila Abdul-Rauf. OR Timber Rattle, that shit is premium doom drone folk. And that Yoshi Wada/Popol Vuh blend is pretty heavenly. Also, kinda surprised I haven’t played Yautja yet, like anywhere on AGB, ever. Finally remedied that. So yeah this episode rules.
 

Air date: May 23, 2018

Background music: Demdike Stare – Curzon (from Wonderland)

00:00:00 Pink Anderson – Wreck Of The Old ‘97 (from American Street Songs)
00:03:30 Talk break
00:06:52 CHRCH – Portals (from Light Will Consume Us All)
00:21:28 Timber Rattle – Beast Of Passage (from Phantoms Of Place)
00:30:45 Talk break
00:36:14 Terence Hannum – Invocation Of Deities (from Spectral Life)
00:37:39 Emile De Antonio & Mark Lane – Side B (from Rush To Judgment)
00:49:07 En – Elysia (excerpt) (from Already Gone)
01:00:25 Talk break
01:03:26 Balachander – Sarasa Saama Dhaana (from Sounds Of The Veena)
01:14:55 Yautja – Faith Resigned (from Songs Of Descent)
01:21:47 Bobby Cadillac – Carbolic Acid Blues (from When Women Sang The Blues)
01:24:44 Leila Abdul-Rauf – Wayward (from Diminution)
01:29:34 Talk break
01:32:56 Yoshi Wada – Side E (from Earth Horns With Electronic Drone)
01:36:10 Popol Vuh – Why Do I Still Sleep (from Agape-Agape Love-Love)
01:43:36 Monks from Gyütö Tantric College, Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh – Side A (from Tibetan Buddhism – Tantras Of Gyütö: Mahakala)
02:02:07 Talk break
02:04:27 Elvie Thomas – Motherless Child Blues (from The Country Girls! 1927-1935)

gregorian chant album cover
 
Very happy to finally have both of those ColdWorld records, the new Insect Ark is incredibly underrated, and the mix of Oneirogen with Gregorian chanting is one of my favorite A Thick Mist moments in a long while.

Also, I fixed the clipping issue from last week (someone fucked with the recording equipment in the studio).
 

Air date: May 16, 2018

Background music: Cut Hands – Black Mamba (from Black Mamba)

00:00:00 Cleoma B. Falcon – Ils Ont Vole Mon Traineau (They Stole My Sled) (from A Cajun Music Classic)
00:02:56 Talk break
00:08:39 ColdWorld – Climax Of Sorrow (from Autumn)
00:15:29 Lou Harrison with Gamelan Sekbar Kembar & Susan Bates – Threnody For Carlos Chavez (from Three Pieces For Gamelan With Soloists / String Quartet)
00:22:31 Mississippi Fred McDowell – Mercy (from Live In New York)
00:29:37 Talk break
00:32:35 Pocahaunted – Sister Calypso (from Mirror Mics)
00:34:51 J. Evetts Haley – Side B (from A Texan Looks At Lyndon! A Study In Illegitimate Power)
00:51:20 Insect Ark – Windless (from Marrow Hymns)
01:00:02 Talk break
01:04:13 Black Mecha – Mobile Anzug Damgun (from Counterforce)
01:15:03 Oneirogen – Kukulkan (from Hypnos)
01:16:05 Pius X Choir Of Manhattanville College Of The Sacred Heart – Side B (from Gregorian Chant)
01:29:22 Talk break
01:33:03 ColdWorld – Red Snow (from Melancholie)
01:40:49 Dag Rosenqvist – The Gate (White Nights, Split Lips) (from Fall Into Fire)
01:46:18 Unknown Symondsbury “team of men” – The Mummer’s Play (from Columbia World Library Of Folk And Primitive Music, Volume III: England)
01:49:33 Pelican – Ran Amber (from Pelican / Mono split)
01:58:33 Talk break
02:01:29 Ella Jenkins – Tah-Boo (from Rhythmic Group Singing)