New Eluvium, new Turk Dietrich & Duane Pitre collab (First Tone), new Mamiffer, new Tim Macuga (HANL) project (Consumer), new age piano, Holocaust despair, Russian chorus, and Gullah sermons.
 

Air date: February 5, 2020

Background music: Russell Haswell – Nutrino Hunter (from 37 Minute Workout)

00:00:00 Talk break
Vril Jäger – Celestial Bliss (from Celestial Bliss)
Mamiffer – Hymn Of Eros (from The Brilliant Tabernacle)
00:26:00 Talk break
Eluvium – Virga I (from Virga I)
Virginia M. Geraty – Rebus Tuh Rebulashun (from Maum Chrish’ Chaa’stun. A Gullah Story By Virginia M. Geraty)
Jay Arrigo – The Joy Of Being (excerpt) (from Organic Synthesis)
Side B (excerpt) (from Nights Of Love In Lesbos)
00:59:50 Talk break
Anhedonist – Inherent Opprobrium (from Netherwards)
Sarah Gorby – Tzien Sich Machnes Far Tribene (Marching Toward Death) (from Songs Of The Ghetto)
Consumer – In Computers Pt. 1 (from In Computers)
01:31:50 Talk break
First Tone – Reaction 2 (from Reactions)
Piatnitsky Women’s Chorus – The Gusli Serenade (from Russian Choral Music)
James Roosevelt – Side B (from A Fireside Chat On Social Security And Medicare)
Fleurety – Fragmenter Av En Fortid (from Min Tid Skal Komme)
Orthrelm – Untitled 1 / 2 / 5 (from Trans Atlantic Asthma Attack)
01:59:40 Talk break

 
I played a bunch of my favorite metal records. The full Top 27 list is here, so consider this episode a 2-hour highlight reel.
 

Air date: January 29, 2020

Background music: False – The Serpent Sting, The Smell Of Goat (from Portent)

00:00:00 Talk break
Mizmor – Cairn To God (from Cairn)
Astronoid – I Dream In Lines (from Astronoid)
Nusquama – De Aarde Dorst (from Horizon Ontheemt)
00:31:00 Talk break
Big Brave – Holding Pattern (from A Gaze Among Them)
Ragana – Waiting / The Tower (from We Know That The Heavens Are Empty)
00:57:40 Talk break
Il’Ithil – Mother Protect Her From Harm (from On This Day We Were Reborn In A Shroud Of Light And Shadow)
Tvar – Палач (Executioner) (from Tvar)
Night’s Threshold – Feasting In Your Fears (from Deep Within The Night)
Borda’s Rope – My Axe Soaked With Paikra’s Gore (from Across The Black Deltaruin)
01:31:00 Talk break
Sutekh Hexen – Torrential (from Sutekh Hexen)
Crawl – A Broken Lich (from Necrotic Fear)
Bull Of Apis, Bull Of Bronze – What Awaits Us (A Void Is But An Open Mouth) (from Offerings Of Flesh And Gold)
Sadness – I Want To Be With You (from I Want To Be There)
02:01:30 Talk break

 
I played a bunch of my favorite drone records. The full Top 27 list is here, so consider this episode a 2-hour highlight reel.
 
Air date: January 22, 2020

Background music: Jessica Ekomane – Solid Of Revolution (from Multivocal)

00:00:00 Talk break
Mára – Sangre De Cristo I-VII (from Here Behold Your Own)
00:27:48 Talk break
Efrim Manuel Menuck & Kevin Doria – Fight The Good Fight (from are SING, SINCK, SING)
Kali Malone – Spectacle Of Ritual (from The Sacrificial Code)
Maria W Horn – Konvektion (from Epistasis)
00:59:46 Talk break
J. Pavone String Ensemble – By And Large (from Brick And Mortar)
William Engelen – Announcing (from Today, The Organ Has Played Beautifully Again)
Sarah Louise – Late Night Healing Choir (from Nighttime Birds And Morning Stars)
Jen Kutler – Meg Noe (from Disembodied)
01:25:53 Talk break
Microtub – Chronic Shift (from Chronic Shift)
Ellen Arkbro – Chords For Organ (from Chords)
Mondkopf – Growing (from How Deep Is Our Love?)
02:06:49 Talk break

 
Lots of long songs and maybe the first time ever there’s no American folk/blues to be found. Even so, there’s Japanese flutes, génocidaire trial recordings, Indian ragas, nondescript LSD instructions, Finnish doom, Italian dark ambient, and readings from the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
 

Air date: December 18, 2019

Background music: Orthrelm – Urthiln (from 2nd 18/O4 Norildivoth Crallos-Lomrixth Urthiln)

00:00:00 Talk break
Swallow The Sun – Emerald Forest And The Blackbird (from Emerald Forest And The Blackbird)
Masters Of Meian-Ryu, Kimpu-Ryu, Tozan-Ryu And Kikusi-Ryu – Sekihiki No Fu (from Japanese Masterpieces For The Shakuhachi)
Alessandro Cortini – Momenti / La Storia / Sabbia (from Volume Massimo)
00:32:37 Talk break
Ali Akbar Khan & Mahapurush Misra – Rag Kanara Prakaar, Part 1 (from The 80 Minute Raga)
Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, & Richard Alpert – Going Out (from The Psychedelic Experience)
00:58:26 Talk break
Falls Of Rauros – Weapons Of Refusal (from Patterns In Mythology)
Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, & Jesse Paris Smith – Brilliant Lights / Listen Without Distraction (from Songs From The Bardo)
01:30:38 Talk break
Winterblood – I (Chapter 1) (from Waldeinsamkeit)
Side B (excerpt) (from 6 Million Accuse)
Grouper – Dragging The Streets (from A I A : Dream Loss)
01:59:24 Talk break

 
Some especially nice pairings in this episode, including RST’s drone & Haitian ritual music, Curran’s Canti Illuminati alongside some Indian ragas, and Truman Capote reading over Primitive Man’s dark ambient doom. Also, I hope next year is the year of Profetus. They fuckin deserve it.
 
Air date: December 4, 2019

Background music: Millie & Andrea – Back Down (from Drop The Vowels)

00:00:00 Talk break
Profetus – Tiarnia (from The Sadness Of Time Passing)
RST – Ultimate Immaterial / Sun Downers (from RST)
Unknown Haitian musicians – Side A (from Divine Horsemen: The Voodoo Gods Of Haiti)
00:29:55 Talk break
Hazel Dickens & Alice Foster – A Tiny Broken Heart (from Won’t You Come & Sing For Me)
Sri Swami Rama (Sri Manmohanpahari & Sri Satish Kumar / Sri Satish Kumar & Sri Vinod Kumar) – Gunghat Ke Pat Khol / Raga Saraswati (from Temple Music And Chants)
Alvin Curran – Canti Illuminati (For Choir, Synthesizer, Piano, And Tape) (from Canti Illuminati)
01:02:13 Talk break
HWWAUOCH – Not Anything (from Into The Labyrinth Of Consciousness)
Lewlewal De Podor – Diaraby (from Yiilo Jaam)
A Winged Victory For The Sullen – Adios, Florida (from The Undivided Five)
01:27:57 Talk break
Primitive Man – Fear (from Steel Casket)
Truman Capote – Part II (from Children On Their Birthdays)
The Kessinger Brothers – Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down (from Clark And Luches)
01:58:00 Talk break

 
Piano-driven funeral doom, an instrumental Julee Cruise song, my man Nimrod, Joik songs, UFO reports, and Poe stories.
 
Air date: November 20, 2019

Background music: Joshua Sabin – Sutarti V (from Sutarti)

00:00:00 Talk break
Slow – Elégie (from VI – Dantalion)
Mount Eerie & Julie Doiron – Belief (from Lost Wisdom Pt. 2)
David Lynch & Angelo Badalamenti – Mysteries Of Love (Instrumental) (from Blue Velvet Soundtrack)
00:29:30 Talk break
Trepaneringsritualen – ᛉ (from ᛉᛦ – Algir; Eller Algir I Merkstave)
Long John Nebel – Side A (from The Flying Saucer Story)
Abbot Lung Ken – Hua-Yen Tzu-Mu Liturgy (from Chinese Buddhist Music)
01:01:43 Talk break
L’Acephale – Winternacht (from L’Acephale)
Nimrod Workman – Black Lung Song (from Mother Jones’ Will)
Kathryn & Duffy & The Enemies List – Pre-Impeachment Blues (from Nixon’s The One / Pre-Impeachment Blues)
01:31:00 Talk break
Joanna Brouk – The Space Between (from The Space Between)
Edgar Allen Poe read by Basil Rathbone – The Black Cat (from Basil Rathbone Reads Edgar Allen Poe, Vol. 1)
Deathprod – Occultation 2 (from Occulting Disk)
Inga Susanne Heatta – Anna Sofia Mienna / Johan Buljo / Malen Inga Benna; Inga M. Haetta – Mana Gallaka Noukat (from Lappish Joik Songs From Northern Norway)
02:01:00 Talk break

 
Faith Coloccia (Mára) is a perfect music creator.

I’m going to stop adding time stamps for every piece of (non)music I play because it’s pretty time consuming to add. And considering the number of songs I play in each set, I think it’s kind of unnecessary, especially since I’ll be keeping time stamps for each talk break. Let me know if this is a huge loss for you.

I’m moving A Thick Mist to a new time slot on WMWM. It’ll be Wednesdays from 10-noon (EST) which I think will 1: help me be more consistent with my attendance and 2: give more people a chance to listen live.

Also, I finally figured out the RSS thing. I sincerely apologize for enormously fucking that up. Here’s where things stand now.

• The AGB site as a whole has its regular RSS. The only thing that’s changed there is now the audio for the podcasts shows up in the feed.
• A Thick Mist has its own RSS. This used the be the case but when I redesigned the site this summer, it completely destroyed the feed and I really didn’t know how bad it was until very recently.
• A Thick Mist is now up on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, and Blubrry. If you have other platforms that you would like to use for listening to A Thick Mist, let me know.

Air date: October 23, 2019

Background music: Explosions In The Sky – Day Six (from The Rescue)

00:00:00 Talk break
False – The Serpent Sting, The Smell Of Goat / Postlude (from Portent)
Rich Amerson and Earthy Anne Coleman – Jonah / Dock Reed – Low Down Death Right Easy (from Negro Folk Music Of Alabama, Vol. II: Religious Music)
Side B (excerpt) (from Songs Of The Forest)
00:29:00 Talk break
Mára – A New Young Birth I-VII (from Here Behold Your Own)
00:59:00 Talk break
Ustad Imrat Khan – Rag – Imratkauns (from Ajmer)
Bill Steinkraus – Side B (excerpt) (from Bill Steinkraus Teaches Training & Showing The Jumper)
Dead Neanderthals – Bone Hill (from Ghosts)
01:30:30 Talk break
Clarence Tom Ashley & Doc Watson – Rising Sun Blues (from Old Time Music At Clarence Ashley’s Part 2)
Unknown Baoule musiciains – Invocation, Entrance, And Dance Of The Glaou (from Music And Dances Of Occidental Africa)
Lightning Bolt – Van Halen 2049 (from Sonic Citadel)
Black Cilice – Outerbody Incarnation (from Transfixion Of Spirits)
02:00:30 Talk break

 
New Mizmor! Hum reissue! New Impavida! Claire M. Singer reissue! A tuba/drum duo I’d never heard of before!
 

Air date: October 16, 2019

Background music: Cocteau Twins – Persephone (from Treasure)

00:00:00 Talk break
00:02:47 Clouds Collide – Infinite Purgatory (from They Don’t Sleep Anymore)
00:15:08 Korean Jeans – Ballot (from No Trust)
00:16:30 Side B (excerpt) (from The Groupies)
00:30:10 Talk break
00:33:23 Balachander & Sivaraman – Ihaparamenum (from Sangeeta Madras: Magic Music From South India)
00:34:45 Matthew Sullivan – Pigeon (from Matthew)
00:56:28 Rev. F. McGhee – Nothing To Do In Hell (from Negro Religious Music Volume 3: Singing Preachers And Their Congregations)
00:59:45 Talk break
01:02:38 Mizmor – Cairn To Suicide (from Cairn)
01:15:08 Claire M. Singer – Solas (from Trian (Recent Works))
01:17:00 Side C (excerpt) (from River On A Rampage)
01:25:37 Hum – Ms. Lazarus (from Downward Is Heavenward)
01:29:15 Talk break
01:33:11 Hum – The Scientists (from Downward Is Heavenward)
01:38:33 Impavida – The First Flame Initiates The Cleansing Of Putrid Terrestrial Spirits (from Antipode)
01:54:47 Elizabeth Knight & John Abbott – Sobotenka (from Folk Songs From Czechoslovakia)
01:59:58 Talk break

 
I can’t believe I haven’t seen anyone mention the new Il’Ithil record, it’s Blake Green’s (Wolvserpent) solo project which I’d never heard of before. It’s incredible. Also, I am so so in love with both Sarah Gunning’s and Nimrod Workman’s voices. Workman’s song here is just pure despair and it pours out of every word. Also, I think it was kind of funny to play music made from vibrators alongside some dude talking to boys about puberty.
 
Air date: October 2, 2019

Background music: Holly Herndon – Terminal (from Movement)

00:00:00 Talk break
00:04:50 Il’Ithil – Father Protect Her From Evil (from On This Day We Were Reborn In A Shroud Of Light And Shadow)
00:19:53 Peggy Seeger – Nine Month Blues (from Penelope Isn’t Waiting Anymore)
00:24:15 Ayllu Sulca – Condorkunka (from Music Of The Incas)
00:29:10 Talk break
00:32:40 Harry Bertoia – Experimental I (from Experimental I / Mechanical I)
00:34:00 Ladji Camara – Koma (from Africa, New York)
00:47:25 Blarf – I Worship Satan (from Cease & Desist)
00:59:58 Talk break
01:03:10 Otto Luening & Vladimir Ussachevsky – A Poem In Cycles And Bells (from A Poem In Cycles And Bells & Other Music For Tape Recorder)
01;04:14 Donald E. Bowlus – Side B (from What It Means To Grow Up: A Boy’s Introduction To The Physical Changes Of Adolescence)
01:18:00 Extended Organ – Vibe (from Vibe)
00:22:50 Peter E. Tevis & Kelly Jean Peters – Sibe B (excerpt) (from The Complete Cockatiel Training Album)
00:33:18 Talk break
01:36:23 Bog Body – Through The Burial Bog (from Through The Burial Bog)
01:45:40 Hazel Dickens – Cold Blooded Murder / Sarah Gunning – Come All You Coal Miners / Nimrod Workman – Both Lungs Is Broke Down (from Come All You Coal Miners)
01:53:15 Tomás Pavón – Martinete Y Debla / Soleares De Serneta (from Early Cante Flamenco, Vol. 1: Great And Rare Recordings 1934-1939)
01:59:12 Talk break

 
Going from Oliveros/Klucevsek to RAI with Gundella spanning the gap sounds pretty fucking good. And Margalit’s whisper chant is creepy/cool as hell. I highly recommend Kirkegaard’s new one on Important where his instruments are different sized metal sheets.
 
Air date: August 21, 2019

Background music: Matchess – The Fog (from The Rafter)

00:00:00 Talk break
00:03:14 Se Lusiferin Kannel – Auringon Valtakunta (from Valtakunta)
00:22:28 George Spangler & Thornton Regular Baptist Church Congregation – Why Must I Wear This Shroud? (from The Gospel Ship: Baptist Hymns & White Spirituals From The Southern Mountains)
00:27:28 Talk break
00:31:14 Jakob Kirkegaard – Black Square 100 (from Black Metal Square)
00:33:00 Ursula K. LeGuin – Gwilan’s Harp (from Gwilan’s Harp & Intracom)
00:47:31 Unknown Java musicians – Gending Anglirmendung (from Java: Music Of Mystical Enchantment)
01:05:24 Talk break
01:07:33 Vale – Grief Undone (from Burden Of Sight)
01:14:37 Dorsey Dixon – Wreck On The Highway (from Babies In The Mill)
01:17:45 Margalit – Deheh-Deh (The Whispering Beggar) (from Travel With Me My Dove And Listen To Me: Songs Of The Middle East)
01:20:40 Inter Arma – Stillness (from Sulphur English)
01:29:43 Talk break
01:32:52 Pauline Oliveros & Guy Klucevsek – The Tuning Meditation (from Sounding / Way)
01:34:25 Gundella – Gundella Tells You How To Cast A Spell (from Gundella: The Hour Of The Witch)
01:52:30 Rafael Anton Irisarri – Decay Waves (from Solastalgia)
02:00:08 Talk break

 
The new Lingua Ignota record is a fucking masterpiece.
 

Air date: August 7, 2019

Background music: Tara Jane O’Neil & Nikaido Kazumi – 4 Trains (from Tara Jane O’Neil & Nikaido Kazumi)

00:00:00 Talk break
00:02:59 Waste Of Space Orchestra – Syntheosis (from Syntheosis)
00:15:05 Master Musicians Of Ikuta-Ryu – Sakaya / Nagare / Shochikubai (from Japanese Treasures)
00:29:14 Talk break
00:31:44 Pauline Oliveros – The Beauty Of Sorrow (from Tara’s Room)
00:35:35 D4 / C2 / A6 / B7 (from Women Vs. The System Or The Games Men Play)
00:49:30 Fisherman Mary Cardwell – Meditation (from An Anointed Healing Session With Martha Jean “The Queen” At The Home Of Love)
00:59:09 Talk break
01:03:36 Lingua Ignota – I Am The Beast (from Caligula)
01:11:35 Manitas De Plata – Moritas Moras De Plata (from Flamenco Guitar)
01:23:42 The Boswell Sisters – Was That The Human Thing To Do (from The Boswell Sisters 1932-34)
01:26:46 Talk break
01:30:00 Nivhek – After Its Own Death Part I (from After Its Own Death / Walking In A Spiral Towards The House)
01:31:00 Martha Jean “The Queen” – Healing Experience (from An Anointed Healing Session With Martha Jean “The Queen” At The Home Of Love)
01:46:46 夢遊病者 – First Utterance / Last Utterance (from Ѫ)
02:03:27 Talk break

 
This is the 100th episode of A Thick Mist so I figured I’d do something a little special. I did an entire episode with no music. Everything I played is a field recording, spoken word, sound effects, etc. There’s only one exception: the Reese Williams record, which is intended to be musical in nature but is made of the widest range of human vocalizations that I thought it fit well here.

I only added time stamps for the talk breaks and the beginning of each section because identifying the rest of the times would have been damn near impossible. Also, most of the time I played excerpts, so even when it says something like “Side B”, I only played part of the full side.

Thanks for listening. Here’s to 100 more.

Air date: July 31, 2019

Background music: The Vampires Castle (from Ghostly Sounds)

00:00:00 Talk break
00:02:32 Side B (from The Swamp In June)
Beverly Ann (from The Subject Is Flowers)
Side A (from Technical Series: Professional Test Record)
Side B (from Canine Heart Sounds)
Side B (from Iron Horse Rambles)
Vincent Price – Side C (from Witchcraft – Magic: An Adventure In Demonology)
00:33:06 Talk break
00:35:58 Reese Williams – Part One (from Sonance Project In Two Parts)
Side A (from Vietnam: With The American Fighting Man)
Gladys Ruth Kanter – Daytime Relaxation (from Real Relaxation: A Prime Key To Good Health)
Side B (from The Language And Music Of The Wolves)
Side B (from Medium: Paranormal Field Recordings And Compositions, 1901-2017)
Side A (from An Evening In Sapsucker Woods)
Eva Le Gallienne & Louis Jourdan reading Charles Baudelaire – Side B (from Les Fleurs Du Mal)
Side B (from Tortura: The Sounds Of Pain And Pleasure)
01:01:43 Talk break
01:04:05 Side A (from Sebastian Speaks)
Elizabeth Clare Prophet – Side A (from The Sounds Of American Doomsday Cults, Vol. 14: The Church Universal And Triumphant, Inc.)
Dr. Thelma Moss – ESP Research (Parapsychology) (from The Occult Explosion)
Side B (from Sound Communication By The Bottlenosed Dolphin)
Side B (from American Hot Rod Association 1963 Winter Championships, Arizona Raceway – Phoenix, Arizona)
Side A (from Environments Disc 1)
James Baldwin – Side A (from Black Man In America)
01:31:14 Talk break
01:34:12 Side B (from World War I Fighter Planes In Action)
Ursula K. Le Guin – An Orgota Creation Myth (from The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas)
Side B (from Auscultation Of The Heart)
Side B (from Songs Of The Humpback Whale)
Elijah Muhammad – Side A (from Muhammad Speaks: The Time Of Judgement, Volume 2, Part 1)
Side B (from Hollerin’)
Side A (from Dawn Chorus: The Birds Of Morning Pro Musica)
01:58:38 Talk break

 
The new Kali Malone record features Ellen Arkbro on (at least) one song and two of my favorite dudes High Aura’d & Josh Mason put out a record together. Too much to handle. I’ve also got a couple recent Mystískaos releases, a sermon from Freddie Gage, some Greek folksongs, classic koto music, discussions about diabetes, and a classic Morricone score.
 

Air date: July 24, 2019

Background music: Emptyset – Interstice (from Medium)

00:00:00 Talk break
00:03:09 Delirant – I / II (from Delirant)
00:22:20 Ogoya Nengo And The Dodo Women’s Group – Lucas Odhiambo (from Rang’ala: New Recordings From Siaya County, Kenya)
00:29:17 Talk break
00:32:54 Kali Malone – Hagakyrka Bells / The Sacrificial Code (from The Sacrificial Code)
00:35:30 Freddie Gage – Side 2 (excerpt) (from Pulpit In The Shadows: The Story Of The Underworld Preacher)
00:48:10 High Aura’d & Josh Mason – Black (from Lower Yr Voice)
00:50:10 Kimio Eto – Kinuta (The Sound Of Water) (from The Sound Of The Koto)
00:58:03 Talk break
01:01:08 Rufus Thibodeaux – Pauvre Clochard (from Cajun Fiddle)
01:03:32 Wreck & Reference – Eris Came To Me At Night (from Absolute Still Life)
01:08:12 Ennio Morricone – Un Uomo Da Rispettare (from Un Uomo Da Rispettare)
01:19:47 Brownie McGhee – Griev’n Hearted Blues (from Traditional Blues)
01:23:00 Theodore Alevizos – Yiallo-Yiallo / Psaropoula (from Greek Folksongs)
01:26:56 Talk break
01:30:25 Catherine Christer Hennix – Music Of Auspicious Clouds Part II (from The Deontic Miracle: Selections From 100 Models Of Hegikan Roku)
01:32:24 Rachmiel Levine, J. Vallance-Owen, Rafael A. Camerini-Davalos, Stefan S. Fajans, & David Morris Kipnis – Side B (from The Early Phases Of Diabetes Mellitus)
01:50:50 Andavald – Hugklofnun (from Undir Skyggðarhaldi)
02:00:50 Talk break