A Blander Blog

My Gospel Song for You - Mark Olson & Gary Louris
I’m Not in Love - 10cc
Alone On Piano - Colin Newman
Fonograf - Machinefabriek
Not a Robot, But a Ghost - Andrew Bird
Woa - Zazou/Bikaye/CY1
No Name Tune - Guillermo Klein & Los Guachos
Africa Anteria - Magma
Egypt Strut - The Sun Ra Arkestra
Long Distance Runaround - The Bad [...]

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Arve Henriksen - Ascent
Robert Fripp/Brian Eno - Ankaa
Naked City - Fleurs du Mal
KTL - Game
Günter Müller/Toshimaru Nakamura - …..tint
Roscoe Mitchell Quintet - For Now
Gavin Bryars - Last Hymn (from The Sinking of the Titanic)
Vladimir Spivakov/Sergej Bezrodny - Spiegel im Spiegel - 1 [Arvo Pärt]
Philip Jeck - Residue
Aphex Twin - Lichen

The mix can be downloaded here.
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Thom Yorke - And it Rained All Night
Apparat - Birds
Terre Loves Robin (a.k.a. Scanner & Terre) - Terre Loves Robin
Theo Bleckmann - An den kleinen Radioapparat
The Bowed Piano Ensemble & Victoria Hansen- Evening on Como (Stephen Scott)
Necronomicon - Wenn die Haifische Menschen wären
Einstürzende Neubauten - U-Haft-Muzak
Jackie-O Motherfucker - Native Einstein
Muslimgauze - Extract 2
Sightings - The [...]

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Adrian Sherwood/Doug Wimbish - Karma-Cola
Luc Ferrari - Place des Abbesses [excerpt]
Firewitch - Villain
KK Null - 7 (from ERG per GALAXY)
Robert Black - Look She Said: IV (Christian Wolff)
Davy Graham - Better Get Hit In Your Soul (Charles Mingus)
The Jazztet - Blues March (Benny Golson)
Moppa Elliott’s Mostly Other People Do the Killing - Moanin’ (Bobby Timmons)
Barnacled [...]

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Christian Wallumrød Ensemble - Arch Dance with Trumpet
Joan La Barbara - Slow Waltz [Morton Feldman]
David Grubbs - The Not-So-Distant
Christina Carter - Original Darkness
Gamelan Son of Lion - Random Chords
Humi - Seki No Gohonmatsu
Aidan Baker/Tim Hecker - Dream of the Nightmare
Grails - The Natural Man
Ugur Dogan - Vital
Jan Jelinek - Moiré (Strings)

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Music - My Bloody Valentine, Reunited, Rediscovers the Love - Review - NYTimes.com
Mr. Shields, 45, who leads My Bloody Valentine, is soft-spoken and shy, and he rarely gives interviews. But he spent much of the festival amid the audience, eager to hear the music he had booked. Occasionally he was recognized by respectful [...]

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Triptych Myth - Robinia Pseudoacacia
Yusef Lateef - Purple Flower
Mauger - Meddle Music
Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut Quintet - Allemansratten: Picking Wild Flowers
Ornette Coleman - The Legend of Bebop
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - I’m Not So Sure
Arthur Blythe - Odessa
Muhal Richard Abrams - Quartet to Quartet
Greg Osby - Humility
Marilyn Crispell - Stilleweg

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Ed Askew - Red Woman-Letter to England
Eliza Carthy - Simple Things
Blitzen Trapper - Fire & Fast Bullets
Yeasayer - Worms
Grizzly Bear - Little Brother
The Beach Boys - That’s Not Me
Sandy Denny - Solo
Rale - Moondance
Fred Frith - Jigsaw
Machinefabriek - Porselein
Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet - A Fond Farewell
Corey Dragel/Margaret Lancaster - Robin Redbreast [Eve Beglarian/Stanley Kunitz]

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Trip Inside This House: 10 Questions
I have the honor to present you… Barbara Manning!
Another must-read edition of “10 Questions,” this time with the wonderful Barbara Manning. Now Barbara, enough with this interview stuff, get with the recording of “Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy” already, huh?

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Muxtape
I didn’t get into this to build a big company as fast as I could no matter what the cost, I got into this to make something simple and beautiful for people who love music…

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