These “Panthers on the Roof” assume protean guises and forms. Jazz, punk, garage, space, and/or psych information is fed in and a dynamic medium of astrological and geological sciences is the result.
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Mike Pursley
E.T. Habit, “Panthers on the Roof” LP
Eric Chenaux, “Guitar & Voice”
The plainspoken naming of Eric Chenaux’s “Guitar & Voice,” though accurate, does little to convey the sonic and emotional range and exceptional beauty contained within.
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Horaflora, “Craterellus Cornucopioides” LP
I’ve now been following the work of Raub Roy (Horaflora) for a couple years and have been consistently amazed.
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Birchall/Brice/Marks Trio, “Spitting Feathers” CDr
On “Spitting Feathers” the talented trio of David Birchall (guitar), Olie Brice (double bass), and Phillip Marks (percussion) produce a clattersome tonal plinking evoking teeming machines con- and de-structing a stone and iron metropolis.
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Jean-Luc Fafchamps, “KDGhZ2SA, A Six-Letter Sufi Word”
For ten years Belgian composer Jean-Luc Fafchamps has written music inspired by and named after the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet.
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Roadside Picnic, “Terminal Swan Songs” tape
Roadside Picnic is a noisier project from Justin Wiggan. It is also Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s 1972 sci-fi novel that inspired Tarkovsy’s 1979 classic film “Stalker.”
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Causa Sui, “Pewt’r Sessions 1-2″ 2CD
The CD reissue of Causa Sui’s (with guest Ron Schneiderman) “Pewt’r Sessions 1-2” saturates the sky with instrumental neon, bringing the sessions’ endless and timeless (but thoroughly 60s influenced) riffing to those who missed the original vinyl editions.
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German Army “Turkish Bath”
Exhibit A: “Turkish Bath” is an hour and change of synth and drum machine bummers.
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Scott Morrison, “Ballad(s) for Quiet Horizons” DVD
Australian audiovisual artist Scott Morrison’s “Ballad(s) for Quiet Horizons” reimagines common natural elements as the astounding works of energy, balance, and perfection that they truly are.
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Mike Pursley’s 2011 Year-End List
Best Album Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues 2xLP/CD/DL (Sub Pop) It’s understandable why folks find them overzealous, but Helplessness Blues really moved me this year. It’s stunningly written and played and sung and I’ll be revisiting this one many times. Best Song “Beware” from Death Grips, Ex Military (Third Worlds) I love how relentless and potent...
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Alvarius B, “Blood Operatives of the Barium Sunset”
Alan Bishop’s “Blood Operatives of The Barium Sunset,” is my favorite reissue of 2011.
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Group Inerane “Guitars from the Agadez Volume 3″ CD
Group Inerane play beginning and endless blues like curling smoke from nomadic fires illuminating an ancient now.
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Jane Barbe/Akrotiri Poacher, s/t split tape
Numbers stations broadcast seemingly random stings of integers and intermittent ghostly music on shortwave radio channels.
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