Showing posts with label Ulaan Khol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ulaan Khol. Show all posts

30 December 2011

2011 favorites at Soft Abuse HQ

Just like every year, 2011 saw a heap good records trickle out... In compiling this list of favorites I'm surely forgetting a few things that I really loved, but below is what I can recall at this moment, listed in no particular order.



Full-lengths

The UV Race - Homo (In the Red)

Blackout Beach - Fuck Death (Dead Oceans)

Stare Case - Lose Today (DeStijl)

Bill Callahan - Apocalypse (Drag City)

Cass McCombs - Wit's End (Domino)

Cass McCombs - Humor Risk (Domino)

Condominium - Warm Home (Condominium)

Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972 (Kranky)

Zomes - Earth Grid (Thrill Jockey)

Stan Hubbs - Crystal (re, Companion)

Martin Newell - Songs for a Fallow Land (re, Fixed Identity)

Destroyer - Kaputt (Merge)

Juma Sultan's Aboriginal Music Society - Father of Origin (re, Eremite)

Various - Still Going in Offices (Savoury Days)

Der Teenage Panzerkorps - German Reggae (Holidays)
Horrid Red - Celestial Joy (Holidays/Brave Mysteries)

Angus Maclise / Tony Conrad - Dreamweapon III (re, Boo-Hooray)

Vernon Wray - Wasted (re, Sebastian Speaks)

Sic Alps - Napa Asylum (Drag City)

Jerusalem & the Starbaskets - Dost (DeStijl)

Grouper - A I A (Yellow Electric)
Jakob Olausson - Morning & Sunrise (DeStijl)

Matthew De Gennaro - Adversaria (TU-134)

The Axemen -
Three Virgins, Three Versions, Three Visions (Siltbreeze)
Ryan Garbes - Sweet Hassle (Hello Sunshine)

Lighted - Queendom (Lighten-Up Sounds)

Papercuts - Fading Parade (Sub Pop)

Six Organs of Admittance - Asleep on the Floodplain (Drag City)

Total Control - Henge Beat (Iron Lung)

Kitchen's Floor - Look Forward to Nothing (Siltbreeze)

Various - Krypton Ten (Unwucht)

Belong - Common Era (Kranky)
KWJAZ - KWJAZ (Not Not Fun)

The Garbage & The Flowers - Stoned Rehearsal (re, Quemada)

Steven R. Smith - Old Skete (Worstward)

Myrrh - Myrrh (Self-Released)

Tinariwen - Tassili (Anti/V2)

Larry Marshall - Queer & Wonder (re, Rare Youth)

Bobb Trimble - Crippled Dog Band (re, Yoga)
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo (Matador)
Pigeons - No Shore (Sixteen Tambourines)
Slugfuckers - Three Feet Behind Glass / Instant Classic (re, Insolito)
Suspensers - FMLOL (Self-Released)

Peaking Lights - 936 (Not Not Fun)



Singles / EPs

Real Numbers - Tear it in Two (Florida's Dying)

Lower Dens - Deer Knives (Sub Pop)

Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Walking in Unison (Captcha)

Mad Nanna - Mad Nanna (Eggy)

Mad Nanna - I've Been Talking (Albert's Basement)

Jonathan Halper - Puce Moment (Bootleg)

Art Museums - S.H.O.P.P.I.N.G. (Dulcitone)

Grudge - When Christine Comes Around (re, Mighty Mouth)

The UV Race - Acid Trip (Sweet Rot)

The Mantles - Raspberry Thighs (SDZ)

Muura - Untitled (Albert's Basement)

Scrotum Poles- Revelation (re, Ducitone)
Just Urbain - Everybody Loves (re, 540)
Three Legged Race - Raining Order (NNA Tapes)
Cuffs - Privilege (Ride the Snake)
Lures - New Boy (Salvaged)

The Moondogs - Heads I Win (re, Sing Sing)
Gold-Bears - Something to Think About (Cloudberry)


Last but not least, a recap of all things Soft Abuse from 2011, listed chronologically --

Horrid Red - Pink Flowers EP
Primitive Motion - Certain Materials EP
Brute Heart - Lonely Hunter
Horrid Red - Silent Party EP
Julian Lynch -
Music for How Mata Hari Lost Her Head and Found Her Body
Pumice - Pebbles (remastered LP)
Primitive Motion - By Arc or Chord
Pigeons - They Sweetheartstammers
Ulaan Khol - La Catacomb

& the above list, in playlist form -

Soft Abuse 2011 by Soft Abuse

31 October 2008

Ulaan Khol / Steven R. Smith live on WMFU




Steven R. Smith recently performed an exclusive live set for WFMU (pre-recorded without overdubs, etc) from his home studio in Los Angeles. The 40+ minute performance kicks off with the first track from the upcoming Ulaan Khol release, II.

Hear an archive of the performance here.

Ulaan Khol's II, released December 2, 2008, is the second installment of his trilogy known as 'Ceremony.' Following the cryptic first installment, II shines with hazy, rolling atmospheric works that drift and shift with ease. Riding a crumbling riff into oblivion, Ulaan Khol's II emanates with the gleam of pure white light.