talking_animal

About Me

Bicycling, listening to music, swimming in lakes

Sorry, no more contest! Bamse above is chilling along to Oliver Lake, one of his favorites (and mine, natch).

Welcome to your world talking_animal head- quarters. Feel free to browse around and hunt for recommendations, in fact, you can try my recommendations radio, which I obsessively prune to remove those dull and boring group recommendations that I (and you) already knew about. The night before I wrote this up, for instance, reco-radio brought me Ximena Sariñana, Benjamin Herman, Messer Chups, Emily Hurd, Along Came Betty, and Vieno Kekkonen and Pärre Förars, among other tasty morsels of music.

For more talking_animal-type goodness, please try listening to Radio Theriolalia, which has accompanying discussion and journal threads if you aren't yet sick of my taste (or the taste of my friends).

What my alligator jaw can't release:
Chico Hamilton. He's 85 years young, a top jazz drummer, and my school this spring awarded him a doctorate honoris causa. Chico Hamilton put out in the last year four full CDs of music: Juniflip, 6th Avenue Romp, Believe, and Heritage. They are all stone masterpieces, thanks to Chico's incredible sense of rhythm and dynamics and his extraordinary band, with Cary DeNigris on guitar, Paul Ramsay on bass, Andrew Hadro & Evan Schwam on reeds, and Jeremy Carlstedt on percussion. It's a new sound, an old sound, a dear sound.
Big Yum Yum. Like a gypsy dub band covering French nouvelle vague film soundtracks. Read more [and comment] here.
Kristin Asbjørnsen. Norwegian voice, American spirituals. Unaffected yet affecting.

This year's theriolicious plan for galvanic musical dispersion: link here and page down to comments #9 and #10

Latest library trip:

• Richard Hell & The Voidoids
• Chico Hamilton, Trio!
• Malachi Thompson & Africa Brass, Buddy Bolden's Rag
• Henry Threadgill, Rag, Bush and All
• Wayne Shorter, Alegría

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"The principal nourishments of the Northeast are: a type of dried salted beef, mandioca flour, and rhythm. Rhythm is the principal nourishment of the people of the Northeast. In reality, it is this abstract nourishment that allows the people of the Northeast to survive. Rhythm is the skeletal structure, the spinal cord. Rhythm is, in the Northeast, a dehydrated God."—Tom Zé

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Recent Activity

• talking_animal left a deleted group. October 2011
• talking_animal tagged Mizca – 星のつぶつぶ, 鈴木あみ – Mysterious, Aira Mitsuki – FREEDOM STAR and 7 other items with bye bye kitty. April 2011
• talking_animal left hclairvoyant a shout. February 2011
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• talking_animal updated his profile. January 2011
• talking_animal commented on [f.o. machete] 3 July 2010 @ Captain's Rest (Glasgow) - Return of the Mac: Set-List. September 2010
• talking_animal loved Local Natives – Sun Hands, Solex vs Cristina Martinez + Jon Spencer – Aapie, Barbara Lynn – Matt's Hatt and 3 other tracks. July 2010
• talking_animal left a deleted group. April 2010
• talking_animal left xamaxblue a shout. March 2010
• talking_animal loved Dawn Landes – Love, Jeanne Cherhal – Une tonne, Donald Byrd – When Your Love Has Gone and 16 other tracks. February 2010