Anthony Elms Absorbs: December 2014

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Ears:

Cut Hands - s/t

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Monday, December 29, 2014

Eyes & Ears:

Egon Schiele: Portraits

Monday, December 29, 2014

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Eyes:

Sunday New York Times

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Saturday, December 27, 2014

Eyes:

David Foster Wallace - "My Appearance" from The David Foster Wallace Reader

Ears:

Don Cherry - Brown Rice
Mauricio Kagel - Trio in drei Satzen, Schwarzes Madrigal
Fripp & Eno - The Essential Fripp and Eno

Saturday, December 27, 2014

Friday, December 26, 2014

Eyes:

David Foster Wallace - "Federer Both Flesh and Not" from The David Foster Wallace Reader
Bob Nickas - PHLIPS
Karl Holmqvist - Skyline Is the By-linezz
Alex Hubbard & Dan Mains - Removal Technician

Ears:

Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Trio for Piano, Violin, and Violincello in A minor / Dmitri Shostakovich Trio for Piano, Violin, and Violincello no. 2 in E minor
Pandit Pran Nath - Raga Cycle: Palace Theatre, Paris 1972
Jack Rose - Dr. Ragtime & Pals / Self Titled
Charlie Parker - South of the Border
Frank Bretschneider - Curve
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Franz Koglmann & Lee Konitz - We Thought About Duke
Loren Connors - As Roses Bow: Collected Airs 1992-2002

Eyes & Ears:

Holy Mountain

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Eyes:

David Foster Wallace - "Consider the Lobster" from The David Foster Wallace Reader

Ears:

John Fahey - Christmas Guitar Volume One
John Zorn - A Dreamers Christmas
Jonathan Kane - Little Drummer Boy
Johann Sebastian Bach - Matthaus Passion (CSO, Sir George Solti)
Low - Christmas
Loren Connors - As Roses Bow: Collected Airs 1992-2002

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Ears:

Herbie Nichols - The Complete Blue Note Recordings
James Brown - James Brown's Funky Christmas
John Zorn - A Dreamers Christmas
Loren Connors - As Roses Bow: Collected Airs 1992-2002

Eyes & Ears:

24 Hour Party People

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Ears:

Koes Bersaudara - 1967: To the so-called "the Guilties"
William S. Burroughs / Kurt Cobain - The "Priest" They Called Him
Miles Davis - Live at the Fillmore East (March 7, 1970): It's About that Time
Robert Ashley - Improvement
Ground Zero - Last Concert
Sunroof! - USSA
Colourbox - Music of the Band (1982-1987)
Frederic Rzewski - Rzewski Plays Rzewski CD1 (North American Ballads, The Housewife's Lament)

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Monday, December 22, 2014

Ears:

The Dead C - Armed Courage
Robert Ashley - Improvement
Schlippenbach Trio - Gold Is Where You Find It
John Zorn - A Dreamers Christmas
Karl Holmqvist - NYC Romance Mash Up
Scott Walker + Sunn O))) - Soused
U.S. Girls - Introducing...
Throbbing Gristle - Second Annual Report
Oren Ambarchi - Triste

Monday, December 22, 2014

Sunday, December 21, 2014

Eyes & Ears:

Peter Wachtler - Help Me Buddy
Cara Benedetto and Aura Rosenberg - The Wrapping Room
The Botanica | Presented by AA Bronson and Michael Buhler-Rose
Sam Lewitt - Casual Encounters

Saturday, December 20, 2014

Eyes & Ears:

Greer Lankton - Love Me
Karma Book Market
Chris Ofili - Night and Day
Lili Reynaud-Dewar - Live Through That?!

Friday, December 19, 2014

Eyes:

Female Background - Mary

Ears:

Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Miles Davis - Live at the Fillmore East (March 7, 1970): It's About that Time
Samuel Beckett - Works for Radio CD 4 (Cascando, Rough for Radio)
Samuel Beckett - Works for Radio CD 2 (From an Abandoned Work, Embers)

Eyes & Ears:

Thomas Chimes - The Body in Spirals
It's Not the Numbers

Friday, December 19, 2014

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Ears:

Miles Davis - Miles Smiles
Gyorgy Ligeti - The Ligeti Project CD 4 (Hamburg Concerto, Double Concerto, Ramifications, Requiem)
George Lewis - Endless Shout
Diskaholics Anonymous Trio - Weapons of Ass Destruction
Growing - The Soul of the Rainbow and the Harmony of Light

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Eyes:

Philip K. Dick - "The Preserving Machine" from Paycheck and Other Classic Stories

Ears:

various - Swedish Energies 2014 Volume Three (A Companion)
Growing - The Soul of the Rainbow and the Harmony of Light

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Ears:

Picks & Lighters - s/t
John Zorn - O'o
Low - Christmas
Bing Crosby & David Bowie - Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy
Johnathan Kane - Little Drummer Boy

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Monday, December 15, 2014

Eyes & Ears:

The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World
Cut to Swipe
Susan Howe and R.H. Quaytman - Tom Tit Tot

Monday, December 15, 2014

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Eyes:

John Russell - "Bruce Willis, Irigaray, and the Aesthetics of Space Travel"
Sunday New York Times
Lucky December 2014/January 2015

Eyes & Ears:

The Nutcracker

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Saturday, December 13, 2014

Eyes:

Arthur Jafa - My Black Death

Ears:

Cut Hands - Festival of the Dead
Gate - A Republic of Sadness
Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty

Eyes & Ears:

Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art
Titus Kaphar - The Jerome Project
Kianja Strobert - Of This Day in Time
Under Another Name
Albert Oehlen - Fabric Paintings
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Saturday, December 13, 2014

Friday, December 12, 2014

Eyes:

John Russell - "Bruce Willis, Irigaray, and the Aesthetics of Space Travel"

Ears:

Harmonia - deluxe
John Zorn - O'o
Picks & Lighters - s/t
various - Swedish Energies 2014 Volume Three (A Companion)

Eyes & Ears:

My Barbarian - Blood on the Cat's Neck

Friday, December 12, 2014

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Ears:

Wadada Leo Smith / Adam Rudolph - Compassion
Nimrod Workman - I Want to Go Where Things Are Beautiful
Gyorgy Ligeti - The Ligeti Project CD 2 (Lotano, Atmospheres, Apparitions, San Francisco Polyphony, Concert Romanesc)
Phantom Limb & Bison - s/t
Oren Ambarchi - Triste