Unpopular Music - October 25, 2020

This first offering in a while offers mostly new acquisitions to the Unpopular Music library. While my July Bandcamp binge fit together nicely, if I may say so myself, my later purchases did not.

So this playlist grew very slowly. We start out with some upbeat, and eventually a bit noisy, jazz, followed by introspective, contemplative, perhaps a bit ruminative sounds, wordless vocals appearing more than once. I even remembered a Van Halen track that can hang with Bill Frisell and Mary Halvorson. We end up back in the jazz zone before closing off with some cheerleader pop. Enjoy.

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See the playlist after the break...

artist	title	album	comments	label / date
Webber/Morris Big Band	Climbing On Mirrors	Both Are True	Angela Morris (cnd, ts, flt, composer) Anna Webber (cnd, ts, flt) Jay Rattman (as, ss, flt) Charlotte Greve (as, clt, solo) Adam Schneit (ts, clt) Lisa Parrott (bs, b clt) John Lake, Jake Henry, Adam O’Farrill, Kenny Warren (trp, flg) Tim Vaughn, Nick Grinder, Jen Baker (tbn) Reginald Chapman (bss tbn) Patricia Brennan (vbs) Dustin Carlson (g) Marc Hannaford (p) Adam Hopkins:(b) Jeff Davis (d)	Greenleaf Music 2018
Michael Formanek Quartet	Pong	Pre-Apocalyptic	Michael Formanek (b) Tim Berne (as) Craig Taborn (p) Gerald Cleaver (d)	Out Of Your Head Records 2014
Mary Halvorson	Momentary Lapse (No. 1)	Dragon's Head	Mary Halvorson (g) John Hebert (b) Ches Smith (d)	Firehouse 12 2008
Ennio Morricone	The Transgression	Once Upon a Time in the West	music by Ennio Morricone for the film by Sergio Leone	RCA 1968
Mary Lattimore & Elysse Thebner Miller	Victor, 1993 (End of a Holiday)	And The Birds Flew Overhead	Mary Lattimore (hrp, effects) Elysse Thebner Miller (syn, effects)	Three Lobed Recordings 2016
Roomful of Teeth	Just Constellations - II. The Romantic Constellation: Autumn	Just Constellations	music by Michael Harrison recorded at The Tank, in Rangley, Colorado	New Amsterdam Records 2020
Van Halen	Cathedral	Diver Down	Edward Van Halen (g)	Warner Bros. 1982
Bill Frisell	Fifty Years	Harmony	Bill Frisell (g) Petra Haden (voc) Hank Roberts (vc) Luke Bergman (bar g, voc)	Blue Note 2019
Eric Revis	SpÆ	Slipknots Through A Looking Glass	Eric Revis (b) Kris Davis (p) Chad Taylor (mbira)	Pyroclastic Records 2019
Thumbscrew	Composition No. 150	The Anthony Braxton Project	Tomas Fujiwara (vbs, d) Mary Halvorson (g) Michael Formanek (b) music by Anthony Braxton	Cuneiform Records 2020
Vienna Art Orchestra	Satie Ist Mir Traum 3 X Nicht Erschienen	The Minimalism of Erik Satie	Lauren Newton (voc), Karl "Bumi" Fian, Hannes Kottek (trp, flg), Wolfgang Puschnig (b clt), as, spn sax, flt) Roman Schwaller (ts, clt) Harry Sokal (ss, solo) (sax), Christian Radovan (tbn), Jon Sass (tba), Woody Schabata (vbs), Wolfgang Reisinger (gongs, kalimba, tarabuka, triangle), Ima (Tamboura), mathias rüegg (leader)	Hatology 1984
Jason Kao Hwang	Worship, Whirling	Burning Bridge	Jason Kao Hwang (vln) Taylor Ho Bynum (crn, flg) Joesph Daley (tba) Andrew Drury (d) Ken Filiano (b) Sun Li (pipa) Steve Swell (tbn) Wang Guowei (ehru) hat tip to pfktoledo	Innova 2011
James Brandon Lewis Quartet	Helix	Molecular	James Brandon Lewis (ts) Aruán Ortiz (p) Brad Jones (b) Chad Taylor (d)	Intakt Records 2020
The Go! Team	Mayday	Semicircle	Ian Parton with Simone Odaranile (d) Angela ‘Maki’ Won-Yin Mak (voc) Sam Dook (guitar) and more	Memphis Industries 2018