Best of 2010

robmcdowall — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 16:36:09 +0000

Amiina – Puzzle (Aminamusik)
Brian McBride – The Effective Disconnect (Kranky)
Efterklang – Magic Chairs (4AD)
Emeralds – Does It Look Like I’m Here? (Editions Mego)
Hauschka – Foreign Landscapes (FatCat)
Johann Johannsson – And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees (Type)
Max Richter – Infra (FatCat)
Moon Wiring Club – A Spare Tabby At The Cat’s Wedding (Gecophonic)
Oneohtrix Point Never – Returnal (Editions Mego)
Richard Skelton – Landings (Type)

Best of 2009

robmcdowall — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:58:55 +0000

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
Belbury Poly – From an Ancient Star (Ghost Box)
Black to Comm – Alphabet 1968 (Type)
Broadcast and the Focus Group – Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age (Warp)
Efterklang – Performing Parades (Leaf)
Emeralds – What Happened? (NO FUN)
Erik Enocksson - Man Tänker Sitt (Kning Disk)
Greg Davis – Mutually Arising (Kranky)
Nills Frahm – Bells (Kning Disk)
Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek – Blank Grey Canvas Sky (Fang Bomb)
Philippe Petit & Friends – (Reciprocess: +/VS.) (BiP_HOp)
Rameses III - I Could Not Love You More (Type)
Roj – The Transactional Dharma of Roj (Ghost Box)

Continuum | July 2009

robmcdowall — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:34:06 +0000

Continuum with Rob McDowall |July 2009

Arve Henriksen – Leaf & Rock (Rune Grammofon)
Hauschka – Morgenrot (FatCat Records)
Peter Broderick – Floating / Sinking (Type Records)
Thee Stranded Horse – Le Sel (Blank Tapes)
Erik Enocksson – The State the Sea Left Me In (Kning Disk)
Our Sleepless Forest – Doors In Limbo (Resonant)
Simon Fisher Turner & Philippe Petit – Untitled (BiP_HOp)
Sun City Girls – Steppe Spiritual (Drag City)
Andy Garbi – Stratospheres (Adventures In Sound)
Hauschka - Eltern (FatCat Records)

New link coming soon

The Astonished I (Excerpt)

robmcdowall — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:54:20 +0000

I’ve uploaded a recording of Dick McBride reading the first chapter of The Astonished I to myspace.com/dickmcbride

The author recalls a conversation that he had with Jack Kerouac, who had phoned City Lights to talk to Lawrence Ferlinghetti about publishing Visions of Cody.

A slightly different version of the first chapter was originally published in Transit and then The Beat Journals, both published by Kevin Ring’s Beat Scene Press.

The Astonished I (Memories & Wet Dreams) was published by McBride’s Books in 1995, and is a recollection of the authors time in San Francisco. It is dedicated to his friend, Tim Prael and contains an introduction by Charles Plymel.

The Astonished I (Excerpt) by Dick McBride

Best of 2008

robmcdowall — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:33:43 +0000

Alexander Tucker – Custom Made (ATP)
Alexander Tucker – Portal (ATP)
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago (4AD)
Bowerbirds – Hymns For A Dark Horse (Dead Oceans)
Dick McBride – Upbeat & Groovy: Poems 1960-2008 (CD-R)
Digitonal - Save Your Light for Darker Days (Just Music)
Emeralds - Solar Bridge (Hanson)
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (Bella Union)
Fourtet – Ringer (Domino)
Greg Weeks - The Hive (Wichita)
Hauschka – Ferndorf (Fatcat)
Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh (Drag City)
James Blackshaw – Litany Of Echoes (Tompkins Square)
Josephine Foster – This Coming Gladness (Bo’Weavil)
J. Spaceman / Sun City Girls – Mister Lonely (Drag City)
Juana Molina – Un Dia (Domino)
Larkin Grimm - Parplar (Young God)
Lau Nau – Nukku (Locust)
Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez – Why Is Bear Billowing? (Car Park Records)
Mary Hampton – My Mothers Children (Navigator)
Max Richter – 24 Postcards (Fatcat)
Murcof – The Versailles Sessions (Leaf)
Nico Muhly – Mothertongue (Bedroom Community)
Olafur Arnalds – Variations Of Static (Erased Tapes)
Our Sleepless Forest – Our Sleepless Forest (Resonant)
Peter Broderick – Float (Type)
Peter Broderick – Home (Bella Union)
Rio En Medio – Frontiers (Manimal Vinyl)
Samamidon – All is Well (Bedroom Community)
Tape - Luminarium (Hapna)
The Accidental – There Were Wolves (Full Time Hobby)
White Magic – New Egypt (Southern)
William S Burroughs – Real English Tea Made Here (Audio Research Editions)
Vetiver - Thing Of The Past (Gnomonsong)

Continuum with Raagnagrok All Stars (Live)

robmcdowall — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:00:16 +0000

Continuum presents the transcendental sounds of the Raagnagrok All-Stars recorded live at Day of The Dead 2008

Featuring Allison Brice (electric dulcimer), Zali Krishna (guitar/effects), Paul May (drums) and Mark Pilkington (synth and electronics).

I am grateful to Mark Pilkington (Strange Attractor/Raagnagrok) for recording the performance and allowing me to share it with you via Samurai.FM

Click here to stream

More info:

www.raagnagrok.co.uk
www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further
http://dreamflesh.com/
http://liminalnation.org/

Green Man Festival ’08 Playlist

robmcdowall — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:49:48 +0000

Cath & Phil Tyler – Farewell My Friends (No-Fi)
Nancy Elizabeth – I Used To Try (The Leaf Label)
9 Bach – Pa Bryd y Deui Eto? (Gwymon)
Adem – Ringing In My Ears (Domino)
Alexander Tucker – Phantom Rings (Slight Return) (ATP)
Starless & Bible Black – Bitter Cup (Locust Music)
Tunng – Soup (Full Time Hobby)
Jana Hunter – Vultures (Gnomonsong)
Six Organs of Admittance – Black Wall (Drag City)
White Magic – New Egypt (Latitudes)
Voice of the Seven Woods – Satai Nova (Twisted Nerve)
Fridge – Oram (Text Records)
Fourtet – Swimmer (Domino)

Green Man Festival 2008

robmcdowall — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:18:34 +0000

I’ll be DJ’ing at the Green Man Festival on Saturday the 16th August.

The festival takes place on the 15th/16th/17th of August at the Glanusk Estate in the Brecon Beacons.

More info: www.greenman.net

Continuum | June 2008

robmcdowall — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:19:20 +0000

Continuum with Rob McDowall | June 2008

Stars Of The Lid – Articulate Silences Part 1 (Kranky)
Andy Garbi - She (Adventures In Sound)
Colleen - Sea Of Tranquility (The Leaf Label)
Thee Stranded Horse – Swaying Eel (Blank Tapes)
Bonnie “Prince” Billy – More Brother Rides (Domino)
Jonquil - Lions (Try Harder)
Efterklang - Mirador (The Leaf Label)
The Books - Take Time (Tomlab)
Fridge – Comets (Text Records)
Mum – Marmalade Fires (Fatcat)
Nancy Elizabeth – How Can I Stop? (The Leaf Label)
Stars Of The Lid – The Daughters Of Quiet Minds (Kranky)

Click here to stream.