losthighway wrote: Sat Sep 13, 2025 4:27 pm

iembalm wrote: Sat Sep 13, 2025 4:23 pm David Byrne's The Knee Plays, from Robert Wilson's CIVIL warS.

I usually break this record out after I've listened to a new Byrne album, and today is one of those days.

I don't love his new one. You?

Not terribly. I listened all the way through on a drive last week and put it on again at work on Friday, but turned it off in favor of quiet.

Dovira wrote: Sat Sep 13, 2025 3:43 am https://twitter.com/MargoGontar/status/ ... 5360873506

Very cool. And awful.

In New Zealand in the 80s we went next level on this. In what’s now called 7th Grade/year we were subjected to an orchestral composition of a simulated nuclear strike. I just searched this to make sure it wasn’t misremembering but yes, the composition simulated the sound of a nuclear missile launch from a submarine followed by the most terrifying part, the sound of the copper parachute of the warhead deploying in the upper atmosphere prior to detonation. This was presented by the head percussionist of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. We also had duck and cover drills around the same time.

I was 12. Nightmares for months.

Man, I am sorry you had to go through that (though the piece sounds awesome too).
Might be this (?):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCgdtRNz3GU

Going to give it a listen later on.

The other day, me and the 8-year-old were hanging out in my home office / studio before bed, playing Battleship and listening to the soundtrack from Das Boot (which ended exactly on the second that we put the last pegs back in the box to get ready for bed). He asked me if WWIII would happen and I half-lied ("Not likely at all" instead of "probably already happening") and felt deep dread.

EDIT: I guess it was not the above, according to this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/com ... n_the_mid/

https://unfathomless.bandcamp.com/album/onden

François Bonnet is a master.

New combo of Howe Gelb's, Slant Can.

It's great. In the last like two decades I haven't found a lot that I've loved in Giant Sand (basically just a few songs here and there), and his solo stuff has left me a bit cold, too.

This one is a direct hit for me.

https://howegelb.bandcamp.com/album/volume-1

Sanam's new LP "Sametou Sawtan", due out in physical form next week.

https://sanambeirut.bandcamp.com/album/sametou-sawtan


Already my favourite album of 2025, and I'd be surprised if it were usurped this late in the year.