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Earbender: “Profane With Flowers”
With the holidays having transformed the ourwhateverwarmlytogether into the traditional mutation of discounted piles of leftover merchandise and tree discardage, the inevitable question posed is How Wuz EEEIt? This year I'm baring the ruined bulb early by responding "Dreyfuss." Insert here a ho-hum request for forbearance and patience. I'm thinking of Richard Dreyfuss in 77, a Sci-Fi'd, UFO obsessed and Indiana electrical lineman slash family guy Roy Neary who builds mountainesque shapes in his kitchen. The holidays for me were the building of mountains to nada. Rather than engaging in the usual exaggerated nullification of all things festive, I chose to create my own elevation whose criteria included but was not limited to translations, exhaustion, consumption, shushing and a-ha. I came to a fistpumping conclusion: dignified struggle. Or a sweet whiff of whiskey.
I am very fortunate to have bubbling up this week the last installment in the Best Music Of 2011 series except this time around I have the privilege of presenting to you some guest picks. The guests below are all great artists and fine Americans. Thanks to the contributors and to you for reading Earbender this past year.
Kat Jetson: Owner of the vinyl-only label, Project Infinity. Photographer. Writer. Lover of pie.
1. The Kills - Blood Pressures
2. The Black Belles - S/T
3. Austra - Feel It Break
4. Cut Copy - Zonoscope
5. The Love Me Nots - The Demon and The Devotee
Sommer Browning: Poet, Comic Book Illustrator, Comic, Publisher, and Librarian
1. M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
2. Washed Out Within and Without
3. Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow
4. Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage
5. Rudresh Mahanthappa Samdhi
Andrew Hughes is the author of Now Lays the Sunshine By (BookThug 2010). He is co-editor of Bright Pink Mosquito & lives in Gloucester, MA.
1. Stanton Davis' Ghetto-Mysticism - Brighter Days (Reissue)
2. Stone Coal White - Stone Coal White (Reissue)
3. Can - Tago Mago 40th Anniversary Edition
4. Indian - Guiltless
5. The Flaming Lips/Lightning Bolt - 12' (collaborative EP) - New Brigade
6. Cut Copy - Zonoscope
7. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
8. Yamantaka//Sonic Titan - YT//ST
9. Death Grips - Exmilitary
Matt Hart is a Cincinnati-based poet, editor, and sometimes musician. His new book is Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless (Typecast, 2012).
1. Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me by Touche Amore
2. Wildlife by La Dispute
3. Whokill by Tune-Yards
4. Empty Days and Sleepless Nights by Defeater
5. Strange Mercy by St. Vincent
6. The Lack Long After by Pianos Become the Teeth
Also, just in case you didn't see it. Here's a video for "Logic in the Trenches" by Matt's band Travel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkTFIiNP5Xo
The album uses cut-up and otherwise rearranged poems from Matt's new book as lyrics. Anybody who buys the book will get a coupon for a free download of the record.
Gary Sullivan (poet, cartoonist, music blogger: http://bodegapop.blogspot.com/)
1. Ciao!Baby, Marshmallow Kisses (Hong Kong)
2. Deerhoof vs. Evil, Deerhoof (USA)
3. Hal Leile ... Ma Fi Noum, Najwa Karam (Lebanon)
4. Correct Theory of Relativity, Sōtaisei Riron (Japan)
5. Summer Sweat, Pairs (China)
6. Ghostbird, Zee Avi (Malaysia)
7. Spacebattleshiplove, Guitar Wolf (Japan)
8. Bone Hug, Da Bang (China)
9. JAKAJAAAAAN!!!!!, Juusho Futei Mushoku (Japan)
10. 1.0, 10cm (Korea)
Brief descriptions of each of these records, sample songs and links to download each of them for free at: http://bodegapop.blogspot.com/2011/12/best-albums-of-2011.html
Eric Jiaju Lee is a New York City based artist who draws from Eastern and Western traditions and sensibilities in creating his contemporary abstract paintings.
1. St. Vincent, "Strange Mercy"
2. The Roots, "Undun
Later...
Photo Credit: imposemagazine.com
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